Malga vs Bruno
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São Paulo payment orchestration connecting 25+ Brazilian providers through single API; YC $10.3M with R$7B processed after acquiring Drip for Pix Parcelado competing for Brazilian digital payment infrastructure.
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Malga is a São Paulo-based payment orchestration platform — backed by Y Combinator with $10.3 million raised including a $5.55 million Series A led by CV iDEXO and Costanoa in February 2025 — enabling Brazilian digital businesses to access 25+ payment providers (Adyen, Stripe, Stone, Cielo, PagSeguro, Pix rails) through a single API integration, with transaction-level intelligent routing and automatic failover that switches providers without code changes. Founded in 2020 and having processed R$7 billion since inception, Malga serves e-commerce platforms, fintechs, and marketplaces and in December 2024 acquired Drip, a Pix Parcelado (installment payments via Pix) provider.
Open-source offline-first API client with git-native Bru file storage; solo-founded, declined 8 VC offers, competing with Postman and Insomnia for developers seeking privacy-respecting local API testing tooling.
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Bruno is an open-source API client and testing tool — a lightweight, offline-first, git-friendly alternative to Postman and Insomnia — enabling developers to explore, test, and document APIs with collections stored as plain-text Bru files in the project filesystem rather than in cloud-synced proprietary formats. Created by a solo founder in 2022 and growing to a 9-person team by late 2024, Bruno operates with an unusual philosophy: the founder publicly declined 8 venture capital offers to preserve product freedom and build toward profitability, with the core Bruno client remaining free and open-source (MIT license) while the Golden Edition provides enterprise features for commercial revenue. Pro and Ultimate paid editions launched in 2024.
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