Pre-seed and seed · New York
Capital for founders arriving from elsewhere.
Advena VC writes the first check for global and immigrant founders building for US customers.
Pitch us →01 · Thesis
Cross-border payments, banking for newcomers and their businesses, stablecoin rails.
Care access and wellbeing for underserved and multilingual patients.
AI-native software, data infrastructure, and robots that put AI to work in the physical world.
The flavors, brands and habits newcomers bring become America’s next shelf.
02 · Why now
of US private unicorns have an immigrant founder.
of the 2026 Fortune 500 was founded by immigrants or their children.
Sources: NFAP, June 2026 · American Immigration Council, September 2026
03 · How we help
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Often the first institutional money in.
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Entity, banking, legal and first US customers.
03
Latino Tech Week, Colectivo, and referrals into Y Combinator and Techstars.
04
Warm introductions to US seed and Series A investors.
04 · Team
Founding Partner
Angel investor in 47 startups. Co-founder of Colectivo and Latino Tech Week. Mentor to 80+ startups at Y Combinator, Techstars, Antler and Google for Startups.
Founding Partner
Managing Partner of Pygma, which has accelerated 171 startups across nine cohorts. Co-founder of Colectivo and Latino Tech Week.
05 · Founders
Daniela AldanaTrazo · Colombia
Juan Pablo LinaresBlinka · USA
Adrian TruciosAirbag · Mexico
Daniel MartinezCallbook AI · CO + USA
Sebastian JimenezRefurbi · Colombia
David BarinasBloque · USA
Matias MarmissolleAnzi · CO / USA
Leonardo VilchisBullground · USAOur partners have backed