Our one-line pitch is…
Drag & Drop anything anywhere.
Introduce your team, and tell us one interesting thing about each member. We are…
Domas is our spiritual leader. Think, Ryan Gosling meets Steve Jobs. One of the most social souls since Julius Ceasar (or what’s the name of the guy who partied like really heaps in ancient Rome!?)
Karolis is our Head of Design by day, the all seeing eye of the falcon by night. Rumour has it that he knows the access codes of Johny Ive’s secret lab.
Danutė is the only chick in this boy band. Lost in wanderlust, she moved around the globe to do stuff like fashion blogging in Paris or school in Seoul, but now settled for heading Dragis communication worldwide and being the team’s voice of conscience.
Petras is a user experience architect fueled by caffeine and rock music. He knows where you will click before you even think of it. Girls, watch out. He can cook pretty well too.
Augis is our programming guru. The word on the street says he was trained to code by ninjas in the mountains.
Photo credit: DragdisWe received our initial capital through…
Startup Highway, a Baltic startup accelerator.
The real pain about starting a business in Lithuania is…
The fact that you need quite a lot of money to survive crispy Lithuanian winters. Heating your apartment, getting proper cold-proof clothes, whiskey for your Irish coffee. That stuff is pricey! It’s no surprise that there are so many startups in Silicon Valley and Tel-Aviv.
The person that inspires us is…
There are way too many. All five of us get inspired by very different people, ranging from Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey to Bob Dylan or Scott Schuman.
The one app/service that we couldn’t live without is…
Hands down, Google Search. It has become such a natural part of everyone’s life, an obvious source of information. That’s definitely where we want to see Dragdis one day – being the default way to collect the web.
The one thing we would save from our burning office is…
That would be our Queen poster. The one of Freddy striking THE pose. It has been there with us since day one and traveled along from one office to another. Always hanging on the wall, watching us work, awakening the inner rockstars inside of us. Funnily enough, we even included an image of the poster in our Investment Agreement Documents that we signed with Practica Capital last year to receive €200k in seed funding. If the poster burned that would be our Vietnam, you guys. Brutal and tragic and impossible to get over.
The worst piece of advice we ever got was…
We struggled to come up with a good revenue model at the beginning. There was this guy who came up to Domas after he was done pitching Dragdis to investors and said, “You so should use crowd-sourcing to sustain your business”.
The one thing that will make us quit is…
The end of the world would be a pretty big problem.
Our inside joke is…
We constantly nickname each other. Say, Augis is George Harrison. Danutė gets to be called Marissa (as in Marissa Mayer) rather a lot – she even has a second email account (marissa@dragdis.com). We’d make for a pretty damn good cast of The Big Bang Theory.
You might not believe it, but we…
We make most of our big decisions at a place called Piano Man Bar. We were joking around that one day we will own it, but really…it’s not a joke, we will.
We’ll call ourselves successful when…
Dragdis will make its way to the Oxford dictionary, just the way “to google” did.
The startup we really want to see on inventures’ Startup Pick is…
TRAFI – gets the people going.
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