RetornaCapital
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RETORNACAPITAL · CAPITAL FLOW · US → SV

El Salvador is rising.
Be the capital behind the new country.

Invest from $250 in vetted Salvadoran entrepreneurs who graduated from ESO programs. Target IRR 18–24%. Community multiplier 5.3x. Same love for home — a second channel, alongside remittances.

Invest from $250→See the thesis
18–24%
Target IRR
5.3x
Multiplier
$250
Minimum
live · active projects
SV · CA
EL SALVADORLOS ANGELESDIASPORA
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Café Origen
Santa Ana
Target IRR22%
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OlaSV
La Libertad
Target IRR18%
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Dulce Raíz
Sonsonate
Target IRR20%

From your city to El Salvador · live · active projects

EL SALVADOR IS HAVING ITS MOMENT

This is not the country you left. It is the one that is rising.

The nostalgia you feel is also market intelligence. You understand this economy, its people, and its potential better than any institutional fund ever will. That cultural fluency is your structural advantage.

3.9%
GDP growth in 2025
Outpacing most of Latin America
$9B+
Private investment flowing in
Infrastructure, tech, services
4.1M
Tourists visited in 2025
An all-time record
$3.5B
Tourism revenue
14% of the entire GDP
26.2%
Private investment growth
The fastest in years
$10B+
In remittances from people like you
Proof the diaspora already moves economies

You already sustain families. Imagine sustaining businesses too.

WHY THIS WORKS

Not charity. Not a donation. A real investment with real returns.

Most diaspora platforms ask you to give money and feel good about it. RetornaCapital is different. This is structured investment into businesses that have been trained, tested, and validated. You get financial returns. They get the capital to grow. Everybody wins.

18-24%
Target IRR
Structured as equity, revenue-share, or convertible instruments
600+
ESO graduates per year
A growing pipeline of trained entrepreneurs waiting for capital
94%
Untapped
Of the $10B+ the diaspora sends annually, almost none goes to productive investment
5.3x
Community multiplier
Every dollar invested generates over 5x in local economic activity
THE PIPELINE

How entrepreneurs earn their spot on RetornaCapital.

We do not list anyone who walks in the door. Every entrepreneur went through months of structured training, graduated from a recognized program, then passed our own due diligence. Less than 40% of ESO graduates make it to listing.

01

Accepted into an ESO program

Competitive admission into Fundación Colabora, Gloria de Kriete, Bridge for Billions, CAMTIC, or similar.

02

Months of structured training

Business model validation, financial planning, customer discovery, market testing. Not a weekend workshop.

03

Program graduation

Only those who complete everything and prove commercial viability get certified.

04

RetornaCapital due diligence

Financials, team, growth potential, impact metrics. A second filter on top of the ESO's.

NYCLADCHOUAHUACHAPÁNSANTA ANASONSONATELA LIBERTADSAN SALVADORCUSCATLÁNSAN VICENTESAN MIGUEL
Active departments · U.S. diaspora
Ecosystem partners
Fundación Colabora
Fundación Gloria de Kriete
Bridge for Billions
CAMTIC
CONAMYPE
FUSADES
MEET THE ENTREPRENEURS

Real people. Real businesses. Ready for your investment.

These are not ideas on a napkin. Every entrepreneur on RetornaCapital graduated from a rigorous incubation program at organizations like Fundación Colabora, Gloria de Kriete, Bridge for Billions, or CAMTIC. Validated business models, real customers, the training to scale.

María Elena Ramírez — Café Origen
ESO · Fundación Colabora
SANTA ANA · SPECIALTY COFFEE PROCESSING

María Elena Ramírez

Café Origen

María Elena grew up watching her grandparents pick coffee that someone else exported, profited from, and branded. Three years ago, she decided to change that. She built a micro-processing facility where she roasts, packages, and sells single-origin Salvadoran coffee directly to cafés in the U.S. She graduated from Fundación Colabora with a validated export model and three signed buyers in California.

