U-Labs NYC Series: Alejandro Matalama-Ortiz

​U-Labs NYC is an invite-only gathering point for immigrant engineers, scientists, and founders in NYC. Through a curated series of sessions we’re creating high-quality environments for founders to learn, connect, and take their first steps toward building venture-scale companies.

​​​​​In this session, Alejandro Matamala-Ortiz, co-founder of Runway, will discuss building one of the most influential AI companies of the decade. He’ll share his perspective on the immigrant founder journey, translating technical breakthroughs into products, and scaling in a fast-moving industry.

​​​​​About Unshackled Ventures: 

​​​​​​​​​​​Unshackled Ventures is the only early-stage venture capital fund that enables unrecognized and excluded immigrant founders to start companies in the U.S. Since its founding in 2014, Unshackled has proven its thesis that investing and supporting this population drives strong investment returns across key industries, including American infrastructure, generative AI, healthcare, space, and enterprise SaaS. To date, the firm has invested in 80 companies and over 200 entrepreneurs.