Last mentioned: Mar 10, 2026
First Cohort Deployment
Expected completion of initial 'Star' team selections and stipend disbursements.
Shiva Fund Launch
Shiva announces $10M fund to back AI-driven micro-teams in Brazil.
NGO Launch
Marques founds Programadores do Amanhã to provide coding education to low-income youth.
Méliuz IPO
Lucas Marques helps lead Méliuz to one of Brazil's first major startup IPOs.
Brazilian venture fund Shiva has secured $10 million to back micro-teams of one to three people leveraging AI to build lean, profitable software companies. Founded by Lucas Marques and backed by Monashees, the fund prioritizes monthly stipends over massive upfront capital, targeting sustainable $20 million to $50 million exits.
This page surfaces every story mentioning Méliuz across our saas coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running saas beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Story count | Number of distinct stories where Méliuz was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |