# Top 20 Consumer Angel Investors in Estonia in June 2026 ## Markku Jääskelainen - Type: Angel - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Drones, Big Data, Software Markku Jääskelainen. ## Taavi Kotka - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Electronics, Battery, FinTech 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. ## Artur Dianov - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Drones, Manufacturing Artur Dianov is a angel investor. ## Taavi Veskimägi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Water, Battery, Recycling Taavi Veskimägi is a former member of the Estonian Parliament(2003-2009) and Minister of Finance from 2003 to 2005. ## Kuldar Väärsi - Type: Angel - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Water, Battery, Recycling Kuldar Väärsi is the Founder and CEO at Milrem Robotics. ## Norberts Erts - Type: Angel - Location: Riga, Riga, Latvia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Rental, Retail, Leasing Norberts Erts is the Product Marketing Manager at Sage. ## Toomas Hendrik Ilves - Type: Angel - Location: Stanford, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Fashion, E-Commerce, Search Engine Toomas Hendrik Ilves is the CEO of Ilves Consulting Group. He attended the University of Pennsylvania. ## Kristjan Vilosius - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce Kristjan Vilosius - Co-Founder and CEO @ Katana ## Ragnar Sass - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Software, SaaS Ragnar Sass is the Co-Founder of Darkstar Camp. He previously worked at LIFT99 as a Founder and CEO. Ragnar Sass attended Estonian Business School. ## Mada Arslan - Type: Angel - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Convertible Note, Series A - Focus: Apps, Sports, Consumer Goods 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. ## Artis Kehris - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Information Services, Legal Artis Kehris - Co-Founder @ Printify ## Kersti Kaljulaid - Type: Angel - Location: Tallin, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Gaming, Battery, Software 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. ## Justin Jenk - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Battery, Electronics, Manufacturing Justin Jenk is the Senior Managing Partner of Raktas OU. ## James B Gambrell - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B - Focus: Sports, Fashion, E-Commerce James B Gambrell - CEO @ Supponor ## Sten Tamkivi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing 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. ## Oliver Ahlberg - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Oliver Ahlberg is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Skeleton Technologies. He has assured excellent operational capabilities and played a critical role in the development of internal procedures which have kept the company on the forefront of energy storage development. He has had an integral role in securing VC funding and settingup the company's R&D Center in Estonia. Additionally he plays a central role in the company's IT capabilities, production systems and processes and daily administration of the company. Leading the pilot production of the company, he also offers input in product development and has led production optimization efforts. Oliver Ahlberg has previously worked in the IT and law sector in San Fransisco, USA and Tallinn, Estonia. He has co-founded digital media company Vigvam Studio and a daily deals site acquired by the market leader in 2010. Oliver Ahlberg has earned a law degree from University of Tartu. ## Markus Villig - Type: Angel - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech Markus Villig is founder and CEO of Taxify. He attended University of Tartu. ## Andrius Slimas - Type: Angel - Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Cooking, Jewelry Andrius Slimas - CEO and co-founder @ Oberlo, formerly head of web agency Studio4, over ten years experience in ecommerce, dropshipping and software development.Oberlo is a dropshipping solution for ecommerce store-owners. It provides a number of dropshipping automation tools and instant access to millions of products available fordropshipping. ## Marc Lamik - Type: Angel - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Fashion, E-Commerce, Search Engine Marc Lamik is the Chief Product and Technology Officer of Moonfare. He previously worked at Cloudflare as a Director of Product. Marc Lamik attended the University of Düsseldorf. ## Elar Nellis - Type: Angel - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, CAD, SaaS 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co