Top 50 SaaS Startup Investors in Latvia

Investor	SaaS Latvia investments
ZGI Capital	7
FlyCap	6
Uldis Sipols	4
Karma Ventures	3
Sverre Bisgaard	3
New Nordic Ventures	3
Povilas Urbonas	2
Indrikis Liepa	2
Baltic Tech Ventures	2
European regional development fund (ERDF)	2
EIT Urban Mobility	2
Lauris Liepa	2
Base Ventures	2
Practica Capital	2
Nicolai Torgersen	2
Almaz Capital	2
Imprimatur Capital Fund Management	2
Capitalia	2
Taver Capital Partners	1
SmartHub	1
Vesna Investment	1
Swedbank	1
Alex Hofmann	1
Einar Roosileht	1
Toivo Annus	1
Nikita Sergienko	1
River Venture Partners	1
Social Discovery Group	1
Richard Frank	1
Rein Raudjarv	1
Envac Group	1
Taver Capital Partners	1
Chris Hulls	1
Chris Sang	1
Ratmir Timashev	1
Sune Alstrup	1
Siena Capital	1
Seraph Group	1
Trind Ventures	1
Carthona Capital	1
Dan Bragiel	1
Microsoft for Startups	1
Iron Wolf Capital	1
Vinny Lingham	1
Smartup Ventures	1
Davis Siksnans	1
Herman Kienhuis	1
Amazon Web Services	1
Mail.Ru Group	1
Wistron Corporation	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.

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.

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

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, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

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.
Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
DRUID — DRUID is an AI platform that allows companies to automate processes by designing and deploying UiPath RPA integrated chatbot virtual assistants.

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

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, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Latvia, Estonia, United States

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 is an analytical tool that tracks data from rapid delivery e-grocery (Getir, Gopuff, UberEats etc.) and gathers key metrics across thousands of dark stores and micro fulfilment centres, giving FMCG brands real-time data and actionable insights. The e-grocery market has multiplied in light of the pandemic; however, there are still no detailedreports on the rapid grocery delivery market to give brands insights such as price variations, stock availability information, promotional activities data, and brands operate blindly and inefficiently in quick commerce and rapid grocery delivery apps. Our solution helps FMCG brands receive 360 analytics on rapid delivery services: sales, marketing, and strategy insights and, therefore, spend less and earn more.

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

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

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

Apps, Software, Wearables
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.

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.

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!

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

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.

Practica Capital

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CTO2B — CTO2B helps organization in managing the cloud service adoption and runtime operations.
Sentante — The first fully-robotic teleoperated system for endovascular interventions - Sentante. Fully robotic. Teleoperated. Haptic feedback.
Evergrowth — Evergrowth is the premiere B2B account-based sales platform, leveraging AI-driven insights to craft customer-centric sales frameworks and transform how companies engage and succeed. Its services are designed to build sustainable revenue growth machines for B2B companies, focusing on acquiring high-value clients through proven account-basedstrategies. Evergrowth’s AI-powered customer-centric sales workflows and data analysis tools help sales teams efficiently capture, recycle, and expand their Total Addressable Market (TAM), enhancing customer engagement by providing personalized data-driven interactions and ultimately leading to better sales outcomes. The company was founded in November 2023 by serial entrepreneurs JB Daguené, Mantas Urnieza, Tadas Cekavicius, Aivaras Rastenis, and Algimantas Padegimas, and has offices in Vilnius, Lithuania, and New York City, USA.

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

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, Series B
United States, Russian Federation, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

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
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.

Investment focus

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.

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 is a Lithuanian company, which provides geospatial monitoring systems for helicopters, planes, UAVs, and terrestrial vehicles.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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!

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.

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.
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.
Exeger — We invent, engineer, and provide world-changing technologies to improve everyday life.

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.

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.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software
Seed
Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Hyperjob — Use AI to evaluate LinkedIn profiles. Craft individual messages with AI. Replace generic job descriptions with individual job microsites. Join other high-volume recruitment teams who have saved hours on every project.

Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.

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.

