Where your company stands today, and what comes next.

Innovation creates value. Our business is making sure you retain it.

We work alongside founders of Brazilian sustainability start-ups throughout the business-building process. In Advisory, your company secures the framework for its next strategic move. In Labs, your innovation is tested and refined before scaling. In Intelligence, we monitor the ecosystem and share our insights.

Value doesn't protect itself. It needs design and governance.

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Background

Two integrated axes, built on a solid track record in governance and in design & experience.

20+
Years of accumulated practice

Combined experience of the team.

5
Markets

Brazil, Europe, United States, United Kingdom and Mozambique.

2
Integrated axes

Strategic governance and design & experience, in a single partnership.

The thesis

SixTree exists so that Brazilian sustainability innovations become companies capable of creating, retaining and protecting value over the long term. Start-ups founded to lead the response to the climate crisis, in fields such as agtech, greentech, climate tech, biotech and deep tech, must build the governance, strategic design and business architecture required to support the innovation they carry.

In this context, founders tend to lose value in three ways, and rarely for the reasons they imagine:

Numerous start-ups reach a growth ceiling because the daily operation stays concentrated within one or two individuals. This is a classic early-stage setup: the company was built around the product rather than the infrastructure needed to sustain scale. While critical knowledge remains tacit and centred on the founder, expansion merely brings chaos, operational fatigue, and dependency. A company only unlocks true scalability when that knowledge is codified, delegated, and transformed into a system.

The technological or service advantage you hold may be genuine. Yet, if it cannot be audited, protected, and converted into a strategic asset, it will struggle to translate into market value. Value capture is entirely dependent on the scaffolding surrounding the innovation: corporate governance, financial organisation, intellectual property rights, product architecture, and strategic design. These are the elements that render an advantage defensible, attractive to investors, and primed for scale.

At SixTree, design is the mechanism that makes innovation legible, functional, and scalable. This spans product architecture, user experience, interfaces, and visual identity. When a product, brand, or communications strategy is developed in isolation from business logic, the underlying innovation becomes obscured, hindering investor comprehension. Architecturally sound design signals maturity, decodes technical complexity, and lays the groundwork necessary to scale without operational compromise.

What builds lasting value

Companies that become benchmarks in their sector don't grow by chance. They build, over the years, three vectors in parallel.

01

Competitive Advantage

What makes your company hard to copy rarely lies in the product alone. It's in the brand that builds trust before the sale, the positioning the market recognises as distinctive, and the model that captures value before others can replicate it.

02

Internal Capabilities

Resilient companies don't rely on the founder to sustain the operation. They develop processes, build organisational intelligence and turn knowledge into ongoing operational capacity.

03

Strategic Partnerships

Companies that lead markets build ecosystems. They create relationships that expand distribution, accelerate execution and develop capabilities that would be hard to build alone.

SixTree's proprietary methodology helps structure the three vectors together. Governance organises internal capabilities and protects value. Strategic design strengthens competitive advantage and signals maturity to the market. Partnerships are designed according to the company's stage, complexity and objectives.

How we work

Three integrated tracks to structure, validate and scale sustainability innovation businesses.

SixTree Advisory

Structure your company for the next stages.

Corporate structuring, operational governance, investment readiness and strategic guidance for founders and organisations that need to turn innovation into real growth capacity. We work with startups, established companies, development institutions, local governments and development programmes.

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SixTree Labs

Prototype, validate and refine with our method and AI.

An experimental environment where products, services and solutions are explored, prototyped and validated before time, capital and operations are committed at scale. Combines artificial intelligence, strategic design and continuous validation for MVPs, thesis validation and lower learning cost in innovation.

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SixTree Intelligence

Follow the Brazilian startup ecosystem through SixTree's lens.

SixTree's editorial space to explore innovation, sustainability, technology and value creation in the Brazilian startup ecosystem. We publish insights, cases, analyses and strategic perspectives that help founders, institutions and investors interpret market movements and think long-term.

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The five stages of the journey

Where you might stand today

SixTree maps the founder's journey across five stages. Each represents a different level of operational maturity and calls for specific decisions.

Foundation

The thesis is still being validated, early adopters come in, and the company begins to take shape.

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Corporate structure, asset separation and an ally network need to grow alongside the product. The challenge: build a base without losing speed.

Unlock

The product is built, the market is responding, and the operation has gained traction.

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This is when structural bottlenecks surface: over-reliance on the founder, assets concentrated in individuals, and financials still hard for third parties to verify.

Investment Ready

The operation has matured, processes are in place, and the company understands what truly sets it apart.

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The focus now is making your structure legible to investors: formal governance, a clear narrative, and ready for due diligence.

Scale-up

The company is growing. It has raised capital or entered an active scaling phase. The risk shifts from market to organisational rigidity.

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Processes, mental models, and structures that have worked so far may start to limit adaptation, perception, and response speed.

Exit

The next strategic decision becomes liquidity, succession, or long-term continuity.

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Sale, acquisition, licensing, or sustained operation each require different architectures. Weak readiness erodes value and narrows options.

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Three convictions

Our three pillars.

Innovation

Innovation doesn't come from technology alone. It emerges from the interaction between capabilities, market and consistent execution. What separates startups that grow from those that stall is the ability to turn knowledge into structures that generate, capture and retain value over time.

Governance

Governance is what allows a company to survive growth, the entry of capital and rising complexity. Well-built structures distribute decision-making, protect assets and make the company verifiable without constant reliance on the founder.

Sustainability

Sustainability is a logic of long-term value creation. It means developing companies, territories and capabilities in an integrated way, creating the conditions for continuous growth without degrading the assets that sustain it.

Our approach

Three principles that guide how we work.

01

Same side of the table

We work in cooperation with those who are building. Every decision starts from the same question: if this company were ours, what would we need to do right now to protect it, strengthen it and prepare it for the next stage?

02

We walk the journey with you

Our work doesn't end when a diagnostic or recommendation is delivered. We structure companies for the next growth cycle and follow the evolution for as long as it takes to consolidate the transition.

03

High bar on both sides

Analytical depth, clarity in decisions and execution discipline are part of how we operate. We seek relationships built on the same level of commitment, rigour and responsibility.

Team

Meet the team behind SixTree.

Two integrated axes, built on a solid track record in governance and in design & experience.

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Contact

Let's talk.

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Advisory · Labs · Intelligence

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office@sixtree.co

Where we are

Palmas, TO and Florianópolis, SC
Brazil

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