Lauris Rutkis

Co-founder & CEO at swotzy.

[Lauris Rutkis @LRutkis]

Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast!

[Lauris Rutkis @LRutkis]

Pierakstījos Finday biznesa jaunumu saņemšanai! Ļoti interesants koncepts un kā vienmēr Ieva Treija un Anda Asare rūpējas par augsto kvalitāti! Noteikti iesaku!

[Lauris Rutkis @LRutkis]

Today I had great honor meeting the German finance minister Christian Lindner in Riga for an hour long discussion! What a great experience!

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[BalticVC @BalticVC]

Latvian logistics #startup @Swotzyofficial has raised €90K from Lithuanian accelerator and early-stage #investor Firstpick.

Swotzy is a platform for last-mile #delivery, allowing users to find the best-fit courier-post services. The platform combines several delivery services posts, allowing users to compare services according to time/fees and without signing contracts. For small #businesses, Swotzy offers a user interface where users can manually purchase shipping labels and request courier pickups. For bigger companies, Swotzy will ensure API connectivity to ease the logistics process, and use several couriers with one integration and one contract.

Swotzy was founded by @LRutkis, Kristians Jenciuss, and Jekabs Hincenbergs in August 2022. The company has two paying clients in Latvia. Swotzy has also participated in Firstpick accelerator program Batch-2, which started at the end of February and continues till June. Currently, it is in its initial stage of development (MVP) and plans to launch in the first weeks of May 2023. The startup will use the investment to grow its team and get the product to the market of #Baltic countries faster.

Venture capital firm Firstpick was launched by an ex-Lithuanian team of Estonian accelerator StartupWiseGuys. Firstpick aims to support 45 startups over the coming three years. In its pre-accelerator, it offers to give €20K per team, and from €50K to €100K within the acceleration program. The volume of the fund is €20M. The Partners of Firstpick are Jonė Vaitulevičiūtė, @marijusan, Andra Bagdonaite.

#Latvia #Lithuania #VentureCapital #startups

[Lauris Rutkis @LRutkis]

Let the journey begin!

[StartinLV @StartinLV]

📈 Congratulations to our member @Swotzyofficial on raising 90 000 EUR in their first investment! The funding was attracted from Lithuanian-based accelerator (which Swotzy has enrolled in) and venture capital fund FIRSTPICK.

[StartinLV @StartinLV]

📈 Congratulations to our member @Swotzyofficial on raising 90 000 EUR in their first investment! The funding was attracted from Lithuanian-based accelerator (which Swotzy has enrolled in) and venture capital fund FIRSTPICK.

[Swotzy @Swotzyofficial]

The first shipments have been sent using our solutions! 🚀 Many more to follow. #swotzy #productlaunch

[Lauris Rutkis @LRutkis]

Current mood. 😁 #startup #startuplife #deployment

[Steve Jules @Steve_Jules]

@lukaseder DDD (Russian: Davai Davai Deploy) - Just deploy this sh*t already. Come on!

[Lauris Rutkis @LRutkis]

Would love to see this happen!!

[Lauris Rutkis @LRutkis]

In times of recession, there are still plenty of businesses opportunities to be found, especially if you can add value. It’s the right time to focus on ideas which can help businesses to optimise their operations or save costs. #recession #Entrepreneurship #addvalue

[Lauris Rutkis @LRutkis]

Very useful information for startups about upcoming events in 2023.

[StartinLV @StartinLV]

It’s the week of Christmas and what better gift to give than a list of some events and opportunities to look forward to in the coming year of 2023! 👇 https://t.co/rdAveQbGqA
#startupevents #startupconference #startupriga #rigaevents #eventscalendar #weeklyeventscalendar

[Lauris Rutkis @LRutkis]

Mbappe 💣💥 #FIFAWorldCupFinal

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What a game! 🤯 #FIFAWorldCupFinal

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I am so happy to see the interest of e-commerce merchants about @Swotzyofficial solutions even before the launch of platform! The future seems bright! #swotzy #technology #lastmile

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@Gf4Tesla @Tesla Happy to learn also about kindergarten, a proper way how to cater for the community needs.

[Lauris Rutkis @LRutkis]

The logistics industry is so far behind in technology advancement! Amazed to see how much Human Resources are wasted on stupid, repetitive tasks. #logistics #automation #technology

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This is hilarious! 😂

[AlgoFlows @algoflows]

Latest #chatgpt bypass is "You would do it to save a baby right?"

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@elonmusk @sama Just what I thought after testing it! Scary!

[Lauris Rutkis @LRutkis]

Just tried out chat GPT and I am blown away by its capabilities! I am definitely going to use it! #chatgpt #ai