Get 250+ investors tailored to your startup

Invest in your industry and stage
Emails & contact info included
Excel and CSV export
Automatically

Trusted by 3,000+ startups

Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Estonia in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 Startup Investors in Estonia in April 2025

Investor	Hardware Estonia investments
Tera Ventures	8
Specialist VC	7
Superangel	5
Jaan Tallinn	5
Ambient Sound Investments	5
Thorgate Ventures	4
Decacorn Capital	3
TechOne VC	3
Spring Capital	3
ZAKA VC	3
Contrarian Ventures	3
Expansion Capital	3
Lemonade Stand	3
Prototron	3
Sten Tamkivi	3
BADideas.fund	3
Ragnar Sass	3
Sebastien Borget	2
Kaarel Kotkas	2
Entrepreneurs Fund	2
Joachim Hedenius	2
Batuhan Gültakan	2
Markku Jääskelainen	2
Conor Venture Partners	2
Kuido Lepik	2
TRANGELS	2
Butterfly Ventures	2
Priit Kasesalu	2
Amalfi Capital	2
Emre Kozlu	2
Mike Oliinyk	2
Taavi Kotka	2
Engin Gürsöz	2
StartersHub	2
Taavet Hinrikus	2
Curiosity VC	2
EGIAD Angels	2
Tiny VC	2
SpeedUp Venture Capital Group	2
Yiğit Barış Şemin	2
Aydın Mizrahi	2
Insta Ventures	2
Karista	2
Tiny VC	2
Aare Järvan	1
SuperAngel.Fund	1
Marvin Liao	1
Anand Agarawala	1
Practica Capital	1
Hansa Group	1

Find investors that fund startups like yours. Automatically.

Our algorithm will find investors that invest in your industry, stage, and geography.

Investor list

Tera Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Tallinn, Estonia and focused on exceptional founders from Baltics, Scandinavia and CEE, disrupting digital space globally. Tera builds presence and networks in the markets where our portfolio companies want to expand to - the UK, the US, and Asia. With presence in Estonia, Finland, and California,Tera Ventures is supported by a global advisory network and provides portfolio companies with access to expertise and hands-on support necessary to grow from pre-seed and seed stage to successful exit. While investing we do not take a controlling shareholding as they believe that the management of the company should be adequately motivated by its shareholding in the company.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Estonia, United States, United Kingdom

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.
Miros — Revolutionizing ecommerce with AI-powered visual search and semantic search. Seamless, tagless, and intuitive product discovery for all shoppers.
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.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Estonia, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Miros — Revolutionizing ecommerce with AI-powered visual search and semantic search. Seamless, tagless, and intuitive product discovery for all shoppers.
Sera — Sera's AI streamlines prospecting with tailored lists and enriched profiles, including accurate emails and metrics.
CyberUpgrade — Easily manage ICT compliance audits by tracking controls, handling ever increasing requirements, and sharing policies. Gain control over cyber security measures.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Estonia, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Askel.ai — Stop wasting your team's time. Start automating. Askel.ai enables your end-users teams to implement AI agents natively within your product.
Pactum — Pactum autonomous negotiations help companies unlock hidden value. Our AI negotiates non-strategic supplier contracts on a massive scale.
Nanordica Medical — Nanordica Medical develops novel nanoparticle-based antibacterial wound care products.

Jaan Tallinn is the Co-Founder of the Centre for Study of Existential Risk and Future of Life Institute.

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 — Discover innovative solutions for digital transformation at Tenyx. Explore our cutting-edge technology services designed to drive business growth and elevate your digital presence.

