With the global technological innovation trend,
the Brazilian government saw the need to help the competitiveness of Brazilian
technology companies’ products, both domestically and internationally. To do
so, it created several investment programs for such business segment, imposing
few restrictions and considerable benefits.
The Brazilian government has created the
Start-up Brazil, a program that aims to accelerate the development of
technology-based companies, specifically software and services, by investing in
new products.
It reveals a Brazilian trend in offering to the
local and international market new innovative products and services, connecting
our technological businesses with global ones, as well as seeks to build a
partnership between the government and the private sector to foster the
technology-based entrepreneurship.
The forecast of funds for investment is 40
million dollars and the companies that may apply are the ones with up to 3
years old. It shall be highlighted that 25% of the start-ups to be benefited by
the program are international companies located in Brazil.
This initiative is part of the TI Maior, a Brazilian
government program started in 2012 that sets several benefits for companies
engaged in the technology industry.
The Paulista Innovation Fund (Fundo de Inovação
Paulista),
created in partnership with the Agency Develops SP and FINEP, follows the same
line. This fund has from 60 million to 100 million and aims to invest in
innovative companies that have authorization from the Securities Commission (Comissão de Valores
Mobiliários - "CVM").
As well as the Government, the
private sector also sought to create strategies to foment the development of technological
creative industry. As an example of such initiative is the Criatec Fund, which seeks
to invest in emerging and innovative companies and to obtain capital gain by
investing long-term in early-stage companies (including zero stage), with
innovative profile and a high return .
This fund still seeks to
promote an integration of efforts among governments, universities and
institutions of science and technology and the local business community, in
order to maximize the technological development.
Furthermore, it is becoming
more often in this business segment the intervention of Business Angels who are
willing to inject capital in IT companies in embryonic stage. These are usually
executives or successful companies that have accumulated sufficient resources
to allocate part of them in investments.
As it turns out, there are a
good number of initiatives both private and public to assist the development of
start-ups in the IT sector, which is why investing in such companies in Brazil right
now should be an option for those looking for building new business.
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