# Lithuania

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'The G-spot of Europe': how Vilnius is trying to attract international tech talent

Vilnius city hall officials are on a charm offensive to try to encourage the best talent across European tech to relocate to Lithuania

Brunch with Vinted’s CEO: 'We're technically IPO-ready'

The Lithuanian secondhand clothing marketplace is the country's biggest tech success, and a public listing is the classic next step. But its CEO envisions a different type of growth

Spinouts and biotech: Vilnius’s startup ecosystem in numbers

From university spinouts to childcare policy, a variety of factors contribute to Vilnius’ startup boom

Inside Europe’s largest vertical farm, growing a tenth of Lithuania's salad

At its Vilnius facility, Leafood is hoping to succeed where other vertical farming startups have failed

Why Lithuania could be set to be Europe’s next deeptech hotspot

Lithuania’s rich life sciences sector, favourable tax regime and resilient economic growth all contribute to deeptech’s growth

Lithuania’s Practica Capital has raised €32m of its third fund to support Baltic startups

The VC has backing from Vinted cofounders and regional asset managers 

CEE bucked the trend and kept growing in 2022 — despite the war in Ukraine

For central and eastern Europe, 2022 was all about more funding, more fundraising — and the terrible effects of the war in Ukraine

Baltic Sandbox targets €13m fund to develop deeptech ecosystem in the region

The new VC plans to develop the deeptech ecosystem across the Baltics

Startup Wise Guys’ Lithuanian team forms its own VC, FIRSTPICK

The new fund has €15m of its €20m target already committed to support early-stage startups in the Baltics

Top early-stage investors in CEE

Sifted and Dealroom have ranked central and eastern Europe's top investors, and highlighted some of their most notable deals to date

Baltic startups to watch in 2022

Sifted ranked the tech startups in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia that are the ones to watch this year.

Most ‘startup-friendly’ and unicorns galore: The Baltics in data

6m inhabitants, over 5,000 startups and 12 unicorns: “That’s the story of the Baltics”

Biggest seed fund in the Baltic launches as region booms

Tallinn-based VC firm has also released the latest version of its Baltic Startup Funding Report, which showed money rapidly pouring into the region's startups.

Eastern Europe tech in review: the key moments of 2021

The UiPath IPO wasn't the only big story

11 predictions for eastern Europe tech in 2022

What’s in store for eastern Europe tech and startups in 2022? We asked the experts to find out.

Central and eastern European startups are raking in the money

Money is pouring into central and eastern European startups, with 2021 likely to be their most lucrative year yet, according to a new report

Lithuanian startup Interactio secures Baltics’ largest ever Series A

Interactio is a live translation platform used by the UN and the European Parliament.

Secondhand clothing marketplace Vinted raises at a valuation of €3.5bn

Lithuania's secondhand fashion unicorn raises a further €250m at a pre-money valuation of €3.5bn.

Fastest-growing direct-to-consumer startups 2020

These are the direct-to-consumer startups that came out on top this year.

No way back anymore, says Belarusian tech sector fighting the regime

Tensions between Belarus' autocratic president and the country's thriving tech scene is only growing following the disputed election last month

The rise of an ethical alternative to payday lenders?

Earned wage access startups offering access to your money as soon as you’ve earned it are appearing across Europe

Potential CEE winners in a post-Covid world, according to VCs

The central and eastern European companies and trends that investors think could thrive in the new global landscape.

Has Trafi cracked mobility-as-a-service where others have failed?

With a new Series B fundraise, partnerships in Berlin, Switzerland and Latin America, and deals with Google, Apple, Lyft and Gojek, Trafi is the MaaS startup to watch.