Advancing Baltic startups with global ambition

Evaluating deal flow, performing due diligence, preparing deal memos

BADideas.fund is a syndicate of founders/operators investing €50-€150K tickets in post-MVP startups in Central and Eastern Europe

Pre-seed investments backing ambitious Baltic founders

Scaled the teams and infrastructure of Programmable Video and enabled unprecedented growth in traffic and revenue.

Built out the SDK Platform group - a center for excellence for development of client-side SDKs for real-time communications.Recruited experts in C++, JavaScript, iOS, and Android development and testing.Created a dedicated demo apps team to showcase the group's SDKs.Earned the company's Iron Man award for excellence in development and testing practices.

Grew the SDK teams that developed Twilio Voice and Video SDKs and contributed to the development of Twilio TaskRouter, Chat, and Authy.Managed incident response and post-incident reviews as a company-level Escalation Manager.

Led and grew the Twilio Client (voice SDKs) team.Built the Twilio TaskRouter team and launched the initial version of the product.

Tripping is the largest vacation and short term home rentals site on the planet. We give you access to the best local homes and neighborhoods around the world.

■ Using lean startup and customer development methods to seek product/market fit■ Building MVP using RoR, agile/TDD methods

ConnectAndSell is disrupting the sales industry by providing a SaaS service that puts sales professionals in live phone conversations with their prospects. A true force multiplier, ConnectAndSell enables sales reps to have a week's worth of conversations in a matter of hours. ConnectAndSell is not a dialer, but a new breed of service, based on patented technology, that delivers live phone conversations with verified and confirmed prospects from your list. It integrates with Salesforce and other CRMs.■ Built and scaled ConnectAndSell's systems from inception to $10M/year in revenue■ Led a lean, agile, distributed Engineering team

ConnectAndSell is disrupting the sales industry by providing a SaaS service that puts sales professionals in live phone conversations with their prospects.■ Designed ConnectAndSell's voice architecture for scale■ Scaled voice capacity by 5x■ Designed an automated test framework■ Reduced error rate by 50%

Nomea is disrupting the sales industry by providing a SaaS service that puts sales professionals in live phone conversations with their prospects. In 2007 Nomea became ConnectAndSell, Inc.■ Built a custom object-relational framework and a code generator for C#, SQL Server■ Redesigned data model and improved database performance by orders of magnitude■ Obtained Digium Certified Asterisk Professional (dCAP) certification

Exeter Group is a leader in IT consulting for higher education institutions. Since its inception in 1984, Exeter Group has been helping its clients create business value by providing business analysis, planning, design, and implementation.■ Managed a portfolio of technical teams – infrastructure, data conversion, reports, and interfaces – to implement a fundraising system at a top Ivy League university■ Built a recruiting site for a premier consulting organization using SQL Server, ASP.NET■ Built a recruiting site for a top Ivy League university using Oracle, PL/SQL■ Held company record for passing most Microsoft certification exams in a single day■ Obtained Microsoft's MCP, MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA certifications■ Obtained Oracle's OCP, OCDBA certifications