📣 Community support needed: Bleenk is live on Product Hunt

Bleenk is launching its public beta, and goes live on Product Hunt.

Built for non-technical founders, creators, and teams, Bleenk lets you build real apps and websites by chatting with AI.

The team is actively collecting feedback, and early users will directly influence where the product goes next.

🔗 Support Bleenk on Product Hunt (upvote, comment, share):
https://www.producthunt.com/products/bleenk?launch=bleenk

#Bleenk #ProductHunt #Upvote #SupportFounders

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Startup Founders - BANA is accepting applications!

Source: BANA Angels

Applications are now open for BANA Angels' first pitching session of the year.
Pitch your startup, connect with angel investors, and move your venture forward.

Eligibility criteria: MVP ready and Initial traction.

Apply by: February 10, 2026
Apply here: https://forms.gle/J83FnvaTkBncREhJ7

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📣 AICA Angels Invested in Exorde Labs

Sources: AICA, How2B

Angel Investor Club of Armenia announced a new investment in Exorde Labs, a data intelligence startup that is building the infrastructure behind real-time digital insights.

Exorde records and analyzes billions of social media and news posts in real time, transforming global conversations into actionable intelligence. Its data reveals not only what is being said, but also how people feel about any subject, brand, or event.

Originally focused on social media analytics, the team identified a bigger challenge: large-scale data collection and processing. By solving this core infrastructure problem, Exorde now supports critical decision-making across multiple industries.

Congratulations to the startup and the AICA angels on this partnership 🎉

#AICA #Investment #ExordeLabs

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Dear Founders — consider applying to Y Combinator!

YC is accepting applications for its winter 2026 batch. Apply by February 9 at 8pm PT.

Why YC?

• Investment upon acceptance
• Easier fundraising post-YC
• Network

How many YC-grad Armenian founders do you know?
Here is our list:

• Alexis Ohanian (Reddit) 🦄, IPO-ed
• Jack Loosararian (Gecko Robotics), 🦄
• Sona & Mariam Sulakians (Pincites), Acquired
• Davit Buniatyan (ActiveLoop)
• Raffi Isanians (Modern Realty)
• Andrey Santrosyan (Redouble AI)
• Tigran Bdoyan (SimCare AI)
• Levon Brutyan (Collectly)
• Georgy Melkonyan (Arnata)
• Ari Baranian (Pirros)
• Ashot Ayvazyan (Cloudchipr)
• Raffi Sarkissian (Lago)
• Areg Nzsdejan (Cardamon)
• Thomas Minassian (Dollyglot)
• Aram Shatakhtsyan & Eduard Piliposyan (Modelence)
• Tat & Hrachik Ajamians (Wakie)

Add more YC Armenian alums if we missed anyone!

🔗 Apply here: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply

#YC #YCombinator #ArmenianFounders

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The Yellow Rocks team invites investors and entrepreneurs to join an inspiring journey through Ecuador 🇪🇨 and Peru 🇵🇪.

From February 17 to March 6, 2026, Venture Trip: Galapagos & Machu Picchu will take participants on a unique expedition where wild nature, ancient history, and a curated business community come together.

The journey is divided into three segments: Amazonia, Galapagos & Quito, and Peru. Participants may join the full expedition or choose the segment that suits them best.

Bonus: if you use the code word 3N, you’ll receive a 5% discount.

👉 Join the trip: https://cutt.ly/wtzj7zve

#YellowRocks #VentureTrip #PartnerPost

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⏳ 3 days left to apply!

The EPIC Incubation Program (Spring 2026) is closing applications on February 1. This 15-week program helps early-stage startup teams turn ideas into real, market-ready businesses with mentorship, workshops, and customer discovery support.

📝 Apply now: https://form.typeform.com/to/yMqHsMoF

CELA Armenia Info Session - Saturday, Jan 31

CELA is widely regarded as a top regional leadership program for accomplished, mid-career professionals focused on self-discovery, leadership depth, and long-term impact. If you’re looking for deep career growth this info sesion about the CELA Leadership Academy may be for you.

Join an informal session with CELA Armenia alumni to get first-hand stories about how the Academy shaped their careers, thinking, and life direction.
This is not a presentation. It’s a real conversation about what CELA actually gives and who it’s truly for.

You’ll learn how participants become part of a global leadership community spanning Central Asia, the South Caucasus, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and North America and much more.

Sign up here 👉 https://www.celanetwork.org/events/armenia

#CELA #InfoSession #Networking #Event

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Emerald founded by Alexander Badalyan closes $2M pre-seed to blend blood testing, AI, and medical care

Sources: Granatus Ventures, TechFundingNews

Emerald is a UK based startup building a platform that brings fragmented health data - wearables, lab results, medical records - into one place, and connects it with AI insights and dedicated GP care.

The round was led by Boost Capital Partners, with participation from Mark Fountain (ex-HBS UK, sold to AXA), Armenian VC fund Granatus Ventures, and angel investors including Premier League players.

Founded in 2024 by Alexander Badalyan, Emerald’s goal is to shift healthcare from reactive to proactive, combining AI scalability with real clinical oversight.

