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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
Developing Business in Brazil or the United States

Brazil America Ventures - International Business Development and Venture Capital Advisory ServicesThe BAV executives guided several dozen companies to successful international business ventures.

Its process begins with understanding the clients’ goals and aligning them with potential partners. Using its local market knowledge and intimacy with the Brazilian and U.S. markets, BAV is able to identify the most promising targets.

 

Once the business connections have been made, BAV can further assist in defining the most advantageous deal by helping to negotiate the terms, helping to set up operations, and closing the deal.

 

Business Development

Find new customers:

The experienced executives at Brazil America Ventures can help its clients identify and secure new clients in both the U.S. and in Brazil.

 

License Technology:

In many instances, the success of a company does not necessarily depend directly on the number of new customers using its product, but on the number of established products into which the company’s product is integrated. BAV has significant experience assisting companies to license their technology to other companies.

 

Sign Up Strategic Partners:

Some businesses require deeper relationships than simple channel sales partnerships.  If a client company requires joint development, substantial market development investment or some other strategic partnering needs, BAV can help to develop the most appropriate strategy and establish those much needed business relationships.

 

 

SF1.jpg Venture Capital

At the heart of any successful business is capital. But in some cases, the risk of the opportunity may limit a company’s ability to fully fund its success. In those cases, Brazil America Ventures can help its clients find the suitable investors to make it all happen.

 

Raising venture capital financing is one of the most difficult challenges facing the founders of young companies.  Sometimes it’s necessary to get a completely impartial opinion on the entire process. Perhaps the Executive Summary document needs to be improved in order to secure more meetings with “interested” venture capital firms. Maybe the Business Plan is in need of a complete re-write or a much needed improvement?

 

Brazil America Ventures is able to assist its clients with the entire fund raising process and more. The founders of BAV each created investor-backed technology companies and later went on to find additional success as Managing Directors with an international venture capital firm in Silicon Valley