Top 50 Startup Investors in Latvia in October 2023
Top 50 Startup Investors in Latvia in October 2023
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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.
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- Manufacturing, Machinery Manufacturing, Consulting
- Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
- Latvia, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- eAgronom — eAgronom helps farmers generate additional revenue streams, improve soil quality, and access better financing.
- KOOL Latvija — "KOOL Latvija" is a new concept gas station created in Latvia, which at the same time is also a convenient fast shopping place.
- Bioreactors.net — Biotechnical center is an innovative company and we provide solutions for industrial biotechnology processes, bioreactor manufacturing and industrial automation. We manufacture bioreactors for laboratory, pilot and industrial scale.
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.
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- Health Care, Consumer Goods, Medical
- Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
- Latvia, Estonia, The Netherlands
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- Tapcore — Tapcore is the only solution on the market that enables mobile developers to monetize pirated copies of their apps through advertising. Established in 2015, we are a remote company with headquarters in the Netherlands. Currently we serve over 150 million ad requests daily (and counting!).
- Purified — Purified is a nutritional supplement supplier.. It offers black chocolate produced by the best doctors in collaboration with scientists.
- Elmo — In our car sharing business Elmo Rent we wanted to serve maximum customers with minimum resources, so we created remote control technology to deliver vehicles.
Uldis Sipols
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- CAD, Software, Simulation
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Latvia
Portfolio highlights
- CENOS — CENOS redefines engineering simulation software category for mass adoption: FROM enterprise niche and multi-purpose software for 100K simulation experts TO mass adoption of intuitive vertical-focused simulation apps by 10M+ practical engineers in production
Imprimatur Capital Fund Management is a venture capital firm focusing on high-technology at an early stage in its commercial development. We invest in start-up technology businesses which are based on innovative intellectual property, are led by strong teams and have high international growth potential.Imprimatur Capital Fund Management, based inLatvia, manages seed and start-up funds with investors including the Latvian Guarantee Agency, other institutional investors and some private investors. The company source investment opportunities primarily from the Baltic/Nordic/Russia region.Imprimatur Capital Fund Management is a partner firm of Imprimatur Capital Ltd, headquartered in London and with investment operations in Europe, Russia, Asia Pacific, Latin America and the US.
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- Software, Music, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Latvia, Finland, United Kingdom
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- Edurio — Edurio is England's leading stakeholder feedback platform for schools and multi-academy trusts.
- Axial3D — Leading the way with the latest 3D imaging, models, and devices
- Sonarworks — SoundID Reference software calibrates your speakers and studio headphones, so you can trust that every mix will translate.
More than just a business angel network Building synergy between startups and angel investors EstBAN is member led organisation committed to finding, funding and mentoring ambitious young companies from pitch through to a successful exit. About estban Latest news Created with Fabric.js 3.5.0 All news For investors Get access to quality pre-selected internationaldeal-flow, and be
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- Software, Information Technology, EdTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
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- VSight — VSight is an industrial collaboration and knowledge-sharing platform powered by Augmented Reality to empower the industrial workforce.
- RAIKU Packaging — RAIKU is a cleantech startup that produces 100% natural packaging material that has also great looks and shock absorption - most importantly, it gives 15-20 times more volume to its raw material making it one of the most resource efficient material uses in the world with high margins. Both the production is and products are clean making no harm tonature. RAIKU has raised over 1.2mln€ in the pre-seed stage, built a team of over 10 people, its own IP and clients are already using its packaging material. This material will up-end the 1 trillion € packaging sector.
- DriveX Technologies — DriveX offers a trustworthy self-serviced car inspection software for the used car, insurance and car rental markets.
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.
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- CAD, Software, Simulation
- Pre-Seed
- Latvia
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- CENOS — CENOS redefines engineering simulation software category for mass adoption: FROM enterprise niche and multi-purpose software for 100K simulation experts TO mass adoption of intuitive vertical-focused simulation apps by 10M+ practical engineers in production
NNV is a seed stage VC fund. We invest in B2B startups from CEE and CIS region and help them to expand internationally
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- Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Latvia, Estonia, United States
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- OHMYSYNT — AI-powered tool for businesses and creators, that alters videos in seconds using text prompts.
- DrugCards — Local literature screening will be under control with DrugCard. It's: continuous, regular, transparent, multi-language, and cost-effective.
