Hi, I'm Arnas.
I grew up in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Started coding at 14.
Not long after, started building websites for businesses around town.
At 18, I moved to Manchester to study Computer Science.
I could build things, but I wanted to learn how to sell them too. So I got a job running ads for e-commerce brands at a marketing agency.
Spent over $3M on ads in a year.
More importantly, I got to learn about media buying, creative strategy and email marketing from real experts inside the kitchen.
Quit and tried to build something of my own.
It didn't work.
After a long and lonely stretch of trying, I realized I didn't want to keep doing it alone. I needed to find my people. So I started looking.
And found a group of guys who'd had some success selling ChatGPT prompts and automation templates... and were now scrambling to build a real product.
That was Sintra.
In February 2024, I hacked together an MVP of what would become Sintra Helpers: AI employees for small businesses.
It got traction. We spent the next few months building the full product and launched in May.
55 days later, we'd reached $1M in annual recurring revenue. With no outside money.
We flew to San Francisco to raise. HF0 said no. Y Combinator said no.
We raised our first $1M anyway. The following January, we raised $17M in the biggest seed round the Baltics had seen.
Two years in, 50,000 small businesses were using our product. We'd reached $15M in annual recurring revenue.
I got to learn how to build a product, hire a team, raise capital and work with partners like OpenAI and Anthropic. Things I'd wanted to do for years.
Most importantly, I'd found my people. People who shared my interests, ambition and life goals.
I'm back in Vilnius now. I've seen a fair bit of the world, and it's still my favourite place.
I'm always looking for my kind of people, wherever you are in the world. If you read this and thought we'd get along, drop me a message 