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Glenn Hopper
From CFO to AI Evangelist: Maria Azatyan on Finance, and Startups
49 minutes Posted Nov 20, 2025 at 5:22 am.
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With more than 20 years of experience helping startups scale from seed to series B, Maria Azatyan has built architectures for companies across ai, robotics and the new space economy, translating complex technologies into numbers. This is coupled with her frank perspective as a single mother balancing finance leadership and advising startups. 
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