# Vahan Petrosyan

> Vahan Petrosyan is the San Francisco-based CEO and co-founder of SuperAnnotate, an AI data company that grew out of his image-segmentation research at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Formerly its CTO, he became CEO in 2023 as the company expanded toward multimodal datasets and model evaluation. His public interviews trace the shift from academic research to enterprise infrastructure, while his February 2026 appointment to the Armenian Innovation Foundation board extends his involvement in Armenia’s technology ecosystem.

- **Role:** CEO and Co-founder at SuperAnnotate
- **Organizations:** SuperAnnotate, Armenian Innovation Foundation
- **Education:** Doctoral research in machine learning and image segmentation; left the PhD program to found SuperAnnotate, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, B.S. (field not independently confirmed), Utah State University
- **Known for:** Co-founded SuperAnnotate from doctoral research in image segmentation., Named inventor of US patent 11,615,515, Superpixel merging, granted March 28, 2023., Helped lead SuperAnnotate from image-annotation tools into multimodal AI data infrastructure and evaluation.

## Career timeline

- **2017** — Contacted KTH Innovation and subsequently participated in its startup support program.
- **2018** — Attended CVPR and recognized a commercial opportunity for his image-segmentation research in data labeling; co-founded SuperAnnotate with his brother Tigran and initially served as CTO.
- **2018** — The brothers won at Sevan Startup Summit and returned to Yerevan to develop the company.
- **2019** — Joined Berkeley SkyDeck; the company’s official timeline dates the move to January. Completed KTH Innovation Launch in October.
- **2020** — SuperAnnotate publicly launched its image-annotation platform and raised a $3 million seed round.
- **2021** — SuperAnnotate announced a $14.5 million Series A led by Base10 Partners.
- **2023** — Became CEO after serving as CTO; SuperAnnotate launched GenAI software in August.
- **2023** — US patent 11,615,515, Superpixel merging, was granted on March 28, naming Vahan Petrosyan as inventor.
- **2024** — Announced a $36 million Series B led by Socium Ventures in November.
- **2025** — Dell Technologies Capital’s $13.5 million investment extended SuperAnnotate’s Series B, described by the company as approximately $50 million.
- **2026** — Armenian Innovation Foundation announced his appointment to its board on February 3.

## Achievements

- Co-founded SuperAnnotate from doctoral research in image segmentation.
- Named inventor of US patent 11,615,515, Superpixel merging, granted March 28, 2023.
- Helped lead SuperAnnotate from image-annotation tools into multimodal AI data infrastructure and evaluation.
- SuperAnnotate won at Sevan Startup Summit in 2018.
- SuperAnnotate’s 2024 Series B attracted Socium Ventures, NVIDIA and Databricks Ventures; Dell Technologies Capital extended the round in 2025.
- SuperAnnotate was named a 2025 Databricks ISV Customer Impact Partner of the Year.
- Appointed to the Armenian Innovation Foundation board in February 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — The Armenian Innovation Foundation announced Petrosyan’s appointment to its board on February 3.
- **2025-07** — Dell Technologies Capital published an interview with Petrosyan about SuperAnnotate’s transition from an algorithm into AI data operations infrastructure.
- **2025-06** — SuperAnnotate’s company timeline records a Dell Technologies Capital investment extending its Series B to approximately $50 million, alongside its Databricks customer-impact partner recognition.
- **2025-05** — Appeared on Category Visionaries to discuss the first major customer contract, collaboration with service providers and enterprise AI data infrastructure.

## Links

- Website: https://www.superannotate.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vahanp
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/VahanPetrosyan2
- GitHub: https://github.com/vahansa

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Last updated: 2026-10-23