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Mantvydas Štareika

Mantvydas Štareika

CEO at CapitalBox
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Bio Combining well-honed entrepreneurial instincts with proven legal acumen, Mantvydas Stareika is an international business and financial services expert with extensive experience in sales, marketing, international mergers, and growth and strategy drive. Prior to joining CapitalBox in December 2022, Mantvydas served as CEO and head of the supervisory board at SME Bank, the first neobank in Lithuania. While there he spearheaded financial licensing efforts across the Baltics and Finland, and the company now holds licenses to operate in ten European countries. He held multiple senior roles at Coface, eventually leading the Baltic States division as CEO.

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Alternative sources of finance should support SMEs

11 Jan 2024

Small and medium-sized enterprises, SMEs, make up 99% of all European companies and are the backbone of the EU economy, as they account for the vast majority of growth in the labor market. Despite that, SMEs are still seriously underfunded, in fact by as much as around €400 billion in the EU alone according to a recent study. The reason is that SM...

 

How fintech companies can adopt AI without losing their human touch

15 Nov 2023

It’s not entirely surprising to see the fintech industry embrace artificial intelligence with the fervor that it has for the last several years. Adopting the latest technology is part and parcel of what the most innovative fintech companies have been doing since day one – in fact, it’s one of the characteristics that has most distinguished these c...

Small Business Lending Innovation

Why the SME lending gap needs alt finance to embrace collateralized lending

26 Sep 2023

Despite making up 99 percent of European companies and the backbone of its economy, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) remain underfunded in the billions of euros. Recent research estimates the gap is about 400 billion euro in the E.U. alone. These businesses are overwhelmingly underbanked, and it’s keeping them from growing. This situatio...

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