- Rapid Delivery Analytics — RDA is an analytical tool that tracks data from rapid delivery e-grocery (Getir, Gopuff, UberEats etc.) and gathers key metrics across thousands of dark stores and micro fulfilment centres, giving FMCG brands real-time data and actionable insights. The e-grocery market has multiplied in light of the pandemic; however, there are still no detailedreports on the rapid grocery delivery market to give brands insights such as price variations, stock availability information, promotional activities data, and brands operate blindly and inefficiently in quick commerce and rapid grocery delivery apps. Our solution helps FMCG brands receive 360 analytics on rapid delivery services: sales, marketing, and strategy insights and, therefore, spend less and earn more.
karma.vc is an early stage venture capital fund focusing on seed and early stage technology companies in Europe.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Estonia, Sweden, Finland
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- Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
- DRUID — DRUID is an AI platform that allows companies to automate processes by designing and deploying UiPath RPA integrated chatbot virtual assistants.
- Jobbatical — Jobbatical takes care of the entire relocation process for you. Just sit back and relax.
Early-stage investments from entrepreneurs to entrepreneurs. Our companies include Bolt, Veriff, Fortumo and many more. 10x@superangel.io
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Estonia, United States, Finland
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- Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
- Koos — KOOS is a simple legal and technological solution for motivating and rewarding your community. Boost your growth by sharing success.
- Doublepoint — Solving Next-Generation Interactions. Doublepoint provides future computing platforms more intuitive, robust and versatile interactions.
Taavi Tamkivi was Helping in Banks & FinTechs fight FinCrime. also a Founder & CEO at Salv .
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- Financial Services, Software, AgTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Estonia, Latvia, United Kingdom
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- Jeff — Jeff is a personalized loan broker that matches borrowers and lenders through alternative data. Jeff's mission is to help the unbanked to access financial services. In the absence of credit history and bank transactions, Jeff gathers alternative data from sources like smartphones, social media, behavioral patterns, geolocation, and other typesof digital footprint.Jeff then puts this information to good use and find ways on how alternative data points can prove creditworthiness and build trust, building new ways of accessing financing and evolving an alternative credit score.The company was founded in 2019 and is located in Riga, Latvia.
- Introwise — Introwise makes it easy for everyday experts to offer coaching and advice online.
- Lightyear — Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest your money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees.
the Untitled Ventures is an early growth stage fund specializing in deep tech from Eastern Europe. Find out how we develop innovative startups into international businesses.
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- SaaS, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Russian Federation, Latvia
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- Naco — Our mission is development of top quality solutions based on new materials and exceptionally innovative coating technologies for climate neutrality and sustainable products.
- Sportrecs — Distributor of Highlights to Media
- Wizart — Wizart Home Visualizer helps customers all over the world to choose and visualize finishing materials. Digital tools that boost your sales of finishing materials online and help your clients make decisions quickly
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.
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- Software, CAD, Apps
- Seed, Debt Financing
- Latvia, Sweden, Lithuania
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- Favro — The #1 app making collaborative planning working at scale between teams for SaaS & Live Games companies. Agile team collaboration, smoother than ever.
- Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
- AISPECO — AISPECO is a Lithuanian company, which provides geospatial monitoring systems for helicopters, planes, UAVs, and terrestrial vehicles.
Povilas Urbonas
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- CAD, Software, Simulation
- Pre-Seed
- Latvia
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- CENOS — CENOS redefines engineering simulation software category for mass adoption: FROM enterprise niche and multi-purpose software for 100K simulation experts TO mass adoption of intuitive vertical-focused simulation apps by 10M+ practical engineers in production
Ragnar Sass has strongest skill is to find the best people and keep them rocking in speed of 200 km/h. He has organized 20+ Hack-a-thons Garage48 in Eastern Europe + West & East-Africa. He advise other founders and share experience where it could help.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Estonia, United States, United Kingdom
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- Alvin — Highly accurate, automated column-level lineage, powering your data workflows.
- BeTRITON — 100% electric recreational vehicle - revolution in sustainable travel. BeTRITON (formerly known as Z-Triton) offers extraordinary experience and freedom to travel both over land and water.
- Around — The largest network of workspaces on flexible terms. We are a savvy team from Latin America providing fast-growing companies with on-demand access to flexible office space. Everywhere.We believe work at its best is always creative and collaborative, expressed with freedom, autonomy, and purpose; and the space surrounding us should help us achieveit, anywhere & everywhere.We are shaping the future of work today by improving workspaces and the rules around them, and helping innovative teams find their ideal space to make their best work every day — our first step on a journey to change the way we work and think about work.Our best work. Anywhere. Everywhere. We are Around.
We are Abingworth, a trans-atlantic bio-science investment firm with a deep understanding of both the science and markets we invest in.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
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- Iambic Therapeutics — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.
