| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.07.2026 | Tapaya Raises EUR 1M to Bring Software-Driven Payments Beyond Traditional Terminals | Czech fintech Tapaya raised EUR 1M to develop software infrastructure for embedded in-person payments Founders bring experience in building and certifying payment products The solution simplifies SoftPOS adoption through compliance and inte... |
| 14.05.2026 | Lithuanian WhiteBridge AI Receives EUR 2.6M to Turn Public Data into Trustworthy People Insights | Vilnius-based WhiteBridge AI raised EUR 2.6M in its FIRSTPICK-led Seed round Its platform converts scattered public data into structured people intelligence reports The system addresses identity matching challenges across global data incons... |
| 08.05.2026 | From Broken Zipper to EUR 1.5M Seed Round: How Tingit Is Building Europe’s AI-Powered Repair Infrastructure | Vilnius-based Tingit raised EUR 1.5M to scale its AI-powered repair marketplace across Europe The startup combines AI, logistics, and craftspeople to simplify fashion and apparel repairs Strong early traction includes 14,000 customers andEU... |
| 28.04.2026 | Tapaya raises €1M pre-seed to power payments on any device | Prague-based payments infrastructure startup Tapaya has raised €1 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Passion Capital, with co-lead participation from Depo Ventures and follow-on investment from BADideas.fund.
Founded in 2025 by Laur... |
| 24.04.2026 | Spotwise’s AI Copilot for Broadcast Sales Shines at TechChill Founders Battle | Latvian Spotwise is among TechChill Founders Battle’s winners with its AI copilot for broadcast sales teams The startup was born from the identified inefficiencies in manual radio ad tracking and delayed sales data The platform automates in... |
| 30.03.2026 | Latvian AI startup Spotwise raises $450K pre-seed to automate broadcast media sales intelligence | Spotwise, an AI sales intelligence platform for broadcast media, has closed a $450,000 USD pre-seed funding round. It will accelerate Spotwise’s expansion into Western European markets and support the development of television and podcast i... |
| 16.03.2026 | WhiteBridge AI Raises €2.6 in Seed Funding | WhiteBridge AI, a Vilnius, Lithuania-based AI-powered people research platform provider specialising in deep personal insights, raised a €2.6M in Seed funding.
The round was led by FIRSTPICK VC, with participation from First Degree, NGL.VC,... |
| 15.03.2026 | WhiteBridge AI Secures €2.6 Million for Pioneering People Research Engine | WhiteBridge AI, a Vilnius-based AI startup, raised €2.6 million in seed funding. This capital fuels its innovative AI-powered people research engine. The platform transforms fragmented public online data into structured, actionable insights... |
| 15.03.2026 | WhiteBridge AI: €2.6 Million Raised For AI-Powered People Research Platform | WhiteBridge AI, a Vilnius-based AI startup focused on building a people search and research engine, has raised €2.6 million in seed funding to expand its platform and accelerate product development. The round was led by FIRSTPICK VC and inc... |
| 13.03.2026 | Vilnius-based WhiteBridge AI raises €2.6 million for its AI-powered people research engine | WhiteBridge AI, a Vilnius-based AI-powered people research platform specialising in deep personal insights, has raised a €2.6 million ($3 million) Seed round.
The round was led by FIRSTPICK VC, with participation from First Degree, NGL.VC, ... |
| 04.03.2026 | TechChill 2026 Brings Baltic & CEE Startup Ecosystem Together This March | TechChill returns to Riga on March 25–27th 2026, gathering startups, investors, and tech leaders Over 2,000 participants are expected, including 300 startups and 250 investors from across Europe Founders Battle highlights early-stage startu... |
| 13.01.2026 | TechChill announces record €1M prize pool for 2026 pitch competition | To celebrate its 15th anniversary, the leading Baltic startup and technology conference TechChill
has unveiled its largest-ever prize pool for the TechChill Founders Battle pitch competition – €1 million. Startups from across Europe that qu... |
| 17.12.2025 | Infogram's Legacy: Fueling a New AI Tech Frontier | Latvian tech pioneer Infogram sparked a robust "mafia" of ex-employees launching new ventures. This network now drives global innovation. Three AI-powered startups lead this wave. Desktop Commander automates complex PC tasks using... |
| 28.10.2025 | Desktop Commander lands €1.1M pre-seed for AI desktop automation | Latvian-based Desktop Commander, the company behind the open source Desktop Commander MCP server, has raised a €1.1 million pre-seed round led by 42CAP, with participation from BADideas Fund.
