Unshackled Ventures- VC firm investing in immigrant entrepreneurs

Manan Mehta is the founding partner of Unshackled ventures. We cover the thesis behind funding immigrant entrepreneurs- more specifically about their process for funding startups and how they help them with their visa issues. - A high conviction "friends and family" investor that removes immigration hurdles & gives you a network to succeed faster. -- Connecting the unconnected and supporting the startups with capital and customers - Quick decision process and communication with founders even if they decide not to invest. - Focus on customer (entrepreneur) service - Questions they try to look for answers- Why you? Why now? Why this? - Looking for an adversity muscle that gives them confidence that an entrepreneur can persist and win - Incumbent industry insiders are mostly biased about new technologies. Founders & investors need to steer through such experts and persist. - 170 immigration filings across 13 immigration categories (OPT to Green card filings) - Things they consider: Fastest pathway for an entrepreneur to work and as long as they want. - Unshackled takes care of the immigration filings at no cost to the founders- it is an investment they make in them. - For every dollar they invested, their portfolio companies raised 27x on average - Pre-seed is founder-problem fit; seed is problem-market fit; Series A is Product-market fit and beyond that is go-to-market fit - We underwrite people and not businesses - Learn about the Unshackled university fellowship program; EIR/Round table program - Application for University Venture Fellows Program- https://airtable.com/shrlrPthK3IwY1NDC