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VisaWire : Visa Applications Made Easy

Pre-Seed

Commercial and Professional Services

❓ Business Model

VISA applications made super easy, where clients pay for the technology instead of a consultant
They charge per VISA application

📈 Traction

Founders in Residence at Spring Studios/Salica
Pre-seed round committed from Salica Investments/ Bahraini Sovereign Wealth Fund
Current time saved on Schengen Visa application process is around 45 minutes
Total distribution partners for launch cover access to 6 million people

🌱Founding Team

Preet Patel ( CEO)
- Started VisaWire in my third year of UCL economics (top 10% of cohort) whilst doing a computer science programme (top 0.8% of applicant pool) and working 20+ hours across two jobs.
- Ex BofA
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Shahzaib Ahmed(CTO & Co-founder)
- CTO of 5 years: recently a CTO on an early exit
- Solo founder of a product with 4.2 million users

📖 Story

When working at CIBT Visas as a consultant, Preet saw a mother of two children being charged £450 for her two children's VISAs as consulting fees. Since most of his work was manual copy pasting and printing, he realised this whole process could be automated, but for a cheaper, faster and with fewer mistakes.

👀 Reasons to watch

Market access: Strong regional connections via spring and salica amplyfing 0 to Series A
Fully fledged AI voice agents and chatbots, through their angel's company: something their competition cannot afford to keep up with or build
Testing with one of the biggest travel agencies in MENA
Huge vertical: current market size of $15B in immigration/visa consulting.

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