Investment & Development Agency of Latvia (Latvijas Investīciju un attīstības aģentūra, LIAA)

Supports Latvia's investment and export growth through regional development, startup expansion, and tourism and innovation initiatives.

LIAA, the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia, is Latvia's national business support agency under the Ministry of Economics. Established in 1993, it backs entrepreneurship, export promotion, investment attraction, tourism marketing, innovation, and startup growth, with 20 regional offices supporting that work across the country.

Its current support stack combines grants and blended public funding rather than a single umbrella programme. Active lines include export support, business incubation, science-intensive startup support, EC project development support, process digitalisation, and commercialization support. Typical caps in the current set include EUR 10,000 for EC project development, EUR 150,000 for science-intensive startups, and EUR 100,000 for process digitalisation or international exhibition support, while the funding sources mix EU Structural Funds, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, and the national budget.

LIAA is built for companies that can show export potential, product development, or a clear step from prototype to market. New innovative firms, science-intensive startups, and merchants seeking digitalisation support are the clearest fits, and many calls open on fixed windows while others stay open. In practice, LIAA works as Latvia's execution layer for growth policy: it is less a single grantmaker than the agency that turns innovation, export, and investment policy into live calls.