Nare Janvelyan
Nare Janvelyan is a deep tech investor at Voyager Ventures, where she has been working since January 2024. She brings more than ten years of experience in decarbonisation, chemical sciences, and technology-driven business strategy. Her work focuses on supporting and scaling innovative technology companies, particularly those addressing sustainability, climate, and industrial transformation.
Before joining Voyager Ventures, Nare worked at the global management consulting firm Simon-Kucher for over four years. During her time there, she progressed from Senior Consultant to Manager and later to Senior Manager. In these roles, she led teams that developed go-to-market strategies for software and technology companies. Her work combined technical knowledge with commercial planning, pricing strategy, and market entry design for complex technology products.
Earlier in her career, Nare served as an Associate atHarvard Universityin 2019. She also spent nearly five years as a Research Assistant at Harvard between 2013 and 2018 under the supervision of Professor Cynthia M. Friend. During this period, she led a cross-disciplinary research collaboration involving multiple universities. The project focused on copper-based catalysts for sustainable chemical production, including synthesis, characterisation, catalytic testing, and computational modelling to improve production of acetaldehyde and hydrogen. She also worked as a Teaching Assistant at Harvard from 2014 to 2018.
Before Harvard, Nare was an Undergraduate Research Assistant at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, working under Professor Stephen R. Leone. Her research used ultrafast pump-probe photoelectron spectroscopy to study excited state dynamics of metalloporphyrins. She designed and built experimental systems using UV pumps and x-ray probes generated through high harmonic generation. Her project received an independent undergraduate research fellowship. She also worked as an Office Assistant in the Integrative Biology Department at Berkeley from 2009 to 2011.
Nare holds a PhD in Chemical Physics from Harvard University. Her doctoral thesis examined the relationship between catalytic activity, material structure, and surface composition for sustainable catalysis. She also earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from UC Berkeley and participated in theHaas School of Business programme Business for Arts, Sciences and Engineering.
