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Top 50 Startup Investors in Latvia in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in startups based in Latvia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Latvia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Startup Investors in Latvia in January 2025

Investor	Latvia investments
Imprimatur Capital Fund Management	58
ZGI Capital	23
FlyCap	17
Change Ventures	5
Open Circle Capital	4
EstBAN	4
Uldis Sipols	4
New Nordic Ventures	3
The Untitled Venture Company	3
Karma Ventures	3
BaltCap	3
Sverre Bisgaard	3
Taavi Tamkivi	3
Superangel	3
EIT Urban Mobility	3
Qiming Venture Partners USA	2
HansaMatrix	2
Practica Capital	2
Nicolai Torgersen	2
Capitalia	2
Baltic Tech Ventures	2
Inventure	2
J12	2
Indrikis Liepa	2
Lauris Liepa	2
Povilas Urbonas	2
SOSV	2
Almaz Capital	2
European regional development fund (ERDF)	2
BADideas.fund	2
Base Ventures	2
Abingworth	2
Mistletoe	2
Ragnar Sass	2
Alex Hofmann	1
Richard Frank	1
iSeed	1
James Berdigans	1
Jean-Pascal Duvieusart	1
Vesna Investment	1
ASP Asset Management	1
AdFirst.vc	1
VK (ex. Mail.Ru Group)	1
Rein Raudjarv	1
Wistron Corporation	1
Vinny Lingham	1
Expansion Capital	1
SmartHub	1
Carthona Capital	1
Swedbank	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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

Esgrid — Manage your value chain ESG data on autopilot, and save hundreds of working hours on legal analysis, ESG data collection and creating improvement guidelines. Become CSRD compliant with Esgrid.
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 — Boost your windshield damage assessment accuracy with an AI inspection tool that provides instant repairability decisions.

Uldis Sipols

Investment focus

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

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Latvia, Estonia, Georgia

Portfolio highlights

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 — Digital shelf analytics for mobile-first grocery and convenience deliveries. Track pricing, visibility, availability, promotions, and competitor performance across rapid delivery platforms.

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

karma.vc is an early stage venture capital fund focusing on seed and early stage technology companies in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
Estonia, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Patchstack — Keep your WordPress sites safe from vulnerable plugins & themes. Protect sites with virtual patching.
BforeAI — Starting from patented technology developed in years of research, BforeAi is the prediction service that looks for newly registered or morphed domains, and score their maliciousness looking at metadata and links to other bad guys.
Pactum — Pactum autonomous negotiations help companies unlock hidden value. Our AI negotiates non-strategic supplier contracts on a massive 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

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.

Investment focus

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

Taavi Tamkivi was Helping in Banks & FinTechs fight FinCrime. also a Founder & CEO at Salv .

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, AgTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Estonia, Latvia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GIG-A — Open a bank account in Japan from your mobile. Receive salary, manage everyday spending, or transfer money with ease.
Introwise — Introwise makes it easy for everyday experts to offer coaching and advice online.
Lightyear — Investing with an edge. Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest in stocks and ETFs without unnecessary barriers and fees.

Early-stage investments from entrepreneurs to entrepreneurs. Our companies include Bolt, Veriff, Fortumo and many more. 10x@superangel.io

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Estonia, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Askel.ai — Stop wasting your team's time. Start automating. Askel.ai enables Ops teams to implement AI agents by embedding them into their own SaaS tools.
Pactum — Pactum autonomous negotiations help companies unlock hidden value. Our AI negotiates non-strategic supplier contracts on a massive scale.
Nanordica Medical — Nanordica Medical develops novel nanoparticle-based antibacterial wound care products.

