Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in Estonia in January 2026
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 in January 2026
| Investor | Hardware Estonia investments |
|---|---|
| Jaan Tallinn | 5 |
| Markus Villig | 2 |
| Mike Oliinyk | 2 |
| Ragnar Sass | 2 |
| Emre Kozlu | 2 |
| Kuido Lepik | 2 |
| Joachim Hedenius | 2 |
| Yiğit Barış Şemin | 2 |
| Priit Kasesalu | 2 |
| Kaarel Kotkas | 2 |
| Aydın Mizrahi | 2 |
| Markku Jääskelainen | 2 |
| Taavi Kotka | 2 |
| Engin Gürsöz | 2 |
| Sebastien Borget | 2 |
| Batuhan Gültakan | 2 |
| Sten Tamkivi | 2 |
| Triin Hertmann | 1 |
| Siret Unsal | 1 |
| Gmoney eth | 1 |
| Martin Villig | 1 |
| Martin Tajur | 1 |
| Linnar Viik | 1 |
| Hubert Thieblot | 1 |
| Toomas Kõuhkna | 1 |
| Artur Dianov | 1 |
| Elar Nellis | 1 |
| Raivo Kütt | 1 |
| Indrek Kasela | 1 |
| Mada Arslan | 1 |
| Sean Percival | 1 |
| Norberts Erts | 1 |
| Toomas Hendrik Ilves | 1 |
| Ahti Heinla | 1 |
| Anand Agarawala | 1 |
| Stefano Corazza | 1 |
| Emrah Gultekin | 1 |
| Kuldar Väärsi | 1 |
| Paul Melin | 1 |
| Toomas Bergmann | 1 |
| Aare Järvan | 1 |
| Artur Sychov | 1 |
| Taavi Veskimägi | 1 |
| Tom Preston-Werner | 1 |
| Alvar Lumberg | 1 |
| Ergo Sooru | 1 |
| Justin Jenk | 1 |
| Gautam Shah | 1 |
| Marvin Liao | 1 |
| Placeholder Placeholder | 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, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Estonia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- LawZero — LawZero is committed to advancing research and creating technical solutions that enable safe-by-design AI systems.
- TENYX — Discover innovative solutions for digital transformation at Tenyx. Explore our cutting-edge technology services designed to drive business growth and elevate your digital presence.
- Lightyear — Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest your money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees.
Markus Villig is founder and CEO of Taxify. He attended University of Tartu.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Estonia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Sera — Sera's AI streamlines prospecting with tailored lists and enriched profiles, including accurate emails and metrics.
- Fuelfinance — We do your spreadsheets, graphs, and automations. You get P&L, CF, Financial Projections , Plan/Fact , Unit Economics, and finally, peace of mind. All in familiar to you Google Spreadsheets. Forget about months of integrations and insane setup costs. Starting from $999/month.
- Dragonfly Technology Limited — Software moves fast, and businesses are losing out. They’re using outdated tools, while watching competitors make strides with AI-first tech. But the fact is, the way teams discover and choose software has been broken for years. Dragonfly is a platform designed to simplify the process of software discovery with clarity, objectivity, and speed.With Dragonfly's proprietary AI-driven technology, businesses can make smarter, faster decisions by connecting their existing tech stack to a dynamic, curated dataset of the world’s most performant tools, to instantly provides contextual, personalised recommendations tailored to your unique challenges, goals, and stage of growth.Dragonfly is built to eliminate the confusion and bias from software selection. No more spreadsheets, vendor hype, or guesswork. With Dragonfly, your team can stay aligned, cut waste, and fast-track research. Whether you're scaling fast or looking for an AI-driven tool to enhance productivity, Dragonfly has you covered today and tomorrow.
Mike Oliinyk is a VP of Product at Montonio
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Investment focus
- Robotics, Navigation, Indoor Positioning
- Series A
- Estonia
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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Estonia, United States, Ukraine
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.
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 — Co-one empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of Generative AI. We provide data-driven solutions for LLM development, including evaluation and dataset generation.
- MYTH AI — Design at the Speed of trends with Your AI design partner! From ideas to patterns, turn your vision into production-ready designs in seconds. Fashion Designers Export Houses & Textile Manufacturers Fashion & Retail Design Teams Footwear & Bag Designers Ceramic &...
