It is time to sum up the past quarter. Despite a decline in investment rounds the quarter was quite intense in Armenian ecosystem. Let's see what happened.

Armenia's Startup Ecosystem Ranking Grew!

According to StartupBlink's Global Startup Ecosystem Index report for 2023, Armenia climbed three spots to the 57th position globally. Yerevan has displayed an upward trajectory, leaping an impressive 23 spots to claim the 221st rank globally. Read more here.

Around $1M worth of investment rounds were announced:

1) Formula VC Invested 200K USD in Wirestock.
2) BANA Angels invested an undisclosed amount of capital in 10Web.
3) Hexact raised over $350K on a crowdfunding platform Start Engine.
4) STAN Angels invested an undisclosed amount of capital in BrandLens.
5) BANA Angels invested $170K in ViralMango.
6) Formula VC invested $250K in 10Web.
7) STAN announced an undisclosed amount of angel investment in Saima.

3 acquisition deals, regional expansion, partnership and product launch announcements:

1) The Crowdfunding Formula acquired Gadget Flow.
2) Intelinair announced its acquisition of Aker Technologies, Inc.
3) FOX 11 Los Angeles filmed a story about Robin the Robot's success story in Los Angeles.
4) Onex announced the launching of its services in Georgia.
5) Instigate signed a contract with microelectronics manufacturer giant Microchip Technology Inc. to sell 100% of its subsidiary Instigate Semiconductor.
6) Scylla announced a partnership between Konica Minolta and Scylla AI around a Visual Gun detection solution.
7) BANA Angels celebrated its 6th anniversary.
9) ViralMango team was shortlisted for the finals of the 2023 Influencer Marketing Awards.
10) Meruzhan Danielyan announced about launching of a new startup - Octopulse AI that will help growth teams to streamline the activation, conversion, and retention of their customers. Meruzhan co-founded the startup with Ravi Kiran, who led the development of LinkedIn's internal Growth platform called Air Traffic Controller (ATC).
11) Krisp announced an upcoming release of its Accent Localization, an AI-powered technology to change agents' accents into the customer's natively understood accent.
12) Picsart unveiled its new AI GIF maker product.

6 Product Hunt Campaigns

1) iMed Cloud - Copilot for Beauty Service Providers
2) Octopulse AI - a platform to help growth teams solve the activation, conversion, and retention problems they face.
3) RestoGPT - AI that turns any restaurant menu into a full food delivery app.
4) Softr Universe - a new medium for discovering, sharing, and using templates created by the Softr community. Became #1 Product of the Day on June 8, 2023.
5) HopShop allows you to find any clothing that you're looking for in a second.
6) Softr for Google Sheets to turn your spreadsheets into powerful and beautiful custom software - portals, internal tools, and more. Became #1 Product of the Day on April 19, 2023.

10+ Tech Events:

1) HyeTech India tech trip share-out & networking.
2) INNO Armenia 2023 - National Innovation & Entrepreneurship Week.
3) Startup Grind Yerevan - How to Stay Hungry and Foolish: Yandex’s Approach to Diversification
4) LIT Academy & BANA Angels - Meeting Investor Expectations: Building High-Performing Tech Teams
5) Azarian Growth Academy - How Generative AI is Shaping the Way We Work and Create.
6) BANA Angels - Generative AI in Practice: Challenges and Opportunities.
7) AI Conf Armenia 2023 - AI Revolution & Career
8) BarCamp Yerevan 2023 was held on June 24-25!
9) Azuro EVM Meetup in Yerevan on June 30.
10) Ask Me Anything with Senior Executives from Silicon Valley event on June 30th.
11) Opening of InnoIjevan innovation hub in Ijevan organized by Ijevan Municipality, COWO and UATE.

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2 comments

Congratulations to all startups and founders. I wish the Armenian investment ecosystem be more open to new people, and not to invest only close circle of people. 
What a great summary! Thanks!