Andris is Managing Partner of Change Ventures, the first seed venture capital fund in the Baltic States focused exclusively on backing ambitious founders from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Andris has been a key player in the Baltic ecosystem for a decade, having co-founded the TechHub Riga foundation, the leading Baltic startup event TechChill and the Latvian Startup Association. Andris had a 15 year career as a C‑level executive in several US, Israeli and European startups, two of which exited for over $100M.
Andris graduated in Class 22 of the Kauffman Fellows program for global venture capitalists and holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.