# Rem Darbinyan

> Rem Darbinyan is a pre-seed investor at ViralMango backing Content Creators and Content Marketing. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [ViralMango](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/viralmango)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Sep 2020
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/remdarbinyan/
- Website: https://councils.forbes.com/profile/Rem-Darbinyan-Founder-CEO-SmartClick/0afd9320-8d93-49eb-b2a0-159fb5f32937

Rem Darbinyan is a pre-seed investor at ViralMango in Los Angeles focused on Content Creators and Content Marketing. A serial entrepreneur, angel investor, seasoned advisor, author, and keynote speaker with an investment portfolio of 40+ startups. Being an entrepreneurial executive myself, I founded SmartClick, which builds deep tech innovations based on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. As a customer-driven product leader, I’ve been dedicated tobuilding technologies that are innovative and bring new value to the market. My 20+ years of technology industry expertise and executive management experience in scaling products from conception to large-scale ROI have been proven at both startups and large enterprises alike. My mission is to help companies thrive in this fast-changing world using technologies powered by Artificial Intelligence. Through active involvement in the IT community in Armenia, I’m well known for discovering and mentoring high-potential entrepreneurs, evaluating investment opportunities, and helping newly developing startups. As for my academic degrees, I hold a Master’s Degree in Business Risk Management and a Bachelor’s Degree in Financial Planning.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Content Creators | 2 | 25% |
| Content Marketing | 2 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 25% |
| TV | 1 | 13% |
| Art | 1 | 13% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 63% |
| Armenia | 2 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SmartPush |  |  | Seed | Sep 22, 2020 |  |
| Dzook | dzook is an AI-assisted platform that allows users to convert photos into illustrated portraits and videos into animations. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 21, 2020 |  |
| AimHub | Super easy way to record, search and compare 100s of AI experiments |  | Pre-Seed | May 26, 2020 |  |
| Lucky Carrot | Lucky Carrot helps teams and organizations improve their culture with peer to peer recognition.We allow employees to appreciate each other for all their great actions at work. Our mission is to boost peer to peer relationships, team building activities and promote company core values by engaging and motivating employees in a fun and easy way. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 04, 2020 |  |
| ForgeFiction | ForgeFiction enables fiction viewers to cooperate and produce new stories and fictitious worlds, delivering original content to the media business. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2019 |  |
| Legion M | Legion M is a fan-owned entertainment company that partners with filmmakers and Hollywood studios to develop, finance, produce, distribute, and monetize original movies, TV shows, and more. | $1M | Equity Crowdfunding | May 16, 2016 |  |
| xCraft Enterprises | xCraft develops small, powerful flying machines that change the world. They are thrilled to be working on what they believe will be the predominant platform design for future UAV’s that need both precision landing and hovering capabilities and efficient long-range flight. Their unique, patent-pending designs coupled with their developmentintegrations have led to an amazing outcome of engineering and innovation. |  | Seed |  |  |
| Snapwire | Snapwire is a platform where talented creators shoot custom visual content for brands and businesses around the world. Simply post a creative brief and top performing creators respond by submitting their best shots. Buyers get unique content that matches their vision, and the creators get paid fairly. Our mission is to enable people with apassion for creativity to thrive doing what they love. |  | Pre-Seed |  |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SkyDeck Berkeley](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/skydeck-berkeley) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SmartGateVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smartgatevc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BANA Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-angel-network-of-armenia) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Possible Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/possible-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About ViralMango

VC Fund · Wilmington, United States

ViralMango is a SaaS platform specializing in influencer marketing solutions. We offer dynamic, personalized Influencer Media Kits that feature real-time performance metrics, audience demographics, and rate cards. Our platform serves as a bridge between content creators and top brands, facilitating seamless collaborations. With ViralMango, creatorscan easily share their portfolios across social media platforms, thereby increasing visibility and unlocking new partnership opportunities.

1 contacts available at ViralMango.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rem Darbinyan | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rem-darbinyan |

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## FAQ

### What does Rem Darbinyan invest in?

Rem Darbinyan invests primarily in Content Creators, Content Marketing and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 8 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 Rem Darbinyan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rem Darbinyan closed in Sep 2020. Shizune tracks 8 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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