# Jack Topdjian

> Jack Topdjian is a seed investor at SmartGateVC (Miami) backing Children and Hospital. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SmartGateVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smartgatevc)
- Location: Miami, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-topdjian-1b87652/

Jack Topdjian is a seed investor at SmartGateVC in Miami focused on Children and Hospital. With over 30 years of experience in entrepreneurship, advisory and investment services, Jack is recognized as one of the foremost global healthcare industry experts specialized in the complex and innovative application of technology to improve impact and performance. He is the founder of Healthcare Equity Angels - a DEI focused investment syndicateof senior industry executives, a healthcare lifesciences venture partner of Smartgate VC / Herohouse AI incubator, an active investor and a mentor to several accelerator programs and early-stage companies. Prior to this, Jack was a Partner at top advisory firms – Mckinsey, Booz/PwC & Deloitte – where he has reached senior practice leadership roles and build a global reputation counseling some of the world’s most prestigious healthcare, private equity and technology companies on strategic use of emerging technologies, deriving value from digital transformation and delivering advanced technology capabilities.Jack is very active in industry associations, is the author of several articles that are frequently quoted and a recurrent speaker at major conferences. He is passionate about social justice, equity and impacting global healthcare cost and quality with the use of advanced technologies and engineering principles to serve society's most vulnerable members.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Children | 1 | 100% |
| Hospital | 1 | 100% |
| Robotics | 1 | 100% |
| Health Care | 1 | 100% |
| Computer Vision | 1 | 100% |

7 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Expper Technologies | Expper Technologies is a robotics company that develops social robots that serve as a companion for kids in hospitals. | $2.5M | Seed | Jan 18, 2022 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AISprouts](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aisprouts) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Angelsdeck Global Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angelsdeck) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BANA Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-angel-network-of-armenia) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Formula VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/formula-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Formula VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/formula-vc-d694) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Liqvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liqvest) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About SmartGateVC

VC Fund · Yerevan, Armenia

SmartGateVC is a SoCal and Armenia based VC with a focus on pre-seed investments in AI. Krisp (the world’s best noise cancellation technology), SuperAnnotate (the fastest annotation platform and services for training AI) are among our investments (27 portfolio companies since 2018). Sierra Ventures, Upfront Ventures, AI Fund, YC, and others areamong our follow-on investors. We invest out of 2 funds and our investors include Tim Draper, One Way Ventures, and other high-profile GPs, entrepreneurs, and professionals.

5 contacts available at SmartGateVC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ashot Arzumanyan | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashot-arzumanyan |
| Jack Topdjian | Healthcare, Lifesciences and Medical Devices Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jack-topdjian |
| Vazgen Hakobjanyan | Partner (Fund I) | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vazgen-hakobjanyan |
| Areg Alimian | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/areg-alimian |
| Hambardzum Kaghketsyan | Partner (Fund I) | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hambardzum-kaghketsyan |

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## FAQ

### What does Jack Topdjian invest in?

Jack Topdjian invests primarily in Children, Hospital and Robotics startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Armenia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Jack Topdjian last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jack Topdjian closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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