🎙 Baltic Startup Mafia podcast! 🎧 The co-founder of the Lithuanian startup CGTrader Dalia Lasaite joined the team as Head of Marketing two years after the company was established. She left behind two failed startups and the dream to become rich fast and retire soon. In 2 years Dalia became a co-founder and CEO of the CGTrader that is currently the …

🎙 Baltic Startup Mafia podcast! 🎧 The co-founder of the Estonian startup Katana MRP Kristjan Vilosius says: "It is crazy what businesses people have built with spreadsheets." His startup is trying to challenge this approach by offering easy-to-use and understand software for small and medium-sized manufacturers. Katana aims to become the nr 1 manuf…

Latvian startup neobank Zelf is building a platform on top of existing tech giant products - WhatsApp, Messenger, Viber. Are they not afraid of being shut down by those platforms someday? They are not! The Zelf founder and CEO Elliot Goykhman explain how his startup is helping those platforms to earn more. And neobanks have a bright future because …

🎙 Baltic Startup Mafia podcast! 🎧 Deep tech startup from Lithuania Droplet Genomics recently raised 1 million euro in funding from venture capital. Juozas Nainys is the CEO of the company and one of 5 (!) co-founders. He will share some insights on how it is to live in the world where every decision should be made by five people. Jouzas will also d…

🎙 Baltic Startup Mafia podcast! 🎧 3 years ago 2 guys from Estonia went to South Africa with the business idea. A couple of months ago their startup Planet42 raised 10 million dollars that make a total investment of 20 million invested in Planet42. How have they got so far? How are they doing in South Africa? And what are their next milestones? Find…

🎙 Baltic Startup Mafia podcast! 🎧 "We knew that we are going to have a subscription business model before we even had the business," says Mikus Opelts, CEO and the founder of the company Giraffe 360. "What is so special about our camera? Well, it is yellow!" he smiles. To be more precise - the camera does what nobody else in the proptech industry c…

🎙 Baltic Startup Mafia podcast! 🎧 Audrius Zujus is from Lithuania and currently, he is CTO and founder of Argyle - a company that is based in New York but run globally. A team of 55 people is located in various countries and even continents. The company is fully remote from day one. And it doesn't mean that the whole team is spending their days on …

🎙 Baltic Startup Mafia podcast! 🎧 When Petr Antropov left the founding team of Odnoklasniki, he thought that the value of his shares has reached the highest point. The reality was harsh - a bit later he could have been sold his shares for the price that was 40 times higher! Petr doesn't want to make the same mistake again in his new startup Lokalis…

🎙 Baltic Startup Mafia podcast! 🎧 Estonian startup Fortumo actually is not a startup anymore. A few months ago it was acquired by another industry leader Boku. But Fortumo's journey is worth paying attention to. The company started as a spin-off in 2010 when only a few people knew what the word "startup" actually means. And startup pioneers had to …

🎙 Baltic Startup Mafia podcast! 🎧 Estonian startup RangeForce has just raised 16 million dollars to develop further the platform that is on the mission to make IT professionals the strongest link in cyber defense. Co-founder and CEO of the company Taavi Must have experience working for NATO’s Cyber Range: "It is very simple - if you want to make sy…

🎙 Baltic Startup Mafia podcast! 🎧 Kaarel Kotkas is only 26 years old, but the company he has founded and led - Veriff - has recently closed 15,5 million USD financing round. Kaarel has never worked in big corporations and always built projects and companies according to his own understanding of what he wants the company to be. Veriff is his 12th pr…

🎙 NEW EPISODE - Baltic Startup Mafia podcast! 🎧 Baltic Startup ecosystem update - May 2020. Startups included - Brainbase and EstateGuru from Estonia 🇪🇪, Printful, and AirDog from Latvia 🇱🇻 as well as first start-up center Tech Loft at Vilnius, Lithuania 🇱🇹. Listen here and on the biggest podcast services. Interview with the startup AskRobin co-fou…

🎙 NEW EPISODE - Baltic Startup Mafia podcast! 🎧 Baltic Startup ecosystem update - April 2020. Startups included - AskRobin and Dashbird from Estonia 🇪🇪, Printify and Sonarworks from Latvia 🇱🇻 as well as Tasker and In Balance Grid from Lithuania 🇱🇹. Listen here and on the biggest podcast services. Interview with the startup In Balance Grid CEO Simon…

Lauri Sokk and his team formed and started to work while returning from skiing holidays right before the Europe lockdown on March 2020. Lauri experienced the whole beauty of closing borders, staying in quarantine, and winning the hackathon. What else is interesting? He used to organize hackathons himself but never had time to participate in one. La…

🎙 SPECIAL EPISODE - Baltic Startup Mafia podcast! 🎧 Interview with the startup Act on Crisis founder and CEO Ieva Vaitkeviciute. The team is a 2nd place winner of The Global Hack - virtual event gathered over 15 000 participants from 100+ countries who submitted over 1000 projects with the aim to fight COVID19 in 2020. The project was born over the…

🎙 NEW EPISODE - Baltic Startup Mafia podcast! 🎧 Baltic Startup ecosystem update - March 2020. Startups included - Mailigen and Trauma Simulator from Latvia 🇱🇻, Pipedrive and Fully Verified from Estonia 🇪🇪. Also, a couple of policy-related stories from Lithuania 🇱🇹 and Latvia 🇱🇻 included. Interview with the startup Trauma Simulator co-founder and CE…

🎙 NEW EPISODE - Baltic Startup Mafia podcast! 🎧 Baltic Startup ecosystem update - February 2020. Startups included - KPI Berry and Edurio from Latvia, Timbeter from Estonia, and Trafi from Lithuania. Interview with the startup Timbeter co-founder and CTO Martin Kambla. Timbeter was born during the Garage48 hackathon in 2013. There were 7 co-founder…

Baltic Startup ecosystem update - January 2020. Startups included - Juro and Jeff App from Latvia, Katana and 99Math from Estonia, Eddy Travels and GoRamp from Lithuania. Interview with the startup Juro co-founder Pavel Povalevitch. Juro has just closed Series A funding round with 5 million dollars investment. The round was led by New York-based Un…

This is the episode where the data about the year 2019 in Baltic startups is reviewed. The data has been initially collected by local startup organizations. The biggest investments in December 2019 received Estonian startup Salv and Lithuanian startup Gosu.ai. The episode includes the interview with the CEO and Founder of Salv - Taavi Tamkivi. Taav…

This is the first episode that will continue as a series of podcasts for people interested in the startup ecosystem of Baltic countries. In this episode, we congratulate Lithuanians with the first unicorn - company Vinted, Latvians with the Sage Group acquisition of the startup Cake HR and Estonians as still being leaders of the investments receive…