# Top 30 Marketplace Startup Investors in Latvia in May 2026 ## FlyCap - Type: VC Fund - Location: Riga, Riga, Latvia - Relevant deals: 7 - 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. ## ZGI Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Riga, Riga, Latvia - Relevant deals: 4 - 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. ## 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. ## Base Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berkeley, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce We founded Base Ventures to turn access into opportunity for investors, founders, and the next disruptive idea. ## IT-Farm - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises. ## Dean Dorrell - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Software Dean Dorrell has a B.A. (Hons.) in Economics and had a successful initial career as a bond trader, arbitrageur and proprietary trader. He was a coder from very early days and used those skills whilst trading to formulate some of the earliest proprietary models, quant trading systems and statistical arbitrage methods in the 1990’s that led to himbecoming Head of Bond Trading at Paribas in London and later joining Greenwich Capital and Greenwich Natwest. Dean made his first angel investment in 1998 and during the mid-2000’s transitioned into a VC/private equity/operating executive role with Redbus Group in London which had successful exits such as RFD to Lionsgate and Lovefilm (which was the merged entity that the Redbus founded Video Island became part of) to Amazon and was named winner of the Richard Branson sponsored Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100.Dean moved to Australia in 2010 and became the Managing Director and an Investment Committee Member of M.H. Carnegie & Co. in 2011, primarily leading the deal team in early stage venture investments and private equity deals (largely focused on distressed real assets such as marinas and pubs).Dean co-founded Carthona Capital in 2014 which has become one of Australia’s leading early stage venture capital companies with over $200m of FUM. ## 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 ## Carthona Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally. ## Toivo Annus - Type: Angel - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce. ## The Untitled Venture Company - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology 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. ## Seraph Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Foster City, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Analytics Seraph Group invests and shares exclusive, early-stage investment opportunities. ## ZenStone Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Clara, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Real Estate, Financial Services 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. ## 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. ## Jay Zaveri - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology Jay Zaveri has been serving Social Capital as a partner since November 2015. He also founded CloudOn and Future Thought Productions. ## Chris Sang - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer, Venture Advisor, Global Investor ## BaltCap - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Mobile, Information Technology, Apps BaltCap is a private equity and venture capital investor in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania focusing investment on the growth and realization of small and medium enterprises. ## Sten Tamkivi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## 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. ## NuVX Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Software Company’s strategy is to assemble a diversified portfolio of investments in leading deep tech technology companies. ## Konstantin Othmer - Type: Angel - Location: Mountain View, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Photo Editing, Automotive Konstantin Othmer is the Co Founder & CEO at Speechpad. ## Wistron Corporation - Type: VC Fund - Location: Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning 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. ## Chris Hulls - Type: Angel - Location: Berkeley, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, Drones, Mobile Chris is the cofounder and CEO of Life360. Before doing the whole startup thing, he did a stint in banking at Goldman Sachs and spent a few years in the Air Force. He went to college at UC Berkeley, and was about to start class at Harvard Business School when he had a last minute change of heart and decided to pioneer the trend of being an ivyleague pre-dropout. In his time off, Chris likes to do anything that involves machines that move--like building drones, driving cars, flying planes, and piloting hovercraft. He is also widely credited with coining the term App Store Optimization. ## Merito Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Riga, Riga, Latvia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Private Equity - Focus: Furniture, Smart Home, Smart Building Merito Partners is a growing private investment company operating in Latvia and the New Nordics. ## Harry Cheung - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, Drones, Internet Harry Cheung - Partner @ Siren Studios ## Andrej Jakovlev - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, E-Commerce, Marketplace Andrej Jakovlev ## Social Discovery Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Apps, Internet, Mobile Social Discovery Group is the world's largest group of social discovery companies. It unites more than 40 brands, an investment fund and a venture studio. ## Vinny Lingham - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency 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. ## Angelsdeck Global Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile Apps, Software, Education AngelsDeck Global Ventures. Joint investments and exclusive community.AngelsDeck was created:01 For comfortable and mutually beneficial communication among its members, who share venture capital and self-development values. 02 For priority access to venture capital deals with a recommendation from trusted syndicators.03 By and forinvestors who have an impeccable business reputation and capital transparency.Our Values:* Expertise * We are proud of our members' combined expertise. We create and maintain an environment where all members can conveniently and comfortably share their valuable knowledge.* Exclusivity * In the venture capital market, there is a lot of competition among investors for promising projects. We showcase exclusive deals that are not on the surface.* Syndication * We have created a marketplace where experienced syndicate investors can compete for members' attention by the quality of their deals. Everyone can try the role of a syndicator.* Communication * "As a fish needs water, an investor needs a network," and we have created an exclusive club with a unique atmosphere of online and offline communication between members of equal enthusiasm, aspiration, and motivation. ## 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 ## 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co