Top 15 Consumer Angel Investors in Estonia
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Consumer startups based in Estonia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Consumer companies from Estonia. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Consumer Angel Investors in Estonia
Investor | Consumer Estonia investments |
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Taavi Kotka | 2 |
Sten Tamkivi | 2 |
Ragnar Sass | 2 |
Taavi Veskimägi | 1 |
Martin Villig | 1 |
Taavet Hinrikus | 1 |
Artis Kehris | 1 |
Elar Nellis | 1 |
Kersti Kaljulaid | 1 |
Toomas Kõuhkna | 1 |
Markku Jääskelainen | 1 |
James B Gambrell | 1 |
Mada Arslan | 1 |
Justin Jenk | 1 |
Kuldar Väärsi | 1 |
Taavi Kotka, currently the Estonian Government CIO, has a strong background working in private sector. He started his career as a programmer, rapidly rising to be a Managing Director of the most successful software development company in the region – Nortal, former Webmedia. He is a founder of many innovative start-up companies likezeroturnaround.com, plumbr.eu etc. He has a Master of Science in Engineering from Tallinn University of Technology. Also, Taavi Kotka has many honors: he is the European CIO of the Year 2014 (by ICT Spring), he was the president of the Estonian Association of Information Technology and Telecommunications (ITL) and he was elected as an Entrepreneur of the year in 2011 (by Ernst&Young). Taavi is a board member in many ICT initiatives in Estonia and has been the brainpower behind many Estonian e-government innovative initiatives like e-residency, data embassy, no-legacy policy etc.
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Investment focus
- Electronics, Battery, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
- VOOL — VOOL is a one-stop shop for EV Charging. Experience chargers that are reliable, save money, and look damn good. Made in Estonia.
- Introwise — Introwise makes it easy for everyday experts to offer coaching and advice online.
Sten Tamkivi is the Chief Product Officer at Topia (formerly MOVE Guides). He was previously co-founder and CEO of Teleport (acquired by Topia), the place to scout for startup people. He co-founded the company as an EIR at Andreessen Horowitz.Sten has been a tech entrepreneur since 1996. After founding a few companies in Estonia, he joined Skypeas an early executive, ran the original R&D office, and held several global product leadership roles for 8+ years.He has an MS in Management from Stanford GSB.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Estonia, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
- Katana — Katana gives thousands of manufacturers a live look at their business with visual, intuitive, and easy-to-use ERP software.
- Entrepreneur First — We are the best place for the world's most ambitious talent to come together and build game-changing technology startups from scratch.
Ragnar Sass has strongest skill is to find the best people and keep them rocking in speed of 200 km/h. He has organized 20+ Hack-a-thons Garage48 in Eastern Europe + West & East-Africa. He advise other founders and share experience where it could help.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Estonia, United States, United Kingdom
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- Alvin — Highly accurate, automated column-level lineage, powering your data workflows.
- BeTRITON — 100% electric recreational vehicle - revolution in sustainable travel. BeTRITON (formerly known as Z-Triton) offers extraordinary experience and freedom to travel both over land and water.
- Around — The largest network of workspaces on flexible terms. We are a savvy team from Latin America providing fast-growing companies with on-demand access to flexible office space. Everywhere.We believe work at its best is always creative and collaborative, expressed with freedom, autonomy, and purpose; and the space surrounding us should help us achieveit, anywhere & everywhere.We are shaping the future of work today by improving workspaces and the rules around them, and helping innovative teams find their ideal space to make their best work every day — our first step on a journey to change the way we work and think about work.Our best work. Anywhere. Everywhere. We are Around.
Taavi Veskimägi is a former member of the Estonian Parliament(2003-2009) and Minister of Finance from 2003 to 2005.
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Investment focus
- Water, Battery, Recycling
- Funding Round
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- VOOL — VOOL is a one-stop shop for EV Charging. Experience chargers that are reliable, save money, and look damn good. Made in Estonia.
- 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.
Martin is co-founder of Bolt.eu, Estonian Founders Society, Garage48.org, Good Deed Education Foundation and kood/Jõhvi coding school.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Education
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Estonia, Spain, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-own car service for private clients.
- Mentornaut — Mentornaut is a new online tutoring platform is aiming to increase inclusion in personalized education and counts Super angel, United Angels VC, and a list of EdTech advocates like Bolt co-founder Martin Villig, and Clanbeat co-founder Kadri Tuisk among its investors.
- StudentFinance — Catapult your career with leading re-skilling and up-skilling bootcamps. Study now and pay us back once you land a job & start earning!
Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
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- Arbonics — Fair income for landowners and proven carbon credits for companies through afforestation and impact forestry. We help landowners earn income from carbon.
- Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
- Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.
Artis Kehris - Co-Founder @ Printify
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Information Services, Legal
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Estonia, Latvia, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Cloud Factory — Cloud Factory provides consulting, implementation, and support for Dynamics 365 Business Central, MYOB Advanced, SAP B1, Wiise and Korber Warehouse Management.
- 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.
- Cloud Factory — Cloud Factory team helps you launch your personal branded jewelry merchandise without any effort, up-front payments or inventory issues. This is the place where to 3D print silver.
Elar is a full-stack engineer with 12+ years of experience. He has worked for different start-ups during his whole professional career and wouldn't change start-up life for anything. Elar was also the first employee of Estonian flagship startup Pipedrive. If he's not working then he's probably playing piano, writing music or hikingin the endless forests of Estonia.