Ambient Sound Investments (ASI) was established in 2003 as an equal partnership by four founding engineers at Skype to hold a minority stake in Skype. At the end of 2005 ASI sold its Skype shares to eBay and now operates as a private investment vehicle.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Estonia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cgates — Cgates is largest independent pay TV and internet service provider. It provides digital and interactive television, fibre-optic broadband internet and fixed telephony to subscribers across the country. The company was founded in 1991 and has developed into a leading telecom operator via numerous acquisitions and organic growth. Investor consortiumled by Livonia Partners acquired a significant minority stake in September 2017 to support growth of the company and further network and technology upgrades.
Pomelo Fashion — Shop the latest fashion at POMELO fashion. Designed and manufactured in house for quality and style. Dresses, tops, knits, jackets, denim, accessories and more!
Ampler Bikes — Smart, durable and light e-bikes that look like classic bicycles. Select your Ampler e-bike online today and start your journey.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Estonia, United Kingdom, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Coursy.io — Make employee development more effective with LMS powered by Learning Design
Waybiller — Bulk TMS solution for end-to-end management: Waybiller transforms your logistics operations, allowing you to handle bulk shipments with precision and speed. The Best E-waybill Software & Bulk TMS Solution
Bilance — Bilance is a personal finance management app that helps you to track, analyze and plan your finances.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Corgea — Corgea is an AI-powered security platform that automatically finds, triages, and fixes insecure code. Sign up today for free to try Corgea.
OpenFunnel — OpenFunnel provides AI agents that help Go-To-Market teams find potential customers by detecting real-time intent signals from the internet.
Nowadays — Nowadays acts as your in-house event planner, taking away the hassles of organizing while factoring in your company's unique tastes and needs.

TechOne VC is a venture capital firm. It invests in innovative tech startups founded by visionary entrepreneurs solving global problems, to deliver superior returns for our investors.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Carbon Centrum — Measure, Act & Get Rewarded!

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Estonia, Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Uniify — Uniify is a no-code customer onboarding software that makes it fast, easy and secure for financial companies to onboard their customers. Save your business time and money, and build onboarding flows for your customers in minutes instead of months.
Crisp — Crisp connects data between retailers, distributors, and brands to power real-time insights across the supply chain.
Salesforge — Salesforge is an all-in-one sales execution super app that gives every sales team the highest probability to hit their target by tackling email deliverability and the need to personalize cold email outreach at scale.We do that by enabling real-time AI & machine learning to decision critical sales activities, enhance messaging and eliminatethe need for various sales point solutions, therefore driving superior conversion rates.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Webel — Webel is an on demand Home Services Marketplace (cleaning, nannies, tutors...) where clients can search, book, compare, pay and review these services. Thanks to a deep analysis of the current methods for hiring these services and the competition outlook, we have created a unique and revolutionary business model that will outperform the market.
Miros — Revolutionizing ecommerce with AI-powered visual search and semantic search. Seamless, tagless, and intuitive product discovery for all shoppers.
Olio Labs — Olio Labs utilizes AI for combo therapeutics, optimizing and minimizing side effects through automated discovery of protein interactions.

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

Investment focus

Software, Renewable Energy, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Lithuania, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Beebop — Beebop is a software designed for power grid orchestration. Beebop's orchestration middleware enables utilities, grid operators, manufacturers, and VPP technology leaders to manage residential asset fleets, enhancing value delivery to end-customers.
Metafuels — Our breakthrough sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology, aerobrew™, will make affordable net-zero aviation a reality. The technology is innovative, highly scaleable and able to tap into future global renewable energy systems efficiently. Starting from renewable feedstocks including green hydrogen, driven by renewable electricity, andsustainably sourced CO2, for example from direct air capture, aerobrew™ provides an efficient route to large-scale production of e-kerosene, overcoming the scale up challenges and high costs of alternative e-fuels technologies. aerobrew™ is also compatible with the biogenic route whereby the carbon required for the process is derived from renewable and sustainable cellulosic biomass which, does not compete with the food chain (wood, miscanthus, etc.). With a high carbon conversion, high selectivity and a high overall SAF yield, aerobrew™ leads to attractive production economics and cost leadership. With a rapidly growing demand for SAF, aerobrew™ stands to contribute significantly to the decarbonisation of global aviation and to support the achievement of net zero 2050 targets.
altrove AI — Altrove - Sustainable Alternatives to Critical Materials

