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...

The quantum computing revolution is upon us - a wave to impact the world by solving some of the most challenging problems we have. We at SmartGateVC predict this as next frontier in computational science and see Armenia as a part of it.

We are delighted to announce our first two investments in 2Hz and XCloud Networks. 2Hz’s speech enhancement technology significantly removes background noise from a real time conversation. XCloud Networks is a vendor of intent-based networking solution running on top o...

2018 starts with a new and bright page for Armenia. Tim Draper noticed the emerging opportunities evolving from here and SmartGateVC is delighted to announce investment from Tim Draper.

SmartGateVC is pleased to announce that starting February 2018, all SmartGateVC portfolio companies will have access to up to $120,000 of free Azure credits (Microsoft BizSpark), as well as explore opportunities provided by Microsoft Accelerator and Microsoft Ventures.

Armenia has emerged as a rising star of tech entrepreneurship, targeting to be one of the top next generation technology hubs. This was the theme of the two #FurtureIsTech networking evening meetings in Boston and NYC, devoted to the potential for tech start-ups and ve...

Hero House is the basement to spread the Hero culture in Armenia. Sourcing its inspiration from the Draper University of Superheroes, it is the space where the atmosphere excellence, integrity, friendship, hardworking, and fun is going to nurture superhero teams capabl...