Assalba

What Assalba does

Assalba (Associação dos Servidores da Assembleia Legislativa da Bahia) is a non-profit civil association (associação civil) serving employees of the Bahia Legislative Assembly in Salvador, Brazil. It operates as a closed membership organization whose eligible members include active servidores, commissioned staff, parliamentary secretaries, retired personnel, and those on assignment, plus their dependents. The association delivers social, recreational, cultural, professional, and sports services through a member portal (Painel do Associado), a social club in Itapuã with swimming pools, sports fields, and bar/restaurant facilities, an in-house beauty salon and barbershop, internal and external football championships, legal advisory services, and a discount program with 30+ partner businesses.

The organization is governed by an elected Diretoria Executiva and Conselho Fiscal, with current President Rafael da Silva Brito leading the 2023-2025 term. Revenue is generated through monthly membership dues, club facility revenues, partnership commissions, a beauty salon offering haircuts and aesthetics to members and non-members, and pass-through meal subsidies and financial assistance from the Legislative Assembly administration. The physical infrastructure includes offices within the Legislative Assembly complex (headquarters and salon) and the Itapuã social club, with space provided by ALBA at no direct cost.

The technology stack is minimal and administrative in nature: a website (assalba.org.br), a login-based member portal, and a basic password recovery system using personal identity fields. There are no disclosed APIs, no proprietary platform architecture, and no AI/ML components. Financially, the most recent disclosed figures are FY2010 revenue of R$1,248,892.34 (surplus R$45,227.95) and FY2011 revenue of R$1,037,236.65 (surplus R$111,280.47), against a headcount of approximately 15 employees. Marketing is conducted primarily through the website, email communications via the member panel, events, and intra-Assembly word-of-mouth. The association is not an investable enterprise in the conventional sense; it functions as a mutual-benefit body dependent on a single institutional employer (the Bahia Legislative Assembly), with limited revenue diversification and no external capital structure.

Name

Assalba

Legal name

Associação dos Servidores da Assembleia Legislativa da Bahia

Website

https://assalba.org.br

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Assalba is a non-profit mutual-benefit association serving active, retired, and assigned employees of the Bahia Legislative Assembly in Brazil, delivering social club access, sports, beauty salon services, legal advisory, and partner discounts to its members and dependents.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Salvador

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Monthly Membership Dues: Monthly fees charged to members (servidores) of the Bahia Legislative Assembly. Members include effective servers, commissioned staff, parliamentary secretaries, retired personnel, and those on assignment.
2. Club Services Revenue: Revenue generated from the social club facilities including bar/restaurant services, swimming pool access, and recreational areas in Itapuã.
3. Partnership Commissions: Commission income from business partnerships and convenience agreements with external companies offering discounts to members.
4. Meal Subsidy Pass-through: Pass-through of meal subsidy funds from the Legislative Assembly to members.
5. Financial Assistance: Financial assistance contributions from the Legislative Assembly to support the association's activities.
6. Beauty Salon Services: Hairdressing, barber, manicure, pedicure, aesthetics, and podology services offered at discounted rates to members. Services also available to non-members at slightly higher rates.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Assalba is a non-profit civil association (associação civil) that provides social, recreational, cultural, professional, and sports benefits to its members — active, appointed, retired, and on-assignment employees of the Bahia Legislative Assembly (ALBA) and their dependents. Core offerings include access to a social club in Itapuã with swimming pools, sports fields, and bar/restaurant; a beauty salon and barbershop within the ALBA complex; a partnership discount program with 30+ local businesses; sports championships (football, veterans); legal advisory services for labor law matters; cultural events; and member-to-member community support.

