# Top 50 Consumer Startup Investors in Estonia in June 2026

## Specialist VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Tera Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

Tera Ventures is an international investment firm based in Estonia.

## Contrarian Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Renewable Energy, Energy

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

## Thorgate Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

We invest both capital and our know-how into startups. Join us and let's change the world

## Expansion Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riga, Riga, Latvia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Manufacturing, Logistics, Transportation

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.

## Trind Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Trind VC is a founder-first venture capital firm investing in early-stage consumer startups across Europe. We back ambitious teams, help them grow, and stay by their side through every stage of the journey.

## Prototron
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Internet of Things

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.

## Entrepreneurs Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

Entrepreneurs Fund provides early stage and growth financing alongside active support to entrepreneurial teams. Their current areas of investment focus are Life-sciences, Water, Materials and Automotive Technology.

## SpeedUp Venture Capital Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Conor Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Semiconductor

Conor Venture Partners is a new breed technology venture capital fund and management company. Conor invests in early-stage companies originating from Nordic and Baltic countries. Investment areas include information and communications technology, embedded software, semiconductor technology, electronics, new materials and optics.

## BADideas.fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Grant
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

BADideas.fund backs bold founders from the Baltics and CEE with fast, founder-friendly funding. Led by a community of unicorn builders, we support early-stage B2B and marketplace startups with global ambition.

## 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.

## Markku Jääskelainen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Drones, Big Data, Software

Markku Jääskelainen.

## ZAKA VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology

ZAKA Startups is a private pre-seed and seed venture capital company. It is focused on early-stage software driven investments across the whole EU with primary focus on CEE, DACH and Baltics. ZAKA operates primarily from Prague and Bratislava with scouts in Berlin and Baltic region.

## Decacorn Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Decacorn Capital is a cross-border venture funding initiative, centred around game changing start-ups, enabled by innovative use of technology and led by high-caliber, resourceful  founders who are out there with the mission to either create a true  delight or solve a real problem.

## 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.

## Kaamos
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Battery, CleanTech

Kaamos is an investment management firm that invests in the construction, real estate, energy sector, and wood industry.

## EBRD Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series D
- Focus: Software, Open Source, Data Storage

EBRD VC is the venture investing arm of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, investing in high growth technology companies across all verticals

## Taavet Hinrikus
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

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.

## Sunly
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Solar, CleanTech, Rental

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.

## Spring Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

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.

## 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.

## Destiny Energy
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Drones, Manufacturing

Destiny Energy is a renewable energy Solutions platform.

## 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.

## 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.

## Everywhere Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech

Everywhere Ventures is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created ​by founders for founders​ to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators across ten micro funds. TheFund's $70M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.

## 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.

## Amalfi Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Beauty, Health Care, Location Based Services

International Technology Investment Fund

## One Vision Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Eyewear, Fashion, E-Commerce

An independent firm that identifies and supports products, technologies, and sustainable models for the future of the consumer industry.

## Syda Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Drones, Manufacturing

Syda Ventures focuses on investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups.

## 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.

## Artur Dianov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Drones, Manufacturing

Artur Dianov is a angel investor.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## RubyLight
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riga, Riga, Latvia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, E-Commerce

RubyLight is experienced tech entrepreneurs that founded a new technology investment fund in 2010.Their passion is to help fast growing internet and mobile startups to scale and expand globally. Social media, content sharing, communications, and crowd sourcing are their favorite areas of investment.RubyLight offers startups its professionaltech team, proprietary technology, and financial funding to help young companies scale up and expand globally much faster than their competitors.

## Opus11 VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Battery, Electronics

Opus11 VC is an Investment firm.

## Superangel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology

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

## 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.

## Artis Kehris
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Information Services, Legal

Artis Kehris - Co-Founder @ Printify

## The Sharing Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Environmental Consulting, FinTech

The Sharing Group operates in various markets with a focus on tech, energy and mobility. It is a group of colleagues, brands, members, and investors with a shared interest.

## LongeVC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics

With more than 30 portfolio companies across AI, pet health, ageing medicine and more, LongeVC provides venture capital for the biotech and longevity sectors.

## Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

JJDC, Inc. is the strategic venture capital arm of Johnson & Johnson Innovation. Learn more about our equity investment strategy.

## Trind VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Sports

Trind VC is a founder-first venture capital firm investing in early-stage consumer startups across Europe. We back ambitious teams, help them grow, and stay by their side through every stage of the journey.

## Union Labs Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Union Labs Ventures is a DeepTech Seed fund that invests in exceptional founders from diverse backgrounds who are applying deep technologies to solve hard problems in the physical world. Core focus areas include: Industrial IoT, Consumer IoT, Health, Climate Tech, Insuretech, Cyber Security, AI/Machine Learning, Autonomous Technology,Manufacturing.

## 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.

## Ukrainian Startup Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

USF originally set up to promote the development of the local startup ecosystem and today is the largest local angel investor with already 130 funded startups and the most extensive startups database and stakeholders (over 3,000 applications).

## Bangladesh Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Fashion, Supply Chain Management

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.

## Grupo Boticário Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Beauty, Retail

Grupo Boticário Ventures is an corporate venture capital arm of Grupo Boticário.

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