Meet those Who Started StartSchool
At StartSchool, we're not just educators - we're tech visionaries on a mission. Learn more about our passionate founders and their commitment to shaping the future of tech education in Latvia.
Anna Andersone
Co-founder & board member
Anna is one of the leaders of the startup ecosystem in Latvia and the head of the Riga TechGirls association and movement. For more than 20 years, her experience has been related to the field of design, communication and technology and entrepreneurship.
Andris K. Bērziņš
Co-founder
Andris K. Bērziņš, a seasoned founder and executive with successful exits over $100M, is also a venture capital investor at Change Ventures. He co-founded TechHub Riga and TechChill, and is involved in the Latvian Startup Association. Andris brings 25 years of startup and investment experience, holding an MBA from Stanford Business School.
Kristofs Blaus
Co-founder & board member
Kristofs Blaus has been founding and managing tech companies for 16 years. Has driven the growth of health tech company Nutrameg in over 100 markets. Co-founded the portal ManaBalss.lv, which has changed 60 Latvian laws.
Elīna Branta
Co-founder
Elina has had a varied and impressive career in management and innovation. Currently, she is a board member of Swisscom DevOps Center Latvia, where she applies her skills in marketing and company management.
James Janis Berdigans
Co-founder
Founder & CEO of Printify. Started and grew the company to 600 employees and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Studied MBA in University of North Carlina, USA, Bachelor International Business Administration, The Netherlands
Edgars Peičs
Co-founder
Edgars Peičs is a passionate senior leader with 30 years of international experience in the information technology sector. Over his career worked in many companies - Microsoft, Lattelecom, Swedbank, Evolution Gaming, Gaming Innovation Group, Luminor, NetEnt and currently works as a Chief Technical Officer at Printify.
Ieva Ilvesa
Co-founder
Ieva is a diplomat, an expert in foreign and security policy issues, digital policy and cyber security with more than 20 years of experience in national and international institutions in Latvia, NATO and the EU. She has worked as a digital policy and cyber security advisor to the President of Latvia, the Ministry of Defense and now the EU advisory mission in Ukraine.
Founding Partners
Raimonds Simanovskis
Founding Partner
I am grateful that I had a great technical education at my school and university. It was one of the main success factors why I could build a successful software business. Therefore we, eazyBI, already have been supporting many tech education projects in Latvia.
StartSchool is a new, promising project with the goal of growing new tech leaders of tomorrow, and therefore, we are joining as a founding partner to support it both financially and also by sharing our tech and business experience.
Jēkabs Endziņš
Founding Partner
We believe that the basis of Latvia's future success is the ability to create exporting technology companies, if we want to live in a country that is prosperous and recognized. Weby.vc was created with the aim of promoting entrepreneurship among young people, showing examples of the opportunities to build your own startup in any field. In our opinion, StartSchool is the right next step in order to create a new generation of technology entrepreneurs in Latvia, who will have the knowledge, the necessary motivation, and a lot of friends to develop big ideas. Let's continue to support and keep our fingers crossed for StartSchool!