Desktop Commander MCP provides AI-controlled acc... |
| 23.07.2025 | How I raised: THEO Growth shares its journey to €430K pre-seed funding | THEO Growth
is a startup that helps companies maximize their AI usage by refining their unique business context into an “AI-ready” format. We spoke to the founder and CEO Guntis Coders
about the €430 000 pre-seed funding THEO Growth recentl... |
| 20.06.2025 | Traxlo: Pioneering the Future of Labor in the AI Era | In the bustling streets of Vilnius, a startup is rewriting the rules of work. Traxlo, a platform that transforms physical labor into verifiable tasks, has recently secured €1.6 million in funding. This investment is a stepping stone for Tra... |
| 19.06.2025 | Traxlo raises €1.6M to build the labor infrastructure for the AI era | Lithuania-based Traxlo, a fast-growing platform transforming physical labour into verifiable tasks, has raised €1.6 million in funding to expand its pay-per-task labour infrastructure across Europe, with launches underway in the Czech Repub... |
| 16.01.2025 | Tech Pros and Enthusiasts Unite at Riga’s TechChill 2025 | TechChill is back in Riga this February, welcoming tech pros and enthusiasts for another exciting event Scheduled for February 5-7th, the conference will take place at Riga’s Fantadroms and Hanzas Perons This year, the event strengthens its... |
| 09.01.2025 | TechChill 2025 adds fuel to the founder fire, top50 startups announced | TechChill will return to its original time slot in February – as everyone knows that the hottest tech deals happen in the coldest and most miserable month of the year in Riga, Latvia, where the event is held annually.
This year, TechChill
,... |
| 20.11.2024 | Qminder's €3M Seed Funding: A New Era in Service Flow Management | In a world where customer experience reigns supreme, Qminder has emerged as a beacon of innovation. The Estonian startup recently secured €3 million in seed funding, a significant boost that promises to reshape service delivery in physical ... |
| 20.11.2024 | Qminder Raises €3M in Seed Funding | Qminder, a London, UK-based provider of a customer service flow management platform for physical locations, raised €3M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Practica Capital, with participation from Jaan Tallinn’s Metaplanet, BADideas.fund ... |
| 12.11.2024 | Estonian Qminder secures €3M Seed for service delivery SaaS | Customer service flow management platform Qminder has raised €3 million in Seed funding.
Founded in 2011 by Rauno Rüngas and Siim Raud, Qminder tackles inefficient service delivery in physical locations.
Qminder’s platform automates key cus... |
| 20.05.2024 | AM Craft to expand its aircraft interior 3D printing capabilities with new pre-seed funding | Riga-based aviation manufacturing firm AM Craft has raised €600,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by Change Ventures, with participation from BadIdeas.Fund.
AM Craft leverages industrial polymer 3D printers, design expertise, airworthines... |
| 15.05.2024 | Latvian aviation parts manufacturer AM Craft raises €600k in a pre-seed round | Latvian aviation parts manufacturer AM Craft raises €600k in a pre-seed round
15 May, 2024, 17:25
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The Riga-based aviation parts manufa... |
| 24.04.2024 | Salesforge Revolutionizes B2B Sales with AI-Copilots | Salesforge, a game-changer in the B2B sales landscape, secures $500K in pre-seed funding to empower leaner and meaner sales teams. Led by ex-Google and Horde co-founders, Salesforge aims to redefine sales execution with AI-driven personaliz... |
| 24.04.2024 | Salesforge's AI-copilots get $500K funding to replace sales underperformers | If you're working in sales and are underperforming — watch out. An AI-copilot could soon replace you by helping a far leaner team to seal the deals.
Frank Sondors is the CEO and co-founder of Salesforge, a company that has developed AI-embe... |
| 24.04.2024 | Salesforge secures $500K in pre-seed funding | Salesforge, an AI-copilot for sales execution, has raised $500K from BADideas.fund, Spring Capital, Fiedler Capital and angel-investor Maciej Zawadzinski, charging the team’s ambition to redefine the landscape of B2B sales.
