Top 5 Payments Startup Investors in Latvia in September 2025
A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in Latvia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Latvia. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Payments Startup Investors in Latvia in September 2025
Investor | Payments Latvia investments |
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Toivo Annus | 1 |
Sten Tamkivi | 1 |
Practica Capital | 1 |
Outlast Fund | 1 |
Inovo.vc | 1 |
Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Singapore, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
- Enview — Enview offers the next generation of Geospatial Analytics Software and GEOINT technology for energy companies and governments to protect their critical infrastructure.
- GOSU Data Lab — Try the World`s first game voice assistant to master the game effortlessly. Learn more - how it works and how can it help you.
Sten Tamkivi is the Chief Product Officer at Topia (formerly MOVE Guides). He was previously co-founder and CEO of Teleport (acquired by Topia), the place to scout for startup people. He co-founded the company as an EIR at Andreessen Horowitz.Sten has been a tech entrepreneur since 1996. After founding a few companies in Estonia, he joined Skypeas an early executive, ran the original R&D office, and held several global product leadership roles for 8+ years.He has an MS in Management from Stanford GSB.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Estonia, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
- Katana — Katana gives thousands of manufacturers a live look at their business with visual, intuitive, and easy-to-use ERP software.
- Entrepreneurs First — We are the best place for the world's most ambitious talent to come together and build game-changing technology startups from scratch.
Practica Capital
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Investment focus
- B2B, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Creem — Creem provides Indie Hackers, Micro-SaaS and SaaS businesses with instant financial tools and functionality. As a Merchant of Record our pre-integrated embeddable components tap your existing data, boosting revenue effortlessly. No costs—pure growth potential for your business.
- Handwave — Handwave is the world’s first biometric wallet and identity platform — replacing wallets, phones, and IDs with a single gesture for in-store payments. Designed for retail, meant for people. End users can easily onboard their palms through the Handwave app by scanning their palm with the phone camera, linking payment and loyalty cards, and thenenjoy frictionless checkout at retail by simply scanning their palm at a payment terminal.
- Atrandi Biosciences — Achieve your discoveries easier using high-throughput screening and droplet microfluidics. Create your own custom workflows for any R&D or academic applications.
The Outlast Fund concentrating on concepts that have a lasting effect.
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Investment focus
- Software, Automotive
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Handwave — Handwave is the world’s first biometric wallet and identity platform — replacing wallets, phones, and IDs with a single gesture for in-store payments. Designed for retail, meant for people. End users can easily onboard their palms through the Handwave app by scanning their palm with the phone camera, linking payment and loyalty cards, and thenenjoy frictionless checkout at retail by simply scanning their palm at a payment terminal.
- Trace.Space — Engineers develop complex products 10x faster with Trace.Space. Requirements management for the next generation
VC for the most ambitious founders in CEE
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Poland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Handwave — Handwave is the world’s first biometric wallet and identity platform — replacing wallets, phones, and IDs with a single gesture for in-store payments. Designed for retail, meant for people. End users can easily onboard their palms through the Handwave app by scanning their palm with the phone camera, linking payment and loyalty cards, and thenenjoy frictionless checkout at retail by simply scanning their palm at a payment terminal.
- Spacelift — Spacelift is the CI/CD for infrastructure-as-code and policy as code. It enables collaboration, automates manual work and compliance, and lets teams customize and automate their workflows.
- Tracelight — Tracelight is an AI-powered Excel add-in that enhances financial modeling by enabling users to generate formulas from natural language, check for errors, and interact with models using plain English. It helps financial professionals save time, reduce errors, and work more efficiently while maintaining security and data privacy.
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