Emerald's user base more than tripled in 6 months, they processed 25,000+ tests and are getting ready for UK expansion.

Congrats to fellow Armenian founder and Granatus Ventures on this exciting milestone 🚀

#Emerald #GranatusVentures #Investmetns

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🐞 TUMO Labs Announces Two-Day Bug Bounty

TUMO Labs is hosting a two-day Bug Bounty where participants will test real platforms used by active companies, identifying vulnerabilities, technical flaws, and malfunctioning elements. The event offers a hands-on environment to apply programming and cybersecurity skills, with rewards granted for each verified issue discovered.

The event is open to participants aged 18 and above, who can apply either individually or as part of a team. Applicants are expected to have basic knowledge of QA, reverse engineering or penetration testing.

📌 Note: TUMO Labs will also cover accommodation and transportation expenses for participants traveling from outside Yerevan.

📝 Application deadline: February 10
🗓️ Event dates: February 21–22
⚠️ Spots are limited
🚀 Apply here: https://shorturl.at/ASwrd

#BugBounty2026 #TumoLabs

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Armenian-founded YC grad Modelence Announced a $3M Seed Round

Source: TechCruch, Aram Shatakhtsyan's LinkedIn Post

As AI tools democratize software creation, more non-technical users are building apps. But while LLMs speed up coding, hosting, security, and DevOps complexity haven’t gone away. Modelence, a Y Combinator Summer batch startup, is tackling exactly this gap.

The startup raised a $3M seed round, led by Y Combinator, with participation from Rebel Fund, Acacia Venture Capital Partners, Formosa VC, and Vocal Ventures.

Founded by Aram Shatakhtsyan and Eduard Piliposyan, Modelence is building an all-in-one framework that handles: Authentication; Databases; Hosting; LLM observability and an integrated app builder.

Congrats to the startup on this achievement 🎉

#Modelesence #Investment #Seed #YC

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🚀 Apply for the Berkeley SkyDeck Acceleration Program

Berkeley SkyDeck is an accelerator at UC Berkeley supporting startups as they connect with the Berkeley and Silicon Valley ecosystem. To date, the program has worked with 300+ startups, with one in five portfolio companies surpassing $100M in valuation.

📌 Program highlights:

• 6-month acceleration program for startups across all industries
• 20–25 Cohort teams selected per batch, each receiving a $200K investment
• Access to 900+ advisors, weekly roundtables, resources, workshops, and events
• $750K+ in in-kind support across legal, financial, and tech services
• Business development support via SkyDeck’s industry partners and Berkeley’s 613,000-member alumni network

⏰ Deadline: February 13, 2026
🗓️ Program dates: May 4 - October 9, 2026
📝 Details & apply: https://skydeck.berkeley.edu/apply

#BerkeleySkyDeck #StartupAcceleration

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Happening Tomorrow - Some heroes stand in classrooms, workshops, and laboratories 👨‍🏫📡

On February 3, 2026, the Ground Zero Breakfast Series will host Avetik Grigoryan — astrophysicist, educator, co-founder of Bazoomq Space Research Laboratory, “Hero of Our Time 2025” award laureate.

Many of today’s researchers, engineers, and aerospace founders in Armenia trace their first spark back to his classrooms, clubs, lectures, and quiet encouragement.

Venue: Ground Zero Venture Café, 1 Saryan St., Yerevan
🗓 February 3, 2026 at 8:30AM

P.S. Do not forget to congratulate the host and moderator of the meeting Karén Gyulbudaghyan's as Feb 3 is his BD!

#Networking #Event #GroundZero

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📣 AICA Angels Invest in luna, a digital health companion for teens

Source: AICA

AICA announced about their most recent investment in luna. luna provides medically vetted, age-appropriate support at a time when teens are navigating some of the most formative years of their lives, often without access to trusted information or tools designed for them.

Born at the University of Oxford and built by two female founders, Jas Schembri-Stothart (Yacoubian) and Jo Goodall, luna was created from a deeply personal need for the health education and support they wished they had as teenagers. What started with teen girls is now becoming a trusted companion for families, schools and communities around the world.

Congrats to AICA and luna team on this milestone!

#AICA #Investment #luna

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Reminder 🔖

Attention tech startups in the Eurasia region with early traction and an MVP!

Source: 500 Eurasia

Batch 10 of the 500 Global Accelerator Program in Eurasia is accepting applications.

This 12-week program is designed to help founders scale with structure, strategy, and global support.

Access up to $100K in investment. Receive hands-on mentorship from global experts.
Join 500 Global’s portfolio and international founder network

Learn more and apply here until February 11 👉 https://be.500.co/44spQ6c

#500Global #500Eurasia #AccelerationProgram #Funding

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🇦🇲➡️🇫🇷 STAN Expands to Paris

Following the successful launch of its first chapter in Los Angeles in 2024, STAN is NOW expanding its global footprint with a new chapter in Paris.🇫🇷 This creates new opportunities for startups to connect with angel investors and venture capital across the EU.

Applications are now open for startups to pitch at the STAN Paris Chapter Launch.

