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Riga EVO VC & Startups 2026 (July 2026)
Riga EVO VC & Startups is an evening networking social run by the global EVO VC & Startups community, hosted at PILS Bar in the Grand Palace Hotel in Riga's old town. It connects investors and tech founders — including micro-cap and deep-tech founders — for informal conversations around finding co-founders, team, funding or scaling partners.
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Riga Startup Nights (Autumn 2026)
Monthly community evening organized by Startup Latvia and the Riga TechHub at the MadCity coworking space. Each edition features 3 founder talks, a pitch session with local VCs (Change Ventures, Overkill Ventures), and drinks. Autumn 2026 edition focuses on seed fundraising in a difficult climate. Free with registration.
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Riga Technical University
Riga Technical University (RTU) is the largest technical university in Latvia and a hub for engineering, IT and innovation research and education. Through its Science and Innovation Centre it co-organises public technology events such as AI Connect, connecting developers, businesses, students and the public around practical artificial intelligence.
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Snowision
Snowision is a Latvian deep-tech company building automatic, remote snow-cover-monitoring sensors that map snow depth and surface conditions to give mountain and ski-resort operators a wider, faster view of conditions before sending out crews. Its sensor produces a 3D snow map from fixed or mobile mounting points and transfers field data remotely for winter-operations planning.
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Spotwise.ai
Spotwise.ai is a Riga-based B2B SaaS company that automates competitive radio advertising intelligence for broadcaster sales and ad-ops teams. Its system continuously monitors hundreds of terrestrial and digital radio streams, uses audio fingerprinting and ASR to detect and transcribe every ad break, identifies the advertiser and creative, and then pushes the resulting 'who is advertising on my competitor' feed into CRM and lead-routing workflows that the broadcaster's sales team can actually action. The product is explicitly built for multilingual European markets where a single media group may operate stations in four or five languages, which is a harder technical setup than the US-centric incumbents handle well. For Baltic and CEE broadcasters, Spotwise is one of the few tools that turns ad monitoring from a manual panel-listening exercise into a live competitive-intel feed, and the company sits in the broader category of AI-enabled sales intelligence products coming out of the Riga ecosystem.
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Startin.LV
Startin.LV is the Latvian Startup Association, a non-profit founded in 2016 to unite the country's startup community under a common voice. With over 100 member companies it advocates for startup-friendly legislation, connects founders with investors and partners, and promotes Latvian startups internationally. The association organises community events and collaborates with universities, government institutions, and Baltic ecosystem partners.
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Startup BBQ Riga 2026 (August 2026)
Startup BBQ is a long-running informal summer gathering of the Riga startup community — founders, friends, food and open conversations with no main stage or strict agenda. The 2026 edition, billed '10 Years Later', marks a decade of the tradition and runs the evening of 20 August at Startup House Riga, serving as a community networking event rather than a conference.
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Startup House Riga
Startup House Riga is a non-profit, founder-led community hub that opened in February 2024 in the Spīķeri creative quarter, co-founded by Printify's James Berdigans and TechHub Riga. The space offers co-working desks, private offices, 18 call booths, and event facilities, and serves as the central gathering place for Riga's startup community hosting TechHub Riga Meetups and events organised by Startin.LV and TechChill.
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Sun Finance Group
Sun Finance Group is a Riga-based fintech company founded in 2017 by Toms Jurjevs and Emils Latkovskis that operates a mobile and online lending marketplace across Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Latvia, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, and Mexico. Its platform analyses up to 10,000 data points per applicant to deliver microloans, instalment loans, lines of credit, and Buy Now Pay Later products. The company has issued close to €2 billion in loans to over 25 million registered customers, employs 1,400+ people, and is repeatedly ranked in the Financial Times FT 1000 list of Europe's fastest-growing companies.
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TechChill 2026
Baltic startup conference at Hanzas Perons with 2,300+ attendees and 250+ investors. Known for the Fifty Founders Battle (EUR 200k+ syndicate prizes) and strong Day 0 networking side events.
