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Vilnius, Lithuania · StartupBuilds laser optical communication terminals (ATLAS series) for secure space-to-ground, space-to-space and ship-to-ship data links. Selected for NATO's DIANA accelerator and works with the Lithuanian navy.
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Builds laser optical communication terminals (ATLAS series) for secure space-to-ground, space-to-space and ship-to-ship data links. Selected for NATO's DIANA accelerator and works with the Lithuanian navy.
Develops Semi-Permeable Capsule and droplet microfluidics partitioning technology enabling multi-step, multi-omic single-cell analysis workflows for research and high-throughput screening.
10th edition with 60+ talks and hands-on workshops on Big Data, ML, Generative AI, Quantum Computing, Ethical AI, and DataOps. Workshops kick off Nov 24, main conference Nov 25-27 at Multikino, ~700 attendees from 35+ countries.
Synthetic biology company using generative AI to design novel proteins and enzymes from scratch, creating custom biomolecules for industrial, pharmaceutical and biotech applications.
Community-driven cybersecurity conference at Kablys with a workshop day (DEF CON CTF, AI Red Teaming, Bash for hackers) plus a main conference day of talks and CTF competitions covering offensive and defensive security.
BSV Ventures (formerly Baltic Sandbox Ventures) is an early-stage VC firm focused on deep tech, life sciences, and dual-use technologies across the Baltic region, with offices in Lithuania, Estonia, and Finland. It was founded in 2018 and offers both an incubation program and direct investment, writing pre-seed cheques up to €125,000 and seed cheques up to €400,000. In 2024 the firm closed a €15 million fund backed by NATO Innovation Fund and the Lithuanian national development institution ILTE. It has made over 27 investments.
One of Europe's top software development conferences, held annually in Vilnius. Features world-class speakers on software architecture, DevOps, functional programming, and engineering leadership. Attracts 800+ senior developers and CTOs from across Europe. Tickets from EUR 300-600 with early-bird discounts.
Callsy is a Vilnius-based conversational AI startup focused on recovering abandoned e-commerce checkouts for online merchants. The product integrates with Shopify, initiates natural-language voice calls to high-intent shoppers, and follows up with personalized SMS incentives to improve conversion. Its multilingual voice workflows are tailored for cross-border commerce across Europe and beyond.
Application performance automation platform for Kubernetes that automates workload rightsizing, infrastructure scaling, cost optimization and self-healing across cloud environments. A Lithuanian unicorn serving 2,100+ companies.
CGTrader is a Vilnius-founded online marketplace for 3D models, connecting a global community of 3D designers with buyers who need stock or custom models for gaming, architecture, product visualization, AR/VR, and e-commerce. The platform hosts millions of 3D assets and also operates an enterprise arm that provides managed 3D modeling services for large retailers and brands building digital product catalogs. Founded in 2011 by Marius Kalytis, CGTrader has raised venture funding and grown into one of the leading 3D content marketplaces globally, with strong traction in the US market.
Coinvest Capital is a state-backed co-investment fund established in 2018 as a 100% subsidiary of the National Development Bank ILTE, itself owned by Lithuania's Ministry of Finance, and co-funded by the European Union. The fund's model requires all investments to be made alongside accredited business angels or other VC funds, splitting upside in favour of private co-investors to grow Lithuania's angel ecosystem. With €44.3 million in committed capital, it has deployed over €25.9 million into 51 portfolio companies spanning AI, climate, biotech, defence, and frontier tech. Since 2023 it has earmarked roughly €6.8 million specifically for aerospace, defence, and dual-use startups, making it one of the earliest European sovereign funds to lean into defence tech.
Contrarian Ventures is a pan-European seed-stage climate tech fund founded in 2017 and headquartered in Vilnius, with a secondary office in London. The fund exclusively backs startups targeting the sources of 77% of global greenhouse gas emissions — energy, transport, buildings, and heavy industry — deploying €1–4 million per initial ticket. Its second fund closed at €100 million in 2022, making it one of the largest dedicated climate VC vehicles out of the Baltics. The portfolio spans over 28 companies across 11 countries and skews 60% software-first, with the remaining 40% split between hardware-enabled software and deep tech hardware.
Declarative AI 2026 brings rules, reasoning, decisions and explanations to Vilnius, co-locating RuleML+RR 2026 (the 10th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning), DecisionCAMP 2026 and the 22nd Reasoning Web Summer School. The program spans symbolic and neuro-symbolic AI, decision intelligence, DMN standards and explainable AI, and includes an industry track, a rule challenge and a doctoral consortium.
DevOpsDays Vilnius is the local chapter of the global, community-run DevOpsDays conference series, organised by a volunteer team of Lithuanian engineers. The non-profit event focuses on DevOps culture, software delivery, automation and the intersection of development and operations, drawing practitioners from across the Baltics.
