# Salkantay Ventures

> Salkantay Ventures is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miraflores, Peru
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 16%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/salkantay-ventures
- Website: https://www.salkantay.vc/

Salkantay Ventures is a VC fund in Miraflores focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Salkantay is a venture capital firm that creates value by collaborating with intrepid entrepreneurs, visionary investors and its allies to identify innovative ideas and transform them into successful and highly profitable companies. Salkantay invests in companies with high potential for financial return and impact in Latin America. The Fund has ageneralist approach, investing in companies that are solving big regional market pains at scale and efficiently, using technology.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$5.1M |
| Series A | $3.5M–$22M |
| Series B | $5M–$40M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 7 | 22% |
| FinTech | 6 | 19% |
| EdTech | 4 | 13% |
| Software | 4 | 13% |
| SaaS | 3 | 9% |

54 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 44% |
| Series A | 6 | 19% |
| Series B | 4 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 22% |
| Peru | 5 | 16% |
| Colombia | 5 | 16% |
| Mexico | 3 | 9% |
| Chile | 2 | 6% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lucia Montalvo Castro | Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lucia-montalvo-castro |
| Martin Aspillaga | Founder & Managing Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martin-aspillaga |
| Luis Daniel Arbulu | Venture Capitalist | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luis-arbulu |
| Patrick McGinnis | Venture Partner & Investment Committee | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-mcginnis |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Prestamype | Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company. | $2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 23, 2026 |  |
| EQUIP | In the region, SMB construction companies, which represent 90% of the market buy supplies manually at local hardware stores or retailers at high markup prices, which affects access to housing in LatAm. EQUIP’s platform offers a more efficient and cost-effective alternative, allowing construction companies to buy all the materials they need, get thedelivery and credit, all in one place.Our founding team has strong tech and construction backgrounds. Our investors include Pareto VC, Unpopular VC, GG Capital and angels from Rappi, Mercado Libre, and Amazon. | $1.4M | Seed | Aug 12, 2025 |  |
| Welli | Welli is a medical financing company based in Colombia. It provides patient loans at the doctor’s office or clinic in seven medical specialties that are paid out of pocket. Welli aims to become the financial partner of doctors and patients alike across Latam. Beyond the core credit product, offering includes doctor financing for medical equipmentand savings clubs for patients ineligible for financing. | $8.5M | Series A | Jun 25, 2025 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Guama | Guama leverages technology and Open Banking data to issue credit cards for people rejected by the traditional financial system. | $1.5M | Seed | Mar 15, 2025 |  |
| EQUIP | In the region, SMB construction companies, which represent 90% of the market buy supplies manually at local hardware stores or retailers at high markup prices, which affects access to housing in LatAm. EQUIP’s platform offers a more efficient and cost-effective alternative, allowing construction companies to buy all the materials they need, get thedelivery and credit, all in one place.Our founding team has strong tech and construction backgrounds. Our investors include Pareto VC, Unpopular VC, GG Capital and angels from Rappi, Mercado Libre, and Amazon. |  | Seed | Feb 27, 2025 |  |
| minu | minu is revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. The company works with HR divisions of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported byFinTech's leading institutional investors globally, including QED. | $30M | Series B | Nov 19, 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 |  |
| Kilimo | Kilimo is a Big Data solution for water management in agriculture.. It features climate monitoring by using satellite and site data to provides prescription for each crop and increase water use efficiency. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cordoba, Argentina. | $7.5M | Series A | Jun 18, 2024 |  |
| Moonflow | Moonflow is a debt collection on Autopilot. | $1.7M | Seed | May 24, 2024 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Salkantay Ventures invest in?

Salkantay Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and EdTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 32 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 Salkantay Ventures's check size?

Salkantay Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$5.1M at Seed, $3.5M–$22M at Series A and $5M–$40M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Salkantay Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Salkantay Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Salkantay Ventures?

The team at Salkantay Ventures includes Lucia Montalvo Castro (Vice President), Martin Aspillaga (Founder & Managing Director) and Luis Daniel Arbulu (Venture Capitalist). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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