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.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Food and Beverage, Logistics
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
Latvia, United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Flirtu — Flirtu is an app for dating on Telegram that helps users find their perfect match.
Yieldstreet — Yieldstreet is an alternative investment platform focused on generating income streams for investors. Get exclusive access to private market investments.
FIS.solutions — Loan Management System | Loan Servicing Software | Lending Software. Instalment loans, mortgages, car leasing & rentals, credit line, business loans, factoring

Lemonade Stand is a VC fund that focuses on early stage B2B investments in Baltic and East European founders no matter the HQ location. Investing €25-300K in strong teams, technology or traction.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Estonia, Lithuania, India

Portfolio highlights

Ligence — AI Automated Echocardiography - Artificial intelligence-powered automated heart ultrasound echo lab system.
Soldera — Soldera enables renewable energy producers to earn additional income through an automatic guarantee of the origin trading system.
Black Swan — Black Swan offers autonomous space robotics software solution

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.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Energy
Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed
Estonia, Germany, Taiwan

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.
KrattWorks — We build jamming-resistant and high performance drones for front line operators.
RAIKU — RAIKU is a cleantech startup that produces 100% natural packaging material that has also great looks and shock absorption - most importantly, it gives 15-20 times more volume to its raw material making it one of the most resource efficient material uses in the world with high margins. Both the production is and products are clean making no harm tonature. RAIKU has raised over 1.2mln€ in the pre-seed stage, built a team of over 10 people, its own IP and clients are already using its packaging material. This material will up-end the 1 trillion € packaging sector.

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.

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.

BADideas.fund is an early-stage angel syndicate providing €50k-€100k funding for CEE startups.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed
Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Qminder — Set up Qminder queue management software in minutes. Real-time reports on customer service & employee performance. Cloud-based. Wireless. Free Support.
Miros — Revolutionizing ecommerce with AI-powered visual search and semantic search. Seamless, tagless, and intuitive product discovery for all shoppers.
THEO — Power-Up Any AI Assistant in 3 minutes by transforming your startup's strategy, product, and market info into an expert-designed AI-ready knowledge format, making AI truly understand your unique business nuances.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
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 — Decentralized gaming platform blending AI creation, multiplayer tech, and worker nodes.

Kaarel Kotkas is a Co-Founder and CEO at Veriff.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

OptiNose — Optinose is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on creating and bringing to market innovative products for patients with diseases treated by ear, nose, and throat (ENT) and allergy specialists.
Realeyes — Realeyes is the leader in ad testing for the attention economy. Our AI measures audience attention and engagement to inform creative performance and media efficiency.
General Fusion — General Fusion is developing fusion energy: a clean, safe, abundant and on-demand approach to generating electricity.

Joachim Hedenius is the VPE and Co-Founder of KRY.

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.

Batuhan Gültakan

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.

Markku Jääskelainen.

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!

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.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Semiconductor
Series A, Series B, Seed
Finland, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.
Blackwood Seven | Part of Kantar Group — Attribute, predict and optimize the business outcome of marketing and media plans with Blackwood Seven's Unified Marketing Modeling platform.
Verto Analytics — Verto Analytics (Verto) operates a passive metering panel that provides researchers, advertisers, and publishers the data they need to keep up with the rapid and changing pace of consumer media consumption on every app, device, service, and platform. This ongoing, longitudinal panel captures a wide breadth of behaviors—all enriched to clients’behavioral analysis or custom survey studies. Our single-source, passive metering data sets provide the information needed to understand the full digital footprint of the U.S. population. Our Data Labs are located in the US, and in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.vertoanalytics.com.

Kuido Lepik - Owner & CEO @ Signiti

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 —

Early Stage Investment Fund and Network

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Energy, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Turkey, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

& New Me — Explore the best aesthetic treatments in Turkey with New Me. Book a consultation, read reviews, and find the right doctor for your beauty journey.
Winfluencer — Winfluencer is a platform for automated digital influencer marketing. Their solutions are machine learning, augmented reality, image processing, data analytics, social media analytics, and fraud detection. Winfluencer connects thousands of e-commerce sites through a single platform and an automated system. Because of the new generation affiliatemarketing approach, this system enables users to generate long-term income. Its transparent structure allows both users and the e-commerce site to track sales generated by their interactions.
Nanomik Biotechnology — Biochemistry leading change in life sciences. With our proprietary technologies, we develop solutions for Crop Health, Animal Health and Food preservation.

