Built By: Nilanjana Bhowmik of Converge

­­­­­My story is part of a broader narrative. I was born in India and came to the United States in 1991. I belong to the “brain drain” gene­­ration that was India’s loss and America’s win. Post-independence from Britain in 1947, India built strong educational…

Built By: Rushika Fernandopulle of Iora Health

Rushika Fernandopulle grew up at the intersection of “two different worlds”. Born in Sri Lanka, he arrived in the US at the age of two and a half at a time when immigrants from South Asia accounted of a very small percent of the US population. His…

Built By: Ramses Alcaide of Neurable

Ramses Alcaide’s immigration story began long before he ever set foot on American soil. Striving for a better opportunity to provide for his family, his father moved to the U.S from Mexico when he was just four, with the rest of the family joining a year later.

Built By: Bernat Olle of Vedanta

Bernat Olle came to the U.S to continue his education at MIT, after completing an undergraduate degree…

Built By: Jason Furtado of Shoobx

For Jason Furtado the most exciting thing about entrepreneurship is coming up with solutions to problems that many believe impossible to tackle.

Born in Boston to Portuguese parents, he grew up watching his parents struggle to ensure a better…

Built By: David Cohen-Tanugi of EMBR Labs

David Cohen-Tanugi had no interest in startups before moving to Boston. Born in Paris, to an American mother and a French father, he didn’t envision himself as an entrepreneur until he arrived at MIT.

Built By: Lior Div of Cybereason

One could argue that Lior Div’s entrepreneurial story started long before he founded Cybereason. Growing up in Israel, Lior struggled with dyslexia as a kid and had to find an alternative to the conventional methods of learning how to read. Disregarding the derision of…

Built By: Polina Raygorodskaya of Wanderu

My family moved to the United States when I was four years old. We came here from Russia on a refugee visa, and settled in the Boston area. At the time, people were fleeing from the communist regime and my parents wanted to make sure their kids didn’t grow…

Built By: Hasier Larrea of Ori

Hasier Larrea never intended to become an entrepreneur until he found himself at the helm of Ori, an MIT Media Lab spin-out that creates robotic, flexible furniture for small apartments.

Built By: Mohamad Ali of Carbonite

When Mohamad Ali arrived in the US in 1981, he encountered a whole different world. Having spent the first 11 years of his life in Guyana, where electric power was unreliable and procuring the very basics was a challenge, he found himself at the JFK airport, in front…