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General information
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
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General information
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General information
VTEX (“VTEX” or the “Company”) and its subsidiaries, or collectively referred to as the “Group”, provide a
 
software-as-a-service
digital commerce platform for enterprise brands and retailers. The VTEX platform enables customers to execute their commerce strategy, including building online stores, integrating, managing orders across channels, and creating marketplaces to sell products from third-party vendors.
The Group enables customers to implement multiple
go-to-market
strategies. VTEX’s platform combines commerce, order management and marketplace functionality, allowing enterprises to sell a wide assortment of products across multiple channels. By integrating with suppliers, distributors, third-party vendors, franchisees, warehouses, and
brick-and-mortar
stores, enterprises can rapidly implement new business models and digital experiences, including
direct-to-consumer,
marketplace, conversational and interactive commerce, ship from store, endless aisle, and drop-ship. The Group calls this set of deep integrations “Collaborative Commerce.”
VTEX’s Collaborative Commerce approach benefits from a powerful ecosystem with significant network effects. The ecosystem includes more than 2000 integrated solutions, 500 systems integrators, 200 marketplaces, 150 payments solutions, and 80 logistics companies. VTEX’s partners’ solutions are embedded within the platform, allowing customers to seamlessly execute their commerce vision and strategy. The more customers adopt the platform and partners join the platform’s network, the more efficiently the Group can help facilitate the future of commerce.
The technology is flexible and extensible. It’s open,
API-first,
multi-tenant commerce platform allows enterprises to adopt new commerce capabilities with minimal risk. Combined with its
low-code
development platform, VTEX IO, the Group enables customers to build proprietary technology, seamlessly integrated with extensive
out-of-the-box
functionality. In essence, VTEX’s “Composable Commerce” approach allows enterprises to leverage the knowledge of highly specialized talents from the ecosystem while focusing their own talent on what makes them unique. Composable Commerce enables customers to rapidly deploy VTEX’s solutions and quickly iterate and customize the entire commerce experience at scale.
 
The following entities are part of the Group and are being consolidated in these financial statements:
 
Company
  
Place of
business/
country of
incorporation
  
Relationship
  
Principal
business
activity
  
% of Ownership
as of December 31,
 
  
2021
    
2020
    
2019
 
VTEX (“VTEX”)    Cayman    Holding    Technology Services                           
VTEX Informática S.A. (“VTEX ARG”) (i)    Argentina    Subsidiary    Technology Services      100        96.54        96.54  
VTEX Brasil Tecnologia para Ecommerce LTDA. (“VTEX Brazil”)    Brazil    Subsidiary    Technology Services      100        100        100  
VTEX Publicidade e Eventos Ltda. (“VTEX DAY”)    Brazil    Subsidiary    Production of events      100        100        100  
VTEX Intermediação de Cobrança Ltda. (“VTEX STORE”) (ii)    Brazil    Subsidiary    Technology Services      —          99.99        99.99  
Dlieve Tecnologia S.A. (“Dlieve”) (iii)    Brazil    Subsidiary    Technology Services      —          100        100  
Ciashop Soluções para Comércio Eletrônico S.A. (“Ciashop”) (iv)    Brazil    Subsidiary    Technology Services      —          100        100  
Loja Integrada Tecnologia para Softwares S.A. (“Loja Integrada”)    Brazil    Subsidiary    Technology Services      99.87        100        —    
Suiteshare Tecnologia da Informação S.A (“Suiteshare”) (v)    Brazil    Subsidiary    Technology Services      100        —          —    
VTEX Chile SPA (“VTEX CHI”)    Chile    Subsidiary    Technology Services      100        100        100  
VTEX Colombia Tecnologia para Ecommerce S.A.S. (“VTEX COL”)    Colombia    Subsidiary    Technology Services      100        100        100  
VTEX Commerce Cloud Solutions LLC (“VTEX USA”)    USA    Subsidiary    Technology Services      100        100        100  
UniteU Technologies Inc. (“UniteU”) (vi)    USA    Subsidiary    Technology Services      —          —          100  
VTEX Ecommerce Platform Limited (“VTEX UK”)    UK    Subsidiary    Technology Services      100        100        100  
EICOM Limited (“EICOM”) (ix)    UK    Subsidiary    Technology Services      —          100        —    
Soluciones Cloud En Ecommerce S. De R.L. De C.V. (“VTEX MEX”) (vii)    Mexico    Subsidiary    Technology Services      100        99.95        99.95  
EI Education S.A.P.I de C.V. (“Escuela de Internet or “Escuela”)    Mexico    Subsidiary    Technology Services      100        100        —    
Peru Tecnologia para ECOMMERCE S.A.C. (“VTEX PERU”) (ix)    Peru    Subsidiary    Technology Services      100        —          —    
Tecnologia para Comercio Electronico S.A.C. (“VTEX PER”) (viii)    Peru    Subsidiary    Technology Services      —          —          99.79  
Company
  