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TechChill 2027
TechChill 2027, one of the largest Baltic tech events, runs its main event days 18-19 March in Riga, with side events on 17 March. The three-day event brings together roughly 2,000 attendees, 310+ startups, 250+ investors and 80+ speakers, including the annual 50 Founders Battle pitch competition.
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Techritory Forum 2026
Connectivity and digitalization forum at ATTA Centre with 600+ speakers and guests covering digital sovereignty, AI adoption, 5G/6G, defence tech, digital identity, satellite connectivity and European data centres under the theme 'Security and Prosperity Through Digitalization and Connectivity'.
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Tilde
Tilde is a European AI-driven language technology company founded in Riga in 1991, with 150+ professionals across offices in Riga, Vilnius, and Tallinn. The company specialises in neural machine translation, multilingual virtual assistants, and speech technologies for low-resource European languages. In 2025 it released TildeOpen LLM — a 30-billion-parameter open-source large language model covering 34 European languages, trained on the LUMI supercomputer after winning the European Commission's Large AI Grand Challenge with a €250,000 prize and 2 million GPU hours.
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TWINO
TWINO is a fully licensed and regulated investment marketplace headquartered in Riga, Latvia, founded by Armands Broks in 2015. The platform gives retail investors across 30 European countries access to consumer, business, real estate loans, and invoice financing, with average returns around 10–12% per year. TWINO holds an investment brokerage licence from the Central Bank of Latvia and is supervised under MiFID II. It has facilitated over €1 billion in cumulative loan volume and employs over 300 people worldwide.
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UN:BLOCK 2027
UN:BLOCK is a two-day blockchain, fintech and AI conference held in Riga, drawing around 3,000 attendees from 50+ countries and 700+ companies. Day one focuses on blockchain, digital assets and AI agents, while day two covers fintech, payments, banking regulation and financial infrastructure. The event is backed by the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA).
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UniLab
UniLab is Latvia's university-backed startup accelerator, jointly run by Riga Technical University, the University of Latvia, Riga Stradinš University, and the Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies. Its programmes include UniLab Elevate (incubation for technology-based university spinouts), Venture Catalysts (a commercialisation course for scientists), and UniLab Defence (co-led with NATO DIANA). Active since 2020, UniLab has supported more than 53 emerging startups with personalised mentoring and financial grants.
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VeritaCell
VeritaCell is a Latvian medtech company developing a point-of-care medical kit that lets surgeons extract a patient's own skin cells during surgery to accelerate post-surgical skin renewal and healing. The company describes its cell-isolation methodology as the most advanced simple, accessible approach to skin regeneration available to operating-theatre teams.
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Vigo Health
Vigo Health is a digital therapeutics company that developed the Vigo app, an evidence-based, CE-marked rehabilitation tool for stroke survivors combining physiotherapy, cognitive exercises, and patient education. Founded in 2018 by healthcare innovator Kristaps Krafte and neurosurgeon Jānis Šlēziņš, Vigo became the first digital therapeutic in the Baltic states to receive a state reimbursement code from the Latvian National Health Service in 2021. The app is available for home use 24/7 via iPad.
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WeedBot
WeedBot builds autonomous laser weeding machines for organic vegetable farming, using computer vision and directed laser beams to destroy weeds without chemicals or manual labour. Founded in 2020 out of research at the Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, the company raised €425k in a round led by Overkill Ventures in 2023. Its Lumina Laser Weeder is initially targeted at carrot cultivation, with plans to expand to other row crops.
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ZGI Capital
ZGI Capital is one of the most experienced venture capital firms in the Baltics, founded in 2005 in Riga. It has operated four successive fund generations (ZGI-1 through ZGI-4), with ZGI-4 attracting the largest single private VC investment in Latvia at €10M. The firm targets seed and Series A rounds of €500k–€5M in Latvian and Baltic companies across SaaS, fintech, food-agtech, logistics, and industrial sectors. ZGI Capital has won Latvia's VC & PE sector award six times, including in 2024 and 2025.
