Revenues of Brazil’s largest technology park grow by 29 % in 2021

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The revenue of Recife’s Porto Digital, the largest technology park in the country and one of the largest in Latin America, reached 3.67 billion reais (about US$734 million) in 2021, 29% more compared to 2020 revenue.

“Despite the adverse situations caused by the health crisis, we reached (in 2021) 355 companies installed in Porto Digital”, with a 10% increase in the number of personnel, which totaled 15,000 employees in the specialized area in the last year, highlighted in a press conference the president of this technological pole, Pierre Lucena.

Among the companies that grew, the most last year are the Irish multinational management consulting company Accenture, the technology school Cesar and the U.S. artificial intelligence company Avanade, among others, Lucena pointed out.

In the capital of Pernambuco, Porto Digital de Recife expects to reach 20,000 employees in the technology sector in 2025 in the various restored buildings in the Recife Antigo neighborhood and its projects in Caruarú, the main city in the interior of the state located in the arid countryside.

Among the projects highlighted in 2021, Lucena said, was the launch of the Co.Liga creative economy school, supported by the Organization of Ibero-American States in Brazil, and the Sebrae Open innovation circuit.

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