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Top 30 Consumer Startup Investors in Latvia in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 30 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Consumer startups based in Latvia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Consumer companies from Latvia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 30 Consumer Startup Investors in Latvia in January 2025

Investor	Consumer Latvia investments
Imprimatur Capital Fund Management	14
FlyCap	5
Open Circle Capital	4
HansaMatrix	2
Base Ventures	2
SOSV	2
ZGI Capital	2
BaltCap	2
Konstantin Othmer	1
Chris Sang	1
IT-Farm	1
Angelsdeck Global Ventures	1
Taver Capital Partners	1
ZenStone Venture Capital	1
Jay Zaveri	1
Harry Cheung	1
Wistron Corporation	1
Change Ventures	1
Taver Capital Partners	1
Seraph Group	1
NuVX Capital	1
The Untitled Venture Company	1
StartersHub	1
Visionplus	1
Chris Hulls	1
Baltic Tech Ventures	1
Vinny Lingham	1
Dan Bragiel	1
Dean Dorrell	1
Merito Partners	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Debt Financing, Funding Round
Latvia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Axial3D — Leading the way with the latest 3D imaging, models, and devices
afriQloud — AfriQloud provides a white-labeled cloud computing solution to telecom operators, internet service providers, system integrators, and managed information technology service providers.
Sonarworks — SoundID Reference software calibrates your speakers and studio headphones, so you can trust that every mix will translate.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Consumer Goods, Medical
Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
Latvia, Estonia, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

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.

Our Investment FocusWe are interested in technology companies in the fields of ICT, robotics and high-tech. We favor teams of professionals comprised or led by serial entrepreneurs with past growth, fundraising and/or exiting experience. We are looking for product building companies that would be high-potential, fast-growth, and ready toconquer foreign markets. Best time to talk us is just after first revenues in the company.Our investment approach1. It all starts with a conversation where we learn about you and your ambition. 2. In the space of few meetings we are targeting to decide whether to look further. 3. We'll discuss particular terms, ask for more information, and analyse further. 4. The legal part - we know everyone loves it, and, finally, we join your venture.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Lithuania, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

PIXEVIA — PIXEVIA - AI for retail. Our flagship product - fully autonomous stores, powered by AI, cameras, and sensors. You simply walk in, take what you want, and go.
Monimoto — Wire-free, Anti-theft GPS tracker for motorcycles that calls your phone and sends GPS location coordinates if your motorcycle is being stolen.
Perfection42 — Perfection42 empowers creators to reach Unlimited Quality with custom Artificial intelligence tools without a single line of code.

Electronics manufacturing in Eastern Europe including industries like transportation, IoT, technology sectors, medicine & more.

Investment focus

Portfolio highlights

Lightspace Labs — Seeing is believing

We founded Base Ventures to turn access into opportunity for investors, founders, and the next disruptive idea.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

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 — Find and manage carriers, boost margins. Precise pricing, optimized bidding, shipper connectivity.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

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.

Investment focus

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.

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.

Investment focus

Mobile, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
Latvia, Lithuania, United States

Portfolio highlights

UPRENT — UPRENT is a pumping system rental provider which are accompanied with trench shoring systems and power generators. The company serves customers with effective products which enable to get the job done in the shortest time and with lowest energy costs. It guarantees a high level of customer satisfaction by maintaining a constant communication withcustomers, managing customer satisfaction measurement, identifying customer complaints and needs, and assuring appropriate service according to customer needs and requirements.UPRENT was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in Riga, Latvia.
TrueCare24 — Care professionals and services for home and business.
Lightspace Labs — Seeing is believing

Konstantin Othmer is the Co Founder & CEO at Speechpad.

Investment focus

Internet, Photo Editing, Automotive
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States, Latvia, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Spiden — Pioneering in non-invasive glucose monitoring technology, seamlessly integrated with health metrics for a revolutionary wearable experience.
Web3 Pro — The easiest onramp to Web3 for Enterprises with our leading white-label products. Engage consumers with NFT PRO. Establish your brand presence in digital worlds with GEER. Leverage the power of NFRs across your business with NAAS.
Blockfolio — Blockfolio offers mobile portfolio tracking and management for the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry.Blockfolio is the network for mobile cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and management. Millions of people trust Blockfolio to stay connected to the pulse of the industry through market data, news, and direct updates from leaders of top cryptoprojects. Blockfolio is committed to providing free access to our users and token team partners.

Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

Fiable — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
Cloobot Inc — Cloobot X: Your Premier Software Implementation transforms your vision into reality with our state-of-the-art software implementation studio. Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, our expert team delivers rapid, efficient, and innovative solutions tailored to your unique business needs.
Tokenise — Tokenise acts as a data layer for web3 projects and their tokens. We help founders build their tokens simply, mint/launch their tokens on-chain and then manage their tokens in one place. Tokenise enables founders to curate rich data rooms that make it easier for investors to get onboard. We empower community with unprecedented insights andaccessibility into their favourite projects and their tokens.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Germany

Portfolio highlights

EMobi — EMoBi is a transportation company that provides freight transport, and electric vehicle services with reservation facilities.
EV Motors Japan — EV Motors Japan provides sales and services for commercial vehicles in the automotive industry.
Honeycomb — Honeycomb (fka Agilius) is the only place where you can buy a condo/apartment building master policy online in less than 3 minutes at a fraction of the cost! Instant, free, no hassle quotes, online everything and up to 40% savings. With all that we're bringing simplicity and transparency to the real estate insurance space for condoassociations (HOAs), building owners, property managers, and developers everywhere. This is what we do. This is all we do.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Russian Federation, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Signum.ai — Signum.AI is a unique and powerful suite of external data acquisition and management solutions to growing your business. Make data-driven decisions, align sales and marketing and boost your company’s revenue.
Renova — AI-driven no-code platform for insurance industry.
Upshift — The convenience of owning a car without all the headaches.

Gagarin Capital is a venture fund that invests in early stage artificial intelligence companies from around the world.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

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 a high-performance explorer for clean energy minerals. We turbocharge metals exploration to build the electric future.
Regology — Regology is the leading generative AI-powered Regulatory Intelligence Platform. We help compliance teams in all industries automate regulatory change management and compliance.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Real Estate, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.

Jay Zaveri has been serving Social Capital as a partner since November 2015. He also founded CloudOn and Future Thought Productions.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.

Harry Cheung - Partner @ Siren Studios

Investment focus

Apps, Drones, Internet
Seed
Latvia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Secret — Secret offers an online platform that enables users to share their personal secrets with other users anonymously. It owns and operates a mobile application that helps users to share and connect with friends. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Airdog — We build smart robots that bring unprecedented value to its owners.

Wistron Corporation is a technology service provider supplying innovative.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series B, Seed, Series A
United States, Taiwan, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

iKala — iKala's mission is to enable AI competencies of our enterprise customers, to increase their customer acquisition capability and customer lifetime value.
GMI Cloud — GMI Cloud is a business of empowering the world's best ideas. Which provide businesses all over the globe with unmatched cloud access to top-tier GPUs like the NVIDIA H100 and streamlined software platform for integration, virtualization, and deployment.
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.

We are a seed stage venture capital fund based in the Baltic states, backing ambitious Baltic founders anywhere in the world.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Estonia, United States, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

Modash.io — High performing marketing teams use Modash to find, analyze and monitor influencers at scale all over the world. Join them today.
Certific — Certific is a platform that enables certified remote medical testing at scale.
Origin Robotics — Origin is a defense technology company that specializes in advanced autonomous systems. It was co-founded in 2022 by UAV industry serial entrepreneurs to address the growing security threats in Europe.

Taver Capital is a venture fund that invests in early stage artificial intelligence companies from around the world.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

CureSkin — Get free AI analysis and dermatologist-prescribed regimens to treat your skin & hair concerns. Holistic, safe & 100% effective. Learn more.
Regology — Regology is the leading generative AI-powered Regulatory Intelligence Platform. We help compliance teams in all industries automate regulatory change management and compliance.
iFarm — Technologies to grow fresh vegetables, berries and greens

Seraph Group invests and shares exclusive, early-stage investment opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Latvia, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Autio — HearHere is a travel audio app that shares the depth and diversity of stories - cultural, geographical, historical, and mythological.
Flywheel.io — Flywheel is a data management and analysis platform built specifically for scientists and the researcher's workflow. They empower research momentum by focusing on data and medical image capture, content management, scientific computation, and collaboration. With reproducible research in mind, they combine open-source methods from topuniversities, a modern web user interface, and an extensible compute engine based on containerization technology. The result is a software platform to accelerate discovery and help researchers do science, not IT.Flywheel accelerates new scientific discoveries in life-science, biotech, and academic imaging research through cloud-scale collaboration. As a result, imaging researchers are able to avoid innovation bottlenecks, and accelerate discovery by doing more science, and less IT.
Pinpoint Predictive — Pinpoint Predictive offers property and casualty insurers loss predictions and risk scores with only a name and address. Their platform allows insurers to leverage unmatched risk selection at the beginning of the customer journey.

Company’s strategy is to assemble a diversified portfolio of investments in leading deep tech technology companies.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Russian Federation, United States, Malta

Portfolio highlights

Imot.io — Boost your Sales team with AI-powered Quality Assurance
Neatsy.ai — The world's 1st app that detects orthopedic and podiatry health issues with a Phone camera.
Proaction.pro — Proaction testing system was developed based on the experience of domestic HR experts in banking, telecommunications, commercial, construction and other industries.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Russian Federation, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Naco — Our mission is development of top quality solutions based on new materials and exceptionally innovative coating technologies for climate neutrality and sustainable products.
VAMA — VAMA is a one-stop virtual platform that provides easy access to e-pujas, e-darshans, and astrology services, to devotees from across India and the world.
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