- eTasin — 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 —
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 — Co-one empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of Generative AI. We provide data-driven solutions for LLM development, including evaluation and dataset generation.
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.
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.
Aydın Mizrahi
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Investment focus
- Software, InsurTech, Logistics
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, Estonia
Markku Jääskelainen.
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Investment focus
- Drones, Big Data, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Hepta Insights — Hepta provides automated power grid management and analysis using autonomous drones and powerful analytics software. Visit our website to find out more!
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.
Engin Gürsöz
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Investment focus
- Software, Crowdsourcing, Computer Vision
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Co-one — Co-one empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of Generative AI. We provide data-driven solutions for LLM development, including evaluation and dataset generation.
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, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
- Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
- Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.
Batuhan Gültakan
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Investment focus
- Software, Crowdsourcing, Computer Vision
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Co-one — Co-one empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of Generative AI. We provide data-driven solutions for LLM development, including evaluation and dataset generation.
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, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Estonia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Katana — Katana gives thousands of manufacturers a live look at their business with visual, intuitive, and easy-to-use ERP software.
- Insempra — Origin Bio is developing AI to make cell therapies safer, unifying generative design and functional prediction of regulatory DNA.
- Entrepreneurs First — We turn exceptional individuals into funded founders. We back you first, then give you a bridge to Silicon Valley.
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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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Yaga — Yaga is designed for everyone who wants to sell items online in a convenient and secure manner.
- Grünfin — Grünfin is a sustainable investing platform for people who care about their impact.
- CARÁ Health — CARÁ Health is creating a hybrid health and well-being platform for women throughout any stage of maternity to make them feel empowered and make informed choices. We do this by combining all verticals a woman needs (and does not yet knows she needs) during the maternity period, including education, products, podcasts, masterclasses, and servicerecommendations.
Siret Unsal serves as Executive Director, Turkey Investment Banking at UBS Investment Bank.
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Investment focus
- Software, Crowdsourcing, Computer Vision
- Seed
- Turkey, Estonia
Gmoney eth
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Investment focus
- 3D Technology, Apps, Gaming
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Estonia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Rekt Brands — Own a Rektguy NFT? You may be eligible to claim free equity in Rekt Brands Inc. Find out more.
- PeachWeb — Peach Worlds is the Squarespace for 3D immersive websites. It's the first no-code builder powered by AI, enabling designers to effortlessly create 3D websites without any coding.
- Salsa (prev. Pearl) — Community tools for artists.
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!
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 — Discover how Shen AI turns your smartphone into a health companion - no wearables, just powerful, camera-based health insights.
- 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 the Founder of poco. He previously worked at Pocopay as a Co Founder and Member of the Board.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Security, Software
- Seed
- Estonia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SignWise Services — SignWise Corporation Limited was founded in 2014 and is one of the world leaders in eSignature and authentication technology.SignWise helps to digitally manage document-based transactions with advanced electronic signing, strong user authentication, electronic signature validation, document delivery, document creation and more; SignWise is fullyscalable as either an on-premises solution or as a SaaS hosted in the cloud. It enables organizations and consumers to manage the entire lifecycle of a digital document, to automate and speed up business processes both, in home country as well as across borders.SignWise’s competitive edge lies in the cross-use of various countries’ e-identities and qualified certificates for authentication and electronic signing. The service can be used with state-issued electronic identities from Switzerland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Georgia, Armenia, Belgium, Austria, Iceland, Oman, Luxembourg, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Azerbaijan and others.
- Value.Space — Satellite-based risk assessments for underwriters and risk engineers
Hubert Thieblot is the General Partner of Founders. He founded Curse, Inc. in 2005 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Artificial Intelligence, Developer APIs
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Denmark, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Yomi Games — Yomi Games is a blockchain gaming studio developing social Play-and-Earn video games targeted at casual audiences.
- Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
- 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.
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.
Artur Dianov is a angel investor.
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Investment focus
- Drones, Manufacturing
- Pre-Seed
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- SKYCORP Technologies — Discover Skycorp's sustainable, hydrogen-powered drones designed for first response, agriculture, energy, and infrastructure applications.
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
Raivo Kütt
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Investment focus
- Apps, Gaming, Mobile
- Angel
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- 3DC.io — The 3D Design App for Schools
Indrek Kasela - investor @ Luup Culture
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Investment focus
- Hardware, Software, Insurance
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Estonia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- GIG-A — Open a bank account in Japan from your mobile with GIG-A. Receive salary, manage everyday spending, or transfer money with ease.
