Unshackled Ventures Has $20m to Invest Exclusively in Immigrant Founders
Friday, May 10, 2019
By Kate Clark
Unshackled Ventures isn’t like other venture capital funds.
The firm invests in immigrant founders and helps them secure visas so they can ditch their corporate job and launch the startup of their dreams. Today, Unshackled is announcing its sophomore fund of $20 million, topping its debut effort by $15.5 million.
“The point is to take the burden off of founders because they are not immigration experts, they are experts at building satellites or extracting protein from plants,” Unshackled founding partner Nitin Pachisia told TechCrunch. “These are people that if you go to a workspace, you’ll see them show up on nights and weekends because they want to build something but they can’t.”
Photo courtesy of Elias Castillo.
Source: TechCrunch (link opens in a new window)
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