A startup aims to connect small Brazilian producer to worldwide e-commerce

Young Brazilian entrepreneurs seek to overcome the logistical barriers of their country to sell Brazilian products around the world. With this mission, Rodrigo Marino and Marcos Rossi ventured into the foreign trade market and founded Sympan, providing products Made in Brazil for the rest of the world, especially Europe, United States and India.

The idea of the business arose during a macroeconomics class when the professor discussed the impact of the devaluation on the national economy. After this class, they figured out that their idea could turn a competitive company.

Sympan has created a platform that allows the local producer to register their products and sell it on international marketplaces ande-commerces. In addition, the system allows management of international payments, stock control, and shipments, as well as providing optimization reports and cost management through Machine Learning.
Entrepreneurs told us the main difficulties of starting the venture: “Unfortunately, Brazil remains very bureaucratic in relation to new business, at the beginning the hardest task was to beat the bureaucracy of starting to disruptive business – Marcos Rossi.

They believe that the main differential to Brazilian producers is to allow a simpler way of exportation, provide scale gains in logistics and simplification in the arduous legal export process.

Currently, they are looking for new Brazilian suppliers and are thinking of starting to work with Latin American suppliers in the near future as well. They believe that the market is very wide and there are several inefficiencies to be explored.

They believe that a revolution in the business world caused by globalization, the internet of things and artificial intelligence forces companies to become more competitive, so that’s what they intend to do with the international business.