Unshackled Ventures
Unshackled Ventures, Alexis Maciel, Manan MehtaYour update on all things Unshackled VC and beyond.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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Last Week in Immigration, Venture & Entrepreneurship — Aug 14-21, 2026
The biggest American success stories keep being written by people who weren't born here, and this week three of them landed growth rounds within 72 hours of each other. Every Friday, we keep you in the loop on who's getting funded and the r...
Introducing Elveo (f/k/a Lynk)
Lynk Global has been a portfolio company of ours since 2018. On August 14th, Lynk and Omnispace closed their merger. Two days later, the combined company introduced itself to the world as Elveo Mobile — a direct-to-device satellite operator...
The High Risk, High Reward Model of Backing Immigrant Founders | Tech Crunch Build Mode
Our founding partner, Manan Mehta, recently joined Isabelle Johannesen on TechCrunch’s Build Mode to talk about something we’ve spent over a decade thinking about at Unshackled: how do you find and back exceptional founders before the rest...
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We back the top 1% of technical immigrant entrepreneurs, at day zero.
True day zero is earlier than most funds are comfortable with. Pre-product. Pre-revenue. Sometimes before you’ve left the job that holds...
Last Week in Immigration, Venture & Entrepreneurship — Week of July 27, 2026
The most consequential moves in American enterprise keep coming from founders who arrived with a visa and a problem they understood better than anyone born here. Last week brought two major funding announcements in AI infrastructure and sup...
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