Alexandre Meterissian

Supporting Early-Stage Startups from Armenia and Beyond to Scale Globally STAN is a global network of angel investors with a mission to support early-stage technology startups from Armenia and beyond. While we actively scout startups in Armenia and Los Angeles, STAN welcomes innovative startups from anywhere in the world. STAN angels provide financial capital, network support and entrepreneurial support to help startups scale. While we focus on ecosystems in Armenia and Los Angeles, our reach spans across global startup communities. Currently, over 70% of STAN Angels are based in California, with 20% in Armenia and 10% in Europe. STAN’s Chapter in Los Angeles Our Los Angeles chapter is established in partnership with Triple S Ventures, a pre-seed to seed-stage VC firm. We welcome non-Armenian founders and angels to collaborate with the chapter. As part of our international growth, we plan to continue expanding by launching new chapters across key global startup hubs. Stay tuned for more updates! STAN Expert Council The STAN Expert Council is a community of domain experts who provide valuable insights, expertise, and global connections to STAN Angels and portfolio startups. This advisory body helps startups validate their technology and business models, while supporting STAN Angels with informed decision-making and domain-specific knowledge.

BANA Angels is the first and most active Angel Network in Armenia. The members of BANA Angels represent a diverse and experienced network of leading Investors from a wide range of industries and geography. Besides actively working on the development of the local investment environment, we ran several programs for startups. We kicked off a program in partnership with SAP: SAP Startup Factory by BANA, an acceleration program for B2B startups. SAP is the world’s largest enterprise software provider with around half a million client-base and $150B capitalization. The aim of our program is to provide a platform where our startups can get integrated to SAP and get access to their client-base. We run BANA Startup incubator, tailor made incubator program for early stage startups to boost their growth and support generate customers.

Students are in a unique position to challenge the status quo and solve complex issues. In short, university years are an entrepreneurial sweet spot. At Front Row Ventures, we want our peers to capitalize on their potential. We want to help you launch unthinkable ventures. Our team of student investors will assist you in every step of your entrepreneurial journey. Not only do we invest $50K in our portfolio companies, we create irreplaceable value for our student startups. The bigger picture is to spread the startup and venture capital culture across Canadian university campuses, and offer our strong and diverse community amazing opportunities. Be part of it! // Personne n’est mieux placé pour défier le statu quo et résoudre des enjeux complexes que des étudiants. Les universités forment un terreau entrepreneurial incroyablement fertile. Chez Front Row Ventures, nous poussons nos pairs à capitaliser sur leur propre potentiel. Nous les aidons à démarrer des startups époustouflantes. Les entrepreneurs peuvent compter sur le support indéfectible de notre équipe d’investisseurs étudiants. Bref, la valeur ajoutée que nous générons pour nos startups étudiantes dépasse largement les $50K investis en elles. À plus grande échelle, nous propageons la culture des startups et du capital de risque à travers tous les campus Canadiens. Nous offrons à notre communauté des opportunités hors du commun. Front Row Ventures est une expérience unique. Rejoins le mouvement. Tire-toi une chaise!

Supporting Early-Stage Startups from Armenia and Beyond to Scale Globally STAN is a global network of angel investors with a mission to support early-stage technology startups from Armenia and beyond. While we actively scout startups in Armenia and Los Angeles, STAN welcomes innovative startups from anywhere in the world. STAN angels provide financial capital, network support and entrepreneurial support to help startups scale. While we focus on ecosystems in Armenia and Los Angeles, our reach spans across global startup communities. Currently, over 70% of STAN Angels are based in California, with 20% in Armenia and 10% in Europe. STAN’s Chapter in Los Angeles Our Los Angeles chapter is established in partnership with Triple S Ventures, a pre-seed to seed-stage VC firm. We welcome non-Armenian founders and angels to collaborate with the chapter. As part of our international growth, we plan to continue expanding by launching new chapters across key global startup hubs. Stay tuned for more updates! STAN Expert Council The STAN Expert Council is a community of domain experts who provide valuable insights, expertise, and global connections to STAN Angels and portfolio startups. This advisory body helps startups validate their technology and business models, while supporting STAN Angels with informed decision-making and domain-specific knowledge.

BANA Angels is the first and most active Angel Network in Armenia. The members of BANA Angels represent a diverse and experienced network of leading Investors from a wide range of industries and geography. Besides actively working on the development of the local investment environment, we ran several programs for startups. We kicked off a program in partnership with SAP: SAP Startup Factory by BANA, an acceleration program for B2B startups. SAP is the world’s largest enterprise software provider with around half a million client-base and $150B capitalization. The aim of our program is to provide a platform where our startups can get integrated to SAP and get access to their client-base. We run BANA Startup incubator, tailor made incubator program for early stage startups to boost their growth and support generate customers.

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future. Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions and organizations. Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organizational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance and ESG. The firm has more than 1,600 employees located in 40+ offices around the world.