- Ascend Gene & Cell Therapies — Ascend Gene & Cell Therapies supports manufacturing and process development projects from design through to clinical and commercial scales. They partner with biotechnology teams to embed scalable manufacturing in their operations from the beginning. They respond to customer inquiries by phone and contact form.
- Spruce Biosciences — Developing and commercializing novel therapies for rare endocrine disorders with significant unmet medical need
Qiming Venture Partners invests in young, fast-growing companies across China in the media and internet, IT, consumer and retail, healthcare, and clean technology sectors. we are early to growth stage venture capital firm with offices in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong. Since their debut in 2006, we have established their selves as a leadinginvestment firm in China and currently manage four funds with over $1 billion in assets.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, China, Latvia
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- Entact Bio — Entact Bio is a biotechnology company that is in the preclinical stages of developing medications to improve protein function. It was founded by a team with deep roots in deubiquitinase (DUB) biochemistry, chemical biology, disease biology, and small-molecule drug development. The company's proprietary EncompassTM platform was designed tocreate enhancement-targeting chimeric (ENTACTM) medicines. ENTACs take advantage of DUBs' ability to regulate proteins.
- Soda Health — We are a healthcare technology company dedicated to eliminating health inequities through social determinants of health. Our services include supplemental benefit administration, highly customizable member benefit programs with restricted spending and multi-balance capabilities, and robust member data analytics with benefit design recommendations.
- Tenpoint Therapeutics — Tenpoint Therapeutics is a biotechnology company pursuing vision-restoring engineered cell-based therapeutics.
Lauris Liepa
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- CAD, Software, Simulation
- Pre-Seed
- Latvia
Portfolio highlights
- CENOS — CENOS redefines engineering simulation software category for mass adoption: FROM enterprise niche and multi-purpose software for 100K simulation experts TO mass adoption of intuitive vertical-focused simulation apps by 10M+ practical engineers in production
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.
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- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, Russian Federation, Latvia
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- Alcatraz AI — The Rock is an all-in-one touchless biometric access control device that combines facial biometrics, AI, and machine learning for top-notch security.
- marta — German Version below:marta offers a market place for families, people in need of care and European caregivers. We believe that, on the one hand everyone has the right to receive appropriate care and to age with dignity and on the other hand caregivers should be able to do their work under fair conditions.We are working on software solutions toconnect caregivers with families across Europe and we support both parties during the entire process. In our own families we have seen that the current market is characterized by non-transparent services and does not deliver adequate quality. It is out mission to change that.That is why we at marta pursue the goal of making things better by applying our software solutions to fundamentally rebuilding the "24-hour" care market.Deutsche Version:marta bietet einen Marketplatz für Familien, pflegebedürftige Menschen und europäische Pflegekräfte. Aus unserer Sicht, hat zum einen jede/r das Recht darauf, angemessene Pflege zu erhalten und in Würde zu altern und zum anderen sollten Pflegekräfte unter fairen Bedingungen ihre Arbeit machen können.Wir arbeiten an dem Bau von Softwarelösungen, um Pflegekräfte mit Familien in ganz Europa zu verbinden und während der Betreuung zu begleiten. In unseren eigenen Familien haben wir gesehen, dass der derzeitige Markt von intransparenten Dienstleistungen geprägt ist und keine angemessene Qualität liefert.Deswegen verfolgen wir bei marta das Ziel, es durch unsere Softwarelösungen besser zu machen und den Markt der "24-Stunden" Pflege grundlegend neu aufzubauen.
- WORKERBASE — Agile manufacturing to increase production flexibility and ensure business continuity. Intelligent process execution for the connected worker to increase operational flexibility and reduce costs in Industry 4.0
We are a seed stage venture capital fund based in the Baltic states, backing ambitious Baltic founders anywhere in the world.
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- Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Estonia, Lithuania, United States
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- Algori — Improving FMCG growth with the fastest and most granular insights from 45,000 shoppers in Spain
- Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
- Trace.Space — Engineers develop complex products 10x faster with Trace.Space. Requirements management for the next generation
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Grant, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, France
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- Hilo EV — Hilo EV uses AI to scan its surroundings for hazards such as pedestrians and vehicles, and actively applies a number of functions to warn of the danger.
- Crespect — Achieve harmony in legal practice
- ProTec Group — ProTec Group operates as a specialist prototype to production part supplier. ProTec Group provide a completely integrated design-to-production service from 1off CNC machined, fabricated or 3D printed to Low volume prototype & production manufacturing techniques.
We founded Base Ventures to turn access into opportunity for investors, founders, and the next disruptive idea.
