Stoneco Ltd. (Brasil)

The Company is principally engaged in providing financial technology solutions to clients and integrated partners to conduct electronic commerce seamlessly across in-store, online, and mobile channels, which include integration to cloud-based technology platforms, offering services for acceptance of various forms of electronic payment, automation of business processes at the point-of-sale and working capital solutions.
The Stone Business Model

The Company goes to market and empower its clients to conduct commerce more effectively by utilizing its proprietary Stone Business Model, which the Company believes provides its clients with a range of new capabilities and a differentiated customer experience compared to its competitors.

Advanced, End-to-End Cloud-Based Technology Platform—The Company developed its fully-integrated and end-to-end Stone Technology Platform to provide seamless omni-channel capabilities for in-store commerce, e-commerce and mobile commerce. The advanced nature of its platform enables us to make traditionally complex and cumbersome tasks more simple and user-friendly, which the Company believes gives us significant competitive and operating advantages.
Differentiated Hyper-Local and Integrated Distribution—the Company s distribution model was created to address the main gaps the Company believe existed in the Brazilian market.
White-Glove, On-Demand Customer Service—The Company supports its clients and solutions with fast, convenient, and high-quality customer support that the Company believes is highly differentiated in Brazil.
The Company has also registered several domain names with NIC.br, Brazil's internet domain name registry, and domain registrars in the United States and elsewhere, including “stone.com.br,” “pagar.me,” “mundipagg.com.br,” “mundipagg.com,” “cappta.com.br,” “equals.com.br” , “stonemais.com.br”, “stone.co” and “investors.stone.co”.
HISTORY
2014 The Company formerly known as DLP Payments Holdings Ltd., is a Cayman Islands exempted company with limited liability, incorporated on March 11, 2014. The registered office of the Company is Harbour Place, 103 South Church Street in George Town, Grand Cayman. The Company's principal executive office is located in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2018 The Company completed its Initial Public Offering (“IPO”), offering 58,333,333 of its Class A common shares, of which 45,818,182 new shares were offered by the Company and the remaining 12,515,151 shares were offered by the selling shareholders, including the full exercise of the underwriters' option to purchase 7,608,695 additional shares from the selling shareholders in October 25, 2018.
2018 The Company owned 30 trademarks issued in Brazil, including “Stone,” “Mundipagg,” “Pagar.me,” “Equals,” “Buy4,” and have 45 trademark applications pending in Brazil as of December 31, 2018,