Best Native AI Companies in Brazil
The 91 best Native AI companies in Brazil in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: TRACTIAN.
Brazil's Native AI sector is moving fast, and this directory ranks the best Native AI companies in Brazil by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum across 91 tracked startups.
$139M in total disclosed funding tells part of the story. Tractian leads hard at $73M, with NeoSpace and CrewAI each pulling $18M, and Darwin at $7M rounding out the tier that actually has scale. No unicorns yet, but the CAGR sits at roughly 50% according to MnM industry experts, which means the gap between today's numbers and next year's won't look anything like this. The demand drivers are concrete: automating routine paperwork, predicting patient inflow, reshaping programmatic workflows. And the question worth asking is whether Brazil's funding base, anchored by investors like Plug and Play Tech Center, FJ Labs and DGF, can keep pace with that growth curve before offshore capital moves in faster.
The sector's hot themes this quarter, cloud-native firewalls, AI hardware, cloud security groups, tell you where builders are concentrating. Native AI adoption is accelerating across enterprise tooling globally, and Brazil's 91-company cohort is catching that wave early. I'd watch the sub-$1M cohort, names like Jabuti AGI at $400K and Huna at $1M, because that's where the next funding jump tends to originate. Use this directory to find where the momentum is actually concentrated right now.
- benzinga.com
Our analysis of 150 Native AI companies
$80.7b in tracked funding; 94% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Native AI companies in Brazil
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founded | Founder | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AINEXT Developer of a cybersecurity platform uniting humans and artificial intelligence | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2023 | Marcelo Benevides CEO | — |
| 2 | Algarys Developer of business process automation and artificial intelligence systems | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2025 | Pedro Grisi Founder & CEO | 2 job openings |
| 3 | Anthor Developer of smart shelf replenishment application designed to improve the execution of trade marketing at… | — | — | Private | 127 | 2018 | — | — |
| 4 | aquarius software Aquarius Software is a software distributor company for industrial automation and production management. | — | — | Acquired | 67 | 1984 | — | — |
| 5 | audima Audima is an information technology company that converts content to audio into many languages by using… | — | — | Private | 21 | 2016 | — | — |
| 6 | Aurelium Developer of NLU based API for text analytics | — | — | Deadpooled | — | 2018 | Rodrigo Streihorst Founder | — |
| 7 | AXONDATA Developer of AI products for businesses using its proprietary analytical platform | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2016 | Rodrigo Pasti Co-Founder | — |
| 8 | Bexpo Operator of a technology platform intended to provide facial recognition product. | — | — | Acquired | 2 | — | — | — |
Top 12 Native AI companies in Brazil
#1
Series C · Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo · founded 2019 · 300 employees$73.3Mraised▾
AI company specializing in predictive maintenance and asset monitoring for manufacturing. The platform provides hardware and software solutions designed to give maintenance technicians oversight of operations. The company's solutions are used in environments that address a combined total of industrial output. The platform identifies machine problems and suggests preventive actions to be taken.
- Nov 2024Series C$122.9M
- Aug 2023Series B$55M
- May 2022Series A$15M
- Jun 2021Seed$3.2M
#2
Seed · Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo · founded 2023$6.6Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered workforce agents to help small and medium businesses. It offers an AI assistant that automates chat with customers including emojis, audio interactions, and context-aware responses, qualify them, and escalate them to the appropriate team. It allows businesses to train it with interactions, enabling it to adapt to multiple tones and styles, such as playful, formal, and other voice by learning from collected data.
- Aug 2025Seed$4.5M
- Feb 2024Seed$2.1M
#3
Series B · Uberlandia, State of Minas Gerais · founded 2023$18Mraised▾
AI-based platform for financial management. It provides users with a startup that utilizes large finance models to assist financial services enterprises in reimagining, enhancing, and implementing their business strategies.
- Jan 2025Series B$18M
#4
Seed · Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo · founded 2024$400Kraised▾
Provider of agentic AI for digital channels and customer relationships. It delivers agents that understand context, make decisions, and execute actions. The company's AI agents focus on sales, marketing, customer activation, and support. The agents offer features such as hyper-personalization, data tagging, API integration, and proactive monitoring.