Nikita Sergienko

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

River Venture Partners is an angel syndicate that focuses on supporting early-stage entrepreneurs in digital media, marketing, e-commerce, entreprise and education technology.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
The Netherlands, Finland, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Contentoo — Outperform competitors with Contentoo's Creators Cloud. Leverage AI and top freelancers for quality content creation, localisation, and optimisation
Anyways — Een tijdelijke auto voor de deur. Zonder gedoe. Met het auto abonnement van Anyways heb jij je eigen auto. Voor hoe lang je zelf wilt.
Clubee — Manage your club with ease. Websites, Member Management, Communication, Finance, Sponsorships and more.

Social Discovery Group is the world's largest group of social discovery companies. It unites more than 40 brands, an investment fund and a venture studio.

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Mobile
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, China

Portfolio highlights

My NFT Wars — My NFT Wars is an innovative open-market collectible game with a strong emphasis on RPG and strategy elements. Collect heroes and build your strategy for victory in PVP and PVE battles. Join the world, full of the never-ending struggle for resources, territorial conquest, and political domination.
Woebot Health — With Woebot Health, you can deliver instantly accessible, chat-based mental health support to patients and members, and get the tools and insights to enhance their care experience, improve population health and increase provider efficiency. Clinically-tested, AI powered.
Zhonghui Laser — Zhonghui Laser is an emerging technology company dedicated to the development and manufacture of advanced lasers.

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.

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

Envac is one of the most innovative players in the global waste collection industry and inventor of the pneumatic waste collection system.

Investment focus

Waste Management, Internet of Things
Pre-Seed
Latvia

Portfolio highlights

The Littery — The Littery is an environmental services company that recycles plastic pollution into e-lottery tickets.The company uses IoT and Computer vision to reframe litter into e-lottery tickets that cause an instant change of attitude due to the innate human optimism bias resulting in an immediate and lasting behavioral change. Its breakthrough idea hasthe potential to revolutionize the littering and household packaging collection markets with its superior solution by motivating citizens to keep their cities clean by themselves. Cities that partner with The Littery experience cleaner communities with less litter and happier citizens at a lower cost.The Riga, Riga-located company was founded by Michael Manniche in 2019.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CureSkin — Get free AI analysis and dermatologist-prescribed regimens to treat your skin & hair concerns. Holistic, safe & 100% effective. Learn more.
EARTH AI — Earth AI is a high-performance explorer for clean energy minerals.
Regology — Regology is the leading generative AI-powered Regulatory Intelligence Platform. We help compliance teams in all industries automate regulatory change management and compliance.

Chris is the cofounder and CEO of Life360. Before doing the whole startup thing, he did a stint in banking at Goldman Sachs and spent a few years in the Air Force. He went to college at UC Berkeley, and was about to start class at Harvard Business School when he had a last minute change of heart and decided to pioneer the trend of being an ivyleague pre-dropout. In his time off, Chris likes to do anything that involves machines that move--like building drones, driving cars, flying planes, and piloting hovercraft. He is also widely credited with coining the term App Store Optimization.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer, Venture Advisor, Global Investor

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
Segna — Extract trends across your users. Build products that they love.
Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service

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.

Investment focus

Enterprise Software, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Acure.io — Easy quality control of digital services, interfaces and customer experience (UX). Improved performance and reliability of digital services. Reduced Mean Time to Restoration and root cause analysis. Reduced human factor and manual labor.
Revenue Grid — Revenue Grid is a revenue intelligence platform that helps improve sales performance and shifts your CRM from the "view mode" to the "do mode"
5nine Software — Acronis Cloud Manager provides advanced monitoring, management, migration, and recover for Microsoft Cloud environments of all shapes and sizes.

Tech Investor and Entrepreneur, former Founder & CEO at The Eye Tribe

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.

