A farmer wants to change the way a field is managed. Use cover crops. Reduce tillage. Improve crop rotation. Upgrade machinery. Use less synthetic fertiliser. Build more organic carbon into the soil. The potential benefits may take years to fully appear. The costs arrive immediately. That gap between what agriculture needs to become and who…

Almost every family that has owned LEGO® bricks eventually encounters the same problem. The sets disappear. The bricks do not. A spaceship becomes part of a castle. A castle becomes part of a car. Instructions disappear. Pieces migrate between boxes. And after enough years, what once cost hundreds or thousands of euros becomes a large…

Most startup stories begin with a company searching for a business model. Eneba already found one. The Lithuanian company built a global marketplace where gamers can buy digital games, gift cards, subscriptions, in-game currencies and other digital entertainment products from competing sellers. It worked. By 2025, the Lithuanian company behind Eneba, UAB Helis Play, reported €63.6 million…

Most companies spend enormous amounts of money trying to generate demand. Advertising. Content. SEO. Events. Sales teams. Lead-generation agencies. Then somebody finally fills in a form. And nothing happens. Perhaps a salesperson calls the next morning. Perhaps an automated email arrives. Perhaps the lead sits untouched in a CRM until somebody has time. By then,…

Some technology companies build software. Some build marketplaces. Orbio World builds brands. From its headquarters in Kaunas, the Lithuanian company develops consumer products, creates brands around them, markets them directly to customers and handles the complicated machinery required to sell those products around the world. Its portfolio includes names such as Derila, Akusoli, Synoshi, Nuubu, Matsato…

For most of human history, when we needed a useful biological tool, we first looked for one in nature. Find a bacterium. Identify one of its enzymes. Then try to modify that enzyme so it performs the job we need a little better. Vilnius-based Biomatter is trying to reverse that logic. Instead of asking, “Which protein…

Every time a bank account is opened online, a cryptocurrency exchange accepts a new customer or a marketplace needs to know who is standing on the other side of a transaction, somebody has to answer a deceptively simple question: Is this person actually who they claim to be? For nearly a decade, a company from…

Almost every growing company runs into the same problem. Someone in the organisation knows exactly how to perform a particular process. How to create a report in the ERP system. How to configure a new customer. How to process a return. How to complete one of the hundreds of everyday tasks that nobody formally teaches.…

Most drones are designed to see what is happening above ground. Broswarm wants them to see what is underneath it. The Vilnius-based defence technology startup is developing a lightweight airborne radar system designed to detect and visualise objects buried beneath the surface. Its first and most urgent application is one of the world’s most difficult…

Most gig platforms make money in essentially the same way: somebody does the work, somebody buys the work, and the platform inserts itself between them and takes a percentage. Nuuduu is trying something different. The Kaunas-based startup is building a direct services marketplace where professionals can find customers, manage orders and get paid without surrendering…