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# AAPI Founders Stories
Stories of Asian American and Pacific Islander founders.
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Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) represent a wide range of cultures and people who descend from Far East and Middle Asia. Numerous are the stories of AAPI immigrants over-coming huge cultural and language barriers to create better lives for their children and grandchildren. Many of those children and grandchildren stood on the shoulders of their parents, grandparents, aunties, and uncles to start businesses that would go on to be worth millions.
In HubSpot for Startups' ongoing series of celebrating diverse founders and investors in the startup community, here is a growing collection of stories about some of these founders, investors, executives, and entrepreneurs.
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## The State of Venture Capital and Fostering Diversity with Vijay Rajendran
Former 500 Global exec Vijay Rajendran on why your best investor might be your customer, not a VC
This story is now in Scaling Smarter Magazine.
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## April Koh, CEO & Co-founder of Spring Health
April Koh became the youngest woman to grow a company to unicorn status. We're excited to announce that Spring Health will be one of the unicorns featured in season 3 of our documentary series "[Spiraling Up](https://spiralingup.film)" (in collaboration with LinkedIn). In this video by Slush, she and Northzone GP Pär-Jörgen Pärson discuss her journey.
## Goldcast CEO Palash Soni Helps Empower B2B Marketers
Palash Soni, CEO & Co-Founder of digital events platform Goldcast, is empowering B2B marketers to host amazing revenue-driving experiences. His co-founder and COO Kishore Kothandaraman will be heavily featured in season 2 of "[Spiraling Up](https://www.hubspot.com/startups/docuseries)." In this interview, you get to learn a little more about Palash.
This story is now in Scaling Smarter Magazine.
[Read the interview.read the interview](https://startups.hubspot.com/magazine/issue03/palash-soni-goldcast)
## Changxioa Xie and Hanmei Wu of Empowerly
Changxiao Xie and Hanmei Wu founded [Empowerly](https://empowerly.com) in 2018 to democratize the college admissions process, empowering students to become the most successful version of themselves. Last year they were featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 class of 2022.
This story is now located in Scaling Smarter Magazine.
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