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Thanks to everyone who made it to freezing-cold Riga for the first-ever TechCrunch Baltics! We enjoyed the event and we hope you did too!

The video from the event is available below

Here is Mike Butcher's summary of the event in TechCrunch

Photos are available on TechHub Riga's Facebook page here
For the first time ever, TechCrunch is coming to the Baltics on February 9th, 2012, to the beautiful Baltic city of Riga, Latvia. While Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are small countries in Europe, they have an outsized role in generating new technology startups that have the potential to change the world. TechCrunch will hold a conference and pitch contest to show the best that the Baltic startup and technology community has to offer. TechHub Riga will host and co-organize the event, which will culminate in the official launch party for this new community and co-working space in Riga.

Hear and meet top guests, including

  • Jon Bradford – MD, Springboard Cambridge and Exec. Director, Ignite 100 
  • Carlos Eduardo Espinal – Partner, Seedcamp 
  • Alex Farcet - Managing Director, Startup Bootcamp 
  • Lars Hinrichs – Founder, HackFwd. Founder and former CEO, Xing 
  • Aldas Kirvaitis – CEO, Cherry Media Group 
  • Ilya Shirokov - Vice-president of Mail.Ru Group, Head of Social Networks' business unit 
  • Andres Susi – CEO, Flirtic and Partner, MTVP 
Mike Butcher will interview guests in his usual “fireside chats”. Panel discussions will focus on startup investments in the Baltics, scaling startups to Europe and the USA, as well as using the Baltics as a launch pad to the Russian market.  See the full list of guests and the agenda here. 

Baltics Pitch Contest

TechCrunch Baltics will include a pitch contest for startups – take the opportunity to pitch your company! The jury includes representatives from Sunstone Capital, Seedcamp, Fidelity Growth Ventures, Garage48, Springboard, Startup Bootcamp and Venturi Venture Accelerator among others. 

The winner of the Baltics Pitch Contest was infogr.am - congratulations Uldis Leiterts and Raimonds Kaže!

TechHub Riga official launch party

We are officially opening TechHub Riga with a rockin’ party to make sure that our new home is ready to rock’n’roll. Don’t miss this exclusive event included with the TechCrunch Baltics ticket. February 9th is also the last day to apply for Founder Memberships before we close applications. TechHub Members will also get access to an exclusive VIP networking breakfast before the conference starts.

More information on TechHub Riga and memberships is available here.