Ask
$15,000
IRR
22% projected return over 18 months
Jobs
7 full-time jobs
Impact
23 local farming families in her supply chain

Use of funds: Industrial drying equipment to double monthly output

Carlos Andrés Mejía — OlaSV
ESO · CAMTIC
LA LIBERTAD · SURF TOURISM & EQUIPMENT

Carlos Andrés Mejía

OlaSV

Carlos was a surf instructor who noticed that every board, wetsuit, and piece of gear tourists rented came from somewhere else. He launched OlaSV to build a locally made, sustainable surf equipment brand paired with curated tourism experiences along the coast. He graduated from CAMTIC's tech-tourism accelerator with a working prototype and a partnership with three beachfront hostels.

Ask
$25,000
IRR
18% projected return over 24 months
Jobs
12 jobs (4 shapers, 3 guides, 5 hospitality)
Impact
Tourism revenue stays local

Use of funds: First production run of 200 boards and online booking platform

Sofía Hernández — Dulce Raíz
ESO · Bridge for Billions
SONSONATE · ARTISANAL CACAO & CHOCOLATE

Sofía Hernández

Dulce Raíz

Sofía's family has grown cacao in Sonsonate for three generations. She is the first to process it into finished chocolate. After graduating from Bridge for Billions' online incubation, she developed a product line of single-origin chocolate bars that tell the story of each farm. She already sells at four specialty stores in San Salvador and has interest from a distributor in Houston.

Ask
$10,000
IRR
20% projected return over 18 months
Jobs
5 direct jobs
Impact
15 cacao farming families earning 40% more than commodity prices

Use of funds: Packaging redesign, FDA-compliant labeling for U.S. export, first trade show booth

These are sample profiles representing the types of ventures on our platform. Actual entrepreneur details available upon investor application.

EVERYBODY WINS

This is what a real bridge looks like.

A · WHAT YOU GET
  • Financial returns on validated, ESO-certified ventures
  • First-mover access to Central America's fastest-growing economy
  • Portfolio diversification into an emerging dollarized market
  • Direct mentorship role in the ventures you back
  • A connection to El Salvador that deepens with every investment
  • Legacy that outlasts any wire transfer
B · WHAT ENTREPRENEURS GET
  • Growth capital from investors who understand the culture and market
  • Mentorship from founders who built businesses in the U.S.
  • Network access to international markets and distribution
  • Validation that transforms community standing and credibility
  • Strategic guidance no incubation program alone can provide
  • A partner who believes in them, not a patron who pities them
THE FORCE BEHIND THE MOVEMENT

You are part of the most powerful economic engine in the Americas.

U.S. Latinos are not a minority market. They are a global economic superpower. And the Salvadoran diaspora is one of its most active forces.

$4.4T
U.S. Latino GDP in 2024
4th largest economy in the world, surpassing Japan
68M+
Latinos in the U.S.
1 in 5 Americans is Latino
2.7x
Latino GDP growth vs non-Latino
Fastest among all major economies
$223B
Salvadoran migrants' contribution
To the U.S. economy in 2023 alone
78%
Of all new U.S. workers 2020-2030
Are Latino
$4.1T
Latino purchasing power
Larger than the GDP of most countries

This is the community RetornaCapital is built for. You have already proven you can build economies. Now build one at home too.

Gex Díaz, Founder, RetornaCapital
MY STORY
Gex Díaz
FOUNDER, RETORNACAPITAL

I left El Salvador six years ago. Like many of you, I left chasing something better. Not because I wanted to leave, but because staying meant watching opportunities pass by. Since then, I have lived in different countries, built a career across organizations like Mastercard, the London Stock Exchange Group, Unilever, and Bridge for Billions, and am now finishing a master's degree at the London School of Economics as a Chevening Scholar.

But none of that changed one thing. Every month, I send money home. To my family. To make sure they are okay. And every month, I have the same conversation with myself: this money keeps them alive, but it does not build anything that lasts. It covers rent. It buys groceries. It pays for medicine. And then it is gone.

LINKEDIN ↗·MSc, London School of Economics (Chevening Scholar)
JOIN THE MOVEMENT

50 founding investors. Will you be one of them?

This is bigger than returns. This is about proving that the Salvadoran diaspora can be the most powerful economic force in Central America. That we can go from sustaining families to sustaining entire economies. And it starts with 50 people who believe that is possible.

Apply as founding investor →Talk to Gex

Founding cohort: preferred terms, lower minimums, direct input on platform design.