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- Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Latvia
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- Mansa — Built by Black creators with a passion for making culture-positive content, Mansa is the only place to stream the best in Global Black stories
- Bootup — Bootup creates a marketplace for tech talent. Bootup's goal is to build tools to help bridge the gap between those looking for economic upward mobility and technology companies looking for strategies to solve for the impending talent crisis. We are excited to support all of the individuals looking to break into tech, the educators fuelingtheir growth, and the enterprises who power the industry.
- Parade — Parade capacity management helps freight brokerages and 3PLs automate more of the booking process than ever before.
Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, Sweden, Denmark
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- Haltian — End-to-end IoT solutions and world-glass product design services from Haltian
- Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
- Value.Space — Space based risk assessments & monitoring
Mistletoe is a hub for startups and the overall entrepreneurial ecosystem. It specifically provides learning opportunities for entrepreneurs, facilitates startup communities, invests in and supports startup companies and venture capitals.
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- Information Technology, Software, Education
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
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- ULUU — ULUU is an exciting new renewable biomaterial that's incredible for our oceans and climate. ULUU is made from renewable resource, farmed seaweed!
- Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.
- Craft Health — Craft Health aims to combine all your daily medicines and supplements into a single daily pill, through 3D printing of personalized medicines and supplements. Our technology allows controlled release of each active ingredient as selected by the user.
Nicolai Torgersen
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- CAD, Software, Simulation
- Pre-Seed
- Latvia
Portfolio highlights
- CENOS — CENOS redefines engineering simulation software category for mass adoption: FROM enterprise niche and multi-purpose software for 100K simulation experts TO mass adoption of intuitive vertical-focused simulation apps by 10M+ practical engineers in production
Indrikis Liepa
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- CAD, Software, Simulation
- Pre-Seed
- Latvia
Portfolio highlights
- CENOS — CENOS redefines engineering simulation software category for mass adoption: FROM enterprise niche and multi-purpose software for 100K simulation experts TO mass adoption of intuitive vertical-focused simulation apps by 10M+ practical engineers in production
Practica Capital
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- Information Technology, Software, B2B
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States
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- Favro — The #1 app making collaborative planning working at scale between teams for SaaS & Live Games companies. Agile team collaboration, smoother than ever.
- AMLYZE — AMLYZE Risk Assessment Module is an automated customer AML/CFT Risk Assessment and Management feature for financial companies.
- Atrandi Biosciences — Achieve your discoveries easier using high-throughput screening and droplet microfluidics. Create your own custom workflows for any R&D or academic applications.
Davis currently is a Senior Advisor and Investor at Draugiem Capital, Board Member at Mapon, a car fleet management company, and an investor/board member at Prime Prometics, a beauty brand for women over 50. Previously Davis was a co-founder and ex-CEO of Printful, a print-on-demand and warehousing company for online stores and the firstLatvian unicorn company. Printful prints t-shirts and 400+ other products for online ecommerce stores and drop ships them to end customers.With over $83.7 million invested in equipment, we use industry-leading tech to fulfill more than 1 million items every month. Since our founding in 2013, Printful has scaled to a team of 1,700+ people and did $289 million in revenue in 2021. Printful has 10 fulfillment centers in the USA, Canada, Europe, and Mexico, and 7 partner facilities in Japan, Australia, and Brazil.
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- SaaS, Software
- Seed
- Latvia
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- Hyperjob — Convert 6x more candidates in half the time
Gagarin Capital is a venture fund that invests in early stage artificial intelligence companies from around the world.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, Latvia
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- CureSkin — Get free AI analysis and dermatologist-prescribed regimens to treat your skin & hair concerns. Holistic, safe & 100% effective. Learn more.
- EARTH AI — EARTH AI is the world’s most efficient mineral explorer, finding new deposits of metals worth $10-100M, 12X faster and 35X cheaper than the competition, through AI mineral targeting system (field-proven to be 50x more successful at finding mineralized prospects), and 5X cheaper field operations achieved through hardware automation and streamlinedin house operations.
- Regology — Regology is the leading Regulatory Intelligence Platform. We help compliance teams in all industries automate regulatory change management.
