Kilo™

Learning to play guitar sounds great. Until your fingers start to hurt. Building a business can be pretty similar. As our Co-Found Program Lead, Chief Business Development Officer at Kiloverse Domantas Patinskas shared on LRT, when we look for future co-founders, we look for people who have tried before. Experience teaches you that the first idea might fail. What matters is being ready to rethink it and try again. That’s why we don’t put too much weight on the “million-dollar idea”. None of the 10 businesses Kilo launched this year started with one. Ideas were shaped together. Around 1% of Co-Found applicants go on to become co-founders. What makes the difference? Knowing that building a business takes more than a good idea, and being ready to keep going when your fingers start to hurt. Listen to the full conversation – link in the comments.

The association brings together international investors and Lithuanian-owned companies with a shared goal: making Lithuania an even better place to invest, build, and grow. It’s exactly the room we want to be in. “Lithuania is a great place to build global businesses. We have a kind of survival gene—we’re ambitious, fast, and always striving for more. But a strong business environment doesn’t build itself. If we want to attract more investment and create more opportunities in Lithuania, business and government must work together. That’s why joining Investors' Forum matters to us: not just to talk about change, but to help create it.” — Žygimantas Surintas, CEO and Board Member at Kilo™. More on Investors’ Forum → https://investorsforum.lt/

A busy day at Startup Fair 2026! A steady stream of visitors at our stand, back-to-back B2B meetings, and so many interesting people to meet. Congrats to the startups that made it through Pitch Battle and secured investment. Thanks to the organizers ROCKIT and Startup Lithuania, the main partners Swedbank Lietuvoje, Go Vilnius, and Karma Ventures, and everyone who came to talk. Together with Tesonet, we hosted After Hours for media, partners, and speakers from across the startup ecosystem. As the community grows, so do we. See you next year!

Lithuania gives us the freedom to build. We want to help protect that freedom. Kilo™ is joining Asociacija Visuotinė gynyba as a partner. We’ve committed €200,000 to support its mission and are proud to have signed the Total Defense Charter alongside more than 60 other organizations in Lithuania. Total defense isn't someone else's job. It's shared, and part of it is ours. We want to keep investing here, growing businesses here, and raising the next generation here. Together, we’re stronger.

One question we’re bringing to Startup Fair 2026: What should Kilo™ build or scale next? Tomorrow, we want to hear your answer. Two ways this can go: → Co-found something new with us → Already built a brand and looking for a strategic partner – not just capital? Let us acquire and scale what you’ve created. Where we’re looking:  → Wellness. Active lifestyles. Mental health. Digital utilities. And compelling ideas beyond them.  → Consumer tech. DTC. Hardware. Products people use every day. The category matters less than the problem. If the problem is real and the model works, we want to talk. Vilnius. Tomorrow. Find us.

Three friends. One sold car. Combined savings. Deividas Biržys, Simonas Jakstas, and Martynas Kavaliauskas started with no market data or investors. Just a gut feeling that men's health needed a better product. Sales confirmed it. Then growth outpaced their working capital. By joining the Kilo™ Co-Found program, they gained access to investment and Kiloverse infrastructure. Today, the brand has crossed €1M in revenue. Here's what they'd tell anyone starting out. Read the full story – link in the comments.

46% of young Europeans say they want to build their own business. 9% actually do. The gap between wanting and doing isn't the idea. It's the shot. The platform, the capital, the room to actually swing. "Rykliai. Lietuva" is one of those shots. A season on TV3. A room full of investors who've built before. A public stage for a private idea. Kilo backs initiatives like this because entrepreneurship isn't a nice-to-have. It's the single competence that reshapes talent, business, and entire economies. And it doesn't happen by watching. Took your idea from zero to one? Pitch it. Take a swing at Rykliai. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/dB8ZeckX

450+ startups, 430+ investors from across 65+ countries, 40 startups in Pitch Battle and one day in Vilnius packed with conversations worth having.   We are joining the Startup Fair 2026 event as official partners to meet ambitious people, exchange ideas, and hear what others are building.   Some of the key people from Kilo™ and Kiloverse will be in the room. Here is who you need to find:   Ready to become a co-founder? → Talk to Domantas Patinskas. Need a strategic partner, not just capital? → Find Diego Maccarelli. Want to build alongside top talent in tech, health, and travel? → Ugnė Kabašinskaitė is your target. Pitching on stage? → Lina Jasaite is on the jury evaluating your execution.   See you on September 17.  Link to the event in the comments.

Come for the unfiltered CEO talk. Leave with more than just a good conversation. When Andrius Tapinas sat down with our CEO Žygimantas Surintas for UNFILTERED, the deal was simple: honest conversation. No PR answers, no safe topics. But the impact went beyond the room. During the event, the Kilo people stepped up to raise funds for "Daiktai Frontui" - an initiative delivering vital gear directly to Ukrainian soldiers, deminers, and paramedics on the frontline. To maximize their effort, Kilo™ backed every single euro raised with a 5x match. When conversations turn into real-world action, that’s momentum.

You've been the office MVP. The one who ships. Team lead. Problem solver. The one everyone calls when something breaks.   Ever thought about becoming the Co-Founder of the next unicorn? Here's a link to try → https://lnkd.in/dREh5RJC