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

🦄 ServiceTitan
🦄 Moderna
🦄 Reddit
🦄 Picsart
🦄 Gecko Robotics
🦄 Indigo Ag

It also spotlights five promising Armenian-founded startups - likely future unicorns:
🔥SuperAnnotate
🔥DISQO
🔥Krisp
🔥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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Dear Community:

Let's show some love to the first unicorn 🦄 born in Armenia 🇦🇲 and upvote for them on Product Hunt:

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/picsart-ignite-2-0-ai-for-creators

Feel free to upvote, comment and share this link to ensure broadest possible reach.

P.S. Learn more about the product here: https://picsart.com/ignite/

Thank you ♥️

🚀 Applications Now Open: Bentley's iTwin Activate Program – 3D Geospatial Cohort

Bentley’s iTwin Activate Program is calling for early-stage startups innovating in roads, rail, bridges, water, wastewater, or the electric grid to join a new cohort focused on using 3D geospatial data to advance infrastructure.

This cohort, powered by Cesium & 3D Tiles, helps startups build scalable digital twin solutions, combining 3D geospatial views with engineering, IoT, and reality data.

There is an opportunity of funding of up to $250K from Bentley’s iTwin Ventures Fund (SAFE note)

Cohort runs: Late August – Mid-December 2025 - Virtual Program

👉 Apply now and find more information: https://www.bentley.com/company/itwin-ventures/itwin-activate/
Application Deadline: Friday, July 18

#DigitalTwins #3DGeospatial #StartupAccelerator #Bentley #iTwinActivate

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As reported by Economy of Armenia, the regulator of public services of Armenia approved acquisition of GNC Alhpa (OVIO, Rostelekom's trademark) by Viva (telecom company). Hope to see another acquisition in high-tech ecosystem of Armenia.

$4 Million USD Government Funding Approved to Strengthen Armenia’s Startup Ecosystem! ⚡️

The Minister of High-Tech Industry of Armenia just announced that at today’s session, Government of Armenia approved a 3 year contract with Plug and Play Tech Center accelerator! The long-term collaboration with Plug and Play aims to ensure stable growth and development of Armenia’s startup ecosystem. Over the next three years, Plug and Play will establish a permanent branch in Armenia to run incubation, pre-acceleration, and acceleration programs, paving the way for our innovators to compete globally.

Congrats to all of us on this important step ahead. Special thanks to the team of the MHTI led by the deputy minister Ruben Simonyan on making this happen.

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#Armenia #StartupEcosystem #PlugAndPlay #EcosystemBuilding #MHTI #GovernmentSupport

Apply for the Female EdTech Fellowship - Jul 11 is the deadline!

Don't miss a chance to join a selected group of early-stage female founders developing solutions EdTech in Europe!

This is a 8-week fully remote program that will take 1.5 hours per week from you. It starts on Aug 7, 2025.

Apply here 👉: https://fje0ieoadu7.typeform.com/to/iUASlVQt
Deadline: Jul 11, 2025

Learn more about the program here: https://www.edtech-fellowship.eu

#EuropeanEdTechAlliance #EEA #EdTechEurope

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🚀 StartUp Academy 5.0 by TRMNL4 & Meta Accepts Applications

StartUp Academy 5.0 looks for founders from CEE innovating in consumer tech — health & wellness, edtech, fintech, or something totally new.

StartUp Academy is a free, international, no-equity program that’s already helped alumni raise $17M+. This year, they will select 30 early-stage B2C teams.

Program Highlights:
- Pitch to 60+ top VCs like Speedinvest, Silicon Gardens , Flyer One Ventures
- 100+ hours of hands-on content from startup pros

Apply here 👉 https://startup-academy.trmnl4.com/form
Application deadline: July 17, 2025

Learn more about the program here: https://startup-academy.trmnl4.com

#PreAccelerator #ApplyNow #CEE

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🚀 AI Virtual Institute Launched!

The Minister of Hight-Tech Industry of Armenia announced the official launch of the AI Virtual Institute in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Mistral AI. The AI Virtual Institute is an initiative of the Ministry to encourage open innovation, empower AI innovators, founders, researchers, and tech builders.

The contribution of AWS and Mistal AI will be as follows:

- AWS: technical expertise of AWS Solutions Architects, training resources, and best practices
- Mistral AI: Access to Mistral's AI platform, free access to APIs for selected laureates.

For the selected startups and researchers, the Institute will provide an AI marketplace and tailored support to increase exposure and bring their solutions to markets.

Stay tuned for the call for applications coming soon: https://ai.gov.am/

#Armenia #StartupEcosystem #AIVirtualInstitute #EcosystemBuilding #MHTI #GovernmentSupport

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🚀 Applications Open: INSEAD AI Founder Sprint 2025!

INSEAD’s AI Founder Sprint 2025 is calling early-stage founders ready to build with artificial intelligence at the core.

What’s in it for you?
- 8-week global online program, Aug 25 – Oct 2025
- Access to top AI mentors from INSEAD, Harvard, MIT & leading investors
- No cost, no equity taken – plus prize opportunities & investor network
- Final Demo Day to pitch in front of investors & AI leaders

Who should apply?
- Solo founders or teams building AI-first startups
- Projects in ideation, MVP or early traction stages
- Startups from any industry using AI for a competitive edge

Apply now 👉: https://www.venture-lab.ai/apply-now
Application Deadline: July 30, 2025

#AI #Startups #INSEAD

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🚀 New Opportunity: Health x AI Accelerator

Building something in health + AI? This could be the nudge you need.