EIT Urban Mobility is an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union. Europe’s leading community for impact-driven start-ups and scale-ups in urban mobilityWe want to move cities toward a more sustainable future by partnering up with start-ups and scale-ups like yours. Our Impact Venturesdivision gives you access to funding and support channels to deliver financial, environmental and social impact on the urban landscapes around us. Our tools are: Funding through grants and equity investments, Knowledge and training through partner-led programmes, networking and introductions through dedicated support to our equity portfolio companiesOur investments provide you with a boost on your growth journey, and our network connects you with the right stakeholders in the public policy sector — on a regional, national and European-wide scale — to put your company on the map and bring your urban mobility services to the people who need it the most.If you’re like us and have a drive to shape the cities of our future, join our community of engaged and esteemed impactful ventures by applying for one of the many different programs we offer.

Investment focus

Software, Transportation, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Spain, Sweden, France

Portfolio highlights

Smart Point — We are entering the age of convenience and immediacy. A Smart Point automates the reception of any product you shop online, and any service available in your city, from pharmaceuticals, to flowers and dry cleaning. All delivered in 1 hour and available to pick up at your convenience.
Parabol — As Parabol, we use our innovative power for smart mobility systems and traffic safety all over the world.
Fastlane — Discover seamless logistics control with our cutting-edge transport management software. Streamline operations, optimize routes, and enhance efficiency effortlessly. Try our solution for comprehensive control today!

Qiming Venture Partners USA, founded in 2017, is a healthcare venture capital firm and healthcare investor with deep technical expertise that allows them to identify tomorrow's innovations early and strong operational experience with a hands-on approach that makes us the investor of choice for early-stage biotech companies.Because of theirproven, hands-on approach to supporting CEOs and scaling operations, its partners are frequently sought after to serve on company boards. They are respected business and thought leaders.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Series A, Series B, Post-IPO Equity
United States, Canada, China

Portfolio highlights

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.
Jasper Therapeutics — Jasper is a biotechnology company focused on enabling safer conditioning agents to allow for expanded use of curative therapy with stem cell transplants and gene therapies. Jasper’s lead compound, JSP191, is in clinical development as a conditioning antibody that clears hematopoietic stem cells from bone marrow in patients undergoing a stem celltransplant.
Tenpoint Therapeutics — Tenpoint Therapeutics Ltd. is a global, clinical-stage biotech company developing groundbreaking treatments to rejuvenate vision in the aging eye.

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

Investment focus

Portfolio highlights

Lightspace Labs — Seeing is believing

Practica Capital

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

AMLYZE — AMLYZE Risk Assessment Module is an automated customer AML/CFT Risk Assessment and Management feature for financial companies.
Qminder — Set up Qminder queue management software in minutes. Real-time reports on customer service & employee performance. Cloud-based. Wireless. Free Support.
Biomatter — Biomatter Designs is pioneering the technologies for generative protein design at the intersection of synthetic biology and AI.

Nicolai Torgersen

Investment focus

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, CAD, Apps
Seed, Debt Financing
Latvia, Sweden, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

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 systems for aerial inspection, surveying, mapping. Tailored for airplanes, helicopters and drones. Multiple camera and LiDAR options.

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.

Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Moncyte Health — Unique technology and novel data for personalized and optimal treatment of high cholesterol
Biomatter — Biomatter Designs is pioneering the technologies for generative protein design at the intersection of synthetic biology and AI.
Avenue Biosciences — From biotechnology tools to therapy discovery and development: Our platform enhances production yield and the quality of your end product.

J12 Ventures invests early in innovative companies in the Nordics.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, Germany, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Ayora — Transform your firm's realisation and lockup by giving your fee earners P&L management superpowers
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.
DataCrunch.io — DataCrunch is a cloud service provider which facilitates utilization and integration of state of the art AI/ML models

