SF #TechWeek - Unshackled Supper Club
You are cordially invited to an Unshackled Ventures dinner in SF hosted by Unshackled founders and Venture Partners, Amélie Vavrovsky, Purva Gupta, and Brendan Playford & Syndesus. We are excited to bring an intimate and excellent group of fellow immigrant founders building in AI together!
Unshackled Supper Club is a curated private dinner with the goal of building meaningful and powerful relationships. And, of course, share a great meal together.
A bit about the hosts:
Unshackled Ventures is the only early-stage venture capital fund that enables unrecognized and excluded immigrant founders to start companies in the U.S. Since its founding in 2014, Unshackled has proven its thesis that investing and supporting this population drives strong investment returns across key industries, including American infrastructure, generative AI, healthcare, space, and enterprise SaaS. To date, the firm has invested in 80 companies and over 200 entrepreneurs.
Unshackled Founders/Venture Partners:
►Amélie Vavrovsky is the Founder and CEO of Formally, a platform designed to simplify legal work, with a current focus on US immigration. At the heart of Formally is the mission to “make paperwork suck less” and streamline legal processes through easy-to-use design, secure portable data, and responsible AI. This venture is personal for Amélie; inspired by her own journey through US immigration, she's determined to make law accessible and delightful.
►Purva Gupta is the Co-founder & CEO of Lily AI, a retail technology company empowering retailers and brands by bridging the gap between merchant-speak and customer-speak. Leveraging a proprietary suite of AI purpose-built for retail, Lily AI enhances shopping experiences by injecting consumer-centric language throughout the entire retail value chain.
►Brendan Playford Co-founded Masa with a vision to bring open and accessible access to data and data infrastructure in the age of AI. With over 100 partners including Polygon, zkSync, and over 43,000 nodes and 1.3 million users on the network, Masa is the leading data provider for the new wave of decentralized AI startups that are growing exponentially. Masa is in the process of going public with its token through CoinList and fully sold out a 6x oversubscribed public sale of $8.75M in 32 mins in March.
A special thank you to our sponsor of the evening, Marc Pavlopoulos, Founder of Syndesus!
Syndesus is a cross border solution provider that connects Canadian AI talent and tech talent to US startups and employs them remotely in Canada. Additionally, with our expertise in Canadian immigration and global mobility, we secure the best of tech talent from around the world and bring them to Canada to provide long term technical services to companies in North America.
Marc spent 20+ years in Silicon Valley, building seven VC-backed tech startups in sales. After earning an MBA from an Ivey school of business and living in Canada for 5 years, he founded Syndesus in 2014. Syndesus aids US companies with Canadian tech recruiting, Employer of Record services, HR and Payroll outsourcing. Additionally he also found a solution to help Immigrant tech workers with US immigration issues move to Canada. Marc, a son of an immigrant, is dedicated to supporting skilled immigrants in North America's tech ecosystem.
A note to prospective guests:
Admitted guests will be notified via event approval and calendar invite. Invites are non-transferable. No +1s allowed as space is limited in size and dinners are curated. Additional correspondence will be sent leading up to the evening.
This event is a part of #TechWeek - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem