Consumer Private Credit Pre-seed July 2026 Confidential Figures in USD

When capital is efficient, credit gets cheaper.

Fixing the world's most expensive credit — starting with Mexico.

The spread is the business What borrowers pay vs. the cost of money — annual rate
6.5% Cost of money Banxico ~20% Meridia — IFC 40.4% Avg. personal loan 105.4% Average credit card interest rate
~16.2% net return to investors
01 The Problem

Expensive credit closed to capital and a banking system that never learns from its own data

The bank already has the data, on every loan and every borrower, and ignores it

Banks sit on the richest historical record in the system, every loan they've issued, every borrower who's paid or defaulted, yet they underwrite on today's snapshot alone: income, expenses, bureau score. Everything else the file could tell them: location, loan purpose, education, active loans, other applications, the full credit history and tens more data points, gets discarded.

Capital has no way in

Consumer credit generates the best margins in the system, yet it stays reserved for banks. There is no vehicle today for an individual or institutional investor to hold a consumer-credit portfolio passively.

Annual rate — what borrowers pay vs. the cost of money MXN
Cost of moneyBanxico reference rate
6.5%
Personal loansSystem average
40.4%
Basic credit cardsMaximum APR
105.4%

Rates are multiples of the real cost of money — the spread the bank keeps.

02 The Solution

A double risk filter inside a new investment vehicle

Investors put capital into the fund, not into individual loans. The fund invests only in loans a regulated platform has already published, and only after its own model re-screens them.

Source of capital
Investors
Institutional capital today; retail in a later phase. Everyone invests through the fund, never directly into loans.
The vehicle
Meridia Fund
A proprietary Machine Learning model that analyzes 64 data points and their correlations.
LocationLoan purposeEducationActive loansApplications elsewhereFull bureau history+ 58 more
Regulated rails
Collective Funding Institution (IFC) Regulated Financial Institution by CNBV
It evaluates borrowers and publishes the loans that pass its screening and credit capacity criteria; it also manages the servicing and collection of all loans, charging a 1% fee for the entire process.
Demand
Borrowers
Receive ~20% (Meridia Fund – IFC) versus 40–106% through traditional banks.
01

Two independent analyses

The platform run first their own model. Our model re-filters what was approved. Two layers mean fewer defaults.

02

Aligned incentives

The platform lives off returning investors, so it pays to list only good loans. Nobody wins on a default.

03

Regulation already solved

IFCs are licensed and supervised by the CNBV Mexican SEC under the 2018 Fintech Law. Origination, custody and collections run on existing, regulated rails.

The opening
This market hasn't taken off because it has run only on personal, non-professional capital — never institutional. Meridia Fund is built to be the first.
03 Why Banks Can't Follow

We don't compete against the banking industry we compete against its cost structure

A bank's rate floor is structural, not a matter of willingness: cost of funding, regulatory capital reserves, and physical branches every loan must support. Meridia carries none of it.

Meridia Fund's virtuous cycle
01
Lean structure

No branches, no payroll, no bank funding costs. We invest in loans listed by CNBV-regulated IFCs.

02
Lower rates

~20% (Meridia–IFC) versus 40–106% at banks.

03
Easier to repay

A cheaper loan is easier to repay, which means lower delinquency.

04
Higher net return

Lower delinquency translates into a higher net return for investors.

05
More capital flows in

Better returns attract more capital hence whole market gets optimized.

Structure, model and vision
01

Why banks can't follow

  • Cost of funding: they pay to raise the capital they lend.
  • Regulatory capital reserves: required for every dollar lent and raised.
  • Physical branches: payroll and large-scale operations the loan must support.
02

Our business model

We do not originate the loans; we invest in those listed by the IFC. Currently only Prestadero and YoTePresto operate under this model. We leverage their existing infrastructure.

03

The vision

To optimize Mexico's consumer-credit market and then expand into every country where credit is structurally expensive. By lowering the cost of capital, it delivers real social impact: expanding access to formal credit at affordable rates.

04 Traction

≈500 loans funded with our own capital — the system scores end to end in seconds

≈500
Loans funded
≈$28K USD own capital
16%
Real annual
return
<4%
Historical
default rate
<1.5s
Per credit analyzed
End-to-end, automated
How it works, end to end
01
Learns from history

≈500 real labeled loans, paid or defaulted, and it keeps learning as more originate.

02
Scans the market

Downloads active applications already approved and published by the platform.

03
Runs the model

Extracts 64 data points per application; full profile and complete bureau history, not just the score.

04
Outputs a probability

A repayment probability per loan. We invest only above 85%.

Investment rule
We invest only above an 85% model repayment probability — the criterion behind the <4% default rate.

Model trained on 500 loans with known outcomes; ROC-AUC 0.82 (5-fold cross-validation). 1 USD ≈ 17.45 MXN.

05 Market Size

A $17 trillion problem worldwide — starting with Mexico.

Global
Outstanding consumer credit.
$17 T
LATAM
Regional consumer credit; Brazil + Mexico ≈ ⅔
$600 B
México
Total consumer-credit portfolio ($1.88 T MXN)
$108 B
SOM IFC today
Active portfolio via debt IFCs — the wedge
$150 M
The wedge
IFCs hold <0.14% of Mexico's consumer credit today. Every dollar Meridia Fund deploys expands the channel itself.

Banco de México (Feb. 2026); CNBV. SOM = balance currently invested via debt IFCs, not cumulative origination. Squares are area-true (side ∝ √value); the IFC dot is drawn at minimum legible size. 1 USD ≈ 17.45 MXN.

