SmartGateVC
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SmartGateVC is a venture capital firm based in California and Armenia, investing in pre-seed and seed stage companies focused on artificial intelligence, physical AI, robotics, cybersecurity, neurotech, and life sciences. It provides capital, talent, and industry connections to support startups from pre-seed to seed stage.
SmartGateVC is a venture capital firm headquartered in Glendale, United States, founded in 2017. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in AI, physical AI, robotics and cybersecurity. 42 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest on the edge where science and entrepreneurship join to disrupt the status quo”
— SmartGateVC, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Glendale, United States
- Invests in
- US, Armenia
- Sectors
- AI, Physical AI, Robotics, Cybersecurity, Neurotech, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Life Sciences
- Founded
- 2017
- Portfolio
- 42 companies
Team, as SmartGateVC publishes it
- Ashot Arzumanyan Co-founder & Partner
- Areg Alimian Partner
- Jack Topdjian Healthcare Venture Partner
- Alex Pepe Venture Partner
- Vazgen Hakobjanyan Co-founder & Partner (Fund I)
- Hambardzum Kaghketsyan Co-founder & Partner (Fund I)
- Armine Galstyan Principal, Head of the US Operations
- Ellada Ayvazyan Principal, Life Sciences
- Liana Karapetyan Principal, Physical AI
- Samvel Khachikyan Director of Programs
- Anna Aleksanyan Partnerships Coordinator
- Lily Ayvazyan PR & Communications Specialist
Names and roles exactly as listed on smartgate.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 148 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Runa Capital 7 shared companies: pointninecap.com, superannotate.com, fathomcap.com, base10.vc…
- AI Ventures Management, LLC 5 shared companies: yahoo.com, async.com, gartner.com, washingtonpost.com…
- At One Ventures 4 shared companies: time.com, yahoo.com, washingtonpost.com, bbc.com
- Female Founders Fund 4 shared companies: time.com, yahoo.com, adweek.com, washingtonpost.com
- BOLD Capital Partners 4 shared companies: yahoo.com, labusinessjournal.com, washingtonpost.com, cbinsights.com
- Formula VC 4 shared companies: superannotate.com, krisp.ai, waveye.com, robinrobot.com
- Science and Technology Angels Network (STAN) 4 shared companies: waveye.com, feedbackintelligence.ai, grovf.com, tactun.com
- Lowercarbon Capital 3 shared companies: time.com, washingtonpost.com, bbc.com
- Defy.vc 3 shared companies: yahoo.com, ycombinator.com, labusinessjournal.com
- Red Cell Partners 3 shared companies: yahoo.com, fathomcap.com, gartner.com
and 138 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page SmartGateVC publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.smartgate.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.smartgate.vc/portfoliosectors
- https://www.smartgate.vc/teampeople
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Record 3755 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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