How can I use VC funds for my EB-5 investment?

The foreign investor must use PERSONAL funds to make the investment (savings, loaned funds secured by personal assets, gifts, etc.).

Yes, to qualify for the EB-5 visa the investor would have to be a foreign national. However, your tech startup can combine EB-5 funds with non-EB-5 funds to maximize your job creation (and capital).

As an EB-5 investor, you must possess the EB-5 investment funds (not the new commercial enterprise) and prove lawful source of funds.

Normally the funds must come from the foreign investor's own funds and you must show a lawful source of funds. Under certain limited circumstances those funds can be a gift or a secured loan, although these latter provisions may be significantly restricted in the future. It is not likely that the funds you raised as a venture capitalist would count as your funds as they would belong to third parties.

The fund for an EB-5 can come from anywhere. As far as funding for EB-5 is concerned, the only thing that matters is that the fund be from legal source(s).

The EB-5 investor must be the one with the funds at risk. In order for you to qualify for the EB-5 immigrant investor visa, the requisite capital that is invested in the new commercial enterprise (either $1 million or $500,000 if in a TEA) must be your funds, not the investor's.

Yes, the funds must come from you or be secured by assets other than the project in which you are investing.