Rita Sakus

Appointed Executive Committee Member as an elected Member of the Board at European Business Angel Network EBAN

📍 Lithuania, Lithuania🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
VC🌍 Lithuania
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Board Member
Jan 2025
Unmanned Defense Systems specializes in advanced loitering munitions, battlefield situational awareness, and swarm tech solutions, focusing on integrating AI-based UAV swarms with modern BMS.
Lead Angel
Sep 2024
tactical airlift technologies
Angel Investor
Sep 2022
Walk15 is a sustainable initiative platform that motivates people to walk more and rewards them for it. We help companies and organizations connect with their employees and communities through walking challenges, making daily movement a driver of health, engagement, environmental, and social responsibility efforts. We design and manage custom walking challenges tailored to each organization’s goals – no setup required on your side. Participants track their steps and exchange them for rewards through the in-app Step Wallet. It’s a simple, scalable way to inspire movement with measurable impact. Whether youre looking to boost team well-being, strengthen your ESG story, or promote healthier habits at scale, Walk15 is your partner in purposeful movement.
Angel Investor
Sep 2021
Astrolight is on a mission to bridge the connectivity gap between space and Earth with advanced laser communication systems. Founded in 2019, the company aims to provide end-to-end connectivity solutions by building complete and self-contained hardware for ground and space operational domains. Astrolight produces energy-efficient optical technologies for LEO-to-Earth links, ship-to-ship communication, and ground-based systems in secure defense and commercial applications.
Angel Investor
May 2021
Mindletic is a digital mental health gym, co-created with certified psychologists and mental health organizations, aiming to predict & prevent emotional imbalance and increase emotional intelligence (EQ), a key human competency that can’t be replaced by AI in the future 🧠 ❗️ 78% of globally gathered respondents reported feeling more stressed due to the global pandemic (American Psychological Association). 🌱 ❗️ Harvard Medical School found that poor mental health results in 50% of turnover rates. ❗️ Replacing an employee costs an average of $7000, depending on the position. Our purpose is to increase self-awareness, boost emotional resilience, and prevent costly behaviors such as mobbing, aggression & burnout in day-to-day life. Mindletic is a safe place where employees can reflect on their emotional state, get personalized insights & tips, and train their minds the same way they train their bodies - no matter how mentally fit they currently are - individually, with the community or certified mental health professionals. Mindletic is a 2nd place winner of The Global Hack, which gathered over 15,000 participants from 100+ countries, works with 70+ mindful employers globally, and has been recognized by global media including Forbes, NHK WORLD-JAPAN, World Economic Forum, and BusinessLeader to name a few.
Business Angel
May 2020
Viezo is a startup, established in early 2018 with the idea and goal to help fourth Industrial revolution expand faster and cheaper without needing to think about powering the sensing equipment. Our technology can convert vibrations into usable electricity, therefore powering sensors indefinitely which are deployed on vibrating, dynamic machinery.
Lead Angel Investor
Apr 2020
Cardiac ultrasound is a safe and inexpensive test for monitoring and preventing heart disease. Manual work (e.g. measuring, writing report) takes 50-85% of test time. We make cardiac ultrasound more accessible, cheaper and less human reliant by automating the analysis.
Board Member
Mar 2019
LitBANs objective is to foster business angel activity through communication, events, networking, syndication of deals both locally and across Europe. The association’s key directions of activity: 1. Networking & start-up deal flow facilitation via monthly events 2. Private investor interest representation through a consistent dialogue with public officials and governmental institutions 3. Sharing of tools, legal frameworks and knowledge for the purpose of attracting new angel investors.
Experience · 10 entries
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2025
Board Member
Jan 2025
Unmanned Defense Systems specializes in advanced loitering munitions, battlefield situational awareness, and swarm tech solutions, focusing on integrating AI-based UAV swarms with modern BMS.
2024
Lead Angel
Sep 2024
tactical airlift technologies
2022
Board Member
Oct 2022
EBAN is the pan-European representative for the early stage investor community gathering over 150 member organizations in more than 50 countries today. Established in 1999 by a group of pioneer angel networks in Europe with the collaboration of the European Commission and EURADA, EBAN represents a sector estimated to invest 11.4 billion Euros a year and playing a vital role in Europe’s future, notably in the funding of SMEs. EBAN fuels Europe’s growth through the creation of wealth and jobs.
Angel Investor
Sep 2022
Walk15 is a sustainable initiative platform that motivates people to walk more and rewards them for it. We help companies and organizations connect with their employees and communities through walking challenges, making daily movement a driver of health, engagement, environmental, and social responsibility efforts. We design and manage custom walking challenges tailored to each organization’s goals – no setup required on your side. Participants track their steps and exchange them for rewards through the in-app Step Wallet. It’s a simple, scalable way to inspire movement with measurable impact. Whether youre looking to boost team well-being, strengthen your ESG story, or promote healthier habits at scale, Walk15 is your partner in purposeful movement.
2021
Angel Investor
Sep 2021
Astrolight is on a mission to bridge the connectivity gap between space and Earth with advanced laser communication systems. Founded in 2019, the company aims to provide end-to-end connectivity solutions by building complete and self-contained hardware for ground and space operational domains. Astrolight produces energy-efficient optical technologies for LEO-to-Earth links, ship-to-ship communication, and ground-based systems in secure defense and commercial applications.
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