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Top 25 CleanTech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Estonia in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 25 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Cleantech startups based in Estonia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cleantech companies from Estonia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 CleanTech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Estonia in February 2025

Investor	CleanTech Estonia investments
Superangel	5
Specialist VC	2
Iron Wolf Capital	2
Spring Capital	2
Expansion Capital	2
Contrarian Ventures	2
Funderbeam	2
Thorgate Ventures	2
Trind Ventures	2
Sunly	2
Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)	1
Black Pearls VC	1
TMT Investments	1
Bangladesh Angels	1
Grid.vc	1
ZGI Capital	1
Prototron	1
LIFT99	1
Cats.vc	1
Vestman Energia	1
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications for Estonia	1
Little Green Fund	1
Yolo Investments	1
SpeedUp Venture Capital Group	1
EstBAN	1

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Early-stage investments from entrepreneurs to entrepreneurs. Our companies include Bolt, Veriff, Fortumo and many more. 10x@superangel.io

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Estonia, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Askel.ai — Stop wasting your team's time. Start automating. Askel.ai enables Ops teams to implement AI agents by embedding them into their own SaaS tools.
Pactum — Pactum autonomous negotiations help companies unlock hidden value. Our AI negotiates non-strategic supplier contracts on a massive scale.
Nanordica Medical — Nanordica Medical develops novel nanoparticle-based antibacterial wound care products.

United Angels VC is an early stage venture capital fund based in Estonia.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Estonia, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Miros — Revolutionizing ecommerce with AI-powered visual search and semantic search. Seamless, tagless, and intuitive product discovery for all shoppers.
Sera — Sera's AI streamlines prospecting with tailored lists and enriched profiles, including accurate emails and metrics.
CyberUpgrade — Easily manage ICT compliance audits by tracking controls, handling ever increasing requirements, and sharing policies. Gain control over cyber security measures.

We are here to make you succeed! Iron Wolf Capital is an international venture capital firm with an experienced team of professionals with global outlook and strong roots in the Baltics. and a mandate for helping entrepreneurs realise their ideas into successful businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Infrastructure, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Lithuania, Estonia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

PIXEVIA — PIXEVIA - AI for retail. Our flagship product - fully autonomous stores, powered by AI, cameras, and sensors. You simply walk in, take what you want, and go.
RedTrack.io — RedTrack.io offers real-time access to your media buying KPIs/data: ad tracking, impressions, clicks, conversions across multiple channels & 30 data points.
Kingdom Technologies — We build robotic lawn mowers for large terrains.

Investments in exceptional teams in the Baltics & Nordics.Our two main focuses include: 1. Startups with a technological edge. Seed stage. Our check size is from €50K up to €200K. With a vast experience in startup building, we typically get hands-on with our advice and help the founders achieve operational excellence. 2. Innovators oftraditional sectors. SMEs with a proven track and strong market position. Clear plans to accelerate the growth. Our investment ticket can be from €300K to €700K to support these aspirations. If you think we have a match, reach out through invest@springcapital.ee.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Estonia, Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Uniify — Uniify is a no-code customer onboarding software that makes it fast, easy and secure for financial companies to onboard their customers. Save your business time and money, and build onboarding flows for your customers in minutes instead of months.
Crisp — Crisp connects data between retailers, distributors, and brands to power real-time insights across the supply chain.
Salesforge — Salesforge is an all-in-one sales execution super app that gives every sales team the highest probability to hit their target by tackling email deliverability and the need to personalize cold email outreach at scale.We do that by enabling real-time AI & machine learning to decision critical sales activities, enhance messaging and eliminatethe need for various sales point solutions, therefore driving superior conversion rates.

Expansion Capital AIFP plans to participate in Latvian state-owned development finance institution ALTUM organized next generation fund manager tender, in order to continue to invest and finance mainly perspective Latvian ideas, projects, and companies.

Investment focus

Drones, Big Data, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Latvia, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

FIS.solutions — Loan Management System | Loan Servicing Software | Lending Software. Instalment loans, mortgages, car leasing & rentals, credit line, business loans, factoring
Hepta Airborne — Hepta provides automated power grid management and analysis using autonomous drones and powerful analytics software. Visit our website to find out more!

