Date:August 12, 2026
Posted bySolen Team
Solen's first commercial office in Latin America gives the company a local team to partner with founder-built software companies across Brazil and the wider region.
Solen Software Group, a permanent capital operator of mission-critical software businesses, today announced the opening of its new office in São Paulo, its first commercial office in Latin America. The office will serve as a regional hub for building relationships with founders, evaluating new investment partnerships, and supporting Solen's work with owners and intermediaries across Brazil and the broader Latin American market.
The São Paulo office expands Solen's presence across the United States, Canada, and Europe, and establishes a permanent, in-region base in South America. It also builds on Solen's existing footprint in Brazil, where the Solen AI Innovation Center in São Carlos supports portfolio companies worldwide.
The local team gives founders across Latin America a partner that understands the regional software ecosystem, speaks their language, and is committed to building relationships that last.
The São Paulo team will focus on developing relationships with founders, owners, and intermediaries across Brazil and the wider Latin American software market. The team will lead sourcing, evaluation, and partnership development alongside Solen's existing teams in the United States and other regions.
Members of the Solen team live and work in Brazil, and several leaders across Solen speak Portuguese. That local presence allows the company to work directly with founders and better understand the businesses, markets, and communities they operate in.
Solen partners with founders of mission-critical B2B software companies, particularly businesses with strong customer relationships, specialized industry expertise, and products their customers depend on every day.
Solen's expansion into Latin America reflects the same long-term ownership model it applies across its portfolio.
The company describes its approach as buy, build, stay: partner with a founder-built software company, provide it with a permanent home, and invest in its people, products, and customers for decades.
Solen operates with permanent capital and no predefined exit timeline. Companies that join the portfolio stay. The goal is to preserve the strengths that made each business successful while adding resources and expertise to support its next phase of growth.
São Paulo is one of Latin America's largest business and technology hubs and gives Solen a strong base for building relationships throughout Brazil and the wider region.
A local office allows Solen's team to spend time with founders, operators, and advisors in the markets where they work, and creates a foundation for deeper ties across the Latin American technology ecosystem.
For founders considering the next chapter for their business, it means a direct point of contact with a team committed to the region for the long term.
"We share the same entrepreneurial roots as the founders we partner with. We deeply understand the years of dedication and sacrifice it takes to build something meaningful, and we want to join forces with these entrepreneurs to keep building their success stories for decades to come," said Rafael Mazzeo, Senior Operating Partner, who leads Solen's expansion into Latin America.
"We chose to be different by opening a real office in São Paulo, with a local team on the ground and founders we get to know face to face, not from a distance. This expansion is a crucial milestone in our growth strategy, and proof that Solen Brazil is here to stay," Mazzeo added.
Solen's operating model is built on the belief that experience running software companies matters when partnering with founders.
The team includes operators who have built and managed software businesses themselves. That experience shapes how the company evaluates businesses, works with founders, and supports companies after they join the portfolio.
The São Paulo team brings the same approach to Latin America, combining local knowledge with Solen's broader operating capabilities across mission-critical B2B software.
That team will keep growing. Solen is hiring in Brazil and looks for people who bring an ownership mindset, candor, and a willingness to figure things out.
The São Paulo office is part of Solen's continued international expansion and adds Latin America to a footprint that already spans Salt Lake City, New York, Toronto, and Lisbon.
As Solen enters new markets, its approach stays consistent: partner with strong software companies, preserve what makes them successful, and invest for the long term.
Solen also continues to build shared capabilities for its portfolio companies across growth strategy, operational excellence, and applied AI. Through the Solen AI Innovation Center in São Carlos, Brazil, portfolio companies work with dedicated AI specialists from day one to improve products, automate processes, and create new capabilities.
Solen continues to build relationships with founders of mission-critical software companies across Brazil and Latin America, and welcomes introductions from software operators, advisors, and others who work closely with founder-led technology businesses.
Founders thinking about the next chapter for their company, and anyone curious about how Solen works, can reach the team here.
Solen Software Group is a permanent capital acquirer and operator of resilient, mission-critical software businesses serving enterprise B2B markets. Solen partners with founders to give the companies they built a permanent home. It preserves the values and teams that made each business great, and it invests for the long term in product innovation, customer success, and people. Solen operates without predefined exit timelines and thinks in decades, not quarters. Its decentralized model keeps decisions close to customers, backed by shared playbooks in growth strategy, operational excellence, and applied AI. Through the Solen AI Innovation Center, every company that joins the portfolio works alongside Solen's own AI specialists from day one to find where AI removes friction, gives teams leverage, and opens new room to grow. Solen has offices in Salt Lake City, New York, Toronto, Lisbon, and São Paulo.
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