Kristine Berzina

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).

For more than 11,000 years, Earth enjoyed an undisturbed epoch of true abundance. Plentiful natural resources allowed us to develop and eventually thrive as humanity. Plants grew, species evolved, the natural world blossomed into existence. Scientists named this period ‘Holocene’. But since the mid-20th century, our exceptional growth started to deplete resources, ultimately shifting living conditions on Earth to become inhospitable in many places. This new era became known as ‘Anthropocene’. We believe that we can, and have to, do better, for a more nourished planet, and a more enriched experience of living on it. We call this progress ‘Futurcene’ – a new epoch offering balanced, sustainable and long-lasting development; the existence of a better tomorrow. With collaboration and unity standing as some of our core believes, we look forward to working with you as we progress, together, on this journey.

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).

Latvian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (LVCA) is representing the Private Equity & Venture Capital industry in Latvia. LVCA was founded in 2003, when six biggest companies that operated in the venture capital sector in Latvia founded the association to promote further development of venture capital sector in Latvia. The same year LVCA also become an associated member of Invest Europe. Currently in the association is represented 26 full member companies and 17 associated member companies. LVCA has the following goals: To inform entrepreneurs and community about venture capital industry and financing possibilities; To promote the exchange of opinions and experience of the members in the association; To represent opinions and interests of the members; To foster international partnerships within the private equity and venture capital industry.

We are a pan-regional private equity fund focused on buyout and growth capital investments in small to mid-sized companies in the Baltics. We create investor value through understanding of local business environment and our high operational focus.

Enreach for Services Providers (ex Centile Telecom Applications) is a European leader in converged contact solutions. Our mission is to create customisable mobile-first contact solutions, enabling our partners to thrive and users to transform their interactions. Our platform “Enreach UP” enables service providers and integrators to deliver their business customers with value-added services, including FMC, video collaboration, messaging, inbound call centre functionality and conversational bots, seamlessly integrated with mobile services, Microsoft Teams, CRM and ERP systems. Our customisable-by-design platform "Enreach UP" enables full white-labelling, personalised user experience, BYOx enablement (Carrier, OSS/BSS/mobile), APIs for integration, automation & AI as well as multiple deployment options including PaaS. Enreach for Service Providers is part of Enreach, a European group of unified communications companies serving the direct and indirect market in over 20 countries through a network of over 6750 resellers and 100 service providers