EIT Digital is a leading European open innovation organisation. Our mission is to foster digital technology innovation and entrepreneurial talent for economic growth and quality of life in Europe. We bring together entrepreneurs from a partnership of over 130 top European corporations, SMEs, start-ups, universities and research institutes.EITDigital invests in strategic areas to accelerate the market uptake of research-based digital technologies and to bring entrepreneurial talent and leadership to Europe. Our innovation and education activities are organised in and around our co-location centres, where students, researchers, engineers, business developers and entrepreneurs come together to drive the digitalisation of society.EIT Digital is a Knowledge and Innovation Community of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). Since 2010, EIT Digital is consistently mobilising talents, ideas, technologies, investments and business across Europe and beyond to stimulate disruptive digital innovation. The headquarter is in Brussels with co-location centres in Berlin, Eindhoven, London, Helsinki, Paris, Stockholm, Trento, as well as in Budapest and Madrid.The Strategic Innovation Agenda 2014-2016 "Blended Life in a Connected World" is available for download in the Publications section.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Italy, Spain, France
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- Restimo — Restimo develops a system that enables customers to pay for their own meals in restaurants.
- W•SENSE — W•SENSE is a telecommunications company that specializes in underwater monitoring and communication systems based on IoUT solutions.
- Multiverse Computing — World leaders in quantum computing for the financial industry. The first quantum & quantum-inspired toolbox for finance.
Seraph Group invests and shares exclusive, early-stage investment opportunities.
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- Software, Health Care, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Latvia, Taiwan
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- Natilus — Natilus is a large scale drone manufacturing company. The company specializes in the manufacturing of Boeing 747 sized drones which provides inter-continental cargo delivery services and helps in reducing air freight costs. Natilus was founded by LZ Zhang, Anatoly Starikov and Aleksey Matyushev in 2016.First flight of their 2200 lbs / 30 ftdrone is scheduled for Summer 2018. At the end of 2018, Natilus completed a flight test of their 2200 lbs prototype.The first production vehicle scheduled for 2020 customer delivery underwent wind tunnel testing in April, 2019. Natilus currently holds an aircraft order book rumored to be in excess of $1B+.
- Autio — HearHere is a travel audio app that shares the depth and diversity of stories - cultural, geographical, historical, and mythological.
- IMTC — IMTC's investment management technology simplifies fixed income portfolio management & optimization for better, faster decisions. Learn more.
Jay Zaveri has been serving Social Capital as a partner since November 2015. He also founded CloudOn and Future Thought Productions.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Japan, Canada
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- Cleerly — Cleerly is a healthcare company whose mission is to create digital care pathways to prevent heart attacks. The company develops a new standard for coronary artery disease by integrating quality clinical science with the latest-generation AI, in order to offer actionable clinical insights to every stakeholder in the heart care pathway.Throughthese data-driven solutions, the company aims to provide a comprehensive solution for cardiovascular disease evaluation that offers value to the healthcare system and improves heart health for patients at risk of heart attacks.
- BitClout — BitClout is a platform owned by its users. Bitcoin is decentralizing money, BitClout is decentralizing social media.
- Kingdom Supercultures — Kingdom Supercultures create microbial cultures that help food manufacturers to create new foods with boosted benefits. It re-assembles nature's microbes into new combinations, creating plant-based foods that taste like dairy, low-alcohol beverages with full flavor, and natural preservatives that work as well as artificial ones.They workwith clients across diverse industries including food, beverage, personal care, beauty, and more. Their technology comprises an expansive biobank of GRAS microbial strains, high-resolution strain characterization, and new algorithms for predicting and assembling microbial communities.
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.
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- Mobile Apps, Social Media, Social Network
- Seed
- Latvia
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- F3 — F3 is a social discovery app to make new friends and communicate with existing ones.
The Roche Venture Fund is the name given to the corporate venture fund of the healthcare company Roche. Roche has allocated CHF 500 million to invest in and develop commercially successful innovative life science companies. Roche has been investing in early stage companies as part of collaborations since the early-1990s and independent ofcollaborations since 2002. All equity investments made by Roche in biotech and diagnostics companies (including collaboration investments) are negotiated and managed by the Roche Venture Fund. In the past 20 years, the Roche Venture Fund has invested in over 60 companies globally. Currently, Roche Venture Fund has a portfolio of around 30 companies located in 10 countries across Europe, North America and the Pacific Region. The fund is an evergreen fund with CHF 500 million available of which approximately 40% is currently invested.The Roche Venture Fund is a committed long-term stable investor with sufficient money reserved in their fund for follow-on financing rounds. As part of a multinational healthcare company, the Roche Venture Fund has access to considerable expertise both internally and externally. We co-invest with leading venture funds, including other corporate venture funds, on a regular basis.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Spain
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- DiogenX — We incorporated DiogenX with the objective to provide new therapeutic solutions for diabetic patients. With Patrick Collombat and the team, we are focused on developing a first-in-class regenerative treatment for type 1 diabetes. Benjamin Charles CEO See the team News See more Our Work OUR APPROACH ABOUT DIABETES
- NMD Pharma — NMD Pharma is a small molecule drug discovery company that develops novel treatments of neuromuscular disorders.Research by the founders working on the neuromuscular junction identified an approach that has not previously been exploited but shows great promise.Importantly, the approach improves neuromuscular transmission in a way that ispotentially applicable to a range of clinical indications and orphan human diseases that have profound unmet medical need.
