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Unshackled Ventures

Unshackled Ventures

A microventure capital firm in California that focuses on retaining foreign talent in the U.S.

Unshackled Ventures is a microventure capital firm in California that focuses on retaining foreign talent in the U.S. Founded 2015 in Palo Alto, California, United States by Manan Mehta and Nitin Pachisia, it invests in early stage ventures and seed rounds. Its portfolio companies include Lily AI, Pngme, Plutoshift, Career Karma, Pod Foods Co, Pilleve, SOTE, and Acciyo, Lynk Global, Inc. (formerly Ubiquitilink). As of February 2020, Unshackled Ventures has made 27 investments. Their most recent investment was on January 9, 2020, when Lily AI raised $12.5M. Unshackled Ventures has had one exit, which was Immediately. The company has raised three funds, their latest being Sophomore Fund. This fund was announced on May 2, 2019 and raised a total of $20M.

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Marlize van Romburgh
May 12, 2021
Crunchbase News
Sote co-founders Meka Este-McDonald and Felix Orwa--one, a Stanford-educated African-American, the other, a Kenyan who initially came to the U.S. to train to be a pilot--connected over a shared mission to build a business that could have far-reaching impact for Africa.
Gené Teare
March 3, 2021
Crunchbase News
Maria Salamanca, a former refugee who came to the U.S. from Colombia at 6 years old, has been promoted to partner at Unshackled Ventures, a firm that invests exclusively in immigrant founders coming to the U.S. She joins a very small group of Latinx female partners at U.S.-based venture firms.

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