# BuenTrip Ventures

> BuenTrip Ventures is a VC fund in Quito backing Software, SaaS and FinTech. See 47 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Quito, Ecuador
- Total investments: 47
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/buentrip-ventures
- Website: https://buentrip.vc

BuenTrip Ventures is a pre-seed VC firm in Quito, Ecuador, that leverages its position as one of the leading ecosystem builders in Latin America to identify, mentor, and invest in software-based startups that are transforming the region’s economy.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $225k–$3.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $125k–$1.9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 23% |
| SaaS | 9 | 19% |
| FinTech | 8 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 9% |

65 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 36% |
| Pre-Seed | 17 | 36% |
| Angel | 2 | 4% |
| Series A | 1 | 2% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 23% |
| Ecuador | 9 | 19% |
| Mexico | 6 | 13% |
| Peru | 1 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Finnecto | Procure-to-pay (P2P) SaaS Solution. Finnecto automates purchase requests, policy reviews, approval workflows, vendor quotation digitalization and comparison, and purchase orders matching, effectively reducing manual and repetitive tasks. Finnecto makes procurement and daily operations of companies faster, cheaper, and more transparent whilekeeping spending under control. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | May 31, 2025 |  |
| ConstructAI | ConstructAI offers an AI-powered platform designed to automate takeoff and cost estimation for large construction projects. The platform aims to replace traditional manual processes in estimating project costs, which are typically slow, expensive, and prone to errors. It helps construction companies save time, reduce costs, and improve biddingaccuracy in the market. The company’s focus is on transforming the construction industry by capturing data for decision-making. | $150K | Angel | Apr 07, 2025 |  |
| PayMon | PayMon integrates an ERP software with a user-friendly digital wallet for seamless payment processing, top-ups, and much more. | $600K | Pre-Seed | Jan 20, 2025 |  |
| Stride Conductor | Stride Conductor is a GenAI product designed to streamline software development processes by automatically generating quality tests code. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| Synthera AI | Synthera claims that it can overcome the drawbacks of traditional financial forecasting methods like Monte Carlo simulations by utilizing generative AI. The business thinks that these conventional approaches often overfit historical data, ignore non-linear correlations, and ignore dynamic market fluctuations, all of which increase investors'risk exposure. | $1.9M | Pre-Seed | Dec 03, 2024 |  |
| Altscore | AltScore enables any B2B company to create and manage their own credit products. Our 'Rails of Lending' APIs shorten the launch time of new lending products from years to just weeks, while delivering fintech-level capabilities at every stage of the loan process—from onboarding and underwriting to collections and renovations. | $8.5M | Series A | Aug 28, 2024 |  |
| Mercately | Mercately allows you to concentrate all of your communication channels in one spot. Mercately specialize in delivering CRM solutions with an official WhatsApp connection and the ability to interface with the most popular apps on the market, like Hubspot, MercadoLibre, Facebook, Instagram, Webchat, and others. Mercately also offer WhatsAppMulti-user, chatbots, and the WhatsApp Business API. | $2.6M | Seed | Aug 27, 2024 |  |
| BucksApp | BucksApp is a SaaS company that provides business intelligence solutions to financial institutions through our in-house-developed API | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jul 09, 2024 |  |
| Taxo | Taxo develops taxation software intended to provide tailored software to accountants. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| Pronto | Pronto collects payments quickly and effortlessly which allows one to facilitate the collection process for one's clients. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |

10 of 47 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does BuenTrip Ventures invest in?

BuenTrip Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 47 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is BuenTrip Ventures's check size?

BuenTrip Ventures typically joins rounds of $225k–$3.5M at Seed and $125k–$1.9M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds BuenTrip Ventures participates in.

### When did BuenTrip Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for BuenTrip Ventures closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 47 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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