GARIMPO
For startups raising internationally

A good business shouldn't stay stuck in the market where it was born.

International corporations have a thesis, capital and industrial reach, and little visibility into what gets built in Latin America. Garimpo prospects your startup against those theses, polishes the case with advisory and runs the track all the way to the table abroad.

Porto Alegre · Brasil & Latam·One active thesis in the field
The problem

A good opportunity dies for lack of a bridge.

You have a product, customers and traction. The capital that would change the game sits abroad, has a defined thesis and doesn't know you exist.

What blocks you isn't merit. It's regulation in another jurisdiction, a negotiation culture you haven't lived, a conversation in another language and no one on the other side you already have a relationship with.

An investment thesis is born of data and direction. Business is born of people. Garimpo sits exactly between the two.

Relationships are the asset that doesn't scale, and that's why they're worth more.

How it works · The GEMA method

Your startup's path to the international thesis.

Every opportunity that reaches a thesis carries a real conversation behind it. The method gives that work shape, and AI handles the rest.

G
Ground (Garimpar)
Movement 01

The scout maps the territory against the thesis and finds where gems tend to surface.

E
Examine
Movement 02

Fit, team, stage and risk enter the analysis. The dossier is born here, with human judgment.

M
Mature (Maturar)
Movement 03

The relationship is warmed up before the raise. The intro arrives with context and consent.

A
Announce (Apresentar)
Movement 04

Dossier, score and a formal, timestamped introduction. And Garimpo doesn't leave the table after that.

Self-check · for startups

Is your startup a gem?

The same four dimensions scouts use at the bench. Adjust each axis and see your preliminary GEMA Score against an active thesis.

Fit with the thesis50

Sector, stage and ticket match the active thesis.

Team maturity60

Complementary, structured and dedicated founders.

Raise stage55

Active or planned round, with room in the cap table.

Strategic leverage65

A partner with industrial reach and international presence would accelerate the business.

Preliminary GEMA Score
GEMA Score 58 / 100
Promising gem.

There's a real signal. A bit of polishing sharpens the case.

Estimate. The official score is born at the bench, with human judgment.
The ladder · S·01 to S·04

The introduction is the first step, not the last.

01

Origination

Your startup is prospected and examined against active international theses. Fit, team, stage and leverage become a dossier.

02

Incubation

An advisor steps into the business to unblock what holds traction back: fundraising narrative, an organized dataroom and readiness for the table.

03

Internationalization

Reading the destination territory and opening doors with local partners. Regulation, negotiation culture and ecosystem stop being guesswork.

04

The negotiating table

Due diligence, memorandum of understanding, convertible note, valuation and international contract. You reach the negotiation with company.

Human + AI

Artificial intelligence speeds triage and organizes the dossier. It doesn't shake a hand.

AI reads the territory, enriches data and builds the dossier in a blink. But trust is built eye to eye, and that's worth more now that it's rarer. We automate what scales to free what doesn't: the relationship.

Results so far

What the garimpo has put on the bench.

1

active international thesis in garimpo

40+

opportunities mapped in the territory

3

deals under review by the thesis

4

international territories with a partner

Panel updated every monthly alignment cycle.