Entrepreneur Immersion Program
HyeTech EIP 2019
February 15-24, 2019 Los Angeles and Silicon Valley
10
Days
15
Participants
30
Sessions
11
Visits
Participant startups
D'efekt
Mobile app, providing unique effects for video recording.
Expper Technologies
Business assistant robot powered by ML allowing to provide personalized, real-time customer support.
Rentopian
An all-in-one platform that handles the whole cycle of an event rental business management.
EasyDmarc
All-in-1 solution to setup email authentication effectively and quickly.
LiveBoard
Mobile app helps tutors and teachers to run their online sessions using any touchable mobile device.
On Your Way
Allows users to transport products from USA stores to Lebanon and earn enough money to cover their round-way trips.
Oores
Mapfeed to the social media game thus adding layers to classify content by relevance.
Risksensor
Day to day risk management for retail traders.
Facehub
An AI that does real time face to face swap on mobile device.
Win.gg
Provides latest esports news, scores and stats, allows following teams and players.
Lumzag
Developing smart bags with 7 unique and carefully designed smart features incorporated into them.
Cicero
Helps pharmaceutical sales reps deliver their message with confidence while supporting compliance.
Retention Force
Helps to maintain customer retention for beauty salons and related wellness industry.
Dispatch
Qualitative optimization using cutting-edge mathematical know-how and deep analysis of the particular complex logistic system.
TruePublic
Allows to anonymously share opinion and see what others think based on gender, age, race, location, and political leaning.
Program
Startup founders met successful entrepreneurs and investors, received presentations on various business topics and advice. Important components of the program were visits to accelerators and investment firms and hearing from the first source what investors are looking at and what are the changes in the venture capital that entrepreneurs should be aware of in 2019. The program culminated into a pitching competition on Feb 22.
The main focus of the Program was on:
First sales
setup and turn on sales engine
Fundraising
design and execute fundraising strategy
Growth
maintain and grow team in different countries
Visits
Speakers
Al Eisaian
Co-founder and CEO of IntelinAir
Interview
Allan Young
Co-founder and Chairman at Pavo IoT
Brand Building in the US Market
Armen Berjikly
Senior Director of Growth Strategy at Ultimate Software
Building Teams
Armen Margarian
Co-founder and CEO of AppearMe and NexusLab
Legal Session
Artyom Poghosyan
CEO and Co-founder at Britive
Building and exiting a company: how it works
Bertram Meyer
Co-founder and CEO at OneDome Global
European founders built a class-leading US company
Hamlet Azarian
Growth hacking Expert
Growth hacking strategies frameworks and tactics
Ian McFarland
Executive, Global Solutions Delivery at ConsenSys
Building cross-border teams
Lara Lagerquist
Sr. Director of Creative, Janie and Jack at Gymboree Group
Branding in US
Laura Biliazarian
Venture Partner at SaaStr Fund
First Sales and Cross-border growth
Levon Brutyan
Founder and CEO of Collectly.co
Networking and building relationships in US
Mariam Hambarchyan
Lead User Researcher at NeoSensory, Inc.
Habit forming products
Nerses Ohanyan
SVP of Customer Success at Vineti
Startup Charm School: Do's and Don'ts
Nina Achadjian
Principal at Index Ventures
Investor deck design and presentation
Raffi Krikorian
CTO at the Democratic National Committee
Lunch
Ronald Weissman
Chairman, Software Industry Group at Band of Angels
How Venture capital works and Silicon valley
Shahan Khoshafian
Mentor at Runway: The Innovation Hub
Sales for early stage startups
Stephen Edmondson
Director of Paid Media at Four15 Digital
Top 10 tips for startups looking to start paid advertising
Suren Markosian
CEO and Co-founder of Epic
Journey of Epic and challenges: how I dealt with them
Taron Lizagub
Founder and CEO at Knoxlabs
Hustling right: Knoxlabs story
Tigran Shahverdyan
Co-founder and CTO at Robomart
Lessons learned from RoboCV
Tigran Sloyan
CEO at CodeSignal
Early stage fundraising
Tushar Makhija
Early stage SaaS executive
Learn. Unlearn. Learn. Getting to your first $1M ARR
Vach Hovsepyan
VP of Customer Success at ServiceTitan
Setting up and scaling Customer Success in vertical SaaS
Vahe Baloilian
Strategic Adviser at BetConstruct
Growing out of Armenia
Zach Noorani
Partner at Foundation Capital
VC trends in 2019 and beyond
Sponsors and partners
They make it happen
Hive Ventures
Venture Sponsor
Soft Construct
Angel Sponsor
Vineti
Angel Sponsor
SmartClick
Seed Sponsor
Teamable
Seed Sponsor
EarlyOne
Seed Sponsor, EIP 2016 participant
SFL
Seed Sponsor
As well, personal contributions were received from Gohar Galyan, Berge Ayvazian, Davit Baghdasaryan, Artavazd Minasyan and Laura Bilazarian.
Organizers
HyeTech
HyeTech is a gathering of Armenian professionals who share the technical, business and entrepreneurship savvy that makes the Silicon Valley a unique place to work and live.
SmartGateVC
Investing in capable, unstoppable and unbreakable teams.
Backed by Tim Draper and seasoned tech entrepreneurs, SmartGate is a venture capital firm targeting tech companies in AI, Security and IoT.
Globally
Hosting and supporting
Globally is a 501c3 nonprofit organization registered in Berkeley, California. It supports Armenian entrepreneurs and provides hosting since 2012. Over 30 tech entrepreneurs were hosted by Globally team.