DevOpsDays Vilnius is a community-run, non-profit technical conference focused on DevOps, software delivery, automation and the intersection of development and operations. The two-day program at the Kablys 2.0 venue combines 30-minute talks, 5-minute ignite sessions and participant-led open-space discussions, and is part of the global DevOpsDays series drawing engineers from across the Baltics.
One-day GreenTech & digital conference at CYBER CITY Vilnius, co-funded by EDIH Vilnius and Digital Europe, bringing together innovators, startups, investors, and policy leaders around sustainable tech, data, and resilient industry.
26th EBAN Congress brings hundreds of European business angels, VCs, and ecosystem leaders to Vilnius for keynotes, an awards gala, and a Lithuanian startup study visit, with focus on Space & Defence Tech, BioTech, and CleanTech.
Manufactures AC and DC electric vehicle charging stations plus cloud management and payment software for public, residential and fleet use, with deployments across 40+ countries and partners including DHL and Volvo.
Eneba is an online marketplace for video game keys, downloadable content, gift cards, and in-game currencies, founded in 2018 by Vytis Uogintas and Žygimantas Mikšta in Kaunas. The platform uses proprietary machine learning and fingerprinting technology for fraud prevention and serves over 10 million registered users across Europe. Early investors include Practica Capital, InReach Ventures, and FJ Labs. In 2024 the Lithuanian national development finance institution ILTE issued a €10 million loan to support development of an AI-based mobile games recommendation system.
Lithuania's flagship fintech conference reflecting Vilnius's status as a European fintech licensing hub with 200+ licensed firms. Attracts 2,000+ attendees including regulators, banks, and fintech founders. Strong focus on payments, open banking, and embedded finance.
FIRSTPICK is a Vilnius-based pre-seed and inception-stage VC fund founded in 2022 by Dmitrij Sosunov and Andra Bagdonaitė. It backs early-stage founders from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia with initial cheques of €100,000 to €500,000 and follow-on capacity up to €1 million, focusing on AI-enabled software. In 2026 the fund raised a second €25 million vehicle, bringing total AUM across two funds to €45 million. Portfolio companies gain access to a network of 100+ operators and 250+ founders.
The 9th edition of Vilnius's flagship city hackathon at VILNIUS TECH's LinkMenų fabrikas, a three-day build sprint creating solutions for urban and business challenges. Organised by Sunrise Valley Science & Technology Park with Vilnius universities and Cognizant.
Hostinger is a Kaunas-founded web hosting company launched in 2004 that has grown into one of the largest independent hosting providers globally, serving millions of customers across 150+ countries. The company offers shared hosting, cloud hosting, VPS, domain registration, and an AI-powered website builder at aggressively competitive price points. Hostinger is known for making web presence affordable for individuals, freelancers, and small businesses worldwide. With a strong engineering base in Lithuania and offices across multiple continents, the company is one of the Baltic region's most successful bootstrapped technology businesses.
ICIST 2026 is the 32nd International Conference on Information and Software Technologies, hosted by Kaunas University of Technology. The two-day program brings together researchers, engineers, developers and industry practitioners across information systems, business intelligence, software engineering, AI, IoT, cybersecurity and IT applications, with peer-reviewed proceedings published by Springer. Remote participation is also available.
InSoil (rebranded from HeavyFinance in April 2025) is a climate finance company founded in 2020 in Vilnius. It operates a regulated crowdfunding marketplace providing debt capital to small and medium-sized farming businesses to adopt regenerative agriculture practices such as no-till farming and cover cropping. The European Investment Fund committed €20 million as a cornerstone investor in its €50 million private credit fund. The platform is licensed as a European Crowdfunding Service Provider by the Bank of Lithuania.
Iron Wolf Capital is Vilnius-founded deep tech and AI fund established in 2018, with additional offices in London and Tallinn. Its second fund, closed at €100 million, is the largest seed-stage deep tech fund in Baltic history, targeting 25 early-stage companies across AI, photonics, robotics, and space innovation built by Baltic founders and diaspora globally. The team combines backgrounds from Deutsche Bank, YPlan, and early Lithuanian VC history; initial tickets run €0.5–2 million and the fund typically leads or co-leads rounds. Iron Wolf has backed over 20 startups covering sectors from agritech and pharma to defence-adjacent AI.
Kilo Health is a Vilnius-based digital health company founded in 2013 that builds, acquires, and scales a portfolio of 30+ health and wellness apps spanning weight management, fitness, mental health, chronic disease management, and personal care. The company serves over 7 million paying customers globally and employs 500+ people across Lithuania, Germany, and Latvia. Kilo Health operates as a health-app studio, applying performance marketing expertise and data-driven product iteration to grow individual apps rapidly. It is one of the largest and most profitable digital health companies in the Baltics, demonstrating Lithuania's strength in consumer app businesses.