Siena is a VC firm mainly investing in startups in Estonia and California

Investment focus

CAD, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Estonia, 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
Tuum — Our cloud-native API-first core banking platform enables any business to rapidly offer seamless, tailored financial services to their customers.
Teamscope — Understand what drives your team's performance, make exceptional hiring decisions, and unlock the full potential of your team.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Analytics
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Latvia, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Natilus — Natilus is a large scale drone manufacturing company. The company specializes in the manufacturing of Boeing 747 sized drones which provides inter-continental cargo delivery services and helps in reducing air freight costs. Natilus was founded by LZ Zhang, Anatoly Starikov and Aleksey Matyushev in 2016.First flight of their 2200 lbs / 30 ftdrone is scheduled for Summer 2018. At the end of 2018, Natilus completed a flight test of their 2200 lbs prototype.The first production vehicle scheduled for 2020 customer delivery underwent wind tunnel testing in April, 2019. Natilus currently holds an aircraft order book rumored to be in excess of $1B+.
Autio — HearHere is a travel audio app that shares the depth and diversity of stories - cultural, geographical, historical, and mythological.
GridRival — GridRival is a sports betting startup built for race fans with the mission of making motorsports more engaging. We accomplish this through a valuable and unique fusion of fantasy-style gaming & betting, motorsports content, and built-in social functionality.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Analytics
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Estonia, Finland, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Yaga SA — Yaga is an e-commerce site that provides t-shirts, clothing, books, magazines, and accessories for men, and women.
Wudpecker — Start the meeting prepared. End the meeting with perfect notes. Share it to every stakeholder. All in a seamless experience with Wudpecker.
Your.Rentals — Your.Rentals is the most simple management and sales software for owners and managers of short-term rental accommodation. Free to use, pay per booking. We distribute your listing to OTA channels including Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, VRBO and more. Grow your own high margin direct bookings using our Direct Booking features.

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

CNaught — CNaught is an online platform that helps companies to purchase a diversified portfolio of carbon offsets.
NayaOne — Revolutionise your financial institution with NayaOne's Sandbox as a Service platform. Accelerate innovation, reduce risks, and partner with top-tier fintechs.
Lounge — Use Lounge to organise events and groups in seconds, without a newsfeed. Stop scrolling, start living.

Dan Bragiel has co-founded 2 companies and has been involved in startups for the past 10 years. He began with mobile gaming at Paragon 5 focusing on running the offices in Poland, Netherlands and Argentina. He then co-founded the startup Meetro, a pioneer in the location/mobile space. He then went on to start Lefora that was sold in 2010.

Investment focus

Software, Logistics, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Finland, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Enevo — Enevo works with its customers to transform the financial, environmental and social impact of waste. Founded in 2010, Enevo began providing waste data from dumpster sensors using its proprietary analytics software. Enevo now provides full management of waste and recycling services for restaurant, retail and commercial property customers throughoutNorth America. It provides the first predictive end-to-end solution that automates the whole planning and operations of waste and recycling logistics.Enevo has raised more than $34M in private equity funding to date and continues to invest in technology and new processes to deliver the peace of mind its customers need.
Jerry — Jerry is an AI, ML, and bot-powered car ownership app that saves customers time and money on car expenses. With its first product, Jerry redesigned and disrupted the century-old car insurance process, turning stacks of pages and hours of calls into a handful of clicks. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
Drip Capital — Drip Capital offers trade financing product targeted towards SMEs in developing markets. Its automated risk assessment model allows rapidly growing SMEs quick and easy access to finance. With a focus on technology, Drip aims to eliminate the hassle of paperwork and bureaucracy and create a seamless borrowing experience for its clients.The companyconsists of a team of financial consultants, engineers and analysts from Wharton, Stanford, and IITs with years of experience at Standard Chartered, Black Rock and Yahoo. They are backed by leading Silicon Valley investors - Y Combinator and StartX. They are always eager to connect with sharp minds to grow within their quest to becoming the future of global trade finance.Drip Capital was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Microsoft for Startups is a global program designed to help startups scale with free access to Azure cloud and a streamlined path into selling alongside Microsoft and our vast partner ecosystem.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

UniPay — UniPay is an eCommerce platform for infrastructure and industry-lacking regions that offers 5 products that enable trust, promote transparency, and enforce accountability.
NotJustEvent — NotJustEvent stands at the forefront of innovation as a comprehensive event platform transforming the event planning and management landscape, utilizing advanced technologies and offering a versatile suite of services. We seamlessly link event organizers, vendors, performers, and attendees within our dynamic ecosystem. Our platform elevates theevent planning process by providing an array of high-quality event-related services, such as venue rentals, catering, ticketing, decorations, and more.
Emission Sentri — Drive emission management and reduction with insights

We are here to make you succeed! Iron Wolf Capital is an international venture capital firm with an experienced team of professionals with global outlook and strong roots in the Baltics. and a mandate for helping entrepreneurs realise their ideas into successful businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Infrastructure, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Lithuania, Estonia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Traxlo — We are at the technology and retail industries intersection. Our longtime experience in the industry taught us that only the right innovation has the potential to make a positive impact. Thus we aim to make our solutions as seamless as possible to be able to add only benefits to every worker who uses our apps and to every retail store manager whohas lots on her plate, day in, day out.
Repsense — Reputation management software - Repsense is AI powered online reputation management service that helps you track your reputation.
Kingdom Technologies — Kingdom builds novel robotic lawn mowers for large terrains

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.com is a Web3 community and marketplace for collectors and the worldwide collectibles sector.

