TechChill Riga 2023

Patricia Allen

Head of Content at EU-Startups

Head of Content at EU-Startups. Advocate for impact-driven innovation, collaborative approaches and enhancing sustainability and equality.

Clara Burtenshaw

Partner and Co-Founder at Neo Kuma Ventures

Clara Burtenshaw is co-founder and partner of Neo Kuma Ventures, Europe’s first and largest psychedelic healthcare focussed VC fund. Clara is a board advisor to the International Therapeutic Rescheduling Initiative and passionate about improving health equity. Neo Kuma’s thought leadership pieces have been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Business Insider and national press in the UK.

Omeed Mehrinfar

Managing Partner EMEA at Plug and Play

Since having started as an intern in Plug and Play over eight years ago, Omeed has been a leader in scaling the organization globally. As a growth executive, Omeed co-founded the financial technology practice of PnP in their Silicon Valley HQ, then from 2017 led the organization’s expansion across Europe, Africa and the Middle-East. Today, Omeed oversees 40% of the company’s global business and sits on the Board and Executive Committee. As a 30 year old technology executive, Omeed has a background in FinTech, international business development, project management, venture capital, and cross-functional team management.

Robin Wauters

Founder at Tech.eu

Robin Wauters is a seasoned technology journalist, analyst, keynote speaker and event curator, as well as the founding editor of Tech.eu, the premier source of European tech news, data analysis and market intelligence. He was formerly the European Editor of The Next Web and before that a senior editor at TechCrunch. Robin is also one of the co-founders of BeCentral, the digital campus located in Brussels Central Station that has helped thousands of people learn technologies, grow a startup and have a positive impact on society, as well as a founding member of the Belgian angel investment collective Syndicate One.

Raimonds Kulbergs

CEO, founder at BADideas.fund

3x ventures, 1 exit 500Startups alumn, Founder of BADideas.fund, Loves connecting, supporting founders.

Raitis Velps

Chief Marketing Officer at Corebook°

Raitis Velps is Chief Marketing Officer at collaborative branding platform – Corebook°. Corebook° startup serves a mission to ensure that by the year 2025 fixed-format PDF brand guidelines will have become a thing of the past. Raitis is local of the Baltic region with a global presence in the branding industry.

Passionate evangelist of customer-centricity, emotionally resonant brands and authentic stories.

Farah Kabir

Co-Founder at HANX

Farah Kabir is Co-Founder of sexual wellness challenger brand, HANX. A former Goldman Sachs investment banking professional, Farah leads on fundraising and sales within the business. She is passionate about smashing taboos around sex, pleasure and intimate health, and challenging bias against female founders in the fundraising landscape. In 2022, she was invited to take part in a 10 Downing Street roundtable on disparities in women’s healthcare in ethnic minorities.

KIWIE

CEO at KIWIE

One of the first street artists in Latvia, who has based his artistic style on a multiform repetition of one specific image – Kiwie monster character, gaining recognition among artists not only in Latvia, but also abroad. KIWIE is mixing street art with product, graphic, fashion design and digital arts in the bowl of contemporary art. The funny, usually smiling, pudgy critter on the walls and the streets all over the world is alive from year 2006.