Diaspora capital, meeting the businesses back home.
1877 Capital is a data company for diaspora capital: a platform that verifies small businesses in remittance-dependent economies and matches them with their diaspora. Information and matchmaking only. Launching in Jamaica.
Remittances built houses. The next decade builds businesses.
Money sent home is large, steady and personal. It pays school fees, doctors' bills and builds houses.
Very little of it reaches small businesses as backing. People abroad are willing, but there is no trusted, verified view of which businesses are ready.
That missing view is the problem we solve, starting from each business's own records.
Remittances to Jamaica in 2025.
Source: Bank of Jamaica
Remittances to low and middle income countries in 2024, more than foreign direct investment and aid combined.
Source: World Bank
Records, grades, interest. Each one feeds the next.
Diaspora platform
Browse verified small businesses, read each grade and the reasons behind it, and register interest.
- Documents and records checked
- Grades with the reasoning shown
- 48 hours to change your mind
Operate
Free software to sell at the register, send invoices, run payroll and keep filings on time, even with no signal.
- Record sales with no signal
- Jamaican payroll and GCT figures prepared
- Your records are yours
Readiness engine
Turns a business's records into an A to F grade with the reasons shown.
- Six weighted factors
- A person reviews before anyone else sees it
- Information only, never advice
Cohort, referral and readiness views for programmes that support businesses.
Choose your way in.
I live abroad and want to back businesses back home
See verified businesses, how ready each one is, and why.
For the diaspora 02 / BusinessesI run a business
Free software to run the day, keep records and get ready to grow.
Operate 03 / PartnersI support businesses through a programme
Cohort, referral and readiness views, shared with consent.
For partners 04 / CompanyI'm interested in 1877 Capital as a company
Company facts, and information for eligible UK investors.
InvestorsWe analyse and match. We never hold, advise or arrange.
No client money
1877 Capital never holds client money. If a diaspora member and a business decide to go further, any transaction is handled by a licensed partner under its own terms.
No advice
Grades are information, not advice, a credit rating or a recommendation. Every grade shows its reasons.
48 hours to change your mind
Every expression of interest has a 48-hour cooling-off period, set by us, during which you can withdraw it.
Your data
Protected under UK and Jamaican data protection law. Registered with the ICO. We never sell personal data.
Starting with Jamaica. Built for any corridor.
Jamaica first because the conditions line up: strong UK, US and Canada corridors, a clear ladder from informal trading to a Tax Compliance Certificate, and open conversations with Jamaican development agencies.
Each new country is a compliance pack and a local partner, not a new product.
Where we are, honestly.
No invented numbers and no borrowed logos. This is what exists today.
- November 2025
Work begins
Product and research work on the diaspora platform, Operate and the readiness engine.
- March 2026
First meetings in Jamaica
First meetings with Jamaican development agencies. Conversations continue; nothing is signed.
- 14 July 2026
1877 Capital Ltd incorporated
Registered in England and Wales, company number 17338653.
- September 2026
Private preview
The diaspora platform, Operate and the partner console, on fictional data, for invited partners and investors.
- Next
Pilot
A first group of Jamaican businesses running on Operate.
See it working.
The private preview runs on fictional data and shows every part of the product.