Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals in Latvia

Buildit Vc

Buildit is an early-stage hardware venture capital fund. We invest in the Industry 4.0 sector across the Baltics and Nordics, providing pre-seed and seed capital.

1 to 10 staff

Commercialization Reactor

In a nutshell, Commercialization Reactor is a platform with a mission to commercialize science via a specific paradigm: Bring Scientists and Entrepreneurs together to co-create Deep-Tech startup aimed to commercialize the Core Competence of the Scientific Team. The Entrepreneurs become responsible to fulfill business leadership-related activities, taking into a full-time focus and Scientists focus exclusively on their core competence and inhale their knowledge and skills into a product or service that Entrepreneurial Team sets as a vector for business development strategy. This paradigm of commercialization together with over 10 years of experience in creating, pre-incubating and accelerating startups currently resulted in over 100 fully-formed Science-based startup companies born in CR. Most of those received investments are from various venture funds across the globe. Ultimately, this leads to unique Science-based startup creation and performance scoring methodology that is a core know-how of Commercialization Reactor. The methodology is proven successful by a fact of an exit, which already is in the arsenal of achievements of the CR Team.

11 to 50 staff

Zgi Capital

ZGI Capital is one of the most experienced venture capital firms in the Baltics that started its operations in 2005. We have successfully concluded investment period for three funds and now we are building the next-generation venture capital fund ZGI-4. We invest in companies with proven business models and firmly established home markets, which are aiming at entering new export markets, expanding product or service range, increasing capacity and improving profitability. ZGI Capital has invested in metalworking, food industry, woodworking, logistics, IT, engineering, retail, service exports, and more. Send your investment proposals to zgi@zgi.lv or apply here:

1 to 10 staff

Badideas.Fund

At BADideas.fund, we aspire to be the kind of investors we wanted when we were building our startups. We invest €50-€250K tickets in early-stage startups from CEE with global ambitions. BADideas.fund is led by experienced entrepreneurs who have walked the startup building path, have raised funds from investors and can help founders navigate around obstacles they encounter along the way. Among BADideas.fund members are founders and operators, who’ve been building such companies as Vimeo ($450M funding), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo.io ($151M), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Veriff ($192.3M), Wise ($1.3B funding). Since the recent launch, BADideas.fund has invested in five startups already, among which: Breezit (Lithuania), Recruitlab (Estonia), Lande (Latvia), Fuel Finance (Ukraine), Rapidworks (Estonia).

1 to 10 staff

Startup Wise Guys

We are a diverse team of tech lovers, mentors, experts, and founders ourselves bound together by our passion to support founders on their entrepreneurial journey. We help to solve key challenges at every stage Dare to dream global. We’re a startup accelerator like no other, our optimized approach puts early stage startups on the map and catapults them into worldwide success. Startup Wise Guy’s origins began in Europe’s tech-savvy startup capital, Estonia. Since 2012, we have used our carefully curated expertise, skills and funding to skyrocket hundreds of emerging early stage startups into upwards growth. This is not our first rodeo… we are the most experienced accelerator fund in the region with over 35+ programs, an international community of founders from over 60 countries and an established market in CEE and CIS countries.

51 to 200 staff

4pm Ventures

4PM Ventures – European Healthtech venture Builder – our activity is aimed at developing and bringing new technologies to the Life Science markets, creating new businesses based on the concepts of the future of healthcare systems that will have a positive impact on human health, improve the quality of life, while expanding the possibilities of medicine and making it accessible to all. We are looking for teams with strong technological competencies to co-create and grow globally focused companies, together changing and improving the healthcare system. Our team has a combined experience of over 25 years in the venture capital industry, including working on bringing technology startups to markets in Europe, the US and Asia. We are looking for startups in- Digital therapy- Personal medical assistants, devices - Rehabtech, home-based-rehabilitation - Diagnostics solutions - Home healthcare, healthcare-outside-hospital- Men’s health/Femtech - Agetech/Silvertech Our business model is 3-in-1: Venture Builder - Corporate accelerator - Impact seed fund. We actively cooperate with leading corporations and European universities to foster technological entrepreneurship and co-develop innovative ecosystems. We are interested in cooperation with medical institutions (clinics and rehabilitation centers), medical equipment manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies.

1 to 10 staff

Cabra Vc

Cabra VC is a European venture capital firm focused on startups in the USA and India. We invest in early-stage post-revenue companies and support young teams to grow rapidly. Our team has more than 10 years of successful experience of joint work. We have a deep knowledge of building and running subscription-based companies from scratch. Before setting up Cabra VC in 2016 we launched a wide range of IT and Telco services and attracted millions of subscribers that generate hundreds of millions of dollars revenues to date. All that makes us a strong partner for a startup at any stage. We are available in the Bay Area (USA), in Delhi, Mumbai & Bangalore (India) as well as in Riga, Latvia\EU. Portfolio: collectly.co sdelano.ru welltory.com ticketscloud.com bright-box.com cubic.ai cappasity.com countbox.us xix.ai petcube.com petnet.io mobalytics.gg impovado.io cashfree.com

1 to 10 staff

Flycap

FlyCap is a private equity fund that provides growth capital for Latvia and Europe based SME’s in form of investments in equity and mezzanine capital. FlyCap manages two funds-"FlyCap Investment Fund I” launched in August 2013 with the total fund size of 15.75 MEUR. The Investment period of the Fund has expired-"FlyCap Mezzanine Fund II" launched in September 2019. The Fund is open for new investment opportunities! Find more information on our homepage.

