We are delighted to share the news that we have recently closed on approximately $1.8 billion in capital commitments to invest in the next generation of high-growth technology companies globally. This milestone coincides with the Riverwood’s 15-year anniversary. The acceleration of tech transformation globally continues, and we see a growing set of opportunities to partner with amazing teams to build fundamentally strong companies as we enter a balanced new era of technology growth. The latest capital raise exceeded our target, and we would like to express gratitude to our investors and partners, who have recognized and share the excitement for Riverwood’s growth focus and disciplined approach, and to the firm’s entire team and portfolio who have been instrumental in executing a consistent vision to create long lasting category-defining companies. Francisco Alvarez-Demalde, Jeff Parks, Tom Smach, Chris Varelas, Lisa W., Harish Belur, Scott Ransenberg, Joaquim Lima, Joe R. De Pinho, Alex Porto, Ramesh Venugopal, Federico Storani, Felipe Fagundes, George Jian, Vizay Kotikalapudi, Gustavo Pinheiro Melo, John Yang, Eric Ma, Keith Janosky, Lara Phillips, Mei Liang, Sophia Lee, Caitlin Mitchell
Riverwood Capital
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Menlo Park, CA 12,389 followers
Equity partners for scaling technology businesses.
About us
Riverwood Capital invests in high-growth companies in the technology and technology-enabled industries. Riverwood offers a unique combination of operational, strategic, technology, and financial insight to portfolio companies that typically need growth capital and expertise to scale on a global basis. The firm seeks to invest in established businesses with a proven technology and business model, and the proper fit in terms of culture and values, in both minority and control situations. Riverwood has offices in Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY; Miami, FL; and São Paulo, Brazil. For more information visit riverwoodcapital.com
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- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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- 11-50 employees
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- Menlo Park, CA
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- 2008
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Menlo Park, CA 94025, US
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Fresh off the back of our Town Hall last week, the Riverwood Capital team joined us at our Melbourne HQ on Thursday - to meet the wider ANZ team and continue their work with us, as a partner for HammerTech’s next chapter. Riverwood Capital is our newest investment partner and one of the leading investment firms dedicated solely to tech growth and scalability. Announced last month, its AUD$105 million (US$70 million) growth investment in HammerTech will: 🚀 accelerate R&D, including the integration of AI & other tech 🚀 accelerate our ambitious expansion strategy A pleasure to host you (from left) Anant, Eric & Ramesh - very exciting times ahead as we continue our shared mission to help construction sites become safer globally 🏗 (also pictured: Ben Leach, HammerTech CEO & Wynand Stassen, CPA, CA, HammerTech CFO) #ConTech #RiverwoodCapital #ConstructionTech #PrivateEquity #HammerTech
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Last month, we had the pleasure of hosting the India Global Growth Founders Exchange at The Oberoi, Bengaluru, in partnership with Avendus. The discussions were particularly enlightening, focusing on key topics such as what it takes to enter the US market and how global tech companies born out of India can effectively scale in the US. We were honored to have Mariano Gomide de Faria - VTEX, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of VTEX, and Daniel Chait, Co-Founder & CEO of Greenhouse, join us. They shared their thoughts on the nuances of the US market and emphasized the critical importance of operational agility in successfully navigating global markets. The event was filled with dynamic conversations and valuable insights, leaving us all inspired and energized to continue driving growth and innovation. A big thank you to everyone who participated and contributed to these impactful discussions! Karan Sharma, Rishabh Jain, VTEX, Greenhouse Software, Jeff Parks, Francisco Alvarez-Demalde, Harish Belur, Anant Goel
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We are proud to announce a $24 million investment in netLex to bring transformative AI capabilities to contract lifecycle management (CLM) so enterprises can automate workflows and seamlessly manage their contracts across departments. Flávio Ribeiro, CEO and founder of netLex: “Every company uses contracts to interact with the world, whether selling services or hiring suppliers. Contracts are the ‘rules of the game’ that govern these relationships. Well-drafted and managed contracts enable more efficient business operations.” Huge thanks to the netLex team, it’s exciting to partner with you on your continued growth journey! Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dRDKxzUa Wagner C. Possas Filho, Antonio Neto, Francisco Alvarez-Demalde, Jeff Parks, Gustavo Pinheiro Melo, Lucas Vassalo
