Founders with active US-visa intent — the structure is the signal.

A founder who lives in Berlin and runs a company registered in Delaware has a US-visa problem by construction — no keyword, form-fill or search history required. This cohort finds that structure at scale, splits it into three archetypes, routes each to the visa paths it actually fits, and ships ranked rows with verified contacts. It is our flagship visa dataset: briefed, built, audited and delivered.

1,918
leads delivered top cut
13,926
qualified founders in the pool
100%
email coverage verified-or-empty
132
data fields per lead

shipped 2026-07-15 · MEASURED · Outricher data · re-orderable, deduplicated against prior deliveries

Why they're likely clients. A founder who lives in one country while the operating company is registered in the US carries a US-visa question in the very structure of their career — this cohort is selected on that structure, not on keywords or form-fills. Every row arrives evidence-tagged (registry geography, residence, degree geography) as a propensity signal for an attorney to qualify — never as an eligibility verdict.
Who buys this · and what it replaces

O-1A, E-2, L-1, EB-1A and NIW practices whose growth depends on founders — and who currently wait for founders to find them. The arithmetic is the pitch: a single talent-visa engagement bills in the thousands of dollars, while the entire ranked cohort costs a small fraction of one engagement — and the rows you don't work this quarter stay in your nurture pool with evidence tags already attached.

The three archetypes · route first, score second
F1 · structural

Offshore founder, US entity

Lives outside the US; the operating company is registered inside it. The person already has US business gravity — the visa question is when, not whether. Zero keyword noise: geography and registry data only.

→ O-1A · E-2 · L-1
F2 · structural

US-based immigrant founder

Runs a US company from inside the US, with a foreign undergraduate degree — the marker that filters out US-native founders (most of the raw founder pool drops at this gate). The self-petition demographic.

→ EB-1A · NIW
F3 · declared

Explicit visa intent

The rare founders who state it themselves — "O-1A visa", "NIW" in their own profile. Golden when found, useless as a primary filter: naive keyword matching is ~92% false positives. F3 re-ranks; it never selects.

→ route by declaration
company registry geography person-level country of residence foreign undergraduate degree real-founder title gate (ownership words, small-young-company CEO) company age & headcount declared intent keywords — re-rank only
Sample rows · drawn from the shipped delivery

Twenty real rows from the 1,918-lead delivery, ranked by score. Names, private-company names and contact details are masked on this public page — the full rows, with names and verified emails, ship in the dataset (and a free 10-profile sample is one email away).

PersonRoleCompanyBased inArchetypeVisa routeIntentScoreEmail
Kristoffer O.Founder and CEOPrivate company · est. 2017 (US)Los Angeles Metropolitan AreaF2 · US-based immigrant founderO-1 (self-declared)declared (golden)264k***@hotmail.com
Markus W.Co-Founder / CTOPrivate company (—)Greater New York City AreaF3 · declared intent (golden)NIW (self-declared)declared (golden)186c***@***.com
Jacob H.Co-founder and Board MemberComputer & Network Security · ~596 emp · est. 2013 (US)Berlin, GermanyF1 · offshore founder, US entityO-1A / E-2 / L-1structural252j***@***.io
Angela M.Co-Founder & Head - Growth & StrategyComputer & Network Security · ~141 emp · est. 2014 (US)United KingdomF1 · offshore founder, US entityO-1A / E-2 / L-1structural246a***@***.in
Fred K.Chief Executive OfficerRenewables & Environment · ~72 emp · est. 2012 (US)Minneapolis, MinnesotaF1 · offshore founder, US entityO-1A / E-2 / L-1structural234f***@***.com
Victor M.Co-FounderComputer & Network Security · ~341 emp · est. 2009 (US)Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, GermanyF1 · offshore founder, US entityO-1A / E-2 / L-1structural234v***@***.com
Christos A.Co-founder, COOBiotechnology · ~7 emp · est. 2013 (US)GreeceF1 · offshore founder, US entityO-1A / E-2 / L-1structural222c***@***.com
Deepa G.FounderRenewables & Environment · est. 2010 (US)Puducherry, IndiaF1 · offshore founder, US entityO-1A / E-2 / L-1structural204d***@***.org
Dhvanil S.Founder & CEOPrivate company · ~270 emp · est. 2016 (US)Mumbai, Maharashtra, IndiaF1 · offshore founder, US entityO-1A / E-2 / L-1structural194d***@hotmail.com
Manoj A.Co-founderHuman Resources · ~694 emp · est. 2012 (US)Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaF1 · offshore founder, US entityO-1A / E-2 / L-1structural194m***@gmail.com
Luis C.Co-Founder | Vicepresidente y Socio | B2B Advisor EUA, LATAM & EMEAPrivate company · ~821 emp · est. 2012 (US)Mexico City Metropolitan AreaF1 · offshore founder, US entityO-1A / E-2 / L-1structural194l***@***.com
Rama G.CEOPrivate company · ~21 emp · est. 2016 (US)Hoboken, New Jersey, United StatesF2 · US-based immigrant founderEB-1A / NIWdeclared (soft)252r***@gmail.com
Giovanni M.CEO & FounderPrivate company · ~2 emp (US)Spring, Texas, United StatesF2 · US-based immigrant founderEB-1A / NIWdeclared (soft)216g***@***.com
Pascal T.President and CEO/ Member of the Board of DirectorsBiotechnology · ~112 emp · est. 2012 (US)San Francisco Bay AreaF2 · US-based immigrant founderEB-1A / NIWstructural215p***@***.com
Pascal D.Founder and CEOBiotechnology · ~59 emp · est. 2011 (US)Salem, Massachusetts, United StatesF2 · US-based immigrant founderEB-1A / NIWstructural215p***@***.fr
Sarbari G.Founder and Chief Executive OfficerComputer & Network Security · ~215 emp · est. 2001 (US)Reston, Virginia, United StatesF2 · US-based immigrant founderEB-1A / NIWstructural210s***@***.com
Pukar H.Founder / CEOPrivate company · ~207 emp · est. 2020 (US)San Francisco, California, United StatesF2 · US-based immigrant founderEB-1A / NIWdeclared (soft)205p***@***.me
Hannu R.Co-Founder and CEOBiotechnology · ~17 emp · est. 2013 (US)Oakland, California, United StatesF2 · US-based immigrant founderEB-1A / NIWstructural205h***@***.com
Gilmore O.President and CEOBiotechnology · ~182 emp · est. 2013 (US)Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesF2 · US-based immigrant founderEB-1A / NIWstructural205g***@***.com
Walden R.Chief Executive OfficerSemiconductors · ~288 emp (US)Dallas, Texas, United StatesF2 · US-based immigrant founderEB-1A / NIWstructural205w***@***.com

