Manuk Hergnyan
Co Founder & Managing Partner @ Granatus Ventures
Yerevan, Armenia
Manuk Hergnyan is a seed investor at Granatus Ventures in Yerevan focused on Software and Information Technology. Manuk Hergnyan is the co-founder and managing partner at Granatus Ventures, the first Armenian venture capital firm investing in early stage startups. He is also the founder and managing partner at EV Consulting, a leading management advisory and corporate finance firm, with offices in Yerevan and Moscow. Manuk serves on the boards of a number ofhigh tech companies including Menu Group and Liqvor Pharmaceuticals, public sector and non-commercial organizations including Union of Advanced Technology Enterprises of Armenia., Innovation Center (formerly Microsoft Innovation Center). Manuk is active in helping build a strong technology entrepreneurship ecosystem in Armenia through numerous initiatives. Manuk Hergnyan holds an Executive MBA from Oxford University, Ph.D in Economics from Moscow State University after Lomonosov and MA in Economics from Yerevan State University.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries Manuk Hergnyan invests in
Stages Manuk Hergnyan invests in
Countries Manuk Hergnyan invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (25%)
- Information Technology 3 (25%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (25%)
- SaaS 2 (17%)
- Machine Learning 2 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (58%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (33%)
Country
- United States 8 (67%)
- France 1 (8%)
- Armenia 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Modicus Prime
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Bringing Self-Service AI to the Life Sciences | Seed / Feb 07, 2024 | |
Grovf
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Grovf is a silicon (FPGA) design startup working on memory, storage disaggregation, and network offload solutions for the next datacenter standard. We use CXL and CCIX technologies and add our IPs to enable datacenter-level system scaling and security. | Pre-Seed / Dec 28, 2018 | |
Krisp
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Krisp app makes remote workers more professional. With Krisp you can take calls from wherever you want without worrying about privacy and background noise. The app works with all conferencing and recording apps out of the box. It also supports any headset and microphone (built-in, Bluetooth or USB). | $3.5M / Seed / Jun 27, 2018 | |
Netris
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Local private environments are now shifting to cloud-like management. Netris is an automatic network operations platform that turns the physical network into a service, like a cloud. | $560K / Pre-Seed / Jan 11, 2018 | |
IntelinAir
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IntelinAir is an aerial imagery analytics company focused on agriculture that delivers actionable intelligence to help farmers make data-driven decisions to improve operational efficiency, yields, and ultimately their profitability. | Seed / Nov 14, 2017 | |
Collectly
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Collectly is an innovative tool for practices that want to demystify the medical billing process and boost patient collection rates. Collectly helps healthcare organizations collect patient payments, automate, and streamline internal revenue cycle operations, and elevate the patient financial experience. It also helps hospitals and health systemsboost self-pay and after-insurance-responsibility engagement. | $1.9M / Seed / Mar 27, 2017 | |
SoloLearn
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Headquartered in San Francisco and supporting a global remote workforce, Sololearn is an ed-tech startup founded in 2013 that provides an e-learning experience for a variety of digital and tech skills. It is available as a mobile application on iOS and Android as well as within a web browser: www.sololearn.com. Sololearn offers 25+ codingcourses, from Python to HTML, SQL, C++, and more, in Duolingo-style bite-sized lessons. It also hosts a mobile code compiler as well as community interaction support such as user comments on Lessons, coding challenges, and a Leaderboard with over 29 million users. A course is made up of modules and lessons that split topics into smaller groups, and each lesson combines theory with quizzes and practice. Most modules and courses include an overarching code project that users complete little by little as they learn the corresponding topic. | $1.2M / Seed / Oct 18, 2016 | |
Bazillion Beings
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Bazillion Beings is a platform for micro AIs as alternatives to apps: cute, user-created social bots that combine public APIs into new services. Our bots self-monetize through subscription fees, ads and commissions. Bots that cover their own server costs survive. Ones that generate excess revenue can be cloned and improved. The bot population as awhole adapts to different micro-communities and demographics through machine learning and evolves to maximize value for users, bot creators and API providers. | Pre-Seed / Aug 01, 2016 | |
Menu Group
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Menu Group (UK) LTD is the online venture creating the online restaurant and food delivery service leader in the Caucasus and Eastern Europe. | $720K / Pre-Seed / Nov 10, 2015 | |
BeSafe IO
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BeSafe IO enables businesses and individuals to encrypt, track, and revoke access to confidential data, across any platform or device. BeSafe uses cutting-edge proxy re-encryption technologies for securing data while keeping it easily sharable and accessible over cloud services (e.g. Box, Dropbox). | $50K / Seed / Apr 15, 2015 | |
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Co-Investors
SmartGateVC
3 deals together
HIVE Ventures
2 deals together
Berkeley SkyDeck Fund
1 deal together
Fresco Capital
1 deal together
Good Capital
1 deal together
Graph Ventures
1 deal together
About Granatus Ventures
Granatus Ventures is the first Armenia-based 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.
Granatus Ventures Contacts
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Manuk Hergnyan
Co Founder & Managing Partner
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Pierre Hennes
Co- Founder & Partner
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Yervand Sarkisyan
Co Founder & Partner
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FAQ
What does Manuk Hergnyan invest in?
Manuk Hergnyan invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Manuk Hergnyan last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Manuk Hergnyan closed in Feb 2024. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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