Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in Estonia
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Hardware startups based in Estonia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from Estonia. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in Estonia
Investor | Hardware Estonia investments |
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Jaan Tallinn | 5 |
Sten Tamkivi | 3 |
Ragnar Sass | 3 |
Batuhan Gültakan | 2 |
Engin Gürsöz | 2 |
Emre Kozlu | 2 |
Kuido Lepik | 2 |
Taavet Hinrikus | 2 |
Taavi Kotka | 2 |
Sebastien Borget | 2 |
Aydın Mizrahi | 2 |
Kaarel Kotkas | 2 |
Joachim Hedenius | 2 |
Yiğit Barış Şemin | 2 |
Priit Kasesalu | 2 |
Indrek Kasela | 1 |
Gautam Shah | 1 |
Artur Dianov | 1 |
Mada Arslan | 1 |
Hubert Thieblot | 1 |
James B Gambrell | 1 |
Markku Jääskelainen | 1 |
Brian Corrigan | 1 |
Elar Nellis | 1 |
Stefano Corazza | 1 |
Kersti Kaljulaid | 1 |
Toomas Kõuhkna | 1 |
Gmoney eth | 1 |
Emrah Gultekin | 1 |
Martin Tajur | 1 |
Linnar Viik | 1 |
Raivo Kütt | 1 |
Aare Järvan | 1 |
Toomas Bergmann | 1 |
Kuldar Väärsi | 1 |
Paul Melin | 1 |
Anand Agarawala | 1 |
Tom Preston-Werner | 1 |
Marvin Liao | 1 |
Triin Hertmann | 1 |
Artur Sychov | 1 |
Raigo Õunapuu | 1 |
Siret Unsal | 1 |
Marek Kiisa | 1 |
Ahti Heinla | 1 |
Taavi Veskimägi | 1 |
Ergo Sooru | 1 |
Justin Jenk | 1 |
Alvar Lumberg | 1 |
Martin Henk | 1 |
Jaan Tallinn is the Co-Founder of the Centre for Study of Existential Risk and Future of Life Institute.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Estonia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
- Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
- TENYX — Tenyx is developing the next generation of voice-based intelligent systems based on proprietary neuroscience-inspired AI technology
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Batuhan Gültakan
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Investment focus
- Software, Crowdsourcing, Computer Vision
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Co-one — Data annotation for AI teams. Have super fast, accuracy guarenteed annotations. Co-one provides fast&accurate data annotations.
Engin Gürsöz
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Investment focus
- Software, Crowdsourcing, Computer Vision
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Co-one — Data annotation for AI teams. Have super fast, accuracy guarenteed annotations. Co-one provides fast&accurate data annotations.
Emre Kozlu is a Director Strategy & Program Delivery at Philip Morris International.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, InsurTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Co-one — Data annotation for AI teams. Have super fast, accuracy guarenteed annotations. Co-one provides fast&accurate data annotations.
- Myth AI — Myth AI provides artificial intelligence-based "state of the art" pattern design tools that brings together designers and businesses.
- eTasin.com — https://etasin.com
Kuido Lepik - Owner & CEO @ Signiti
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Investment focus
- Apps, GPS, Pet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Traxby — Traxby OÜ (formerly Huntloc OÜ) is a company owned by Estonian owners, founded in 2013, which develops various real-time tracking platforms via a smartphone and manufactures tracking devices. The company’s product portfolio includes the following solutions: hunting platform Huntloc for hunters, team management platform LiveTeam, dog tracking appDoglo. The company has developed its own GPS-GSM tracking device, which is mainly intended for tracking dogs. The device is long life, robust, water resistant, no distance limitation.
- CostPocket — CostPocket is an accountancy startup intended to help accountants receive receipts from their clients in a much faster and easier way. Its expense management software automates business expense entry, eliminates paper trail, and reduces administrative effort and helps to ease the workflow and save 75% of the time accountants spend on receipts,enabling clients to save time on receipt delivery.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia.
- Zelos Team Management —
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Open Cosmos — Driven by the vision of making space accessible to anyone, Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.Open Cosmos went from design to delivery of qb01, their first nanosatellite, in only four months, followed by a launch and deployment in LEO early April 2017. They are currently working with innovative payload developers towardsin-orbit demonstration and constellation deployment to enable services ranging from remote sensing to maritime domain awareness and machine-to-machine communications.
- Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.
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.
Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- BlockGames — BlockGames delivers a cross-game and decentralized player network driven by Universal Player Profiles.
- Bolero — Invest in the music rights of your favourite songs and get royalties on Bolero, the all-in-one marketplace to invest in Song Shares. Invest in music today!
- PlayMakers — Capture, audit, and monetize user-generated content (UGC) in your game. Drive higher engagement, game longevity, and unlock monetization opportunities.
Aydın Mizrahi
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Investment focus
- Software, InsurTech, Logistics
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Co-one — Data annotation for AI teams. Have super fast, accuracy guarenteed annotations. Co-one provides fast&accurate data annotations.
- eTasin.com — https://etasin.com
Kaarel Kotkas is a Co-Founder and CEO at Veriff.
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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, 3D Technology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Estonia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Yaga — Yaga is designed for everyone who wants to sell items online in a convenient and secure manner.
- Yera — Improve quality of support, sales, on-time delivery, time tracking and more. The only fully automated all-in-one engagement & reward system for teams. Results in just 30 days (or less).
- Yera — Visualize agent performance. Gamify work and plant real trees. High-growth companies use Yera to empower their agents, improve KPIs, and reduce their carbon footprint. Agents can deliver their best work, feel motivated, and help save the planet.
Joachim Hedenius is the VPE and Co-Founder of KRY.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Sweden, Estonia, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Passionfroot — A workspace where you can manage your creator business and organise your finances so that you can optimise your creator-work-life balance.
- Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
- Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
Yiğit Barış Şemin
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Investment focus
- Software, Crowdsourcing, Computer Vision
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Co-one — Data annotation for AI teams. Have super fast, accuracy guarenteed annotations. Co-one provides fast&accurate data annotations.
Priit is heavily involved in assessing all of ASI's new technology investments.Before ASI, Priit played an integral role in developing Kazaa and later Skype; indeed, he continues to work at Skype as a core library developer.While cryptography and data communication are his areas of expertise, his other passion is computer gamedevelopment. Together with Ahti and Jaan, he wrote the first Estonian commercial computer game, Kosmonaut.When he isn't using his innate ability to solve complex technical problems, Priit enjoys good company, gourmet restaurants and biking.He holds a degree in automation and system technology from Tallinn University of Technology.
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Investment focus
- iOS, Apps, Email
- Seed
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Fleep — Fleep is a web, Android, iOS, Mac and Windows app that wants to bridge the gap between ‘reply all’-style group email and enterprise messaging/IM services.Founded by ex-Skypers, Fleep is a messaging service that fills the gap between email and various IM/texting services. They take email’s ability to contact anyone and marry it withreal-time messaging.They are based in Estonia, with offices in Tallinn and Tartu. Their services are hosted on Amazon EC2 in Dublin, Ireland.
Indrek Kasela - investor @ Luup Culture
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Investment focus
- Hardware, Software, Insurance
- Seed, Angel
- Estonia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- GScan — Cosmic-ray based solutions for 3D imaging. GScan redefines the boundaries of 3D scanning with Muon Flux Technology (MFT) detectors. Unparalleled quality, safety, ease-of-use. Scan anything. Detect everything.
- Insly — Insly provides insurance software solutions that help you manage and automate your insurance business operations and increase the efficiency of your processes.
Gautam Shah
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Video Games
- Series B, Series C, Seed
- United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Faraway — Faraway makes hyper-social blockchain games with player-driven economies.
- Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
- Souq G-Commerce — Souq is lowering the barriers to access and participate in GameFi. We're building the infrastructure powering community-owned financial markets where players can thoughtfully invest in the games they love.
Artur Dianov is a angel investor.
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Investment focus
- Drones, Manufacturing
- Pre-Seed
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- SKYCORP Technologies — SKYCORP Technologies is a company that designs and manufactures hydrogen drones and accompanying infrastructure.
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.
Hubert Thieblot founded Curse, Inc. in 2005 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Denmark, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
- Bright Star Studios — Publisher of Ember Sword. We build zero-friction next-gen social MMOs that empower gamers through open player-centric-economies based on digital collectibles.
