On episode 69 we have Danish Soomro, Founder and CEO of Visadb.io. - a platform that connects digital nomads and companies with visa and other experts around the world. Pulled directly from the company’s website, “Visadb.io makes immigration & cross-border business simple for global companies and citizens.” Visadb.io offers online access to verified immigration, tax and company formation experts from over 100 countries. Before starting visadb.io, Danish already had an entrepreneurial streak - he built Digital Nomads Nation, an online community of over 148,000 digital nomads, and videoHIRE ..read more

We’re back with episode 68 of the GMI Rocket Show with Manpreet Dhami, Managing Director of Immigration Services at Newland Chase, who also oversees their immigration technology product, ImmiSMART. Manpreet started her career in the immigration space nearly two decades ago at a corporate immigration company called Emigra (which was actually acquired by CIBT in 2021). She then went on to work at a smaller relocation company called Packimpex for a few years and then global mobility giant BGRS before coming back to Newland Chase in 2021, in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic. As one of the ..read more

On episode 67 of the GMI Rocket Show, we’re talking to Priyank Singh, co-founder of Stilt, a FinTech startup that provides loans and banking services to immigrants and other underbanked communities. Priyank first came to the US as an F-1 student in 2009 to study computer science at Columbia University. After graduating, he found a job and obtained his H-1B visa. The process wasn’t easy, and most of all, having no family or support system here, everyday things were, at times, more challenging - like paying for rent, getting a car, etc. Priyank actually met his eventual co-founder, Rohit Mittal ..read more

On episode 66 of the GMI Rocket Show, we’re talking to our first-ever VC guest: Manan Mehta, Founding Partner of Unshackled Ventures, a VC firm that invests in immigrant founders! What’s special about Unshackled Ventures is their commitment to directly supporting immigrant startup founders: “Unshackled Ventures sponsors visas and provides full immigration support. We accelerate your immigration journey so you can focus on building your business.” As for Manan, he’s a first generation American who grew up in an immigrant household. He attended UCLA, worked in banking, and then joined a startup ..read more

On episode 64 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re exploring how technology can support international students and higher ed institutions with Nitin Agrawal, Co-Founder & CEO of Interstride! Interstride is a platform that helps international students through their journey, with everything from immigration to networking to finding a job to connecting with other students. Who uses Interstride? Both international students directly as well as university career centers and international student and scholar offices. The company started in 2018 and already they support over 150 institutions, including U ..read more

For episode 63 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re back in the US and speaking to seasoned immigration lawyer and immigration tech entrepreneur Jon Velie, CEO of OnlineVisas. Jon has been practicing immigration law for almost 30 years, but he’s also a tech innovator. Having incorporated technology into his law firm practice, Jon eventually launched OnlineVisas, “an ancillary law-related services company of the Velie Law Firm” per the company’s website. But Jon isn’t just an immigration lawyer and immigration tech founder - he’s also an online content creator, the author of a book on H-1B visas, a ru ..read more

We’re crossing the Atlantic to Europe for episode 62 of the GMI Rocket show to speak to immigration lawyer-turned-entrepreneur David Cantor, Founder & CEO of Relocate. Relocate bills itself as “the first independent marketplace for Global Migration” and here’s how it works: Relocate has a roster of immigration experts from countries around the world, they create informative, country-specific content for the site, individuals interested in moving to those countries may come across that content, and ultimately reach out to the experts to set up a consultation. David officially launched Reloc ..read more

For episode 60 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re diving into an immigration tech company that helps applicants fill out and submit immigration applications, CitizenPath, with our guest, CEO & Co-founder, Russ Leimer. Russ is actually a serial entrepreneur with a background in sales and marketing. After spending almost a decade in sales and marketing within the electronics and hardware space, first at Hamilton Hallmark, and then at Avnet, Inc., Russ started his entrepreneurial journey around 2000. Russ’s first entrepreneurial experience was buying into and growing a full-service marketing firm ..read more

After a short break, we’re back in action with episode 59 of the GMI Rocket show! Our guest today is joining us from Ireland: Liam Brennan, CEO of Tracker Software Technologies, a business travel compliance company. (I’m going to use the name “Tracker” for short, but don’t confuse it with US-based immigration tech company Tracker Corp, which was recently acquired by Mitratech.) Liam started out in moving, first at a leading London-based courier company and then TNT Express (which was acquired by FedEx in 2016). Then, after a stint at a major telecom company, Liam managed sales and operations t ..read more

For episode 58 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re speaking with an immigration tech founder who is focusing on the needs of immigration practitioners in Latin America - Faith McClure, founder of Enmigri LLC. Enmigri builds apps for immigration lawyers in Latin America to help them serve their clients, which is super exciting because we haven’t really focused on immigration practitioners in Latin America yet. Faith is a transactional and tech attorney by training, with experience negotiating tech and licensing agreements at Staples and teaching law at Fisher College and as a clinical instructor at H ..read more