06 Business Model

Two revenue streams and a funding ladder from $150K to ~$49 billion in ten years

Stream ①
3% / yr on AUM
A management fee charged on assets under management as the fund scales along the ladder.
Stream ②
Interest on own capital
Seed capital plus its compounding returns belong 100% to the fund and earn portfolio interest directly.
Assets under management, Y1 → Y10 · Box area ∝ AUM (side ∝ √AUM)
Year 4
$2.2 B
$65M/yr fees · 2% of MX
Year 6
$16 B
$490M/yr fees · 15% of MX
Year 10
$49 B
$1.5B/yr fees · 45% + LATAM/EU

Illustrative — box area proportional to AUM; Years 1–3 wouldn't register at true scale next to Year 10.

YrAUMFeeFund rev.Milestone
Y1
$150K
Seed · MVP live
Y2
$10M
$24K/yr
First Institutional Round
Y3
$100M
$3M/yr
$28K/yr
Scaling on Track Record
Y4
$2.2B
$65M/yr
$512K/yr
2% of Mexican Market
Y6
$16B
$490M/yr
$41M/yr
15% of Mexican Market
Y10
~$49B
$1.5B/yr
$665M/yr
45% MM + LATAM/EU/USA

Fund credit portfolio revenue = the fund's own capital compounding from the $150K seed, plus reinvested management fees from Year 3 onward. Calculated at a 16% annual return — expected to rise toward ~19.2% as the model improves with scale.

07 Competition

A blue ocean — the banking industry isn't our competitor; it's the market's price ceiling

Credit is a commodity. The winner is whoever offers the lowest price and banks can't lower theirs due to their cost of funds, regulatory reserves, branch networks and payroll, and the RORWA expected by shareholders. These factors impose a structural floor on rates.

First in the vehicle

No one has built a fund for institutional capital to invest in consumer credit via IFCs. The regulation is too new.

No direct rival

The platforms are our channel, not competitors. The banking industry can't follow us on price. The space is empty.

A market that expands itself

Every dollar in makes credit cheaper, lowers defaults and attracts more capital, the ocean grows with us inside it.

Lean vs. structural floor

Our lean structure lends at ~20% what banks charge at 40–106%. We're not trying to beat banks loan by loan; we're targeting a level of market efficiency that makes the competition irrelevant

Retail — the next ocean

Following institutional capital: opening the vehicle to individual investors. The next ocean.

From competitor to ally
New fintech banks raise large balances with a limited market to deploy them in, that funding can become capital for Meridia.
08 Acquisition Strategy

The loans are already originated the scalable work is acquiring capital.

Asset side — acquisition cost ≈ zero

IFC platforms already originate, rate and list applications — we never go looking direct for borrowers. Our model scans the open market and ranks every application automatically, in under 1.5 seconds. Scalable across platforms with no sales force: it's software, not people.

Capital side — a four-rung ladder

Each round unlocks the next class of investor, using the prior stage's audited track record as the calling card, from the seed capital to the pension funds that now allocate more than the entire banking sector.

1

Investors — the fund's shareholders

Our 16% real-return track record as the calling card. This round, today.

Trigger · track record
2

Local and international funds — family offices

Unlocked by a regulated MVP and an auditable record beating the reference rate with defaults <4%.

Trigger · regulated MVP + audited record
3

Development and commercial banking

ESG debt issuances alongside the IDB, CAF, World Bank and IMF.

Trigger · ESG mandate + scale
4

AFOREs — Mexican pension funds

~$513B today → ~$1T AUM by 2035. Already surpass the banking sector in credit origination. They don't lend directly; they allocate capital to sector-specialized funds. As of today, they are not investing in consumer credit.

Trigger · institutional-grade fund at scale
09 Team

A single founder by design — Capital deployment and servicing are already software

Juan Iván
Escamilla Nájera
Founder · Financial Institutions Banker
B.A. Economics · B.A. Government and Public Policy — Universidad Panamericana
ScotiabankToday
Financial Institutions coverage: banks, insurance companies and pension funds (AFORES), asset managers, and investment funds. Structured credit and investing, hedging, and treasury Management.
Deloitte
Advised Mexico's first fintech licenses — under the very same law that regulates the IFCs Meridia invests through.
HSBC and BBVA
Relationship management for institutional and multinational clients; derivatives, investment and structured credit.
Today

Credit selection, origination and servicing are 100% automated. No payroll, every dollar is deployed into the portfolio.

As we scale

The team expands gradually and only as AUM demands it. Technology over headcount.

Retail phase

Compliance, back office and portfolio management arrive once automated KYC reliably mitigates AML risk for individual clients.

10 The Ask

Pre-seed round open — every dollar goes straight into the portfolio.

100%
Of capital raised goes directly into the credit portfolio
100%
Seed capital for the portfolio (invested in loans selected by the model).
Fixed and minimal
Legal structuring of the fund.
$0
Salaries, offices or any other expense during year one.
Month 0–6
Fund incorporated + MVP

Operating model live; 100% of capital deployed into loans selected by the model.

Month 6–12
Auditable track record

2× the reference rate with defaults <4%, at zero operating expense.

Month 12–24
First institutional round

$10M USD (Year 2 of the ladder), with the track record as the calling card.

The seed capital's returns and compounding belong 100% to the fund.

Meridia Fund · Consumer Private Credit

The transformation of consumer credit driven by structural efficiency in technology and capital.

Founder
Juan Iván Escamilla Nájera
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Meridia Fund — Consumer Private Credit Pre-seed · July 2026 · Confidential