Value Creation, Engineered with AI.

Dixie Capital pairs private equity operating discipline with hands-on AI engineering to design and deploy production systems that deliver measurable results for funds, portfolio companies and mid-sized businesses.

Boulder · São Paulo · Est. 2023
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Companies Assisted
$0B
Transaction Value*
$0M
EBITDA / Cash Flow*
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Incremental Value*

*Internal estimates based on the professional experience of our team members. Indicative, not audited values.

The Firm

From the deal table
to the build.

We spent our careers inside private equity funds and investment banks, accountable for returns, not presentations. Since 2023, we build the AI that moves the numbers.

Agents, platforms and autonomous workflows, running daily inside our clients' operations.

Advent
Goldman Sachs
Credit Suisse
BofA
Patria
Kearney
The Dixie Capital team in the mountains of Boulder, Colorado
2023
Founded
2
Offices · Boulder & São Paulo
15+
AI systems in production
Trusted by leading companies and investors
Advent International Avis Sensata Technologies EBANX Vshred Perfection Group Emma Logistics YDUQS Nestlé Timbro Trading P&G
Capabilities

From value thesis to production AI.

01

AI Strategy

Board-level roadmaps with ROI models. Where AI moves your P&L, and where it doesn't.

02

Custom Agents

Production-grade agents and platforms, integrated with your systems and running every day.

03

AI for PE

Sourcing, diligence and portfolio-wide deployment, built inside one of the world's largest funds.

04

Adoption

50+ training sessions delivered. Tools only create value when your people use them.

We measure AI the way investors do.
EBITDA · Cash Flow · Enterprise Value
Case Studies

Built. Deployed. In production.

Top-3 Car Rental Company
$120M/yr
EBITDA identified

Profitability pattern agents

Agents distilled a massive operational dataset at one of the world's largest car rental companies.

Top-3 Car Rental Company
1,000s
negotiations guided

Renewal negotiation agents

Best-practice playbooks applied to thousands of B2B renewals, a scale unreachable without AI.

Top-10 Global PE Firm
#1
most-used AI tool

Firm-wide knowledge agent

The organization's knowledge, accessible by simply sending an email.

$4B Industrial Tech Company
~$500K
saved vs. off-the-shelf

Proprietary M&A platform

A Salesforce-grade deal pipeline platform, purpose-built in weeks.

Global Logistics Ecosystem
5,000+
transactions processed daily

Autonomous daily reporting

Downloads carrier portal reports, builds the daily brief, delivers by email and WhatsApp. Zero touch.

High-Growth DTC Fitness Brand
1,000s
of SKUs untangled

Margin clarity agent

Accurate revenue and contribution margin categorization, integrated with NetSuite.

$100M+ HVAC Company
1 day → minutes
working-capital refresh

AR/AP intelligence agent

Parses ~3,900 customer and vendor rows from 16 ERP reports into an interactive dashboard covering DSO, aging and cash conversion, with penny-level reconciliation.

$100M+ HVAC Company
10
strategic initiatives tracked

Board reporting agent

Turns raw tracking workbooks into the board-ready dashboard for the company's 2028 vision, cutting a week of preparation per cycle and keeping methodology consistent.

Top-10 Global PE Firm
Daily
autonomous publishing

Portfolio performance site

An agent reads the CFO's daily email, updates the database, republishes the dashboard. Every day.

Top-10 Global PE Firm
50+
training sessions delivered

AI enablement program

Group workshops and 1:1 coaching that made AI a daily working habit across the firm's professionals.

Top-10 Global PE Firm
1
briefing instead of many

Media intelligence agent

Reviews the daily media digest, de-duplicates and consolidates overlapping stories, and re-sends a clean summary, autonomously, every morning.

$4B Industrial Tech Company
Days → live
idea to deployed app

Mofax internal platform

A platform that lets any team member deploy their AI-built application ideas instantly, turning experimentation into working software.

Why Dixie

Private equity discipline, applied to AI.

