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Where startups in Brazil are based
1,006 funded startups in Brazil have raised money in rounds we track, $30B between them. 720 of them are placed on the map by their city; Sao Paulo leads with 260, then São Paulo with 139.
Each circle is a city, sized by how many startups are based there.
Leading cities
- Sao Paulo260$7.7B
- São Paulo139$4.5B
- Curitiba34$550M
- Belo Horizonte32$1.2B
- Rio de Janeiro27$232M
- Barueri21$1.4B
- Florianopolis20$175M
- Rio De Janeiro13$35M
- Porto Alegre11$72M
- Florianópolis10$90M
- Campinas9$953M
- Recife8$21M
- Joinville6$234M
- Sao Carlos6$53M
- Salvador5$14M
By state or region
- Sao Paulo471$17B
- Santa Catarina48$577M
- Rio de Janeiro44$446M
- Minas Gerais43$1.3B
- Parana42$571M
- Rio Grande do Sul25$97M
- Pernambuco8$21M
- Goias8$10M
- Federal District6$36M
- Bahia6$15M
- Espirito Santo4$5.8M
- Ceara4$2.4M
Best-funded
Brazil · $2.3B
How this map is made. Every startup here has raised money in rounds we track. Each is placed at the city we hold for it, matched to that city's position in GeoNames (cities of 15,000 people or more; geonames.org, CC BY 4.0); startups without a city on record count in the totals but not on the map. Rebuilt nightly; updated 15 November 2026.
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