# Top 45 Enterprise Startup Investors in Latvia in May 2026

## ZGI Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riga, Riga, Latvia
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Manufacturing, Machinery Manufacturing, Consulting

ZGI Capital is the fund management company that manages "ZGI fund”, that was founded to support entrepreneurs lacking start-up capital for their business. The total amount of assets available for venture capital investments is of EUR 7.4M. Combined with bank financing, this will allow to finance investment projects with total assets of up toEUR 30M. The fund acts on behalf of various investors including the State.

## Uldis Sipols
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation

Uldis Sipols

## New Nordic Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riga, Riga, Latvia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

NNV is a seed stage VC fund. We invest in B2B startups from CEE and CIS region and help them to expand internationally

## FlyCap
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riga, Riga, Latvia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Health Care, Consumer Goods, Medical

FlyCap AIF is a Venture Capital Fund of total size of 15.75 MEUR. The Fund provides growth capital for Latvia based SME’s in a form of investments in equity and mezzanine capital.

## Sverre Bisgaard
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation

Has built up and been the leader of Kongsberg Norspace in Horten, Norway and its predecessors over a period of more than 30 years, starting with AME space division in 1984. AME Space AS, a separate company created in 1986, became Alcatel Space Norway (ASN) in 1989 after an MBO in 1988. As MD lead ASN to an international leading position, developingand manufacturing satellite electronic products for satellite manufacturers world-wide, growing the company from 15 to 130 employees and sales exceeding 20 million Euros. Started Norspace, who took over the business of ASN when Alcatel closed ASN in 2003 following the satellite industry downturn in 2001-2002. After another successful build-up of Norspace over eight straight profitable years sold the company to Kongsberg in 2011. Retired from the position of CEO of Kongsberg Norspace end of March 2015.Kongsberg Norspace products are now (2015) found in over 200 satellites, mostly used for telecommunications.Presently engaged as board chairman, board member and investor in various companies.

## Povilas Urbonas
- Type: Angel
- Location: Odense, Syddanmark, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation

Povilas Urbonas

## European regional development fund (ERDF)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) aims to improve the European Union's economic, social, and territorial cohesion by resolving imbalances across its various regions. ERDF funds initiatives for which the European Commission and national and regional governments in member countries share responsibility. Each member state'sgovernment decides which initiatives to support and is responsible for their continued supervision.

## Nicolai Torgersen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation

Nicolai Torgersen

## Lauris Liepa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation

Lauris Liepa

## Indrikis Liepa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation

Indrikis Liepa

## Maksim Zakurdaev
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation

Maksim Zakurdaev

## Angel Parn
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation

Angel Parn

## River Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, SaaS

River Venture Partners is an angel syndicate that focuses on supporting early-stage entrepreneurs in digital media, marketing, e-commerce, entreprise and education technology.

## Angels Band
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minsk, Minsk, Belarus
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Computer Vision, Professional Services

AngelsBAND - business-angels in Belarus, support for startups with brainy funding

## Mamba
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Social Media, Social Network

Mamba is the number one Russian online dating service, which cooperates with major portals including Mail.Ru, Rambler and MSN.com and over 30,000 others. The company’s database holds over 18.6 million registered users, over 40% of which are active. Mamba primarily targets customers in Russia and the CIS and is also going to launch dating servicesabroad. The business model is centered on the “pay as you go” principle: the users are more inclined to pay for additional instant low cost services, rather than bigger monthly subscription. Company’s billing system is one of the largest in the world with more than 40 possible ways to pay for Mamba’s services. According to various estimates, Mamba controls about 85% of the market.

## Siena Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: CAD, Banking, FinTech

Siena is a VC firm mainly investing in startups in Estonia and California

## Microsoft for Startups
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redmond, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Grant
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Microsoft for Startups is a global program designed to help startups scale with free access to Azure cloud and a streamlined path into selling alongside Microsoft and our vast partner ecosystem.

