Change Ventures invests into startups in the Baltics, or with Baltic founders on their teams.
Product readiness: 5. Scaling
InvestClub is a front office for a group of investors who invest in startups vetted by the managers. Angel members typically invest €10-100k, fund members €100-500k, and later stage funds €1-5M.
They have members from all over the world: US, Germany, India, Russia, Belarus, UK, Netherlands.
They are only interested in software and marketplace startups targeting B2C or B2B2C. No B2B, B2G or blockchain.
Tech Consulting Group TCG is a small team of Finnish serial entrepreneurs with a strong experience in growth, internationalization and digitalization. Team has deep roots in both tech and business side. They’re the founders behind companies like Eficode and ePassi.
They seek cases where they can actively participate in to help the company grow and internationalize. They seek a board seat.
Generalist co-investment fund from Lithuania. They invest alongside three or more angels or VC funds that are not backed by public money. They consider all business sectors, however the fund wouldn’t invest into weapons or vices (cigarettes, gambling etc.).
They can fund up to 70% of a total investment round. They cap their return at 6% annually during the investment period, with the excess shared among other investors of the syndicate. The investments must benefit Lithuania, e.g. companies need to have or open an office and hire employees in Lithuania.
OP Lab is the startup collaboration unit of OP, a major Finnish bank. They seek startups to purchase innovations from as an early adopter, while also seeking for more mature startups to acquire.
Their focus is on solutions that are linked to fields of banking, insurance & finance in general. Fields such as fintech, insurtech, AI, biometrics, customer experience, and loyalty etc. are of interest to them.
They’re happy to connect with startups that are interested in the Finnish market.
Lithuanian cluster of engineering, design and production companies, specializing in products of at least one cubic meter in size and orders from €30k upwards. They’re especially able to orchestrate complex offerings, up to 50 suppliers for one project. Their focus is in metal and plastic production.
Their ideal customers are from the following sectors:
- Micro- and macro-algae
- Aquaculture & marine
- Industry & offshore
- Indoor and outdoor marketing
Their offering is most often used by companies with a TRL of 4-8, but sometimes as early stage as 2.
They are also happy to help in the technical part of writing applications for Horizon and other grants. They’re also interested in discussing helping companies where management team wants to simplify their involvement or move on to something else.
Access 4 Future is a market entry program for startups wishing to help people in the target countries get better access to healthcare: India, Niger, Philippines, Egypt, Thailand.
The program’s support includes connections locally (piloting), regionally and globally (scalability) and covers startups’ piloting costs. Each location has a different challenge for startups to help in, and they have different application periods during autumn 2020. Challenges include for example furthering the education and training of doctors.
The chosen solutions have to be scaleable. For example a solution that will be piloted in two hospitals might later expand to the state, then the country and finally internationally.
LitCapital is focusing on funding small cap growth companies with proven traction and a scalable solution. They prefer B2B companies, but are interested in especially strong B2C or B2G cases as well. Their home market is Lithuania, and they’re also looking at companies from nearby EEA markets. A connection with Lithuania is a plus.
Most often they are the lead investor of a round. They seek a stake of 20% or more and will actively participate on the board level in growing the company.
Practica Capital is a Lithuanian fund investing especially into early-stage companies, focusing especially on tech companies in the Baltics. They also invest into companies in some nearby areas or with Baltic founders elsewhere in Europe.
They have an especial liking for marketplaces, SaaS, space tech, mobility, fintech, big data, AI, and interdisciplinary life science startups, including health tech and biotech. Drug discovery and other solutions with very long development time spans are out of their focus. They prefer tech solutions but are also interested in especially strong non-tech solutions as well. Idea stage companies are only interesting with founding teams that include serial entrepreneurs.
They are an active investor, helping the deals happen by getting the rest of the needed investors on board.
They have invested in more than 50 companies, leading to more than 20 exits.
If they lead the investment they often take a board seat, especially in fields where their experience is helpful.
Aria Fund is a generalist multi-family office, looking to invest €1-5M tickets into companies with proven ability to sell.
They prefer technological hardware and software B2B and B2C solutions, but are interested in looking at marketplaces, non-tech, or B2G solutions in especially strong cases.
They have often been the lead investor, but are interested in co-investment and solo investment opportunities as well.