Giving Migrant Entrepreneurs a Boost in Germany's Tech Scene with Laila Zohaib

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Laila is a Startup Coach from Stuttgart, who wants to create a safe space for migrant founders in Germany through the community empowerment project ‘The Migrant Accelerator’. She loves to talk about lived allyship and inclusion for investors and corporates.

She is also the host of The Migrant Accelerator Podcast.

TMA sounds like a fun place to be, it’s full of founders from: Thailand, Uganda, Russia, Palestine, India, Ukraine, Pakistan and even a few Americans!

In our conversation we discussed:

• How her bachelor thesis formed the basis of The Migrant Accelerator.
• What The Migrant Accelerator is and how it helps
• The history of migrant entrepreneurship in Germany
• The availability of grants and non-VC sources of funding that aren’t widely known about
• The opportunities (and challenges) to founding a startup in Germany
• ‘Passport privilege’ and the the difference between the terms migrant, immigrant and expat
• Balancing motherhood (of a toddler!) and business leadership

You can find this episode and all episodes as well as show notes for each at www.eleanormayrhofer.com/podcast
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Chapters

1. Giving Migrant Entrepreneurs a Boost in Germany's Tech Scene with Laila Zohaib (00:00:00)

2. Migrant Accelerator (00:00:03)

3. Tech Accelerator for Underrepresented Founders (00:07:07)

4. Business Opportunities for Non-German Startups (00:17:48)

5. Immigrants vs. Expats and Passport Privilege (00:26:21)