## Alex Hofmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Social Media, Social Network

Hofmann most recently held the role of musical.ly’s President in North America, where he led expansion efforts to build the world’s fastest growing entertainment social network. Within three months of Hofmann joining the team, app downloads increased from 200 to 400,000 per day. musical.ly hit the top of the app chats in 21 countries and has grownto over 200 million users globally.During his time at musical.ly, Hofmann helmed the company’s global content, brand, entertainment, and talent partnerships, in addition to heading all corporate functions for North and South America. He oversaw the closure of deals with all three major music labels and publishers. Under his leadership, the company closed its largest product partnership with Apple Music, as well as original content partnerships with Viacom, NBCU, and Hearst Digital. Hofmann also orchestrated partnerships with top artists like Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez, Jason Derulo and 250+ other artists worldwide.In early 2018, Hofmann announced he was moving on from musical.ly to pursue new ventures following the company’s successful merger with Chinese tech giant, Bytedance. He is currently investing in and advising new startups. He remains an ally and advisor to musical.ly. In 2017, Hofmann was chosen by Variety as one of “30 Execs to Watch” for its Digital Entertainment Impact Report and featured by Billboard on its Digital Power Players List: Guiding the Future in Music and Tech. Most recently, he accepted the WSJ Technology Innovator Award. A German native, Hofmann currently resides in Los Angeles.

## Mail.Ru Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Leningradskiy, Chukot, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Social Media, Mobile Apps, Education

Mail.ru Group was founded by Yuri Milner and is the largest Internet company in the Russian-speaking world. It is one of the largest Internet companies in Russia, and the world's seventh largest Internet business in terms of page views. Mail.ru Group operates two of the three largest Russian language social networking sites(Odnoklassniki.ru and Moi Mir@Mail.Ru), the two largest instant messaging networks in Russia (ICQ and Agent), Russia's leading email service, Russia's second largest Internet portal and Russia's largest online games company.Mail also holds strategic equity stakes of 32.49% in vKontakte, Russia's largest social networking site, and 25.09% in QIWI, formerly OE Investments, one of Russia's leading payment-processing companies. It also holds small minority stakes in Facebook, Zynga and Groupon.

## Herman Kienhuis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Founder and managing partner of River Venture Partners angel syndicate. Venture partner at VC firm Newio. Tech investor focused on early-stage investments in B2B software companies in Northern Europe. Supporting investors and entrepreneurs in building digital businesses that change people's lives. Former chemical engineer, strategist, digitalproduct development executive, founder of SanomaVentures and Managing Director of KPN Ventures.

## Moscow Seed Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Advertising

The Fund for the Promotion of Venture Investment in Small Enterprises in the Scientific and Technical Sphere of Moscow was established by the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy of Moscow.

## Smartup Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tehran, Tehran, Iran
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, E-Commerce, CRM

Smartup Ventures is a venture capital, a company that creates value by helping businesses grow faster. We create ventures by joining forces with everyone who shares our values and ambitions. By building strong partnerships with entrepreneurs, talents, business developers, angel investors, and venture investors.

## Elar Nellis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, CAD, SaaS

Elar is a full-stack engineer with 12+ years of experience. He has worked for different start-ups during his whole professional career and wouldn't change start-up life for anything. Elar was also the first employee of Estonian flagship startup Pipedrive. If he's not working then he's probably playing piano, writing music or hikingin the endless forests of Estonia.

## Marat Kichikov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Education, Cryptocurrency

Marat is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry and early stage investor.
He is the founder of several successful companies, including a consumer finance bank, few e-commerce companies and investment fund.
He serves on the board of his several portfolio companies (Bioloka, Wow Cube, F3 and RelesticaHolding), utilizing his knowledge and expertise in Blockchain industry which he joined to in 2013 as a partner in Bitfury Group.
In both as a fund and as an angel investor, Marat have invested in 30+ fin tech, e-commerce, blockchain technology, educational, healthcare and gaming companies, providing business expertise and financial & advisory support to founders.
Marat has a master's degree in finance & business management and a bachelor's degree in law.
In his free time, Marat likes surfing and skiing!

## Ratmir Timashev
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Enterprise Software, Software, Information Technology

Ratmir Timashev possesses a rare combination of proven business savvy, forward-looking technical knowledge and market vision. Ratmir brings to bear more than 20 years of entrepreneurial experience building, advising and investing in successful technology companies. As Veeam Software’s Co-Founder and Senior Vice President, Marketing and CorporateDevelopment Mr. Timashev is responsible for strategy and process execution on acquisitions and investments to expand Veeam’s total addressable market (TAM) as well as to build and lead the Veeam Global Marketing Organization in executing the marketing plan and strategy.In 1997, he founded Aelita Software, provider of award-winning Windows Server systems management software. In 2004, Aelita was acquired by Quest Software, and after ensuring the successful continuation of Aelita’s products and strategy at Quest, Ratmir founded Veeam Software to provide similar systems management solutions for modern virtualized data center infrastructures. Over the last decade, Ratmir’s vision and drive has seen Veeam to become one of the largest private software companies in the world with revenue booking projected to reach $1 Biillon in 2018 and 3,000 employees worldwide. Veeam has become the leader and the innovative provider of data management and protection by creating a new market category of Availability for the Always-On Enterprise.Ratmir earned a master’s degree in Chemical Physics from the Ohio State University in 1995. He continues to share his knowledge and ideas to fuel innovative IT solutions around the world.

