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Hi HN, we're Bianca and Fernando, founders of Portão 3 (https://portao3.com.br/). We help companies in LATAM (Latin America) with their corporate travel, expenses and payments. We traveled a lot to visit clients in our previous companies, and realized that the corporate travel market had a lot to evolve technologically. Latin America didn’t have a startup helping companies and work travelers with a real all-in-one experience. Our software includes features like a timeline that recaps the entire trip and a BI for 100% control at the end. We make it easy to understand expenses and manage them. B2B companies in LATAM like CredPago and Junco are using Portão 3 and reducing costs significantly (as in 30%). We founded Portão 3 in 2020 and are currently growing at 40% MoM (month over month).

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Congrats on the launch!

As a previous corporate traveller, I agree with your value proposition. As a software engineer I was astounded by the very lacking systems we have here in South America. Most of the travel stuff was managed via email!! I absolutely hated every single second of having to manage my travels while working, since it meant digging through emails and even spam folders...

On another note, I'm based in Chile, and already have good connections with managers in key companies that may be interesting for you. If you're looking to expand to Chile, let me know so we can setup some talks ;)

My linkedin is in my profile.

Hey XzAeRosho! Bianca and I did a lot of corporate travel too, so we do feel your pain as well. I'll definitely reach out to you now, thanks for all the kind words!

Congratz! It's really nice to see fellow Brazilians featured here.

I'm very skeptical about most startups business models but looks like you folks check two important boxes of my imaginary list:

[x] solving a real problem

[x] plenty of room to grow (generalist b2b)

I hope to see more of Portão 3! Best of luck for you :)

Hey Gabriel! Thank you for the kind words and wishes! Bianca and I actually suffered from this exact problem and that is why we decided to build it.

As a fellow brazilian I'm happy for you guys. I don't know very much about corporate travel, but I loved the idea behind Anywhere Office. If it's any help, there's some text color issues on your website header, and the language dropdown is breaking on larger options.

Hey Vini! Thank you for the kind words. That actually helps a lot, working on it now.

Congrats on launching, it is always nice to see more startups in LA. The first question that came to my mind seeing your landing is that it's everything in Brazilian Portuguese. Your market now is only BR? Because the rest of the countries in LA speaks Spanish (with a few colony exceptions).

Are you planning to open to the rest of the countries? Have you already customers in Chile, Argentina, Mexico?

Thanks!

Hey pal (and anyone else having a similar issue)!!

If you look at the top right hand corner, you’ll see a globe icon. That icon handles translations - the site is available in Brazilian Portuguese, English and Spanish.

hluska is right, you can use the globe at the top to change languages.

I have to say this is not intuitive and we actually purchased new domains for other countries yesterday and we will have dedicated websites for a lot of countries coming this weekend.

But yes, we do have customers in Brazil where we were born, but Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia and Peru too!

Thanks for answering! I noticed that after my posted my comment - the dedicated websites for each country (or at least language) sounds great. Congrats again!

Congrats on your launch! I’m just another Brazilian here cheering for more companies to be part of YC.

Wish all the best and success to you!

Thank you very much for the kind words, tucaz! #goBrazil

Hey friends, congratulations on your launch! I really dig what you’re doing and enjoyed reading your website. Excellent work!

Thanks for the support hluska!

Are you remote-friendly? How is your tech stack like?

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