Eduardo Saverin is a Brazilian entrepreneur and investor best known as a co-founder of Meta Platforms, formerly Facebook. In 2016, Saverin co-founded B Capital, a venture capital firm focused on backing ventures to form part of the next wave of global technological innovation. As of 2023, the fund had over $5.5 billion in assets. Saverin is also a well-known mentor in the technology sector and has worked closely with a range of companies of various sizes and at different investment stages that share a common interest in highly progressive innovation.

Location

Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Eduardo Saverin later moved to Rio de Janeiro with his family before immigrating to the United States and settling in Miami in 1993. He attended Harvard University and graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in Economics. During his studies at Harvard, he met fellow student Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Meta Platforms, formerly Facebook, where the decision to develop Facebook was first made. In later years, Saverin met Elaine Andriejanssen, his current wife. In 2009, the couple moved to Singapore. Saverin has business interests throughout the United States and Asia.

Remarkable Investments

Since 2011, Eduardo Saverin has made major personal investments in various technology companies. He was the lead investor in the series A funding round of a prominent mobile shopping assistant in the United States, an application called ShopSavvy, in 2011. A total of US$7 million was raised during this funding round. In 2014, Saverin was the lead investor in the Singapore-based online supermarket RedMart. A total of US$5.4 million was raised during its venture round. His firm, B Capital, recently raised $750 million USD for its late-stage venture capital fund. Recently, Saverin was the lead investor on a $90 million investment to CoinDCX, a $65 million investment to Yalo, $13 million investment to Hopscotch, and, most recently, a $10 million investment to Mswipe Technologies.

Eduardo Saverin in the News

Saverin was announced the richest man in Singapore by Forbes in 2023 and has remained such ever since.

At the beginning of 2025, Saverin spoke about DeepSeek at the biggest international tech event, Web Summit, in Qatar.

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