Entrepreneur Immersion 2019

HyeTech EIP 2019
February 15-24, 2019
Los Angeles and Silicon Valley
ABOUT

HyeTech EIP 2019 has been designed to provide promising Armenian startup founders the opportunity to learn what in Silicon Valley is conducive for global startups. It's a 10-days intensive program in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley aiming to help the founders to:
understand how best to engage with SV on an on-going basis and draw maximum value;
discover key subject matter experts and business leaders in their industry, including competitors, partners and potential customers;
experience tempo and highly competitive nature of building startups in 2019;
feel the vibes and dynamics of SV culture;
practice more frequently empathy in personal and professional relationships.
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
CROSS-BORDER GROWTH
maintain and grow team in different countries
VISITS
SPEAKERS

Ronald Weissman
Chairman, Software Industry Group at Band of Angels
How Venture capital works and Silicon valley
Hamlet Azarian
Growth hacking Expert
Growth hacking strategies frameworks and tactics
Vach Hovsepyan
VP of Customer Success at ServiceTitan
Setting up and scaling Customer Success in vertical SaaS
Zach Noorani
Partner at Foundation Capital
VC trends in 2019 and beyond
Artyom Poghosyan
CEO and Co-founder at Britive
Building and exiting a company: how it works
Vahe Baloilian
Strategic Adviser at BetConstruct
Growing out of Armenia
Tushar Makhija
Early stage SaaS executive
Learn. Unlearn. Learn. Getting to your first $1M ARR
Tigran Sloyan
CEO at CodeSignal
Early stage fundraising
Tigran Shahverdyan
Co-founder and CTO at Robomart
Lessons learned from RoboCV
Taron Lizaguh
Founder and CEO at Knoxlabs
Hustling right: Knoxlabs story
Suren Markosian
CEO and Co-founder of Epic
Journey of Epic and challenges: how I dealt with them
Stephen Edmondson
Director of Paid Media at Four15 Digital
Top 10 tips for startups looking to start paid advertising
Shahan Khoshafian
Mentor at Runway: The Innovation Hub
Sales for early stage startups
Nerses Ohanyan
SVP of Customer Success at Vineti
Startup Charm School: Do's and Don'ts
Mariam Hambarchyan
Lead User Researcher at NeoSensory, Inc.
Habit forming products
Levon Brutyan
Founder and CEO of Collectly.co
Networking and building relationships in US
Laura Biliazarian
Venture Partner at SaaStr Fund
First Sales and Cross-border growth
Lara Lagerquist
Sr. Director of Creative, Janie and Jack at Gymboree Group
Branding in US
Ian McFarland
Executive, Global Solutions Delivery at ConsenSys
Building cross-border teams
Bertram Meyer
Co-founder and CEO at OneDome Global
European founders built a class-leading US company
Armen Margarian
Co-founder and CEO of AppearMe and NexusLab
Legal Session
Armen Berjikly
Senior Director of Growth Strategy at Ultimate Software
Building Teams
Allan Young
Co-founder and Chairman at Pavo IoT
Brand Building in the US Market
Al Eisaian
Co-founder and CEO of IntelinAir
Interview
Nina Achadjian
Principal at Index Ventures
Investor deck design and presentation
Raffi Krikorian
CTO at the Democratic National Committee
Lunch
SPONSORS AND PARTNERS
They make it happen
Venture Sponsor
Seed Sponsor
Angel Sponsor
Seed Sponsor
Seed Sponsor
Angel Sponsor
Seed Sponsor, EIP 2016 participant
As well, personal contributions were received from Gohar Galyan, Berge Ayvazian, Davit Baghdasaryan, Artavazd Minasyan and Laura Bilazarian.
ORGANIZERS
HyeTech
We are better together
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.
GALLERY

HyeTech EIP 2019

February 15-24, 2019Los Angeles and Silicon Valley

ABOUT

10

15

30

11

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

FIRST SALES

FUNDRAISING

CROSS-BORDER GROWTH

VISITS

SPEAKERS

Ronald Weissman

Chairman, Software Industry Group at Band of Angels

Hamlet Azarian

Growth hacking Expert

Vach Hovsepyan

VP of Customer Success at ServiceTitan

Zach Noorani

Partner at Foundation Capital

Artyom Poghosyan

CEO and Co-founder at Britive

Vahe Baloilian

Strategic Adviser at BetConstruct

Tushar Makhija

Early stage SaaS executive

Tigran Sloyan

CEO at CodeSignal

Tigran Shahverdyan

Co-founder and CTO at Robomart

Taron Lizaguh

Founder and CEO at Knoxlabs

Suren Markosian

CEO and Co-founder of Epic

Stephen Edmondson

Director of Paid Media at Four15 Digital

Shahan Khoshafian

Mentor at Runway: The Innovation Hub

Nerses Ohanyan

SVP of Customer Success at Vineti

Mariam Hambarchyan

Lead User Researcher at NeoSensory, Inc.

Levon Brutyan

Founder and CEO of Collectly.co

Laura Biliazarian

Venture Partner at SaaStr Fund

Lara Lagerquist

Sr. Director of Creative, Janie and Jack at Gymboree Group

February 15-24, 2019
Los Angeles and Silicon Valley