Best Chemicals and Materials Companies in Brazil
The 122 best Chemicals and Materials companies in Brazil in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: CBMM.
Brazil's Chemicals and Materials sector has 122 companies tracked in our directory, ranked by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum, and the funding is concentrated fast. CBMM sits at $1.9B raised, Unigel at $420M, and then the numbers drop sharply. That gap tells you something about where institutional capital is placing its bets right now.
So what's actually moving beneath the surface? Coverage is flat, but the themes underneath aren't. Urban sustainability, green infrastructure, and sustainable city planning are pulling attention toward materials companies that can serve those use cases, and I'd watch that closely through the rest of this year. Median install growth across 32 chemicals and building materials apps is running at roughly plus-18% year over year, which means demand signals are building digitally even where funding announcements aren't. The most active investors, names like Inseed Investimentos, KPTL, and Braskem Labs, are still circling the sector. No unicorns yet across 122 tracked companies, but with $2.5B in total disclosed funding and green infrastructure accelerating as a policy and commercial priority, the conditions for one aren't hard to imagine.
Our analysis of 234 Chemicals and Materials companies
$21.9b in tracked funding; 57% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Chemicals and Materials companies in Brazil
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Market signals (1y) | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CBMM Provider of niobium | $1.9B | 177 mo ago | Late Stage | — | 1950 | SitecoreApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+26 | 3 signals Announcements · Contracts | 55 patents Low‑nitrogen chromium alloys and niobium‑based ferroalloy production and refining | 3 job openings · 1 internship |
| 2 | Unigel Latin America's largest acrylics and styrenics producer, providing diverse chemical solutions | $420M | 80 mo ago | Funding Raised | Henri Slezynger Founder | 1981 | Master SliderWordPressApple iCloud Mail+19 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Jalles Machado Producer of ethanol and other energy yielding products | $82M | 68 mo ago | Public | Otavio Lage De Siqueira Filho CEO | 1980 | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Akdeniz Chemson Home | Akdeniz Chemson | $179K | 84 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2020 | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Mush Provider of thermoacoustic panels production and packaging services | $175K | 32 mo ago | Seed | Eduardo Sydney CEO | 2019 | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Braskem Producer of petrochemical and thermoplastic products | — | 13 mo ago | Acquired | Fernando Musa CEO | 2002 | Microsoft ASP.NETBootstrapAzure+18 | 30 signals ▼21% Contracts · Acquisition · Regulatory | 1,319 patents Polymer production, bio-based plastics, flexible packaging, additives, and olefin resin processing | — |
| 7 | Bracell Production of dissolving pulp | — | 26 mo ago | Series A | Pedro Stefanini CEO | 2003 | WordPressMySQLPHP+40 | — | — | 2 job openings |
| 8 | Suzano Pulp and paper company | — | 27 mo ago | Public | Walter Schalka CEO | 1924 | Cart FunctionalitySAP Commerce CloudApple iCloud Mail+37 | 23 signals ▼52% Earnings · Contracts · Announcements | 296 patents Cellulose microfibril production and barrier coatings for sustainable paper packaging | — |
Top 12 Chemicals and Materials companies in Brazil
#1
Late Stage · Araxa, State of Minas Gerais · founded 1950 · 1412 employees$1.9Braised▾
Provider of niobium
#2
Funding Raised · Sao Paulo, Brazil · founded 1981 · 1253 employees$420Mraised▾
Latin America's largest acrylics and styrenics producer, providing diverse chemical solutions. The company is a major petrochemical company focused on producing raw materials for various industries, offering intelligent, innovative, and sustainable solutions. It operates with vertically integrated operations and a diversified product portfolio, including acrylics, styrenics, and fertilizers. The company serves multiple markets, including agriculture, automotive, construction, packaging, mining, paper and cellulose, health and beauty, textiles, paints and coatings, and appliances and electronics. The company is committed to sustainability, adopting responsible practices throughout its production chain and investing in green initiatives like hydrogen production. The company leverages its extensive know-how and advanced technology to deliver high-quality products to consumers worldwide.