Indrikis Liepa

Investment focus

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

Lauris Liepa

Investment focus

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

Povilas Urbonas

Investment focus

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

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
United States, Russian Federation, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Yazen — Yazen is a digital obesity clinic that offers weight loss through modern pharmaceutical treatment.
PLATMA — PLATMA is a workspace for developing low/no-code solutions with ready-made constructors that reduce the need for large resources and decrease time to market
Alison AI — Stop wasting time and money on A/B testing. Analyze data, create impactful creatives, and optimize for outstanding results.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Losanje — Losanje has a brand and an upcycling workshop that gives second-hand and unsold completed apparel and textiles a second life. Its goal is to create an innovative manufacturing chain that will allow for the first time the industrialization of upcycling, as well as to implement the most credible solution, both ecologically and economically.
PulmoBiomed — Pulmobiomed has developed a best-in-class exhaled breath condensate device, capable of capturing Covid-19 particles in as little as 5 seconds. Pulmobiomed a biotechnology company is working with industry leaders in integrating their diagnostic capabilities into our PBM-Hale device. Pulmobiomed techn
Knock Technology — The world's simplest video chat app: Improves mental health and boosts innovation. It's a secure, cost effective and peer-to-peer telecoms solution for everyone.

We are comfortable being the first money in the round. Here is how we help founders, what we look for when investing and how to apply:

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed
Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Tingit — Tiings is a zero-effort fashion repairs marketplace for busy people & brands.
Qminder — Set up Qminder queue management software in minutes. Real-time reports on customer service & employee performance. Cloud-based. Wireless. Free Support.
Miros — Revolutionizing ecommerce with AI-powered visual search and semantic search. Seamless, tagless, and intuitive product discovery for all shoppers.

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.

We are Abingworth, a trans-atlantic bio-science investment firm with a deep understanding of both the science and markets we invest in.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Q32 Bio — Q32 Bio is developing drugs targeting powerful regulators of both the innate and adaptive immune systems with the goal of re-balancing the immune system.
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.
Myricx Bio — Myricx Pharma is a small molecule drug discovery company engaged in developing novel proprietary inhibitors of human N-myristoyltransferases (NMT), with a primary focus in oncology but also exploring potential applications across other diseases.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

ULUU — ULUU is an ocean material that replaces plastic and actively benefits the world.
Aquaria — Discover how you can secure access to safe, clean water from air using Aquaria's atmospheric water generators.
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.

Ragnar Sass is the Co-Founder of Darkstar Camp. He previously worked at LIFT99 as a Founder and CEO. Ragnar Sass attended Estonian Business School.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Estonia, United States, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Social Media, Social Network
Seed
Latvia

Portfolio highlights

F3 — F3 is a social discovery app to make new friends and communicate with existing ones.

Richard Frank

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, VoIP
Seed
Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Roamer — Roamer is the first mobile app that links your regular mobile number to a foreign SIM and saves up to 97% on roaming charges for calls and data. It keeps your usual number when traveling abroad and uses cellular, not WiFi.

iSeed is India's first micro-fund backed by top global founders and investors.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Zivy Inc — Turn your chaotic and noisy workplace communication into calm collaboration, with Zivy! Skim. Schedule. Tag. Todo. Take action on your messages in zen.
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.
HealthCred — HealthCred offers financial solutions tailored to the needs of India's healthcare ecosystem. The company specializes in providing working capital to healthcare stakeholders such as hospitals, medical device manufacturers, drug manufacturers, distributors, and importers. HealthCred's services are designed to stabilize cash flows withoutrequiring equity dilution, ensuring that healthcare providers can continue their operations smoothly. With a process that promises capital availability within 72 hours, HealthCred addresses the urgent financial needs of its clients efficiently.

James Berdigans - CEO & Founder @ Printify

Investment focus

Drones, Delivery, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Estonia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Outvio — Online retailers of all sizes, from startups to large eCommerce champions, use Outvio to automate fulfillment and returns, optimise customer support, strengthen brand presence and facilitate marketing in the post-checkout phase.
Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
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.

Mr. Jean-Pascal Pierre A. Duvieusart was appointed as a Director of the Company in March 2017, and was redesignated as a Non-Executive Director in June 2019. He became an Executive Director and CEO of Home Credit N.V. in January 2020.Mr. Duvieusart joined McKinsey & Company in May 1992. He was a partner at McKinsey & Company from January1998 to June 2004 and a senior partner at McKinsey & Company from July 2004 to January 2010.Since September 2011, Mr. Duvieusart has been a non-executive member of the board of Polymetal International plc, a precious metals mining group operating in Russia and Kazakhstan (which is listed on the London and Moscow Stock Exchanges). Mr. Duvieusart has also served as a director of Home Credit Group B.V. since August 2018.

