Project Management Software for Technology Startups in São Paulo
A five-person fintech founded near Faria Lima is building in the shadow of the same banks and giants that make the avenue famous, on a fraction of the headcount.
A tiny team, on a very big avenue
Avenida Faria Lima has become Brazil's closest thing to a financial and fintech corridor, banks, investment firms and a dense cluster of fintech companies packed along a few kilometres of avenue. A startup founded there at five or six people is a genuinely different animal from the household-name fintechs a few floors up, still deciding week to week whether the next hour goes toward the product, the first hires, or getting a landing page live, in a city large enough that even getting across town eats an hour.
That scale changes what "keeping the team in sync" means from day one. A founding team here is distributed before it ever chooses to be, simply because the city makes being in the same room on short notice genuinely hard, and every tool bought has to work for people who aren't reliably together.
The Free plan holds at 5 users and 2 projects, permanently, which is enough for a founding team to get through its first product cycle without a software line item. Beyond that, engineering, hiring, marketing and operations all run on the same subscription, so growth doesn't mean a new vendor every time a new function comes online.
In a city where crossing town eats an hour, a message that sits waiting for a reply is a genuine cost, so the workspace opens to "my day" instead of a full project view: today's items, a one-tap time log, and a single tap to flag being blocked that routes straight to whoever can fix it.
What an early São Paulo startup actually needs
5 users and 2 projects, free permanently. Nothing that quietly stops working right as the product starts shipping.
Engineering, hiring, marketing and operations each keep their own board and vocabulary, so a founder moving between roles across the day isn't also managing separate logins for each.
There's no configuration project or onboarding call to sit through. A board is usable the moment it's created, wherever across the city each person happens to be that day.
Decisions sit next to the work, with page history, so a distributed team isn't reconstructing reasoning from scattered chats.
"My day" opens by default rather than a full board: today's assigned items, a one-tap time log, and a tap to flag being blocked that routes directly to whoever can help.
Fintech's discipline, at five people, without fintech's tool sprawl
A fintech startup this small still wants a release that slips to surface early rather than late, since a product or risk conversation is much easier three weeks out than three days out. ShipSprint's forecasts are calculated from the team's own measured velocity as sprints close, available from the Free plan onward, not held back for a tier the company hasn't grown into.
None of that requires bank-grade certifications ShipSprint doesn't hold, and it isn't marketed as one. What it offers a small team is disciplined planning mechanics, the same kind a much bigger fintech next door uses, without the bigger fintech's budget or headcount for tooling.
ShipSprint is built by Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd. in India and billed in rupees, a fact about invoicing rather than a claim to being local to Brazil. Your card converts to reais at whatever rate applies on the day, and at current rates a Business seat comes in well under most enterprise project tools sold in Brazil.
None of the forecasting discipline described above comes from watching people work to get it. There's no screenshot capture, no keystroke logging, no activity tracker anywhere in the product, on Free or any paid plan. A scorecard reflects delivered work and self-logged hours, adjusted for leave, and it stays with the person it describes.
Questions from São Paulo startups
It stays free, permanently, for up to 5 users and 2 projects, with no expiry date. A lot of early São Paulo teams run their entire first product cycle on it.
It's available from the Free plan onward. Forecasts are calculated from your own team's measured velocity, not held back for a higher tier once you're paying.
No, by design rather than by policy. No screenshots, no keystroke logging, no activity tracking, only work delivered and hours logged by the person who worked them.
Team is ₹299 per user per month, or ₹2,899 per user per year, up to 40 users. Business is ₹599 per user per month, or ₹6,499 per year, adding forecasts, scorecards, the owner command center, priority support, unlimited projects and SSO. Every paid plan starts with a 14-day full-access trial on Business, sample project included, no card required. Full detail is on the pricing page.
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