1 to 10 staff

Open Galaxy

Open Galaxy - is the first platform that allows everyone to become a venture investor in space industry - What problems does Open Galaxy resolve? Open Galaxy provides private investors with access to high-yield assets Blockchain reduces costs and solves the problem of trust between the platform and investors Tokenization of venture capital makes investments in early stage companies liquid. Facebook: facebook.com/opnglx Twitter: twitter.com/opnglx Discord: discord.gg/gAThFUfz YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCeryCIm5loM1eFS2WgLerIw Telegram канал: https://t.me/OpenGalaxyChannel

1 to 10 staff

Emerging Nordic Ventures

Baltic Tech Ventures is an accelerator with an angel group focused on seed and early-stage investment in the Baltic region. We invest in technology companies with ability to scale globally and the most capable management teams across the Baltic region. We believe in complete alignment of interest with investors and entrepreneurs.

11 to 50 staff

Outlast Fund

Outlast Fund backs disciplined founders building enduring companies, long after trends fade, markets shift, and their vision becomes inevitable. We’re proud generalists with zero tolerance for empty trend-chasing. We’ll invest in software, science, and the hard stuff: pre-seed and seed, across the Baltics and Nordics. We lead. We follow. But we never stand on the sidelines.

1 to 10 staff

Ajp Capital

Competent and reliable partner in involving investors into the circular economy by providing a versatile offer of investment opportunities. AJP Capital is an alternative investment fund manager registered with the Financial and Capital Market Commission (FCMC).

1 to 10 staff

Vilandes Venture Capital

Vilandes VC focuses on early and growth stage investments in companies based in Eastern Europe whose growth is dependent on their development of online business. VVC is a hands-on investor that brings wealth of experience to help young high potential companies to grow their business and tap into opportunities not yet identified. VVC provides capital, knowledge and experience from its partners, investment companies and the team. We partner with owners and other investors that can benefit from our entrepreneurial spirit and knowledge of Eastern European markets and experience of operating in these markets for over 15 years. We believe that as Eastern Europe and in particular Russia, Ukraine and the Baltic states continue to develop, these markets considered as home markets by us, are offering increasingly attractive investment opportunities with premium growth.

1 to 10 staff

Theintelligent Vc

We invest in extraordinary teams and visionary leaders in tech who are prepared to invent and reinvent. Our mission is to drive innovation with Artificial Intelligence and technology, while enhancing the local AI ecosystem and supporting a vibrant entrepreneurial culture.

11 to 50 staff

Ugn As

The joint stock companies Sensum Grupa and UGN form a multisectoral holding, which is a share owner in a number of companies founded more than 25 years ago – coinciding the regaining of independence of Latvia. Most of the companies are related to the construction industry. The joint-stock companies were founded at the end of 2016 with the aim of establishing a holding with a unified legal structure and uniting a group of companies that had formed over a quarter of a century. The group is based on the ambition to create a large, united and more competitive group of companies in the construction market, implementing common principles of corporate governance, innovation and technology development, as well as shaping a united long-term strategy. The largest construction companies in the holding are Arčers Ltd, Arčers SK Ltd, Road Construction Company Binders Ltd, Woltec Ltd, RECK Ltd, Limbažu Ceļi Ltd, Aizputes ceļinieks Ltd, Transparence Ltd, SAFE Ltd and others, which are partly of wholly owned by the holding. Outside of the construction sector, the holding implements a multidisciplinary investment policy and has been successful in developing information and technology brands such as Aerones, Files.fm and others.

1001 to 5000 staff

Expanse Capital - Baltic Life Science Venture Builder

EXPANSE Capital – Baltic Life Science Venture builder – our activity is aimed at developing and bringing new technologies to the Life Science markets, creating new businesses based on the concepts of the future of healthcare systems that will have a positive impact on human health, improve the quality of life, while expanding the possibilities of medicine and making it accessible to all. We are looking for teams with strong technological competencies to co-create and grow globally focused companies, together changing and improving the healthcare system. Our team has a combined experience of over 25 years in the venture capital industry, including working on bringing technology startups to markets in Europe, the US and Asia. We are looking for startups in- Digital therapy- Personal medical assistants, devices - Rehabtech, home-based-rehabilitation - Diagnostics solutions - Home healthcare, healthcare-outside-hospital- Men’s health/Femtech - Agetech/Silvertech Our business model is 3-in-1: Venture Builder - Corporate accelerator - Impact seed fund. We actively cooperate with leading corporations and European universities to foster technological entrepreneurship and co-develop innovative ecosystems. We are interested in cooperation with medical institutions (clinics and rehabilitation centers), medical equipment manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies.

1 to 10 staff

Pribalt Capital Sia

1 to 10 staff