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SUBSCRIBE TO THE MONTHLY DIGESTFundraising School ended its third year with a Demo Day on Friday, 24 October. Over 40% of the founders are already talking to investors. BADideas.fund runs it with LIAA and RITA, the Latvian and Riga investment agencies.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE →Fundraising School is a free programme of six weeks for pre-seed and seed founders in any industry. It is the only accelerator in Latvia that teaches only fundraising: how to approach investors, pitch and close a round.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE →Pleso Therapy, a European mental health platform that uses AI to match users with the right therapists, has raised €1.2 million to strengthen its presence across Europe.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE →Notes from seven SaaStr 2025 talks on how AI changes sales teams, and what founders should do about it.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE →BADideas.fund, a group of 250+ investors who helped build unicorns, has launched a €22M fund for early-stage startups.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE →BADideas.fund had its first exit when Five Elms Capital invested $75 million in RoomPriceGenie.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE →Many of our investments came to us through other VCs in the region.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE →Why we invested in RoomPriceGenie, pricing software for small hotels, even though its team is not from CEE.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE →We invested €220K in Value.Space, our largest ticket so far. It uses satellites to spot damage to dams, bridges and mines.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE →Breezit started selling in California in 2023. Its CEO shares seven ways US customers differ from Lithuanian ones.
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