{"id":6141,"date":"2017-03-11T23:57:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T16:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsincerity.us\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2023-05-19T05:55:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T05:55:22","slug":"hacking-immigration-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kilde.org\/new-sincerity\/hacking-immigration-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacking Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Co-Founders Manan Mehta and Nitin Pachisia started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unshackledvc.com\/\">Unshackled<\/a> with one goal in mind: to help really good entrepreneurial ideas flourish, uninhibited by borders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Unshackled Ventures we know innovation and new ideas aren\u2019t constrained by geography. It\u2019s important to seek out and foster that entrepreneurial spirit, wherever it is,\u201d says Manan.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing inspiration from personal experience\u2013\u2013Nitin is an immigrant himself\u2013\u2013and from their time in the tech-world, the two realized that, due to the sticky immigration system, many brilliant ideas were fizzling out before they even had a real chance to root.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Inclusion and diversity are fuel for innovation. Immigrants and veterans working together showcase strong complementary skills <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VetCon2017?src=hash\">#VetCon2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Unshackled Ventures (@UnshackledUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UnshackledUS\/status\/845032416767066116\">March 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unshackled Ventures actually has a very market-based platform. They help foreign-born entrepreneurs continue their US-based biz ideas by giving them funding and visa sponsorships in exchange for equity. Not only do they dish out the dough, but they also provide a lot of resources, like legal and design help, and working spaces. A win-win if you ask us.<\/p>\n<p>Their strategy is really working. Now, Unshackled has more than 80 investors, including hotshots like Laurene Powell Jobs.<\/p>\n<p>She says, \u201cWhile our national dialogue around immigrants deteriorates, Unshackled\u2019s model showcases the kinds of conversations that we ought to be having\u2013conversations about removing impediments to opportunity, investing in extraordinary intellectual capital and spurring innovations that will benefit all of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A pretty good counter-narrative to the banter about immigrants stealing our jobs, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-Founders Manan Mehta and Nitin Pachisia started Unshackled with one goal in mind: to help really good entrepreneurial ideas flourish, uninhibited by borders. \u201cAt Unshackled Ventures we know innovation and new ideas aren\u2019t constrained by geography. It\u2019s important to seek out and foster that entrepreneurial spirit, wherever it is,\u201d says Manan. Drawing inspiration from personal experience\u2013\u2013Nitin is an immigrant himself\u2013\u2013and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[89,127,173,437,136,438,157,158,95,439,440],"class_list":["post-6141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beasts","category-new-paths","tag-conscious-capitalism","tag-diversity","tag-immigration","tag-immigration-problems","tag-inclusion","tag-laurene-powell-jobs","tag-social-business","tag-social-enterprise","tag-start-up","tag-unshackled-ventures","tag-workforce"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hacking Immigration - New Sincerity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kilde.org\/new-sincerity\/hacking-immigration-problems\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hacking Immigration - New Sincerity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Co-Founders Manan Mehta and Nitin Pachisia started Unshackled with one goal in mind: to help really good entrepreneurial ideas flourish, uninhibited by borders. \u201cAt Unshackled Ventures we know innovation and new ideas aren\u2019t constrained by geography. 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