01

Value first

Every build starts where a deal team would: how big, how fast, how certain.

02

Production, not pilots

Our agents run daily inside client operations. Autonomy is the standard.

03

Fluent in PE

IC memos, diligence, exits: we have lived them, on both sides of the table.

04

Embedded

We work inside your team and systems. Your people level up as we build.

Principal Investments

We invest where our playbook compounds.

Beyond advising, Dixie Capital takes ownership stakes in companies positioned to benefit directly from its AI playbook, operating as both investor and builder, with our own capital at work.

Portfolio
Emma Logistics

Emma Logistics

A logistics business run on an AI-native operating backbone: autonomous carrier reporting, daily performance intelligence, and lean back-office operations.

Investor & AI Operating Partner
Portfolio
mofax.ai

Mofax.ai

A platform that turns AI-built application ideas into deployed, working software in minutes. Born inside a client engagement, it is now a product company.

Investor & AI Operating Partner
Our Team

Operators who have done the deals.

Alfredo Sandes, Founding Partner
Alfredo Sandes, CFA
Founding Partner
10 years at Advent International: GP, then Special Advisor Goldman Sachs IBD · Credit Suisse Equity Research Grupo Big/Walmart Brazil · Nubank · Fleury · YDUQS M.S. Stanford · B.S. Electronic Engineering, ITA

After a decade investing at one of the world's largest private equity firms, Alfredo now architects the AI behind Dixie's work, from multi-agent deal sourcing to autonomous reporting infrastructure.

His conviction: the firms that win the next decade will treat AI with the same seriousness as pricing, M&A or working capital.

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Fabio Ferrari
Fabio Ferrari
Investments and Value Creation Professional
Fabio manages and executes value creation strategies across Dixie's client portfolio. Before joining in 2024, he spent nearly four years at Patria Investments and previously worked in debt advisory at RK Partners and in agribusiness credit at Safra. He holds a degree in Economics from UFSCar and has passed CFA Level I.
Vitor Hugo Saraiva
Vitor Hugo Saraiva
Investments and Value Creation Professional
Vitor executes value creation projects under Dixie's excellence playbook. He spent three years as an analyst at Patria Investments evaluating private equity opportunities in retail, and began his career in consulting at Visagio. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of São Paulo.
Yuichi Tokumoto
Yuichi Tokumoto
Investments and Value Creation Professional
Yuichi executes engagements in alignment with the firm's playbook. Before Dixie, he was a Business Analyst at Kearney in São Paulo, contributing to strategy projects across diverse industries. He graduated first in his class from the Universidade de São Paulo.
Lucas Morrone
Lucas Morrone
Investments and Value Creation Professional
Lucas is a Value Creation Professional at Dixie Capital, supporting the design and execution of AI and value creation initiatives across client engagements.
Vinicius Jiro
Vinicius Jiro
Investments and Value Creation Professional
Vinicius supports value creation initiatives and analytical work across multiple sectors. He was previously a Business Analyst at Kearney in São Paulo and, before that, worked at BTG Pactual. He holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from UFSCar.
Joao Pedro Barreto
Joao Pedro Barreto
Investments and Value Creation Professional
Joao supports the execution of investment opportunities and conducts analysis across a range of sectors. He previously worked in equity research at Constellation Asset Management and began his career in M&A at 17Partners. He holds a degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from USP.
Giovana Belini
Giovana Belini
HR Professional
Giovana leads recruiting at Dixie, with hands-on experience in full-cycle recruitment, candidate experience and employer branding. She previously managed high-volume hiring at Fluencypass EdTech and holds a degree in Psychology from Universidade Metodista de São Paulo.
The Dixie Capital team on the climbing wall
The Dixie Capital team hiking in Boulder, Colorado
Our Culture

Built in Boulder.
At home in the mountains.

The mountain in our mark is not decoration. We climb together, and we bring the same persistence to every engagement.

Let's identify the value AI can create in your business.

Fund, portfolio company, or mid-sized business: it starts with one conversation.

contact@dixiecap.com
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