Early stage venture capital firm announces local fintech investment plans and first hire

Fields of interest: fintech

Waiting for startups with: team, MVP, first incomes.

Benefits for startups: mentoring, investment, community, networking.

Fund range per team: from 100 000 to 2 mln USD.

Leading research organization with a wide range of R&D equipment and services that could be helpful when developing and implementing your ideas.

Vilnius University offers open access to over 170 R&D infrastructure and equipment sets and over 180 R&D services in life sciences, chemistry and geosciences, photonics and nanotechnology, laser physics, semiconductors and lighting, IT, psychology, and many other areas. We understand that each business faces unique challenges; therefore, all R&D services can be adapted to your business needs. If you need equipment, R&D service, or an R&D solution, please check out our catalog of R&D infrastructure and services or contact us and we will do our best to help you develop and implement your ideas.

Type of support: Open access R&D equipment and services

Fields of interest: all.

Waiting for startups with: idea, team, prototype, first incomes, growth.

Benefits for startups: Open access to a world-class R&D equipment and infrastructure together with a wide range of R&D services.

BALTFAB - Your Access to alternative fabrication.

BALTFAB is an Open User Facility that offers process development and small-scale prototyping services for startups in the field of life-science, medical technology, and material processing. Our expertise span from soft micro-and nano-lithography techniques for rapid fabrication of biomaterial structures to various approaches of precise laser microprocessing of any type of materials. The notable examples are biochips, biomedical materials, flexible electronics, terahertz components, and their device prototypes.

 

Fields of interest: health, semiconductors, iot (internet of things), robotics, hardware, Biochip, medical devices, solar energy, automotive, electronics, organic synthesis, photonic and plasmonic microstructures.

Waiting for startups with: idea, team.

Benefits for startups: working space, Test-before-invest opportunities.

Gold Venture Investment is a global investment banking company running incubators in Israel and the USA and global accelerators in Europe. We help startups in fundraising and global expansion.

Fields of interest: fintech, marketing, health, enterprise software, education, energy, transportation, food, security, real estate, travel, jobs recruitment, legal, telecom, gaming, semiconductors, IoT internet of things, sports, music, construction, kids, hosting, robotics, government, hardware, etc.

Waiting for startups with any of these options: Idea, Team, Prototype, First Incomes, Growth

Types of support for startups: Governmental support, Pre-accelerators / Accelerators, Investments, Incubators / Hubs, Sandbox, Supporting programs

Fund range per team: 200,000-5,000,000 EUR

Investment conditions: equity 

Benefits for startups: mentoring, investment, community, networking, working space

Market focus: worldwide

JA Lithuania is the largest non-profit organization in Lithuania dedicated to preparing young people for entrepreneurship and employment.

JA Lithuania designs experiences that spark the entrepreneurial spirit and teach the practical day-to-day skills required to run a viable, long-term business or startup. Launched in 1919 globally, our flagship programme the JA Company Programme in Lithuania offers students aged 12-18 the opportunity to learn how to move a business idea from concept to reality. The programme provides teachers with a series of learning-by-doing business, economics and entrepreneurship activities, a great way to help students succeed in a global economy.

Waiting for startups with: idea, team.

Funding opportunities: during the finals of the program teams are awarded with cash prizes of 200-1000 EUR.

Benefits for participants: mentoring, networking, community, education for very early stage youth teams interested in creating startups.

GovTech Lab Lithuania is a team in the public sector that acts as a connector between public sector challenges and innovative tech solutions.

GovTech Lab works with public sector institutions to identify the most pressing challenges, encourages startups and SMEs to create GovTech solutions, and seeks to innovate public sector.
The team organizes GovTech Challenge Series and invites startups and innovative teams to submit the solutions to solve GovTech challenges. After the submission, the best teams are selected to participate in GovTech Accelerator, where they will have an opportunity to create, test and commercialise their solutions.

GovTech Lab Lithuania is currently a part of the Innovation Agency Lithuania. 

Fields of interest: GovTech, EdTech, HealthTech, LegalTech, RegTech, MobilityTech, CleanTech, UrbanTech, CivTech. 

Waiting for Startups with: Teams with ideas or solutions on how to solve public sector challenges. 

Benefits for Startups: Helping startups to connect with the public sector. GovTech Accelerator programme: sandbox, mentoring sessions and assistance in product development. After the GovTech Accelerator, teams can continue working with the public sector, where their solutions might be procured.

Superhero Capital is to founders what Alfred is to Batman - the help from behind the scenes.

We are an early-stage VC looking for the next Superheroes from Finland and the Baltics.

 

Waiting for Startups with: Prototype, first incomes, growth.

Fields of interest: Any verticals.

Benefits for Startups: Mentoring, Investment.

Fund range per team: Up to 1M.

Investment conditions: Equity.

Market focus: Finland & Baltics.

Change Ventures backs ambitious Baltic founders. As the first truly pan-Baltic seed fund operating across all three Baltic states, our mission is to find the best founding teams in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia at pre-seed and seed stages. Our Lithuanian team includes Justas Janauskas, co-founder of Vinted and Qoorio, as well as Vytautas Kubilius, Head of Baltics for Google. We are already proud investors in Lithuanian teams Interactio and Qoorio.

 

 

Fields of interest: broad ICT coverage, no biotech and game studios.

Waiting for startups with: Strong team.

Benefits for startups: Mentoring, community, networking.

Fund range per team: 200k - 1M plus a follow-up.

Investment conditions: equity or convertible notes.

Connecting Blockchain innovation ecosystems.

The B-hub for Europe project targets deep tech startups in the blockchain domain. The initiative is aimed at discovering high-potential innovations, shaping suited proof of concepts and business models, providing specialized acceleration services to overcome current market barriers and assist the go-to-market process, unlocking new market channels with potential private/public customers and scaling up innovative businesses across five startups ecosystems in Europe.

Fields of interest: Any verticals.

Waiting for Startups with: Idea, team, prototype, first incomes, growth.

Benefits for Startups: Mentoring, community, networking.

Market focus:  Italy, Germany, France, Romania, Lithuania.

Blockchain partnership programme for helping blockchain/ DLT startups & SMEs to introduce their solutions to market, bringing impact at scale.

Connecting top DLT/ blockchain startups and SMEs with great and challenging real case scenarios is our priority and focus. You’ll meet some of the most thoughtful investors, corporates and likeminded entrepreneurs and gain valuable exposure. Selected companies receive funding (no equity) of up to €20 000 and are offered business coaching/ mentoring to scale up their solutions.

Fields of interest: Fintech, Enterprise software, Transportation, FoodTech, Security, Telecom, Semiconductors, IoT, Hosting.

Waiting for Startups with: Idea, team, prototype, first incomes, growth.

Benefits for Startups: Mentoring, investment, community, networking.

Fund range per team: €4 500 - €20 000

Investment conditions: Grant

Size of total funds: €795k; 75 startups/SMEs

Market focus: EU