Envoy Global provides an immigration management platform that combines proprietary technology with expert legal representation to simplify immigration filing, workforce management, and global compliance. The company offers integrated legal services (U.S. and global) alongside its platform to support inbound and outbound immigration and workforce forecasting. Envoy serves a broad range of industries—technology, healthcare, and finance—with an emphasis on STEM workforce needs; the article states it serves nearly 1,000 customers, has managed more than 30,000 cases, and has served more than 2,000 customers historically. Founded in 1998 and based in Chicago, Envoy operates across offices in APAC, EMEA and the Americas. Management and investors describe a focus on expanding services internationally and simplifying global immigration compliance and sponsorship programs. The company positions its platform to provide transparency and efficiency for employers and employees during complex immigration processes. The announcement does not disclose any financial metrics such as revenue or the dollar amount of the new investment. Envoy Global builds enterprise software for processing immigration and visa paperwork and pairs that software with legal services through a partner law firm. Customers pay a flat fee for each request, with no added cost for legal services. The company serves clients globally, including China, Singapore and India, and counts customers such as Grubhub, CBS Interactive and Dow Jones. CEO Dick Burke says Envoy helps with processes like H-1B visas and professional P visas. Envoy views traditional law firms as its main competition but plans to sell its software to law firms as well. The company is Chicago-based. Visanow provides online immigration services to U.S. small businesses from its Chicago, IL base. Its platform streamlines the front end of visa applications by automatically gathering required forms and documents and dynamically generating a complete, personalized application that is filed. The company charges a single flat fee based on the type of application or service and does not bill extra for attorney time, software subscriptions, or customer service calls. Visanow intends to use the funds from this financing to accelerate growth and expand the team. The company raised $16.1m in funding from General Catalyst Partners. Visanow is led by founder and CEO Bob Meltzer. The company added Karen Mills, Scott Griffith, and Brian Shortsleeve to its board of directors.

Total raised

$37M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Oct 2017