Microsoft Innovation Center Armenia and Seedstars World organize an international start-up competition Seedstars Yerevan 2016 which will be held at American University of Armenia on June 25, 2016. You are cordially invited to be our guest. The event will start at 12 pm and close with an award ceremony at 5 pm.
About
Seedstars World is coming back to Yerevan!
The 10 best startups from Yerevan will be invited to pitch in front of an investment panel and compete to be crowned the most promising seed-stage startup of Seedstars Yerevan 2016. The winning startup will join the global Seedstars Family and take part in the regional and global Seedstars Summits that include our tried and tested bootcamp and investor forum. It's a catalytic platform for high growth emerging market startups.
In addition to seeing the top startups pitch, you can look forward to an event filled with disruptive tech, inspirational discussions, networking sessions and one flight ticket for the winner to come to Switzerland to compete for over $1mn in investment.
Register to attend or apply to pitch below.
Speakers
- Artashes Vardanyan
Director
MIC Armenia
- Igor Ovcharenko
Regional Manager for CEE/MENA
Seedstars World
- Bagrat Yengibaryan
CEO
EIF
- Areg Gevorgyan
Business Development Manager
IBM ISTC
- Aram Mkhitaryan
Winner of SSW Yerevan 2015
Eye Care Plus
Jury
- Tiffany Obser
MENA/CEE Senior Associate
Seedstars World - Armine Saidi
Co-founder & CEO
Wicastr
- Rouben Meschian
Founding Software Engineer
Cambridge Semantics
- Yeva Hyusyan
CEO & Founder
SoloLearn
- Lukas Gasser
Ambassador to Armenia
Swiss Embassy
- Emil Hakobian
Chief Product Officer
BetConstruct
Agenda
TIME DESCRIPTION
12:00 Arrival / Networking
12:30 - 12:50 Welcome speech. Special remarks from Bagrat Yengibaryan.
12:50 - 13:00 Keynote. Areg Gevorgyan
13:00 - 14:00 1st Pitching session
14:00 - 14:30 Break / Networking
14:30 - 15:30 2nd Pitching session
15:30 - 16:15 IBM ISTC Demo Day
16:15 - 16:30 Announcement of the winner
16:30 Networking
Finalists
ARMACAD
Yerevan
ARMACAD is a platform for students, scholars, scientists and parents to search and find scholarships, grants, fully funded conferences, summer schools, trainings, seminars and other study opportunities worldwide. Every day regular updates across hundreds of disciplines appear online on armacad.info.
Bazillion Beings
Yerevan
Bazillion Beings is creating large populations of dynamic, social bots with unique ai and machine learning abilities. You meet them on devices and on the web and they offer you services by interfacing with other services online. They develop, reproduce and metabolize data. And they evolve as a species.
Cube Technologies
Yerevan
Terreva is an easy-to-use plant recognition tool. By combining the latest research in visual recognition with botanical expertise, we offer a mobile application that will help you keep your plants healthy and vibrant by providing on the spot plant identification and plant specific care advice.
Earlyone
Yerevan
Earlyone is made to create a technology, which has no boundaries and deliver customer service excellence in all parts of the world.
Embrion
Yerevan
Embrion is well-designed combination of smart scales and wearable activity tracker.
Evoca llc
Yerevan
Evoca comprises a set of audio dictionaries that can work on your mobile phone, tablet, laptop or other devices. Mobility is number one feature of our app which allows you to practice a foreign language at any convenient place or time.
Haystack
Yerevan
Search Engine For Licensable Creative Content
LiveBoard
Yerevan
LiveBoard is a mobile drawing and collaboration tool that allows you to draw, mark up images and work together with friends and colleagues in real-time.
Localz
Yerevan
Localz is made up of group of dedicated professionals from Armenia, who are willing to change the way people travel and make a better relationship between travelers and locals. The goal is to give the traveler an opportunity to have an experience of a local discovering all the hidden places of their destination. Localz provides very large and diverse group of tours – started from simple sightseeing to once in a lifetime experience like going deep into the world’s oldest caves. The main goal is to give the traveler a chance to choose any tour; any tour guide and feel like a local.
MovieTrip
Yerevan
MovieTrip is an app for movie loving travelers that allows them to easily find locations from their favorite movies.
Qlim B.V.
Yerevan
Qlim is dedicated to make car washing nicer, easier and also cheaper. Simply choose a station, select a wash program and pay easily from mobile
VQUICK
Yerevan
VQuick is a subsidiary brand of Energize Global Services, a leading-edge technology and software development company focused on delivering the best and most cost-effective services and solutions to its clients globally
Location
The event will be held at the American University in Armenia, located at 40 Marshal Baghramyan Ave, Yerevan.