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We’re excited to share news of our latest investment! Riverwood led a $70 million growth round in HammerTech , the mission-critical software solution for modernizing construction site safety and efficiency on a global scale. Ben Leach, CEO & Co-Founder of HammerTech: “Working on a construction site is still one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, with the highest number of workplace fatalities of any industry. Sadly, many of these life-changing events are preventable. As projects become more complex, technologies must go beyond digitizing forms. We need to make day-to-day processes and activities easier for site teams so they can focus on working safely and doing what they do best – building.” We couldn't be more excited to partner with this incredible and visionary team as they bring much-needed enterprise-wide safety intelligence software to new markets and customers across the construction industry. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/db55BPfN James Harris, Wynand Stassen, CPA, CA, Michael Goldstein, Georgia Bergers MRICS, Jeff Parks, Ramesh Venugopal, Eric Ma, Anant Goel, Caitlin Mitchell
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Special thanks to Judy Khan Shaw, Cassandra Seier, Paula Senna Ganem, Dulaney Hassan, and the entire NYSE team for an amazing partnership during the 2024 Latin America Tech Forum (LTF). Francisco Alvarez-Demalde, Riverwood Capital Co-founder and Managing Partner: "The real idea behind LTF is to try to bring together the leading founders and CEOs of the largest technology companies from Latin America, both public and private. And it’s an amazing venue for these leaders to come together to build trust, build partnerships. We talk about issues affecting technology all across the region. It's really amazing. Over time you start building this friendship, this trust. The spirit of this forum is more collaboration and trying to share challenges and opportunities we all face." Great to see the outcome of these series of interviews with some of Latin America’s top tech leaders– and for it to flash on the big screens in Times Square! Click the link below to watch all of the interviews from Latin America Tech Forum 2024 https://lnkd.in/e9xxq3b9 Adolfo Babatz Alfonso De los Rios Andres Moreno Bruno Guicardi Daniela Izquierdo Eduardo della Maggiora Gaston Irigoyen Johan Gerber Lucas Vargas Martin Migoya Mate Pencz Mac Schuessler Rafael Stark Rodrigo Teijeiro Sandro Reiss Santiago Sosa Tatiana Rezende Sebastian Kreis Tiago Azevedo Betterfly Clip CI&T Evertec Foodology Inc Globant Loft Mastercard Nomad Nowports Nuvemshop Open Co Open English Pomelo More mentions in comments!
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Congratulations to Riverwood's Co-Founder and Managing Partner Francisco Alvarez-Demalde on being named “Investor of the Year” by Americas Society/Council of the Americas for the 29th BRAVO Business Awards. For almost three decades, the awards have recognized excellence and outstanding leadership in business and policy throughout the Americas. “Francisco Alvarez-Demalde will be honored with the BRAVO Investor of the Year Award for his influential role in the global technology investing industry and his commitment to nurturing the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Latin America. His investments in and business building contributions have led Riverwood and its portfolio to global success and lasting impact since the firm’s founding in 2008… Today, Riverwood Capital is one of the leading investment firms solely dedicated to technology growth and scalability. Francisco Alvarez-Demalde co-heads the firm and has been involved in the scalability journey of several of Riverwood’s portfolio companies, including supporting their expansion plans across multiple geographies and products, scale-up of operations, talent development, acquisitions, multi-billion exits, and IPOs.” Also, huge congratulations to the other honorees, including Paula Santilli, CEO of PepsiCo Latin America, Martin Migoya, CEO of Globant, and João Vitor Menin, CEO of Inter&Co. This award is given by the Council of the Americas. Award winners will be honored at a dinner and award ceremony on October 30, 2024. No compensation was paid by Riverwood or its members in connection with obtaining this award. Link: https://lnkd.in/dwRVraWq Susan Segal, Ana Gilligan, Caitlin Mitchell
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We’re living in interesting times – and while some think these are exceptional moments of opportunity that come with unprecedented powers and problems, others find it all iterative, nothing new under the sun. In our new series, we sit down with leaders that are building and financing innovation to ask what’s unique about this present moment and what’s uncharted territory. For the first installment of Interesting Times, hear from Jeff Parks, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Riverwood Capital.
