Yerevan, Armenia · Support Organization A regional initiative funded by the European Union with co-funding from the French Government, working to strengthen the competitiveness of startup ecosystems across the five Eastern Partnership countries — Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine. It supports founders through acceleration, access to grants and tenders, STEM education, and cross-border networking, and partners with regional flagship events including DigiTec in Yerevan.
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Yerevan, Armenia · Support Organization FAST is a non-profit organization founded in 2017 by Ruben Vardanyan, Noubar Afeyan, and partners, with the mission to build a research and innovation ecosystem in Armenia across AI and data science, advanced materials, biotechnology, and robotics. It has funded over 260 researchers, supported more than 800 entrepreneurs, and backed 35+ startups through grants, acceleration, and a university-linked education-research-commercialisation model.
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Yerevan, Armenia · Support Organization The central government body responsible for Armenia's high-tech policy, covering information technology, telecommunications, information security, and the military-industrial sector. Established in its current form in 2019, it shapes the national tech agenda through startup and R&D support programmes, tax incentives for IT companies, STEM-education initiatives, and the promotion of Armenia's tech sector abroad, and is a standing institutional supporter of DigiTec.
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Yerevan, Armenia · Support Organization UATE is Armenia's technology industry association, representing 270+ member companies that together account for the majority of taxes paid by the country's top ICT firms. It works across four pillars — business ecosystem development, education and workforce, international market development, and technology utilisation — and runs flagship initiatives including the Armath engineering makerspaces (650+ across Armenia), InnoIjevan, and DigiTec, the country's largest technology exhibition, which it has organised since 2005.
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Yerevan, Armenia · Support Organization YerevaNN is a non-profit machine learning and AI research laboratory established in 2016, operating independently from commercial projects and funded by private donations and research grants. The lab collaborates with institutions including the University of Southern California and the Institute of Molecular Biology in Armenia, with active research into drug discovery via molecule generation, computer vision, and clinical AI. It has produced over 85 scientific publications and is a recognized node of the Armenian AI research community.
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