We are a hands-on, community-focused and founders vetted early-stage sustainable energy transition focused VC in Europe & Israel

Investment focus

Software, Renewable Energy, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Lithuania, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Beebop — Beebop is a software designed for power grid orchestration. Beebop's orchestration middleware enables utilities, grid operators, manufacturers, and VPP technology leaders to manage residential asset fleets, enhancing value delivery to end-customers.
Metafuels — Our breakthrough sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology, aerobrew™, will make affordable net-zero aviation a reality. The technology is innovative, highly scaleable and able to tap into future global renewable energy systems efficiently. Starting from renewable feedstocks including green hydrogen, driven by renewable electricity, andsustainably sourced CO2, for example from direct air capture, aerobrew™ provides an efficient route to large-scale production of e-kerosene, overcoming the scale up challenges and high costs of alternative e-fuels technologies. aerobrew™ is also compatible with the biogenic route whereby the carbon required for the process is derived from renewable and sustainable cellulosic biomass which, does not compete with the food chain (wood, miscanthus, etc.). With a high carbon conversion, high selectivity and a high overall SAF yield, aerobrew™ leads to attractive production economics and cost leadership. With a rapidly growing demand for SAF, aerobrew™ stands to contribute significantly to the decarbonisation of global aviation and to support the achievement of net zero 2050 targets.
altrove AI — Altrove - Sustainable Alternatives to Critical Materials

Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.

Investment focus

Apps, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
Estonia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pynk — Pynk is the Multi-Award Winning London Fintech that rewards you for making predictions on assets like Gold, NASDAQ and Bitcoin. Free sign up, start today!
FleetFox — UpSteam is building the future of car care via disrupting both the user experience, and the business side of car the car care industry. With UpSteam you can get a car wash delivered to your doorstep. It works pretty much like ordering a food delivery from Bolt/Uber. While you’re having a business meeting, our operator cleans your carinside-and-out, right at your parking spot. Also, we’re helping our business users save time on fleet management via offering various car care services such as refueling trips, damage control, car relocating, etc.As of August 2021, we've serviced more than 40K cars in 3 countries. UpSteam is combining the key-strengths of its traditional competitors, as users get the comfort of a self-service wash, the quality of a stationary hand wash, at the price-point of an automatic car wash. UpSteam was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia.

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Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Estonia, United Kingdom, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Waybiller — Bulk TMS solution for end-to-end management: Waybiller transforms your logistics operations, allowing you to handle bulk shipments with precision and speed. The Best E-waybill Software & Bulk TMS Solution
U24 Solutions — U24 Solutions is a software development studio specializing in the creation of immersive experiences through virtual reality. We make real-time, room-scale simulations, employing stunning realism and custom libraries of hyper-detailed 3D objects and environments optimized for the VR experience.
Hepta Airborne — Hepta provides automated power grid management and analysis using autonomous drones and powerful analytics software. Visit our website to find out more!

Trind Ventures is an early stage VC fund based in Tallinn, Estonia. Investing in start-ups across Europe, from seed rounds all the way to sustainability, with a focus on ICT. Trind Ventures partners are Joel Aasmäe, Ivar Siimar, Kimmo Irpola and Taavi Lepmets.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Estonia, Finland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Webel — Webel is an on demand Home Services Marketplace (cleaning, nannies, tutors...) where clients can search, book, compare, pay and review these services. Thanks to a deep analysis of the current methods for hiring these services and the competition outlook, we have created a unique and revolutionary business model that will outperform the market.
Groover — Groover is the best way to promote your music to blogs, radios, record labels, & Spotify playlisters. Get listened to, receive coverage & guaranteed feedback!
Jobilla — Reach and activate your target group with a powerful recruitment solution. Increase the amount of applications and get 7X more qualified candidates.

Sunly, a renewable energy company, is active in the Baltics and surrounding markets. Sunly is developing renewable energy projects through Sunly Infra and manages a renewable energy and electrification portfolio of start-ups through Sunly Startup.

Investment focus

Solar, CleanTech, Rental
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Estonia, France, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Themo — Themo's innovation is an algorithm that optimizes the price of exchange electricity and the consumption of electricity. Themo offers an easy and environmentally friendly way to save on electricity consumed by heating.
Vok Bikes — E-cargo bicycles perfect for last-mile deliveries and business use cases in the city. Vok Bikes develops and produces electric cargo bikes in Europe.
UP Catalyst — UP Catalyst produces sustainable carbon nanomaterials and graphite for the green energy storage industry.

