What Visionari does

Visionari is a privately-held Brazilian eyewear retailer that operates as a multi-brand direct-to-consumer storefront through visionari.com.br, an e-commerce site built on the Loja Integrada integrated-store platform. The company distributes four international designer brands—Illesteva, Izipizi, Lyndon Leone, and Spektre—alongside its own private-label Visionari collection, organized into four product categories: Solar (sunglasses), Optical (prescription glasses), Screen (blue-light filtering glasses), and Kids. The legal entity, VISIONARI CIDADE JARDIM LTDA, is a Brazilian Limitada (CNPJ 49.685.603/0001-63) with headquarters in São Paulo. The platform serves fashion-conscious adults seeking independent and designer eyewear, parents purchasing children's frames, and digital device users needing blue-light or reading solutions.

The commercial model combines online D2C sales with a selective physical-retail footprint executed through partner stores rather than owned-and-operated locations. NK Store operates partner locations in São Paulo's Jardins district and Rio de Janeiro's Ipanema, while a dedicated Illesteva boutique runs inside Shopping Iguatemi in São Paulo. Products are priced from R$499 to R$2,899, with payment options including Pix discounts and interest-free credit-card installments up to 10x. Sales run exclusively on a one-time retail transaction basis with no subscription, licensing, or recurring-revenue component identified. Marketing relies on the e-commerce storefront, email newsletter capture, and WhatsApp for customer communication.

Revenue, headcount, funding history, and management composition are not publicly disclosed. The company's competitive position rests on the curation of international designer brands largely unavailable through conventional Brazilian optical retail, supported by curated product selection and a small physical showroom network. No proprietary technology, owned manufacturing, or AI-enabled product capability is evident in the data beyond standard e-commerce functionality provided by the Loja Integrada platform.

Name

Visionari

Legal name

VISIONARI CIDADE JARDIM LTDA

Website

https://visionari.com.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Visionari is a privately-held Brazilian multi-brand eyewear retailer selling designer sunglasses, prescription glasses, blue-light glasses, and kids eyewear via its e-commerce site and partner retail stores in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Designer Eyewear Retail

NAICS

Optical Goods Retailers (456130)

SIC

Ophthalmic Goods (3851), Retail-Apparel & Accessory Stores (5600)

akta.pro primary industry

Luxury & Designer Eyewear (CRAAAKAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Optical Dispensing & Eyewear Retail (Glasses/Frames/Lenses) (HLAKAKAL), Sunglasses (Non-Prescription) (CRAAAKAB)

Keywords

• Designer eyewear retail
• Premium sunglasses
• Prescription eyewear
• Blue light glasses
• Children's eyewear

Headquarters

HQ city

São Paulo

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Retail eyewear sales: Direct retail sales of sunglasses, prescription glasses, reading glasses, and kids eyewear through online store and physical partner locations. Products sold at various price points from R$ 400 to R$ 2,899, with installment payment options up to 10x without interest.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Visionari is a Brazilian eyewear retailer selling designer sunglasses, prescription eyewear, blue light filtering glasses, and children's eyewear through its own online store (visionari.com.br) and partner retail locations. The company curates multiple international designer brands (Illesteva, Izipizi, Lyndon Leone, Spektre) alongside its own Visionari private label, with installment payment options (including PIX) for Brazilian consumers.

Product overview

Visionari is a Brazilian online eyewear retailer operating as a single e-commerce platform built on the Loja Integrada (Integrated Store) platform. The company offers four main product categories: Solar (sunglasses), Optical (prescription glasses), Screen (blue light filtering glasses), and Kids (children's eyewear). Visionari distributes multiple designer brands including Lyndon Leone, Spektre, Izipizi, and Illesteva, alongside its own private label Visionari brand. The platform also maintains physical retail presence through partnerships with Illesteva at Iguatemi São Paulo, NK Store in São Paulo's Jardins district, and NK Store in Rio de Janeiro's Ipanema neighborhood.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Visionari Kids: Eyewear collection designed for children, including sunglasses for kids aged 0-10 years.
• Visionari Optical
• Visionari Solar