Klaipėda Science and Technology Park (KMTP) is a Lithuanian innovation hub supporting startups, researchers and industry in the Baltic port city of Klaipėda. It organises Portathon, an international port-technology hackathon bringing together students, founders and maritime professionals to prototype solutions for the maritime and logistics sectors.
Vilnius-based agentic AI operating system for e-commerce teams. AI agents autonomously monitor products, campaigns, customers, and inventory, then execute tasks such as generating creatives, adjusting ad budgets, and publishing site updates through connected tools. Reached €1M ARR six months after launch. Raised €2M seed from XTX Ventures and Practica Capital.
The largest tech and innovation conference in the Baltics, held annually in Vilnius with 4,000+ attendees. Covers startup pitching, fintech, AI, and cybersecurity with international speakers. Tickets range from EUR 100-300, offering strong value for the quality of content and networking.
Nextury Ventures is a venture capital firm and startup incubator founded in 2013 in Vilnius by entrepreneur Ilja Laurs and ICT executive Mindaugas Glodas. Inspired by Silicon Valley models, it builds and invests in early-stage companies in fintech, proptech, sharing economy, e-commerce, and mobile sectors. Since inception it has invested in over 30 companies across multiple European markets, including the UK and US, with cumulative returns of +219% after taxes reported over a five-year period.
Nord Security is a Vilnius-based cybersecurity company founded in 2012 that builds a family of privacy and security products including NordVPN, NordPass (password manager), NordLocker (encrypted file storage), and NordLayer (business network security). NordVPN is one of the most recognized consumer VPN brands globally with tens of millions of users. The company employs over 2,000 people and has grown into one of the highest-valued private technology companies in the Baltic region. Nord Security represents Lithuania's strongest global consumer cybersecurity brand and a major anchor of the Vilnius tech ecosystem.
Ondato was founded in 2018 in Vilnius by Liudas Kanapienis and Andrej Vistorskij as a compliance and identity technology platform. It provides KYC, KYB, and AML solutions including digital identity verification, biometric authentication, business onboarding, fraud detection, and risk scoring. The company has raised €6.6 million in total funding and serves over 300 clients globally, with offices in Lithuania, the United Kingdom, and Poland.
Open Circle Capital is a Vilnius-based early-stage fund founded in 2017, backed two-thirds by the Lithuanian public institution INVEGA and one-third by private investors, with a mandate to invest up to €20 million in the commercialisation of Baltic technology. The fund targets ICT, robotics, high-tech, AI, and IoT companies primarily in Lithuania and Northern Europe, writing seed-stage cheques. Its 17-company portfolio has recorded three acquisitions — Frontu, Eddy Travels, and Paysolut — and the partners collectively bring experience spanning more than 80 technology-transfer transactions and seven previous funds. The team has prior exit history with global acquirers including Facebook, Saab, and Eli Lilly.
Vilnius-based startup building an autonomous revenue engine—AI sales agents that engage prospects, qualify leads, and schedule meetings in real time across email and chat channels without human involvement for routine interactions. Raised €2M pre-seed from Practica Capital.
Oxylabs, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Vilnius, provides web data collection infrastructure including a proxy network of over 175 million residential IPs, a Web Scraper API, and AI-powered data extraction tools. The company serves use cases in market research, ad verification, brand protection, and AI training data. In 2025 Oxylabs acquired French web scraping API provider ScrapingBee. It employs between 500 and 1,000 people across multiple locations.
Paysera, founded in 2004, became Lithuania's first licensed e-money institution when the Bank of Lithuania issued it an unlimited electronic money licence in 2012. The company offers online and in-store payment processing, international money transfers, currency exchange, and investment services to individuals and businesses in over 30 countries. It employs more than 700 people. The platform serves event organisers, e-shops, physical retailers, and private clients.
Pigu / Hobby Hall Group is a Vilnius-headquartered Baltic e-commerce marketplace group operating localized online retail platforms across Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland under brands including Pigu.lt and Hobby Hall. The group sells electronics, home goods, fashion, and sporting equipment, combining marketplace and first-party retail models. It is one of the largest e-commerce operators in the Baltic states, with strong brand recognition and logistics infrastructure tailored to the region. The group competes with Amazon and local players by offering local-language customer service, fast regional delivery, and curated assortments.
Portathon is an international port-technology hackathon, in its 8th edition in 2026, held in Klaipėda and gathering 100+ participants into multidisciplinary teams to build prototypes solving real maritime and port-sector challenges. Themes span IT and digitalization for the maritime industry, cybersecurity, AI integration and sustainability, with the event acting as a launchpad for ventures such as PortMI.
