Continuing its efforts to promote changes to U.S. immigration law that would benefit foreign-born entrepreneurs, the National Venture Capital Association has updated a 2006 report on job creation by immigrant-founded companies.
The report, which will be released in full in July, found that one-third of U.S. venture-backed companies that went public between 2006 and 2012—including high-flyers such as Facebook FB -1.99%, LinkedIn and Zipcar—had at least one immigrant founder.
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