The leading Baltic startup and technology event TechChill has announced its annual pitch competition Fifty Founders Battle. All seed and early stage startups from different tech fields are encouraged to take part and compete for recognition of international investors along with the main prize of 10 000 EUR. The application deadline is April 1.
Following a legislative change to the country’s stock option policy, Latvia is now ranked as the most startup-friendly country in Europe, sharing the top spots with neighbouring Estonia and Lithuania. The new reforms in Latvia, and earlier last year in Lithuania, have turned the Baltics into a region with the world’s most favourable stock option policies, making it easier for startups to attract and retain the talent they need to succeed.
Aerones has raised $1.6M in seed funding to develop a ground-based robotics system for wind turbine maintenance and inspection and expand to the USA, thus pivoting from their previous drone focus.
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It's been a year already which means that Startup SAFARI Riga is back!
SuS isn’t your typical conference – we’ve partnered up with StartupLatvia to turn the whole city into a big venue for you to explore. This is what’s in store for 2019:
Day 1:
hands-on practical workshops;
insights in innovative technologies;
experience stories;
sessions on how to get started in business;
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With the involvement of the Latvian start-up ecosystem, the database of Latvian start-ups has been updated, and the full version can be found here.
Mintos, a financial technology startup that offers a global marketplace for investments in loans, has reached EUR 3 billion in total loans financed. This milestone comes just four months after announcing its EUR 2 billion milestone earlier this year. Mintos has also doubled the number of employees to 140 during this time and now works with over 60 alternative lending companies across the world to offer loans for investment to more than 170 000 investors globally.