Employees
124k
Overview
Latin America's largest e-commerce and fintech company, operating in 18 countries with one of the largest fulfillment networks in the Americas. Deploying Digit humanoid robots from Agility Robotics at its San Antonio, Texas fulfillment center, and using sortation AMRs from Addverb and goods-to-person AMRs from Quicktron across its Brazilian warehouses.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Scale
Founded
Public listingsee public companies →
Commercial agreement with Agility Robotics
Deployment site
Robot
Initial task
Stated expansion intent
Position in Agility's customer roster
Executive quoted
Strategic rationale
Founder
Revenue
Net income
Operating income
Countries served
Humanoid deployment
Data & sources
Press releases
1
News coverage
2
Web sources
12
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Partnerships
Every company Mercado Libre has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Agility Robotics3× joint24 total
- 2Addverb1× joint2 total
- 3Quicktron1× joint1 total
Most recent
- Agility Robotics x Mercado Libre2026-03-15with Agility Roboticsoperating
- with Agility Roboticsoperating
- Mercado Libre x Agility Robotics2025-12-10with Agility Roboticsoperating
Relationships
Current leadership (3)
- Marcos Galperin Chairman, President & CEO, Founder & CEOsecondary-verified
- Daniel Rabinovich Chief Operating Officersecondary-verified
- Martin de los Santos Chief Financial Officersecondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Marcos Galperincofounderfounded 1999-07-01
Media (1)
Company-anchored media. Official assets the company has published at the company level, distinct from model-anchored media that lives on individual product pages.
Safety record
No incidents on record for Mercado Libre.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Mercado Libre in third-party press
Mentioned on (6)
Registry pages whose text names Mercado Libre.
Robots and products (1)
Deployments (2)
People (3)
Financial state
- Employees
- 123,670
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
5 total · 5 operating · 1 ended
Every company Mercado Libre has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Agility Robotics x Mercado Libre2026-03-15with Agility Roboticsoperating
- with Agility Roboticsoperating
- Mercado Libre x Agility Robotics2025-12-10with Agility Roboticsoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Agility Robotics3× joint24 total
- 2Addverb1× joint2 total
- 3Quicktron1× joint1 total
All 5 partnerships
open in the atlas →- deployment—operating
- deployment—operating
- deployment2025-12-10operating
- deployment2025-12-10operating
- deployment2026-03-15supersededoperating
Timeline
Every recorded move in Mercado Libre’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipAgility Robotics x Mercado Libre
2026-03-15Mercado Libre and Agility Robotics announced a commercial agreement to integrate Digit humanoid robots into Mercado Libres San Antonio Texas facility for warehouse operations.
PartnershipMercado Libre x Agility Robotics
2025-12-10Mercado Libre and Agility Robotics signed a commercial agreement to deploy Digit humanoid robots at Mercado Libre's San Antonio, TX fulfillment center, with plans to explore additional use cases across Latin American warehouses. Announced Dec 10, 2025.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJul 23, 2026
Mercado Libre logo
- Record createdMay 28, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (15)
- https://www.agilityrobotics.com/content/mercado-libre-and-agility-robotics-announce-commercial-agreement
- https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251210209226/en/Mercado-Libre-and-Agility-Robotics-Announce-Commercial-Agreement-to-Deploy-Humanoid-Robots
- https://www.robotics247.com/article/agility_robotics_announces_digit_humanoid_robot_deployment_at_mercado_libre
- https://www.dcvelocity.com/material-handling/order-fulfillment-packing/robotic-picking-and-loading/agility-deploys-its-digit-humanoid-robot-in-texas-fulfillment-center
- https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/usa-news/mercado-libre-brings-digit-humanoid-robots-to-its-san-antonio-warehouse.html
- https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2025/12/10/mercado-libre-agility-robotics-texas-fulfillment-center/
- https://www.therobotreport.com/agility-mercado-libre-embargoed/
- https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mercado-libre-agility-robotics-announce-130000794.html
- https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/digit-humanoid-robots-to-join-mercado-libre
- https://humanoidroboticstechnology.com/industry-news/mercado-libre-and-agility-robotics-partner-to-deploy-humanoid-robots/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MercadoLibre
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcos_Galperin
- https://addverb.com/us/warehouse-automation-case-studies/sortation-center-for-mercado-libre/
- https://www.quicktron.com/blogs/182
- https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/mercado-libre-founders-it-takes-patience-resilience
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Methodology: Verified · 15 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-21
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-21
Sources by quality tier
- 10
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 2
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
- 2
- knowledge-base
- Knowledge base
- 1
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Mercado Libre.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Mercado Libre from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Amazon-Backed Agility Robotics Goes Public in Quest to Scale Humanoids
Agility Robotics will go public to boost rollout of humanoid robots
Agility Robotics Bets on Staffing Warehouses With Humanoids
Agility Robotics plans to go public via SPAC in a $2.5B deal
Agility Robotics to go public in $2.5B SPAC merger
List of 11 Acquisitions by MercadoLibre (Apr 2026)
Toyota Canada to deploy Agility Robotics’ humanoid Digit in manufacturing operations
Agility Robotics signs deal with Mercado Libre for Digit, Uruguay. News story in Forkliftaction News
Top 10 robotics developments of December 2025
Is MercadoLibre (MELI) One of the Best Stocks to Buy for the Next 5 Years?
Mercado Libre to deploy humanoid robots in Texas warehouse
Humanoid Robot Digit Deployed Within Mercado Libre
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/mercado-libre.md
- RSS feed: /companies/mercado-libre/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/3cc35a63-8495-4354-b01a-efe851d5c249
- Revision history: /companies/mercado-libre/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Serious54/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Mercado Libre against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 2, 2026