New CubaSupport Entrepreneurs in Cuba

Not legal or investment advice. U.S. sanctions restrict Cuba investment to the licensed independent private sector. Every transaction is KYC'd, OFAC-SDN & Cuba Restricted List screened, confirmed as an independent private entity (≤100 employees), and subject to OFAC counsel. No money flows to state, JV, GAESA, Restricted-List or confiscated-property counterparties.

Methodology

Data & sources

Every asset carries its own sources. The compliance corpus below is ingested from official U.S. government publications, validated against a typed schema at build time, and stamped with a retrieval date. These are dated snapshots — the Restricted List and SDN change (both expanded under EO 14404). Operational screening must use the live sources — OFAC SDN search, Cuba Restricted List, and the Prohibited Accommodations List — not the dated snapshots here; an agentic worker re-pulls them (see About).

DatasetSizeRetrievedSource of record
Opportunities dataset102 assets2026-06-20Research appendix (Seatrade, BNamericas, Reuters, USGS, GEM, UNESCO, FCSC, SCOTUS, et al.)
Cuba Restricted List236 entities2026-06-20U.S. State Dept · Federal Register 2025-13149
OFAC SDN + authorities16 designations2026-06-20OFAC · Cuba sanctions (SDN, EO 14404)
Prohibited Accommodations List429 hotels2026-06-20U.S. State Dept · Federal Register 2025-13148
Controlling-entity registry16 entities2026-06-20Curated; sanctions flags auto cross-referenced
Macro contextCountry profile2026-06-20CIA World Factbook · World Bank cross-check

How the legal badge is computed

  1. Each asset declares ownership, layer and investable_us.
  2. Its controlling entity's name/aka are matched against the Restricted List, SDN and CPAL.
  3. canSupport() returns true only if the asset is a private 'opportunity' entry tagged support_via_qvapay AND no list matched.
  4. A build-time invariant throws if any asset sets investable_us=true (no equity lane) or if a "supportable" asset has a sanctioned counterparty — so a data error cannot ship an illegal Support button.

Methodology and limitations are documented per-file (see the notes field in each dataset). Not legal advice.