Uploadcare’s Journey From Russia to Vancouver Through the Start-up Visa Program | Igor Debatur, Uploadcare

This episode of the Founder Journey features Igor Debatur, Launch member and Uploadcare’s Co-Founder & CEO. The company helps engineering teams to launch new products faster and remove annoying loading times for websites and apps.

In the episode, Igor shares how they started to build a solution for their web development agency and then commercialized it for others, how the idea of scaling and finding people with similar mindsets brought them to Vancouver through the Start-up Visa Program, and why focus is the mantra of entrepreneurs.

Connect with Igor Debatur on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debatur/

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Launch Academy: One of the global tech hubs for international entrepreneurs and a designated organization for Canada’s Startup Visa. Since 2012, Launch has worked with more than 6,000 entrepreneurs from over 100 countries, of which 300 have grown their startups to seed and Series A stage and raised over $2 billion in funding. To learn more about Launch’s programs or the Canadian Startup Visa, visit https://www.launchacademy.ca/

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