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Kipras Vaicekauskas

Investment Analyst at Practica Capital

Vilnius, Vilniaus

Overview 

Kipras Vaicekauskas is an Investment Analyst at Practica Capital, specializing in Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A investments, with a focus on startup founders in the Baltics. He has a diverse educational background with a Master of Science from Erasmus University Rotterdam and an MBA from McGill University. Kipras has successfully invested in companies like Eany.io (Seed) and Evergrowth (Pre-seed).

Work Experience 

  • Senior Investment Analyst

    2024 - Current

  • Investment Analyst

    2023 - 2024

    I have been actively involved in all aspects of the VC fund lifecycle, offering a broader scope of responsibilities compared to larger VC firms: - Fundraising: Identified potential LPs and prepared documentation and presentations for PVC III and the upcoming fund, enhancing investor engagement. - Deal Sourcing: Evaluated over 600 opportunities, personally sourcing 108 deals. Conducted targeted, low-effort/high-impact due diligence to support the investment team’s decision-making process. - Investment: Conducted in-depth due diligence on 16 advanced cases, analyzing founder backgrounds, markets, competitors, business models, go-to-market strategies, historical business and financial metrics, prepared budgets, etc. - Portfolio Support: Served as a board observer, monitored portfolio company performance, supported - follow-on fundraising, and assisted with talent sourcing and other strategic value-adding initiatives. - Fund Operations: Managed deal sourcing and portfolio tech tools, improved and automated internal processes, handled valuations, led data scraping projects, and contributed to quarterly and annual reporting. - Marketing: Collaborated on creating data-driven marketing content and initiated LinkedIn posts to enhance brand visibility. - Networking: Proactively built and nurtured relationships across the VC ecosystem—including LPs, founders, and industry peers—to support our deal sourcing and the growth of our portfolio companies.

  • Intern

    2023 - 2023

  • Board Observer

    2025

  • Board Observer

    2024

  • Business Development Analyst

    2021 - 2023

    FitForMe sells their own developed bariatric multivitamins tailored for patients after different bariatric surgeries (Gastric Sleeve, Gastric Bypass, Mini Gastric Bypass, Biliopancreatic Diversion, Duodenal Switch). Firm’s products are trusted already by 1M+ patients in 29 countries. FitForMe website: www.fitforme.com Responsibilities: - Managed team of 6 interns during the Amazon project. During this project, our team made the company’s products globally available on Amazon marketplace. You can see our teamwork result on this website: www.amazon.com/fitforme - Built various analyses and strategy cases for our company’s head managers, such as new market, regulatory, and competitor analyses, pricing, marketing, and business management strategies - Built business cases and value propositions for the new branch openings in the new markets - Gave company-wide presentations about the progress of my projects. Also, assisted our seniors for their presentations build-ups. - Created content for the company’s new website - Collaborated with global FitForMe's partners (consulting firms, health care professionals, etc.) to expand business in various countries - Managed our Mercado Libre marketplace account. *My own initiative for the company -> built the machine learning models for better future product demand projections. Supervised and mentored by best professionals in their roles ->Jorn van Wijnen, Machiel Resink, Jorrit Pijlman, Fabian Gumbs. Software I used ->Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PowerBI, Python, WordPress, Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Salesforce, Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Business.

  • Data Analytics Internship/Junior Analyst

    2021 - 2021

    - Worked on various corporate and public organizations' projects on national and international levels; - Analyzed big datasets of our clients using Tableau and Excel and provided relevant insights and feedback about client's weak spots and its potential for improvements in company's operations; - Created processed data reports and presentations which I then shared with my senior managers; - For all the work mentioned above I used this software: Tableau, PowerPoint, Excel, Word.

  • Financial Analyst Internship

    2020 - 2020

    https://aggredium.com (Now acquired by Reorg) Analyzing financial reports from various companies all around the world, taking and counting the numbers that are relevant to our customers and adapting those numbers to our internet platform. Mainly using Excel and Power BI Passed ACCA F3 to show my accounting knowledge

  • Barista/waiter

    2019 - 2020

    Purpose of this job is to cover my living expenses as a student.

  • Waiter/Bartender

    2017 - 2018

  • Consultant

    2016 - 2016

    • Was trained to properly use the main Office 365 programs (that is Word, Excel, PowerPoint). • Provided people with information about Microsoft Windows and Office 365 products. • Attended the marketing events.

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