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Best Solid Waste Management Tech Companies in Brazil

The 33 best Solid Waste Management Tech companies in Brazil in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Raízen.

33companies tracked
$1.6Bdisclosed funding
0unicorns
7have raised
Sources & further reading
  • The Business Research Company
  • Fortune Business Insights

Ranked: Best Solid Waste Management Tech companies in Brazil

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1Raízen
Provider of bioenergy from waste products
$1.6B101 mo agoPublicLuis Guimaraes
CEO
2011WordPressMySQLPHP+33—
2Circular Brain
Developer of e-waste lifecycle management solutions
$4M17 mo agoSeedMarcus Oliveira
Founder
2019WordPressMySQLPHP+26—
3b4waste
App-based waste collection platform
$2M36 mo agoSeries ADaniel Neuman
Founder & CEO
2021WordPressMySQLPHP+20—
4Energy Source
Provider of lithium battery repair, reuse, recycling, and energy solutions
$1M33 mo agoSeedDavid Noronha
CEO
2016FirebaseChart.jsBootstrap+10—
5Trashin
Provider of solutions for waste collection
$278K47 mo agoSeedSergio Finger
CEO
2018WordPressMySQLPHP+30—
6Minha Coleta
Online platform offering solutions for waste collection
$189K11 mo agoSeedEduardo Nascimento
Co-Founder
2015——
7Aterra
Provider of waste management and consulting services
—100 mo agoSeedFernando Andrade
CEO
2015WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+28—
8B2Blue
Online marketplace for waste trading and recycling
——UnfundedMayura Okura
Founder & CEO
2011Chart.jsAnimate.cssBootstrap+27—

Top 7 Solid Waste Management Tech companies in Brazil

#1
Seed · Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo · founded 2019 · 33 employees
$4.1Mraised
▾

Developer of e-waste lifecycle management solutions. It offers reverse logistics solutions for electronics manufacturers and importers, environmental disposal services for businesses, and a platform for tracking e-waste throughout its lifecycle for recyclers. The company partners with e-waste recyclers to meet legal requirements, promoting technology adoption, best practices, and job creation through manual reverse manufacturing. Its solutions connect various market players to transform electronic waste disposal within a circular economy framework.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • May 2025Seed$3.5M
  • Jul 2022Seed$553.8K
Founders & team
Marcus OliveiraFounder
Investors
lorene, Barn Invest, BR Angels, Braskem Labs
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsDraftpress HfcmElementorElementor Header & Footer Builder
#2
Seed · Duque de Caxias, State of Rio de Janeiro · founded 2015
$188.7Kraised
▾

Online platform offering solutions for waste collection. It provides solutions for collection for residential condominiums, reverses logistic projects, collection for business buildings, and others.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2025Seed$188.7K
Founders & team
Eduardo NascimentoCo-Founder
Investors
Bossa Invest, Poli Angels
Tech stack
UbuntuNginxGoogle Font Api
#3
Public · Sao Paulo, Brazil · founded 2011
$1.6Braised
▾

Provider of bioenergy from waste products. It creates renewable sources of energy like ethanol, bioelectricity, biogas, and bioproducts. It provides services to the aviation sector.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1.3M LinkedIn followers — 93.2% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • May 2018Conventional Debt$850M
  • Apr 2015Conventional Debt$725M
Founders & team
Luis GuimaraesCEO
Investors
Citi, Credit Agricole CIB, J P Morgan, MUFG, Scotiabank
Tech stack
AkamaiAkamai MpulseAmazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon SesAmazon Web Services
#4
Series A · Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo · founded 2021 · 15 employees
$2.4Mraised
▾

App-based waste collection platform. It offers a marketplace connecting waste collectors to industries. The mobile application is available for Android and iOS users.

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2023Series A$2M
  • Aug 2022Seed$391K
Founders & team
Daniel NeumanFounder & CEO
Investors
Glocal, Ene2
#5
Seed · Sao Joao Da Boa Vista, State of Sao Paulo · founded 2016
$1.2Mraised
▾

Provider of lithium battery repair, reuse, recycling, and energy solutions. It offers battery repurposing and recycling, transforming discarded lithium-ion batteries into new products. The company specializes in reverse logistics, product redesign, and final disposition of lithium batteries. It utilizes proprietary technology to recover metals from batteries. The company also develops customized energy solutions.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers
Hiring: 2 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum -2 · hiring: Backoffice Logstica, Energy Source
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2024Seed$1.2M
Founders & team
David NoronhaCEO
Investors
InMotion Ventures, Starter Business Acceleration, EDP Starter
#6
Seed · Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul · founded 2018 · 41 employees
$278.1Kraised
▾

Trashin provides solutions for waste collection. It provides recycling credits for the waste. It provides solutions for businesses and condominiums.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 9k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2022Seed$278.1K
Founders & team
Sergio FingerCEO
Investors
Celulose Irani, VENTIUR
Tech stack
ActivecampaignCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare Browser InsightsCore-JsElementor
#7
Seed · Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais · founded 2015 · 13 employees
—raised
▾

Provider of waste management services intended to offer an array of environmental services. The company manages all information related to the generation and destination of waste and carries out the best negotiations with the market, evaluates waste management performance, circular economy and reverse logistics management, transportation, and disposal of waste, and adds value to waste management, among other services, enabling clients to reduce disposal costs and increase revenues from the sale of waste with promoting governance, generating economic benefits, and promoting the circular economy.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2018Seed—
Founders & team
Fernando AndradeCEO
Investors
BMG UpTech, Bossa Invest
Tech stack
AddtoanyApache Http ServerBootstrapBootstrap IconsCdnjsCloudflare

