Aiga Krigere

We are Latvian startup community. United around common values, we speak in one voice. We are here to promote Latvian startup scene, connect it to the world, represent its interests, foster mutual respect and promote understanding about startups in Latvia.

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At BADideas.fund, we aspire to be the kind of investors we wanted when we were building our startups. We invest €50-€250K tickets in early-stage startups from CEE with global ambitions. BADideas.fund is led by experienced entrepreneurs who have walked the startup building path, have raised funds from investors and can help founders navigate around obstacles they encounter along the way. Among BADideas.fund members are founders and operators, who’ve been building such companies as Vimeo ($450M funding), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo.io ($151M), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Veriff ($192.3M), Wise ($1.3B funding). Since the recent launch, BADideas.fund has invested in five startups already, among which: Breezit (Lithuania), Recruitlab (Estonia), Lande (Latvia), Fuel Finance (Ukraine) , Rapidworks (Estonia).

A global investment platform offering investments in loans and short-term rental properties, trusted by 20,000+ retail investors across more than 30 countries in Europe. Licensed and supervised by the Bank of Latvia, subject to EU financial industry regulation and investor protection.

Legal services company who is lead by its shareholder and member of the board Ms. Aiga Krigere who is a lawyer with a broad experience in the field of financial law & FinTech. Aiga has worked for almost 6 years in Latvian Financial Regulator (FKTK) and afterwards has provided legal assistance to many potential and existing participants of the financial and capital market both on a daily basis, as well as in licensing and registration process with the respective regulatory institutions.

We are Latvian startup community. United around common values, we speak in one voice. We are here to promote Latvian startup scene, connect it to the world, represent its interests, foster mutual respect and promote understanding about startups in Latvia.

At Backpack, we ship relentlessly to bring you products that make using crypto easy, rewarding, and enjoyable. We offer a globally regulated exchange with a strong focus on compliance and a self-custodial wallet and browser extension. With over 1 million users, we’re just getting started. Were hiring! --> jobs.backpack.app

Proud producer of the most anticipated vendor independent industry event in the realm of cybersecurity, a "CyberCommando Meetup" conference designed to empower our local and regional IT security professionals as we face the evolving challenges of the digital age and that brings together high-level ICT professionals from local, regional, and international businesses, governments and government agencies, tech communities, financial, public and critical infrastructure sectors. The conference covers a broad set of topics, starting from development of ICT security skills and Awareness Raising, to modern market developments and numerous technological solutions in the Cloud, Data, Mobility, Network, Application, Endpoint, Identity & Access, and SecOps, to corporate and government strategies and the future of the sector.

At BADideas.fund, we aspire to be the kind of investors we wanted when we were building our startups. We invest €50-€250K tickets in early-stage startups from CEE with global ambitions. BADideas.fund is led by experienced entrepreneurs who have walked the startup building path, have raised funds from investors and can help founders navigate around obstacles they encounter along the way. Among BADideas.fund members are founders and operators, who’ve been building such companies as Vimeo ($450M funding), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo.io ($151M), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Veriff ($192.3M), Wise ($1.3B funding). Since the recent launch, BADideas.fund has invested in five startups already, among which: Breezit (Lithuania), Recruitlab (Estonia), Lande (Latvia), Fuel Finance (Ukraine) , Rapidworks (Estonia).

A global investment platform offering investments in loans and short-term rental properties, trusted by 20,000+ retail investors across more than 30 countries in Europe. Licensed and supervised by the Bank of Latvia, subject to EU financial industry regulation and investor protection.