New CubaSupport Entrepreneurs in Cuba
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The Bloomberg-meets-Google-Maps of Cuban opportunity

We're building this because we believe Cuba opens — and when it does, the people who mapped the opportunity and backed its entrepreneurs early will have built something that matters. This is optimism with a spreadsheet attached.

This is the single best place to discover where value will be unlocked across Cuba — and to act on the slice that is legal today. Three products fused on one map: a deal marketplace (small, legal), an infrastructure atlas (large, informational), and a confiscated-property claims registry (the legal landmine map).

Why it's different

The closest analogue is Global Energy Monitor — asset-level maps with ownership traced to the ultimate state parent. The closest single-country thing is a government investment-promotion portal like Cuba's own ProCuba "Cartera de Oportunidades." This site is the independent, compliance-aware, claims-aware counter-version of that: Global Energy Monitor for all of Cuba, with an AngelList button on the legal ~5% and a Helms-Burton risk overlay on the rest. No site combines deal flow + controlling entities + confiscation risk on one map. That fusion is the point.

The two layers

Layer 1 — Support now: licensed private-sector MIPYMEs, backed through OFAC-authorized remittances and payments via QvaPay wallets — not equity. Layer 2 — Atlas: the full state economy, information only, "register interest" for a post-sanctions world or non-U.S. capital. Publishing information is protected; routing U.S. money into Layer 2 is the violation — so the product never does. See Compliance.

How it stays current

A scheduled agentic worker (Netlify Scheduled Function) refreshes asset status and sources and re-screens ownership against the live Cuba Restricted List and SDN. Nothing auto-publishes to Layer-1: a human approves every change in an admin review screen before any asset becomes "supportable." The lists shown here are dated snapshots — see Data & methodology.

Havana groundwork

Building relationships and pipeline on the ground — with private entrepreneurs, Cuba Emprende graduates, logistics — is good and legal. Any payment, gift or inducement to a Cuban government official, the Party, GAESA, or a Restricted-List entity is prohibited under both U.S. sanctions and the FCPA. Keep the skids greased with value and trust, not money to the regime.

This document is research and product design, not legal advice. Stand up the fund and any Cuba-facing transaction only with OFAC sanctions counsel and securities counsel.