Goda Smulkstyte
Co-founder and CEO of Neurex; founder of maviriq
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| Neurex |
| Role | Co-Founder & CEO |
| Also | Founder, maviriq; resident, basedfounders |
| Education | ISM University of Management and Economics (Finance) |
Goda Smulkstyte (Lithuanian: Goda Šmulkštytė) is a Vilnius-based founder and operator. She is co-founder and chief executive officer of Neurex, a consumer sleep-technology company, and presents her public work as focused on where neuroscience meets product execution—preferring to ship and iterate over abstract theory.17 As Neurex’s lead in the Canopy Spring 2026 context on the Founders, Inc. wiki, she is tied to that cohort through company tagging rather than a separate public profile on the program itself.12 Lithuanian business registers also list her as manager of Neurex, UAB (legal name for the same company as Neurex), consistent with a founder-led incorporation in 2026.91011
On LinkedIn, Smulkstyte reports a bachelor’s in finance from ISM University of Management and Economics, noting a fully funded “100 Talent” scholarship and coursework spanning programming (Python, pandas, SQL), economics, statistics, and econometrics.1 That technical coursework sits alongside a classic finance track and foreshadows later work in data-heavy startup and AI product roles.
At ISM she participated in the Entrepreneurship Club (2022–2023), including pitching an AI-related business concept.1 She also describes selection for the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation (BAFF) Leadership Academy in 2023—a BAFF program category aimed at high school students from the Baltic states for U.S. campus-based programming, within BAFF’s broader education-and-exchange mission.16 Her self-reported project there—a short, team-based sustainability concept with an investor-style pitch—illustrates an early mix of team leadership, lean framing, and competition settings rather than a research-only path.1
Smulkstyte’s pre-CEO experience includes FIRSTPICK, the Vilnius-based first-check fund focused on inception- and pre-seed-stage Baltic founders, where she was an accelerator program intern in late 2024 through early 2025.14 In that role she describes a platform project: comparing SaaS options for founder community and learning, selecting and launching Circle, and cutting redundant tooling—figures and outcomes appear only on her profile, not in independent fund PR.1
In parallel with studies she took on high-load student-volunteer leadership: TEDxISM (spring 2025) as an event organizer, and a year on the ISM Students’ Association events committee, including a 200+ participant charity event and, in her account, a large year-on-year increase in funds raised for that initiative.1 She also coordinated the FUX Camp program in 2025 for the same association.1 A separate stint on the Creative Shock sales team (2025) adds outbound sales tooling (e.g. Apollo, Clay) to a résumé that was already strong on in-person program logistics.1
From May to December 2025 she was a junior consultant in innovation and startups at Civitta in Vilnius.1 The role, as she describes it, was operational backbone for multiple accelerators in parallel—naming Kickstart Lab, Startup Lab, and Edu Challenger—with responsibility for event execution across several Lithuanian cities, demo days, mentor–founder sessions, and communications to founder networks, plus market and ecosystem research (including a Turkey-focused scoping piece for international expansion).1 That year overlaps with ISM’s large vibecoding hackathon (November 2025), where the sponsor list includes FIRSTPICK among many partners, reflecting how student hackathons, accelerators, and local VC brands intersect in the same small ecosystem—even though public coverage of that event highlights other teams, not Smulkstyte by name.113
From August 2025 she lists ongoing “Software & AI” study at Turing College in Vilnius, framed as project-based work in Python, LangChain and LangGraph, RAG, agents, and “practical” apps (reporting automation, interview prep, startup screening).1 Turing College (the Vilnius edtech company, not the U.S. “Turing School” brand) markets flexible, project-led tech programs from its own site, which supports the idea of industry-aligned, mentor-reviewed project work as her stated study mode.13
maviriq, which she has listed as a founder project from February 2026, is a public website offering multi-agent “validation” of early ideas in plain language—users describe a concept and receive a scored verdict with pain, competition, and failure cases. The product copy positions Anthropic as the model provider behind the tool.21 From March 2026 she also reports a “resident” role at basedfounders / basedspace, the Vilnius community workspace and founder network, whose LinkedIn presence describes space and programming for early-stage teams.15
From March 2026 her profile lists co-founder and CEO of Neurex in Vilnius, aligned with Neurex’s consumer site and the company LinkedIn page description as a wellness-technology brand with an EEG-based sleep headband story.178 Her co-founder at Neurex is Aleksas Petravičius (CTO) on the same public profiles and on the company article. The Founders, Inc. article on Neurex treats the firm as a Canopy Spring 2026 company and situates the founding pair in that narrative; the present page is the dedicated founder biography so the company page does not need to restate all personal history.12 Registry data on Neurex, UAB and directory entries naming Smulkstyte as manager support the same legal and leadership alignment as the public-facing CEO title.91011
As of this research pass, the densest, line-by-line account of Smulkstyte’s past roles and metrics remains her LinkedIn profile and primary-source sites tied to her products (e.g. maviriq.com, neurex.tech).127 Wider press, podiums, or third-party case studies with her name in headlines were not surfaced in the same pass; the narrative above therefore weights verifiable public pages and registries and labels self-reported outcomes (fundraising %, software savings, BAFF competition placement) as coming from that profile.1