Investors in Armenia

Granatus Ventures is the first Venture Capital firm with offices in Yerevan, London and Singapore providing investment, networks and expertise to startups worldwide that leverage Armenia's potential as an emerging technology hub.

Insight Partners is the most trusted scale-up firm in the software industry. Their team of industry-leading experts partner with companies to drive extraordinary success that is fueled by know-how, grit, and hands-on collaboration. Founded in 1995, Insight currently has over $20 billion of assets under management and has cumulatively invested in more than 300 companies worldwide. Across their people and their portfolio, they encourage a culture around a core belief: growth equals opportunity.

Sequoia Capital Global Equities extends Sequoia Capital’s technology investing efforts into the public markets. SCGE currently manages over $7 billion and invests in companies across the global technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) sectors, primarily focusing on software, internet, financial technology, and technology-enabled consumer businesses. The firm’s portfolio consists of concentrated, long-term investments in leading companies across the world. While the majority of the portfolio is comprised of public companies, SCGE also partners with entrepreneurs through late-stage private crossover investments, often investing alongside Sequoia Growth funds. The firm’s private portfolio includes emerging leaders in the United States, China, India, Brazil, Korea, and Israel. As these private companies become public, SCGE grows the partnership with additional investments at the IPO and beyond.

DCM Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in growth, early-stage, mid-stage, startup, and selectively in seed and late stage companies. It seeks to invest in information technology companies with a focus on blockchain, cryptocurrency, real estate, travel tech, online travel, business software and services, software-as-a-service, fintech, virtual reality, automated drone technology, artificial intelligence, communications and infrastructure, communications services, cleantech, consumer internet and digital media, internet infrastructure, mobile applications, mobile messaging, messaging, water purification, social and gaming, communications and networking, components, security and storage, wireless infrastructure, content, e-commerce, mobile, consumer and enterprise services, cloud computing, O2O services, big data, education, connected devices, digital health, smart devices, mobile solutions, semiconductors, digital video, cloud media, component, operating system software, online entertainment, systems, internet advertising, and outsourcing. The firm also invests in SME focused Internet and mobile service, B2C/C2C marketplace, sharing Economy, data-driven businesses, intelligent technology enabled businesses (AI/robotics/future of mobility), network effect businesses. It invests globally with focus on the United States, Asia, China, Japan, Europe, South Korea, and Latin America and Caribbean. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. It prefers to exits through IPO and merger and acquisition. DCM Ventures was founded in 1996 and is based in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in Beijing, China and Tokyo, Japan.

Tribe Capital is a venture capital firm launched by a trio of former Social Capital partners and data scientists, namely; Arjun Sethi, Jonathan Hsu, Ted Maidenberg, Jake Ellowitz, and Brendan Moore.

G Squared is the venture capital and private equity firm specializing in early, growth/ expansion, mid and late-stage financing for pre-IPO companies. The firm seeks to primarily focus on e-commerce, infrastructure, mobile SaaS, cloud computing and Big Data, Marketplaces, Mobility 2.0, New Age Media, Social Mobile, biotechnology, clean technology, energy, next generation fossil fuels, sustainability, and Information Technology. It prefers to invest across Asia, Europe, and United States. It seeks to make co-investments as well as control investments. The firm prefers minority stake and will syndicate. G Squared was founded in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Chicago, Illinois.

The SoftBank Group is a global technology player that aspires to drive the Information Revolution. The SoftBank Group is comprised of the holding company SoftBank Group Corp. and its global portfolio of companies, which includes advanced telecommunications, internet services, AI, smart robotics, IoT and clean energy technology providers. In September 2016, Arm Holdings plc, the world's leading semiconductor IP company, joined the SoftBank Group. In May 2017, the SoftBank Vision Fund, which invests globally in the businesses and technologies that will enable the next stage of the Information Revolution, had its first major close with over USD 93 billion in committed capital.

Beginning with the Spring 2018 SkyDeck cohort, each of the 20 companies accepted into the SkyDeck full cohort will be eligible for investment of up to $100,000 from the Berkeley SkyDeck Fund. Created as a joint venture among UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering, Haas School of Business, and the Vice Chancellor for Research Office, SkyDeck Berkeley has become the apex startup launchpad for UC Berkeley-affiliated entrepreneurs. As one of the first in-house public research university accelerator programs, our goal is to foster entrepreneurial excellence through personalized and specialized engagement to our teams by providing access to our network of advisors, investors, workshops and other resources.

Founded in 1982, Sierra Ventures is a Bay Area based early-stage venture firm investing globally with a focus on Next Generation Enterprise and Emerging Technologies. With over three decades of experience and over $2 billion of assets under management, Sierra has created a vast network of successful entrepreneurs, Global 1000 CXOs, operational executives, and deep domain experts, providing a platform for entrepreneurs around the world.

Ironfire Ventures is a cross-border fund with in-house design and research services for our portfolio companies. We invest in startups from seed to series B in AI/ML, Lifestyle (consumption upgrades), Marketplaces, and Enterprise Software categories.