- Bonum Therapeutics — Bonum Therapeutics is focused on a proven technology that utilizes allosteric regulation to create targeted, highly active, and less toxic medicines.
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.
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- Information Technology, E-Commerce, CRM
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Iran, Latvia, United Arab Emirates
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- Landin — With landin, you can easily create your landing pages And convert click to customers
- Vindad — We help Businesses manage their legal needs by providing access to everything they need to start and run their business, including blogs and legal guides, over 50 legal and commercial documents. Vanda Legal forms are common business legal documents that range from Investment, trademark, incorporation, NDAs, and Human resources. There is simplestep-by-step instructions help businesses customize documents for their specific needs. And to be sure it's done right; they can have their document reviewed by an attorney from our hand-picked network.
- Salam Sakhteman — A platform that connects home-owners and builders to qualified service professionals such as painters, carpenters, electricians, etc.
Vinny Lingham is Co-Founder & CEO at Civic. He was the founder and CEO of Gyft, a mobile gift card app that allows customers to buy, store, send and redeem gift cards conveniently from their mobile device. He is also the founder of Yola.com, a web development and hosting company that enables users without prior programming knowledge to developwebsites. Vinny is the recipient of numerous awards, including Top Young ICT Entrepreneur in Africa (2006) and was also a finalist for Men’s Health Best Man (2009) and ICT Personality of the Year in South Africa (2008). He also previously founded Clicks2Customers, which also won the Top Technology Company award in South Africa in 2006. He has previously served on marketing advisory boards for Nasdaq listed Valueclick and Yahoo, was also selected as an Endeavor “High Impact Entrepreneur” in 2006. Vinny studied a B.Com (Information Systems) at the University of Cape Town.
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- Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United States, South Africa, United Kingdom
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- TipLink — TipLink helps send crypto with a link. Someone with crypto can create a account and send that link to anyone over any platform. It’s like buying a gift card, connect the client's crypto wallet of choice and create a account by depositing how much they want to send.
- Afterparty — Your favorite creators are here! Get 1 on 1 unfiltered experiences with creators through Afterparty livestreams or chat 24/7 through AI powered conversations
- Collectibles.com — Collectibles.com is a Web3 community and marketplace for collectors and the worldwide collectibles sector.
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!
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- Software, Education, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Latvia
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- Intropia — Find Web3 jobs and other opportunities, capitalize your network, and hire the best talent.
- Starly.io — Launchpad and marketplace for your gamified NFT collections
- EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!
Envac is one of the most innovative players in the global waste collection industry and inventor of the pneumatic waste collection system.
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- Waste Management, Internet of Things
- Pre-Seed
- Latvia
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- The Littery — The Littery is an environmental services company that recycles plastic pollution into e-lottery tickets.The company uses IoT and Computer vision to reframe litter into e-lottery tickets that cause an instant change of attitude due to the innate human optimism bias resulting in an immediate and lasting behavioral change. Its breakthrough idea hasthe potential to revolutionize the littering and household packaging collection markets with its superior solution by motivating citizens to keep their cities clean by themselves. Cities that partner with The Littery experience cleaner communities with less litter and happier citizens at a lower cost.The Riga, Riga-located company was founded by Michael Manniche in 2019.
Wistron Corporation, an original design manufacturer, provides a range of design, manufacturing, and after-sales service support functions for information and communication technology products worldwide. The company's product portfolio covers various technology products, including notebook personal computers (PCs), mobile communicationproducts, servers and storage systems, networking products, desktop PCs, LCD TVs, information appliances, game consoles, and other consumer electronics. Its after-sales services include product replacement, repair and support, and product support solutions, both for products it manufactures and for products produced by other manufacturers. The company sells its products to various vendors who distribute these products under their own brands. Wistron Corporation was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- Taiwan, United States, Hong Kong
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- Aiello — Our AI Assistant, specially created for the hotel industry, uses voice and Machine learning base NLP technology to create new interactions with guests and provide enhanced services. With data-driven back-end services, our assistant provides valuable insights for hotels to better understand their guests and streamline their operations.
- NEUCHIPS — NEUCHIPS is an AI ASIC solution that provides deep learning inference accelerators to deliver the lowest TCO for data centers. Their management and R&D team has decades of experience from leading semiconductor companies and hold patents in signal processing, neural networks, and circuit design.NEUCHIPS is a founding member of MLCommons andone of the founding members of the OCP community.
