Geraldo Thomaz & Mariano Gomide de Faria
VTEX
Global "composable commerce" e-commerce software platform · Brazil
The founder
Geraldo Thomaz and Mariano Gomide de Faria co-founded VTEX in Brazil in 2000 as an e-commerce software platform, growing it into a global SaaS provider serving over 2,000 enterprise customers — including Sony, Nestlé and Whirlpool — across more than 32 countries, with both serving as co-CEOs.
How it was taken public
VTEX listed on the NYSE on July 21, 2021, pricing above its range at $19 a share and raising $361 million at a valuation of roughly $3.2 billion — one of the first Brazilian-founded software companies to list on a major US exchange.
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