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S UPERWOMAN IS AN I MMIGRANT KAJAL SANGHRAJKA Churchill Fellow 2017-18 @kajalnyclon

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To produce strong economic growth in a country with a shrinking population is close to impossible…in only 3 of 698 cases did a country with a shrinking population sustain a GDP growth rate of 6% or more. Ruchir Sharma, The Rise and Fall of Nations 3

I SENBERG M ATRIX Finance Policy ENTREPRENEURSHIP ECOSYSTEM Markets Culture DOMAINS Human Supports capital 4

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01 02 03 ….are you paying …are you leveraging ...is your city’s enough attention to pools of “untapped” culture a superpower international student immigrant or kryptonite? entrepreneurs? entrepreneurial talent? 6

A viable startup visa could generate $70– 240B in economic growth and spur the creation of 500,000 to 1,300,000 new jobs over a decade at scale Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurial Education 7

G LOBAL EIR “Helping Immigrant Founders create American Jobs” Grow your Business 6-18 Months Extraordinary University Talent Visa Partnership Green Card Mentor Students 8

If they want me here, I would love to be here because I can learn a lot….But if it's going to be that hard for me, then I'm better off just going back to India and starting a company. Kunal Bahl 9

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01 02 03 ….are you paying …are you leveraging ...is your city’s culture a enough attention to pools of “untapped” superpower or international student immigrant kryptonite? entrepreneurs? entrepreneurial talent? 11

E XPERIENCED E MPLOYEE TO E NTREPRENEUR MyMind Krystian Fikert Founder, MyMind 12

C OMPETITIVE S TART F UND FOR E XPERIENCED P ROFESSIONALS Enterprise Ireland 13

E XPAT S POUSES I NITIATIVE “Turning International Talent into a local strength” 14

01 02 03 ….are you paying …are you leveraging ...is your city’s enough attention to pools of “untapped” culture a international student immigrant superpower or entrepreneurs? entrepreneurial talent? kryptonite? 15

E COSYSTEM L IFECYCLE M ODEL 16 Source: Start up Genome Report 2017

P ROFESSIONAL I MMIGRANT NETWORKS Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council Anna Maramba Founder AV Communications 17

C HAMBER OF MULTICULTURAL ENTERPRISE Helsinki Chamber of Commerce 18

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01 02 03 ….are you paying …are you leveraging ...is your city’s enough attention to pools of “untapped” culture a international student immigrant superpower or entrepreneurs? entrepreneurial talent? kryptonite? 20

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