Victor Santos struggled to convince investors to invest in his mobile banking company, which provides credit to low-income communities in Brazil.
, and was having trouble raising venture capital for his company.
Santos estimates that he must have pitched"40 or 50" firms at first, and struck out most times. He had the hardest time convincing American tech investors that it was worth investing in an undocumented immigrant with DACA status, leading a company creating financial services for a foreign market with a lower average income.
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