- End Game Interactive — End Game Interactive is a game development company that built third-party apps for games such as Pokévision. End Game Interactive is a developer of ZombsRoyale.io, a real-time multiplayer shooter that runs in browsers across numerous platforms. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.
James B Gambrell - CEO @ Supponor
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Investment focus
- 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 provides commercially and technically proven solutions that deliver virtually enhanced advertising spaces in live sports broadcast.
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!
Brian Corrigan is the VP and Head of Americas at PUBG Corporation. He attended Clarkson University and the University at Albany, SUNY.
(This website is horribly out of date, probably best to hit my website or LinkedIn)
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Internet, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- United States, Estonia, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Powerspike — Powerspike is a new type of advertising network based on content creators - where any marketer can make their brand famous in a few clicks. Our Endorsement Serving technology automatically buys, executes, and optimizes content creator endorsements - replacing the traditionally lengthy process of RFP’s, human negotiations, and insertion orders.
- Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
- Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
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
Currently Fellow&VP at Adobe Systems, Stefano heads Adobe's Augmented Reality effort. The mastermind behind Mixamo's advanced technology, Stefano Corazza applied his experience from the University of Padua Human Movement Lab and the Stanford University Biomotion Lab to develop the effective mathematical and machine learning solutionsthat support Mixamo.Prior to Mixamo, Corazza was a research associate at the Stanford University Biomotion Lab until 2008 where he developed markerless motion capture technology and won the Stanford-Caltech-Berkeley Innovators' Challenge in 2005. He additionally is the CTO and co-founder of dublit.com, a Web 2.0 site for short-form literature based in San Francisco; and co-founded and served on the board for Memory SRL, an enterprise software company based in Italy.A true Renaissance man active within the domain of large scale kinetic and new media art and with a past as paragliding test-pilot, Corazza holds a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from University of Padua, a master of design from University of Florence, a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in bioengineering and computer vision from University of Padua, part of which was completed at Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Social Media, 3D Technology
- Series A, Series B
- Estonia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Koji — Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize.
- Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
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.
Gmoney eth
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Investment focus
- Apps, Gaming, Messaging
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Estonia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
- Salsa (prev. Pearl) — Community tools for artists.
Emrah Gultekin
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Investment focus
- Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Image Recognition
- Seed
- Estonia, United States
Portfolio highlights
Martin Tajur is the co-founder of Pipedrive.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Recruiting
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Estonia, Poland, Ukraine
Portfolio highlights
- YuMuuv — YuMuuv is an employee wellness platform that uses science-based formulas to capture data and keeps track of physical activity & leaderboard.
- Shen.AI @ MX Labs — Allow your user to comprehensively monitor their vital signs. Check wellbeing, prevent misdiagnosis, and motivate lifestyle changes thanks to Shen.AI.
- SegmentStream — SegmentStream is a data intelligence platform which helps collect and unify from different data sources into own data warehouse for advanced analytics and attribution. Our solution is trusted by leading brands such as Benetton, Nespresso, New Balance, myToys, Eventim Group, and others.
Linnar Viik is a founder of poco.
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Investment focus
- Risk Management, Satellite Communication
- Seed
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Value.Space — Space based risk assessments & monitoring
Raivo Kütt
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Investment focus
- Apps, Gaming, Mobile
- Angel
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- 3DC.io — The 3D Design App for Schools
Aare Järvan
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Investment focus
- Apps, Gaming, Mobile
- Angel
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- 3DC.io — The 3D Design App for Schools
Toomas Bergmann
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Investment focus
- Hardware, Mobile Apps, Construction
- Seed, Angel
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- GScan — Cosmic-ray based solutions for 3D imaging. GScan redefines the boundaries of 3D scanning with Muon Flux Technology (MFT) detectors. Unparalleled quality, safety, ease-of-use. Scan anything. Detect everything.
- Bolt — The smartest way to move around in cities. Forget expensive taxi rides or slow public transport. Get a ride in minutes. Download the Bolt app for iOS and Android.
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.
Paul Melin is the Chairman Of The Board at Silcube Software.