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Investment focus
- Software, CAD, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Latvia, Estonia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- VOOL — VOOL is a one-stop shop for EV Charging. Experience chargers that are reliable, save money, and look damn good. Made in Estonia.
- CENOS — CENOS redefines engineering simulation software category for mass adoption: FROM enterprise niche and multi-purpose software for 100K simulation experts TO mass adoption of intuitive vertical-focused simulation apps by 10M+ practical engineers in production
- Corner Renovation — Volume Hiring AI Automator
In 2016, Kersti Kaljulaid was elected President of the Republic of Estonia. Previously she served from 2004 to 2016 as a Member of the European Court of Auditors. Kersti Kaljulaid was the CFO and CEO of the Iru Power Plant of state-owned energy company Eesti Energia from 2002 to 2004. From 1999 to 2002, Kersti Kaljulaid was Prime Minister MartLaar's Economic Advisor.Kersti Kaljulaid was a member of the Supervisory Board of the Estonian Genome Center from 2001 to 2004. She was also a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Tartu from 2009 to 2011 and the Council Chair of the University from 2012 to 2016. Kersti Kaljulaid graduated from the University of Tartu in 1992 in the field of genetics in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and completed her master's studies in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration in 2001.
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Investment focus
- Battery, Electronics, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- VOOL — VOOL is a one-stop shop for EV Charging. Experience chargers that are reliable, save money, and look damn good. Made in Estonia.
Toomas Kõuhkna
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Investment focus
- Battery, Electronics, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- VOOL — VOOL is a one-stop shop for EV Charging. Experience chargers that are reliable, save money, and look damn good. Made in Estonia.
Markku Jääskelainen.
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Investment focus
- Drones, Big Data, Software
- Series A
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Hepta Airborne — Hepta provides automated power grid management and analysis using autonomous drones and powerful analytics software. Visit our website to find out more!
James B Gambrell - CEO @ Supponor
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- Sports, Fashion, E-Commerce
- Series B, Funding Round
- Estonia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Rakuten Fits Me — Fit Origin is the ultimate fit recommendation solution for eCommerce fashion retailers which puts fit and body shapes at the heart of the online shopping experience. It combines garment data and shopper data to determine which size garment will fit them, the way they want to wear it.Each shopper’s measurements are calculated based on height,weight, age and body shape. Deep statistical analysis of thousands of detailed body scans allows their data scientists to use these limited data points to infer high quality information about the shopper’s measurements.Every garment is analysed by their garment technologists, taking many factors into account including silhouette, stretch and fit preference. A shopper’s body measurements are used in conjunction with garment measurements to interpret how each size will fit a shopper.Fit Origin recommends the best size to fit shoppers, with the ability to compare sizes based on their own fit preferences.Their fit recommendation solution allows your shoppers to buy with confidence. At Rakuten Fits Me they are all about ‘Me’ fashion, not mass fashion. They are the only size and fit solution provider to align your product data with shopper body data so they get the perfect fit, first time, every time.
- Supponor — Supponor is an innovative sports media and technology company whose DBRLive technology is revolutionizing perimeter advertising in sports. We replace traditional perimeter advertising in sports broadcasts with virtual, digital content. Fans across the world watching a live sporting event see live TV feeds identical in every way – but withpitch-side advertisements relevant to them.There are three core elements to what Supponor does:• We manage and operate DBRLive, a technically innovative and operationally robust media platform which integrates with live broadcasts • We create new value for rights holders by enhancing and acquiring packages of their perimeter billboard inventory • We deliver marketing opportunities to brands around the world looking to engage specific sports audiences with relevant marketingSupponor’s headquarters are in the UK, and our operations teams are continually on the road, working with local partners as specialists at live sporting events across the globe.Supponor’s highly skilled software engineers in the research and development team in Espoo, Finland, work constantly to refine and further develop the technology underpinning DBRLive, pushing boundaries to create new value for our clients and partners.Supponor is a privately-held company, owned by management, private investors and VC funds – Sports Investment Partners, Northzone, and Conor.
Prior to Id4 ventures Mada was Head of Financial Control & Compliance at Leap Ventures and consultant at Lebanese central bank Banque Du Liban.
Before that, she spent 3 years as an auditor at PwC. Mada holds a BBA with an emphasis in accounting & an MBA from the American University of Beirut and is a Certified Public Accountant licenseefrom the State of New Hampshire USA.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Sports, Consumer Goods
- Convertible Note, Series A
- Norway, Denmark, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Hooves — Hooves connects horses and riders by communicating through an easy-to-use app. Hooves brings the horse sport into the sharing economy. With the management's app building trust and easing communication, and our insurance securing everything, it is lowering costs and creating new opportunities in a very elitist market.
- Drylab R&D — Drylab is the professional filmmakerʼs window into a movie or TV series, from start of shooting to the finished production.
- Ampler Bikes — Smart, durable and light e-bikes that look like classic bicycles. Select your Ampler e-bike online today and start your journey.
Justin Jenk is the Senior Managing Partner of Raktas OU.
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Investment focus
- Battery, Electronics, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- VOOL — VOOL is a one-stop shop for EV Charging. Experience chargers that are reliable, save money, and look damn good. Made in Estonia.
Kuldar Väärsi is the Founder and CEO at Milrem Robotics.
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Investment focus
- Water, Battery, Recycling
- Funding Round
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- VOOL — VOOL is a one-stop shop for EV Charging. Experience chargers that are reliable, save money, and look damn good. Made in Estonia.
- 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.
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