The $QVA Startup Community is a community for Cuba 🇨🇺 and U.S. 🇺🇸 -based tech entrepreneurs. The community's purpose is to help Cuba-based tech startups grow by connecting them with founders, clients, and supporters from all over the world. The guiding principle of our community is "Innovate to be Free." The community respects 🇨🇺-based founder's choice not to engage in political discussions and recognizes that all individuals and businesses subject to 🇺🇸 jurisdiction must abide by requirements of the [🇺🇸 embargo against 🇨🇺](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_Cuba#:~:text=The United States embargo against,trade embargo in modern history.) and its related OFAC sanctions regime. Fund flows to independent entrepreneurs are explicitly exempt from the sanctions regime. Our community believes this creates an opportunity to support the success of independent tech entrepreneurs in 🇨🇺, thereby creating robust networks of globally-connected, free-market capitalism and entrepreneurship.
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🧑🏻💻 Over ten thousand hackers, creators, and founders in Cuba are seeking mentors, collaborators, and investors.
🔓 Now you can advise them, hire them, and build with them while complying with US sanctions and the OFAC.
📲 Join the $QVA Community to get started (help grow the community and earn $QVA).
💱 Redeem $QVA for collaboration opportunities or $SQP balance (Qvapay balance).
➡️ 1050 Members of the **$QVA Community.
➡️** $QVA DAO Status: Building on $STX.
➡️ 195 Members on the Telegram Community.
➡️ $274K Weekly QvaPay Volume.
➡️ 20,200 $QVA Distributed.
➡️ 990 Members in the $XFX Community.
➡️ 650 Members in the $FRE Community.
We are Cuba and U.S.-based startup founders and fintech entrepreneurs, collaborators, and investors.
Local laws in Cuba today permit limited and regulated entrepreneurship focused on the domestic market. Most tech startups and online businesses have uncertain legal status.
The U.S. embargo of Cuba and related OFAC sanctions are intended to reduce the power and influence of the ruling communist regime.
Exemptions to the sanctions are designed to support residents of Cuba who are not affiliated with the sanctioned regime, including independent entrepreneurs and the private sector in general.
The purpose of this community is to help independent Cuba-based tech entrepreneurs and their startups grow by connecting them with founders, collaborators, clients, and supporters from all over the world.
We are united by a common commandment—Innovate to be Free— and a common coin $QVA.
Related Links:
Digital Entrepreneurs in Cuba: OFAC Request for Interpretative Guidance
Relevant OFAC regulation for Independent Entrepreneurs