Riga startup directory
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iGaming Studio Summit 2026
Second annual summit at Radisson Blu Daugava Hotel uniting iGaming studio heads, product managers, game designers and marketing leads for two days of market-expansion strategy, technology insights and cross-region networking.
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Imprimatur Capital Fund Management
Imprimatur Capital Fund Management is a Riga-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2010 and affiliated with London-headquartered Imprimatur Capital Ltd. The firm manages seed and start-up funds backed by the Latvian Guarantee Agency and institutional investors, with over €17M under management and more than 70 portfolio companies. It targets B2B software, digital health, learning and training, and robotics startups at pre-Series A in the Baltic Sea Region. Key partners include Toby Moore (Managing Partner) and Jānis Janevičs (Partner).
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Latvian Artificial Intelligence Centre
Latvia's national Artificial Intelligence Centre (Makslīga Intelekta Centrs) was established by law and officially opened on 2 April 2025 at the RTU Science and Innovation Centre in Riga. Founded jointly by the Ministry of Smart Administration and Regional Development, the Association of Latvian Universities, and the ICT Association LIKTA, it is structured as a state-supported private foundation with €370,000 in initial Ministry of Economics funding. The Centre serves as Latvia's primary collaborative platform for AI research, ethics, governance, Latvian language preservation in AI systems, and technology commercialisation, and is a principal organiser of the AI Connect 2026 conference.
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Latvian Digital Innovation Hub
One of two European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH) in Latvia, the Latvian Digital Innovation Hub supports companies through digital transformation via digital maturity assessments, personalised training programmes, and expert consultancy. Funded with €3.5 million (50% EU, 50% Latvia), it operates across six regional centres in Riga, Liepaja, Jelgava, Rezekne, Valmiera, and Ventspils, focusing on AI, 5G, and GovTech innovation. The hub is a co-organiser of the AI Connect 2026 conference at the RTU Science and Innovation Centre in Riga.
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Lokalise
Lokalise is a Riga-founded localization platform built to help product teams ship multilingual software without turning translation into a bottleneck. Instead of relying on spreadsheets and manual handoffs, the product integrates with design, development, and collaboration tools so text can be extracted, translated, reviewed, and returned to live applications as part of normal shipping workflows. This turns localization from a late-stage publishing task into a continuous process that scales with product development. For companies expanding across Europe and beyond, that capability is operationally important because language support affects onboarding, conversion, support quality, and market-entry speed. In the regional ecosystem, Lokalise stands out as a Latvian SaaS export that solves a very real cross-border problem for digital products. It also connects naturally to companies focused on media generation and international product distribution, making it a strong addition to the directory's view of how European startups build tools for expansion across fragmented markets.
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Longenesis
Longenesis is a Riga-based digital health company founded in 2017 that builds platforms connecting pharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers, and patients to accelerate biomedical research. Its three core products — Curator, Themis, and Engage — enable privacy-preserving patient cohort discovery, consent management, and real-world evidence generation. The company has positively impacted over 850,000 patients across the EU and MENA, holds partnerships with Medtronic and Novartis, and has raised over €1 million in seed funding. It won second place at the EIT Health Catapult programme and earned an AWS Industry Award in 2023.
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Meredot
Meredot is a wireless EV-charging technology company, founded in 2017, that builds contactless charging stations for micro-mobility vehicles, robots and drones with over 93% efficiency and tolerance for several inches of pad misalignment. Its thin, robust chargers are designed to integrate into existing manufacturing lines or be retrofitted into public spaces such as city centers and shorelines, and it recently partnered with Cyberworks Robotics on autonomous-driving charging.
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Mintos
Mintos is Europe's largest regulated investment marketplace for alternative assets, founded in 2014 by Martins Sulte and Martins Valters. The platform connects retail investors with loans originated by non-bank lenders across 30+ countries, offering consumer, business, and real estate loan investments. It has facilitated over €12 billion in cumulative investments, holds a MiFID II licence from the Central Bank of Latvia, and manages over €700 million in assets for more than 500,000 registered users globally.
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Mobilly
Mobilly is a Latvian mobile-payments platform that lets people pay for everyday services by phone, including public transport, parking, the Jurmala beach pass, bus and train tickets, Riga public-transport ticket codes, car washes, EV charging and museum tickets. The service also supports subscriptions, lunch payments and donations through its app.
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MoonMoon
MoonMoon is a Riga-based IT and artificial intelligence consulting company providing services in AI implementation, cloud consulting, and IT strategy for businesses, with a team of 10 to 49 professionals at hourly rates of $30–70. The company was founded by Uldis Karlovs-Karlovskis, who also leads the DevOps & AI Latvia community and is a prominent organiser in Latvia's technology ecosystem. MoonMoon serves as an organising partner of the AI Connect 2026 conference at the RTU Science and Innovation Centre in Riga.
