CearaPar

What CearaPar does

CearaPar (Companhia de Participação e Gestão de Ativos do Ceará) is a state-owned asset management company wholly owned by the Government of the State of Ceará, Brazil, headquartered in Fortaleza. It was authorized by Lei Estadual nº 16.698 in December 2018 and reorganized under Lei Complementar nº 296/2022, with an exclusive statutory mandate to manage five categories of public assets for the state: real estate (imóveis), economic participations (equity stakes in state companies), financial assets (securities and receivables), environmental assets (including the blockchain-based water credits), and intangible assets (intellectual property). Its operations are anchored in the Secretaria da Fazenda (Sefaz/Ce), with the Conselho Estadual de Administração e Gestão de Ativos (CONAG), chaired by the State Governor, providing final approval for major transactions.

The company's product surface includes the Sistema de Créditos Hídricos do Ceará (SCH), a blockchain-based platform enabling voluntary trading of water credits generated from reuse, desalination, and rainwater harvesting, with mandatory 30% reinvestment of revenue in state water infrastructure; the PAIPE electronic proposal system for purchase, lease, exchange, built-to-suit, and sale-and-leaseback transactions on state real estate; the Negócios Imobiliários portfolio portal; and public auctions with minimum 30-day notice periods. Revenue is generated through asset management services and transaction fees on real estate dispositions, with proposal floors set at 75% of NBR 14.653/2019-conformant appraisals. CearaPar's customer base is structurally the State of Ceará itself as the captive owner-counterparty, with private parties accessing the platform as transactional counterparties for property acquisition or water credit trading.

Name

CearaPar

Legal name

Companhia de Participação e Gestão de Ativos do Ceará

Website

https://cepart.com.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CearaPar is a Brazilian state-owned asset management company for the Government of Ceará, exclusively mandated to manage public real estate, equity, financial, environmental, and intangible assets, with a flagship blockchain water-credit trading platform and PAIPE real estate transaction system.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Asset Management

NAICS

Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940), Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities (523)

SIC

Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531), Investors, Nec (6799)

akta.pro primary industry

Investment Management Advisory (RIA) (FSAEAAAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Centralized Crypto Lending Platforms (CeFi) (FSADAFAA)

Keywords

• Public asset management
• State-owned enterprise
• Real estate management
• Water credit trading
• Government asset valuation

Headquarters

HQ city

Fortaleza

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Asset Management Services: CearaPar generates revenue by managing public assets including real estate properties, state-owned company participations, financial assets, environmental credits, and intangible assets. The company facilitates transactions such as sales, leases, exchanges, and other real estate operations for state properties.
2. Real Estate Transactions: Revenue from facilitating the acquisition, sale, lease, and exchange of public properties. The company handles non-operational and operational state-owned real estate through the PAIPE system and public auctions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

CearaPar is a state-owned asset management company of the State of Ceará, Brazil, responsible for managing and valorizing public assets including real estate, economic participations in state companies, financial assets, environmental credits, and intangible assets. The company facilitates real estate transactions (sales, leases, exchanges, built-to-suit, sale-and-leaseback) through the PAIPE electronic proposal system and public auctions, and operates the blockchain-based Sistema de Créditos Hídricos (SCH) platform for water credit trading.

Product overview

CearaPar operates as a state-owned asset management company managing public assets across five categories: real estate (imóveis), economic (equity stakes in state companies), financial (securities and receivables), environmental (ESG-linked assets), and intangible (intellectual property and software). The core offerings include the Sistema de Créditos Hídricos blockchain-based water credit trading platform, the PAIPE electronic proposal system for property transactions, the Negócios Imobiliários real estate portfolio portal, and public auction services. These products work together to enable efficient public asset management with a focus on innovation and transparency.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Sistema de Créditos Hídricos do Ceará (SCH): A public policy instrument for the monetization of water as an environmental asset, based on blockchain technology, enabling voluntary trading of water credits generated from reuse, desalination, and rainwater harvesting operations.

Products and services

• Sistema de Créditos Hídricos do Ceará (SCH)

Quantifiable outcome

• 30% mandatory reinvestment of water credits revenue in state water infrastructure

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Universidade Estadual do Ceará (Uece)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 30 June 2026CearaPar and Uece signed a Technical, Scientific, and Technological Cooperation Agreement to develop strategic projects focused on research, innovation, teaching, extension, and technological development. Initial areas of cooperation include blue carbon studies, intellectual property, and real estate planning. The agreement has an initial term of 24 months, extendable by mutual interest. Signed by Director-President Luiza de Marilac Martins e Silva and Rector Hidelbrando Soares.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• KlimaDAO: Decentralized organization building infrastructure for on-chain environmental credits — adjacent peer to CearaPar's SCH for blockchain-based environmental asset tokenization, differentiated as a private-sector DAO rather than a state-issued platform.
• Toucan Protocol: Blockchain infrastructure for tokenizing and trading voluntary environmental credits on public chains — the closest technical analog to CearaPar's blockchain-settled SCH water-credit platform, differentiated as a private DeFi protocol versus CearaPar's state-issued mandate.

Broad incumbents

• Verra: Operator of the world's leading carbon credit registry (VCS) and similar voluntary environmental-asset programs — directly comparable in role to CearaPar's SCH as a registry/clearing platform for environmental credits, though operating globally in carbon rather than water.
• CBRE Group: Largest global commercial real estate services firm with government and public-sector clients — comparable on the appraisal-driven, auction-driven transaction model and portfolio monetization services CearaPar delivers.
• Caixa Econômica Federal: Federally chartered Brazilian public bank managing federally originated housing assets and government-linked credit and securities. Relevant comparable for the asset-management and public-property monetization functions CearaPar performs at the state level.
• Cushman & Wakefield: Global real estate services firm with established government-sector advisory practice — comparable to CearaPar's property portfolio management, sales, leasing, and valuation functions in the Brazilian public-asset context.
• Gold Standard: International body that sets standards and certifies environmental credits — comparable to CearaPar's SCH as a credentialing and standardization layer for voluntary environmental asset issuance in the Brazilian water context.
• BNDES: Brazilian National Development Bank — a federal public financial institution that manages strategic assets, structures credit, and channels investment into state-level projects. Comparable as a Brazilian public asset-management and investment-mobilization actor, though broader in scope than CearaPar's state-level mandate.
• JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle): Global real estate services and asset management firm that advises government clients on portfolio optimization, transactions, and valuation — comparable to CearaPar's real estate advisory, brokerage, and auction functions for the State of Ceará.

Direct peers

• Patrimônio da União (SPU): Brazilian Federal Heritage Secretariat responsible for managing federal real estate and public assets 'for others' — the closest direct analog to CearaPar's mandate, applied at the federal level and serving as the template for state-level asset management vehicles.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cearapar
• Instagraminstagram.com/cearaparoficial

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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