FintechPuerto Rico

First BanCorp (FirstBank Puerto Rico)

Fintech · San Juan, PR

San Juan-headquartered bank holding company (NYSE: FBP) for FirstBank Puerto Rico, the island's first savings and loan institution (est. 1948), serving retail, commercial and institutional clients in Puerto Rico, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, and Florida.

Founded

Region

Puerto Rico

Investors

People

About Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico built one of the world's largest pharmaceutical and medical-device manufacturing bases starting in the 1970s, driven by tax incentives that have since changed — but the manufacturing know-how stayed after the incentives did, on an island most people don't think of as U.S. industrial territory at all. It's a genuinely overlooked American industry, not an offshore one.

Region Stats

Total firms 41

VC / investors 1

Companies 37

Schools 3

Known For

Pharma

Medical Devices

Overlooked American Industry