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Raimonds Kulbergs

Founder of BADideas.fund

Riga

Overview

Work Experience

  • CEO, founder

    2022 - Current

    - Early funding for CEE startups, led by founders & operators. - Among members/investors - founders and operators, who’ve been building such companies as Bolt ($1.3B funding), Vimeo ($450M), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M funding), Pipedrive ($90M), Apollo.io ($151M funding), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M).

  • Advisor

    2022

  • Advisor

    2021

  • Advisor

    2019

  • CGO, part time

    2021 - 2022

  • Chief Revenue Officer

    2019 - 2021

    Salto is becoming the largest curated invite only network of founders + senior startup talent in CEE. It's founded by Pipedrive's cofounder Ragnar Sass, backed by Skype, Bolt founders and the renowned serial entrepreneur Taizo Son to name a few. One of my top exciting priorities is enabling the region's enterprises innovate faster by connecting with the best startups and startup talent.

  • Member of the Board

    2014 - 2020

    TechHub is a co-working and community organization, a non-profit foundation. Our startups include global leaders in their fields such as Infogr.am, Cobook, Froont. As well as Funderful. Our events form the core of the startup community in Latvia and are attended by local startups, technology community leaders, and even ambassadors and ministers. More information at riga.techhub.com and https://www.facebook.com/TechHubRiga

  • CEO

    2019 - 2019

    A digital wallet to streamline the checkout process. Klix helps region’s e-merchants to grow their business through a better login & checkout experience. The ambition is to become the region's checkout standard. It's backed by one of the leading banks in Baltics - Citadele - ensuring bank grade security level.

  • CEO, Founder (acquired by Ruffalo Noel Levitz)

    2014 - 2019

    We believe that messaging is the new email. So we're helping colleges and universities open up Facebook messenger as the main form of communication between the institution and its young alums and students. See funderful.com We've worked with universities like UC Berkeley, Westpoint, Georgetown, Pomona, Oxford, Cambridge, London Business School. Services include: Facebook Messenger bots, alumni fundraising campaign websites, FB, Instagram, Snapchat ads, giving day / blitz campaigns, fundraising drives, senior class giving, volunteer recruitment, finding lost alumni. Want to work with us? Shoot me an email at raimonds [at] funderful.com On my free time, I pursue my passion for understanding how the world works, history of mankind, human psychology and how that can be creatively translated into digital tools to help nonprofits fulfill their mission.

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