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Brazilian Residency Built On Personal Experience
StartBrazil helps international professionals obtain legal residency in Brazil through startup investment, a company, or real estate. It is the pathway we went through ourselves.
About StartBrazil
Brazil's scale, resources, and growing innovation ecosystem are drawing global attention. The ways in are still badly understood outside the country. That gap is the work: helping founders and investors set up in Brazil through the golden visa, whether that means a startup, a company, or property.
How It Started
StartBrazil.com is a project of LuxCitizenship, a global mobility services company  founded in New York in 2016. The company's Founder Daniel Atz first visited Florianópolis, Brazil's "Silicon Island" in 2023. Impressed by the local tech scene, he later decided to open an office of his company there. This revealed an untapped opportunity: a little-known path for international innovators to invest in Brazilian startups and gain permanent residency.
When Daniel decided to pursue the program himself, he hit a wall. Few lawyers had even heard of it. Over eight months, he navigated bureaucratic obstacles and misinformation, discovering why just 24 foreigners successfully went through the program from 2018 through mid-2026.
In February 2026, Daniel secured permanent residency in Brazil through the startup investor pathway.
Realizing no one was bridging the gap between Brazil's verified startups and international investors, he decided to build the platform he wished had existed.
What We Do
StartBrazil helps international professionals obtain legal residency in Brazil through startup investment, a company, or real estate, and we stay on the case from the first call to the approval. Our bilingual team has spent over a decade on citizenship and mobility work, across thousands of cases.
Golden Visa Pathways
We Support
StartBrazil helps clients identify the right golden visa pathway, understand the real requirements, and move forward efficiently.
Startup Investor Golden Visa
Permanent Residency
Invest under $30,000 USD in a Brazilian startup or start your own innovative company. Earn permanent residency in as little as 45 days. We help every step of the way.
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Company Investor Golden Visa
Permanent Residency
Invest R$500,000 in a new or existing Brazilian company and obtain permanent residency (RN 13/2017). Best for operators and entrepreneurs who want a real business presence in Brazil.
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Real Estate Golden Visa
Temporary Residency
Invest R$1 million in Brazilian property, or R$700,000 in the North and Northeast (RN 36/2018). You get a four-year residence permit tied to the investment, convertible to permanent residency.
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The Data Behind Our Guidance
StartBrazil maintains an original dataset of every investor-residency approval Brazil has published in its official gazette, from 2018 through Q2 2026. It powers our interactive dashboard, our yearly Foreign Investment in Brazil reports, and the guidance we give clients.
Explore the research →A CGIL despacho in the Diário Oficial da União, the primary source behind every record in the dataset.
Daniel ATZ
About the Founder
StartBrazil was founded by Daniel Atz, an entrepreneur and researcher with nearly a decade of experience in global mobility, investment migration, and citizenship strategy.
A dual U.S.–Luxembourg citizen, Daniel has lived in eight countries and speaks five languages, including Portuguese.
His work sits at the intersection of migration policy, data analysis, and cross-border strategy, with a focus on helping individuals and investors navigate complex international systems.
Daniel's connection to Brazil began in 2014 and has evolved through years of language study, institutional research, and on-the-ground experience. Since 2023, he has built an extensive professional network across Brazil’s legal, government, and innovation sectors, with a particular focus on startup ecosystems.
In the Media
Daniel is cited in international media on topics related to dual citizenship, global mobility, and migration trends. He is known for producing data-driven studies in the space, including research on dual citizens in Brazil that was covered by major Brazilian media outlets.
In addition to his research and advisory work, Daniel is an active public speaker in Brazil. He has presented in Portuguese to audiences of up to 500 attendees and was a featured speaker at Brazil's biggest innovation festival HackTown in 2025, where he spoke on responsible innovation.
Through his companies, Daniel has been featured in the following media outlets:
Related Ventures
StartBrazil is a project launched by LuxCitizenship, a New York-based company focused on global mobility and international life planning. Together, these ventures reflect a long-term commitment to making global mobility intelligible, credible, and achievable.
How We Work
StartBrazil is  based in the US. We are not a Brazilian law firm. All legal representation and formal filings in Brazil are handled exclusively by our partners, OAB-licensed Brazilian legal practitioners.
Our role is active and hands-on:
We help clients choose the right Brazil residency pathway
We build a strategy for the client's success in Brazil and help them fulfill it based on our lived experiences and through our network of experts and vetted startups
We coordinate case documentation, timelines, and expectations
We act as a bridge! Our bilingual staff assists in translation and navigating local dynamics
