Why Miami

Miami is where LatAm innovation meets access to the U.S. market. For founders, that intersection isn't a nice-to-have. It's strategic, and it matters.

A city that became infrastructure

Miami today is infrastructure, not a trend. The activity is real: South Florida startups raised US$4.13B in venture capital in 2025 — up 49% in a single year. Behind that number is a shift in who's here. Funds, family offices, and operators moved in, and they stopped treating Latin America as an exotic bet and started treating it as a legitimate market. When capital and the people who deploy it are physically in the same city as the founders they back, everything moves faster.

Density, not capital

The city isn't trying to become the next Silicon Valley. It's evolving into a position no other U.S. hub can replicate — and the edge isn't capital. Capital moves; it flows wherever the returns are. What can't be copied is the density: capital, talent, and cultural fluency with the region, all in the same place.

That last part is the one people underestimate. A LatAm founder in Miami can pitch, close, and build without translating themselves — same language, same references, same understanding of how business actually gets done across the Americas. That fluency removes friction from exactly the conversations where friction kills deals.

The hub effect

Miami doesn't ask founders to choose between their region and the U.S. market. From here you connect to New York, San Francisco, and Europe without losing your Latin American anchor — shared time zones, direct flights, and proximity to home. For a generation of founders who once assumed the only landing strip was San Francisco, that's a real shift. You can go global without going away.

Why 401 builds here

That distinction defines our decision to build here. We operate at a decisive moment: backing founders early is where an accelerator can actually change an outcome, not just observe one. Operating from Miami shortens the distance between traction and scale — between a founder solving a real, hard problem and that solution reaching the capital and customers that let it grow.

LatAm founders aren't short on problems worth solving, or on the resolve to solve them. Our role is to put them where those solutions meet capital and markets — and Miami is where that happens.

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