Gilberto Mautner and Claudio Gora, two cousins, bought a Server in California to set up Intermoda, a textile business portal. It was such an innovative Idea at the time that it inspired them to venture in another direction: website hosting.

Locaweb was born, offering simple and straight forward solutions for those seeking to run a digital business. We started with the slogan - "Want to have a website? Register here".
The company grew so fast at the time, got its first 1,000 customers, and saw the need for new servers the following year.

In 2000, “The Internet bubble” busted all over the world, but Locaweb went scot- free and got more customers. That year, we reached the mark of 10,000 customers.

Locaweb introduces data center solutions and email services onto the market, attracting businesses of all sizes. Locaweb’s IDC (Internet Data Center) was the forerunner of today's Nextios.

We invested in IP Communication and in building the first own data center with a capacity of 4 thousand servers. We also expanded our office and had a work force of 300 employees at this time.

We were frontrunners in cloud computing platform, which virtualizes the entire server structure on a single physical machine.

SilverLake came on board as an investor that, consequently, boosted our operations. We set up our own second data center, with a capacity of 25.000 servers, one of the biggest in Latin America.

We featured, for the first time, in Guia Você S / A as one of the Best 150 companies to Work in.

We featured, for the first time, in Guia Você S / A as one of the Best 150 companies to Work in.

We celebrated our 15th anniversary in great style with yet another acquisition. Locaweb bought AlliN; a digital relationship marketing platform.

For the first time we featured in the “Great Place to Work” ranking of Brazil’s IT and Telecom companies.

We also launched the TrayCorp platform, aimed at corporate customers.

We launched the Locaweb Website Builder, a product designed to create websites with just a few clicks, using the drag-and-drop system of elements, image bank - emails included; providing you with support whenever you need it.

Our Tray brand strengthens its market share with the acquisition of FBITS, a robust e-commerce solution business targeting large online shop operations.

We launched Cloud VPS, a virtual private server, for processing, traffic, disk space and memory totally dedicated to each specific server.

We celebrated 20 years of experience, strengthening our acquisition strategy. This year we integrated Yapay; a specialist payment company.

We have advanced our business plans into new segments, and have grown both organically and inorganically. We announced the acquisition of two more companies: King Host, one of Brazil’s largest internet hosting and website services companies, and Delivery Direto, a SAAS solutions company that helps restaurants in all their management and delivery operations.

Nextios
In 2020, Nextios emerged as an evolution of Locaweb Corp, presenting an innovative proposal to offer companies customized technology services. Focused on building and implementing tailormade solutions for each business, it has a portfolio that goes beyond data center or cloud infrastructure.