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Investment focus
- B2B, SaaS, Content
- Seed
- Estonia, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Warren.io — Warren platform equips partnering providers with a white labelled self-service portal for easy access to infrastructure and managed services.
- PromoRepublic — We created a set of smart products that helps enterprises, marketing agencies, and SMBs grow brand awareness and sales at the local level. We’re recognized as a Top-10 fast-growing SaaS Company, High Performer Summer 2020 by G2, and featured in prominent publications like TechCrunch and TNW.
Anand Agarawala is the creator of BumpTop, an irresistible new desktop interface with a satisfyingly three-dimensional physicality and a fresh approach to interactivity.Anand completed his Master thesis in 2006 which pioneered a novel physically based desktop interface leveraging expressive power and casual nature of real desks. His Masters ofComputer Science was completed at the University of Toronto. He completed his undergraduate thesis in 2004 at the University of Calgary. In his free time, Anand enjoys competitive team sports such as hockey and basketball. He often travels to India and across Europe and North America.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Mobile, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Watsi — Watsi is a nonprofit that brings people together through technology to fund life-changing healthcare.
- FANtium — Build your portfolio of sports assets, participate in their success, and become part of the team.
- Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
Tom Preston-Werner - Cofounder @ Preston-Werner Ventures
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- OpenPipe — Convert expensive LLM prompts into fast, cheap fine-tuned models.
- Liquid AI — Liquid AI is an MIT spin-off with a presence in Boston, MA, and Palo Alto, CA. Our mission is to build state-of-the-art, general-purpose AI systems from first principles and deploy capable, efficient, highly aligned, and trustworthy AI for all.
- MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
Marvin works with awesome startups across the globe and at the SF/SV accelerator programs – that is, when he's not practicing his signature song (Backstreet Boys ``I Want it That Way`` btw) & dealing with his book buying addiction, A recovering exec from Yahoo! he's very happy to be part of the Revolution!
He invests in digitalmedia, adtech, marketing cloud, e-commerce and mobile startups across the globe. Formerly of Yahoo! Inc. (10.5 years), Marvin has worked in various departments – sales, business development, ad operations and marketing. Most of his positions have been regional or global management roles, giving him extensive experience across Asia, Europe, Latin America and the United States. He presently serves on the boards and advisory boards of several internet advertising and ad technology companies across the globe. In addition, he is a mentor for several startup accelerator programs in Europe, Israel and the US, helping guide startup teams with their sales, marketing and partner development efforts.I'm an experienced client-facing senior executive in the media and technology space in both large and start up growth companies, managing large multifunctional teams across multiple countries while based in the Silicon Valley.A longtime fan, participant, and an observer of the digital technology revolution occurring for the last 14 years across the world, i am presently on the advisory boards of several internet advertising and ad technology companies across the globe.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, France, Latvia
Portfolio highlights
- 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
- Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
- Starchain Gazer — Building the most user-centric Web3 game studio in the world, creating powerful gaming experiences.
Triin Hertmann is founder of Grünfin, a sustainable investment platform, angel investor (mostly in Estonia and Nordics region). She is a former COO at TransferWise and early employee of Skype.
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- FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Estonia
Artur Sychov - Founder & CEO @ Somnium Space
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- Gaming, 3D Technology, Virtual Reality
- Series A
- Estonia
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- Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
Raigo Õunapuu CEO and Co-founder at FOB Solutions
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- GPS, Pet, Apps
- Pre-Seed
- Estonia
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- Traxby — Traxby OÜ (formerly Huntloc OÜ) is a company owned by Estonian owners, founded in 2013, which develops various real-time tracking platforms via a smartphone and manufactures tracking devices. The company’s product portfolio includes the following solutions: hunting platform Huntloc for hunters, team management platform LiveTeam, dog tracking appDoglo. The company has developed its own GPS-GSM tracking device, which is mainly intended for tracking dogs. The device is long life, robust, water resistant, no distance limitation.
- MyGames —
Siret Unsal serves as Executive Director, Turkey Investment Banking at UBS Investment Bank.