- Jan 2026Seed$400K
#5
Series A · Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo · founded 2023$18Mraised▾
Provider of a platform for building and managing collaborative AI agents. The platform enables enterprises to operate teams of AI agents that perform complex tasks autonomously and reliably. It offers tools for building, integrating, observing, and optimizing AI agent workflows. The platform supports centralized management, monitoring, and security, as well as serverless scaling.
- Oct 2024Series A$18M
#6
Seed · Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro · founded 2021 · 10 employees$1Mraised▾
Developer of AI-based breast cancer diagnostics solutions. It offers a cancer screening platform that applies artificial intelligence algorithms to a blood test that allows patients, hospitals, clinics, and laboratories to detect diseases.
- Jun 2025Seed$1.5M
- Feb 2025Seed—
- Jul 2022Seed$1M
#7
Series A · Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo · founded 2017 · 94 employees$3.4Mraised▾
Provider of AI-based analytics solutions for agriculture. It provides diagnostics for plant characteristics, nutritional deficiencies, pests, and plant diseases. It provides various solutions which include Cromai Capture, Cromai Sentinel, and Cromai Scan.
- Feb 2024Series A$2.4M
- Dec 2022Series A—
- May 2021Seed$955.7K
#8
Seed · Sao Carlos, State of Sao Paulo · founded 2017$2.5Mraised▾
Provider of video analytics solutions. Provides pattern recognition, inventory movement monitoring, load monitoring, queue monitoring, traffic management, and vehicle detection solution. Uses computer vision and artificial intelligence solutions and enables automation of process optimization and auditing.
- Mar 2024Seed$2.5M
#9
Seed · Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro · founded 2022$2.8Mraised▾
Provider of headless e-commerce solutions for the e-commerce businesses. Its features include storefront, A/B testing, personalization, and more.
- Jan 2024Seed$2.2M
- 2022Angel$600K
#10
Deadpooled · Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo · founded 2019 · 40 employees$7.3Mraised▾
AI based fraud detection solutions for credit cards. It provides solutions for financial crime and chargebacks. It uses a data centric approach and machine learning algorithms to prevent credit card fraud. It also facilitates an automated process for dealing with fraud.
- Jan 2022Series A$7.3M
#11
Acquired · Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais · founded 2014 · 36 employees$2.6Mraised▾
Provider of AI-based integrated video surveillance systems. It offers web-based software, hardware and a smartphone application. It also offers integrated video analytics and video streaming software. Its features include live streaming, temperature monitoring, facial, vehicle and object recognition, reading and recognition of license plates, and industrial inspection. It also provides customized video analytics solutions.
- Sep 2021Seed$1.2M
- Sep 2017Seed$1.4M
#12
Acquired · Sao Paulo, Brazil · founded 2014 · 107 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Konduto is an online fraud detection service that helps e-commerce merchants spot fraud with its Buying Behavior technology. It employs Machine Learning to study the buyer's behaviour from the moment of logging into the website to the point of checkout. It then creates a score to help the merchant identify the safe transactions. For manual interventions, it provides a dashboard to the merchants to review the pattern.
- Jun 2017Seed$2.5M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Native AI coverage by sub-theme.
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How research on Artificial Intelligence is moving in Brazil
A read on the academic research around Artificial Intelligence — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 254 Brazil-affiliated papers.
- Ministry of Education20
- Universidade de São Paulo16
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas14
- Instituto Federal Goiano12
- Universidade Federal de São Paulo9
- Task (project management)1→6
- Field (mathematics)1→4
- Scalability1→4
- Support vector machine1→4
- Pattern recognition (psychology)8
- Benchmark (surveying)6
- Support vector machine6
- Artificial neural network6
- Context (archaeology)5
- Context (archaeology)8
- Set (abstract data type)4
- Field (mathematics)4
- Quality (philosophy)4
- Consciousness4
Where artificial intelligence 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
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