Yerevan, Armenia · Event One of Armenia's largest open-format business forums, billed as a business ecosystem in one day with 40+ speakers across 10 parallel sectoral halls covering IT, marketing, management, business development, finance and investments, HR and export and logistics. It opens with a panel on the state, business, capital and the digital future at the Armenia Marriott Hotel Yerevan.
Yerevan, Armenia · Event Armenia's flagship engineering, science and art forum, organized annually since 2017 by the Enterprise Incubator Foundation and the Engineering Association at Engineering City in Yerevan. The 2026 edition runs under the theme "Physical AI: Engineering Intelligence for the Real World", with talks and discussions spanning robotics, embedded systems, sensors, electronics, semiconductors and manufacturing. It gathers 1,000+ engineers, researchers, students, tech companies and industry leaders.
Yerevan, Armenia · Startup Async is an AI-powered content creation platform for audio and video, rebranded from Podcastle in January 2026. Founded in Yerevan in 2020 by Artavazd Yeritsyan, the platform grew from a podcast recording tool to a unified suite covering studio editing, enterprise content workflows, and a voice API for developers. The company has raised $23.5 million in total, including a $13.5 million Series A in 2024, and counts over one million creators on the platform.
Yerevan, Armenia · Event The 24th edition of Armenia's specialized international exhibition for IT, security and communications, organized by LOGOS EXPO Center at the Karen Demirchyan Complex in Yerevan. Thematic sections cover IT systems, cybersecurity, cloud computing, innovative technologies, medical electronics and mobile applications, with a B2B trade floor connecting vendors, integrators and corporate buyers.
Yerevan, Armenia · Event Armenia's largest technology exhibition and conference, organized since 2005 by the Union of Advanced Technology Enterprises (UATE) with support from the Government of Armenia and the Yerevan Municipality. Held annually in Yerevan, recent editions have drawn 40,000+ visitors, 250+ exhibiting companies and 100+ global tech leaders from across the region. Programming spans AI, venture capital and scaling tech companies, alongside startup competitions, hackathons and panels. Free admission.
Yerevan, Armenia · Event Armenia's specialized trade fair at the intersection of logistics, e-commerce, and supply chain innovation, combining expo, summit, and hackathon formats at the Karen Demirchyan Complex. Summit tracks cover sustainable logistics, cross-border trade compliance, AI in supply chains, and digital commerce trends.
Yerevan, Armenia · Incubator The Enterprise Incubator Foundation is one of the largest technology incubators and consulting bodies in the South Caucasus, established in 2002 with support from the World Bank and the Armenian government. It operates technology centers across Armenian regions, runs matching-grant programs for early-stage companies, and maintains the Armenian-Indian Center for Excellence in ICT. EIF has incubated and accelerated hundreds of startups and publishes the authoritative EIF Guide to Armenian IT Companies.
Yerevan, Armenia · Incubator EPIC is the startup incubation and entrepreneurship center of the American University of Armenia (AUA), providing workspace, mentorship, prototyping facilities, and investor access to early-stage ventures. Since its founding, the center has engaged over 400 entrepreneurs and supported more than 120 startup launches across technology and health-science disciplines. Programs include a 10-week pre-incubation track (STRIVE), a structured incubation cohort, and the EPIC Jam ideathon.
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.
Yerevan, Armenia · Event Organisator Event x Expo Group is an Armenian event management company headquartered at Sayat-Nova Ave 19/1 in Yerevan, specializing in conferences, exhibitions, trade shows, summits, and networking events. They are the organizer of e-Logi Fest, Armenia's leading international event dedicated to logistics, e-commerce, and supply chain innovation, held annually at the Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concert Complex. Their portfolio spans large-scale international events including the PostEurop Plenary Assembly 2016 in Armenia and the CDEK Forum Yerevan 2025. The company works with industry leaders, government officials, and innovators to build communities and create collaboration platforms.
