India is a land of innovation and growth, recently recognizing its 102nd unicorn since 2019. The meteoric growth of startups in India has motivated many entrepreneurs to think globally from day one. Inspired by this trend, Alariss Global, the first tech-enabled global expansion marketplace, has announced that it will set up an office in India to help entrepreneurs with global ambitions to launch in the US and elsewhere.
Alariss Global has already worked with Indian founders backed by top investors including Nexus Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital India.
Rishen Kapoor, Co-Founder and CEO of Sequoia portfolio company Toplyne, and a former Sequoia investment team member himself, said, “Talent is the biggest asset for any successful company, and one of the greatest challenges of expanding to the US. Alariss provides an impressive pool of vetted go-to-market talent that is heads and shoulders above other partners we’ve encountered in the US.”
Alariss has entered India, having already identified thousands of high-potential Indian companies that could go to market in the United States in the next few years. Currently also serving startups from China, Singapore, Nigeria, Germany, Canada, Spain, the UK, and Israel, Alariss is making a special commitment to India by opening its first overseas office here.
According to Abhishek Sharma, Managing Director, Nexus Venture Partners, “Indian startups have large global ambitions. There is strategic value in accelerating a company’s growth through swift expansion into the large US market. Most B2B software startups originating from India are looking to enter the US market and build on-ground team presence, far sooner into their journey than ever before.”
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Alariss is a pioneer in a new movement, Globalization 3.0, where talent can be hired anywhere, and global expansion is democratized. Alariss believes that your country of origin and circumstances of birth should not limit your international potential. The company assists Indian startups in launching their businesses in the US in a matter of days, not months or years, with an all-inclusive platform that allows clients to build a lean and effective local sales and marketing team with comprehensive legal registration, compliance, and payroll.
As per a 2020 report by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), 155 Indian companies have created nearly 125,000 jobs in the US with investments of over $22 billion. These numbers are expected to grow multifold. "Some of the best tech companies in the world are based in India, and their product deserves to be shared more broadly. With more Indian companies than ever before reaching unicorn status, founders are targeting global markets and customers at an earlier and earlier stage. We are excited to help innovative and ambitious Indian companies realize their market potential by expanding to the US, one of the best places to do business and to grow their revenue." said Joyce Zhang Gray, Co-Founder and CEO, Alariss Global.
Joyce met her co-founder and CTO Nicholas Manske, while they were students at Harvard University. She later went on to work in global expansion on behalf of American tech giants launching abroad, and then completed her MPA from Princeton and MBA from Stanford. Nicholas became a diplomat for the US State Department in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe and later completed his MBA at INSEAD. Both founders witnessed the huge potential of international tech companies to serve a global customer base, and envisioned a better solution for supporting this growth.
"We founded Alariss with a deep product solution to serve technology companies, disrupting an industry of expensive headhunters and manual service providers. With our all-inclusive and highly scalable platform, we can reduce the time to launch in the US by months, and help clients grow revenue at least 5x within the first year," said Nicholas Manske, Co-founder and CTO, Alariss Global.
