High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Startup Visa is a proposed amendment to the U.S. immigration law to create a visa category for foreign entrepreneurs who have raised capital from qualified American investors. It aims at addressing the absence of a visa category for entrepreneurs raising outside funding. It is currently denominated in congress as the Startup Visa Act of 2011, as introduced on March 14, 2011. The Startup Visa Act has bi-partisan support.