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Nomad:巴西美元账户豪赌,年化收入达5亿雷亚尔,首次盈亏平衡,客户3百万
巴西金融科技公司Nomad(2020年)押注富裕巴西人持有并投资美元:截至2025年5月,拥有300万账户和约10亿美元资产,年化收入5亿雷亚尔,首次盈亏平衡。
Nomad
做的是什么生意
Nomad is a Brazilian fintech offering a US-dollar digital account (debit card, FX, transfers) plus dollar investments — managed portfolios, US equities and US fixed income — and, since 2024, a Brazilian-currency credit card and local products for high-income clients.
启动资金:US$20M Series A led by Monashees and Spark Capital in July 2021; US$61M Series B led by Tiger Global Management announced in late 2023 (Brazil Economy; Brazil Journal).
起因
Founder and CEO Lucas Vargas launched Nomad in late 2020 for Brazilians going abroad: a digital US-dollar account with a debit card accepted overseas, designed from the start to also carry diversified dollar investments. COVID kept Brazil's borders shut for nearly a year after launch, so the first year was slow and the money raised kept the company going.
经过
Nomad's 'Era 1' built out the product in 2021; 2022 was, in the CEO's words, its real first year. In 2023 ('Era 2') it focused on efficiency, widened the portfolio and closed a US$61M Series B led by Tiger Global Management. Clients doubled to 2.6M during 2024 and assets reached about US$1B — two-thirds in investments, inverted from two-thirds in banking a year earlier. Adding US fixed income required extra licences and a dedicated risk director, and a US broker-dealer licence then let Nomad keep revenue its investment-advisor partners had taken.
结果
Nomad hit R$500M annualized revenue and reached breakeven in February 2025 — earlier than the mid-2025 plan — with small positive cash generation, and said it had no need of a new round. By May 2025 it had 3M clients and was targeting 4M by year-end; 2025 resources shifted to Brazil products (a Brazilian-currency credit card in beta with about 10k active users, planned to 10x), with insurance and credit as next steps.
背景
Nomad的赌注是富裕巴西人想要的不仅仅是旅行资金:一个完整的美元账户,加上美元投资。创始人兼CEO Lucas Vargas于2020年末推出该金融科技公司,首先向旅行者销售——“去美国?开个Nomad账户”——同时将管理组合、美股和后来的美债设计到同一产品中。
疫情导致巴西边境在推出后近一年关闭,拖慢了第一年。2021年7月由Monashees和Spark Capital领投的2000万美元A轮使公司存活;2022年是第一个真正增长年;由Tiger Global Management领投的6100万美元B轮在2023年收官。随后客户在2024年翻倍至260万,资产达到约10亿美元,投资占这些资产的比例从三分之一升至三分之二。
产品栈需要执照:美债和美国经纪人执照(附带风险官和最低资本)让Nomad能够保留其投资顾问伙伴原本获得的收入。2025年2月,实现年化收入5亿雷亚尔和首次盈亏平衡,提前于计划,并产生小幅正现金流。截至2025年5月,拥有300万客户,目标是年底400万,并将大部分资源转向巴西——测试版巴西货币信用卡,然后是保险和信贷。
这件事要成立,得有什么
- 美元资产作为真正产品:投资客户比例一年内从5%升至10%,并占约10亿美元资产的三分之二,将旅行账户转变为经常性收入。
- 执照带来的利润率:获得自己的美国经纪人执照,移除了抽取大部分产品收入的合作伙伴,以最低资本和控制为代价。
- 一个客户,多种产品:Nomad将美元账户视为通往旅行、投资、固定收益及现在巴西卡和信贷的大门,服务同一高收入客户。
- 先盈亏平衡再扩张:2025年2月首次实现正现金流,早于2025年中目标,使其能够拒绝新融资仍能资助巴西扩张。
可借鉴之处
旅行账户打开大门;美元投资才是业务。Nomad的价值来自经常性、执照保护的投资收入,一旦投资占主导,盈亏平衡随之而来。
后续进展
截至2025年5月22日,Nomad处于活跃并规模化状态:300万美元账户,约10亿美元资产,年化收入5亿雷亚尔,2025年2月首次盈亏平衡,年底目标400万客户。公司表示不需要新一轮融资,但会在合适估值下考虑,并将2025年资源转向巴西——处于测试阶段的巴西货币信用卡有约1万活跃用户,计划增长10倍,随后保险和信贷。报道中提及风险:需求取决于富裕巴西人持有硬通货的意愿,新经纪人执照增加了监管和资本义务。
资料来源
- Nomad fatura meio bi e atinge breakeven. Agora, vai focar no Brasil
- Mais independente, Nomad avança em investimentos e mira 4 milhões de clientes
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