Smartup Ventures is a venture capital, a company that creates value by helping businesses grow faster. We create ventures by joining forces with everyone who shares our values and ambitions. By building strong partnerships with entrepreneurs, talents, business developers, angel investors, and venture investors.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, CRM
Seed, Series A, Series B
Iran, Latvia, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Landin — With landin, you can easily create your landing pages And convert click to customers
Vindad — We help Businesses manage their legal needs by providing access to everything they need to start and run their business, including blogs and legal guides, over 50 legal and commercial documents. Vanda Legal forms are common business legal documents that range from Investment, trademark, incorporation, NDAs, and Human resources. There is simplestep-by-step instructions help businesses customize documents for their specific needs. And to be sure it's done right; they can have their document reviewed by an attorney from our hand-picked network.
Salam Sakhteman — A platform that connects home-owners and builders to qualified service professionals such as painters, carpenters, electricians, etc.

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.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software
Seed
Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Hyperjob — Use AI to evaluate LinkedIn profiles. Craft individual messages with AI. Replace generic job descriptions with individual job microsites. Join other high-volume recruitment teams who have saved hours on every project.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
The Netherlands, Finland, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Singa — Singa is the Spotify of karaoke for personal and commercial use. Access a catalog of 20 000+ songs to sing effortlessly anywhere, any time and with any platform.Easy to use is Singa’s main operating principle. You don’t need to buy a console, or a microphone, or even a DVD-player. Singa is platform agnostic. To use Singa, you’ve already goteverything you need either in your pocket (mobile phone), on your table (PC) or in your living room (TV).* One account works on all devices, mobile, browser or Smart TV* Each user gets to test Singa for free before signing up to a Premium account* Singa works fluently with external accessories
Fledgerr — Fledgerr develops cutting-edge equity management solution.
Contentoo — Outperform competitors with Contentoo's Creators Cloud. Leverage AI and top freelancers for quality content creation, localisation, and optimisation

Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services. Its products and solutions include cloud computing, compute, networking, storage and content delivery, databases, analytics, application services, deployment and management, mobile services, applications, AWS marketplace software,startups, enterprises, partners, government and education, websites and web applications, big data and HPC, gaming, and digital media as well as backup, storage, and archive. The company also provides AWS management console, documentation, SDKs and tools, downloads, platforms, Java, JavaScript, mobile, PHP, Ruby, Python, Windows, .NET, resources, forums, tutorials and articles, whitepapers, training and certification, and AWS user groups for developers. In addition, it offers compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment services; and mobile services, websites, and backup and recovery services. Amazon Web Services serves the government, education, and non-profit sectors in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, and internationally. Amazon Web Services was founded in 2006 and is based in Seattle, Washington. It has data center locations in the United States, Europe, Brazil, Singapore, Japan, and Australia. It operates as a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Grant, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Lebanon, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Puno Africa — Puno is a fintech company that de-risks farmers for investments & equips them with the financial resources they need to commercialize.
Parksby — Parksby is an application platform that offers people information and access about available parking spaces in urban areas.
Sabon Sake — Sabon Sake provides climate-resilient agriculture solutions such as soil health management, on-demand farm, and soil doctors.

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.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Aiello — Our AI Assistant, specially created for the hotel industry, uses voice and Machine learning base NLP technology to create new interactions with guests and provide enhanced services. With data-driven back-end services, our assistant provides valuable insights for hotels to better understand their guests and streamline their operations.
NEUCHIPS — NEUCHIPS is an AI ASIC solution that provides deep learning inference accelerators to deliver the lowest TCO for data centers. Their management and R&D team has decades of experience from leading semiconductor companies and hold patents in signal processing, neural networks, and circuit design.NEUCHIPS is a founding member of MLCommons andone of the founding members of the OCP community.
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.