by Ekrem Duman | Aug 22, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Startups & Innovation
⚡ TL;DRFaria Lima is Brazilian venture’s Wall Street: the Sao Paulo avenue where Kaszek and monashees institutionalized Latin VC, SoftBank’s 2019 US$5 billion fund detonated the boom, Nubank’s IPO crowned it, and 2022’s winter audited...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 22, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Startups & Innovation
⚡ TL;DR99 wrote Brazilian startup history twice: as 99Taxis it organized the taxi rebellion into an app, and in January 2018 its sale to China’s Didi Chuxing minted Brazil’s first unicorn exit — validating an ecosystem overnight. Under Didi, 99...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 22, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Startups & Innovation
⚡ TL;DRCreditas attacked Brazil’s most expensive problem — credit priced for a bankless age — with a secured-lending thesis: collateralize what Brazilians own (homes, cars, salaries) and interest rates collapse from triple-digit revolving...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 22, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Startups & Innovation
⚡ TL;DRQuintoAndar attacked Brazilian renting’s deepest friction — the fiador guarantor system — with an insurance-and-technology answer that let tenants rent without a property-owning cosigner and landlords sleep on guaranteed payments. From...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 22, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Startups & Innovation
⚡ TL;DRiFood is Latin America’s delivery decacorn: born 2011 from a Sao Paulo menu-ordering hustle, scaled by Movile’s conviction and Prosus’s billions into Brazil’s default meal — on the order of 100 million orders monthly,...
