Ask HN: Startup jobs for International students

I am an international student (Computer Science and Math major) studying at a liberal arts school (yeah, I know) in the US, currently a senior looking for jobs. Without giving away too much, I want to say that I'm fairly qualified in programming and I have a decent GPA. I have a lot of research under my belt and interesting projects. I think working for startups is amazing experience but from what I've seen they are reluctant to hire international because of whole H1-B situation. How much of it is true? Is there a resource for finding out if a startup will take foreigners?