The call is open to early-stage startups that are:
- Based or targeting the EU markets
- Showing early traction and strong innovation
- Ready to pitch to angel investors, VCs, and ecosystem leaders from France and across the EU

🗓 Application deadline: February 22, 2026
🔗 Apply to pitch

🔎 STAN is particularly interested in
- Founders seeking smart capital and long-term support
- Tech and science-driven startups
- Diverse founding teams with global ambitions

🚀 Pitching will take place as part of the STAN Paris Chapter Launch on March 11, 2026

#STANPitching

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Breaking: ActiveCampaign Acquires Feedback Intelligence

Source: LinkedIn post of Chinar Movsisyan, the Founder & CEO of Feedback Intelligence

ActiveCampaign has acquired Feedback Intelligence. A new exit story for the Armenian startup ecosystem and a great example of an Armenian-founded team joining a global unicorn 🦄.

Feedback Intelligence builds an enterprise workspace for AI PMs and developers to personalize LLMs based on real user signals, optimizing models through real-world usage.

ActiveCampaign is a global leader in marketing and sales automation, serving businesses worldwide with 800+ pre-built automation tools.

Congrats to Chinar Movsisyan, the Feedback Intelligence team, and the early supporters who backed the journey 🥳

#Exit #FeedbackIntelligence #ActiveCampaign

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More context on ActiveCampaign’s acquisition of Feedback Intelligence

Source: Business Wire

ActiveCampaign acquired Feedback Intelligence to strengthen Active Intelligence, its AI engine powering autonomous marketing workflows turning raw AI–user conversations into actionable signals that help AI agents learn and improve continuously.

What Feedback Intelligence adds to ActiveCampaign:
• Deep conversation analysis to understand user intent, satisfaction, friction points, and agent accuracy
• Purpose-built AI models designed specifically to evaluate and optimize AI agent performance
• A continuous improvement loop, where insights from real usage feed back into how AI agents are designed and deployed

As part of the deal:
• Chinar Movsisyan (Founder & CEO of Feedback Intelligene) joins ActiveCampaign’s Product & Technology leadership
• The Feedback Intelligence team becomes a core part of ActiveCampaign’s broader AI organization - another Unicorn 🦄 enters Armenia 🇦🇲

Really exciting news for the Armenian startup ecosystem!

#Exit #FeedbackIntelligence #ActiveCampaign

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AICA Opens Applications for March Pitching Session

Source: AICA

Angel Investor Club of Armenia (AICA) is accepting applications for its upcoming March pitching session.

AICA angels invest across markets and time zones, offering not only capital but strategic mentorship and international growth expertise.

If you’re building a scalable startup targeting global markets, this is a strong opportunity to get early funding.

Application deadline: February 18
Apply here: https://form.typeform.com/to/JJHCGFaU

#AICA #AngelInvesting #Pitching #Startups

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What an energetic start of the year!

Exit Announcement
Feedback Intelligence is acquired by ActiveCampaign 🦄.
Through the acquisition a new unicorn enters Armenia!

3 Armenian Angel Networks announced pitching sessions:
• AICA: Apply by Feb 18
• BANA Angels: Apply by Feb 10
• STAN: Apply by Feb 22

Angel Networks Activity:
STAN announced a launch of its chapter in France.
BANA Angels is getting ready for the next investor tour (details to follow).

Investments:
• AICA announced investment in luna and in Exorde Labs. This followed investments in BeeSync and Kartes Analytica announced in the end of Dec 2025.
• BANA Angels announced investment in CaseLense in the end of Dec 2025.
• Granatus Ventures participated in the $2M pre-seed Emerald.
• Modelence (YC S25) announced closing $3M seed round.

EU4Innovation Announced Call for Application for Incubation Programs in Armenia
• €800K will be allocated to incubation programs in the fields of cybersecurity, fintech, agritech and aerospace (€200K per program).
• Apply by March 23, 2026

Seaside Startup Summit Announced Rajasthan Startup Summit 2026
Apply here. Deadline - February 5 (💥today!)

Active Calls for Accelerator Programs:
• SkyDeck - apply by Feb 13
• 500 Eurasia - apply by Feb 11
• YC - apply by Feb 9

So great to witness so many things happening. Hope to see this trajectory over the 2026!

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Open Call: Plug and Play Armenia — Pre-Acceleration Program (Batch 3) 🇦🇲

Source: Plug and Play Central Asia and Caucasus

Plug and Play Armenia is now accepting applications for Batch 3 of its Pre-Acceleration Program, implemented in partnership with the Ministry of High-Tech Industry of the Republic of Armenia.

This is an equity-free program designed for startups ready to validate, grow, and prepare for global scale.

Key benefits:
• Equity-free participation
• Access to Plug and Play’s global network and Silicon Valley-style mentorship
• 900+ expert mentoring sessions
• Opportunity to pitch to Plug and Play’s global investment team

If you’re building a startup with ambition to scale beyond Armenia, this is a strong entry point.

Application deadline: March 23
Apply here: https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/locations/yerevan
(Press Ctrl+F and search for “Apply” to find the application section)

#PlugAndPlayArmenia #Batch3 #StartupAccelerator

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