Cursos CPT

What Cursos CPT does

Cursos CPT (legal entity Centro de Produções Técnicas e Editora Ltda) is a Brazilian online professional education platform founded in 1985 and headquartered in Viçosa, Minas Gerais. The company operates a course library of more than 500 titles spanning three principal verticals — agribusiness (17 sub-areas including cattle farming, veterinary medicine, agriculture, and aquaculture), entrepreneurship (20 sub-areas including food processing, professional training, and business management), and education (8 sub-areas including teaching methodology and pedagogy) — delivered through asynchronous streaming video, digital and printed textbooks, and a student portal (Central do Aluno) with issued and verifiable certificates. Content is produced in partnership with 13 Brazilian universities and research institutions (UFV, USP, UNESP, UFMG, UNICAMP, UFRRJ, UNB, UFLA, UFU, EMBRAPA, IMA, EPAMIG, EMATER/MG) and delivered by a roster of 400+ specialist professors, many holding doctoral degrees.

The commercial model is direct-to-consumer and predominantly transactional: students purchase individual courses outright rather than subscribing, with sales assisted via WhatsApp (Vendas and SAC), a phone sales center (Central de Vendas), a callback service, and self-serve e-commerce at cpt.com.br. Pricing is not publicly listed and is delivered through personalized consultation. The company supplements its core course business with four wholly-owned sub-brands — Vet Profissional (1,404 veterinary-specific video lessons), Pós-graduação CPT (online postgraduate programs in agribusiness), Renda no Agro (60+ income-generation courses launched March 2025), and publishing arm Aprenda Fácil Editora — and lists major Brazilian enterprises (Vale, Petrobras, Itaú Unibanco, Fundação Bradesco) among its institutional learners. The company claims to have trained over 2 million professionals in Brazil and abroad with a stated 98% student satisfaction rate, operates as an independent private limited company with no disclosed external funding, and reports no M&A, leadership transitions, or restructuring events in the available record.

Name

Cursos CPT

Legal name

Centro de Produções Técnicas e Editora Ltda

Website

https://cpt.com.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cursos CPT is a Brazilian online professional education platform founded in 1985, delivering 500+ asynchronous video courses in agribusiness, entrepreneurship, and education to individual learners and institutional clients across Brazil via self-serve e-commerce and WhatsApp-assisted sales.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Online Education

NAICS

Professional and Management Development Training (611430), Technical and Trade Schools (61151), Educational Services (611)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731)

akta.pro primary industry

Professional Certification & Training Content Publishing (Exam Prep, CE/CPD) (MPAJACAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Interdisciplinary/General Education & Study Skills (EDAGABAN)

Keywords

• Online professional courses
• Agribusiness education
• Distance learning
• Veterinary training
• Entrepreneurship courses

Headquarters

HQ city

Nova Viçosa

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Online Course Sales: One-time purchase model for individual online courses. Students pay per course to access video content, digital books, and receive a certificate upon completion. Additional revenue from e-books, printed books via Aprenda Fácil Editora, and magazine subscriptions (Revista Tecnologia e Treinamento).

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Cursos CPT sells asynchronous, video-based online professional courses with certificates in three core areas: Agribusiness, Entrepreneurship, and Education. The catalog of more than 500 courses is taught by over 400 specialist professors (many with doctoral degrees) and developed in partnership with 13 leading Brazilian universities. Courses are delivered via streaming video, digital books, and a student portal, with completion certificates verifiable through an online portal. Supporting branded offerings include Vet Profissional for veterinary professionals, Pós-graduação CPT for postgraduate agribusiness programs, and Renda no Agro focused on agribusiness income generation.

Product overview

Cursos CPT is an online course platform (Cursos Online com Certificado) offering a multi-category portfolio of professional and technical courses. The core offering is the online course library organized into three main areas: Agronegócio (Agribusiness, with 17 sub-areas including Bovinos with 67 courses, Medicina Veterinária with 76 courses), Empreendedorismo (Entrepreneurship, with 20 sub-areas including Treinamento Profissional with 35 courses), and Educação (Education, with 8 sub-areas including Metodologia de Ensino with 33 courses). The platform is supplemented by three branded offerings: Vet Profissional (1,404 veterinary-specific video lessons), Renda no Agro (60+ courses on agribusiness profitability), and Pós-graduação CPT (online postgraduate programs in agribusiness). Course delivery combines video lessons, physical and digital textbooks, and practical demonstrations. The company also operates Aprenda Fácil Editora for supporting educational materials.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Vet Profissional: Online practical courses and lessons for veterinary doctors and students
• Renda no Agro
• Pós-graduação CPT

