What Licentia does

Licentia is a Brazilian cloud-based SaaS company founded in 2018 as a spinoff of WayCarbon, providing software for environmental licensing management. The platform centralizes licensing processes, conditional compliance tracking ("condicionantes"), deadline management, document organization, and team coordination for organizations operating across Brazil's federal, state, and municipal environmental regulatory frameworks. Its core technology comprises a unified platform with integrated modules: interactive dashboards, an advanced conditional control system that tracks status beyond binary (not met, delayed, in progress, met, met out of deadline), email-based automatic deadline alerts, role-based user profiles, centralized document repositories, individual action plans with calendar integration, and team activity planning with critical-path identification. The company also publishes the Painel do Licenciamento, a public benchmarking tool leveraging Brazil's National Environmental Licensing Portal (PNLA) data to provide average and maximum licensing timelines across states.

The company targets two primary customer segments: enterprises managing multiple environmental licenses across multiple operational units (CNPJs), and environmental consultancies serving such clients. Its go-to-market is consultative enterprise field sales driven by demo and specialist-engagement CTAs ("Agende uma demonstração" / "Fale com um especialista"). Revenue is generated through a three-tier monthly subscription model priced in Brazilian Reais: Básico at R$700/month for up to 3 CNPJs and 3 users, Premium at R$1,300/month for up to 7 CNPJs and 10 users, and a custom Corporate tier for larger deployments. Named customers include Rio Energy (renewable energy), Fundação Renova (environmental), Dimensão (environmental), and Guanhahes Energia (energy), indicating concentration in the energy and environmental verticals. The company is headquartered in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, operates exclusively in Brazil, and has received two funding rounds from BMG UpTech (2018, 2021), with Bossa Invest participating in the 2018 round.

Name

Licentia

Legal name

Licentia

Website

https://licentia.digital

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Licentia is a Brazilian SaaS platform, spun out of WayCarbon in 2018, that helps enterprises and environmental consultancies manage environmental licensing processes, conditional compliance, and deadline tracking across federal, state, and municipal regulatory jurisdictions in Brazil.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Compliance Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Environmental Permitting & Impact Assessment (EIA/NEPA) (BPAIAMAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) / Municipal Aggregation Retail Supply (EUAGABAF), Cloud Compliance, Audit & Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM/GRC) (HDABAHAI)

Keywords

• Environmental licensing software
• Environmental compliance management
• Regulatory compliance platform
• License condition tracking
• Environmental SaaS Brazil

Headquarters

HQ city

Florianópolis

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription: Licentia operates as a subscription-based SaaS platform with three pricing tiers (Básico, Premium, Corporate) offering cloud-based environmental licensing management services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Licentia provides a cloud-based SaaS platform that centralizes and manages Brazilian environmental licensing processes at federal, state, and municipal levels. The platform organizes licenses, conditions, deadlines, documents, and team workflows, and issues automated alerts to reduce environmental compliance risk. It is sold via monthly subscription tiers (Básico, Premium, Corporate) to companies and consultancies operating in Brazil.

Product overview

Licentia is a unified SaaS platform for environmental licensing management, developed as a spinoff from WayCarbon. The platform consists of a core system with integrated modules including Interactive Dashboards, Conditionant Control, Automatic Alerts, User Profiles, Document Organization, Individual Action Plans, Activity Planning, and Intuitive Organization. The platform also includes a public-facing Licensing Panel (Painel do Licenciamento) for benchmarking. Licentia offers three pricing tiers: Básico (up to 3 units/3 users), Premium (up to 7 units/10 users), and Corporate (custom).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Licentia Platform Cloud-based SaaS platform that organizes environmental licensing processes, reduces environmental compliance risks, facilitates team work, and provides visualization of license status for companies and consultancies managing multiple Brazilian environmental licenses at federal, state, and municipal levels.
• Painel do Licenciamento (Licensing Panel) Public benchmarking tool providing average and maximum environmental licensing timelines across Brazilian states, built on PNLA/MMA public data, used for process predictability and industry benchmarking.

Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• WayCarboncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLicentia is a Spinoff of WayCarbon, a company committed to evolving clients' competitive capacity and generating positive impacts for society, focused on sustainability and climate change, offering technology-based services. This parent company relationship provides Licentia with deep domain expertise in environmental management and technology.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• VelocityEHS: Cloud-based EHSQ (Environment, Health, Safety, Quality) platform with modules for compliance, permits, and task management. Comparable to Licentia for SaaS-based permit/licensing management and deadline tracking targeted at multi-site enterprise customers.
• Intelex Technologies: Established EHS management platform offering broad modules for compliance, incidents, audits, and environmental management used by global enterprises. Comparable as an EHS/compliance SaaS targeting enterprise customers with regulatory obligations; broader scope than Licentia's licensing-only focus.
• Enablon (Wolters Kluwer): Sustainability and EHS platform within Wolters Kluwer providing environmental compliance, permit, and risk management for large multinationals. Comparable as a compliance SaaS targeting enterprise customers managing environmental permits.
• Cority: Enterprise EHS software platform serving regulated industries with environmental compliance, sustainability, and risk management modules. Comparable to Licentia as an environmental compliance SaaS for enterprise customers managing permits and conditions.
• Sphera: Enterprise software provider for environmental, health, safety, and sustainability management with modules for permit and compliance tracking. Overlaps with Licentia on environmental licensing and compliance workflow management for industrial customers.
• AMCS Group: Provider of environmental services software (waste, recycling, utilities) with compliance and permit modules. Tangentially comparable to Licentia as environmental-focused SaaS serving enterprises with regulatory obligations.

Emerging players

• IsoMetrix: Software platform for EHS, ESG, and sustainability risk management with permit and compliance tracking modules used in mining, energy, and infrastructure. Overlaps with Licentia on environmental licensing and condition management for industrial customers.
• ProcessMAP: Cloud EHS platform offering environmental compliance, permit management, and audit workflows to enterprise customers. Comparable as a focused EHS/compliance SaaS for industrial companies managing multiple regulatory obligations.
• Greenstone (Accenture): ESG and sustainability reporting software with adjacent environmental data management. Comparable at a thematic level as enterprise environmental/sustainability compliance software, though focused on disclosure rather than licensing operations.

Others

• WayCarbon: Brazilian sustainability and climate change consultancy and parent entity of Licentia. Closely linked (parent/sister relationship) and shares domain expertise in environmental licensing, sustainability, and compliance management for Brazilian enterprises.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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