Immigrant Founders 🤝 NY Programs & Incentives
This conversation will focus on public and private resources available to entrepreneurs (specially immigrant entrepreneurs) building in NY. You'll hear about tax incentives, investments, immigration support, investor access, and many other resources and programs geared towards helping entrepreneurs advance their businesses.
Panelists:
Moderator: Marc Palvopoulos:
1) Amarildo Gjondrekaj: Founder of Adro, a fintech startup for international students. Adro is beneficiary of some of the NY state resources and will share his experience working with NY state agencies.
2) Eliza Edge: Director at Hudson Valley Venture Hub, one of NY state innovation hot spots, and leader of programs supporting entrepreneurs.
3) Nitin Pachisia: Founder of Unshackled Ventures, enabling immigrant founders with immigration, capital and community.
Sponsor: Syndesus is a Canadian EOR. They partner with US startups & high growth companies to employ their tech talent in Canada. They also sponsor Canadian work visas for their immigrant tech workers who lose the H-1B lottery and have expiring OPT, and for the global immigrant tech workers that they cannot get into the US.