A Latin American founder looking for US capital needs more than a list of US office addresses. The useful screen is which investor or investing programme can consider the company, at this stage, in its actual market.
These 15 routes include regional specialists, global platforms with relevant coverage, a rules-based co-investor and an investing accelerator. Some operate through teams in both the US and Latin America; none should be treated as having an unrestricted mandate across the entire region.
Choose a US capital route that fits the company
Start with sector, current entry stage and company-country eligibility. A regional fintech strategy is not a general SaaS fund. A growth investor is not necessarily a first believer. And a US fund that backs Latin American founders building in the US may have a different remit from one investing in companies operating in Latin America.
Keep company incorporation, actual operations and customer market separate. Then identify the regional team or programme. Confirm conditions directly before making company-structure or participation decisions with advisers.
Compare 15 US and cross-border capital routes
Sources reviewed November 13, 2026. This is a research shortlist, not a fund ranking or a claim that every country qualifies. Scroll the table horizontally on mobile. Provider structure and programme conditions are stated separately.
| Investor | Product focus | Stage or route | Geographic filter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valor Capital Group | Technology; consumer and enterprise opportunities | Startup through scale-up; team-specific | US, Latin America and cross-border technology markets |
| QED Investors | Financial technology | Early and growth fintech strategies | Named regional strategies, including Latin America and Asia |
| Flourish Ventures | Fintech and financial-system innovation | Early stage | US, Africa, India, Latin America and Southeast Asia |
| Quona Capital | Inclusive fintech | Company stage and fund-specific; confirm entry round | Latin America, India, Southeast Asia and EMEA strategies |
| Clocktower Ventures | Financial-services technology | Seed through growth | US and Latin America focus |
| Ganas Ventures | Community-driven startups | Pre-seed and seed | US and Latin America |
| Actions Capital | Healthcare, financial services and industrials | Primarily pre-seed; selected seed and seed-plus | Primarily US, with selective Latin America investing |
| Gilgamesh Ventures | Fintech | Early stage | US and Latin America; confirm country and entry round |
| TheVentureCity | Data- and AI-driven companies; mostly B2B | Current stated focus: Series A | Companies operating in US, Europe and Latin America |
| 500 Global | Fast-growing technology companies | Programme- and regional-fund-specific stages | US and named global regional strategies |
| FJ Labs | Marketplaces and network-effect businesses | Early-stage company investing; does not lead | Evaluates worldwide; US and large economies emphasized |
| LEAP Global Partners | Commerce, fintech and SaaS | Company- and strategy-specific; confirm entry round | US and Latin American cross-border business context; confirm country eligibility |
| Accion Ventures | Responsible fintech for underserved individuals and small businesses | Early-stage fintech | Countries worldwide, including documented Latin American activity |
| Endeavor Catalyst | Qualified Endeavor companies across sectors | Qualifying financing rounds of selected Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies | Endeavor markets globally, including Latin America |
| Y Combinator | Technology startups across categories | Investment accelerator; programme-specific eligibility | International founders; in-person San Francisco and company-jurisdiction conditions |
Read provider criteria and approach routes
1. Valor Capital Group
Venture investor. Valor's published model bridges US and Latin American technology markets, with particular US-Brazil roots. Explain whether the company serves a regional customer problem or has a genuine cross-border expansion opportunity. The relevant partner and stage matter more than simply adding a US investor to the deck.
Founder route: Official team and company contact. Official criteria · Supporting official evidence.
2. QED Investors
Venture investor. QED's Latin American activity sits within a fintech-specialist strategy. Present the financial workflow, actual customer and unit economics before the regional growth story. Match the current team and financing stage; a company outside financial technology should not assume that geography alone makes it relevant.
Founder route: Official team and contact information; no open application implied. Official criteria.
3. Flourish Ventures
Venture investor. Flourish explicitly includes Latin America within its early-stage fintech coverage. Founders should connect the business to the financial-system problem and the users it serves. Identify the regional team rather than treat its global portfolio as a single interchangeable mandate.
Founder route: Official regional team and contact. Official criteria · Supporting official evidence.
4. Quona Capital
Venture investor. Quona's Latin American strategy focuses on inclusive financial technology. Explain how the product improves access or outcomes for underserved consumers or businesses. A general marketplace needs a real thesis connection, not a fintech label added only to fit the fund.
Founder route: Official regional team and contact. Official criteria · Supporting official evidence.
5. Clocktower Ventures
Venture investor. Clocktower documents a US-and-Latin-America fintech focus from seed through growth. That broad lifecycle still requires a stage-specific conversation. Separate the startup venture strategy from the wider group's asset-management activities and explain the financial-services innovation clearly.
Founder route: Official team and contact information; no open application implied. Official criteria.
6. Ganas Ventures
Venture investor. Ganas states a pre-seed and seed remit for community-driven startups across the US and Latin America. Show how the community changes the business's adoption or value, not only the founders' geography. Use the official founder application and ask about the actual country and stage.
Founder route: Official Apply for Funding route. Official criteria.
7. Actions Capital
Venture investor. Actions currently describes a primarily US strategy with selective Latin American investing. It often leads or co-leads early rounds and names healthcare, financial services and industrials. A regional founder should demonstrate a specific edge and market fit rather than assume all countries are equally targeted.
Founder route: Official team and contact information; no open application implied. Official criteria.
8. Gilgamesh Ventures
Venture investor. New York-based Gilgamesh describes global early-stage fintech investing and documented US/Latin American activity. Lead with the product's financial-services use case and customer evidence. Confirm current country and round criteria rather than borrow the exact terms of its original launch announcement.
Founder route: Official team and contact information; no open application implied. Official criteria.
9. TheVentureCity
Venture investor. TheVentureCity's current stated entry focus is Series A for data- and AI-driven businesses operating in the US, Europe and Latin America. A founder should present evidence appropriate to that stage. Its data support is not a substitute for product or commercial readiness.
Founder route: Official How We Invest and company contact. Official criteria · Supporting official evidence.
10. 500 Global
Venture investor. 500 Global's Latin American route is a regional strategy within a larger global platform. Use the current regional founder criteria and programme or fund path. An investor-education course or ecosystem initiative is not a startup investment application.
Founder route: Official founder programme or relevant regional fund. Official criteria · Supporting official evidence.
11. FJ Labs
Venture investor. FJ Labs evaluates global early-stage marketplaces and network-effect businesses, including documented Latin American companies. It does not lead rounds or take board seats. A founder looking for a lead should keep that workstream separate and show capital efficiency and unit economics.
Founder route: Official team and contact information; no open application implied. Official criteria.
12. LEAP Global Partners
Cross-border venture investment platform. LEAP's current strategy centers on technology reshaping commerce and financial flows, supported by a cross-border platform. Research the actual company and market fit rather than rely on a general US-Latin America label. Its LP's description of the US-Mexico corridor is useful context, not a guarantee of every country mandate.
Founder route: Official Contact page and Take the Leap route. Official criteria · Supporting official evidence.
13. Accion Ventures
Early-stage investment strategy within Accion Impact Management. Accion's current strategy is named Accion Ventures, previously Accion Venture Lab. It invests in early-stage fintech serving underserved people and businesses globally. Count the old and new names once, and connect the company to the financial-inclusion job rather than treat it as a general regional technology fund.
Founder route: Official investment-team and company information. Official criteria.
14. Endeavor Catalyst
Rules-based co-investment fund. Endeavor Catalyst is not an unrestricted startup application. It invests exclusively in selected Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies through a rules-based co-investment model. The programme qualification and financing conditions must come first; a regional founder should not treat it as a general first-check seed fund.
Founder route: Endeavor Entrepreneur process and official Catalyst information. Official criteria.
15. Y Combinator
Investing accelerator. YC is a global investing programme rather than a dedicated Latin America fund. Regional founders can apply, but the in-person San Francisco batch and company-jurisdiction rules are real conditions. Evaluate those separately with appropriate advisers rather than assume a successful application leaves every company structure unchanged.
Founder route: Official Apply page. Official criteria.
Separate lead, participant and programme routes
Decide what role the round needs. FJ Labs' published co-investor model is different from Actions' preference to lead or co-lead. An investing programme such as YC introduces participation conditions. Endeavor Catalyst requires a qualifying Endeavor Entrepreneur-led company rather than a generic cold application.
Use those differences to build two queues: providers that could organize or lead the round, and providers that could participate if the right conditions are met. When lead behavior is not published, leave it unknown and ask. Do not count every interested investor as a committed anchor.
A worked shortlist for a Latin American fintech
Fictional example: Cedar Pay serves small businesses in Mexico and is preparing seed financing. The founders investigate QED's fintech strategy, Flourish's early-stage regional coverage, Quona's inclusion thesis and Clocktower's stated US/Latin American focus.
They test the actual product against each thesis rather than assume every payments company qualifies. TheVentureCity's current Series A focus goes into a later-stage research queue. A separate programme route is considered only if participation and company conditions fit. Each retained provider has a source, a specific question and an owner.
Copy the Latin America cross-border route worksheet
Keep country, thesis, round role and relationship context alongside the investor in Finta. A shortlist becomes more useful when every retained name has a clear next action.
LATIN AMERICA / US CAPITAL-ROUTE WORKSHEET
Company / product / actual customer:
Incorporation / operations / customer countries:
Current round and next milestone:
Provider and actual regional team or programme:
Route: regional fund / global fund / co-investor / investing programme
Published sector and entry stage:
Country eligibility: confirmed / not established
Round role: lead / participant / rules-based / unknown
Programme, selection or participation conditions:
Official source URL / checked date:
First eligibility or fit question:
Relationship context / owner / next action / review date:Ask Aurora, Claude or Codex to review your shortlist
Supply your facts and the official sources. Review the result before acting; this is a research aid, not automatic outreach.
Evaluate my Latin American startup's US-capital shortlist from the official sources I provide.
Company: [product, buyer, countries, current stage, evidence and next milestone].
Distinguish regional specialists, global funds, rules-based co-investors and investing programmes. Check current sector, entry stage, country eligibility and lead or participant role. Separate founder nationality from company incorporation and operations. Do not infer a whole-region mandate from one investment or a US office. Deduplicate aliases and rebrands, including old and current strategy names. Mark unknowns and return a research queue with reasons, disqualifiers and first questions. Do not recommend restructuring, send outreach or promise funding.Methodology and related guides
The Finta Editorial Team used VC Sheet and existing regional research for discovery, then reviewed current investor-controlled strategy, criteria, programme, team and contact pages. LEAP's current investment context is supplemented by its investor's direct description of the platform. We label programme and co-investment routes, count each provider once and preserve current names rather than duplicate rebrands.
Keep the seed fundraising comprehensive guide central. Use investors with public submission routes to compare access paths. Where a provider's criteria are unclear, ask a precise eligibility question instead of assuming a geographic match.
This is general research and organizational information, not personalized financial, legal, tax or immigration advice.