Latvian Business Angels Network

Calling our investor community in the Baltics 🇱🇻🇪🇪🇱🇹 Encourage your founders to apply to TechChill Fifty Founders Battle - Pitching Competition🦄 Applications are open until 2nd December and who knows, perhaps your portfolio startup might receive a €300K investment from LatBAN Angels, FIRSTPICK & DEPO Ventures Apply here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dxgtHdR3

We did you first ever #OfficeHours event in partnership with ASP Asset Management AIFP 👏 7 of our most active angels met with 5 startup founders for very intensive 20 minute meetings. Back-to-back-to-back questions and an opportunity for founders to really raise investment interest. Let's see what results out of these meetings 👀 Thank you Startup House Riga for hosting us. And even a bigger thank you to the angels and founders who joined us - Ansis Spridzans, Girts Licis, Uldis Cerps, Daumants Pabrieža, Kristofers Ritovs, Egor Metelkin, Sergejs Andrijevskis, ZOLT SIA, David Lacis, Anda Penka, Fermentful, Janis Plakanis, Sehaci, Nikita Ribakovs, Tournated, Sandis Kondrats, Exonicus Based on the feedback of this first event, we are sure to bring another one in 2025 🔜 #startups #founder #angelinvestor #investment #syndicateinvestment

Founders, the stage is yours! 🌟 Grab your hoodie, lace up your sneakers, and show us what you’ve got. Apply by December 2nd for a chance to win €300K in investments from FIRSTPICK, DEPO Ventures, and Latvian Business Angels Network. And don’t miss out on an extra €10K from our community 🫰—no strings attached & mooooore... Apply today! 👇 https://lnkd.in/eqjatbHX

In our last session, Aigars Mačiņš from Emergn guided us through the essentials of technical due diligence. Investors gained insights on evaluating startup technology, identifying key risks, and assessing scalability and innovation. We also welcomed a very diverse group of startups... 🥕 EAT BEAT (FoodTech) 👓 Exonicus (MedTech) 🚚 VOOVOO (LogisticsTech) 🤖 Alva Solutions (Software) We finished the evening off with a nice community dinner. It was so great that we forgot to take pictures 🥂 A big thanks to all who attended our Angels Course in the past 3 weeks! We hope that you gained new insights and ideas. #angelinvestor #angelinvesting #startups #training

This Friday, November 8th, join us for the final session of our Angel Training Course: “Unpacking Startup Tech”! Your coach for the day will be Aigars Mačiņš who is an experienced professional in assessing technology readiness, complexity and legitimacy. We are kicking off at 17:00 in Tallink Hotel Riga. You’re welcome to attend on-site or online.❗️ 🍷Afterward, join us for a community dinner at RIONE from 19:20 to 21:30. Come for food, drinks, and great conversations—even if you’re not attending the training session! #angelinvestor #angelinvesting #training #course

The Latvian Fintech Forum was a huge success! 🚀 The event showcased an inspiring vision for the sector's future, uniting entrepreneurs, investors, lawyers, government representatives, and other ecosystem supporters. 👏 Congratulations to all Fintech Factor participants—your pitches were impressive! Special kudos to Securities LAB for taking home the grand prize from Tenity and LatBAN Angels (represented by ASP Asset Management AIFP). Here’s to seeing even more collaborations like this in the ecosystem! 🤝 #FintechForum #LatBAN #Ecosystem

🎯 Yesterday, we witnessed the exciting Fintech Factor competition at the Fintech Forum, where eight incredible finalist teams took the spotlight! These inspiring teams showcased their innovative ideas, competing for top prizes and a potential syndicate investment from the angel community. We’re thrilled to congratulate the winners:  🥇 Sorainen - Zeipt 🥇 WALLESS - Sweephy 🥇 Tenity Golden Ticket + investment from the Latvian Business Angels Network - Securities LAB Their dedication and innovative spirit truly made an impression, and we’re excited to see what lies ahead for each of them. Their exceptional ideas brought the competition to life! 🚀 A big thank you to Tenity for leading this initiative, to Latvijas Banka, and to all the other stakeholders who made this competition possible! 🙌 Special appreciation to our members Sorainen and WALLESS for their active involvement and support of this event and the finalist teams!

Great opportunity for early stage startups fundraising right now 🙌 Angels participating are from medtech/health tech, retail, commerce, finace and other sectors, thus diverse crowd of startups are welcome to apply 😎 #investment #angels #fundraising #earlystage #investinRiga #investinLV #startinLV

What an event! 👏 Thank you Tenity for putting this all together and allowing us to be a part of the competition! Congratulations to Securities LAB for snatching the main prize 🥇 With the new fintech and crypto strategy in place, we are sure that next year we will have even more applications

3 done, 1 to go! Our third Angel Training session was a hit! Huge thanks to Viachaslau Smirnou and Reima Linnanvirta for sharing their expertise on personal branding and building effective networks. We also want to highlight the startups that took the stage... ✈️ Hoperfy - Effective corporate travel platform 🚕 RoadBird - Platform for rideshare industry compliance 🏆 Tournated - Shopify for sports management 🚜 Green Growth - Real time yield mapping platform Join us this Friday for the final session, with Aigars Mačiņš guiding us on assessing startup tech! Email emils@latban.lv for details. #angelinvestor #angelinvesting #event #training #startups