Yerevan, Armenia · Venture Capital Founded in 2021 by Grigor Hovhannisyan and Karen Vardanyan, Formula VC is a Yerevan-based early-stage fund focused on SaaS, IoT, and AI startups with Armenian roots. Fund I ($7M) was fully deployed into 22 companies including CoinStats, EasyDMARC, BlueQubit, Expper Technologies, and Zoomerang. In February 2025 Formula VC launched Fund II with a $30M target, aiming to back 40 Armenian-founded startups globally at pre-seed and seed. The fund invests $500K–$1M per company and is backed by C-QUADRAT AAM Armenia among other LPs.
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.
Yerevan, Armenia · Venture Capital Founded in 2013 by Manuk Hergnyan, Pierre Hennes, and Yervand Sarkisyan, Granatus Ventures is a Yerevan-headquartered deep-tech VC with ~$40M AUM and offices also in London and Singapore. The firm focuses on university spinouts across AI, biotech, advanced computing, robotics, industrial automation, and climate tech, sourcing deals from Oxford, Cambridge, and Berkeley. Notable portfolio companies include BlueQubit (quantum software), Gecko Robotics (industrial inspection unicorn), and Zoundream (infant cry analysis). As of 2025 the fund remains actively deploying capital across its global deep-tech mandate.
Yerevan, Armenia · Coworking Space Hero House is a technology hub and co-working space in central Yerevan that serves as the physical base for the SmartGateVC fund, the Armenia Startup Academy pre-acceleration program, and several deep-tech community groups including SmartGateML. The space is designed for early-stage startup teams and hosts regular community programming. It is operated by the Catalyst Hi-Tech and Entrepreneurship Development Foundation.
Yerevan, Armenia · Innovation Hub Impact Hub Yerevan is a social-innovation incubator, coworking space, and community hub focused on social-impact enterprises in Armenia. Part of the global Impact Hub network, it offers fellowships, investment-readiness programs, and event space from its location at 80 Tigran Mets Avenue. Since 2022 it has expanded to Syunik and Gyumri, and the Syunik hub alone has supported 94 enterprises within two years of opening.
Yerevan, Armenia · Innovation Hub ISTC is a joint innovation center established in 2015 by IBM, USAID, the Government of Armenia, and the Enterprise Incubator Foundation, located on the Yerevan State University campus. It provides startup incubation, machine-learning and cybersecurity training, a coworking space, cloud services, and cybersecurity solutions for SMEs, all hosted in a 1,000-square-metre facility powered by IBM and HP infrastructure.
Yerevan, Armenia · Startup Krisp is an AI-powered noise cancellation and voice productivity platform founded in Yerevan that removes background noise, echo, and other audio distractions from calls and recordings in real time. The technology works as a software layer between any microphone and communication application, making it universally compatible with Zoom, Teams, and other conferencing tools. Krisp has been adopted by major enterprises and contact centers worldwide, and has expanded into meeting transcription and summarization. The company raised over $17 million and is a standout example of deep-tech AI innovation emerging from Armenia's growing engineering talent pool.
Yerevan, Armenia · Startup LiveBoard is an interactive digital whiteboard platform from Yerevan used by tutors, online schools, and distributed teams for real-time collaborative lessons. The product combines a pressure-sensitive drawing canvas with PDF annotation, live video, shared documents, and full session recording, and is optimized for both tablets (Apple Pencil, S-Pen) and desktop browsers. LiveBoard has been adopted by thousands of one-to-one tutors and boutique e-learning businesses as a lighter alternative to building custom classroom tooling on top of Zoom or Google Meet. It is a representative example of Armenia's consumer-SaaS bench: small, internationally distributed teams shipping polished, mobile-first collaboration tools into the global EdTech market.
