🇦🇲🦊 Hye Ventures 2022 Year-End Recap!

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Here are some of the Hye Ventures highlights for 2022:

• 💵 Armenian Startups raised over $100M globally!

• 🦄 Startups Spotlights of the following companies changing the world one product at a time: Voltz, Lucky Carrot, WireStock, Pinsight, ANIV, manot, Ntropy, EasyDmarc, and CurbWaste Technologies.

• 👨‍💻 Hye Ventures Website Launch

• 📚 TUMO Project: the Gift of Education - Donate as a Gift for the Holidays!

• 🔬 Bios: Mr. Five Per Cent - Calouste Gulbenkian and The Father of MRI - Raymond Damadian

• 👨‍🏫 Valuable resources and articles

• And much more!

2023 will be a big year! Keep an eye out for big announcements, partnerships, investments, and initiatives! Stay tuned 👀

🎄🎉Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone! 🎉🎄

Naval @naval

It’s not 10,000 hours, it’s 10,000 iterations.

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Armenian Startup News 📣

💸 LayerSwap received a seed investment of 2.5 million dollars, completing the investment round with DeltaFund. Within the last 6 months, they got over 20,000 users and processed 80M in transaction volume.

💻 Bardeen, LuckyCarrot, and Anania all launched on product hunt this month. Check them out. If you see a product that could be useful to you or your team, reach out to them!

😎 3 Armenian startups LiveBoard, Text'nPayme, and GOTCHA are participating in the 500 Startups Global International Acceleration program in Georgia.

🌄 Silicon Mountains International Technology Summit will be held in Yerevan on December 9. Panel discussions will be on the topics of "Smart Economy", "Smart Banking", "Smart Governance", and "Smart Infrastructures". Register here!

🎤 Great conversation between myself and Nick Cabraloff of

Hye Combinator

as we talk about Hye Ventures and the Armenian Tech Ecosystem! Read it here!

💼 Referme, co-founded by Dominick Tavitian, is a platform that streamlines the referral process for everyone that’s seeking or offering jobs. You can request a referral entirely for free if you’re looking for a job at your dream company; and if you’re referring someone, there’s no pressure - you have full agency over who to refer.

🪪 Google enabled Google Pay and Google Wallet in Armenia. Cardholders of 6 Armenian banks – ACBA, Ameriabank, Ardshinbank, Armeconombank, Converse bank, and Evocabank, will be able to store credit and debit cards within Google Wallet. Cardholders will be able to make contactless payments. access loyalty cards, boarding passes, and event tickets in the Google wallet.

💎 Alex and Ani founder Carolyn Rafaelian launches Metal Alchemist, a new jewelry empire!

🎵 doodooc is the official music visualizer of the FIFA Fan Fest 2022, and its visualizations will be displayed on every screen of FIFA Fan Zones!

💰 Armenia has a higher average salary for a software engineer than neighboring countries ($19K). Looks like we are already creating a more competitive and mature startup ecosystem.

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🚨 Hye Ventures Syndicate: As mentioned a few months ago (read about it here), we now have an investment syndicate looking to back Armenian founders that are raising capital. If you are interested in supporting product-driven, Armenian founders as an investor, fill out the form & we’ll be happy to share our investment opportunities with you!

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What we’re following 🚀

Ankur Nagpal @ankurnagpal

Since it's almost Black Friday, a PSA for anyone running a software business: Never, ever discount the price of your software You inadvertently train your customers to wait for discounts to buy And it's a very, very hard cycle to break from Do any of these instead:

Entrepreneurship:

1. The New Reality for Startups: More Resilient and Adaptive by Alexander Norman

2. The Best Time of Year to Raise for Your Startup by Tomasz Tunguz

3. Hard Rest, or How Not to Drive Your Company off A Cliff by Sarah Guo

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Jobs 💼

LayerSwap, who just closed their 2.5M seed round, has 3 vacant roles. Check them out: 3 vacant positions: Lead Front-end engineer, Senior C# engineer, Senior UI/UX Design engineer

AimStack is hiring for a Senior Backend Engineer.

Due is hiring for a Software Engineer.

Digilite is hiring for a PPC Specialist.

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Startup spotlight 👨‍💻👩‍💻

Mashroom Ltd

Mashroom, co-founded by Alexander Badalyan and Stepan Dobrovolskiy in 2018, is a prop-tech startup that provides end-to-end property letting services to landlords and tenants. The self-service platform lets landlords list their property, which tenants can then rent easily. Mashroom digitise about "98%" of the rental journey in which they offer digital credit and reference checks and the signing of rental agreements and tenancy renewals. The startup generates revenue via its financial products offering, rent guarantees, and other insurance products. The team has raised over £7M!

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