Robert Avakian
Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners
Boston, Massachusetts
Overview
Work Experience
Director of Customer Engagement
2021 - Current
We make the future of the physical world. Serving and supporting our users by guiding them to maximize CircuitHub PCB assembly for their hardware goals. --- CircuitHub is on a mission to fix rapid electronics prototyping and production. We provide a modern online platform that's integrated with our full turnkey PCB assembly facility. The end result is producing PCBAs with quicker lead times, lower costs, and consistent quality. Electronics and hardware companies work with CircuitHub to create satellites, batteries, 3D printers, medical devices, robots, vehicles, and more. *Google Ventures backed *Y Combinator alum
Senior Account Manager, Team Lead
2020 - 2021
Account Manager
2019 - 2020
Account Executive
2017 - 2019
Deep learning and robotics to automate circuit board manufacturing.
Raised $18,427,318.00 from Y Combinator, Alexis Ohanian and Google Ventures.
Venture Partner
2022
NextGen Venture Partners invests in seed-stage companies with the participation of their venture partners.
Venture Scout
2022
Lvlup Ventures is a pre-seed to seed stage value-add fund, focused on helping their teams reach the next level.
Startup Mentor
2022 - 2023
Seedscout is a venture advisory firm partnering with founders and their visions.
Raised $435,000.00 from Roy Rodenstein, Quinn Wang MD, Kenny Tucker, Nick Soman, Scott Ferreira, Stephen Cole, Ilene Smith, Dave Goldblatt and Eric Ries.
Trustee & Mentor
2021 - 2023
Startup Mentor @ BUild Lab Student Innovation Center
2021 - 2023
Startup Mentor @ Startup Academy
2021 - 2021
SmartGateVC is a SoCal & Armenia based pre-seed / seed VC investing in frontiers unleashed by AI (BCI, Physical, Life Sciences)
Business Consultant
2016 - 2021
Supporting startups and SMBs on both coasts by filling business needs in technical industries and focusing on business development, operations, strategy, sales, marketing, and financial support. Providing story-telling, market exploration, go to market (GTM) strategy, financial modeling, investor material, and more. *Projects in biotech, defense/security, life sciences, mobile apps, health tech, energy, A.I., others
Startup Mentor @ NSIN Defense Innovation Accelerator (powered by FedTech)
2020 - 2020
FedTech started in 2013 as a part of the DC I-Corps program.
Startup Mentor
2020 - 2020
BANA Angels is a network of investors, entrepreneurs and executives from Armenia.