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PHYGITALL
Who we are

Brazilian engineering that protects the people who keep industry running.

For 10 years, we've been building our own hardware and software in Rio de Janeiro, designed for the realities of Brazil's largest industrial operations.

Manifesto

We don't know the meaning of impossible. We're innovative, tech-driven, and limitless.

Being a startup means having the flexibility to solve complex problems with technology and innovation. Even as the business grows and matures, we will never stop being a startup at heart.

What we do

Proprietary technology that makes industry stronger.

We develop our own technologies and products, built on artificial intelligence and IoT, that boost productivity and safety in industrial environments.

Mission

To transform productivity at industrial companies and drive their growth and profitability through artificial intelligence and technologies that optimize, organize, and expand what people can produce.

Vision

To be a global benchmark in using artificial intelligence and IoT to make industrial workers' lives more productive, safer, and better connected.

Our story

From 2016 to today, year by year.

A decade of work inside industrial plants, side by side with the people who run them. Each milestone below grew out of a real industry challenge.

  1. 2016

    • PHYGITALL got its start in the Startup Rio program, backed by FAPERJ (Rio de Janeiro's state research foundation), and reached the finals of the program's second edition.
    • A mentorship with Embraer executives began, putting advanced technology in industry's terms.
  2. 2017

    • The mentorship turned into trust: Embraer became PHYGITALL's first major client, with an asset tracking project in São José dos Campos.
  3. 2018

    • Signed a new contract at Embraer's ELEB plant.
    • Together with the Brazilian Navy, PHYGITALL built Brazil's first Internet of Things network, in Guanabara Bay.
    • Named the No. 1 startup in the Top 5 IoT ranking by 100 Open Startups.
  4. 2019

    • Joined the FIEMG Lab accelerator, run by the Minas Gerais State Federation of Industries.
    • PHYGITALL represented Brazil at innovation events in Asia.
  5. 2020

    • A challenge posed by logistics company VLI led to Brazil's first connected worker device with Ex certification.
    • Had projects approved under three funding calls from FINEP (Brazil's innovation funding agency).
  6. 2021

    • Won the Smart Factory category at the EDF Pulse Brazil awards.
    • Took on a computer vision challenge on the Stellantis assembly line.
  7. 2022

    • Won the global prize at the Stellantis Startup Awards, in the Industry 4.0 category.
  8. 2023

    • Completed the cycle time solution at the Stellantis plant in Betim.
    • Received an award of distinction for innovation and technology at the Global Smart Summit 5G Tech.
    • FINEP approved the AI-powered gateway project under its Enabling Technologies funding call.
  9. Today

    • More than 5,000 connected workers at Petrobras, with our startup spirit still intact.
Founders

Two paths that crossed at Startup Rio.

Gustavo and Lucio met in the Startup Rio program in 2016. One came from engineering, the other from sales, and that combination gave rise to a company that puts advanced technology to work in the real world of industry.

GN

Gustavo Nascimento

CEO

An electrical engineer who worked at engineering firms before starting his own company. He brought the technical rigor behind PHYGITALL's proprietary technology, from hardware to AI.

LN

Lucio Netto

Commercial Director

He holds a degree in marketing and sales management and translates PHYGITALL's technology into the language of industrial decision-makers.

The team

Here, everyone is phygital.

That's what people on our team call themselves. Phygitals are the people who build the hardware, the software, and the network alongside those on the plant floor. The same values have guided them since day one.

Innovative

Our proprietary technology comes from asking what no one has done yet.

Committed

We treat a client's problem as our own.

Trustworthy

What the platform records becomes auditable evidence, and our word holds up just as well.

Precise

Decisions guided by field data.

Bold

Challenges that industry once considered impossible are our starting point.

Limitless

From hardware to artificial intelligence, no technical frontier is off-limits.

Recognition

Awards from organizations that follow innovation closely.

2018

100 Open Startups

No. 1 startup in the Top 5 IoT ranking.

2021

EDF Pulse Brazil

Winner of the Smart Factory category.

2022

Stellantis Startup Awards

Global prize in the Industry 4.0 category.

2023

Global Smart Summit 5G Tech

Award of distinction for innovation and technology.

2020 and 2023

FINEP

Projects approved under three funding calls and the Enabling Technologies call.

2016

Startup Rio

Finalist in the second edition of the FAPERJ program where PHYGITALL began.

FINEP and FAPERJ support PHYGITALL's development with financing and innovation funding.

Brazilian engineering

Made in Brazil, for the realities of Brazilian industry.

Every device, every line of code, and every gateway from PHYGITALL is created in Brazil, designed for Brazilian plants, and certified for environments where rigor is non-negotiable. That engineering protects workers at the country's largest operations, and those operations tell the story better than anyone.

See the case studies
An industrial plant in operation, the kind of environment PHYGITALL develops technology for

We've spent a decade alongside Brazil's largest industrial companies and still don't know the meaning of impossible. Your operation could be the next chapter.

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