Product overview

Assalba is an employees' association for the Legislative Assembly of Bahia, Brazil, offering a member portal system with a login-based Painel do Associado, sports championships (internal and external football tournaments), social club facilities, beauty salon services, and a benefits/convenios program partnering with various businesses for member discounts. The organization operates primarily as a membership-based service providing recreational, social, and professional benefits to Assembly employees, without a technology platform architecture.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Clube Social (Sede e Praia)
• Salão de Beleza e Barbearia (Beauty Salon and Barbershop)
• Copa Interna de Futebol (Internal Football Championship)
• CEFA - Campeonato Externo de Futebol da Assalba
• Campeonato Veterano Assalba
• Convênios e Benefícios (Partnership Discount Program)
• Legal Advisory Services (Assessoria Jurídica)

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 10 legal actions resolved through legal advisory services
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• FENALE (Federação Nacional dos Servidores do Poder Legislativo)coreOthers · 1 November 2012Assalba participates in FENALE congresses and events. FENALE is the National Federation of Legislative Power Servers that debates current issues of interest to legislative servers. Assalba's Communication Director represented the association at the XI Congress in São Paulo.
• Sindsalba (Sindicato dos Servidores da Assembleia Legislativa)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2012Collaborative partnership with the other union representing Legislative Assembly employees. Both entities co-organize events such as Mother's Day celebrations and share support from partner companies for member benefits.
• Partner Companies (30+ businesses)minorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 May 2012Various businesses providing discounts and benefits to Assalba members including: Consil Empreendimentos, Odonto mais Saúde, Servi-donto, Cruzeiro do Sul, Laia Rio Modas, Loja Milis, Água de Cheiro, Portal Fashion, Auto Center Águas Claras, O Boticário, Detagle, Drogaria da Gente, Farmácias Multimais, Raul Garcia Jóias, Ótica Brilho no Olhar, Caixa Econômica Federal, and others.
• TCM (Tribunal de Contas dos Municípios) Employees AssociationminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 May 2012Association of TCM servers participating in Assalba's partner company program and sports events.
• Astrecon (Association of State Court Servers)minorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 May 2012Association of ex-professional athletes of Bahia collaborating through partner company programs.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• ANFIP (Associação Nacional dos Auditores Fiscais da Receita Federal): National association representing federal tax auditors in Brazil. A large, mature public-sector employee association providing member benefits, training, and social services similar to Assalba's model, but for a different public-sector occupation at national scale.

Regional players

• Associação dos Servidores da ALESP (Assembleia Legislativa do Estado de São Paulo): Employee association for the São Paulo state legislative assembly. Largest Brazilian state legislative assembly, providing a scaled-up analog of Assalba's member services model in a different geography, useful as a comparable for the upper bound of the structural opportunity.
• Associação dos Servidores da ALERJ (Assembleia Legislativa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro): Employee association for the Rio de Janeiro state legislative assembly. Operates a similar membership and recreational benefits model for ALERJ employees but in a different Brazilian state, making it a regional peer rather than a direct competitor.
• Associação dos Servidores do Senado Federal: Federal-level legislative employee association serving Brazilian Senate workers. Comparable structure for federal legislative employees, illustrating how the model scales (or fails to scale) when applied to a different legislative house.

Direct peers

• FENALE (Federação Nacional dos Servidores do Poder Legislativo): National federation of legislative power servers in Brazil. Assalba is a member and its Communication Director represented the association at the XI FENALE Congress. FENALE is the closest direct peer because it operates the same member-association model for legislative employees, just at the national level rather than a single state.
• Sindsalba (Sindicato dos Servidores da Assembleia Legislativa da Bahia): Union of Bahia Legislative Assembly employees that co-organizes events with Assalba and shares partner companies supporting member benefits. Direct peer serving the same employee population with the complementary labor-representation mission.
• Associação dos Servidores do TCM-BA (Tribunal de Contas dos Municípios): Employee association of the Bahia Municipal Court of Audit that participates in Assalba's partner discount program and sports events. A directly comparable civil-servant association model serving a different public-sector institution in the same state.
• Astrecon: Association referenced in Assalba's partner ecosystem that participates in Assalba's sports events and partner programs. Comparable community-association model serving a specific professional constituency in the same geography.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/assalba

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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