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The global 3D bioprinting market size is valued at USD 1.4 billion and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 15.8% from 2021 to 2028. 

In this episode of HyeTech Minds I’ll sit down with Emmanuel Ghandilyan, MD, who built the first 3D bioprinting startup in Armenia Foldink that provides 3D Bioprinting technology to biomedical scientists who are conducting research in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Exciting story on how Emmanuel was able to turn his university project into a successful business. While working on his scientific project at Yerevan State Medical University, Emmanuel decided to work with 3d printers and 3d printing in medicine. After finding out that bio printers and other novel technologies are unavailable in Armenia, Emmanuel joined his efforts with industry experts and otehr scientists to launch the very FIRST 3Dbioprinting company in Armenia FoldInk. 

During our conversation, Emmanuel shares his success story and gives actionable tips on how to turn scientific language into a successful business.

Emmanuel's bio: Emmanuel is a CEO & Co-Founder of Foldink 3D Bioprinting. He is a TEDx Speaker and 3D bioprinting/3D printing expert, entrepreneur, bioengineer and MD physician working on applying additive manufacturing technologies in biomedical science and medicine.

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Do you know that the Agile adoption has helped 98% of companies, while 60% of companies experience growth in profits after the adoption of the Agile approach? (Source)

In this episode of HyeTech Minds, I sat down with Anna Zakoyan, Founder of PrimeProjekt that helps companies to transform their product flows, teams, and processes to make maximum efficiency through an Agile approach. During our conversation, Anna showcases the benefits of the Agile approach and explains the entire adoption process. It's fascinating to hear how they in PrimeProjekt use a psychological toolkit to build better communication with their customers, to understand more their needs, and reshape their mindset to be more adaptive to the new innovative business solutions. 

You want also to hear Anna's startup story and some of the challenges she overcame as a women entrepreneur.

Anna's bio: Anna is an Agile Coach, Trainer, and Consultant. Anna brings more than 12 years of experience in Agile, and 16 years in project and team management in total. Anna has managed and helped more than 40 local and foreign projects, coached more than 100 teams, trained more than 1000 individuals. She holds certificates from Scrumalliance.org and Scrum.org (CAL-1, CSM, A-CSM, PSM). She conducts private consultations, training for startups and organizations, as well as offers training for individuals.

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To learn more about PrimeProjekt, please visit http://primeprojekt.com/ 

To connect with Anna Zakoyan, Founder of PrimeProjekt visit her LinkedIn Page 

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There is a creative connection between art and technology. Technology unleashes the creativity of artists providing them with new tools to artists to transform and advance their art. 

This startup 3Dzook integrates AI into the art helping customers to draw their illustrative portraits in seconds. With the mission to make people smile Dzook converts simple photos and videos into animated illustrations. With 365,000 portraits generated in 133 countries and 13 k monthly active users, today Dzook is in talks with a leading social media platform.

"We saw that people are getting happy. And we got a lot of pictures, people were thanking us for their portraits. If we can make people happy at least one day, we will do it, " told one of the Co-founders of Dzook Agata Badalyan, who joined me last week on our next episode of HyeTech Minds. We talked about Dzook, Agata's startup journey, and the state of women entrepreneurship in Armenia. 

Bio: Agata is a Co-founder and Art Director at 3dzook. Agat brings 19 years of experience in illustration. For the overwhelming majority of these years, Agata dedicated to Digital Illustration, Comics Design, Character Design, Vector & Book Illustration.

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A Silicon Valley pre-seed venture capital fund SmartGate VC has launched a new Acceleration Program Hero House Glendale to help startups in Eastern Europe to get into the U.S. market. Through 12 week program, startups will have the opportunity to set up their sales and growth hackings in the United States. 

In this Episode, Co-founder and Partner with SmartGateVC Ashot Arzumanyan joined me to talk about the Hero House Glendale, some of the benefit startups in the Eastern Europe can take advantage of it, and ways to overcome challenges to get into the United States market. 

