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Peru

South America · Pop. 34.2M

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$1.5B+49%
Combined startup EV
$2.3M
VC invested (last 12mo)
188
Tracked startups
🦄 Unicorns
0
0 live · +0 new in 2025 (incl. 0 new decacorns)
💎 Decacorns
0
🐎 Thoroughbreds
0
Top 1% growth · $500M+

Adjacent ecosystems by EV

Startup hubs

Inside Peru: top 1 startup hubs

Sub-national ecosystems ranked by combined enterprise value of all tracked startups headquartered there.

By enterprise value
1 Lima Metropolitan Area $1.4B

Enterprise value · 2015–2025

Peru grew 36.8× since 2015

Combined enterprise value of every tracked startup headquartered in Peru that's still operating today, totalled by founding-year cohort.

0 $500M $1B $1.5B $2B Peru · $1.5B 2015 2018 2021 2024 2025

Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems

How Peru stacks up

Peers chosen from the same South America cluster within ±70% of Peru's combined EV. The scatter plots growth × current size for the wider continent — outliers in the upper-right are ecosystems compounding fastest.

Combined enterprise value
$4.6B
$2.7B
$1.6B
Peru
$1.5B
$1.5B
$936.6M
EV growth (5-yr ×) vs current EV

Top overview

South America ecosystems — combined view

Top ecosystems in South America ranked by combined EV. Peru's row is highlighted.

# Ecosystem Combined EV 5-yr EV growth Unicorns VC invested Tracked startups
1 Brazil $234.7B 16.2× 32 $2B 3,952
2 Argentina $140.9B 7.1× 9 $150.9M 767
3 Mexico $45.1B 10.0× 13 $1.4B 1,281
4 Colombia $21.1B 16.5× 2 $207.1M 680
5 Chile $17.8B 12.3× 3 $189.9M 850
6 El Salvador $12.6B 1 $72.8M 34
7 Cayman Islands $10.7B 150.5× 4 $184.5M 108
8 British Virgin Islands $5.8B 64.8× 1 $249.9M 124
9 Uruguay $4.6B 15.7× 2 $38.2M 93
10 Bermuda $2.7B 5.5× 1 $22M 29
11 Ecuador $1.6B 1 $600K 61
12 Peru $1.5B 7.4× 0 $2.3M 188

Patent intelligence

Peru startup IP portfolio: 2 patent families

Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in Peru. Aggregated across the country's hub-level filings — Bay Area, Boston, etc. roll up under the United States row, the same way Tokyo and Osaka roll up under Japan.

Granted patent families
2
Filed by tracked startups headquartered in the country.
0.06 patents per million residents · #67 globally
Top patenting hubs
1 Lima 2

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Sector breakdown
Where Peru's unicorns concentrate
Fintech
AI / Enterprise SW
Health Tech
Biotech
Cybersecurity
Consumer
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Founder origins
Where Peru's startup founders come from
By country of origin
Per capita
Top universities
Top alumni-factory companies
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AI talent
Top employers of AI talent in Peru
Core AI roles
Frontier AI roles
YoY hiring growth
Senior + lead engineers
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Deal flow
Live deal flow & funding rounds in Peru
New rounds last 30 days
Stage breakdown
Active investors
Round-size trends
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