Tallinn University of Technology is a technological university that offers engineering, business, and public administration programs.

Investment focus

CleanTech, GreenTech, Manufacturing
Pre-Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

RAIKU — RAIKU is a cleantech startup that produces 100% natural packaging material that has also great looks and shock absorption - most importantly, it gives 15-20 times more volume to its raw material making it one of the most resource efficient material uses in the world with high margins. Both the production is and products are clean making no harm tonature. RAIKU has raised over 1.2mln€ in the pre-seed stage, built a team of over 10 people, its own IP and clients are already using its packaging material. This material will up-end the 1 trillion € packaging sector.

Black Pearls VC is a venture capital firm focusing on Life Quality Technologies. We look for the best entrepreneurs in Poland and the Baltic Sea Region.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Poland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Traxlo — We are at the technology and retail industries intersection. Our longtime experience in the industry taught us that only the right innovation has the potential to make a positive impact. Thus we aim to make our solutions as seamless as possible to be able to add only benefits to every worker who uses our apps and to every retail store manager whohas lots on her plate, day in, day out.
Tapline — Tapline turns your SaaS recurring revenues into fast, transparent and non dilutive growth capital.
HeavyFinance — A borderless lending marketplace, where farmers meet investors

TMT Investments PLC invests in high-growth technology companies across a number of core specialist sectors and has a significant number of Silicon Valley investments in its portfolio. Founded in 2010, TMT has invested in over 65 companies to date. The Company’s objective is to generate an attractive rate of return for shareholders,predominantly through capital appreciation. The Company is traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. www.tmtinvestments.com.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Enty — All-in-one subscription for Invoicing, Contracts, Finances, and Pre-accounting of your European company
Global Work — We help freelancers find remote jobs and gigs faster with AI. Unlock the latest job search strategies with our AI-powered platform.
Mobilo Card — Share your contact details with a tap. The best digital business card for teams. This is a real business card, no app. The best and cheapest digital business card.

Bangladesh Angels operates as an angel investing platform. Its mission to nurture innovation and entrepreneurship in Bangladesh, connecting them to both local and global investors. Bangladesh Angels was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Investment focus

Supply Chain Management, Fashion, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Bangladesh, India, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Adeffi — Adeffi is a tech-enabled ad marketplace revolutionizing OOH and DOOH advertising with innovative, data-driven solutions and gig economy integration. Since 2019, we’ve leveraged technology to transform the physical world into dynamic ad opportunities, helping brands connect with target audiences through impactful outdoor strategies. Profitable andsurpassing $1M in annual revenue in 2024, Adeffi is reshaping the future of advertising in Bangladesh and expanding to cities in India, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam.
Airwrk — AI recruiting sidekick for founders: post permanent or contractual jobs with AI assessments, interview offshore/nearshore remote developers in 24 hours.
Shuttle — Shuttle is a mass-transit startup based in Bangladesh that provides safe transportation at an affordable fare by moving more people with fewer vehicles and caters to both B2B and B2C customers.

Grid.vc is the first investor in superb teams disrupting the energy business.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Bioreactor — Bioreactor is a revolutionary technology that converts bio waste into clean energy through biomass gasification. It's a sustainable, efficient and cost-effective solution that addresses energy poverty, energy security and climate change. With the use of the latest technology in computational fluid dynamics, cloud-optimized digital twin anddeep learning algorithms, the Bioreactor can optimize its performance in real-time over a wide range of fuels and operating conditions. The Bioreactor is a game changer in the energy industry, it can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, drastically lower energy costs, and help to alleviate energy poverty on a national scale.
Safegrid — Smarter sensors for a smarter grid
Vensum Power — Revolutionizing power conversion. More power in same package, less energy waste and low maintenance.

