14 countries have startup visa programs—of those, only 7 are sufficiently founder-friendly in that they do not require amounts of capital invested. We've taken those and presented them in an interactive, digestible way for prospective founders.

Startup Visas were much hyped in the past 2 decades due to immigration and talent sourcing bottlenecks in ecosystems. While remote work has alleviated some of that pressure, founders still need to incorporate somewhere. There are 14 countries have startup visa programs—of those, only 7 are sufficiently founder-friendly in that they do not require amounts of capital invested, and they are the ones we decided to list as viable options for prospective founders. Namely, Canada, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Denmark, and the Netherlands. The other seven require a combination of graduate degrees, or a large amount of capital, making them less viable for lean entrepreneurs. They are the UK, Ireland, France, Portugal, Italy, Spain, and Chile. I sincerely hope that the community finds this helpful in their research of where to incorporate. Lastly, thanks to @jtvhk for helping me put this whole thing together and @nizamaniathar for his dev expertise!

This is a nicely organized resource. One note: the comparison table is hard to read on mobile, and I didn’t even realize it was a table at first. Thanks for sharing.

@drewfalkman Thanks! And I agree! I think a grid view for mobile would work better as opposed to a horizontal table. As a temporary fix I added a "scroll sideways to see table" for mobile users but it is certainly less than ideal.

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