Yerevan, Armenia · Event Organisator LOGOS EXPO Center is the oldest and largest exhibition organizer in Armenia, founded in 1999 and headquartered in Yerevan. The company organizes 10–12 international trade fairs, congresses, and forums annually, including the Comp EXPO IT and security trade fair and the flagship Armenia EXPO. Over its history the center has produced more than 250 events attracting around 1,000 local and international exhibiting companies, and it operates the multilingual expo.am platform covering dozens of specialized industry verticals.
Yerevan, Armenia · Event Organisator Armenian business community and club that organises the 40|10 Business Forum and other large open-format gatherings for entrepreneurs in Yerevan. Its events span IT, marketing, management, finance and export across multiple parallel sectoral tracks aimed at founders and business professionals.
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.
Yerevan, Armenia · Startup PicsArt is a Yerevan-founded creative platform and photo/video editing suite that has grown into one of the most downloaded creative apps globally, with over 150 million monthly active users. The platform combines AI-powered editing tools, templates, stickers, and a creator community into a mobile-first experience used by casual creators and small businesses alike. Founded in 2011 by Hovhannes Avoyan, PicsArt raised over $130 million and represents Armenia's most prominent consumer technology export, demonstrating that world-class creative tools can be built and scaled from the region.
Yerevan, Armenia · Startup Plat.AI is an Armenian AI technology company founded in 2020, specializing in predictive analytics solutions for the fintech and insurtech industries. Its platform processes up to 10 million predictions daily for credit and insurance organizations, and has deployed products in cooperation with Armenia's banking and social protection sectors in partnership with the Nork Technology Center. Plat.AI is an active contributor to data science education in Armenia and serves as a Gold Sponsor of PyData PyCon Yerevan 2026.
Yerevan, Armenia · Event Organisator Regional arm of the global Plug and Play innovation platform and accelerator, which runs pre-accelerator cohorts and demo-day expos in Yerevan in partnership with Armenia's Ministry of High-Tech Industry. It connects early-stage Armenian startups with corporates, investors and the wider international Plug and Play network.
Yerevan, Armenia · Event Demo-day expo showcasing the third Armenian startup cohort of the Plug and Play International Pre-Accelerator, powered by Armenia's Ministry of High-Tech Industry. The evening brings together government officials, founders, corporates, investors and VCs for startup pitches and networking. Plug and Play's third Armenia program launched in Yerevan in April 2026.
Yerevan, Armenia · Event Second edition of the joint PyData and PyCon conference at the American University of Armenia, organized with NumFOCUS and PyData Global as partners. Two-day program brings together engineers, researchers, and founders across data science, machine learning, AI, and the broader Python ecosystem.
Yerevan, Armenia · Event Organisator PyData Yerevan is the Yerevan chapter of the global PyData network, hosted at the American University of Armenia (AUA) Akian College of Science and Engineering. It organizes monthly meetups and is the primary organizing body for PyData PyCon Yerevan, an annual international Python and data science conference. The chapter fosters learning and collaboration among data scientists, machine learning practitioners, and Python developers across Armenia and the South Caucasus region.
Yerevan, Armenia · Startup Renderforest is an all-in-one branding platform founded in Yerevan, enabling users to create videos, logos, websites, and graphic designs without prior design skills. The platform serves over 20 million users globally, including large companies such as Vodafone, Sony Music, and GE. Founded by Narek Safaryan, the company has kept its headquarters and engineering operations fully in Armenia.
Yerevan, Armenia · Event Two-day high-tech expo and forum at the Karen Demirchyan Complex where Armenian R&D companies, engineering teams, and research centers showcase products across cybersecurity, defense, and engineering. Organized by the Union of ICT Employers with the Ministry of High-Tech Industry, with three thematic forum tracks and 50+ exhibitor booths.
Yerevan, Armenia · Startup ServiceTitan is a vertical SaaS platform for the trades industry, managing scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, marketing, and customer communications for home and commercial service businesses such as HVAC, plumbing, and electrical contractors. Co-founded by Armenian-Americans Ara Mahdessian and Vahe Kuzoyan, the company went public on the Nasdaq in 2024 and maintains significant R&D operations in Yerevan. With a valuation exceeding $9 billion, ServiceTitan is one of the highest-valued companies with Armenian engineering roots and a powerful signal of the country's capacity to produce enterprise-grade software talent.
