2023年6月30日

风险资本基金2023-06-30 FIRSTPICK推出2022年11月,庆祝其年中成就为投资人在投资组合的一天活动和合作伙伴在波罗的海国家和北欧国家。FIRSTPICK,已经被认为是该地区最活跃的早期投资基金,投资了14 2023年年初以来,总共价值€173万。22初创公司已经参与FIRSTPICK的加速度和pre-acceleration项目。管理合伙人JonėVaitulevičiūtėFIRSTPICK说,该基金成功地实现其目标,很快就会被启动社区在该地区。“我们开始寻找创业公司,跟他们之前该基金的推出,因为我们看到了早期投资的必要性。我们正在继续我们积极寻找新的创业公司加入我们的投资组合,“Vaitulevičiūtė说。FIRSTPICK已经组织了两个16周加速项目和两个七周pre-accelerators。22个创业团队与63年创始人参与想法validation-focused pre-accelerators和加速项目旨在开发他们的销售能力,产品,和成长的团队。该基金已投资于三个fintech (Amlyze、Softloans Finfra),两个电子商务(Furnisystems和Doohoo)和各种生物技术和健康(Psylink和海蓬子神经科学),教育(3块)和其他初创企业(Ama保健、Beesure Stackflows, Tractorparts, MBito,和Swotzy)。“当选择创业公司,我们的主要标准是团队及其经验。 It is essential that the team presenting their idea to us has a good understanding of the market they are entering and has defined their immediate goals, as well as a realistic vision of how our contribution will help the team achieve them," said Andra Bagdonaitė, one of the partners and founders of FIRSTPICK. Among the latest FIRSTPICK acceleration program‘s participants were a Latvian team Swotzy, building a last-mile shipping optimization tool that uses AI. The startup has recently announced its official launch in Latvia. “FIRSTPICK’s accelerator and their first investment of €90 000 has contributed a lot to our growth and product development success this year. We’ve started the startup less than a year ago and managed to build a great product that can speed up last-mile logistics processes significantly,” says Lauris Rutkis. FIRSTPICK invited investors to discuss regional investment trends at its Portfolio Day event on 28 June. The event also featured pitches of Finfra and other FIRSTPICK portfolio startups. FIRSTPICK's third series of acceleration and pre-acceleration programs for the Baltic startups will start in the autumn. The fund plans to make 20 more investments this year. ABOUT FIRSTPICK FIRSTPICK is a venture capital fund founded in 2022, backing the best tech startup founders in the Baltic States. FIRSTPICK organises acceleration programmes for early-stage startups to help them achieve rapid growth and validate their ideas. FIRSTPICK's capital consists of funds from private teams and investors and an investment from the INVEGA Fund, which is part of the Accelerator 2 programme, funded by the Innovation Promotion Fund.