- Princeton NuEnergy — Princeton NuEnergy is a clean-tech startup focused on the direct recycling of lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles and consumer electronics. Its patented Direct Battery Recycling technology to produce high-quality and high value-added cathode active materials with low operating cost from spent lithium-ion batteries and delivers sustainableenergy and environmental solutions.
Tech Investor and Entrepreneur, former Founder & CEO at The Eye Tribe
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Denmark, Sweden, France
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- Go Dogo — Go Dogo provides mental workout for dogs - It's an app-controlled wall-mounted robot that uses the home TV to give instructions and feedback. The combination of computer vision and treat releases enables brain games that slowly gets more and more challenging. Over-the-Air updates ensures that Go Dogo never gets old.
- Rerun — Log and visually explore computer vision and robotics data over time. Debug and understand the internal state and data of your systems with minimal code.
- Doublepoint — Solving Next-Generation Interactions. Doublepoint provides future computing platforms more intuitive, robust and versatile interactions.
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.
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- Software, CAD, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Latvia, Estonia, United States
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- VOOL — VOOL is a one-stop shop for uninterrupted EV Charging. Experience chargers that are reliable, save money, and look damn good. Made in Estonia.
- CENOS — CENOS redefines engineering simulation software category for mass adoption: FROM enterprise niche and multi-purpose software for 100K simulation experts TO mass adoption of intuitive vertical-focused simulation apps by 10M+ practical engineers in production
- Corner Renovation — Volume Hiring AI Automator
SeedBlink is a platform for startup investments. Invest in startups by having the benefits of crowdfunding, the flexibility of angel investors, and the VC structure.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Romania, United States, United Kingdom
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- FLOWX.AI — FLOWX.AI wraps and orchestrates legacy systems, making it incredibly easy for enterprises to create web and mobile front-ends for mission-critical business flows. The revolutionary AI-enabled Apeiron UX engine is able to automatically create a modern, intuitive front-end for customers and employees, helping to consolidate in a unified UI all thebusiness logic cross-systems.This enables companies with complex technology landscapes to create and launch mission-critical digital products fast, and then facilitate an easy path forward to full digital transformation.The revolutionary novel approach is 100x faster and cheaper than existing alternatives. FLOWX.AI allows delivery of enterprise-grade mobile and web digital front-ends as fast as 10 weeks, and requires much smaller engineering teams.
- Undelucram — Undelucram is a recruitment agency.
- Authic Labs — Experience our easy-to-use platform to build NFT marketplaces, launch digital collectibles and design effective customer loyalty programs.
SmartHub is a funding and service platform which connects the best start ups to investors, and supports at every investments.Service solutions for investors – tailor made venture portfolios: focused pipeline, extensive analysis and research of investment options, deal structuring, legal paper work, quarterly reporting, investment rightsprotection till exit.Service solutions for startups – fast communications and feedback, mutually beneficial deal making, strategic development support, networking and consulting at fundraising stage.
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- Internet, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- TransferGo — Send & receive money from over 30 countries with TransferGo, either online or through our app. Transfer money at low cost, quickly & safely.
- Damon Motors — Damon is unleashing the full potential of personal mobility for the world’s commuters. With its proprietary electric drivetrain, the company has developed the world’s safest, smartest, fully connected electric motorcycle platform employing radical innovations in battery propagation resistance, sensor fusion and AI. Designed as a platform forworldwide line extension, Damon motorcycles will ship direct to consumer on subscription plans to drive scale. Based in Vancouver, Canada, Damon is a Techstars Mobility company founded by serial entrepreneurs Jay Giraud and Dom Kwong. Damon’s investors include Round 13 Capital, Techstars, Fontinalis, Extreme Venture Partners and Pallasite Ventures.
- EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!
Merito Partners is a growing private investment company operating in Latvia and the New Nordics.
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- Furniture, Smart Home, Smart Building
- Seed, Private Equity
- Latvia
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- TapBox — Tapbox is a self-service solution provider for catering, cinema, entertainment, hotel, ticketing, customer servicing, and more.
- MYCABIN — MYCABIN offering small wooden frame holiday homes in different sizes that can be combined as a set.
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Grant
- United States, India, Canada
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- Mistikist — Transform with Mistikist: Optimize brainwaves, relax, focus, and unlock your potential through neuroscience-backed techniques. Download now!
- glocali.se — Glocali.se helps to expand businesses reach by 100x
- Emission Sentri — Drive emission management and reduction with insights
Introduction of the investment thesis of ZenStone Venture Capital: Investing in passionate founders with extraordinatry vision and execution at post seed and early venture stages.
