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by Ruben Osipyan @rubenosipyan
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πŸš€ Krisp Unveils SDK to Enhance AI Voice Agent Communication

Krisp has launched its Noise Cancellation SDK, designed to enhance turn-taking, speech recognition accuracy, and interrupt-handling for AI voice agents. By eliminating background noise and secondary voices, this SDK ensures seamless, uninterrupted conversations between humans and AI.

Key Features:
- Real-time background noise & voice removal
- Improved voice activity detection (VAD)
- Server-side & on-device deployment options
- Integrations available for Python, Node.js, JavaScript/WASM & more

Already powering Vodex, Fixie (Ultravox), Daily, LiveKit, Fluidworks, and Synthflow, Krisp’s technology is setting a new standard for AI-driven voice interactions.

πŸ“’ Learn more & request a demo: krisp.ai/developers

The press release was published on March 20 - what a perfect birthday gift for Krisp’s co-founder Davit Baghdasaryan! πŸŽ‰ Happy birthday, Davit, and congratulations to the Krisp team! πŸ™Œ

#AI #VoiceTech #KrispAI #Innovation #SuccessStory

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πŸš€ Braze Acquires AI Decisioning Company OfferFit for $325M

Braze (NASDAQ: BRZE), a leading customer engagement platform valued at $3.9B, is acquiring OfferFit, the AI-driven decisioning company founded by George Khachatryan.

OfferFit has transformed personalized customer journeys, replacing A/B testing with continuous, automated experimentation. With this acquisition, Braze will supercharge AI-driven Journeys, Content, and Incentives, leveraging cutting-edge transformer architectures.

The deal is set to close by July 31, 2025.

πŸŽ‰ Another Armenian founder celebrates a successful exit! A huge congratulations to the OfferFit team on this milestone!

Read more:

https://www.investing.com/news/company-news/braze-acquires-ai-firm-offerfit-for-325-million-93CH-3952976

https://offerfit.ai/content/blog-post/offerfit-is-joining-braze

#Braze #OfferFit #Exit #SuccessStory

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Manychat raised $140M in a Series B led by Summit Partners to expand its AI capabilities and global reach πŸ”₯

With 1.5M customers including Nike and the New York Times, Manychat focuses on automating engagement across platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp. Manychat plans to further enhance personalization to tap into growing social commerce trends.

Manychat is co-founded by Mikael Yang, son of Yerevan-born David Yang - serial entrepreneur, co-founder of Ayb School and many other philantropy initiatives in Armenia and in global Armenian Community.

Congrats to Manychat on this great news!

Sources: TechCrunch, Economy of Armenia

#Manychat #Investment #SuccessStory #SeriesB

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πŸš€ New Investment Alert

Alchemist Doha announced investment in Denovo Sciences β€” a deep tech startup transforming drug discovery with reinforcement learning-based molecule generation. Their AI platform unlocks breakthroughs where traditional data-driven models fail, with potential to redefine how we tackle complex diseases.

Congrats to the entire Denovo Sciences team and all their early supporters!

#AI #DeepTech #DrugDiscovery #DenovoSciences #Investment #SuccessStory

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ViralMango has been crowned β€œMarketing Startup of the Year” by HackerNoon β€” among 8,000 contenders worldwide!

This recognition is a testament to the team’s dedication and customer-first mindset in building a standout influencer marketing platform. Congrats to Rem Darbinyan and the entire ViralMango team on this incredible milestone! 🧑

ViralMango helps creators get brand deals with an auto-updating digital portfolio of their work and stats, expertly crafted to impress. ViralMango’s Influencer Intelligence ensures the best brand-creator matchmaking, using data-driven insights to connect creators with the perfect Brands for collaboration.

Learn more here: https://hackernoon.com/startups/industry/marketing

#ViralMango #SuccessStory

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Plug & Play announces first investment following their first accelerator program in Armenia πŸ‡¦πŸ‡²!

Plug and Play announced their investment in ProdMap, one of the participants from the first Plug and Play batch in Yerevan, Armenia. This is an important step forward for Armenia’s innovation ecosystem.

Congrats to the ProdMap team and the Plug and Play Armenia team for this exciting moment! πŸ™Œ

πŸ“Œ Read more: https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/venture-capital/investment-announcements/prodmap-investment

#PlugandPlay #ArmeniaStartups #ProdMap #Investment #SuccessStory

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STAN Angels invested in SimCare AI (YC S24)!

STAN announced investment in SimCare AI, a YC backed startup.

SimCare AI creates AI patients for better clinical training ops. Students and healthcare providers practice with their AI patients to build skills and get evaluated.

Notably, previously Triple S Ventures announced investment in SimCare AI co-investing along with Y-combinator and other investors of SimCare's seed round.

