Informe

What Informe does

Informe Pesquisas Cadastrais is a Brazilian business intelligence and background check firm founded in 1997 and headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. The company sells five core preventive research solutions covering personnel admission screening, real estate rental risk assessment, vehicle and equipment rental/acquisition due diligence, business merger and partnership evaluation, and third-party service provider vetting. Its core technology is a proprietary cadastral research methodology operationalized through the Sistema Online de Clientes, a web-based client portal accessible 24/7 from any location, which enables request submission, real-time execution tracking, and same-day or next-day result delivery across the entire Brazilian territory.

The company generates revenue through professional services fees charged per research report, with no publicly disclosed pricing. Sales and onboarding are handled by a small in-house commercial department that issues portal credentials, while ongoing service requests flow through the portal, email, phone, and WhatsApp. The customer base is horizontal, spanning HR, property management, fleet/equipment rental, corporate development, and procurement functions across Brazilian businesses, with publicly cited customer relationships of up to 22 years demonstrating high retention. The firm is privately held, has no disclosed external investors or parent company, and operates with approximately 7 employees.

Informe differentiates through its LGPD-compliant reporting, humanized customer service, and an experienced analytical team applying a proprietary methodology developed over 27 years — positioning it as a specialist alternative to fully automated digital background check providers. No AI, machine learning, public API, or developer-facing platform capabilities are disclosed, and the business has not announced funding rounds, acquisitions, or geographic expansion beyond Brazil.

Name

Informe

Legal name

Informe Pesquisas Cadastrais | Banco de Informações

Website

https://informepesquisas.com.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Informe Pesquisas Cadastrais is a Brazilian preventive background check and corporate risk assessment firm founded in 1997, serving businesses nationwide with five core research solutions delivered through a 24/7 web-based client portal and specialized analyst team.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Rio de Janeiro

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, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Background Check/Registry Research Services: The company generates revenue through specialized background check and registry research services for businesses, including personnel admission checks, property rental assessments, vehicle/equipment rental evaluations, merger due diligence, and service provider contracting reviews. Services are delivered digitally via a web portal with results delivered within business hours.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Informe Pesquisas Cadastrais is a Brazilian preventive research and background check firm founded in 1997 that delivers specialized cadastral and risk assessment reports to businesses. The company offers five core service modules covering personnel admission screening, real estate rental assessment, vehicle and equipment rental/acquisition screening, business merger due diligence, and service provider contracting evaluation. All services are ordered, tracked, and delivered through a proprietary 24-hour web-based client portal with nationwide coverage of Brazil.

Product overview

Informe Pesquisas is a preventive background check and corporate risk assessment platform founded in 1997, offering five core service modules (Personnel Admission, Real Estate Rental, Vehicle/Equipment Rental & Acquisition, Business Merger, and Service Contracting Solutions) plus an online client portal. The five specialized solutions share a unified methodology for generating risk assessment reports but target distinct business decision contexts. All services are delivered through the centralized Sistema Online de Clientes platform, which enables 24/7 request submission, real-time tracking, and result retrieval.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Soluções para Admissão de Pessoal (Personnel Admission Solutions)

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 30% reduction in incidents at external service locations when integrating preventive research into selection processes
• +2 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Pinkerton: Global investigations and security consulting firm offering pre-employment screening, due diligence, and corporate investigations. Comparable as a long-established background check and due diligence provider, though with broader security operations and global footprint.
• Control Risks: Global risk consultancy providing due diligence, political risk, and integrity due diligence for M&A and partnership decisions. Overlaps with Informe's Business Mergers and Service Provider Contracting modules at the enterprise, cross-border end of the market.
• Kroll: Global risk consulting firm offering due diligence, background investigations, and compliance services. Comparable in the merger due diligence and service provider contracting use cases Informe serves, though Kroll operates at enterprise scale across multiple geographies.
• Serasa Experian: Brazil's largest credit bureau and risk information provider, offering background checks, credit reports, and identity verification to enterprises. Highly comparable as the dominant incumbent in the same Brazilian preventive-research category Informe serves, though significantly larger and more diversified.
• Equifax Brasil: Brazilian arm of global credit bureau Equifax, offering credit reports, background checks, and risk analytics. Comparable in core background check product set, though operating as part of a much larger global data and analytics franchise.

Direct peers

• Boa Vista SCPC: Major Brazilian credit bureau providing cadastral data, background checks, and anti-fraud solutions for businesses. Directly comparable in product offering and target customer base, serving the same HR, rental, and procurement risk-assessment use cases.
• idwall: Brazilian tech-enabled identity verification and background check startup offering automated KYC, due diligence, and cadastral data via APIs. Directly competes with Informe in Brazilian enterprise background checks but with a more automated, integration-native delivery model.
• Datavalid: Brazilian data validation and background check platform providing biographical, criminal, and credit research for HR, rental, and compliance use cases. Direct competitor serving the same personnel admission, tenant screening, and risk-assessment markets as Informe.

Emerging players

• Checkr: US-based tech-enabled background check platform serving enterprise and gig-economy customers with API-native delivery. Not a direct competitor in Brazil, but represents the technology and product paradigm that may eventually disrupt traditional providers like Informe.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCAc_7aMsfG-2_EBQFWHheeA
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/informe
• Instagraminstagram.com/informepesquisas

Compliance1 record

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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