Top 15 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in Latvia in October 2024
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Media (entertainment) startups based in Latvia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Media (entertainment) companies from Latvia. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in Latvia in October 2024
Investor | Media (entertainment) Latvia investments |
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ZGI Capital | 4 |
Karma Ventures | 3 |
Alex Hofmann | 1 |
AdFirst.vc | 1 |
Mamba | 1 |
Revo Capital | 1 |
Visionplus | 1 |
Sune Alstrup | 1 |
Almaz Capital | 1 |
Imprimatur Capital Fund Management | 1 |
New Nordic Ventures | 1 |
SmartHub | 1 |
Trind Ventures | 1 |
FlyCap | 1 |
VK (ex. Mail.Ru Group) | 1 |
ZGI Capital is the fund management company that manages "ZGI fund”, that was founded to support entrepreneurs lacking start-up capital for their business. The total amount of assets available for venture capital investments is of EUR 7.4M. Combined with bank financing, this will allow to finance investment projects with total assets of up toEUR 30M. The fund acts on behalf of various investors including the State.
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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.
karma.vc is an early stage venture capital fund focusing on seed and early stage technology companies in Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Estonia, Sweden, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Hydrogrid — All-in-one solution for optimizing hydropower plants. Increase revenues by up to 18%, reduce spill by up to 12%, and save valuable time with Hydrogrid Insight.
- Pactum — Pactum autonomous negotiations help companies unlock hidden value. Our AI negotiates non-strategic supplier contracts on a massive scale.
Hofmann most recently held the role of musical.ly’s President in North America, where he led expansion efforts to build the world’s fastest growing entertainment social network. Within three months of Hofmann joining the team, app downloads increased from 200 to 400,000 per day. musical.ly hit the top of the app chats in 21 countries and has grownto over 200 million users globally.During his time at musical.ly, Hofmann helmed the company’s global content, brand, entertainment, and talent partnerships, in addition to heading all corporate functions for North and South America. He oversaw the closure of deals with all three major music labels and publishers. Under his leadership, the company closed its largest product partnership with Apple Music, as well as original content partnerships with Viacom, NBCU, and Hearst Digital. Hofmann also orchestrated partnerships with top artists like Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez, Jason Derulo and 250+ other artists worldwide.In early 2018, Hofmann announced he was moving on from musical.ly to pursue new ventures following the company’s successful merger with Chinese tech giant, Bytedance. He is currently investing in and advising new startups. He remains an ally and advisor to musical.ly. In 2017, Hofmann was chosen by Variety as one of “30 Execs to Watch” for its Digital Entertainment Impact Report and featured by Billboard on its Digital Power Players List: Guiding the Future in Music and Tech. Most recently, he accepted the WSJ Technology Innovator Award. A German native, Hofmann currently resides in Los Angeles.
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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.
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.
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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.
Mamba is the number one Russian online dating service, which cooperates with major portals including Mail.Ru, Rambler and MSN.com and over 30,000 others. The company’s database holds over 18.6 million registered users, over 40% of which are active. Mamba primarily targets customers in Russia and the CIS and is also going to launch dating servicesabroad. The business model is centered on the “pay as you go” principle: the users are more inclined to pay for additional instant low cost services, rather than bigger monthly subscription. Company’s billing system is one of the largest in the world with more than 40 possible ways to pay for Mamba’s services. According to various estimates, Mamba controls about 85% of the market.
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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.
Operational venture capital firm that invests across Turkey, Eastern Europe & Baltics in seed to Series B rounds.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ikas — Start selling online with the new generation e-commerce platform ikas. Increase your sales and experience international commerce.
- Roamless — One eSIM, 60+ destinations. No plans, no expirations. Just easy, affordable, reliable mobile connectivity for travelers. Join the Roamless Revolution today.
- Midas — Midas is the first neobroker of Turkey, providing zero commission Turkish and American stocks.
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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 — BetterDoctor helps validate and deliver accurate provider data to health plans, health systems, and hundreds of other companies via its API — from startups to publicly traded ones. This ultimately helps achieve the mission of helping consumers find the healthcare they need.Today, BetterDoctor's data platform and APIs power 9 health plans,350 companies, 1,500 developers, helping millions of people find the right doctor each month. Health Plans BetterDoctor uses multi-modal outreach to drive providers to attest their information on BetterDoctor's online portal. API PartnersBetterDoctor brings transparency to doctor data. Their real-time platform, master database and API services enable everyone to add doctor data to their systems, websites and applications. Today, BetterDoctor API and data tools power health insurance companies, healthcare startups and doctor search tools. https://betterdoctor.com/developers
Tech Investor and Entrepreneur, former Founder & CEO at The Eye Tribe
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Denmark, Sweden, France
Portfolio highlights
- Go Dogo — Go Dogo provides mental workout for dogs - It's an app-controlled wall-mounted robot that uses the home TV to give instructions and feedback. The combination of computer vision and treat releases enables brain games that slowly gets more and more challenging. Over-the-Air updates ensures that Go Dogo never gets old.