#Investment #STAN #TripleSVentures #SimCareAI #SuccessStory

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πŸ¦„ Welcome a New Unicorn: Gecko Robotics!

Gecko Robotics announced that it raised $125M in a Series D round, pushing its valuation to $1.25B!

Founded by Armenian-American Jake Loosararian from a college dorm room 12 years ago, Gecko Robotics turned into a billion dollar company, with AI and robotics transforming the built world. The company has raised $347M to date from investors including Cox Enterprises (lead), USIT, XN, Founders Fund, and Y Combinator.

The Series D funding round was led by new investors, Cox Enterprises, with continuing investors USIT, XN, Founders Fund and YCombinator.

Congratulations to the entire Armenian startup ecosystem as another startup founded by an Armenian founder joined the Unicorn League!

Sources: CNBC, Gecko Robotics
Photo Credit: Gecko Robotics' LinkedIn post.

#GeckoRobotics #Unicorn #JackLoosararian #SuccessStory #ArmenianEcosystem

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πŸš€ Another Armenian-Founded Startup Raises Series A Round!

Congratulations to the team at Synthflow AI on raising a $20M Series A round led by Accel, with participation from Atlantic Labs, Singular, and early backers including BigStory VC! πŸŽ‰

Synthflow, is a Berlin-based startup co-founded by Hakob Astabatsyan was launched in 2023. The startup is already powering 5M+ voice AI customer service calls monthly for over 1,000 enterprise clients. The platform boasts 90%+ enterprise retention and deep integrations with 200+ tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, and Twilio. This brings Synthflow’s valuation to new heights as it competes in the rapidly growing $50B conversational AI market.

Proud to see another success of the Armenian tech founders. Congrats to the startup and early supporters! πŸŒπŸ‡¦πŸ‡²

Source: TechCrunch β€” https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/11/voice-ai-startup-synthflow-raises-20m-led-by-accel/

#SeriesA #SuccessStory #SynthflowAI

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Regional Post Caucasus features 6️⃣Armenian-founded unicorns - companies with a valuation of over $1B:

πŸ¦„ ServiceTitan
πŸ¦„ Moderna
πŸ¦„ Reddit
πŸ¦„ Picsart
πŸ¦„ Gecko Robotics
πŸ¦„ Indigo Ag

It also spotlights five promising Armenian-founded startups - likely future unicorns:
πŸ”₯SuperAnnotate
πŸ”₯DISQO
πŸ”₯Krisp
πŸ”₯Podcastle

Read the full article here: https://regionalpost.org/en/articles/armenian-entrepreneurial-excellence.html

P.S. The list of promising startups could include startups like CodeSignal, Britive, Hercules AI, ActiveLoop, Softr, Synthflow, Collectly but nontheless it is a great Friday read.

#ArmenianStartupEcosystem #Diaspora #Unicorns #Soonicorns #SuccessStory

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πŸš€ Armenian-founded Trag joins Aikido!

Trag is an LLM-native code review engine that thinks like a senior engineer β€” understanding repo-wide context, logic, readability, and performance (not just regex rules).

Now as part of Aikido, the team has launched Aikido Code Quality:

- Turn β€œtribal knowledge” into enforceable rules
- Enforce team conventions in plain language
- Catch subtle risks legacy scanners miss
- Deliver feedback developers actually use

Congrats to Khachatur Virabyan and entire Trag team, early supporters and investors on this milestone!

πŸ”— Learn more about the future of AI Code review with Willem Delbare & Khachatur Virabyan. RSVP here: https://lu.ma/aikidoxtrag


#Trag #SuccessStory #Acquisition #Aikido

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πŸš€ Armenian startup Wirestock raised a $23M Series A after a major pivot into AI data infrastructure

Photo & News Source: Techcrunch


Originally known as a platform helping photographers monetize content on stock marketplaces, Wirestock repositioned itself into a supplier of multimodal datasets for leading AI labs.

Some impressive stats:
β€’ 700K+ creators on the platform
β€’ Supplying data to 6 major foundation model companies
β€’ ~$40M annual run-rate revenue
β€’ $15M already paid to contributors

Congrats to Wirestock team on this milestone πŸ‘

#Wirestock #Investment #SuccessStory

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πŸš€ Armenian-founded Netris has raised a $15M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

Source: SmartGate VC

The company builds networking software for AI infrastructure, enabling large GPU clusters to operate reliably across complex network environments.

Some impressive traction:
β€’ 800% ARR growth over the past 12 months
β€’ 35+ production deployments
β€’ Customers include neoclouds, sovereign AI operators, and AI factories

Wonderful news for the startup, early investors and the whole Armenian ecosystem! Congrats to all of us πŸ™Œ

#SuccessStory #Investment #Netris

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