This summer, Schiff Sovereign’s CEO, Viktorija, took a group of members to Lithuania, her hometown. But the atmosphere was totally different from what she remembers; things have changed for the better…
Lithuania has 2.8 million people — smaller than Sao Paulo — and has produced six unicorns since 2020. Vinted. Nord Security. Oxylabs. Cast AI. A former textile factory in Vilnius is now Cyber City. Robinhood opened a crypto center there in 2025.
None of this is an accident. Lithuania spent decades under Soviet occupation. When that ended in 1990, the country swung hard in the opposite direction.
The business friendliness isn’t a marketing strategy but a reaction, built by people who remember exactly what the alternative looked like and don’t want to go back.
You can see it on the streets: nice cars, new construction, restaurants that would hold their own in any European capital, and rising over all of it is a well-preserved “old town”, the original medieval city center from 1,000 years ago.
Apartments in Vilnius average around 3,000 euros per square meter. That puts a 100-square-meter apartment, around 1,100 square feet, in an EU capital at roughly $340,000; in Boston, where condos average about $710 per square foot, the same space runs more than double.
Lithuania also grants residency to foreigners who start a business, with a startup visa that covers the whole family. And if a parent, grandparent, or great-grandparent held Lithuanian citizenship before 1940, you may be able to reclaim it without giving up your current passport. That’s an EU passport sitting in some family trees.
The window on places like this doesn’t stay open forever.
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