- 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.
- Supersimple — Supersimple helps SaaS companies use customer behavior data to drive decisions in product & sales.
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.
Sean Percival is the Chief Marketing Officer of Iterate Norway.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- United States, Norway, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Vembla — Vembla offers a vast grocery selection 1500 to 20,000 products - from your local stores or our own warehouses. Get it delivered same day or in minutes.
- Lendwill — There is a healthier way to build relationships with money.
- CloudPeeps — CloudPeeps is a community, marketplace and platform that empowers freelancers and businesses to do their best work. Hire a team of quality professional freelancers to get the job done. Work the way you want, wherever you are!
Norberts Erts is the Product Marketing Manager at Sage.
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Investment focus
- Rental, Retail, Leasing
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Miros — Revolutionizing ecommerce with AI-powered visual search and semantic search. Seamless, tagless, and intuitive product discovery for all shoppers.
- Value Space Co. — Value Space Co. is a space reconstruction company that offers space-optimized services through project development planning.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves is the CEO of Ilves Consulting Group. He attended the University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, E-Commerce, Search Engine
- Seed
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Miros — Revolutionizing ecommerce with AI-powered visual search and semantic search. Seamless, tagless, and intuitive product discovery for all shoppers.
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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Investment focus
- Internet, Project Management, Software
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Estonia, United States
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.
- 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.
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.
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
- Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Estonia
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.
- Echo Chunk AI — We build epic strategy games that generate themselves. Starting with Echo Chess: the daily chess puzzler where you are what you eat.
Emrah Gultekin
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Investment focus
- Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Image Recognition
- Seed
- Estonia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Co-one — Co-one empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of Generative AI. We provide data-driven solutions for LLM development, including evaluation and dataset generation.
- Chooch — Chooch Autonomous AI provides hospitals and healthcare systems touchless, automated inventory management. No manual tracking. No stockouts.
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 is a complete self-service cloud platform for regional infrastructure service providers. Functionally rich, technologically modern and architecturally reliable turnkey commercialisation solution packaged as a service and driven by your success to compete in the global landscape.
- PromoRepublic — Unify social, listings, reviews, and analytics in one AI-powered platform built for multi-location and franchise brands. Improve visibility, protect your brand, and lift same-store sales.
Toomas Bergmann
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- Hardware, Mobile Apps, Construction
- Seed, Angel
- Estonia
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- 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.
Aare Järvan
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- Apps, Gaming, Mobile
- Angel
- Estonia
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- 3DC.io — The 3D Design App for Schools
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.
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.
Tom Preston-Werner - Cofounder @ Preston-Werner Ventures
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- Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, Germany
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- Milestone — Milestone ensures your GenAI tools are fully integrated, optimized, and aligned with your business goals, driving measurable ROI and sustained innovation.
- MoneyHash — Emerging and Global markets first all-in-one flexible payment orchestration and revenue operations platform that covers all of your payment needs. We help you build, optimize, and scale your payment infrastructure at any stage of growth.
- Sourcetable — Sourcetable connect, sync, and query all the data in a spreadsheet, without needing to know how to code. Founded in 2019, Sourcetable is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
Alvar Lumberg - CTO, co-founder @ Grünfin
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Estonia
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- Esgrid — Esgrid is the smartest supplier discovery platform in food and beverage. Say goodbye to Googling and GPT, say hello to millions of verified products with enriched contacts. It's all for free, like search should be.
- Grünfin — Grünfin is a sustainable investing platform for people who care about their impact.
- Supersimple — Supersimple helps SaaS companies use customer behavior data to drive decisions in product & sales.
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.
Gautam Shah
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- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Video Games
- Series B, Series C, Seed
- United States, Estonia
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- 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.
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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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, France, Latvia
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- Dynamiq — Build, deploy and monitor on-premise GenAI applications to solve specific business needs, reducing costs, driving revenue and boosting competitiveness - all in one platform
- 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.
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- Software, Transportation, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- 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 is a complete self-service cloud platform for regional infrastructure service providers. Functionally rich, technologically modern and architecturally reliable turnkey commercialisation solution packaged as a service and driven by your success to compete in the global landscape.
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