Higher Order Company

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Founded 2023

Higher Order Company (HOC) is a tech startup based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, focused on building massively parallel computing infrastructure. The company develops HVM, a parallel runtime based on Interaction Combinators, and Bend, a high-level programming language that enables parallel execution on multi-core CPUs and GPUs without requiring expertise in concurrent programming. HOC is also developing Kind, a parallel proof checker, and Bend2, an AI-native programming language with built-in formal verification.

Last Updated: March 13, 2026

Current Valuation

$60M

as of January 31, 2025 (Source)

Funding Summary

$4M

Total reported funding

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Core OSS Projects

A massively parallel, optimal functional runtime based on Interaction Combinators

License: Apache-2.0

A massively parallel, high-level programming language that runs on multi-core CPUs and GPUs

License: Apache-2.0

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Developer Tools
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GPU Computing
Functional Programming
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Licenses

Apache-2.0

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