About Zunnit

Zunnit Technologies is an information technology company, based in Belo Horizonte/Brazil, whose primary focus is research and development of recommendation systems for e-commerce, content providers and social networks.

Early research on the Zunnit recommendation systems started at the Laboratory for Treating Information (LATIN), Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais (DCC/UFMG) in 2008 and continued in the company after its founding in October 2009.

Zunnit is the result of the association of entrepreneurs Lesley Scarioli Júnior and Alberto Colares with researchers Nivio Ziviani and Alberto Laender from DCC/UFMG. The two researchers have high international academic recognition and high capacity to produce knowledge, methods and algorithms for information systems focused on the web.

The group has extensive experience in creating technologies applied to business, such as those used by Minner Technology Group, established in 1998 and acquired by Folha de Sao Paulo/UOL in 1999, Akwan Information Technologies, established in 2000 and acquired by Google Inc in 2005, and Coddart Tecnologia S/A, created in 2007.

Zunnit make up the group of innovative companies that were selected to settle in BHTEC – Technology Park of Belo Horizonte – a partnership between the Government of Minas Gerais, SEBRAE , UFMG, the FIEMG and the Municipality of Belo Horizonte. It is a complex that will house companies with R&D activities and that aims to accelerate technological innovation in the industry through closer links with the University and its research centers.