Waterloo Startup GALE Joins Y Combinator To Make Hiring Global Talent Easy

Study in Canada: Y Combinator (YC) is one of the biggest startup accelerators in the world. Waterloo startup GALE has secured $500,000 in seed funding from YC.

GALE is a startup founded by three childhood friends from the University of Waterloo. This offers a platform to accelerate the immigration visa process. GALE has received seed funding of $500,000 from Y Combinator (YC), one of the biggest startup accelerators in the world. Apart from the funding, YC also provides other resources like mentorship and alumni talks. With alumni including DoorDash, Airbnb, and Twitch, YC helps young businesses to kickstart.

GALE’s co-founder Haokun Qin, a fourth-year Computational Mathematics student said, “To us, it’s kind of a no-brainer of why wouldn’t we go? The people at YC have done things we wanted to do at the 100th level. We want to learn from them, so we can create a product that people love.” 

Other co-founders include Rahul Gudise and Rishabh Sambare. The three friends founded the business idea after talking with a Canadian immigration lawyer when they noticed that some of the steps in the immigration process such as PDF forms like Permanent Residency applications were very time-consuming and people were hired to enter these data which made the process more expensive.

“The problem with interfacing with an immigration lawyer is that communication often occurs through archaic means such as email and Word documents, which results in a lot of back and forth for basic pieces of information. This inefficiency often delays cases from being processed. Immigration law impacts a lot of people, yet technology hasn't touched it in the last 20 years," Qin explains.

About Waterloo Startup GALE

To resolve these problems, GALE automated the whole process by a data intake form which can capture all the required client information in one go, making the process faster and less expensive.

"GALE has expanded their vision by targeting a larger audience: American businesses that hire overseas workers on a H-1B work visa.  These visas have very strict yet subtle compliance requirements. If a business isn’t careful, the American government could remove it from the program or terminate its H-1B employees," reads Waterloo statement.

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