Pierre Schurmann
Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman
Mr. Schurmann founded Nuvini S.A. in November 2019. He is responsible for the strategic vision as well as the management and growth of Nuvini. Mr Schurmann previously was founder and Managing Partner at Bossanova Investimentos, from 2011 to 2019, the first pre-seed investment firm in Brazil, and today, the eighth most active investment firm in the world. While at Bossanova, he led over 600 investments in B2B startups. He also led Bossanova's anchoring of Brazil's first Venture Debt (by SP Ventures) and well as the country's first angel investment fund (with Domo Investments (Nasdaq: DOMO)).
Prior to funding Bossanova, Mr. Schurmann was co-founder and CEO of Experience Club, Brazil's largest membership only B2B networking club, from 2006 to 2010, where he was responsible for managing the company and sponsorship sales. Over 600 of Brazil's top 1,000 companies are members of Experience Club as of December 2022.
Prior to that Mr Schurmann was co-founder and CEO of Conectis Experience Marketing, Brazil's first experience marketing agency. At Conectis, he was responsible for general management, sales and client relations. IBM (NYSE: IBM), BASF (OTCMKTS: BASFY), Citroen, SAP (NYSE: SAP) and another 140 large enterprises were Conectis client at the time Conectis was acquired in 2006.
Prior to that Mr Schurmann was co-founder and VP of ideas at ideia.com, a Brazilian technology incubator backed by Warburg Pincus, from 2000 to 2003, where he was responsible for sourcing and analyzing the incubators investments. Prior to that Mr. Schurmann was Director of Business Development at StarMedia (KLSE: STAR), a Latin American Portal, from 1998 to 2000. He was responsible for M&A and Business Development for Latin America. Prior to that Mr Schurmann was co-founder and Director of Business development at Zeek!, from 1996 to 1998, where he was responsible for corporate development and partnerships. Zeek! was acquired by StarMedia (KLSE: STAR) in 1998.
