Stefanini Group celebrates 35 years of spreading Brazilian technology to the world

The Stefanini Group is celebrating 35 years of existence and reiterates its ability to constantly reinvent itself to meet the needs of its customers around the world. Currently, the global company of Brazilian origin is present in 41 countries and has more than 30 thousand employees, who adopt a co-creation model as a difference to make the unthinkable possible for more than 1 thousand active customers.

“The success of our business is the result of a combination of superior autonomy, which is a trademark of our entrepreneurial DNA, investment in people and new management models, humility to know when it’s time to listen, learn and change, communication with the team, along with a continuous exercise to identify opportunities, even in moments of crisis. At the beginning of the pandemic, we had an increase in employee engagement, which continued throughout 2021 and 2022,” says Marco Stefanini (Take photos), founder and global CEO of the Stefanini Group, one of the most internationalized Brazilian companies, according to the ranking of the Dom Cabral Foundation (FDC).

The group, which earned R$5 billion last year, expects to end 2022 with a global increase of 24%, reaching R$6.2 billion, equivalent to US$1.24 billion. A good part of the results comes from the innovation ecosystem represented by the Stefanini Ventures department, composed of more than 30 companies of different sizes and specialties, which are gathered in six main platforms: Analytics and IA, Banking and Payments, Cybersecurity, Industry 4.0, Digital Marketing and Technology.

In the last two years, Stefanini has acquired 12 companies, seven of them in the first year of the pandemic: Mozaiko, which develops Analytics and IoT solutions to simplify retail and logistics processes; Holding Haus, a communication ecosystem with four companies, the largest of which is the advertising agency W3haus; LogBank, which offers White Label templates for payment service provider solutions; two software units of Diebold Nixdorf Brazil (e-commerce fraud prevention and channel automation), Cyber ​​​​Smart Defense (CSD), in Romania, and NI IT, an IT consulting company specialized in Cloud services, focused on Microsoft solutions, Adobe and Kaspersky for the small and medium enterprise (SME) market.

In the following years, the companies CRK (2021) and Cobiscorp (2022) headed by Topaz will be included in the group; Peru’s Sapia (2021) and more recently NewM, a software house specialized in the mobile segment for consortia, complementing the solutions offered by inLira, Stefanini Group’s market for consortia and digital transactions, with a strong presence in the secondary market, with Ecglobal, a platform for collaboration with more of one million active customers, which arrived at the Brazilian multinational to complement the Haus ecosystem, composed of W3haus, Brooke, CAPS, Huia, Gauge and Inspiring.

Last week, Ecglobal and Itaú Unibanco presented the successful case “iLab Digital by Itaú: combining digital with design methods”, during the Esomar Global Congress, in Canada, which is considered the largest research event in the world. Through its online communities, Ecglobal has created a space for Itaú with thousands of people generating collaborative intelligence 24 hours a day, every day of the week. The environment simulates the experience of a social network, making the experience enjoyable as well as promoting a high level of engagement and allowing the participant to feel free to express their ideas.

“It was an honor to have a joint project between Ecglobal and Itaú alongside names like Google Japan and Tik Tok from the US. The cooperation between the companies has enabled the development of more than 1,000 projects per year, with an agile management model – 1/3 of the time of traditional research and at a 70% lower price,” points out Guilherme Stefanini, CEO of Haus.

financial platform

Topaz, a digital financial solutions company operating in more than 25 countries with more than 1 billion monthly transactions on its end-to-end banking platform, is one of the fastest growing ventures. From revenues of R$15 million in 2016, the company expects to reach R$600 million by the end of this year. With 35 years on the market and more than 1,300 employees, the company is a leader in the prevention and fight against fraud and basic solutions for banking. Last year, Gartner ranked its digital banking offering among the 15 most relevant and entered CBS’ Latin America Banker’s Guide.

Present in four of the five largest banks in the country, the company, the leading financial platform in Latin America, has more than 250 clients and more than 500 thousand end users. Since 2020, Topaz has seen exponential business growth, also fueled by strategic acquisitions – two software units from Diebold, CRK and Cobiscorp. With this move, Topaz plans to expand its portfolio and reach other continents.

Among the main clients is PagBank PagSeguro, which used the Topaz full banking platform to develop its complete digital banking strategy, which currently has almost 25 million customers and processed more than R$1 trillion R$1 trillion. With this partnership, PagBank PagSeguro not only preempted the claims of customers who use their devices, but also started offering other products and services, such as credit approval, including for the unbanked population.

“With a robust, modular, scalable platform that is tightly integrated with digital channels, we are ready to confidently fulfill the strategy of any institution that wants to act as a digital bank. Our team is fully qualified to help our clients on their transformation journey, adding features that can guarantee greater efficiency and competitiveness”, guarantees Jorge Iglesias, CEO of Topaz.

Brazilian technology for the world

Millions of meetings are held every day by people speaking different languages, with different levels of fluency, which can compromise effective and natural communication. Precisely with the intention of offering professionals around the world the opportunity to express their best ideas, in any language, Woopi, the artificial intelligence company of the Stefanini Group, this week launches an artificial intelligence-based simultaneous translation platform, called Voicero.

The product is now available on Microsoft’s global marketplace, integrated with the world’s most widely used collaboration software, Microsoft Teams. Voicero, which can be purchased in a subscription model, provides real-time voice translation, meaning a professional can speak in Korean and others can listen in a language of their choice.

The design of the project was created by the research and development team during prototyping studies and research into natural language processing, machine learning and machine translation techniques. These studies are carried out regularly to improve Sophie, the Stefanini Group’s intelligent virtual assistant, specialized in managing service requests through artificial intelligence algorithms. Currently present on 3 continents and with more than 100 large customers, Sophie has established itself as a complete platform for intelligent business automation.

In Vibra Energija, for example, Sophie expanded the company’s communication channel with the internal public, which already had Intranet, WhatsApp and Teams. With the intelligent chatbot, Vibra reduced telephone service time by 15,000 minutes in three months, since requests were now handled by a virtual server. During this period, at least 3,000 calls were opened directly through Sophia – most of which ended without the need for human assistance.

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