A global accelerator is looking for 10 teams to help shape the future of healthcare using chat and AI.

What’s in it for selected teams?

– Access to their tech suite (AI-powered chatbots, health desk, voice tools)
– Mentorship from experts in digital health, AI, behavior change, and growth
– Real-world pilot launches
– Support to build scalable, investment-ready solutions
– Scale strategy

If you’ve got the idea, the drive, and a user-first mindset, this accelerator is built to push you forward.

🕓 Duration: 24 weeks
🌍 Global (remote)
🔗 Learn more and apply

This is a great opportunity for Armenian teams building in digital health to go global.

#Healthcare #AI #Accelerator #DigitalHealth

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🚨 a16z Moves Incorporation from Delaware to Nevada

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced they are relocating their state of incorporation from the traditional Delaware to Nevada.

Here are some of the key reasons:
- Nevada codifies it in statute, so you’re less exposed to shifting court interpretations.
- Personal liability only applies if intentional misconduct or fraud is proven.
- In Nevada, only shareholders with 15%+ ownership can inspect company records.

Read the full a16z analysis here 👉 https://a16z.com/were-leaving-delaware-and-we-think-you-should-consider-leaving-too/

#Legal #Incorpoation #Article #Analysis

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🔔 Upcoming Event: PyData Yerevan’s July Meetup

This Wednesday, PyData Yerevan is hosting its next community meetup, diving into how Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be applied to real-world product data challenges.

📌 The session, led by Arsine Sarikyan, Ph.D. and Levon Chukhajyan from Mindwise Information Technology LLC, will walk through a hands-on NLP pipeline — from translation and data cleaning to semantic similarity and embedding models — aimed at extracting categories and attributes from unstructured product descriptions.

📍 Topic: NLP for Product Categorization and Attribute Extraction from Tax Data 📅 Date: July 17, 2025 🕖 Time: 7:00 PM 📌 Location: Room 308E, American University of Armenia 🔗 Register: lnkd.in/eY2eMUvk

Ideal for those working in #NLP, applied #ML, or anyone interested in turning messy data into structured insights.

#PyData #CommunityEvent #AUA

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Gateway to Europe Comes to Yerevan

Gateway to Europe, one of the continent’s most anticipated startup-investor gatherings, is coming to Yerevan, and it’s calling ambitious startups to step up and pitch.

📅 September 18–19, 2025
📍 Yerevan, Armenia

If you’re building something bold and looking to grow beyond borders, this is your chance to stand in front of European angels, VCs, corporate partners, and ecosystem builders who are here for one reason: to discover what’s next.

Why it matters:
It’s a door (and a rare one) into Europe’s capital networks, where deals are made, and founders find the right ears for their ideas.

Organized by BANA Angels, AICA, STAN, and EBAN, and sponsored by EU4Innovation East, the Ministry of Economy, and Synergy, this event builds a bridge between Europe’s capital and the region’s most promising founders.

🟠 Applications are open now.
🔗 Apply here: https://shorturl.at/cIgjB

#GatewaytoEU #EuropeanAngels #Pitching

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🚨DevOps Internship Alert

BrainScale Solutions is offering a 3-month, hands-on internship in Yerevan.

Interns will work side-by-side with experienced mentors, develop practical skills, and build the kind of DevOps foundation companies actually look for.

Why it matters:
In our ecosystem, opportunities to work closely with professionals in a DevOps environment are still rare. For early-career engineers, it’s a solid chance to step into one of the most sought-after fields in tech.

🌐For people who:
🔹 Studying or have a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
🔹 Familiar with Linux/Unix environments and command-line tools
🔹 Have basic knowledge of scripting languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell
🔹 Understand version control systems like Git

📨 Apply by Sunday, July 20, sending your resumes to contact@brainscale.cloud.
📎 Source: BrainScale Solutions’ LinkedIn

#DevOps #Intenrship

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SuperAnnotate’s Series B Hits $50M

Dell Technologies Capital has joined SuperAnnotate’s Series B with a fresh $13.5M investment, pushing the round total to $50M adding to the previously announced $36M investment.

Founded by brothers Vahan and Tigran Petrosyan, SuperAnnotate started with R&D in Armenia, now building one of the most complete platforms for managing and labeling training data across vision, text, and audio, a key layer of today’s AI infrastructure.

With major backers like NVIDIA, Databricks, and Cox Enterprises already in, this latest move reinforces SuperAnnotate’s spot in the global AI data stack, competing with giants like Scale AI and Surge.

👉 A big moment for the Armenian-born startup pushing boundaries in deep tech.

Congrats to the team.

#SuperAnnotate #InvestmentNews #AI

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Angel Training Program by BANA Angels

BANA Angels calls applications for its Angel Training program. The program is designed to equip a new generation of angel investors with practical tools and knowledge in startup investing.

The program is specifically designed for: Aspiring angel investors, business leaders, and innovation-driven individuals looking to navigate startup financing, evaluation, legal frameworks, and portfolio building. Top 3 participants will get a chance to join a European angel investor program for global exposure and hands-on experience.

Deadline to apply: July 21, 2025
Apply 👉 here 👈

This initiative is supported by GIZ under the “Private Sector Development and VET in the South Caucasus” program.

#BANAAngels #AngelTraining

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