Software for local business
Inventory, logistics, point of sale, HR and finance for the supermarkets, distributors and family businesses that run the region’s economy.
Venture capital · Software & AI · Caatinga, Brazil
The Caatinga isn’t weak. It’s underestimated.
White Jungle invests in software and AI companies modernizing the businesses, clinics and infrastructure of Brazil’s semi-arid, and in the engineers who build them to a world-class bar.
One of the most underserved software markets on earth.
Before anyone sells a supermarket solar panels, someone should fix its inventory, logistics and HR systems. Across the semi-arid, stores run on 2000s-era computers, and clinics and hospitals depend on software written decades ago. That gap is not a weakness. It is the opportunity.
- people living in Brazil’s semi-arid region
- 25M+
- municipalities, each with stores, clinics and city halls to modernize
- 1,400+
- the age of the software still running many of the region’s clinics and businesses
- Decades
- of Caatinga, the only biome found exclusively in Brazil
- ~850k km²
Software and AI for the real economy of the semi-arid
We back companies that bring modern software to the places technology forgot. Every problem solved here can be sold to every other underserved region in the world.
Health tech
Modern systems for clinics and hospitals: records, scheduling, billing and telemedicine to replace software written 40 years ago.
AI for energy & water
Solar panels will get built anyway. We back the software and AI that decide how energy and water are managed, shared and spent.
Agritech & supply chains
Data and AI for semi-arid farming, cooperatives and the supply chains that connect them to markets.
GovTech & public services
Tools that help municipalities deliver education, health and services with the efficiency their citizens deserve.
Building something else here?
If it brings world-class software to the semi-arid, we want to hear about it.
The builders already exist. They have never been together.
Bring them together
Talented engineers across the region work alone, freelancing project to project. We give them a home: one community, shared tools, shared ambition.
Raise the bar
Silicon Valley standards for code, product and design. Reviews, mentors and engineering practices that turn good developers into great teams.
Back them early
Capital, customers and patience from day one, so the best companies of the semi-arid are built here, by people from here.
From modern software to a knowledge economy.
Our portfolio construction follows the region’s development path. Each phase lays the foundation the next one compounds on.
- Phase 1 · 2026–2030
Água e Luz
Water and light
- Modernize the core: software for retail, health and public services
- AI that manages energy and water across the region
- Gather the region’s best engineers into one community
- Phase 2 · 2030–2040
Gente e Grana
People and capital
- Train a generation of engineers to a global bar
- Grow regional software and AI champions
- Recycle returns into the regional ecosystem
- Phase 3 · 2040–2050
O Sertão Virou Mar
The backlands became the sea
- Export semi-arid software and AI to every dry region on earth
- Knowledge economy anchored in the Caatinga
- Prosperity that keeps people and culture at home
“O sertão vai virar mar.”
Building software in the semi-arid?
We read every pitch. Tell us what you are building and why it matters for the Caatinga.