Funding & investor landscape

$1.6Btotal disclosed funding
6companies funded
9disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Braskem Labs4 rounds
Bossa Invest3 rounds
100+ Accelerator2 rounds
BMG UpTech1 rounds
BR Angels1 rounds
Barn Invest1 rounds
Capital Empreendedor1 rounds
Celulose Irani1 rounds
Citi1 rounds
ClimateLaunchpad1 rounds

Notable founders

Marcus Oliveira
Founder · Circular Brain
Eduardo Nascimento
Co-Founder · Minha Coleta
Luis Guimaraes
CEO · Raízen
Daniel Neuman
Founder & CEO · b4waste
David Noronha
CEO · Energy Source
Sergio Finger
CEO · Trashin
Fernando Andrade
CEO · Aterra
Prism market signals · Brazil · country-scoped Prism corpus, 1,542,912 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Solid Waste Management Tech coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Brazil

How research on Circular Economy is moving in Brazil

A read on the academic research around Circular Economy — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 861 Brazil-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
201620212026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 40% → 50% across 2016–2026.
top research entities
  • Universidade de São Paulo96
  • Universidade Estadual Paulista50
  • Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná45
  • Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina43
  • Universidade Estadual de Campinas38
leading researchers
Simone Sehnem · Patrícia Guarnieri · Janaina Mascarenhas · Lucila Maria de Souza Campos · Sérgio Fernando Tavares · Aldo Roberto Ometto · Daniel Jugend · Adriana Hofmann Trevisan
▲ Breakthroughs52 · 6%
▲ 3%→6% share
▲2.0× share momentum2 median citations88% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (3%→6% of field), led by Sustainability.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Sustainability1→15
  • Sustainable development1→6
  • Reuse1→5
  • Ecology1→5
Newly emergingProcess management 0→5 · Product (mathematics) 0→5
Landmark A system dynamics-based framework for examining Circular Economy transitions · 99 cites
◆ Advancements363 · 42%
▼ 52%→42% share
▼0.8× share momentum2 median citations83% since 2021mostly empirical
Advancements are cooling (52%→42% of field), led by Sustainability.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Sustainability8→99
  • Production (economics)4→36
  • Sustainable development2→29
  • Reuse3→30
  • Context (archaeology)3→29
Newly emergingEcology 0→25 · Industrial organization 0→21 · Product (mathematics) 0→14
Landmark Exploring Industry 4.0 technologies to enable circular economy practices in a manufacturing context · 850 cites
▼ Concerns318 · 37%
▼ 45%→36% share
▼0.8× share momentum3 median citations83% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are cooling (45%→36% of field), led by Sustainability.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Sustainability13→91
  • Context (archaeology)4→53
  • Reuse3→39
  • Production (economics)2→34
  • Resource (disambiguation)2→19
Newly emergingEcology 0→21 · Industrial organization 0→17 · Originality 0→15
Landmark Sustainability of additive manufacturing: the circular economy of materials and environmental perspectives · 299 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Brazil

Where circular economy 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.

São Paulo160 · +0.17
Hot · Knowledge managementAdvancing · Competitive advantageOpportunity · Transition (genetics)Concern · Ecosystem
Curitiba74 · +0.22
Hot · European unionAdvancing · Environmental economicsOpportunity · Knowledge managementConcern · Business model
Rio de Janeiro70 · +0.18
Hot · SustainabilityAdvancing · Sustainable developmentOpportunity · Business modelConcern · Greenhouse gas
Brasília70 · +0.13
Hot · ChinaAdvancing · Environmental economicsOpportunity · ScopusConcern · Thematic analysis
Florianópolis57 · +0.17
Hot · Maturity (psychological)Advancing · Reverse logisticsOpportunity · Supply chain managementConcern · Marketing
Porto Alegre41 · +0.23
Hot · Product-service systemAdvancing · SustainabilityOpportunity · ReuseConcern · Identification (biology)
Campinas41 · +0.13
Hot · BiorefineryAdvancing · Resource efficiencyOpportunity · ReuseConcern · Supply chain
Recife26 · +0.19
Hot · Sustainable developmentAdvancing · SustainabilityOpportunity · Environmental economics
Belo Horizonte23 · +0.24
Hot · Corporate governanceAdvancing · Waste managementOpportunity · Sustainable developmentConcern · Sustainability
Salvador16 · +0.28
Hot · Production (economics)Advancing · SustainabilityOpportunity · Reuse

Common questions

How many Solid Waste Management Tech companies are there in Brazil?
Radar tracks 33 indexable Solid Waste Management Tech companies headquartered in Brazil that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Solid Waste Management Tech companies in Brazil?
The Solid Waste Management Tech companies in Brazil on this list have raised a combined $1.6B in disclosed equity funding across 6 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Solid Waste Management Tech company in Brazil?
Raízen is the highest-funded Solid Waste Management Tech company in Brazil, with $1.6B in disclosed equity funding.
How many Solid Waste Management Tech companies in Brazil are funded?
6 of the 33 Solid Waste Management Tech companies in Brazil on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Solid Waste Management Tech unicorns are there in Brazil?
None of the Solid Waste Management Tech companies in Brazil on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Brazil Solid Waste Management Tech companies?
The most active investors in Brazil Solid Waste Management Tech companies on this list include Braskem Labs, Bossa Invest, 100+ Accelerator, BMG UpTech, BR Angels.
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