# Maria Salamanca

> Maria Salamanca is a pre-seed investor at LatinxVC (San Francisco) backing Apps and Internet. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [LatinxVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/latinxvc)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Aug 2022
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariasalamanca1
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/MariaSalamancaM
- Website: https://x.com/MariaSalamancaM
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maria.salamanca1

Maria Salamanca is a pre-seed investor at LatinxVC in San Francisco focused on Apps and Internet. Maria Salamanca is the Founding Board Member & VP of LatinxVC & she attended University of California, Berkeley in 2011.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 3 | 21% |
| Internet | 3 | 21% |
| Software | 3 | 21% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 21% |
| Social Network | 3 | 21% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 50% |
| Seed | 6 | 43% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Maximus | Consumer health startup that maximizes masculinity using science and psychology. | $15M | Series A | Aug 10, 2022 |  |
| Maximus | Consumer health startup that maximizes masculinity using science and psychology. | $5M | Seed | May 31, 2021 |  |
| The Landing | The Landing is a social design platform that empowers everyone to create together. Our mission is to empower and enable the creativity of our community through an intuitive, fun, and social platform. We believe the future of product discovery is social, experiential, and creator-led. We provide our community with the tools to discover, remix,create and connect over fully customizable moodboards. | $2.5M | Seed | Feb 25, 2021 |  |
| Zeen | Zeen is a social design platform that empowers everyone to create together. Our mission is to empower and enable the creativity of our community through an intuitive, fun, and social platform. We believe the future of product discovery is social, experiential, and creator-led. We provide our community with the tools to discover, remix, create andconnect over fully customizable moodboards. | $2.5M | Seed | Feb 25, 2021 |  |
| Dispo | Dispo is a photo-sharing app designed to simulate the experience of using a disposable camera from the comfort of mobile phones. The app replicates the experience of taking photos on a disposable camera without a front-facing screen and develop those photos over a period of one day, thereby enabling users to create raw and authentic photos. | $4M | Seed | Oct 07, 2020 |  |
| Luminai | Luminai automates internal workflows by taking any multi-click process and making it one click. | $3.4M | Seed | Oct 07, 2020 |  |
| Aavia | Aavia was born from a shared passion for solving problems in healthcare and improving female health and wellness. They chose Aavia because it evokes an image of a bird - powerful and free to soar. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Brooklyn, New York. | $3.2M | Seed | Aug 28, 2020 |  |
| Luminai | Luminai automates internal workflows by taking any multi-click process and making it one click. | $250K | Pre-Seed | Mar 15, 2020 |  |
| Prismpop | Prismpop is an online beauty community that helps users in finding products that are personalized to their needs. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California. | $450K | Pre-Seed | Feb 15, 2020 |  |
| Aavia | Aavia was born from a shared passion for solving problems in healthcare and improving female health and wellness. They chose Aavia because it evokes an image of a bird - powerful and free to soar. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Brooklyn, New York. | $720K | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2019 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Shrug Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shrug-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [10X Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/10x-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Correlation Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/correlation-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cowboy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cowboy-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About LatinxVC

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

LatinxVC is a group of experienced venture investors coming together to connect, engage, and foster the Latinx VC ecosystem. It empowers the Latino investment community to collaborate and exchange industry knowledge. LatinxVC holds events that help support, educate, and facilitate networking among Latinx VCs.LatinxVC aims to be the central anddefinitive resource for Latinx VCs.

4 contacts available at LatinxVC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lisette Herbanek | VP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lisette-tellez |
| Hector Ramos | Treasurer, Founding Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hector-ramos-70de |
| Maria Salamanca | Founding Board Member & VP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maria-salamanca |
| Rami Reyes | President, Founding Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rami-reyes |

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## FAQ

### What does Maria Salamanca invest in?

Maria Salamanca invests primarily in Apps, Internet and Software startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Maria Salamanca last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Maria Salamanca closed in Aug 2022. Shizune tracks 14 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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