? For Episode 90 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re talking to a fellow immigration lawyer-turned-tech entrepreneur (though he still practices law!), Mikhail Arsentiev, founder of Skylex! Skylex is a mobile and web app that helps immediately connect individuals with immigration lawyers 24/7. It started as a specialized chat platform (with a WhatsApp feel to it) for Mikhail and his immigration law firm, but he realized it was something others could use as well. Since launching, Skylex has expanded to become a kind of CRM, consult booking platform and, most recently, with a coworking space offerin ..read more

? On episode 89 of the GMI Rocket show, I’m speaking with an immigration tech founder who was let go while on an H-1B visa and launched a startup in response to help others avoid that same fate, Atal Agarwal, Founder of Immigrant First. Originally from India where he received an engineering degree from one of the prestigious IIT schools, Atal came to the US and was on a J-1 visa, F-1 visa and eventually an H-1B visa, worked as a software engineer, and even got a master’s at UC Santa Barbara. His career was going swimmingly until, in 2022, he found himself part of a layoff - his H-1B-sponsore ..read more

?Generative AI is the way of the future, which is why, for episode 87 of the GMI Rocket show, I’m really excited to have a conversation with Antuan Vazquez, CEO and co-founder of DraftyAI! DraftyAI, which is a fairly young immigration tech startup, is focused on using generative AI to help immigration attorneys draft legal briefs, cover letters and other text-heavy documents in minutes. Co-founded alongside immigration attorney Nadine Navarro, who is a long-time personal friend of Antuan, DraftyAI is the kind of tool that actually saves immigration attorneys multiple hours per case by drafting ..read more

Happy 2024 everyone! It's been quite some time since we have been “off air.” However, I’m incredibly excited to be BACK with the new episodes of GMI Rocket show. We’re jumping right in with episode 86 with Evren Ay, Founder of translation startup MotaWord. MotaWord is a super tech-savvy certified translation company that provides immigration translation and notarization services, website translation (which is great for small immigration firms that want their sites to be in several languages), and more. Evren is originally from Turkey, spent a lot of his youth in France, and now lives in New Yo ..read more

On episode 84 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re exploring the world of remote work with a startup aptly named Work From Anywhere, and their co-founder and CEO, John Lee! As remote work becomes more common, and not just from home but from the Italian coast, the Austrian Alps or a wine bar in Portugal, one major issue always comes up: tax & compliance. That’s where Work From Anywhere comes in. They leverage a proprietary algorithm and a network of tax consultants to help companies implement the right remote work model, accounting for risks and considering multiple employment options including se ..read more

On episode 83 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re diving into a fast-growing global mobility tech platform called Centuro Global with CEO Zain Ali! In a nutshell, Centuro Global provides companies looking to start or continue to expand internationally with the tech and resources to manage the process as well as partners and providers around the world to help them get there. As for Zain, he started his career as a corporate and litigation attorney, first at the international law firm of Bird & Bird and then in-house representing UK record labels and promoting UK music internationally. In 2018, Za ..read more

On Episode 81 of the GMI Rocket show, I’m honored to be speaking with serial entrepreneur Bruce Mennell, the CEO and Founder of Aora, which has codified the complete body of British nationality law. Bruce, an engineer by trade, worked in the financial industry and eventually becoming a head of technology at Deutsche Bank. He broke off in 1997 to launch his own company, Beauchamp Financial Technology Limited, a trading and portfolio management software company that was eventually acquired in 2005. In 2008, Bruce left once again, starting another company aimed at legal expert systems, ended up f ..read more

On Episode 80 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re exploring how Paul Bennett, CEO and Co-founder of relocation tech platform Perchpeek, are changing the game for relocating employees around the world! Paul studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics and Oxford, and after finishing school went traveling around the world. As he accepted a job at Amazon back home in London, he was dealing with the process of relocating back home - he realized how difficult it was and that there had to be a better way. That’s how the idea for Perchpeek was born. Paul launched Perchpeek in 2018, went through a few pivots ..read more

On Episode 79 of the GMI Rocket show, I’m really excited to talk to the co-founder of an early stage digital nomad visa tech startup: Tim Marting, co-founder and COO of Citizen Remote! After graduating from Kansas State University and working for two years in real estate, Tim, who is originally from Kansas City, Missouri, decided to travel and see the world. This profoundly changed him - Tim went from the UK to Indonesia to Australia to Italy to Spain, and decided that travel and migration was going to be his life. After applying for various visas and meeting people from around the world, he t ..read more

On Episode 78 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re diving into a tech solution for Canadian university international centers with Ganesh Neelanjanmath, CTO and Founder of iCent App. Believe it or not, Ganesh actually started his tech career in India at INSZoom, which was founded by Umesh Vaidyamath (who was also a guest on this show!) and is still one of the leading immigration case management platforms today. After INSZoom, Ganesh held a few more tech jobs and eventually decided to go back to school - he enrolled in Sheridan College in Ontario, in a graduate project management program. Around this t ..read more