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Expert guides, analysis and tool comparisons on Brazil Company Stories from the kurums.com Startup desk — written for business decision-makers and updated as the market moves.
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- Updated Aug 20, 2026
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Eletrobras: The Grid-Builder’s Radical Privatization Experiment
The company that electrified Brazil — and then pioneered privatization by dilution, vote caps included.
Raizen: The Cosan-Shell Giant Turning Sugarcane Into an Energy Platform
Agribusiness becomes energy: Raizen’s mills, Shell stations and the cellulosic-ethanol frontier.
Samarco, Mariana and Brumadinho: The Governance Lessons Written in Mud
The definitive case study in governance failure: Mariana, Brumadinho, and how catastrophe rewrote the rules of mining.
Usiminas: Japan’s Brazilian Steel Alliance and the War for Its Control
Sixty years of alliance capitalism: how Usiminas was built by Japan, fought over by giants and retooled by Ternium.
CSN: From Vargas’s National Steel Dream to the Steinbruch Empire
Latin America’s first great steel mill became a family-run mining-cement-logistics conglomerate. The CSN story.
Gerdau: Five Generations From Nail Factory to Steel Multinational
A 1901 Porto Alegre nail factory became the Americas’ largest long-steel producer — without losing the family or the discipline.
Vale: From State Champion to the World’s Iron Ore Superpower
The heaviest company in Brazil: Vale’s state origins, China-fueled rise, dam tragedies and decarbonization bet.
Pix: How Brazil’s Central Bank Built the World’s Best Payment System
The state-built rail that beat the private sector: Pix’s design choices, winners, losers and the business models it created.
EBANX: The Curitiba Unicorn Connecting the World to Latin American Wallets
The invisible bridge of Latin e-commerce: EBANX’s merchant-of-record empire, from boleto hacks to 29 countries.
Stone: The Green Army That Took On Brazil’s Payment Giants
Same-day service, city hubs and a near-death credit crisis: how Stone built and rebuilt Brazil’s SME payments champion.
PagBank: How PagSeguro Banked Brazil’s Street Entrepreneurs
Cheap card readers, instant onboarding, then full banking: how PagSeguro turned Brazil’s informal economy into a fintech giant.