ZGI Capital is the fund management company that manages "ZGI fund”, that was founded to support entrepreneurs lacking start-up capital for their business. The total amount of assets available for venture capital investments is of EUR 7.4M. Combined with bank financing, this will allow to finance investment projects with total assets of up toEUR 30M. The fund acts on behalf of various investors including the State.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Machinery Manufacturing, Consulting
Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
Latvia, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

eAgronom — eAgronom helps farmers generate additional revenue streams, improve soil quality, and access better financing.
KOOL Latvija — "KOOL Latvija" is a new concept gas station created in Latvia, which at the same time is also a convenient fast shopping place.
Bioreactors.net — Biotechnical center is an innovative company and we provide solutions for industrial biotechnology processes, bioreactor manufacturing and industrial automation. We manufacture bioreactors for laboratory, pilot and industrial scale.

Prototron is a start-up fund that gives money to teams for turning their great ideas into the first working prototype. Founded in 2012 by Swedbank, Tallinn Technical University and Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol. We finance teams with high growth potential in areas of Greentech, Electronics, Mechatronics and ICT. We run 3-4 rounds of financingevery year. During last 5 years we've funded 58 startups with over 470'000€ in cash + coaching/incubation services. Our protfolio has generated >4,5 M€ revenue and raised >17'000'000€ capital. These results make Prototron the most productive pre-seed fund in Estonia. Do you want to be part of the success? We seek for: *) New start-up teams who need money for building a prototype. Apply for funding: www.prototron.ee *) Additional partners who want to be part of Estonia's next success stories.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Energy
Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed
Estonia, Germany, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

10Lines — 10Lines is developing autonomous parking lot marking robots and technological solutions to significantly increase productivity in the industry of pavement marking. Our solutions are helping striping businesses do their work much more productively with a smaller environmental footprint.
KrattWorks — We build jamming-resistant and high performance drones for front line operators.
RAIKU — RAIKU is a cleantech startup that produces 100% natural packaging material that has also great looks and shock absorption - most importantly, it gives 15-20 times more volume to its raw material making it one of the most resource efficient material uses in the world with high margins. Both the production is and products are clean making no harm tonature. RAIKU has raised over 1.2mln€ in the pre-seed stage, built a team of over 10 people, its own IP and clients are already using its packaging material. This material will up-end the 1 trillion € packaging sector.

LIFT99 is a coworking hub and network of startup founders in Tallinn, Estonia, and Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2018, we launched our Skillsharing Platform for founders around the world.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Legal
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Estonia, United Kingdom, El Salvador

Portfolio highlights

Modash.io — High performing marketing teams use Modash to find, analyze and monitor influencers at scale all over the world. Join them today.
AXDRAFT — AXDRAFT offers on-demand automation of legal processes for enterprise customers, helping them to draft legal documents 10 times faster and avoid mistake. The biggest advantage of AXDRAFT is the ability to roll-out tailored automation for the customer in one week at no cost to the customer. AXDRAFT works with companies, like Carlsberg, BritishAmerican Tobacco, OLX and many other international brands.
Legal Nodes — Offload your legal tasks to a virtual legal department and get on with running your business. Get started with the Legal Nodes platform for free.

Y-generation investment professionals sourcing and closing deals in LATAM

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Lithuania, Italy, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Macai — Ceramica di Caltagirone. Bomboniere Pigne e Teste di Moro. Autentica ceramica siciliana, bomboniere siciliane . Ceramiche Online
MAX — Make mobility accessible, safe, reliable, and sustainable for 1 billion Africans
Payflow — Payflow is an employee benefit that companies can offer to their employees. Payflow provides employees instant access to earned salary to improve their financial well-being. Companies benefit from improved productivity and engagement, with no impact on cash-flow.Payflow was founded in 2020, and it is a Rocket Internet backed venture based inSpain.

Our focus changes in the same pace with the surrounding world. If the main concern of the mankind is the food and energy supplies and polluted living environment, the current activities of the companies of Vestman Group thus also focus on these topics. Our vision is to be a sustainable forest manager on one of the Estonian largest private forestpossession. We lease out arable lands, give advice and help to find the best solution based on the partner’s needs. We are starting our journey in Eco-friendly Technology to strengthen our Circular economy way of doing things even further. We value the world we live in and the resources we use in our business.