As Frank Sondors... |
| 24.04.2024 | Estonian startup Salesforge secures $500k in a pre-seed funding | Estonian startup Salesforge secures $500k in a pre-seed funding
24 April, 2024, 08:00
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Salesforge, a Talinn-based startup developing an... |
| 24.04.2024 | Estonia’s Salesforge raises €467K in pre-seed funding to be an AI copilot for B2B sales execution | Read this article in:
Tallinn-based Salesforge, a developer of an all-in-one sales execution app, announced on Wednesday that it has secured $500K (approximately €467K) in a pre-seed round from BADideas.fund, Spring Capital, Fiedler Capital... |
| 11.04.2024 | All Techheads Are Welcome at Riga’s TechChill 2024 | TechChill welcomes all the techheads once again in Riga this April The dates are April 17-19th, and the venues are Fantadroms and Hanzas Perons The conference will begin with Run for Ukraine and include side events, insights from renowned i... |
| 06.02.2024 | Lithuanian edtech Leya AI raises €1M in a pre-seed funding | Lithuanian edtech Leya AI raises €1M in a pre-seed funding
06 February, 2024, 10:50
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Vilnius-based edtech startup Leya AI has... |
| 28.11.2023 | Lithuanian Event Planning Facilitator Breezit Will Use USD 2M of Investment to Expand Further in the US and Leverage AI for Product Development | Vilnius-based event planning marketplace Breezit attracts USD 2M of Pre-Seed investment The platform successfully expanded geographically – to the Californian market, as well as functionally – from weddings to other private event types The ... |
| 28.09.2023 | Lithuanian event organizer Breezit raises $2M in funding | Lithuanian event organizer Breezit raises $2M in funding
28 September, 2023, 16:48
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Vilnius-based professional event planning... |
| 15.09.2023 | Czech-Slovak fintech startup Blockmate secures €1.5M investment | Czech-Slovak fintech startup Blockmate secures €1.5M investment
15 September, 2023, 15:44
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Blockmate, a Bratislava-based provider of... |
| 06.07.2023 | Latvian BADideas.fund invests €170k in Swiss startup RoomPriceGenie | Latvian BADideas.fund invests €170k in Swiss startup RoomPriceGenie
06 July, 2023, 14:10
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Riga-based BADideas.fund has invested €170... |
| 14.06.2023 | Indonesian fintech Finfra raises $1M. Lithuanian FIRSTPICK and Latvian BADideas.fund are among the investors | Indonesian fintech Finfra raises $1M. Lithuanian FIRSTPICK and Latvian BADideas.fund are among the investors
14 June, 2023, 10:52
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| 10.05.2023 | Estonian-founded insurtech Value.Space raises €2.1M in a seed round | Estonian-founded insurtech Value.Space raises €2.1M in a seed round
10 May, 2023, 14:35
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The London-based startup Value.Space that c... |
| 09.05.2023 | Investor showcase: BADideas.fund – startup builders by day, investors by night | BADideas.fund is an Angel investor syndicate uniting more than 150 startup founders and operators who’ve been (and still are) in the thick of it building such companies as Wise, Bolt, Vinted, Printful, Printify, Lokalise, and other global s... |
| 09.05.2023 | Value.Space raises €2.1 million giving a boost to its satellite-based insurance risk assessment tech | The UK-based start-up Value.Space completed a successful and oversubscribed second close of its seed round investment, raising €2.1 million to accelerate growth. Participating in the round were Specialist VC, Superangel, Lemonade Stand, Inv... |
| 25.04.2023 | TechChill Fifty Founders Battle semi-finalists announced – fighting for more than €350K | The 50 startups will be competing in a pitch battle at the TechChill conference on April 27-28 in Riga, Latvia, vying for a total of €350K in prize money.
The Fifty Founders Battle saw over 250 applications from more than 30 countries, mak... |
| 18.10.2022 | BADideas.fund invests 500k in first five months of operation | Led by founders and startup builders, the BADideas.fund
started operations just five months ago. Until now, the Riga-based syndicate has already supported five startups in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Ukraine, investing a total of €500k.
... |
| 20.09.2022 | Latvian fintech LANDE raises €550k in a pre-seed round | Latvian fintech LANDE raises €550k in a pre-seed round
20 September, 2022, 13:39
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Riga-based fintech startup LANDE has raised... |
| 17.08.2022 | Estonia-based RecruitLab picks up €1.9 million to boost video-recruitment platform | Tallinn-based startup RecruitLab has raised €1.9 million in a seed round to offer video-recruitment platform that helps streamline and automate recruitment processes. The funding was led by Baltic market specialist Change Ventures and backe... |
| 07.07.2022 | Latvian BADideas.fund invests €100k in Lithuanian startup Breezit | Latvian BADideas.fund invests €100k in Lithuanian startup Breezit
07 July, 2022, 11:51
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The Riga-based BADideas.fund has inve... |
| - | Personal AI Coach for Every Learner: Leya AI Secures €1M Pre-Seed to Transform Global Education
| Leya AI is on a mission to give access to personal coaching to everyone on the planet. The Leya team’s short-term focus is to revolutionize language learning methods by providing an affordable real-time speaking personal AI Tutor.
Dateline.... |
| - | TechChill Fifty Founders Battle - pitch competition for European startups in Riga | This year the TechChill community is putting their money where their mouth is – in a show of strength, commitment, and belief in the future of the ecosystem, startup founders and community organizations have contributed to the prize pot whi... |