Practica Capital is the most established venture capital firm in the Baltics, founded in Vilnius in 2011 and managing four funds totalling over €130 million in assets under management. The firm invests at pre-seed, seed, and selected Series A stages in marketplace, SaaS, and deep/industrial tech startups originating from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and now has partners on the ground in all three Baltic capitals. Its portfolio of 70+ companies includes CGTrader, TransferGo, PVcase, Interactio, Eneba, and Ovoko, with one IPO and six acquisitions to date. The €80 million third fund, closed in February 2024, is the largest seed fund ever raised in the Baltic region.
PVcase is a Lithuanian solar PV software company providing an end-to-end solar project development platform that covers site selection, PV system design and energy yield optimisation for utility-scale, commercial rooftop and data-center projects. Its software automates terrain-based solar engineering to reduce design errors and project risk. Headquartered in Vilnius with additional offices in Spain, the UK and the US, the company serves solar developers and engineering firms internationally, and acquired solar site-selection software company Anderson Optimization in 2023.
HealthTech company offering a CE-certified at-home finger-prick blood collection kit and digital platform; samples ship to partner labs and users get lab-grade results for 30+ tests within 24 hours.
Lithuania's leading international startup event at LITEXPO, with keynotes, panels, and the country's largest Pitch Battle (40+ startups, 200+ investors). The 2025 edition drew 2,000+ attendees from 65 countries — the flagship founder-investor event of the Lithuanian ecosystem.
Startup Lithuania is the national startup ecosystem facilitator operating under the Ministry of the Economy and Innovation as part of Enterprise Lithuania. It connects startups, investors, corporations, and government bodies, administers the Startup Visa and Startup Employee Visa programmes, maintains a national startup map, and organises the annual Startup Fair — Lithuania's largest international startup event. The organisation also manages the Startup Lithuania Accelerator powered by Plug and Play.
Tech-Park Kaunas (rebranded from Kaunas Science and Technology Park in 2022) is Lithuania's largest science-business cooperation park, originating from the country's first business incubator established in 1998 and formally reorganised into a science park in 2006. Located at K. Petrausko g. 26 in Kaunas, it hosts over 100 companies working in IT, engineering, health technologies, social innovation, future energy, and sustainable chemistry. The park provides co-working space, a business incubator, soft-landing programmes for international companies, and access to KTU academic resources.
Tesonet is a Vilnius-based founders-led venture builder founded in 2008 by Tomas Okmanas and Eimantas Sabaliauskas. The group builds, accelerates, and invests in technology products across cybersecurity, AI, web intelligence, EdTech, and SportTech verticals. Its portfolio companies include Oxylabs, Surfshark, and nexos.ai, in addition to the better-known Nord Security and Hostinger. The group employs over 3,500 people and operates Cyber City, a 35,000 m² tech campus in Vilnius.
TransferGo is a Vilnius-founded international money transfer platform launched in 2012 by Daumantas Dvilinskas and Justinas Lasevicius. The service focuses on migrant remittances, enabling fast and affordable cross-border transfers to over 160 countries. TransferGo has raised over $100 million from investors including Hard Yaka and Valar Ventures. With 350+ employees and offices in the UK, Germany, Lithuania, and Poland, the company has processed billions in transfer volume. It competes with Wise and Remitly in the migrant remittance segment and is one of the Baltics' most prominent fintech exports.
Vilnius Tech Park is a startup campus in Vilnius located in the restored Sapiegos military hospital complex. It hosts coworking, labs, and community events for tech startups and is supported by the City of Vilnius as a flagship innovation site.
Vilnius University is Lithuania's oldest and largest university, founded in 1579, with a strong research profile in computer science and artificial intelligence. The university serves as the local organizing institution for Declarative AI 2026, a joint academic conference combining RuleML+RR, DecisionCAMP, and the 22nd Reasoning Web Summer School, held in Vilnius on August 24–30, 2026. The local chair, Linas Petkevičius, coordinates the event logistics and local arrangements on behalf of the university.
Vinted is one of the most important consumer internet companies to emerge from the Baltics and the dominant European marketplace for second-hand fashion. Its scale comes from solving the resale experience in a way that feels simple for ordinary users rather than niche collectors: easy listing, broad demand, integrated shipping, and a business model that reduces friction on the supply side. That combination turned wardrobe resale from an occasional behavior into a repeat consumer loop, helping normalize recommerce across Europe. Vinted matters in the startup ecosystem because it proves that Lithuania can produce globally relevant consumer platforms with strong brand recognition, operational depth, and defensible marketplace dynamics. It also sits at an interesting intersection of circular economy, logistics, trust, and consumer product design, showing that major marketplace businesses are built as much on operations and liquidity as on software. For founders and investors, Vinted remains a strong case study in how marketplace design choices and local logistics execution can compound into continental scale.