Investment focus

Water, Software, CleanTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

KWOTA — Kwota offers digital validation and trading services for recycled material CO₂ emissions.
Spacedrip — Spacedrip develops automated water treatment and reuse systems that recycle wastewater back to pure usable water with minimal maintenance. Our systems provide off-grid water without the need for centralized sewage/water solutions.
RAIKU — RAIKU is a cleantech startup that produces 100% natural packaging material that has also great looks and shock absorption - most importantly, it gives 15-20 times more volume to its raw material making it one of the most resource efficient material uses in the world with high margins. Both the production is and products are clean making no harm tonature. RAIKU has raised over 1.2mln€ in the pre-seed stage, built a team of over 10 people, its own IP and clients are already using its packaging material. This material will up-end the 1 trillion € packaging sector.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications intends to promote Estonian enterprises' efficiency and people's prosperity.It also encourages entrepreneurship to have a justifiable price for the efficient transport system, a developing information society, and environmentally friendly energy supply.It was headquartered inTallinn, Harjumaa.

Investment focus

CleanTech, GreenTech, Manufacturing
Pre-Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

RAIKU — RAIKU is a cleantech startup that produces 100% natural packaging material that has also great looks and shock absorption - most importantly, it gives 15-20 times more volume to its raw material making it one of the most resource efficient material uses in the world with high margins. Both the production is and products are clean making no harm tonature. RAIKU has raised over 1.2mln€ in the pre-seed stage, built a team of over 10 people, its own IP and clients are already using its packaging material. This material will up-end the 1 trillion € packaging sector.

Little Green Fund invests in companies that are good for the Earth, with teams that can get big things done.

Investment focus

CleanTech, GreenTech, Manufacturing
Pre-Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Esgrid — Manage your value chain ESG data on autopilot, and save hundreds of working hours on legal analysis, ESG data collection and creating improvement guidelines. Become CSRD compliant with Esgrid.
UP Catalyst — UP Catalyst produces sustainable carbon nanomaterials and graphite for the green energy storage industry.
RAIKU — RAIKU is a cleantech startup that produces 100% natural packaging material that has also great looks and shock absorption - most importantly, it gives 15-20 times more volume to its raw material making it one of the most resource efficient material uses in the world with high margins. Both the production is and products are clean making no harm tonature. RAIKU has raised over 1.2mln€ in the pre-seed stage, built a team of over 10 people, its own IP and clients are already using its packaging material. This material will up-end the 1 trillion € packaging sector.

Yolo Investments is focusing on late seed & series A stage investments in igaming, fintech and crypto.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Sports
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Australia, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
Bitblox Games — Offer innovative and engaging blockchain-based games on your platform and attract a new wave of players with Bitblox.
Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform

We are a group of venture capital funds, investing in enterprises in an early stage of development. Areas of our interest include enterprises and entrepreneurs in Central and Eastern Europe, who want to conquer the global market by utilizing their self-developed solutions. Our cooperation with companies is based on a 3-8 years investment horizon.We're looking for innovations from areas such as: consumer internet, electromobility, energy, fintech, martech, adtech, medtech, IoT and hardware. We're interested in technologies like Machine Learning, Picture Recognition and Artificial Intelligence.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Poland, United States, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

PARTORY — PARTORY simplifies sourcing custom metal parts with 8,000+ machines across Europe. Manage orders and inquiries easily in our app.
CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
Patron GO — Patron GO is a fintech firm that uses AI to detect unnecessarily high costs on a customer's bank account and offers the best solutions.

More than just a business angel network Building synergy between startups and angel investors EstBAN is member led organisation committed to finding, funding and mentoring ambitious young companies from pitch through to a successful exit. About estban Latest news Created with Fabric.js 3.5.0 All news For investors Get access to quality pre-selected internationaldeal-flow, and be

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

Esgrid — Manage your value chain ESG data on autopilot, and save hundreds of working hours on legal analysis, ESG data collection and creating improvement guidelines. Become CSRD compliant with Esgrid.
RAIKU — RAIKU is a cleantech startup that produces 100% natural packaging material that has also great looks and shock absorption - most importantly, it gives 15-20 times more volume to its raw material making it one of the most resource efficient material uses in the world with high margins. Both the production is and products are clean making no harm tonature. RAIKU has raised over 1.2mln€ in the pre-seed stage, built a team of over 10 people, its own IP and clients are already using its packaging material. This material will up-end the 1 trillion € packaging sector.
DriveX Technologies — Boost your windshield damage assessment accuracy with an AI inspection tool that provides instant repairability decisions.

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