software telecoms equipment founded 1998 headquarters silicon valley united states number of employees 500 website www.movile.com en movile is a brazilian it company founded in 1998 . it is active in mobile and entertainment services in latin america . background edit 1998 movile was founded in 1998 by two former universidade estadual de campinas unicamp students in the city of campinas . the start up intraweb was organized through the university s corporate incubator . the initial purpose was to create corporate intranets . 2001 intraweb was absorbed by the gowap website the first company to receive a capital contribution by rio bravo investimentos . this was the birth of gowapcorp a company that dedicated its efforts to the field of corporate market data solutions by mean of cell phones . 2002 gowapcorp was the subject of a capital outlay by rio bravo and changed its name to compera . the episode of the recent young unicamp graduates that created important companies in the market was the subject of a press report . 1 2003 and 2004 the company decided to change its business model shifting from software to service provision . 2 focus was transferred from the corporate market to concessionaires end customers with services such as cell phone video games and music . 2007 compera announced its merger with ntime a cell phone service company in rio de janeiro giving rise to comperantime . 3 2008 mih holdings from the naspers south african media group acquired the interest held by rio bravo in comperantime . 4 and became the company s minority shareholder . 2009 comperantime announced its merger with yavox . 5 following these discussions yavox became comperantime s wholly owned subsidiary but both companies and their respective trade marks were to go on existing separately for several months more . 2010 following an extended market research period comperantimeyavox decided to change its name and is now known as movile . 6 jointly with this new trade mark a change in strategy also took place . movile s key focus turned to digital inclusion by means of mobile services in emerging countries . during that same year movile and cyclelogic disclosed the merger of their operations in latin america . 7 by means of this market movement movile expanded its activities in latin america . 2012 movile opened its first offices in the united states 8 in silicon valley california and concentrated its business strategy on that country s latino market . 9 2013 it invested in the startup ifood 10 and broadened the scope and number of orders by creating a smartphone application . playkids app release considered to be the children netflix . 11 the playkids app stood out during the year at apple store 12 and google play . 13 in 2012 and 2013 the company was part of brazil s best it and telecomm companies to work in . a survey held by the great place to work institute 14 institute jointly with computerworld 15 magazine . 2014 new investment from movile in ifood . 16 playkids arrives in 24 countries spain france usa australia uk canada among others 17 movile s new investment in ifood app generates the purchase of the competitor central delivery 18 movile and accelerator 21212 invest r 1.15 million in superplayer . 19 movile raises 55 million from innova capital jorge paulo lemann and finep . 20 units edit brazil campinas main offices s o paulo rio de janeiro united states silicon valley argentina mexico colombia references edit forbes campinas will be the brazilian silicon valley gigaom movile brings its kids video service to two dozen more countries tech crunch movile launches playkids tv its own video app just for kids mobile world live movile debuts latam app marketplace tech crunch movile helps users get connected with apps to find and share access to free mobile hotspots quartz this brazilian mobile firm s user base grew 1 567 % in five years new york times movile partners with boingo for international roaming the wall street movile partners with boingo for international roaming jornal da unicamp article on compera universia article courage and hard work teles ntese article compera announces merger with ntime abril article compera acquires part of comperatime teletime article comperatime and yavox merge article comperatimeyavox now renamed movile ti inside article movile acquires cyclelogic to expand activities in latin america teles ntese article brazilian company movile present in silicon valley exame report they are now the invaders exame report movile invests r 5.5 million in ifood kidscreen article kill em with cuteness playkids tv app takes on the big vid guys itunes apple playkids google play playkids great place to work official page of great place to work institute computerworld magazine official page of computerworld magazine with ranking of best it and telecomm companies to work in . techcrunch report hungry for new deals latin american wireless co. movile doubles down on delivery gigaom movile brings its kids video service to two dozen more countries techcrunch hungry for new deals latin america wireless co. movile doubles down on delivery estad o pme trio levanta r 1 milh o de investidores para impulsionar vers o ga cha do itunes techcrunch brazil s movile raises 55 million to bring universal delivery services to latin america retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title movile company & oldid 702884092 categories information technology companies of brazilhidden categories use mdy dates from april 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a 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