Products and services

• Cursos Online (Online Courses) A comprehensive library of online courses with certificates spanning three main areas—Agribusiness (17 sub-areas including Bovinos with 67 courses and Medicina Veterinária with 76 courses), Entrepreneurship (20 sub-areas including Treinamento Profissional with 35 courses), and Education (8 sub-areas including Metodologia de Ensino with 33 courses). Delivered via video lessons, digital books, and practical demonstrations to individual professionals, farmers, entrepreneurs, and educators.
• Renda no Agro The largest agribusiness teaching platform in Brazil, focused on income generation and profitability strategies for rural producers. Offers more than 60 specialized courses on agricultural business development for farmers and rural entrepreneurs.
• Pós-graduação CPT (Postgraduate Programs) Online postgraduate programs in agribusiness offered through poscpt.com.br, providing advanced qualifications for professionals seeking credentials in the agricultural sector.
• Vet Profissional A specialized platform with 1,404 video lessons specifically for veterinarians and veterinary students, covering clinical practices, diagnostics, and animal care.
• Certificado CPT (CPT Certificate) Certificate issuance service awarded upon course completion, with an online verification portal for employers and third parties to confirm certificate authenticity via certificate codes.
• Aprenda Fácil Editora Publishing arm of the group that produces physical books and educational materials supporting the courses, available at afe.com.br, complementing the digital course offerings with print references.

Quantifiable outcome

• 98% of students state that CPT courses meet or exceed their expectations
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerContent co-development partnership. UFV professors contribute to course content in agricultural sciences and veterinary medicine, lending academic credibility and technical depth to CPT's course offerings.
• Universidade de São Paulo (USP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership for content development. USP professors contribute expertise to veterinary and agricultural courses.
• Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership for content co-development in various professional areas.
• EMBRAPA - Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa AgropecuáriacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEMBRAPA contributes research-based agricultural knowledge to CPT courses, ensuring content reflects the latest scientific developments in Brazilian agribusiness.
• Fundação BradescominorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed under 'Estudam Conosco' (They Study With Us), indicating institutional use of CPT content by Fundação Bradesco's education programs.
• Itaú UnibancominorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed under 'Estudam Conosco' indicating institutional use of CPT educational content.
• Vale S.A.minorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed under 'Estudam Conosco' indicating Vale uses CPT content for employee training.
• PetrobrasminorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed under 'Estudam Conosco' indicating institutional use of CPT content.
• Aprenda Fácil EditoraminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAffiliate publisher producing physical books and educational materials. CPT promotes Aprenda Fácil Editora books on its platform, and they appear as related branded products.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• SENAI: Brazil's national industrial vocational training service offering online and in-person technical courses. Comparable as a broad incumbent in Brazilian professional online education, though focused on industrial rather than agribusiness verticals.
• Coursera: Global online learning platform partnering with universities to offer certificates and degrees. Comparable as a broad incumbent in online professional and continuing education, with similar university-partnership content model.
• SENAC: Brazil's national commercial and services vocational training institution with online course offerings. Overlaps with CPT in the entrepreneurship and small-business training use cases, but operates across many more verticals at larger scale.
• Udemy: Global online learning marketplace with courses across business, agriculture, and entrepreneurship. Comparable in online D2C course delivery and broad professional catalog, but operates as a marketplace rather than a vertically integrated content creator.

Direct peers

• Veduca: Brazilian online higher education platform offering free and paid university-level courses. Comparable in Portuguese-language online course delivery, though focused more on academic rather than vocational/trade content.
• Alura: Brazilian online education platform offering professional and technology courses via a direct-to-consumer subscription model. Closely comparable to CPT in D2C model, Brazilian market focus, and asynchronous video-based course delivery.
• Descomplica: Brazilian online education platform offering D2C courses with certificates across professional and exam-prep subjects. Comparable in online D2C model, Brazilian market focus, and certificate-based credentialing.
• SENAR: Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Rural is Brazil's official rural professional training service. Directly comparable as it serves the same agribusiness professional and rural entrepreneur target market with vocational training programs.

Others

• Hotmart: Brazilian platform enabling creators to sell online courses and digital products. Comparable as adjacent ecosystem infrastructure for Brazilian online education, though Hotmart is a technology provider rather than a course publisher.
• Fundação Bradesco EV: Free online education platform operated by Fundação Bradesco, also listed as a CPT institutional partner ('Estudam Conosco'). Comparable in Portuguese-language online professional courses, but positioned as a free corporate-funded offering.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries4 records

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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