Latest from SmartGateVC (November, 2023)

November 6, 2023

Here is a synopsis of some of the latest news from SmartGateVC and our portfolio companies. If you know people who might be interested in our news, why not forward it? If you are seeing this newsletter for the first time, hit subscribe.

Glendale Tech Week 2023 was a blast! We hosted and co-organized 13 events at Hero House Glendale and Glendale Community College with 20+ speakers and panelists, 8 companies pitching at the Demo Day, and investors from SoCal, the Bay Area, and the East Coast. Thank you everyone for the contribution and collaboration! Dive in to read the coverage by Hoodline and San Fernando Valley Business Journal.

CHEERS TO OUR PORTFOLIO COMPANY ZEROBROKER FOR THE?$6.5M SEED ROUND!

Arnata ( Y Combinator alum) closed a $6.5M seed round from Flexport , FundersClub , and Streamlined to expand its AI-powered shipping platform for businesses that removes freight brokers from the logistics process. Shout-out to Georgy Melkonyan and the team! The company is hiring across a variety of roles. Check out available?positions?here.

WELCOMING NEW COMPANIES TO OUR FAMILY!

ToxometrisAI is doing in-silico toxicity and safety assessment of drug candidates for pharmaceutical and biotech companies while minimizing the costly and time-consuming experimental part of drugs’ standard safety assessment. The main model developed by Toxometris has been pre-trained in collaboration with AI at Meta and YerevaNN with access to an order of magnitude more GPU compute capabilities than previous self-supervised molecular representations. Toxometris is already available on eLabNext marketplace. Dive in to read more about the integration here.

TheraB Medical Inc. is a medical device company developing a portable and wearable phototherapy device SnugLit for the treatment of infant jaundice. Health Equity Angels has been leading the round with Elizabeth Haar and Jack Topdjian becoming board members and active advisors.

MORE HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR PORTFOLIO

• Feedback Intelligence kicked off a partnership with PieData AI which opens access to 1B annotated images. Separately, check out their recent article about the Manot platform here.
• Robin the Robot, by Expper Technologies was recently deployed at Burbank Kids Dental and Smile Dental Group, where Robin's pain distraction technology turns anxiety into excitement and stress into joy!
• Modicus Prime CEO Taylor Chartier has been featured as 40 under 40 Innovators leveraging AI in the pharmaceutical industry by Analytics Insight (more here). The company recently became a 强生公司 Innovation - JLABS member.
• Krisp earned a spot as a Category Creator finalist in the 2023 GTM Awards, recognized by Pavilion and G2. Check out the full list here.
• Netris partnered up with Databento to successfully establish and operate a private cloud at 3 colocation centers. Dive in to read the full story. Earlier, the company announced a partnership with 英伟达 .
• Dowork.ai has been advancing its private ChatGPT application as part of the Intel Liftoff program.

Let’s talk if you are interested to know which companies are open to investment offers.

LOOKING FOR YOUR NEXT JOB? CHECK OUT OPPORTUNITIES IN OUR COMPANIES!

• Cloudchipr is hiring a Sales Development Representative and Content Marketing Specialist both experienced in B2B SaaS technical products.?Share your resume if interested.
• Krisp is hiring a Senior Data Engineer, Senior Full-stack Engineer, and Growth Marketing Manager. Apply here.
• Arnata is hiring across different roles. Check them out.
• Robin the Robot, by Expper Technologies is hiring across different roles. Check them out here.
• Britive is hiring for various technical and sales roles. Apply here
• Activeloop is hiring across different developer jobs. More here.
• Podcastle is hiring across engineering, design, and customer experience. Check out the available positions here.
• Grovf is hiring across a variety of developer jobs. Apply here.

CATCH-UP WITH THE LATEST ARTICLES FROM SMARTGATEVC TEAM

• Advisors and advisory shares Part 1: who, how much, how, and when? (read here)
• Advisors and advisory shares Part 2: 83(b) election, 409A valuation, vesting, termination, and technical/legal side of things (read here)
• Tax implications for angel investors in the U.S. (read here)
• How to incorporate a startup in the US from anywhere (read here)
• How to hire software engineers in Armenia (read here) Innovation is not accidental (read here)
• AI Institute for Armenia (read here)

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