Rows are real and drawn from the shipped delivery; several profiles declare a visa route in their own self-written public headlines. Masking on this page: surname reduced to an initial, private-company names replaced with industry · size · founding year, email domains hidden except free providers. Nothing here is generated or blended.

Why this works · the measured argument

Keyword scraping was tested and rejected: ~92% of naive visa-keyword matches were false positives ("O-1" inside "0-to-1 product", "NIW" inside a surname, "visa sponsorship" posted by employers offering it). The shipped pipeline leads with structure — registry geography, residence, degree geography, a real-founder title gate — and uses declarations only to re-rank. Every drop between 13,926 qualified and 1,918 shipped is named in the delivery funnel; hired-CEO noise and immigration-services providers are filtered out and flagged separately.

The honesty boundary

Archetypes are propensity structures, not adjudications. We cannot see citizenship, current visa status or ownership stakes — and we say so in the dataset README. Your intake covers what data cannot; the rows arrive pre-evidenced so that conversation starts warm.

The cohort in numbers · measured on the shipped set

All figures below are measured on the 1,918 delivered rows — not estimates, not projections. This is what a practice actually receives.

Archetype split · which book of business this feeds
F2 · US-based immigrant founder1,000
F1 · offshore founder, US entity916
F3 · declared intent2

Reading: F2 rows feed the EB-1A / NIW self-petition book; F1 rows feed O-1A / E-2 / L-1. The near-empty F3 bucket is the point — declared intent barely exists, which is why practices that wait for it starve.

Where the founders live
United States1,001
Offshore · 100+ countries917
IN
130
CA
69
GB
63
IL
51
AU
40

Top offshore countries of residence — counted within the 917 offshore rows.

What they run · company size
11–50 employees671
1–10 employees451
51–200 employees449
200+ employees242
size unknown105

Median company: 28 employees — real operating businesses, not shells. 1,908 of 1,918 companies are US-registered entities.

Founder seniority · years of career
median 23 yrs
98823+ years
80015–22 years
1278–14 years
3under 8 years

Median 23 years of experience across a median 17 recorded positions — the seniority tier where "sustained acclaim" arguments are built, not hoped for.

The education arc · foreign schools on record
Cambridge27
Oxford25
London Business School22
McGill17
Tel Aviv University15
University of Toronto15
Waterloo15
Technion14
IIT Bombay13

1,903 of 1,918 rows carry a foreign education record; the list above counts non-US institutions only. Name-brand arcs — Oxbridge, IIT, Technion, McGill — arrive pre-tagged for the petition narrative.

Contactability · as shipped, no extra spend
1,918
verified personal email — of 1,918 rows
verified on every row
510
phone number on the row
126
GitHub handle on file

Every one of the 1,918 rows ships with a verified personal email — the delivery gate was verified-or-excluded. Company founding years cluster 2009–2020 (842 founded 2016–2020, 820 earlier): mature companies whose founders can afford counsel.

Composite portrait · who sits in these rows
Composite portrait
The offshore founder
Lives outside the US; the operating company is US-registered — a visa question by construction.

Career

  • 23 years — median career length
  • Founder title held in the current position
  • Foreign-education arc on the record

Company

  • 28 employees — median company size
  • An operating business, not a shell
  • US-registered entity — 1,908 of 1,918 in the cohort

Reach

  • Verified email on every row
  • 510 phone numbers across the cohort
  • 126 GitHub handles across the cohort
917 offshoretop geos IN · CA · GB · IL · AU
Composite portrait — assembled from cohort medians and modes; not a real individual.
Get this dataset

Everything above ships as a file you own — and a free 10-profile sample matched to your practice comes first.

A full delivery contains:

  • leads.xlsx — every field for all rows, ranked; segment sheets per archetype and route
  • leads.csv / leads.jsonl — the same data for CRM import and programmatic use
  • segments/ — ready cuts: per route, per geography, contact-ready shortlists
  • README — field guide, scoring logic, the full funnel with named drop reasons

Each row is the complete data object — career, education, evidence, contacts, scoring. See what one contact looks like, field by field →

AI outreach agents can draft the first touch straight from these fields — referenced to each person's actual career, so the mail lands with a real person, not a template.

Order this cohort — scoped to your practice.

Re-runs are deduplicated against everything previously delivered to you and can be narrowed by geography, industry or company stage. Datasets $0.19–0.42 per contact; managed outreach and API delivery available.

Or just write — a consultation is free: we will map this cohort to your practice.

Outricher · Visa Talent Engine · shipped 2026-07-15 · MEASURED · Outricher data