Mentors
Mentors are the core of Innovation Academy. They are well-known and experienced entrepreneurs and experts in their respective fields. Intensive mentoring and exposure of ideas to different professionals can give the best feedback to the founder behind each idea.

Anna Andersone
Founder at be-with;
Chief Empowerment Officer
at Riga TechGirls

Ansis Līpenītis
Cocoon CEO

Arta Citko
Startup Coach
Author of Happy Playbook

Atis Hermanis
CEO at HackMotion

Emil Syudyukov
CTO at Langenesis

Ernests Štāls
Co-Founder at Starwatcher.io

Julia Gifford
Co-Founder at Truesix

Juris Sorokins
Founder, Hyperjob

Karlis Karolis
Baltic Head of Innovations SEB

Kaspars Kalnišs
Founder, Xelo Fenders

Kristaps Banga
Head of Innovation & Growth
Accenture Baltics

Kristiana Roth
Reasearch Associate, Lecturer
at University of Applied Sciences
Upper Austria

Kristīne Nagle
Founder and Sustainability
advisor Your impact House

Lauma Gailīte
Head of Product at Startup
Wise Guys

Līna Marta Sarma
Co-creator and Board Member
Riga Tech Girls

Wallace Green
Startup Coach, Angel Investor

Marina Petrakova
CEO at VREACH

Mārtiņš Viļums
Co-founder, abill.io

Matīss Neimanis
Managing Partner at Buildit Latvia
Hardware Accelerator

Marta Barreto Goncalves
CEO at Latvian Startup Association

Roberts Bernans
Co-founder at Nordigen

Ratislavs Roznoshchik
Co-Founder at Ideapartners

Ru Wikmann
CEO at BeeSage

Sandis Kondrāts
CEO at Exonicus

Sigvards Krongorns
Associate Verge HealthTech Fund

Guntis Kuļikovskis
CTO at Winmill

Kārlis Skuja
CEO of Windhackers