# Top 40 SaaS Angel Investors in Latvia in June 2026 ## Uldis Sipols - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation Uldis Sipols ## Sverre Bisgaard - Type: Angel - Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation 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. ## Nicolai Torgersen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation Nicolai Torgersen ## Povilas Urbonas - Type: Angel - Location: Odense, Syddanmark, Denmark - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation Povilas Urbonas ## Lauris Liepa - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation Lauris Liepa ## Indrikis Liepa - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation Indrikis Liepa ## Arthur Watson - Type: Angel - Location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Drones, Robotics Arthur Watson - CFO @ Castle Hill ## Markus Villig - Type: Angel - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech Markus Villig is founder and CEO of Taxify. He attended University of Tartu. ## Charlie Songhurst - Type: Angel - Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics. ## Piotrs Nechajevs - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: SaaS, Sports, Tennis Piotrs Nechajevs is a tennis expert and managing director of a tennis club. ## Alex Hofmann - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Fashion, Textiles, Mobile Apps 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. ## Chris Sang - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer ## Jay Zaveri - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software Jay Zaveri is based out of Menlo Park, California, and is the President and Board of Directors of Aether Bio and Founder and Partner of Natural Capital. ## Herman Kienhuis - Type: Angel - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet Founder and managing partner of River Venture Partners angel syndicate. Venture partner at VC firm Newio. Tech investor focused on early-stage investments in B2B software companies in Northern Europe. Supporting investors and entrepreneurs in building digital businesses that change people's lives. Former chemical engineer, strategist, digitalproduct development executive, founder of SanomaVentures and Managing Director of KPN Ventures. ## Toivo Annus - Type: Angel - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce. ## Lauri Isotamm - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, CAD, Music Lauri Isotamm ## Vinny Lingham - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Blockchain, Internet, Software Vinny Lingham is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rumi.ai(Waitroom). He previously worked at YPO as a Member. Vinny Lingham attended Harvard Business School Executive Education. ## Dan Bragiel - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech 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. ## Konstantin Othmer - Type: Angel - Location: Mountain View, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Internet, Software Konstantin Othmer is the Co Founder & CEO at Speechpad. ## Einar Roosileht - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software Oversees RSI product development and RSI’s European office. Co-founder of Oryx Gaming, an iGaming platform provider. Software architect with a particular emphasis on developing scalable systems such as industry-leading poker platforms. ## Nikita Sergienko - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation Nikita Sergienko ## Harry Cheung - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, Drones, Internet Harry Cheung - Partner @ Siren Studios ## Ratmir Timashev - Type: Angel - Location: Greenwich, Connecticut, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Security Ratmir Timashev possesses a rare combination of proven business savvy, forward-looking technical knowledge and market vision. Ratmir brings to bear more than 20 years of entrepreneurial experience building, advising and investing in successful technology companies. As Veeam Software’s Co-Founder and Senior Vice President, Marketing and CorporateDevelopment Mr. Timashev is responsible for strategy and process execution on acquisitions and investments to expand Veeam’s total addressable market (TAM) as well as to build and lead the Veeam Global Marketing Organization in executing the marketing plan and strategy.In 1997, he founded Aelita Software, provider of award-winning Windows Server systems management software. In 2004, Aelita was acquired by Quest Software, and after ensuring the successful continuation of Aelita’s products and strategy at Quest, Ratmir founded Veeam Software to provide similar systems management solutions for modern virtualized data center infrastructures. Over the last decade, Ratmir’s vision and drive has seen Veeam to become one of the largest private software companies in the world with revenue booking projected to reach $1 Biillon in 2018 and 3,000 employees worldwide. Veeam has become the leader and the innovative provider of data management and protection by creating a new market category of Availability for the Always-On Enterprise.Ratmir earned a master’s degree in Chemical Physics from the Ohio State University in 1995. He continues to share his knowledge and ideas to fuel innovative IT solutions around the world. ## Andris K. Berzins - Type: Angel - Location: Riga, Riga, Latvia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, B2B, Aerospace Andris K. Berzins is the Managing Partner at Change Ventures. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business. ## Chris Hulls - Type: Angel - Location: Berkeley, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, Drones, Mobile 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. ## Lev Dolgatsjov - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation Lev Dolgatsjov ## Marat Kichikov - Type: Angel - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Apps Marat is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry and early stage investor. He is the founder of several successful companies, including a consumer finance bank, few e-commerce companies and investment fund. He serves on the board of his several portfolio companies (Bioloka, Wow Cube, F3 and RelesticaHolding), utilizing his knowledge and expertise in Blockchain industry which he joined to in 2013 as a partner in Bitfury Group. In both as a fund and as an angel investor, Marat have invested in 30+ fin tech, e-commerce, blockchain technology, educational, healthcare and gaming companies, providing business expertise and financial & advisory support to founders. Marat has a master's degree in finance & business management and a bachelor's degree in law. In his free time, Marat likes surfing and skiing! ## Davis Siksnans - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software Davis currently is a Senior Advisor and Investor at Draugiem Capital, Board Member at Mapon, a car fleet management company, and an investor/board member at Prime Prometics, a beauty brand for women over 50. Previously Davis was a co-founder and ex-CEO of Printful, a print-on-demand and warehousing company for online stores and the firstLatvian unicorn company. Printful prints t-shirts and 400+ other products for online ecommerce stores and drop ships them to end customers.With over $83.7 million invested in equipment, we use industry-leading tech to fulfill more than 1 million items every month. Since our founding in 2013, Printful has scaled to a team of 1,700+ people and did $289 million in revenue in 2021. Printful has 10 fulfillment centers in the USA, Canada, Europe, and Mexico, and 7 partner facilities in Japan, Australia, and Brazil. ## Elar Nellis - Type: Angel - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, CAD, SaaS Elar is a full-stack engineer with 12+ years of experience. He has worked for different start-ups during his whole professional career and wouldn't change start-up life for anything. Elar was also the first employee of Estonian flagship startup Pipedrive. If he's not working then he's probably playing piano, writing music or hikingin the endless forests of Estonia. ## Maksim Zakurdaev - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation Maksim Zakurdaev ## Andrej Jakovlev - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, E-Commerce, Marketplace Andrej Jakovlev ## Zbigniew Gulbinowicz - Type: Angel - Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Advertising, Marketplace, Outdoor Advertising Zbigniew Gulbinowicz - Chairman @ Blue Bridge Code ## Richard Frank - Type: Angel - Location: Watford, Hertford, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: iOS, Apps, VoIP Richard Frank ## Sune Alstrup - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence Tech Investor and Entrepreneur, former Founder & CEO at The Eye Tribe ## Miko Malberg - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation Miko Malberg ## Dean Dorrell - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Sten Tamkivi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing 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. ## Louis Paulsen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation Louis Paulsen ## Angel Parn - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation Angel Parn ## Rein Raudjarv - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: CAD, Software, Simulation Rein Raudjarv # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co