ENTREPRENEURS

Real people. Real businesses.

Three sample profiles of the validated, ESO-graduated founders on RetornaCapital. Coffee from Santa Ana. Surf from La Libertad. Chocolate from Sonsonate.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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