With Ashot, we also discussed the role of the Armenian tech community in Silicon Valley in the expansion of the Armenian tech and innovation ecosystem, as well as the ways to attract more entrepreneurs and investors from Diaspora to come to Armenia and start their business. 

Bio: Ashot Arzumanyan is the co-founder and partner with SmartGateVC, a Silicon Valley pre-seed venture capital fund. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics from Yerevan State University. He teaches venture capital management for MBA students at the American University of Armenia. The SmartGateVC team stands behind initiatives like Yerevan Machine Learning Excellence Center, Gate42 Quantum Computing Research Lab, and Armenia. 

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Covid-19 has disrupted higher education in many ways. 1.2 billion students were out of school due to the Covid crisis. Virtual learning has become a real challenge for many educators and students. From finding the right virtual platform to hold classes, adopting new technology tools for remote learning to creating a new curriculum that can be as effective as face-to-face classes, many educators across the globe have been struggling to adopt this new reality of virtual learning.

Narine Manukyan was one of those educators who had to move to virtual instruction and like everybody had to somehow figure out how to exist virtually professionally. In late August, she came up with the idea to create a new technology tool that can behave the same way as in a physical space and create the ability to connect with students. 

In this Episode, Narine Manukyan, the Founder and CEO of InSpace Proximity of a new virtual learning platform joins me to discuss some of the challenges the educators and students face with remote learning and the solutions InSpace brings to those problems. 

Bio: Narine Manukayn, Founder and CEO of InSpace Proximity. Narine holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and she is a Program Director for Data Science Center in Champlain college. Her passion is digging deep into Big Data Design, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Evolutionary Computation, Data Mining, and Social Contingency.

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Technology advancement and the Internet have transformed the publishing industry significantly. The introduction of e-books, digital reading products, and audiobooks created new opportunities for book fans not only to read books right from their pocket but also to write and self-publish books.

ForgeFiction offers a new platform for book fans to write and self-publish books. On ForgeFictions the book fans have the ability not only to write and publish books but also to share the chapters, build community collaboration, and contribute to their favorite fictions. “Like geeks or friends of fiction and fantasy, book fans are forging fiction together,” told the Co-Founder of ForgeFiction Areg Vardanyan on HyeTech Minds Podcast.

Co-Founder of ForgeFiction Areg Vardanyan joins me on this episode. We talk about Areg's startup journey, some of the challenges he overcomes on his road to success, the transformation of the publishing industry, and technology for good.

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ForgeFiction https://forgefiction.com/ 

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From personal care, socialization, and psychological help, this Armenian startup Exxper Technology helps children in hospitals to cope with stress and anxiety, supports their mental health, and offers new technological ways of patient care. Their emotionally intelligent robot called Robin creates a friendly environment by engaging children in playful and meaningful interactions by telling funny stories, playing interactive games with children. This makes medical procedures easier and faster.

Co-Founder of Exxper Technologies Karen Kachikian joins me on this episode. We talk about Karen's startup journey, some of the challenges he overcomes on his road to success and future plans in robotics.

We also will discuss their new product - an emotionally intelligent robot called Robin that has a huge potential to disrupt the patient care industry.

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Berge Ayvazian is a Senior Analyst and Consultant at Wireless 20/20 on 4G/5G Networks and Mobile Internet Evolution. During his 23 year career at Yankee Group, Berge directed more than 100 consulting projects forecasting product and service markets, assessing strategies, and analyzing investment opportunities in the telecommunications, wireless, computer, internet, cable, and broadcast TV industries.

Berge also Angel Investor and has been actively helping the Armenian tech community to connect with the U.S. market and boost investments in the Armenian tech ecosystem.

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As he called himself "a bit of a dinosaur" in telecommunications, Berge helped to bring cable TV to most of the major cities in the United States, traveled around the world, and helped privatize a lot of the world's a lot of the telecom systems, telecom operators that were government-owned in different countries. After, he joined Yankee Group and spent about twenty-three years with that company and ultimately became CEO. Although when he started his professional journey, wireless really meant paging and early stage of analog cellular and eventually it evolved to 2G and then 3G and then 4G and now moving into 5G.

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