Founders Without Borders Harshita Girase

Welcome back to another episode! In this episode, we chat with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mika Reyes, Co-Founder and CEO of Parallax, a startup that aims to help people send money and get paid from abroad faster and cheaper. She moved to the U. S. to study at Wesleyan University. Prior to starting her own company, she worked in product roles at LinkedIn, Kumu, and Ripcord. Mika is very passionate about broadening access through tech in emerging markets like her home, the Philippines, and the rest of Southeast Asia. She currently lives in New York City and is an avid dancer.



Mika talks about:

- growing up in the Philippines

- navigating culture shock after she moved to the US for college

- why she likes to write and vlog her journey in tech

- what led to her leaving a comfortable job to start her own company



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Welcome back to another episode! In this episode, we chat with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Arjun "Arj" Agarwal, Founder and CEO of ⁠Inaam, an Australian impact investing fintech company. He is a TedX speaker and a globally recognised entrepreneur and leader having worked across 3 continents. At 27, Arj is a social impact advocate working to bridge the global gap between capital, young people and entrepreneurship for a better tomorrow. Although he was born in India, Arj spent the majority of his life growing up in South Africa before relocating to Melbourne, Australia where he currently lives.



Listen to Arj talk about:

- what growing up as part of the Born Free Generation in South Africa was like

- where he gets his "dabbler" personality trait from

- how the loss of his father influenced his decision to start Inaam

- his childhood experiences that nurtured his interest in creating an impact



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Welcome to the first episode of Season 2! In this episode, we chat with ⁠⁠⁠Alvaro Morales, Co-Founder and CEO of Orb, a flexible billing engine for modern pricing models and software. Alvaro grew up in Lima, Peru and moved to the US to start his undergraduate education at MIT. Prior to founding Orb, Alvaro was an engineering leader at Asana, where he saw the challenges of pricing, packaging and billing first-hand in a company’s growth journey. He met his co-founder while working at Asana and decided to team up to build Orb about 3 years ago.

Alvaro candidly talks about:

- the culture shocks he had to adapt to when he first moved to the US

- how he met his co-founder and the early days of Orb

- viewing rejections or no's as learnings

- what to look for when building out the founding team of a company

- how he stays connected to his Peruvian roots while being in the US



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We're back with Season 2 of the show! Get ready to hear even more incredible journeys of immigrant founders and their stories of success, failures, resilience, and everything in between.

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Welcome to the last episode of Season 1! In this episode, we chat with Minn Kim⁠, Co-Founder of Plymouth⁠, a company whose mission is to advance technological and scientific progress by enabling the world's most talented people to work in the United States. Minn is an ardent supporter of early-stage founders and has previously demonstrated her passion for the same at Ridge Ventures, On Deck, and Bloomberg Beta. Her work has been featured in TechCrunch, and she also served on the emerging Venture Capital Association board.



Minn candidly shares about:

- her family's journey moving to the US when she was 10

- her initial struggles trying to find a job at a startup

- how being a child of the internet helped her build a strong network in the startup ecosystem

- how she landed her first role at a startup and how she broke into venture

- three common mistakes that early-stage founders make



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Thank you so much for all your love and support so far! See you in a few weeks with a new season and a new set of guests!

Welcome back to another episode! In this episode, we chat with Renuka Apte, Co-Founder and CEO of Clockwork,  a company that designs robots that liberates people from everyday mundane tasks with their first robot that helps with manicure. Renuka grew up in Pune, India and moved to the US for her grad school at Georgia Tech. With 13+ years of industry experience, she most recently led infrastructure teams at Dropbox, building a product that impacted 700 million users and was used over 1 billion times daily.



Renuka talks about how:

- her parents helped her explore every career when she was younger

- her curiosity led her to explore the world of startups

- Dropbox accelerated her career and helped her find mentors, and early investors in her company

- to validate that you're working on the right problem



Here's a link to Clockwork's WeFunder: https://wefunder.com/clockwork/



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