Migrate Mate ✈️

Opening Remarks

This week, I’ve been thinking about where most early-stage investors go wrong in chasing the “hottest deals.” The truth is, the best deals rarely start hot, they start with a mission or big idea, but often without a polished narrative.

One of the greatest skills an investor can have isn’t just picking, but helping a founder refine their narrative. That’s how you build conviction early, and ironically, how you actually get into the hottest deals.

If you’ve seen a great example of an investor shaping a company’s story, hit reply and let me know. Now, onto this week’s feature:

-Brett

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Setting the Scene

• Most immigrants don’t know where to look for jobs that offer visa sponsorship.

• And for many, the stakes couldn’t be higher: once a visa expires, they typically have 60 to 90 days to land a sponsoring job, or they’re forced to leave the country they are in.

• That crunch time is chaotic, filled with uncertainty, and made worse by the lack of a trusted place to find visa-backed opportunities.

• This week’s company is building a better way for international job seekers to find opportunities.

In a Sentence

Migrate Mate is an end-to-end platform for international job seekers to find roles, get sponsored, and navigate the entire immigration process.

• Find: International job seekers can search a database of thousands of jobs that offer visa sponsorship.

The Basics

• Industry: Immigration Tech / HR Tech

• Headquarters: Flatiron, New York

• Year Founded: 2025

• Employee Count: 5 full-time

• Investors: TBA

• Early Traction: $0 to $1.5M+ ARR in 5 months

• Business Model: Monthly subscription for job seekers

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Due Diligence

WHAT WE LIKE

• Market Opportunity: Nearly 1B people globally want to emigrate, and in the U.S. alone, over 15 million rely on visas to stay, including hundreds of thousands of international students who risk removal each year if they can’t secure employer sponsorship.

• Expansion: Starting with jobseekers, Migrate Mate can grow into employer-facing tooling that simplifies visa sponsorship, unlocking a largely untapped B2B motion.

• Distribution Advantage: Immigration is inherently viral, as users who land jobs often refer peers in the same visa track, creating organic word-of-mouth loops that lower CAC.

POTENTIAL RISKS

• Defensibility: While SaaS moats are thinning across the board, job aggregation has low switching costs, making speed and brand critical to differentiation.

• Volume: As with platforms like LinkedIn, surfacing a job to more applicants increases competition, making it harder for individual users to land the role they applied for.

• Churn: Once users get hired, they often leave the platform, creating natural churn and revenue volatility unless offset by employer-side monetization or retention loops.

Founder Profiles

• Mihailo Bozic, CEO: Previously led growth at Kiki and theMednet (YC W17); also founded Envited, a “Partiful for Australia” that gained early traction.

• Dylan Gibbs, CTO: Previously ran a media production agency with clients including Red Bull, focused on high-end videography and creative direction.

Comps

• Jobright.ai: AI copilot for job search, resume help, and auto-applications, while Migrate Mate focuses specifically on visa-sponsored roles and builds toward full immigration infrastructure.

• FrogHire.ai: Browser extension that filters visa-friendly jobs across major job boards, while Migrate Mate curates its own listings and owns the full user experience.

• EB-3 Work: Service provider for EB-3 visa-based recruitment, while Migrate Mate supports multiple visa types through a scalable, tech-first platform focused on jobseekers.

Event Board

• Bulletpitch Boston Dinner: To kick off the fall, we’re headed to Boston to host a dinner for innovators and investors. Sign up HERE.

• Second Annual Emerging Investor Art Gala, NYC: On September 18th, we’re bring together the next generation of venture capital and growth equity investors. Sign up HERE.

• Bulletpitch San Francisco Dinner: We’re headed to SF to host a dinner for top founders. Sign up HERE.

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