A decade of acquisitions turned a scattered handful of small-town providers into Brazil's second-largest ISP in Sao Paulo state. Here is how Alares built a fiber network out of everyone else's leftovers.
Sila Services is assembling a regional home-repair network without sanding the names off the trucks. Its bet is that the best way to scale HVAC, plumbing and electrical work is to keep local trust out front - and put recruiting, technology and capital behind it.