Nitin Pachisia

Having been an immigrant himself, he understands the problems faced by many immigrant startup founders and hence he founded Unshackled.

Nitin Pachisia has the credit of being the founding partner of Unshackled Ventures, the only early-stage venture capital fund designed specifically for immigrant-founded startups in the US. The fund leads investments at the earliest stages, often pre-product, working alongside founders from day 0. Besides investing capital, Unshackled provides complete immigration solution to portfolio founders, including employment and visa sponsorship. Before starting Unshackled Ventures, Nitin founded an experiential e-commerce company, ran finance and strategy for ed-tech startup Kno (acquired by Intel) that raised over $90M of funding from top VCs, and worked at Deloitte, focusing on tech startups and helping them with growth, exits, and strategic initiatives.

Nitin has appeared on NBC, NPR, CCTV, has been featured in various publications including Forbes, WSJ, Financial Times, Techcrunch, CNN, and has been an op-ed contributor in the Huffington Post and ReCode. Nitin is actively engaged as a mentor or otherwise at Stanford University, Babson, Alchemist Accelerator, GTWY, Founder Institute, among others.

Being an immigrant himself and having founded startups while on a visa in the US, Nitin understands the venture resources immigrant founders need, besides capital. He is focused on making sure that immigrant founders are not slowed down by immigration in their pursuit of building companies and creating jobs in America.