Welcome back to another episode! In this episode, we chat with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mika Reyes, Co-Founder and CEO of Parallax, a startup that aims to help people send money and get paid from abroad faster and cheaper. She moved to the U. S. to study at Wesleyan University. Prior to starting her own company, she worked in product roles at LinkedIn, Kumu, and Ripcord. Mika is very passionate about broadening access through tech in emerging markets like her home, the Philippines, and the rest of Southeast...

Welcome back to another episode! In this episode, we chat with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Arjun "Arj" Agarwal, Founder and CEO of ⁠Inaam, an Australian impact investing fintech company. He is a TedX speaker and a globally recognised entrepreneur and leader having worked across 3 continents. At 27, Arj is a social impact advocate working to bridge the global gap between capital, young people and entrepreneurship for a better tomorrow. Although he was born in India, Arj spent the majority of his life growing up in...

Welcome to the first episode of Season 2! In this episode, we chat with ⁠⁠⁠Alvaro Morales, Co-Founder and CEO of Orb, a flexible billing engine for modern pricing models and software. Alvaro grew up in Lima, Peru and moved to the US to start his undergraduate education at MIT. Prior to founding Orb, Alvaro was an engineering leader at Asana, where he saw the challenges of pricing, packaging and billing first-hand in a company’s growth journey. He met his co-founder while working at Asana and...

We're back with Season 2 of the show! Get ready to hear even more incredible journeys of immigrant founders and their stories of success, failures, resilience, and everything in between. To stay updated on the latest episodes, please follow Founders Without Borders on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠X, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Welcome to the last episode of Season 1! In this episode, we chat with Minn Kim⁠, Co-Founder of Plymouth⁠, a company whose mission is to advance technological and scientific progress by enabling the world's most talented people to work in the United States. Minn is an ardent supporter of early-stage founders and has previously demonstrated her passion for the same at Ridge Ventures, On Deck, and Bloomberg Beta. Her work has been featured in TechCrunch, and she also served on the emerging...

Welcome back to another episode! In this episode, we chat with Renuka Apte, Co-Founder and CEO of Clockwork,  a company that designs robots that liberates people from everyday mundane tasks with their first robot that helps with manicure. Renuka grew up in Pune, India and moved to the US for her grad school at Georgia Tech. With 13+ years of industry experience, she most recently led infrastructure teams at Dropbox, building a product that impacted 700 million users and was used over 1...

Welcome back to another episode! In this episode, we chat with Michelle Marcelline, Co-Founder of Typedream,  a YC-backed all-in-one no-code creator tool to build your websites, link in bio, forms, blogs, and sell online. After being inspired by the movie, The Social Network, Michelle knew she wanted to move to the US to start her own company someday. After negotiating and convincing her family in Indonesia to let her move to the US, Michelle started college in 2015 and hasn't looked back...

Welcome back to another episode! In this episode, we chat with Dr. Rabia Khan, Founder and CEO of Serna Bio,  a YC-backed biotech company building the world's first map of the druggable transcriptome. She was born and raised in Pakistan, went to school in Canada, and eventually moved to the UK where she started her company. In addition to running Serna Bio, Rabia is a member of the Board of Trustees for the UK Dementia Research Institute, and an advisor to No Label Ventures, a fund investing...

Welcome back to another episode! In this episode, we chat with Julien Denaes, founder of Alpin, which was acquired by CoreView in 2019. He was born and raised in Switzerland and decided to move to the US for his wife's postdoc, when he discovered the world of startups. He jumped in and failed at his first startup despite going through Techstars but then had 2 successful exits building enterprise SaaS all of that while navigating the immigration process. Listen to Julien talk about: -...

Welcome back to another episode! In this episode, we chat with Karthik Puvvada (commonly known as KP), founder of the Build In Public Fellowship. He is a serial entrepreneur, a passionate builder, a podcast host, angel investor and recently joined Utopic Ventures as a Partner. KP talked about how he knew he always wanted to be a founder but had to wait 12 years until he could become one because of immigration constraints. KP had some wise words of wisdom to share about: - belief...

We're kicking off season 1 with Nitin Pachisia, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Unshackled Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests exclusively in immigrant founders. Nitin grew up in India and moved to the US for work. After 5 years of working at Deloitte, he moved on to work at a small startup called Kno where he met his future co-founder, Manan Mehta. After leaving Kno to start his own company, he was faced with the challenges of navigating immigration while trying to build his...

Welcome to Founders Without Borders, a podcast where our host, Harshita Girase, dives deep into the journeys and stories of immigrant founders building generational businesses. To stay updated on future guests and episodes, follow us @foundersglobal on Instagram, Linkedin, and Twitter.