Products and services

• Solar Eyewear (Sunglasses) Designer sunglasses category for sun protection and fashion, featuring premium international brands (Illesteva, Izipizi, Lyndon Leone, Spektre) and the in-house Visionari private label. Targeted at style-conscious Brazilian consumers seeking designer sunglasses with UV protection.
• Optical Eyewear (Prescription Glasses) Prescription eyewear category offering designer frames from the brand portfolio (Illesteva, Lyndon Leone, Spektre, Izipizi, Visionari) for consumers requiring vision correction. Available through the online storefront and partner retail locations in Brazil.
• Screen Eyewear (Blue Light Glasses) Blue light filtering eyewear category for consumers who use digital screens and want to reduce blue light exposure. Features frames from the curated brand portfolio including designer and accessible price tiers.
• Kids Eyewear Designer children's eyewear category for younger wearers, featuring frames sized for children from the curated brand portfolio. Targeted at parents purchasing eyewear for their children in Brazil.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• NK StorecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorNK Store operates as a physical retail partner for Visionari, with two locations: one in Jardins, São Paulo and another in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro. The partnership extends Visionari's brand portfolio to offline retail consumers.
• IllestevacoreTechnology or IntegrationVisionari is the authorized Brazilian retailer for Illesteva, an independent eyewear brand. Illesteva has a dedicated boutique within Shopping Iguatemi in São Paulo through the Visionari partnership.
• Lyndon LeonecoreTechnology or IntegrationVisionari is the authorized Brazilian retailer for Lyndon Leone, an independent eyewear brand inspired by the art and culture of Downtown Miami, offering 100% UVA and UVB protection.
• SpektrecoreTechnology or IntegrationVisionari is the authorized Brazilian retailer for Spektre, a premium Italian eyewear brand featuring unique shapes designed in Milan and handcrafted by master artisans in the Italian Alps using the world's finest optical materials.
• IzipizicoreTechnology or IntegrationVisionari is the authorized Brazilian retailer for Izipizi, offering their reading glasses, screen protection eyewear, and sunglasses collections including kids lines.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Oliver Peoples: Luxury eyewear brand and retailer owned by EssilorLuxottica with boutiques in premium locations globally. Comparable in luxury optical positioning and high price-point assortment; broader incumbent with stronger brand equity.
• Sunglass Hut: Global premium sunglasses specialty retailer owned by EssilorLuxottica operating hundreds of mall-based stores worldwide. Comparable in luxury sunglass retail and premium positioning, but with vastly broader geographic footprint and vertically integrated brands.
• Persol: Heritage Italian luxury eyewear brand owned by EssilorLuxottica, sold through premium opticians and own-brand stores globally. Comparable premium designer positioning; broader incumbent whose products compete with Visionari's curated designer assortment.

Direct peers

• Warby Parker: US-headquartered direct-to-consumer eyewear retailer offering prescription glasses, sunglasses, and contact lenses online and through own-brand retail stores. Closely comparable DTC business model, though at vastly larger scale and with its own-brand manufacturing.
• EyeBuyDirect: Online eyewear retailer offering prescription glasses, sunglasses, and blue-light frames at affordable price points. Comparable DTC channel and broad category coverage, including screen-protection eyewear like Visionari's Screen line.
• Polette: Europe-based online eyewear retailer offering fashion-forward prescription frames and sunglasses at mid-market prices. Closely comparable design-forward DTC positioning and curated-brand-style catalog.
• Zenni Optical: Online-only DTC eyewear retailer selling prescription glasses and sunglasses at value price points. Comparable in channel (pure e-commerce) and product mix, but competes at a lower price tier than Visionari's designer-led assortment.
• Lenskart: India-based omnichannel eyewear retailer combining online sales with a large physical store footprint. Comparable mix of e-commerce and physical retail plus a multi-brand / own-brand product strategy targeting mass-premium consumers.

Regional players

• Óticas Diniz: Large Brazilian optical retail chain offering prescription eyewear, sunglasses, and lenses across hundreds of stores nationwide. Comparable Brazilian-market optical retail function, but positioned at broader price points and geographic reach than Visionari.
• Óticas Carol: Major Brazilian optical retail franchise with broad national coverage selling prescription glasses, sunglasses, and contact lenses. Comparable Brazilian optical retail positioning but at mass-market price points and franchise-driven scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/visionarieyewear
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/visionari-sunglasses

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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