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- Software, Crowdsourcing, Computer Vision
- Seed
- Turkey, Estonia
Marek Kiisa is the co-founder and Managing Partner at NordicNinja VC, and the co-founder and partner at Superangel.io. He has made 15 private angel investments and created several companies, like Astrec Baltic, Pilvio.io and Kood/Johvi coding school. He has his Master Degree on Machine Design from KTH Stockholm and he is a Kauffman FellowClass 19.
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- Software, Information Technology, Transportation
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Estonia, United States, Sweden
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- Monese — Monese is a digital banking alternative that provides mobile-only, multi-currency accounts in 31 countries across the European Economic Area, for those who are underserved by the traditional banking system. It was launched in 2015 by Norris Koppel, after his first-hand experience of the hassle involved with opening a bank account in a new country.With a fully-featured and fully localized banking experience (both its apps and its customer service are available in 14 languages), Monese allows people and businesses to spend and save like locals across Europe. Its proprietary “Know Your Customer” technology can validate a customer’s identity in real-time, allowing accounts to be opened in a matter of minutes, from a mobile app.
- Wwwash — Download wwwash app. Car wash - hardware and software to connect every car wash to cloud. wwwash.
- Warren.io — Warren platform equips partnering providers with a white labelled self-service portal for easy access to infrastructure and managed services.
Ahti is the CEO, CTO and co-founder in Starship Technologies, a startup that intends to disrupt last-mile delivery by introducing self-driving local delivery robots. He is also a co-owner in Ambient Sound Investments, a private investment vehicle launched by Estonian Skype co-founders.Ahti conducts technical reviews of all ASI's potentialinvestments. His experience and knowledge as a system architect is invaluable in assessing and managing ASI's portfolio companies.Ahti picked up programming at the early age of ten, his fascination with all things technical resulting in him being the lead technical architect at Skype. Ahti has also worked on artificial intelligence, 3D graphics engines, signal processing, and building mobile phones.Out of the office, Ahti dons his running gear to enjoy orienteering and adventure racing events, where navigation is his strong-point.
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- Internet, Project Management, Software
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Estonia, United States
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- Fleep — Fleep is a web, Android, iOS, Mac and Windows app that wants to bridge the gap between ‘reply all’-style group email and enterprise messaging/IM services.Founded by ex-Skypers, Fleep is a messaging service that fills the gap between email and various IM/texting services. They take email’s ability to contact anyone and marry it withreal-time messaging.They are based in Estonia, with offices in Tallinn and Tartu. Their services are hosted on Amazon EC2 in Dublin, Ireland.
- LIFT99 — 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.
- Swap.com — Swap is an online consignment and thrift store shop high-quality secondhand clothes. Shop the best brands at up to 90% off.
Taavi Veskimägi is a former member of the Estonian Parliament(2003-2009) and Minister of Finance from 2003 to 2005.
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- Water, Battery, Recycling
- Funding Round
- Estonia
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- 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.
Ergo Sooru
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- Apps, Gaming, Mobile
- Angel
- Estonia
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- 3DC.io — The 3D Design App for Schools
Justin Jenk is the Senior Managing Partner of Raktas OU.
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- Battery, Electronics, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Estonia
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- VOOL — VOOL is a one-stop shop for EV Charging. Experience chargers that are reliable, save money, and look damn good. Made in Estonia.
Alvar Lumberg - CTO, co-founder @ Grünfin
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed
- Estonia
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- Yaga — Yaga is designed for everyone who wants to sell items online in a convenient and secure manner.
- Yera — Visualize agent performance. Gamify work and plant real trees. High-growth companies use Yera to empower their agents, improve KPIs, and reduce their carbon footprint. Agents can deliver their best work, feel motivated, and help save the planet.
- Grünfin — Grünfin is a sustainable investing platform for people who care about their impact.
Martin Henk is the Co-founder of Pipedrive.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Estonia, United States, United Kingdom
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- Baserow — Self-hosted open source no-code online database and Airtable alternative. Baserow gives you the powers of a developer without leaving your browser.
- Breyta — Unify your customer and user data to get actionable insights throughout your customer lifecycle.
- SegmentStream — SegmentStream is a data intelligence platform which helps collect and unify from different data sources into own data warehouse for advanced analytics and attribution. Our solution is trusted by leading brands such as Benetton, Nespresso, New Balance, myToys, Eventim Group, and others.
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