Pitango Venture Capital

Pitango operates three dedicated funds: Pitango First for seed and early-stage, Pitango Growth for venture and late-stage, and Pitango HealthTech for seed through growth in health-related sectors. Each fund is run by a focused managing partner team but shares the firm's centralized operational, legal, and marketing resources. This structure aims to provide continuity for portfolio companies as they mature without forcing founder turnover in investor relationships.

Pitango's website does not specify prohibited sectors. The firm's stated focus areas for its core funds are generative AI, cybersecurity, quantum computing, TransitTech, fintech, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and e-commerce. Pitango HealthTech concentrates on digital health, medical devices, diagnostics, foodtech, agtech, and biotech. The firm encourages founders outside these categories to reach out, suggesting an open but guided mandate rather than a rigid negative screen.

Investment decisions are handled by an eight-person managing partner group. Nechemia (Chemi) J. Peres and Rami Kalish are Co-Founders and Managing Partners. Eyal Niv and Ayal Itzkovitz lead the First fund; Aaron Mankovski and Isaac Hillel lead Growth; and Ittai Harel and Hila Karah lead HealthTech. This distributed leadership structure places individual fund decision-making with domain-dedicated partners.

Pitango's public materials describe it exclusively as a direct investor in technology companies across seed, early, and growth stages. There is no mention of fund-of-funds commitments or LP investments in other venture firms. The firm emphasizes its operational value-add and network for direct portfolio companies, which is consistent with a pure direct-investment venture capital model.

Pitango attributes its deal flow to 30 years of accumulated network effects within Israeli tech, including relationships with repeat entrepreneurs, venture partners, and strategic limited partners. The firm highlights specific venture partners—including Pascal Cagni (former Apple executive) and Amir Faintuch (former GlobalFoundries executive)—who expand sourcing into global operating ecosystems. The centralized platform also funnels early-stage deal flow into the First fund, which can later feed the Growth fund.

There is no publicly disclosed information about a dedicated philanthropic vehicle tied to Pitango. The Peres family is independently associated with the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, but the firm's website does not reference this in connection with Pitango's investment activities. The separation between family philanthropic interests and the venture capital firm appears complete in public documentation.

Pitango presents itself as a lead investor that brings its full platform resources to bear on portfolio companies. The firm does not publicly outline a structured co-investment program for external LPs or GPs. Given its three decades of operation and the breadth of its LP network, co-investment opportunities likely arise on a deal-by-deal basis, but there is no standardized disclosure.