- Rerun — Log and visually explore computer vision and robotics data over time. Debug and understand the internal state and data of your systems with minimal code.
- Doublepoint — Solving Next-Generation Interactions. Doublepoint provides future computing platforms more intuitive, robust and versatile interactions.
Almaz Capital is an international venture capital firm investing in early stage, capital efficient technology companies. A unique bridge fund headquartered in Silicon Valley, Almaz Capital connects Eastern European/former Soviet engineering and entrepreneurial talent to the U.S. market and helps build global businesses. The firm invests inhigh-growth sectors such as artificial intelligence and blockchain applications, data engineering, cybersecurity, industrial IoT, networking architecture and infrastructure. Its investors include Cisco, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group. Founded in 2008, Almaz Capital has invested in over 30 portfolio companies and has had nine exits to date.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, Russian Federation, Latvia
Portfolio highlights
- PLATMA — PLATMA is a workspace for developing low-code solutions with ready-to-use templates that streamline the development process and decrease time to market
- ZEDEDA — ZEDEDA provides a simple and scalable cloud-based orchestration solution that delivers visibility, control and security for distributed edge computing.
- WORKERBASE — Agile manufacturing to increase production flexibility and ensure business continuity. Intelligent process execution for the connected worker to increase operational flexibility and reduce costs in Industry 4.0
Imprimatur Capital Fund Management is a venture capital firm focusing on high-technology at an early stage in its commercial development. We invest in start-up technology businesses which are based on innovative intellectual property, are led by strong teams and have high international growth potential.Imprimatur Capital Fund Management, based inLatvia, manages seed and start-up funds with investors including the Latvian Guarantee Agency, other institutional investors and some private investors. The company source investment opportunities primarily from the Baltic/Nordic/Russia region.Imprimatur Capital Fund Management is a partner firm of Imprimatur Capital Ltd, headquartered in London and with investment operations in Europe, Russia, Asia Pacific, Latin America and the US.
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- Software, Music, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Latvia, Finland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Edurio — Edurio is England's leading stakeholder feedback platform for schools and multi-academy trusts.
- Axial3D — Leading the way with the latest 3D imaging, models, and devices
- Sonarworks — SoundID Reference software calibrates your speakers and studio headphones, so you can trust that every mix will translate.
NNV is a seed stage VC fund. We invest in B2B startups from CEE and CIS region and help them to expand internationally
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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 — RDA: Unlock data-driven insights for mobile-first grocery and convenience delivery. Monitor stock availability, market shares, search performance, and more in real-time.
SmartHub is a funding and service platform which connects the best start ups to investors, and supports at every investments.Service solutions for investors – tailor made venture portfolios: focused pipeline, extensive analysis and research of investment options, deal structuring, legal paper work, quarterly reporting, investment rightsprotection till exit.Service solutions for startups – fast communications and feedback, mutually beneficial deal making, strategic development support, networking and consulting at fundraising stage.
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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!
Trind Ventures is an early stage VC fund based in Tallinn, Estonia. Investing in start-ups across Europe, from seed rounds all the way to sustainability, with a focus on ICT. Trind Ventures partners are Joel Aasmäe, Ivar Siimar, Kimmo Irpola and Taavi Lepmets.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Estonia, Finland, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Groover — Groover is the best way to promote your music to blogs, radios, record labels, & Spotify playlisters. Get listened to, receive coverage & guaranteed feedback!
- Yaga SA — Yaga is an online selling and shopping platform for new and preloved fashion. Buy preloved clothing safely or open your own shop and sell. Find unique second hand clothes, earn extra money and help save the Planet.
- Fractory — Custom metal fabrication services for project and series manufacturing. 1-1 engineering support and payment terms for companies.
FlyCap AIF is a Venture Capital Fund of total size of 15.75 MEUR. The Fund provides growth capital for Latvia based SME’s in a form of investments in equity and mezzanine capital.
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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.
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.
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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.
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