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  • Brazil is the 5th largest population in the world with a population of 200 million people.
  • Brazil recently edged past China to become the largest emerging market in the world (Morgan Stanley Capital Int’l Emerging Markets Index September 10, 2008)
  • Newly discovered and massive off-shore oil fields led to an invitation for Brazil to become a member of OPEC
  • In 2009 Wal-Mart will invest $1B in Brazil
  • The famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson partnered with a leading Brazilian venture capital firm FIR Capital in Belo Horizonte with an initial capital contribution of $40M
  • Brazil is an undisputed global leader in clean and renewable energies with a concentrated emhasis on BioFuels.

Brazil Internet Usage

  • Google made Brazil their center for all South American and Latin American operations with most of its software development and engineering to be based in Belo Horizonte
  • Brazil leads all of Latin America and South America in the number of Internet users, well ahead of both Mexico and Argentina
  • Brazil is Google’s fastest growing market outside of the U.S. generating an estimated $500 million per year in revenues.
  • Brazil has the second largest user base of Google Gmail e-mail accounts
  • Brazil has the third largest number of broadband users in the Americas, behind only the U.S. and Canada. 
  • Internet users in Brazil have doubled in each of the past three years
  • 47% of Brazilian adult citizens have Internet access which represents 59 million Internet users over the age of 16 according to a March 2008 survey conducted by DataFolha and commissioned by F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi.  The survey also found that 53% of the people surveyed regularly post content on the Internet.
  • The average Brazilian Internet users spends 30.2 hours online a month, substantially higher that Latin America (28.6 hours) and worldwide (25.7 hours)
  • Internet penetration in Brazil based on population is 26.1% and expected to grow by more than 300% over the next 3-5 years.
  • Brazil is the worldwide leader in online E-Government especially in the areas of e-participation, electronic voting, online tax filing and e-procurement.
  • In 2007 more PC’s were sold in Brazil than TV sets

Brazil Mobile Usage

  • Mobile phone subscribers grew at an astonishing rate of 21% in 2007
  • Mobile subscriber penetration is 67% compared to 80% for the U.S.
  • Mobile subscribers in Brazil outnumber fixed line subscribers by more than 3 to 1     
  • Brazil is the 5th largest country for mobile phone penetration with China, U.S, Russia and India ahead of it.
 
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Brazil America Ventures - International Business Development and Venture Capital Advisory Services
Brazil America Ventures

Brazil America Ventures- International Business DevelopmentBrazil America Ventures- International Business Development and venture capital advisory services company created to assist executives from traditional and mainstream industries as well as Online and Mobile media technology companies establish and grow their business in Brazil and the United States.


The founding executives of Brazil America Ventures are veteran entrepreneurs of venture capital funded companies, former Managing Directors of an international venture capital fund with a 10 year track record of helping technology companies with their international business development and venture capital needs.

 

The combined experiences for the executives of Brazil America Ventures (BAV) assisted many prominent companies such as Citysearch, NetRatings, DoubleClick, Ask Jeeves, Real Networks, Nuance, MySimon, Atom Films, Primus Knowledge, Live Picture, LuckySurf, InVision Systems Corp, Future Labs, InterCon Systems Corp, AutoByTel, Shockwave, Vicinity, The Wollongong Group and many others with their domestic and international business development projects, venture capital financing and executive staffing.

 

Brazil America Ventures meticulously serves its clients on a temporary or extended basis as a “mission critical” professional services task force by providing a direct conduit to pre-qualified decision-makers, gatekeepers, and key-influencers in both Brazil and the United States.  For its U.S.-based clients BAV facilitates a comprehensive international business development opportunity in the largest and most populous country in South America.  For its Brazilian clients BAV acts as a professional concierge and business broker for a wide variety of business opportunities in the United States.