Top 5 Automotive Startup Investors in Lithuania in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Automotive startups based in Lithuania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Automotive companies from Lithuania. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Automotive Startup Investors in Lithuania in January 2026

Investor	Automotive Lithuania investments
Practica Capital	6
Mantas Mikuckas	2
Market One Capital	1
Thomas Plantenga	1
Piton Capital	1

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Practica Capital

Investment focus

B2B, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Creem — Creem provides Indie Hackers, Micro-SaaS and SaaS businesses with instant financial tools and functionality. As a Merchant of Record our pre-integrated embeddable components tap your existing data, boosting revenue effortlessly. No costs—pure growth potential for your business.
Handwave — Handwave is the world’s first biometric wallet and identity platform — replacing wallets, phones, and IDs with a single gesture for in-store payments. Designed for retail, meant for people. End users can easily onboard their palms through the Handwave app by scanning their palm with the phone camera, linking payment and loyalty cards, and thenenjoy frictionless checkout at retail by simply scanning their palm at a payment terminal.
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.

2011 – Practica Capital co-founder and partner.2009 – 2012 Partner at CEE Capital, a private investment company. Executed a number of successful transactions in various industries.2008 – 2011 Co-owner and Member of the Board at Itex, IT maintenance and consulting company.2002 – 2010 Founded and managed Interdata, one of leading internethosting companies in Lithuania, which was sold to Baltic Data Centre (TeliaSonera Group).10+ years of experience in business creation and exit to strategic buyer in IT&T sector.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Lithuania, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sort A Brick — Sort A Brick transforms your Toy Bricks into endless building experiences
Ovoko — Ovoko functions as an internet marketplace, uniting sellers of car parts, auto dismantlers, and recyclers with car dealers, mechanics, and avid enthusiasts.
Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park

Market One Capital | Seed fund empowering marketplaces and network effects platforms across Europe

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Poland, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

METYCLE — The B2B marketplace for global scrap metal trading. We give the world access to scrap metal.
Pathway — Python ETL framework for stream processing, real-time analytics, RAG, and LLM pipelines.
Connecty AI — Connecty AI is a contextual intelligence platform for vast data. It leverages Gen AI for an integrated solution for enterprise-specific context building, data prep and trusted insights, saving 100s of hours for data teams.

Thomas Plantenga is the CEO at Vinted.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Mobile Apps
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
The Netherlands, Lithuania, France

Portfolio highlights

altrove AI — Altrove - Sustainable Alternatives to Critical Materials
Crisp — Crisp is app-only supermarket for ultra-fresh food. The marketplace stocks >2000 products from more than 650 farmers, growers and makers and runs on proprietary software enabling zero-inventory and negative working capital. Order today, is delivered next day in a 1-hour timeslot. Launched in April 2018 in the Netherlands, backed by the largestseed funding in the Benelux in the last 3 years. In 2019 and 2020 Crisp raised follow-on rounds.Crisp is founded by Tom Peeters, Michiel Roodenburg and Eric Klaassen with the mission to make better quality food available to more people.
Breeze — The dating app that skips the small talk and helps you go on real dates, because real connection starts in person. We organise safe first dates for a community of intentional daters.

Piton Capital is a venture capital and growth equity firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Piton focuses exclusively on network effects businesses (marketplaces, exchanges and platforms) as this provide one of the few moats or forms of defensibility to achieve dominance. There are several forms of great network effects businesses thataren’t marketplaces that include data network effects (including machine learning and AI), businesses that rely on user generated content, as well as SaaS businesses with the potential to layer network effects around it. The firm is a stage and style-agnostic and seeks to invest from seed to late stage (€200k to €15m).