Investment focus

Apps, Travel, Leisure
Seed, Funding Round
Austria, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Advanto — Advanto is pioneering on-demand pay in CEE markets.
tripmakery — tripmakery.com is an easy to use webapp that helps users to book group-accomodations all over Europe. With an database of 60.000 group hotels, tripmakery.com is the leading platform for larger group bookings. No matter whether 10 people travel together to Berlin or 50 people to Barcelona, tripmakery.com is the first platform to automate large groupbookings. Founded in 2015 by Robert Sasse and Ajmal Said in Vienna, tripmakery.com is backed by VC's like Speedinvest or Push Ventures and by the founders of 'hotel.de' one of the largest hotel-bookings platform in Germany.
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.

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

Investment focus

EdTech, Internet, Education
Funding Round
Latvia

Portfolio highlights

YaClass — YaClass is an edutech startup offering K12 online programs in math, sciences and languages, as well as preparation tests for state exams.

ASP Asset Management enables clients to form investment syndicates for high-risk projects, allowing smaller investments across multiple startups to diversify risk.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Industrial Manufacturing
Pre-Seed
Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Cellbox Labs — Cellbox Labs offers industrialized organ-on-chip technology.It generates plug-and-play devices that enable chips to run without input.

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

Investment focus

E-Learning, Mobile Apps, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Russian Federation, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Adapty — The all-in-one service for in-app subscriptions. Develop, optimize and grow apps with iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, Unity and Web support.
Synchronization — Synchronization is an online education platform.
Akademiya Peremen — Akademiya Peremen is an educational platform that focuses on the life style segment of health, beauty, style, and psychology.

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

Investment focus

Social Media, Mobile Apps, Education
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Russian Federation, United States, Cyprus

Portfolio highlights

Uchi.ru — Uchi.ru offers online courses for school students.
O2O Holdings — Formed by a JV between Sberbank and Mail.ru Group, provides an O2O services platform focusing on key areas of food and transportation.
AliExpress Russia — AliExpress Russia is a leading cross-border and domestic e-commerce platform in Russia.

Rein Raudjarv

Investment focus

CAD, Software, Simulation
Angel
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

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.

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.

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

Expansion Capital AIFP plans to participate in Latvian state-owned development finance institution ALTUM organized next generation fund manager tender, in order to continue to invest and finance mainly perspective Latvian ideas, projects, and companies.

Investment focus

Drones, Big Data, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Latvia, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

FIS.solutions — Loan Management System | Loan Servicing Software | Lending Software. Instalment loans, mortgages, car leasing & rentals, credit line, business loans, factoring
Hepta Airborne — Hepta provides automated power grid management and analysis using autonomous drones and powerful analytics software. Visit our website to find out more!

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.

Investment focus

Internet, SaaS, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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!

Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Safewill — Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will
BuildPass — Unlock the full potential of your site with easy-to-use AI software to streamline operations, reduce admin tasks, and ensure every project is on track and compliant.
Ajust — Ajust makes it easy to resolve customer complaints with banks, telcos and energy companies. It's fast, fair and free for consumers.

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

Investment focus

Banking, Real Estate, FinTech
Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing
Sweden, Latvia, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Yabie — Yabie's Payment and POS systems take the effort out of selling. It's the most intuitive, hassle-free and mobile way of interacting with your customers and making a sale.
Inbank AS — Inbank is a consumer finance-focused digital bank with an EU credit institution license, active in seven countries.
Kojamo Group — Kojamo plc will focus on real estate investments in Finland, renewing rental housing to make it increasingly attractive by developing new types of homes and services. The solutions promote work-related mobility in urbanising Finland, increase well-being and help preserve the environment. The vision of the housing investment company is to be apioneer in housing and the customer’s number-one choice.

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