“Can a 30-year-old Latin American e-procurement platform become the AI-native Source-to-Pay backbone for B2B commerce globally?”
Founded in 1994 as one of Latin America's earliest B2B e-procurement platforms, Mercado Eletrônico evolved from a supplier-catalog marketplace into a full Source-to-Pay (S2P) SaaS/PaaS suite serving over 1 million suppliers and moving ~R$180B annually. The company has expanded from Brazil into Portugal, Mexico, and the US, and its most recent strategic thrust is embedding AI agents (Genius, MCP-over-OData) directly into procurement workflows.
Mercado Eletrônico integrates with Power BI, Microsoft Excel, Looker Studio and Tableau.
Mercado Eletrônico was founded by Eduardo Nader and is founded in 1994, headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.
Mercado Eletrônico has raised $8M in total.
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