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It has been great to have a front row seat to the exceptional tech innovation and leadership coming from Latin America for more than a decade. Riverwood started LTF in 2011 as an initiative to support and develop the Latam tech ecosystem, and we are extremely proud of LTF’s growth and quality. Today, LTF has become a critical meeting point and hub for the leading technology-related constituencies from Latin America and it is supported by world-class institutions.
Excited to share a few highlights from the 2024 LatAm Tech Forum (LTF) hosted in Miami last month. This year’s edition brought together an outstanding group of Founders and C-level executives from some of the largest and leading private and public technology companies from Latin America to share knowledge, build trust, and develop enduring relationships. LTF was founded over a decade ago and is organized by Riverwood Capital with the support of leading institutions. 🔹400+ total participants 🔹230+ CEOs and founders (alongside Latin America heads of global technology companies, global luminaries, and a sub-set of investors and technology advisors) 🔹~70% of attendees were executives from Latin American tech companies 🔹 Interactive executive session on “AI Adoption and Current Use Cases” (facilitated by BCG), and functional private working sessions across different management and business building topics 🔹 Fireside chats with outside guests including Admiral James Stavridis, 16th Supreme Allied Commander, NATO; Michel Temer, former President of Brazil; Cybersecurity Leaders from Bank of America and Mastercard; and others. 🔹 Pre-LTF Series events including by JP Morgan and Endeavor; BBVA Spark; and a Women in Tech Breakfast co-hosted by Itau BBA and Mattos Filho; among others. 🔹 NYSE Floor Talk recording studio We are amazed by the flood of positive feedback we have received from those that joined the 2024 Forum and are proud that since its founding in 2011, LTF has served as a platform for leaders to collaborate, build trust and develop long standing relationships across the technology ecosystem in Latin America. This private annual gathering aims to contribute to a stronger technology entrepreneurial ecosystem in Latin America, a sector that drives economic prosperity, creates high quality jobs, and can shape the future of the region. LTF is an industry initiative and has the important and strategic support from the following institutions: Citi, Financial Technology Partners, Foley & Lardner, Itau BBA, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley Santander, Stark Bank, BofA Securities, BBVA Spark, Bronstein Zilberg (BZCP), Brubank, BTG Pactual, Cooley, DLA Piper, FM/Derraik, Galapagos Capital, Globant, Goldman Sachs, Evercore, Greenberg Traurig, Gunderson Dettmer, Inter & Co, Jefferies, J.Safra, KPMG, Marval O’Farrell & Mairal, Mastercard, Mattos Filho, NYSE, Snowflake, Visa, Endeavor, LAVCA. Citi, @Paul Abrahimzadeh, Nicolas Roca, Paola Elias, Financial Technology Partners / FT Partners, Steve McLaughlin, Foley & Lardner LLP, Louis Lehot, André Thiollier, Itau BBA, Thiago Maceira, Julia De Luca, J.P. Morgan, Vicente Brocchetto, Edinardo Figueiredo, Tomas Pierucci, Morgan Stanley, Rodrigo Maldonado, Santander, JOAO SIMAO, STARK BANK, Rafael Stark, @BofA Securities, Pedro Pereira, BBVA Spark, Roberto Albaladejo, Bronstein, Zilberberg, Chueiri & Potenza Advogados, Pedro Chueiri, Guilherme Potenza, Eduardo Zilberberg, more tags in comments
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We are thrilled to share details of Riverwood’s $50 million growth investment in Legion Technologies! This investment marks a significant milestone toward advancing intelligence automation, enhancing workforce efficiency, and elevating employee engagement to new heights. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Sanish Mondkar and the incredible team behind Legion and we look forward to the journey ahead. Sanish Mondkar, Gopal Sundaram, Michael Spataro, Isabelle Wang, Tiffany Chelsvig, Amer Moorhead, Kristin Brennan, Mitri Dahdaly, Mimi Lo, Francisco Alvarez-Demalde, Jeff Parks, Ramesh Venugopal, Felipe Fagundes, Matthew Harper, Caitlin Mitchell