Place of
business/
country of
incorporation
  
Relationship
  
Principal
business
activity
  
% of Ownership
as of December 31,
 
  
2021
    
2020
    
2019
 
VTEX Ecommerce Platform Limited—Sede Secondaria (“VTEX ITA”) (ix)
   Italy    Branch    Technology
Services
     100        —          —    
VTEX Ecommerce Platform Limited London—Sucursala Bucuresti (“VTEX ROM”) (ix)
   Romania    Branch    Technology
Services
     100        —          —    
VTEX Ecommerce Platform Platform Limited – Sucursal em Portugal (“VTEX PORT”) (ix)
   Portugal    Branch    Technology
Services
     100        —          —    
 
(i)
In January 2021, the Group acquired the
non-controlling
interest of VTEX ARG. Refer to note 19.2(d.i) for additional details.
(ii)
VTEX STORE was liquidated in February 2021.
(iii)
Dlieve was merged into VTEX Brazil in April 2021.
(iv)
Ciashop was merged into VTEX Brazil in December 2021.
(v)
Suiteshare was acquired in April 2021. Refer to note 3.3 for additional details.
(vi)
UniteU was acquired in 2019 and merged into VTEX USA in 2020.
(vii)
In May 2021, the Group acquired the
non-controlling
interest of VTEX MEX. Refer to note 19.2(d.ii) for additional details.
(viii)
VTEX PER was liquidated in 2020.
(ix)
VTEX PERU, VTEX ITA, VTEX ROM and VTEX PORT were created in 2021 to fulfill the Group’s operational needs, while EICOM was constituted in 2020 and merged into VTEX UK in 2021.
 
1.1
Corporate Reorganization - Establishment of VTEX
In October 2019, the Group completed its Corporate Reorganization process (“Restructuring”), whereby two new holding companies: VTEX
 
(non-operating),
located in the Cayman Islands and VTEX UK (operating), located in the United Kingdom, became the direct and indirect controlling entities of the Group and the shareholders and its voting and
non-voting
interest are the same before and after the restructuring. Until October 2019, VTEX BRA, an operating company, was the ultimate holding of the Group, and it consolidated the results of all companies until that date.
The main purpose of the restructuring was to expand the Group’s range of funding possibilities to foreign investors with a focus on international expansion.
The Group accounted for the restructuring using the capital reorganization accounting, and the
pre-combination
carrying amounts of VTEX Brazil are included in the VTEX’s consolidated financial statements with no fair value uplift. Thus, these consolidated financial statements reflect:
 
  (i)
The historical operating results and financial position of VTEX Brazil prior to the restructuring;
 
  (ii)
The consolidated results of the Group following the restructuring;
 
  (iii)
The assets and liabilities of VTEX BRA and its then subsidiaries at their historical cost;
 
  (iv)
The number of ordinary shares issued by VTEX, as a result of the restructuring is reflected retroactively to January 1, 2019, for purposes of calculating earnings per share;
  (v)
VTEX BRA shares were contributed in VTEX by its book value as at September 30, 2019; and
 
  (vi)
As the remaining equity reserves of VTEX BRA are no longer applicable to VTEX, they were added to the initial capital reserve balance. See note 19.3.
 
1.2
Initial Public Offering “IPO”
On July 21, 2021, the Company completed its IPO, offering 21,850,000 of its Class A common shares, of which 13,876,702 new shares offered by the Group and other 5,123,298 shares offered by the selling shareholders, and the entire exercise of the underwriter’s option to purchase 2,850,000 newly issued shares.
The initial offering price was US$ 19.00 per Class A common share, resulting in gross proceeds of US$ 317,809. The Company received net proceeds of US$ 296,318 after deducting US$ 19,863 in underwriting discounts and commissions and US$ 1,628 of other offering expenses. The Group also recognized in the Profit and loss the amount of US$ 1,253 related to shares offered by the selling shareholders and other expenses not directly related to the IPO.
The shares offered and sold in the IPO were registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, pursuant to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form
F-1
(Registration
No. 333-257400),
which was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 21, 2021. The common shares began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) on July 21, 2021, under the symbol “VTEX.”