Serpro, the Brazilian federal government’s IT services agency, has exceeded its international digital identity revenue targets for 2025 by more than 40 percent. The organization originally projected approximately 3.4 million US dollars in international revenue and had already generated about 4.8 million dollars by October.
A major contributor to this growth is Datavalid, Serpro’s biometric validation platform, which provides private-sector firms with the ability to verify customer identities by matching selfies against the national driver’s license database, a repository containing more than 85 million records. Datavalid combines one-to-one facial verification with biographical checks of a user’s name, tax identifier (CPF), and date of birth, giving banks and other service providers a high-assurance mechanism for remote onboarding.
Serpro has been positioning Datavalid as part of a broader Government as a Platform strategy that exports Brazilian public-sector digital infrastructure as a service. The agency has reported growing international interest in its digital identity and data-verification services, especially in regions where governments are looking to build or modernize national identity systems but lack the internal capacity to design and operate them at scale. Datavalid, which originated as a domestic tool to verify identities against Brazilian government data sources, has become a showcase for how national registries can be exposed via APIs to support both public and private-sector use cases, including financial inclusion, e-commerce onboarding, and fraud prevention.
As part of its international expansion, Serpro recently signed an agreement with the London Stock Exchange Group to provide APIs supporting anti-money-laundering and Know Your Business checks for Brazilian entities. The agency has also been actively marketing its GovID digital identity infrastructure to governments in Africa and Latin America, including prominent outreach at events such as the Africa Tech Festival in Cape Town. There has been growing interest in Brazil’s model as an example of digital public infrastructure that ties government registries, biometric verification, and commercial KYC together in a way that could be replicated in other markets. Serpro’s latest revenue figures suggest that this export strategy is beginning to gain commercial traction and that Brazilian digital ID components are becoming competitive offerings in the global market for identity and fraud-prevention services.
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By the ID Tech Editorial Team
