The Behring Founders Program held its selection phase across 5 days in São Paulo. Around 70 candidates at different stages of ideation spent days receiving mentoring and feedback from ecosystem operators, funds, and founders.
Valor was one of the partners, and we feel privileged to be able to support the next generation of founders in Brazil.
On October 18th, our Managing Partner Carlos Costa held a panel with Jorge Neto from Bhub, to discuss the key valences of entrepreneurship. Jorge, who is now successfully leading Bhub, was a founder to two previous initatives. He kindly shared with the room of candidates stories about his most difficult moments - and how he managed to keep resilient and resourceful to push through.
We thank the Behring Foundation for the great work being done for the ecosystem.
We are proud to welcome Terradot to our portfolio, celebrating its $58.2M funding round alongside John Doerr, Sheryl Sandberg & Tom Bernthal, George Roberts, Microsoft's Climate Innovation Fund, Google, Cisco Foundation, Kleiner Perkins, Floodgate, Acre Venture Partners, Gigascale Capital and others.
From financing solar projects to building a comprehensive ecosystem, Solfácil is driving the future of distributed energy, reducing costs, and accelerating adoption
CloudWalk is reshaping payments in Brazil with innovative tech, empowering 2 million merchants and driving rapid growth in the industry.
Pipefy is flipping business process management on its head by empowering individuals to build automations and manage processes from customer onboarding to software bug tracking.
Wellhub is building a fitness discovery platform that helps users stay active and well anywhere in the world.