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- FinTech, Real Estate, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Brazil, Canada
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- Bolt — Bolt makes Ecommerce better with One-Click Checkout and CheckoutOS. See how Bolt checkout boosts your sales today.
- EquityZen — EquityZen's mission is to improve the way startup employees are paid by unlocking the value of their equity compensation in a way that benefits all key players: the shareholder, the company, and the investor.
- DecorMatters — Discover home decor ideas and interior design inspiration. Shop your favorite furniture stores and socialize with other interior designers.
Sten Tamkivi is the Chief Product Officer at Topia (formerly MOVE Guides). He was previously co-founder and CEO of Teleport (acquired by Topia), the place to scout for startup people. He co-founded the company as an EIR at Andreessen Horowitz.Sten has been a tech entrepreneur since 1996. After founding a few companies in Estonia, he joined Skypeas an early executive, ran the original R&D office, and held several global product leadership roles for 8+ years.He has an MS in Management from Stanford GSB.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Estonia, United States, United Kingdom
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- Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
- Katana — Katana gives thousands of manufacturers a live look at their business with visual, intuitive, and easy-to-use ERP software.
- Entrepreneur First — We are the best place for the world's most ambitious talent to come together and build game-changing technology startups from scratch.
Trind Ventures is an early stage VC fund based in Tallinn, Estonia. Investing in start-ups across Europe, from seed rounds all the way to sustainability, with a focus on ICT. Trind Ventures partners are Joel Aasmäe, Ivar Siimar, Kimmo Irpola and Taavi Lepmets.
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- Software, Information Technology, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Estonia, Finland, Latvia
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- Yaga — Yaga is designed for everyone who wants to sell items online in a convenient and secure manner.
- eAgronom — eAgronom helps farmers generate additional revenue streams, improve soil quality, and access better financing.
- My Telescope — My Telescope is the Share of Search analytics tool marketers use to track campaigns and build data-driven branding strategies.
Andris K. Berzins is the Managing Partner at Change Ventures. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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- Drones, EdTech, Analytics
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Spain, Latvia, Lithuania
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- Memby — Memby is a Lithuania-based EdTech startup that brings affordable online tutorship to high schoolers.
- Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
- Reach.ly — Reach.ly is a next-generation analytics tool for e-commerce sites. By deploying machine learning and pattern recognition algorithms tool, they uncover actionable customer behavior patterns. Their real-time analytics infrastructure lets e-commerce sites engage with these customers using customized messages or tailored web content.
Rein Raudjarv
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- CAD, Software, Simulation
- Angel
- Latvia
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- CENOS — CENOS redefines engineering simulation software category for mass adoption: FROM enterprise niche and multi-purpose software for 100K simulation experts TO mass adoption of intuitive vertical-focused simulation apps by 10M+ practical engineers in production
Dan Bragiel has co-founded 2 companies and has been involved in startups for the past 10 years. He began with mobile gaming at Paragon 5 focusing on running the offices in Poland, Netherlands and Argentina. He then co-founded the startup Meetro, a pioneer in the location/mobile space. He then went on to start Lefora that was sold in 2010.
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- Software, Logistics, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Finland, Latvia
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- Enevo — Enevo works with its customers to transform the financial, environmental and social impact of waste. Founded in 2010, Enevo began providing waste data from dumpster sensors using its proprietary analytics software. Enevo now provides full management of waste and recycling services for restaurant, retail and commercial property customers throughoutNorth America. It provides the first predictive end-to-end solution that automates the whole planning and operations of waste and recycling logistics.Enevo has raised more than $34M in private equity funding to date and continues to invest in technology and new processes to deliver the peace of mind its customers need.
- Jerry — Jerry is an AI, ML, and bot-powered car ownership app that saves customers time and money on car expenses. With its first product, Jerry redesigned and disrupted the century-old car insurance process, turning stacks of pages and hours of calls into a handful of clicks. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
- Drip Capital — Drip Capital offers trade financing product targeted towards SMEs in developing markets. Its automated risk assessment model allows rapidly growing SMEs quick and easy access to finance. With a focus on technology, Drip aims to eliminate the hassle of paperwork and bureaucracy and create a seamless borrowing experience for its clients.The companyconsists of a team of financial consultants, engineers and analysts from Wharton, Stanford, and IITs with years of experience at Standard Chartered, Black Rock and Yahoo. They are backed by leading Silicon Valley investors - Y Combinator and StartX. They are always eager to connect with sharp minds to grow within their quest to becoming the future of global trade finance.Drip Capital was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
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