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New episode every week · in English
Inside Brasil’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Weekly conversations, in English, with the investors, institutions and operators shaping Brasil’s economy — for anyone deciding where to put their time and capital. Hosted by Luis Gonçalves.
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Why Brasil, why now
The biggest ecosystem in Latin America is open for business.
Most of the world still sees Brasil through old headlines. The numbers tell a different story — and every episode goes inside it.
213M people — the largest market in Latin America Source: IBGE, July 2025
$2.2T economy, among the 11 largest in the world Source: IMF, 2025
25 unicorns — more than half of Latin America’s Source: South Summit / Horasis, 2025
~50% of all startup funding in Latin America goes to Brasil Source: Crunchbase, 2024
148M people use Pix, the instant payment system built in Brasil Source: Banco Central do Brasil, 2025
R$35T moved through Pix in a single year Source: Banco Central do Brasil, 2025
$77B of foreign direct investment in 2025 — the world’s 5th largest destination Source: UNCTAD World Investment Report, 2026
4.2M new businesses opened in a single year — a national record Source: Mapa de Empresas, Governo Federal, 2024
Your host
Luis Gonçalves
Twenty years of building: ten for others, including Nokia and SAP, then ten with his own company, working with more than fifty organisations on three continents. In Saudi Arabia he watched a whole country build its startup ecosystem from scratch. Now he goes inside Brasil’s, in English, for the people watching from outside.
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