Unshackled invests in teams with immigrant founders at the earliest stage (pre-seed). Our creative funding model allows us to invest at the ground floor in the top global entrepreneurial talent our country attracts (i.e., the top 0.02% of world population selected by US schools and corporations). Unshackled invests by hiring the founding teams, and providing them the legal structure, capital, and network of top-tier investors, to be successful. This model is specially designed to invest in an untapped pool of startups — where one or more founders are immigrants on work-visas (H1-B, F1, TN, etc.). Current portfolio includes founders born in 6 continents, who graduated from schools including IIT, MIT, Harvard, and Waterloo, and are working on transforming technologies in enterprise Saas, infrastructure, marketplaces, robotics, and consumer verticals. Unshackled Fund I is backed by 80 influential investors, including First Round, Jerry Yang, Joe Lonsdale, Brad Feld, Naval Ravikant, Ellen Levy, Jeff Bussgang, Bloomberg Beta and many others.

All deals after inception of syndicate raising more than $150K in pre-seed round will be shared.