Brazil has just the right ingredients for collaborative consumption services: a strong entrepreneurial culture, a young population with high mobile internet usage, and a real thirst from its citizens to find alternative s to traditional systems that don’t work.
Along with all this, there is a general mistrust for the traditional institutions that control the country, and people are now beginning to turn to collaborative consumption services in order to create more efficient transportation, transparent financial services, and creative, needs-led education services. Below are some of the leading examples of collaborative consumption in Brazil.
Crowdfunding
- Broota: the first equity crowdfunding from Brazil. It connects entrepreneurs, investors and mentors in the same place.
- Catarse: the biggest crowdfunding community from Brazil.
- Recorrente: continuous crowdfunding projects, aiming for monthly contributors.
- O Sujeito: is a crowdfunding channel for independent journalism.
- Benfeitora– a crowdfunding platform for social projects.
Money
- Fairplace: the first peer-to-peer lending community in the country.
Education
- Cinese: a ‘crowdlearning’ platform.
- Descomplica: leading online learning platform for people studying for college admission exams.
- Gastromotiva: the first cooking platform in Brazil enabling you to either learn or teach your cooking skills.
Community Involvement
A history of corruption has led to the Brazilian people being more sceptical of changes made by the government. Instead they are turning to initiatives involving the community making changes for itself.
- Múrmura: a transparent community with simple and creative ideas for urban spaces.
- Onde Fui Roubado: register where crimes have occurred, so the community can know the most dangerous places.
- Cidadera: send your complaint to the city hall and make the city better
- Cidade Democrática: transform collective wishes in reality with this social governance tool.
- Reciclopedia: a collaborative platform that helps you the find the best place to recycle leftover products.
- Nossas Cidades: engage as a citizen and develop a better city in collaboration with others.
- Participatory budgeting Porto Alegre – giving the citizens of POA a say in how the budget is determined.
Skills & Services
- Bliive: this Brazilian-based startup is actually gaining ground outside of the country with its time exchange platform.
- GetNinjas: find professionals to facilitate your life. The biggest platform in Brazil for that matter.
- Cabe na mala: meet people from all over the world that can bring you what you love most or travel and get some extra money by making someone happy
Stuff
Brazil is a developing country. So there are many startups looking to incentivise the act of sharing and reusing stuff. Here are some examples:
- Closit!: the first Brazilian peer-to-peer marketplace focused on women’s fashion.
- Descolaai: an all-around sharing platform for any kind of stuff.
- Baú Verde: rent toys!
Transportation & mobility
With a very poor public transportation system and many discouraging laws to engage in a business on this area, this is a huge problem to be solved.
- Fleety: the first car-sharing website from Brazil.
- Caronetas: ride-sharing website.
- Zazcar: on-demand cars.
- ezPark: parking made easy. ezPark connects people looking for a place to park and people willing to rent their parking spots.
- Tripda: ride-sharing
Delivery
- Mandaê: claims to be “the easiest way to send something to someone”.
- Cargo BR: Find the ideal carrier for transporting your cargo.
- Lote Box: Save money by sharing empty space in cargo containers.
Coworking
Brazil is home to many many coworking spaces to support its growing entrepreneurial culture.
- Nós-Coworking: located in the city of Porto Alegre, this was one of the first coworking spaces in Brazil. It’s success is well appreciated and it’s expansion just natural.
- SOMOS GOMA: this coworking space focused on social innovation, creative economy and sustainable design is located in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
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It is a very nice and intersting post. It is true that brazilian profesionals are very inovators and creative. The brazilian citiezens are always looking for better results and better solutions for their issues.
The Marketplace of services are the new era. Is the way that people can earn money even with the economic crisis.