## Vesna Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: EdTech, Internet, Education

Vesna Investment offers financing for internet start-ups.
During the post-investment stage Vesna Investment will become an active partner,
providing support and experience.

## Andris K. Berzins
- Type: Angel
- Location: Riga, Riga, Latvia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Drones, EdTech, Analytics

Andris K. Berzins is the Managing Partner at Change Ventures. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Connect Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

Connect Ventures invests in the best product-led companies in Europe at seed stage. Categories: Consumer, Health, Fintech, SaaS

## Superhero Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Early-stage VC searching for the next Superheroes.

## Capitalia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riga, Riga, Latvia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Software, CAD, Apps

Capitalia, a company listed on Nasdaq Baltic stock exchange, is the leading financer for small and medium enterprises in the Baltics.
As our focus is set on SME’s we are able to provide financing that serves as a supplement or as an alternative to the loans issued by commercial banks. Since the founding of Capitalia in 2007 we have issued financingto more than 1000 companies and consulted more than 100 businesses in various financial matters.

## JOINT JOURNEY
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Limassol, Limassol, Cyprus
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Active investment firm that calling founders with a great product vision across diverse industries

## Amazon Web Services
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services. Its products and solutions include cloud computing, compute, networking, storage and content delivery, databases, analytics, application services, deployment and management, mobile services, applications, AWS marketplace software,startups, enterprises, partners, government and education, websites and web applications, big data and HPC, gaming, and digital media as well as backup, storage, and archive. The company also provides AWS management console, documentation, SDKs and tools, downloads, platforms, Java, JavaScript, mobile, PHP, Ruby, Python, Windows, .NET, resources, forums, tutorials and articles, whitepapers, training and certification, and AWS user groups for developers. In addition, it offers compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment services; and mobile services, websites, and backup and recovery services. Amazon Web Services serves the government, education, and non-profit sectors in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, and internationally. Amazon Web Services was founded in 2006 and is based in Seattle, Washington. It has data center locations in the United States, Europe, Brazil, Singapore, Japan, and Australia. It operates as a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc.

## Almaz Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Portola Valley, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

Almaz Capital is an international venture capital firm investing in early stage, capital efficient technology companies. A unique bridge fund headquartered in Silicon Valley, Almaz Capital connects Eastern European/former Soviet engineering and entrepreneurial talent to the U.S. market and helps build global businesses. The firm invests inhigh-growth sectors such as artificial intelligence and blockchain applications, data engineering, cybersecurity, industrial IoT, networking architecture and infrastructure. Its investors include Cisco, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group. Founded in 2008, Almaz Capital has invested in over 30 portfolio companies and has had nine exits to date.

## AdFirst.vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Limassol, Limassol, Cyprus
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Learning, Mobile Apps, FinTech

AdFirst.vc is a venture capital firm designed to co-invest with other VCs in early and expansion stage start-ups. They perform Marketing Due Diligence ads tests for start-ups and help the investor evaluate the reachable audience, check the marketing competencies of the team, and reduce the cost of attracting customers. Testing allows to confirm thecompany's capitalization and eliminate marketing risks. In the future, they oversee the marketing strategy of the project in order to control KPI.

## Nikita Sergienko
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation

Nikita Sergienko

## Miko Malberg
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation

Miko Malberg

## Lauri Isotamm
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, CAD, Music

Lauri Isotamm

## Envac Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Waste Management, Internet of Things

Envac is one of the most innovative players in the global waste collection industry and inventor of the pneumatic waste collection system.

## Rein Raudjarv
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation

Rein Raudjarv

## Louis Paulsen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation

Louis Paulsen

## Andrej Jakovlev
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, E-Commerce, Marketplace

Andrej Jakovlev

## Richard Frank
- Type: Angel
- Location: Watford, Hertford, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: iOS, Apps, VoIP

Richard Frank

## Lev Dolgatsjov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation

Lev Dolgatsjov

## Point Nine
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile.The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio,Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.

## Swedbank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing
- Focus: Banking, Real Estate, FinTech

Swedbank AB (formerly Föreningssparbanken) is a Nordic-Baltic banking group offering retail banking, asset management, financial, and other services.Swedbank is a modern bank firmly rooted in Swedish savings bank history.

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