- Oct 2019Conventional Debt$420M
#3
Public · Goianesia, State of Goias · founded 1980$82.5Mraised▾
Jalles Machado is a producer and a wholesale supplier of bioethanol and other energy-yielding products to suit the needs of multiple sectors. Product offerings include bioethanol, crystallized sugar, yeast, organic edible sugar, sanitation products. Also, has been operating a large-scale co-generation plant which produces clean energy from sugar bagasse, and corn straw with a cumulative capacity of 88MW. Raw material used in the production of bioethanol includes corn, wheat, beet, and sugarcane.
- Sep 2020Conventional Debt$27.5M
- Mar 2018Conventional Debt$55M
#4
Seed · Ponta Grossa, Parana · founded 2019 · 3 employees$174.7Kraised▾
Provider of thermoacoustic panels production and packaging services
- Oct 2023Seed$174.7K
#5
Funding Raised · Brazil · founded 2020 · 218 employees$179.2Kraised▾
Akdeniz Chemson is a company with the worlds most advanced integration, and is a leading PVC stabilizer brand.
- Jun 2019Grant (prize money)$179.2K
#6
Acquired · Sao Paulo · founded 2002 · 717 employees—raised▾
Braskem is a petrochemical company. It offers products such as petrochemical, chemicals, biopolymers, thermoplastic resins, polyethylene. It provides services to businesses. In 2023, the company recorded annual revenues of $18.69B and a net loss of $0.07B.
#7
Series A · Camacari, State of Bahia · founded 2003 · 60000 employees—raised▾
Bracell is a global leader in the production of specialty cellulose, supported by sustainable eucalyptus cultivation. Their operations focus on dissolving pulp and special specialty cellulose.
#8
Public · Sao Paulo, Brazil · founded 1924 · 5045 employees—raised▾
Suzano is a pulp and paper company. Their business segments include forestry, cellulose, paper, biotechnology, eucafluff, and tissue. The company has operations worldwide. In 2020, the company recorded annual revenues of $5.9 B and a net loss of $-2.1 B.In 2021, the company recorded annual revenues of $7.59B and a net profit of $1.6B
#9
Funding Raised · Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul · founded 1901 · 28612 employees—raised▾
Gerdau is a steel-producing company. Its products include long steel, specialty steel, flat steel & more. The company operates in 14 countries & provides services to businesses. In 2022, the company recorded annual revenues of $15.7B and a net profit of $0.75B.
#10
Public · Brazil · founded 1901 · 45000 employees—raised▾
Metalurgica Gerdau SA produces steel and steel products used in construction, industrial, agricultural and automotive sectors. Its products include steel columns, nails, transfer bars for the construction sector; billet, electrodes, mechanical construction wire rods for the industrial sector; staples, steel posts, tribars, galvanized wires for agricultural sector; mechanical construction ingots, mechanical construction wires, and various other products for the automotive sector. Its revenue is generated by sales of long steel to nonresidential construction and infrastructure sector in North America.
#11
Late Stage · Sao Carlos, State of Sao Paulo · founded 2004 · 29 employees—raised▾
Nanox is a nanotechnology company that develops, produces, and sells antimicrobials and antivirals for multiple markets. They also offer antimicrobial technology for domestic and industrial utilities and textiles. Nanox Vision, a subsidiary of Nanox, is developing a next-generation medical imaging system.
- Jun 2016PE—
#12
Seed · Indaial, State of Santa Catarina · founded 2008 · 14 employees—raised▾
Akmey develops and manufactures ecologically correct products for the processing of natural fibers and their mixtures through Biotechnology.
- Oct 2015Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Chemicals and Materials coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Advanced Materials is moving in Brazil
A read on the academic research around Advanced Materials — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 125 Brazil-affiliated papers.
- Ministry of Education37
- Universidade de São Paulo14
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro13
- Universidade Federal de Campina Grande12
- Federal Center for Technological Education Celso Suckow da Fonseca8
- Smart material1→7
- Actuator1→4
- SMA*4→8
- Spring (device)1→4
- Piezoelectricity6→9
- Vibration3→5
- Shape-memory alloy9→10
- Smart material5
- Clothing2
- Architectural engineering2
- Biomimetic materials2
- Nanotechnology2
Where advanced materials is researched across Brazil
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.