An early-stage VC that backs, mainly but not limited to, Turkey & CEE's founders who work to disrupt the system for good.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Turkey, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Cubtale — Cubtale is a care guidance and coordination platform for your baby. You can track breastfeeding, vitamins, medicine, sleep, diaper changes, formula or pumped milk. You can analyze your baby's growth and compare it with health guidelines and share with doctors. You can schedule time with lactation and sleep experts.
IDENFIT — Cloud based human resources software and workforce management. Idenfit online human resources and workforce management software brings a holistic approach to human resources functions and it helps you to review and manage hr processes all in one place. Idenfit is cloud based HR software for SMEs as well as international companies that have outgrownspreadsheets. We automate many of the most tedious HR functions and create time for you to do meaningful work. Whether you’re an employee trying to request time-off or an HR manager looking forward to grow and develop your company’s workforce, Idenfit is your all-in-one HR management solution.
PulpoAR — PulpoAR provides omnichannel AR commerce virtual try-on solutions for beauty brands and e-commerce platforms.

WE HELP YOU TO GROW FASTER!

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pebble — Pebble is a electric vehicle manufacturing startup.
Transfluent — Professional translations for all business needs. Fast. Easy.
BetterDoctor — Our provider network software solutions & services provide unmatched tools & insights for you. Discover how you can measure, manage, monitor & model.

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.

Investment focus

Apps, Drones, Mobile
Seed, Series A
United States, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Tile — Tile Bluetooth trackers help you find your keys, wallet, phone and everything that matters. Join the world's largest lost and found community and never lose anything again.
Adgile Media Group — Adgile Media Group is the nation’s leading tech-enabled, data-driven out-of-home media company
Airdog — We build smart robots that bring unprecedented value to its owners.

Baltic Tech Ventures is the only publicly traded VC fund with an angel group focused on seed and early stage investment in the Baltic region. Investors can get involved with BTV in two ways: gaining exposure to the entire BTV portfolio by buying shares (NASDAQ:BTE1R) or by direct angel investment into one or more BTV portfolio companies. BTVangel investors benefit from the ability to invest directly into the Baltics' most promising startups on the same terms as the smartest money in the region. Unlike with other VC opportunities, BTV investors can select the companies they invest in, with low investment minimums, no management or success fees, and no lockup. BTV startups are fully vetted by BTV. BTV financials are fully audited, with regulatory oversight under Nasdaq.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed
Latvia, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

asya.ai — We use computer vision, biometrics, deep learning, and a lot of data, to analyze human emotional experiences.
VOOVOO — VOOVOO is a cutting-edge service designed for commercial fleets to prevent speeding and aggressive driving in real-time, using in-house developed Safe-Driving Technology - VOOBOX. By proactively avoiding potential problems, VOOVOO enhances transportation safety and minimizes operational costs.Today, approximately 360 million commercial vehiclesare involved in daily economic activities worldwide. We focus on making our technology available to global commerce, starting from Europe and the US. Our business model's main advantages are simplicity of technology integration, easy distribution, and low costs, enabling us to expand rapidly.Our technology has been developed according to UN international standards, with support from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT Urban Mobility), Georgias Innovation and Technologies Agency (GITA), Promwad - an electrical engineering company, Testups - Test and certification company, and other international organizations. We have conducted all necessary lab and field tests, so our hardware is now under the certificate, allowing us to sell it in 58 countries.Our five-year industry background, established international relationships, technological market trends, and highly qualified management team provide a solid guarantee for the sustainable growth of our project. We forecast earning up to €36M in 5 years with around €20M net profit.From the ongoing SEED round of €500k, €435k is left to be raised. €65K is a contribution to the round from CONNECTOLOGY and EIT Urban Mobility. This investment gives us 18 months runway, enough to meet European standards with a certified product, start supplying reseller partners, onboard about 8 000 cars, and generate €2M+.Feel free to book a call to discuss partnership opportunities: https://calendly.com/voovoo/30min
Lerio.io — Hire remote Team in minutes at Lerio. We make it very simple to hire and manage remote teams anywhere in the world.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Glif — Interoperable tools for the Filecoin network
Afterparty — Afterparty is a technology company behind the new Web3 platform enabling creators to directly monetize and manage NFT collector relationships
Collectibles.com — Collectibles is the Home of Collectors: Cards, Comics, Coins, Stamps and more. Connect with Likeminds, Trade and Showoff your Collection for free

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.

Investment focus

Software, Logistics, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Finland, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

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 simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Credible — As a multi-lender marketplace that allows borrowers to receive competitive loan offers from its vetted lenders, Credible empowers consumers to take control of their finances. After answering a few questions about themselves, consumers can receive rates without affecting their credit score or sharing their personal information with lenders untilthey're ready to proceed with an offer.Credible is fiercely independent and committed to delivering fair and unbiased financial solutions for millennials.
Lounge — Use Lounge to organise events and groups in seconds, without a newsfeed. Stop scrolling, start living.
Airdog — We build smart robots that bring unprecedented value to its owners.

Merito Partners is a growing private investment company operating in Latvia and the New Nordics.

Investment focus

Furniture, Smart Home, Smart Building
Seed, Private Equity
Latvia

Portfolio highlights

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.

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