Didzis Apinis
Entrepreneur
Building businesses across the Baltic lighting industry.
Founder & CEO
Lightful
Co-founder & CEO
Lucidus Techno Lithuania & Estonia
Member
NGL Ventures
Building businesses around a single belief.
I believe the future of the lighting industry will be shaped by stronger collaboration between people, technology and business.
Over the past two decades, I’ve had the opportunity to grow businesses, expand into new markets and launch ventures that make professional expertise more accessible. Today, my work focuses on connecting people, ideas and opportunities that help move our industry forward.
Whether through operating companies, technology platforms or knowledge sharing, every project I build contributes to one long-term vision: creating a more connected, innovative and collaborative lighting ecosystem.
MY JOURNEY
Building experience, one step at a time.
Every venture is built on experience. My career has followed a natural progression—from learning the technical foundations of the lighting industry, to expanding businesses across borders, and today building technology that helps shape its future.
2009 — Learning the Industry
2017 — Expanding Beyond Borders
2025 — Building the Future
Lucidus SIA | Riga, Latvia
My professional journey began at Lucidus SIA as a Lighting Project Manager. During the following years I worked across the full lifecycle of professional lighting projects, developing practical expertise in design, business development and project execution while working with both public and private sector clients.
Lucidus Techno UAB & Lucidus Techno OÜ
In 2017, together with Lucidus, I co-founded Lucidus Techno companies in Lithuania and Estonia to expand the group’s presence beyond Latvia.
Since then, I’ve been leading both companies, focusing on business development, strategic partnerships, market expansion and long-term growth across the Baltic region.
Lightful
After years of working within the industry, one challenge became increasingly clear: finding trusted lighting expertise across borders remained unnecessarily difficult.
That observation led to Lightful—a platform designed to connect businesses with professional lighting engineers and make engineering expertise more accessible throughout Europe.
For me, Lightful represents more than a startup. It represents a new way of thinking about collaboration within our industry.
CONTINUOUS LEARNING
Always a student
Technology evolves quickly. Markets change. New opportunities emerge.
Continuous learning has always been part of my journey—not only through formal education, but also through entrepreneurship, leadership and everyday experience.
Riga Stradiņš University
MBA – International Business & Law
Developed a broader understanding of international business strategy, corporate law and decision-making in cross-border environments.
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University of Latvia
Bachelor’s Degree in Law
Built a strong foundation in legal thinking, commercial law and regulatory frameworks that continue to support my work in business and entrepreneurship.
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Executive Education
Alongside formal studies, I’ve continuously invested in executive education, industry conferences and practical learning focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, leadership and business growth.
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MY PHILOSOPHY
More Than Lighting
Although my career has been built within the lighting industry, what truly motivates me is building businesses that solve real problems.
I’m fascinated by how technology can transform traditional industries, how knowledge can become more accessible, and how meaningful partnerships create opportunities that no company could achieve alone.
The ideas behind every venture I build start with the same question:
How can this create more value for the industry than what exists today?
WHAT I’M BUILDING TODAY
Three businesses. One vision.
Lucidus Techno
Delivering professional lighting solutions across Lithuania and Estonia.
Lightful
Connecting businesses with trusted lighting engineering expertise across Europe.
Lightipedia
Building an AI-powered knowledge platform for the global lighting community.
Together they represent different parts of one long-term ambition:
To make the lighting industry more connected, more collaborative and better prepared for the future.
