Increase for servers, biometrics startup worth R$ 12 billion and what matters in the market

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Servers will be increased by 5%

The government decided this Wednesday (13) to give a readjustment of 5% for all federal public servants as of July 1st. As there is no space in the Budget for the measure, which should cost in total BRL 7.9 billionother areas must suffer budget cuts.

The increase will also reach the military of the Armed Forces.

why it matters: in protest of the lack of readjustments in recent years, some categories of civil servants have altered their routine activities in recent weeks.

In numbers: From BRL 6.3 billion estimated for the 5% readjustment for the Executive Branch, the 2022 Budget only has reserved BRL 1.7 billion.

According to members of the government, the difference will come from cuts in discretionary expenses (for the cost of the public machine) of the ministries. To the BRL 1.6 billion of the other powers, there is room in their respective ceilings.

reactions: the readjustment of 5% was not well received by employees, who speak of intensifying demonstrations for a broader salary adjustment.

For the economist and columnist for Sheet Marcos Mendes, one of the creators of the spending cap, the adjustment could increase fiscal uncertainty.

Biometrics startup worth R$12 billion

The biometrics startup unico captured $100 million (R$468 million) in an investment round led by Goldman Sachs, the bank announced on Wednesday.

In numbers: the company is now valued at $2.6 billion (R$ 12.2 billion). This funding comes less than a year after unico became a unicorn (startups valued at $1 billion or more).

In August of last year, she had raised $134 million (R$625 million) from SoftBank and the private equity firm General Atlantic, which also participated in the current round.

The startup: founded in 2007 under the name of Digital Access, it works with facial biometrics and digital signature solutions. Among its clients are Ambev, Magazine Luiza, C6Bank, Banco Original and B2W, to name a few.

Where does the money go? if last year it used part of the money to acquire other startups, now unico also plans to use the money to go beyond Brazil, focusing on Latin America

Half to Goal

Meta, which owns Facebook, will charge creators a commission of about 47.5% on the sale of digital assets and experiences made on the Horizon Worlds platform, a first step for the company towards the metaverse.

Understand: Mark Zuckerberg’s company is developing Horizon Worlds, a social platform focused on virtual interaction, and Horizon Venues, which is focused on virtual events.

• The idea of ​​Meta is to keep a part of everything that will be sold in them, being 30% destined for the asset store and 17.5% for the Horizon platform.

In test: Meta also announced that it will begin testing tools for creators to sell their products on the company’s metaverse platforms.

• The company is also testing a “creator bonus” program, in which it will pay participants a monthly fee to try out new features the company launches.

Nubank expands insurance partnership

Nubank and North American insurance company Chubb announced this Wednesday that they are expanding their partnership to new products, also with an eye on expanding services to Mexico and Colombia, places where digital banking operates.

The values ​​were not disclosed.

The partnership: started just over a year ago with the offer of life insurance in Brazil, today it has 560 thousand active policies. More than half of these customers, according to Nubank, said it was the first life insurance they had taken out.

In February of this year, the two launched the policy for cell phone insurance. Hiring is done through the bank’s app.

why it matters: The agreement expands Nubank’s efforts to try to monetize its more than 50 million customers, at a time when the market demands concrete results from technology companies in the face of high global interest rates.

Global expansion: on Tuesday (12), the largest fintech in the country announced that it had contracted a line of credit from US$ 650 million (about R$3 billion) to expand its efforts in Mexico and Colombia.

• The company closed last year with more than 1.4 million of customers in Mexico and 114 millionl in Colombia, countries where it offers credit cards under the “Nu” brand.

• The idea of ​​the digital bank is to replicate in these two locations the services it already provides in Brazil, such as savings accounts, investments, insurance, loans, etc.