Sevan, Armenia · Event A week-long startup bootcamp and networking retreat on the shores of Lake Sevan, combining outdoor activities with intensive mentoring, pitch sessions, and investor meetings. Attracts 500+ founders and mentors from the Armenian diaspora and international ecosystem. Known for its unique lakeside format and strong community bonds. Tickets from EUR 100-300.
Yerevan, Armenia · Venture Capital SmartGateVC is a pre-seed and seed deep-tech venture fund co-headquartered in Yerevan and Glendale, California, founded in 2018. It focuses on AI applied to healthcare, biotech, security, and IoT, and manages a portfolio of over 40 companies. The fund is backed by Tim Draper and One Way Ventures, and the majority of its portfolio companies leverage Armenia for R&D operations.
Yerevan, Armenia · Startup SuperAnnotate is an AI training data platform founded in Yerevan by brothers Tigran and Vahan Petrosyan. It provides tools for annotating, managing, and automating labelled datasets across images, video, text, and audio at scale. Backed by NVIDIA, the platform serves enterprise clients including Databricks and Canva. In 2025 the company raised $50 million to accelerate its AI data-annotation capabilities.
Yerevan, Armenia · Startup Text'nPayMe is a Yerevan-based fintech startup building keyboard-first payment experiences that let users initiate peer-to-peer and micro-transactions directly inside any messaging or social app, without context-switching to a separate banking application. The product takes the form of a custom mobile keyboard extension that sits above the standard typing layer and exposes send-money, request, and split-bill actions as first-class gestures. For banks and wallets the company offers the same stack as an embedded-finance SDK, so that partners can ship in-chat payments without rebuilding messaging infrastructure. Text'nPayMe emerged through the 500 Global Eurasia program and is part of a cohort of Armenian fintechs using the region's engineering depth to attack conversational commerce in emerging markets.
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.
Yerevan, Armenia · Startup Uteach is an all-in-one course-building and online-academy platform built in Yerevan for independent educators, creators, and established learning businesses that want to stop renting their students from marketplaces. The product bundles course hosting, live lessons (1:1 and group), branded school websites with custom domains, built-in payments and subscriptions, quizzes, certificates, affiliate links, and email marketing into a single operational stack, so a solo tutor or a coaching company can move from Zoom + spreadsheets to a proper school without integrating a half-dozen SaaS tools. Uteach scaled through the 500 Global Eurasia program and today serves creators across the US, Europe, MENA, and South Asia, which makes it one of Armenia's clearest examples of a locally built B2B SaaS with a fully international revenue base. It complements global players like Teachable and Thinkific by leaning into emerging-market pricing and stronger native-language support.
Yerevan, Armenia · Startup VXSoft is an Armenian software company specializing in e-Governance solutions, including electronic document management systems, business registers, and civil status registers for the public sector. Co-founded by Ruben Manukyan (CTO and Architect) and Vahagn Mkhitaryan (Founder and President), the company operates offices in Yerevan, Dublin, and other locations, with core software development carried out in Armenia. VXSoft is the Diamond Sponsor of PyData PyCon Yerevan 2026, and its CTO Ruben Manukyan serves as a member of the event organizing committee.
Yerevan, Armenia · Startup Wirestock is an Armenian AI data marketplace startup that sources and curates multimodal creative datasets — including images, videos, 3D models, and audio — for major AI foundation model developers. Founded in Yerevan, the company raised approximately $26 million total, including a $23 million Series A in 2026 led by Nava Ventures with participation from Formula VC and I2BF Ventures, and counts six of the world's largest AI model developers among its clients. Wirestock is a Platinum Sponsor of PyData PyCon Yerevan 2026.
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.