Martins Pjalkovskis

Martins Pjalkovskis is an investor at BADideas.fund, an early-stage angel investment network headquartered in Riga, Latvia, with additional presence in Miami, Atlanta, Austin, and San Francisco. In his current capacity, he evaluates deal flow for pre-seed through scaling-stage software startups, helping to facilitate syndicate investments that typically range in size from $50,000 to $1 million per transaction. The investment vehicle operates under the direction of General Partner Raimonds Kulbergs and is backed by a distributed network of 200 experienced founders and operators spanning 20 countries. This collective investor base includes technology executives who have previously built or scaled prominent venture-backed companies such as Vimeo, Bolt, and Deel. Pjalkovskis currently focuses his investment efforts on identifying and supporting Central and Eastern European founders who are developing global business-to-business software-as-a-service platforms and digital marketplaces.