by aijanisakova | May 31, 2017 | GEIR program, Innovation, News and Events, Reason for Reform
Graduation is supposed to be a happy time. But many of our universities’ most promising entrepreneurial grads from other parts of the world dread it. Why? Because they have to scramble to get a visa to remain in Massachusetts and work for their newly created...
by william.brah | Oct 30, 2016 | GEIR program, Reason for Reform, Startups
Hasier Larrea – Founder, Ori Systems, and Alessandro Babini – Co-founder, Humon both participated in the 2015 MIT Delta V, an educational accelerator for MIT student entrepreneurs to help them build viable ventures. It is a capstone educational opportunity...
by william.brah | Oct 27, 2016 | GEIR program, Reason for Reform, Startups
(Harvard Business School grad and Global Entrepreneur-inResidence Vivek Gupta (right) at a fintech event at the Venture Development Center with the Boston Globe, and CEOs of Quantopian, Putnam and State Street.) Updated on 12/4/2016 First report on how the program is...
by william.brah | Jul 28, 2016 | Focus On Founders, GEIR program, Reason for Reform, Startups
Ivan Fernandez de Casadevante (back row, 4th from left), co-founder and lead engineer at Ori. The U.S. has no startup visa, and this makes it really hard for talented people to stay in the country after graduation. Ivan is a co-founder of MorphLab, a company that...
by william.brah | Jul 28, 2016 | Focus On Founders, GEIR program, Reason for Reform, Startups
The company’s success is all the more exceptional given the obstacles Ketchell and his team have faced—and continue to face—because of the U.S. immigration system. Thomas Ketchell is the co-founder of HSTRY, a tool that allows students and teachers to create...
by william.brah | Jul 28, 2016 | Focus On Founders, GEIR program, Reason for Reform, Startups
“The current immigration system doesn’t just let this talent get away, if actually forces it to leave the country after graduation. It simply makes no sense.” Bernat Olle hopes to revolutionize healthcare through a technology that allows microbes to be used as...
