Show HN: StartupsBR – A map of Brazilian startups
52 points by leonagano 7 days ago | 24 comments
I couldn't find a simple way to explore the Brazilian startup ecosystem geographically, as I can in other places like the Bay Area or London, so I built one.

The map currently includes hundreds of startups from Sao Paulo and their job opportunities.

The most interesting thing I've learned so far is how clustered startup activity is in a handful of areas.

I'd love to hear your thoughts.

The EN version: https://www.startupsbr.com/sao-paulo


rescbr 5 hours ago
> The most interesting thing I've learned so far is how clustered startup activity is in a handful of areas.

They are clustered like any other white collar company in the city, around the various historical business districts, and IMHO they could be thought as mirrors of the founder's personality to choose where they want to base their office: old downtown with cheap rents on decadent/retrofit old buildings; Paulista Avenue and Jardins with great public transportation, culture access and eclectic food; Pinheiros as the upscale cool foodie district which is now gentrified as fuck and losing its soul; Faria Lima as the core financial district; and Vila Olímpia southwards as the Faria Lima wannabe with AAA buildings but not as expensive as renting in the middle of Faria Lima.

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piltdownman 3 hours ago
A decade ago there were more than 250 start-ups within a kilometre either side of the River Liffey in Dublin.

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/dublin-entrepreneu...

IDA Ireland is the Irish Government’s inward investment promotion agency and has fantastic interactive maps, filterable by sector, showing the clustering around our major cities and CBDs. Dublin a huge outlier in terms of Tech, and Cork in terms of Pharma

https://www.idaireland.com/map

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staernid 4 days ago
Similar feeling to https://germantechjobs.de - just with a lesser focus on jobs. Don't quote me on it, but I think the founder of that website works as a talent agent (earning a living, I hope)
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khurs 5 hours ago
>The most interesting thing I've learned so far is how clustered startup activity is in a handful of areas.

where did you get the data? Sure it is complete?

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leonagano 2 hours ago
This is only part of Sao Paulo ecosystem but this shows how concentrated they are

The addresses come from eother their own website or their Linkedin profile

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anitil 4 days ago
This is very cool! I've wanted to do something like this for Sydney but never got around to it. Are you scraping your data sources or building them yourself?
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leonagano 4 days ago
a mix of scraping + founders submit their own
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K0balt 6 hours ago
So many! Like a brazillion of them!
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leonagano 5 hours ago
lol
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denysjw 7 hours ago
Looks familiar to StartupMap? :)

OG: startupmap.one

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postit 6 hours ago
Interesting claim, they indeed look similar and looks like both are claude generated.
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leonagano 6 hours ago
yes, I Claude Coded it

There's another one covering London https://londonstartupmap.com/

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aeve890 6 hours ago
The submitted site runs smoother, has less annoying popups, don't use the entire screen (on mobile) to show info of the selected startup and overall I think it has better UX than yours.
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leonagano 6 hours ago
thank you
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bigjick 6 days ago
interesting, can you eli5 the main use case? is it job opportunities for developers?
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leonagano 4 days ago
that's a very good question lol. Still figuring out. I added jobs as some people asked for it. It may bring people back to the website

Do you see something I could add?

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retmarut 4 days ago
The rest of the country! kkkk
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arilotter 2 hours ago
remove the "change" button for areas until you have it lol i was trying so hard to find startups in rio kkkk
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madaxe_again 7 hours ago
Só Rio de Janeiro then?

ducks

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diego_moita 7 hours ago
There are just 2 startups in Rio: Comando Vermelho and Milícias.
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leonagano 4 days ago
lol makes sense
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raspace 2 days ago
i guess it's just a cool fun project lol
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dhruv3006 6 hours ago
we need a indian version too - startupsin.com
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leonagano 6 hours ago
do you need help building one?
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