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Naco Technologies
Naco Technologies develops proprietary PVD nano-coatings that replace expensive platinum-group metals in hydrogen electrolysers and fuel cells, reducing the cost of green hydrogen production at scale. Founded in 2010 by Aleksandrs Parfinovičs and Raivis Nikitins, the company secured €8 million in equity plus a €2.3 million EIC Accelerator grant in 2023, followed by a further €2.5 million pre-Series A round in 2025. Naco's coatings target bipolar plates, gas diffusion layers, and membrane electrode assemblies.
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Nordigen (GoCardless)
Nordigen is a Riga-based open banking data platform that was acquired by GoCardless in 2022. The company provides free access to bank account data through PSD2-compliant APIs, enabling fintechs, lenders, and financial service providers to retrieve transaction histories, account balances, and payment data from over 2,300 banks across 31 European countries. Nordigen's freemium model disrupted the open banking aggregation market by making basic bank connectivity accessible without per-API-call fees. As part of GoCardless, the Riga team continues to develop open banking infrastructure and represents an important Latvian contribution to Europe's financial data ecosystem.
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Origin Robotics
Origin Robotics is a Latvian defence-tech company founded in 2022 by Agris Kipurs and Ilja Nevdah in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The company develops advanced autonomous UAV systems combining AI computer vision with cost-effective hardware. Its flagship BEAK system is a man-portable, mid-range precision-guided weapon with a 15 km reach already deployed by Latvian and Ukrainian armed forces, while BLAZE is an autonomous counter-UAS interceptor using radar and AI vision. Origin has raised €4 million in pre-seed funding led by Change Ventures and secured an additional €4.5 million European Defence Fund grant.
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Outlast Fund
Outlast Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm co-headquartered in Riga and Stockholm, founded in 2024 by Egita Polanska, Marija Rucevska, Kristaps Prusis, and Mikaela Pedersen. The fund closed its debut €21 million vehicle backed by Latvian sovereign fund Altum, the EU's ERDF, and Baltic angel investors. It targets pre-seed tickets up to €250k and seed rounds up to €1.5 million, with a focus on B2B SaaS, fintech, and cybersecurity across the Baltics and Nordics.
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Overkill Ventures
Overkill Ventures is a pre-seed B2B tech fund founded in 2017 and headquartered at Dzirnavu iela 105 in Riga, Latvia. The firm backs founders it calls 'overkillers' — operators who work smarter and challenge conventions — primarily across the Baltics, Nordics, CEE, and CIS regions. Overkill focuses on helping startups reach product-market fit and has made over 40 investments to date. It is registered as an Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) in Latvia under the entity Overkill Ventures AIFP.
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Printful
Printful is a Riga-founded print-on-demand and fulfillment company that enables e-commerce entrepreneurs, creators, and brands to sell custom-designed products without holding inventory. The platform handles printing, warehousing, and shipping of apparel, accessories, and home goods through its own fulfillment centers in the US, Europe, and Mexico. Printful integrates with major e-commerce platforms including Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, and Amazon, and has fulfilled over 70 million items. With over 1,000 employees and revenues exceeding $200 million, Printful is Latvia's largest technology company and one of the Baltic region's most significant startup success stories, demonstrating that global-scale e-commerce infrastructure can be built from Riga.
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Printify
Printify is a print-on-demand platform founded in Riga in 2015 that connects e-commerce merchants with a global network of third-party print providers. Merchants can design and sell custom products — apparel, accessories, home goods — without holding inventory. In 2021 the company raised $45 million, including from H&M Group. In late 2024 Printify merged with fellow Latvian unicorn Printful to form one of the world's largest print-on-demand groups.
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Rebookify
Rebookify is a Riga-based travel-automation platform that turns the price volatility of hotel inventory into recovered margin for travel agencies, TMCs, and OTAs. The system ingests a customer's refundable bookings, continuously rescans the same and equivalent room types across dozens of supplier APIs, detects when a cheaper identical alternative is available before the cancellation deadline, and either alerts the agent or auto-rebooks to capture the delta — all without disturbing the guest's reservation experience. In practice this is a meaningful margin lever: hotel rates move constantly, and even a few percent of recaptured spread across a large corporate travel book flows straight to agency bottom line. The product combines price tracking, room-equivalence matching, and workflow automation tuned to the actual operational realities of travel desks, and is a representative example of the practical B2B AI automation wave coming out of the Baltic startup scene.
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Riga Business School
Founded in 1991 as a faculty of Riga Technical University (RTU) in cooperation with the State University of New York at Buffalo and the University of Ottawa, Riga Business School was the first institution in the Baltic States to offer MBA programmes in English. It holds international accreditation and ranks 4th in Eastern Europe for MBA by Eduniversal Rankings, with a 20-month Executive MBA programme priced at €33,000. Riga Business School co-founded AI Studio together with the Latvian IT Cluster and is an organising partner of the AI Connect 2026 conference.
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Riga Comm 2026
Latvia's leading business technology conference and expo at the Kipsala Exhibition Hall. Covers digital transformation, cybersecurity, and enterprise IT with 2,000+ attendees. Strong presence of Baltic corporates seeking startup partnerships and technology vendors. Tickets from EUR 50.
