🚀 Vilnius Founders 🍸 Q&A with Liudas, Co-founder & CEO of Ondato
​This Vilnius Founders meetup is a focused, founder-level conversation on building startups in today's environment — from getting funded at the earliest stages to building in regulated markets to turning deep operational and compliance pain points into venture-scale products.
​This time, we're hosting a no-slides Q&A session with Liudas Kanapienis — Co-Founder & CEO of Ondato, building a customer onboarding and due diligence platform that helps turn KYC/AML from a cost center into a business advantage using AI and machine learning.
​Ondato, for the third consecutive year, has been recognised in the Financial Times' and Statista's annual FT1000 list of Europe's fastest-growing companies.
​Agenda
​17:30 Doors open
18:00 Q&A with Liudas [Ondato]
19:00 networking
​What we'll cover
​A practical discussion on building and selling to regulated customers, and what strong execution looks like in compliance infrastructure:
​Building in regulated markets: what founders get wrong about KYC/KYB/AML
​Product + distribution: selling to banks and fintechs and scaling internationally
​What "good onboarding" actually looks like: speed, accuracy, fraud prevention, and lifecycle controls
​How to build trust when your product touches critical business processes
​Founder lessons from growing a company in a category where execution matters more than hype
​Speakers
​Liudas Kanapienis
Co-Founder & CEO, Ondato
​Liudas Kanapienis is a fintech entrepreneur and business leader with around 15 years of experience. He has led multiple financial organizations and previously served as CEO of Paysera UK and Director of Business Development at Paysera. At Ondato, he focuses on building identity verification and compliance tooling, including remote identification, KYC-as-a-service, screening, biometric authentication, and custom identification workflows.
​About 🚀 Vilnius Founders
​Founder-driven meetups for builders and operators in Lithuania. No slides. No suits. Honest conversations, practical takeaways, and focused networking.