“Can a Mexico-first earned-wage-access platform become the dominant all-in-one employee benefits OS for mid-market and enterprise employers, embedding financial wellness deeply enough to command category leadership?”
Founded in 2019 as Mexico's first earned-wage-access (Salario On-Demand) platform, minu quickly expanded from a single EWA benefit into a comprehensive employee benefits marketplace covering 50+ products across financial, physical, and mental wellness. The 2023 merger with Plerk added grocery and fuel voucher cards, transforming minu from a payroll-advance tool into a full-stack benefits platform. By 2024 it was acquired by/merged into Betterfly while continuing to operate independently, having built the leading B2B corporate benefits stack in Mexico with ISO 27701-certified data infrastructure.
minu discloses Vale Total as its banking provider, according to the Embedded Finance Index 2026.
minu does not disclose a bank charter of its own; its banking services are provided through Vale Total.
minu's cards are issued through Vale Total on the Carnet network.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 4 layers in minu's stack: Banking / BaaS (Vale Total); Card issuing (Vale Total); Card network (Carnet); Lending (Salario On-Demand (no-interest earned wage access), Préstamos con tasas preferenciales (preferential-rate employee loans) and Caja de ahorro y préstamo (savings and loan)).
minu was founded by Nima Pourshasb, Rafael Niell and Paolo Rizzi and is founded in 2019, headquartered in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City, Mexico.
minu has raised $86.5M in total (latest round: Series B, November 2024).
minu's acquisitions include Plerk (2023).
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