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Top 25 Research institutes based in Brazil

Name: Research institutes based in Brazil
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026 517 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 517 research institutes headquartered in Brazil as of September 2026 and tracks 15,499 professional contacts across them, including 2,974 with verified work emails. Sao Paulo is the largest hub.

This list covers research institutes headquartered in Brazil, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 21, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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The 25 largest research institutes based in Brazil

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 517 research institutes based in Brazil, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to research institutes: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Fundação ABC	Indirect evidence	Castro, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	1,141 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Fundação ABC - Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Agropecuário - instituição de pesquisa privada e sem fins lucrativos vem sendo mantida desde 1984 através da contribuição anual…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
2	Instituto DE Pesquisas Tecnológicas	Strong evidence	São Paulo, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,041 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Institute for Technological Research (IPT) is a non-profit public research organization focused on applied research and technical services to support the industry and public…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
3	FIT	Partial evidence	Sorocaba, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	532 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Fundado em 2003, o FIT - Instituto de Tecnologia é uma organização sem fins econômicos, de abrangência nacional, credenciada pelo Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
4	FGV Brazil	Indirect evidence	Rio De Janeiro, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1,001-5,000	524 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Established in 1944 to promote Brazil’s social and economic development, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) has consolidated itself as a one of the top 10 think tanks* in the world as…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
5	Instituto DE Tecnologia DO Paraná - Tecpar	Indirect evidence	Curitiba, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	451 contacts →
	Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
6	CTCEA	Partial evidence	Rio De Janeiro, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	501-1,000	447 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The Brazilian Organization for Scientific and Technological Development of Airspace Control - CTCEA is an institution under private law, non-profit organization whose purpose is…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
7	Tecgraf Puc-Rio	Partial evidence	Rio De Janeiro, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	435 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Tecgraf/PUC-Rio Institute is a successful self-supported model of R,D&I.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
8	Fpftech	Indirect evidence	Manaus, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	427 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A FPFtech é um centro tecnológico privado de pesquisa e desenvolvimento de projetos nas áreas de software e hardware, capacitação tecnológica, responsabilidade social…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
9	IMPA	Partial evidence	Rio De Janeiro, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	409 contacts →
	Partial evidence “O Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) é uma unidade de ensino e pesquisa qualificada como Organização Social vinculada ao Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovações e…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
10	Rede Senai-Rs DE Institutos DE Tecnologia E Inovação	Partial evidence	Porto Alegre, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1,001-5,000	388 contacts →
	Partial evidence “A Rede SENAI-RS de Institutos de Tecnologia e Inovação está preparada para atender os desafios da indústria e contribuir para que seja cada vez mais competitiva e sustentável.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
11	Fespsp	Indirect evidence	São Paulo, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	270 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Orientada desde o início para o estudo da realidade brasileira e para a formação de quadros técnicos e dirigentes capazes de atuar no processo de modernização da sociedade, a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
12	Laboratório Bridge	Indirect evidence	Florianópolis, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	206 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Laboratório de Tecnologia e Inovação da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina há 13 anos desenvolvendo soluções para a gestão pública brasileira.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
13	Cebrap	Indirect evidence	Sao Paulo, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	n/a	181 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “O Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP) foi criado em 1969 por um grupo de professores de diferentes áreas, afastados das universidades pela ditadura militar, para…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
14	Ipetec	Indirect evidence	Rio De Janeiro, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	139 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A IPETEC em cooperação com a UCP (Universidade Católica de Petrópolis) e apoio da FUNCEFET está desenvolvendo cursos de qualificação profissional, em nível de Pós-Graduação…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
15	Departamento DE Ciência DA Computação - Ufmg	Indirect evidence	Belo Horizonte, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	132 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Criado em 1976, o DCC/UFMG sempre atuou para tornar indissociáveis sua missão básica de formação de recursos humanos com as atividades de PD & I.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
16	Fipecafi	Partial evidence	Sao Paulo, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	130 contacts →
	Partial evidence “A FIPECAFI – Fundação Instituto de Pesquisas Contábeis, Atuariais e Financeiras é reconhecida nacionalmente por sua excelência na formação de profissionais e na condução de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
17	FEESC	Indirect evidence	Florianópolis, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	114 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A FEESC é uma instituição privada, sem fins lucrativos, que estabelece em seu Estatuto os seguintes objetivos: I – apoiar, captar, gerir, participar, colaborar e executar…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
18	LAIS	Indirect evidence	Natal, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	113 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “O LAIS atua de forma multidisciplinar, realizando pesquisas inovadoras nas áreas das Engenharias, Informação, Saúde e Comunicação.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
19	VON Braun Labs	Partial evidence	Campinas, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	92 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Wernher Von Braun Labs for Advanced Research is a non-profit private organization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
20	Ibtec Brasil	Indirect evidence	Novo Hamburgo, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	80 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Desde a sua criação, o IBTeC vem contribuindo significativamente e prestando importantes serviços, informações e, principalmente, coordenando pesquisas aplicadas ao…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
21	Computer Networks And Security Laboratory Larces	Partial evidence	Fortaleza, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	69 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The Computer Networks and Security Laboratory (LARCES) is an environment in the State University of Ceará (UECE) that executes Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) projects…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
22	Quaest Pesquisa	Indirect evidence	Belo Horizonte, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	65 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Fundada em 2016, a Quaest vem se especializando em realizar pesquisas observacionais e experimentais, na implementação, monitoramento e avaliação de programas e projetos.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
23	Computer Security Laboratory	Indirect evidence	Florianópolis, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	54 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “In early 1993, the Algebraic and Symbolic Computing Laboratory (LabCAS) was created in the Department of Informatics and Statistics (INE).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
24	Cedeplar	Partial evidence	Belo Horizonte, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	50 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The Center for Development and Regional Planning (Cedeplar) is a research centre founded in 1967 as an office directly connected to the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
25	Gênesis Puc-Rio	Partial evidence	Rio De Janeiro, BrazilHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	46 contacts →
	Partial evidence “O Instituto Gênesis, unidade complementar da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, tem como objetivo transferir conhecimento da Universidade para a Sociedade por…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: research institutes. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names research institutes.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of research institutes, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name research institutes. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Research institutes based in Brazil at a glance

As of Sep 21, 2026

19.2%Verified-email coverage

30.0Average contacts per company

11-50Median size (employees)

11.4%Largest-city concentration · Sao Paulo

Sep 21, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

182

11-50

214

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

10001+

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Brazil, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Brazil, over 517 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among research institutes, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in Brazil whose own description of what they do matches “research institutes”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names research institutes), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among research institutes, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Brazil are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking: Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification: Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,974 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh: This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names research institutes, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many research institutes are there based in Brazil?

RevenueBase identified 517 research institutes headquartered in Brazil as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Fundação ABC, headquartered in Castro, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most research institutes?

Sao Paulo leads with 59 headquartered companies, followed by Rio De Janeiro (58) and Belo Horizonte (32).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

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How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.

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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.