Carlos Moreira Jr.

Brazilian-American Entrepreneur · Executive · Investor

Carlos Moreira Jr.

His career spans company building, sports and media, global technology platforms, strategic partnerships and venture investing across Brazil, the United States and Latin America.

He co-founded Esporte Interativo, later acquired by Turner Broadcasting; held leadership roles at Nike, Twitter and Globo; and founded iC-More Ventures.

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Biography

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Carlos Moreira Jr. is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur, executive and investor whose career has developed across sports, media, technology, strategic partnerships and venture capital. He co-founded Esporte Interativo, a Brazilian live-sports media company later acquired by Turner Broadcasting. He subsequently founded SportPar and held senior roles at Twitter, where he led business development and partnerships around major media and sports events, and at Grupo Globo, where he led ecosystem and partnership activity from Silicon Valley. Carlos is the founder of iC-More Ventures, through which he has invested in companies across artificial intelligence, fintech, health, media, sports, creator tools and sustainability. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from PUC-Rio and an MBA from Babson College, completed the Stanford Executive Program, and studied AI and machine learning at MIT. He is a father of four, a sports enthusiast and an ocean lover.

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Carlos Moreira Jr. is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur, executive and investor whose work spans sports, media, technology and venture capital. He co-founded Esporte Interativo, later acquired by Turner Broadcasting, held leadership roles at Nike, Twitter and Globo, and founded iC-More Ventures, an investment platform with interests across AI, fintech, health, media, sports and sustainability.

iC-More Ventures

Selected investments and exits

Company names link to official websites. Founder and CEO names link to their public profiles where available.

Active and selected portfolio

OpenAI

2024

CEO and co-founder: Sam Altman

Artificial intelligence research and products, including the GPT family of models and ChatGPT.

Woof

2023

CEO and co-founder: Caetano Altafin

A pet passport and system of record designed to connect fragmented pet data and enable more personalized pet-human experiences.

XP Health

2022

CEO and co-founder: Antonio Moraes

A virtual-first vision-care platform using technology, customer-centered design and care navigation to improve access and reduce costs.

Just Women’s Sports

2022

CEO and founder: Haley Rosen

A media platform dedicated entirely to women’s sports, distributed across digital and social channels.

Galy

2021

Co-founders: Luciano Bueno and Paula Elbl

Cellular agriculture focused on growing cotton from cells in a facility rather than plants in a field.

Jiffy.ai

2021

CEO and co-founder: Babu Sivadasan

An enterprise automation platform using natural-language processing and AI to simplify corporate processes.

Fever

2021

CEO and co-founder: Ignacio Bachiller Strohlein

A global live-entertainment discovery and ticketing platform that connects audiences with local experiences and events.

Republic

2021

Founder: Kendrick Nguyen

An investment platform providing access to private-market opportunities across startups and other alternative assets.

EasyCarros

2017

CEO and co-founder: Fernando Saddi

A digital platform for mobility entrepreneurs and fleet management, covering financing, transactions, maintenance and related services.

Selected exits

Conta Simples

26x MOIC*

CEO and co-founder: Rodrigo Tognini

A business banking and expense-management platform. Partial exit in November 2023.

IDwall

3x MOIC

Founder: Lincoln Ando

Identity verification and fraud-prevention infrastructure. Exit completed in 2026.

Strofe

Exit

CEO and co-founder: Alejandro Di Mare

AI-assisted original music creation for games, streams, videos and podcasts.

Hamama

Acquired

CEO and co-founder: Camille Richman

Indoor growing kits for microgreens and green onions. Sold to Moonshot Brands.

Peer5

1.9x MOIC

CEO and co-founder: Hadar Weiss

WebRTC-based enterprise content delivery network. Acquired by Microsoft in 2021.

GamersClub

3.1x MOIC

CEO and co-founder: Yuri Uchiyama

A competitive gaming platform. Acquired by Immortals in 2018.

*Partial exit, as described on the original iC-More Ventures public site.

Ideas and public record

Writing, press and recognition

Published work, verified media coverage, institutional case studies and company recognition.

Selected press

Earlier coverage

Twitter planeja expansão na América Latina Valor Econômico · September 30, 2014
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Twitter quiere que la TV mexicana se exprese en 140 caracteres Expansión · November 11, 2014
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Lección de Estilo / Carlos Moreira Jr. Playboy México · May 2016
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Awards and company recognition

Empreendedores do Novo Brasil Endeavor and Grupo Abril, Você S/A · May 2002
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#5 in Deloitte’s ranking of Brazil’s fastest-growing SMEsDeloitte and Exame PME · 2006 · page 6 #23 in Deloitte’s ranking of Brazil’s fastest-growing SMEsTV Esporte Interativo · 2007 · page 32 #42 in Deloitte’s ranking of Brazil’s fastest-growing SMEsTopSports / Esporte Interativo · 2008 · page 26 #78 in Deloitte’s ranking of Brazil’s fastest-growing SMEsEsporte Interativo · 2009 · page 27

Curiosities

What I listen to, read and write down

A living record rather than a statement of personal qualities.

Picks From a Curious Entrepreneur

Conversations with founders, builders and thinkers, together with episodes that have had a lasting personal impact.

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Notes to self

“The answer to a question I was never asked: I would have used and lived the freedom I always had and never knew I had.”
“Too much planning is a way not to face the fear of failing when executing.”

Carlos Moreira Jr., personal notes

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Contact

carlosmoreirajr@alumni.gsb.stanford.edu

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