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EFSE Entrepreneurship Academy and SmartGateVC join forces for the 2nd batch of the Hero House AI Incubation Program.

Thoughts about teams, founder mentality, and full commitment in the light of investing in startups.

We are excited to announce that SmartGateVC led the pre-seed round of dzookAI, a one-click art creation platform.

SmartGateVC is establishing Hero House Glendale with the launch planned in Fall 2020. Hero House Glendale aims to serve the naturally-expanding needs of Glendale and the surrounding areas and become a significant player and goes beyond running only the startup program.

We are thrilled to welcome AimHub, a version control and collaboration hub for AI teams, to the SmartGateVC portfolio as the lead investor in their pre-seed round.

We’re delighted to welcome Expper Technologies to the SmartGateVC family as the lead investor in their pre-seed round.

In a rapidly growing robotics market, robots automate and disrupt industries ranging from manufacturing to delivery. Unlike robots that work independen...

We are excited to announce SmartGateVC is leading a pre-seed round for ForgeFiction, which brings in a new way of writing, where stories and books are written by communities, instead of individuals.

I spent one month during summer shadowing Tim Draper. The first learning (the reminder) was “getting rich slowly”. It’s not common to hear it nowadays in business, especially from a venture capitalist. The point here is about moving through life (especially in money bu...

The recent development shifts the paradigm of Armenia’s tech landscape. For a long while Armenia was positioned as a land to find talent. Now Armenia is a destination for talent. It’s a safe, cool and efficient place to live.

SmartGateVC is excited to be part of Snark AI’s $1.7m seed round with Y Combinator, Baidu Ventures, Fenox Ventures, Tribe Capital, and other prominent angels and VCs. Snark AI introduces a Deep Learning platform designed to enable up to 100x faster Deep Learning train...

We are excited to announce our investment in Grovf, a SaaS to accelerate any Java Virtual Machine (VJM) software 10x.

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the #landed program, a project to connect Armenians in tech all around the world with the tech community in Armenia.

We are excited to announce our investment in SuperAnnotate AI, a 10-20x faster and extremely accurate image annotation technology powered by AI.

We are excited to announce the investment in Facehub, the first ever technology enabling face-to-face transfer on mobile device. They debut with mobile app to transfer facial expressions to different masks and setting the standard in facial animation software. The comp...

We are excited to announce the investment in Embry, a startup tapping into the future of wearable devices to meet the evolving needs of weight control. Embry is a thin smart insole with built-in scale designed for sustaining healthy weight. It’s a patent-pending techno...