Problem

Salvy addresses the cost, opacity, and administrative friction of corporate mobile telecom in Brazil. Companies often buy more capacity than they use—Salvy says customers use only about 30% of what they purchase and that roughly 20% of mobile lines are unused—while lacking visibility into who is using each line, how much they consume, and why. The economics can be material: one illustrative 300-line customer reduced its monthly bill by R$3,000, or R$36,000 annually, by moving away from an underused, loyalty-based plan; Salvy cites customer savings of more than 60% in some cases.

The killer use case is a company with distributed sales, support, or field teams that needs to activate, reassign, or cancel many lines quickly, often alongside WhatsApp Business. In the old model, provisioning a line or adding a small amount of data can require lengthy support interactions, spreadsheets, and contracts, delaying employee or customer operations.

Product / Service

Salvy combines a business mobile carrier with a software management layer. Companies can provision physical SIMs, eSIMs, or virtual mobile numbers with data, voice, SMS, and WhatsApp Business, while activating, canceling, porting, and monitoring lines through a centralized platform without loyalty contracts. The platform provides real-time visibility into plans, users, consumption, and costs, can integrate with HRIS and ERP systems, and uses AI to read telecom invoices and support migration.

The delivery model is designed for both ordinary employee connectivity and high-volume digital operations. Its virtual-number product activates WhatsApp Business through Meta’s official API without a physical SIM, supports multiple numbers, and can be automated through webhooks—particularly useful for customer-service platforms, AI agents, notifications, and other workflows. The benefit is lower telecom spend, faster provisioning, and less operational dependence on incumbent-carrier bureaucracy.

Market

Salvy competes in Brazilian B2B mobile telecommunications, particularly the MVNO and telecom-expense-management software segments. Its practical competitors are the traditional mobile operators and their corporate plans, which Salvy positions itself against as the slower, more bureaucratic alternative; it also overlaps with software and managed-service providers that help companies administer lines and telecom expenses. The broader opportunity is substantial: Y Combinator describes Brazil as having approximately 55 million B2B mobile lines, representing about $5 billion in annual recurring revenue.

Salvy is commercially active rather than pre-revenue. Its website says more than 5,000 businesses have chosen the company and that customers have saved over R$12 million in mobile-telecom invoices; an earlier Y Combinator profile reported more than 1,800 companies managing over 20,000 lines and cost reductions above 50%. The company entered Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 batch, raised a further R$10 million seed extension in 2024, and has publicly named customers including The Coffee, RD Station, Grupo Wiser, Hunter Douglas, Alice, and Lastro, although public materials do not disclose revenue figures.