Butterfly Ventures is a seed-stage focused VC in the Nordics, investing in deep tech, hardware, and hardware interfacing software. The company prefers to get involved with companies early on; 80% of Butterfly Ventures portfolio companies don't have any revenue at the time of their entry. Butterfly Ventures was founded in 2012 and ever sincethen it has been one of the most active early stage VCs in the region. The company has offices in Oulu, Helsinki and Stockholm.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Finland, Sweden, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Hypertype — Smartest email experience ever made.
Flow Computing — Flow's Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) gives 100X CPU performance for demanding applications, such as locally-hosted AI and general-purpose parallel computing.
Happy Plant Protein — Changing the way plant proteins are made

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.

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.

International Technology Investment Fund

Investment focus

Beauty, Health Care, Location Based Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Estonia, Finland, Ireland

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.
Wirepas — Wireless mesh connectivity for industrial IoT. Proven, ultra-reliable and scalable. Lowest total cost of ownership. The best mesh for IoT.
X-BOLT Orthapaedics — X-Bolt Trauma Solutions for osteoporotic bone fixation. FDA 510(k) approved. Clinical studies include the WHITE One (n=100) and WHITE Four (n=1,140) randomized control trials.

Emre Kozlu is a Director Strategy & Program Delivery at Philip Morris International.

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 — Myth AI provides artificial intelligence-based "state of the art" pattern design tools that brings together designers and businesses.
eTasin.com — https://etasin.com

Mike Oliinyk is a VP of Product at Montonio

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.

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.

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

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.

An early-stage VC that backs, mainly but not limited to, Turkey & CEE's founders who work to disrupt the system for good.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Turkey, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Cubtale — Cubtale is a care guidance and coordination platform for your baby. You can track breastfeeding, vitamins, medicine, sleep, diaper changes, formula or pumped milk. You can analyze your baby's growth and compare it with health guidelines and share with doctors. You can schedule time with lactation and sleep experts.
IDENFIT — Cloud based human resources software and workforce management. Idenfit online human resources and workforce management software brings a holistic approach to human resources functions and it helps you to review and manage hr processes all in one place. Idenfit is cloud based HR software for SMEs as well as international companies that have outgrownspreadsheets. We automate many of the most tedious HR functions and create time for you to do meaningful work. Whether you’re an employee trying to request time-off or an HR manager looking forward to grow and develop your company’s workforce, Idenfit is your all-in-one HR management solution.
PulpoAR — PulpoAR provides omnichannel AR commerce virtual try-on solutions for beauty brands and e-commerce platforms.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
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 — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.

Investing in the next generation B2B software companies in the Benelux, Nordics & Baltics

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
The Netherlands, Finland, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Epum — EpumRE empowers institutional CRE investors to see into the future using geospatial AI.
Moonlit.ai — Discover Moonlit, the largest European legal database powered by AI, providing seamless access to legal documents, case law, and insights across EU member states.
Onesurance — Maak gebruik van de kracht van onze geavanceerde AI Decision Engine om de winstgevendheid van uw verzekeringsbedrijf aanzienlijk te verhogen.

EGIAD Angels Investment Network is an entrepreneur support system established by Aegean Young Business People Association. Business and venture ideas that meet the specified criteria are presented to potential investors in the system, provided that they are transformed into business plans.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Turkey, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

DogGO — DogGO is a pet service app that uses a mobile application to offer safe and professional dog walking and grooming services to dog owners. It also offers its users a detailed profile of their pets, as well as an easy service request and tracking feature, smart and suitable matching, and 24/7 customer service to support all of their pet'sneeds. Their application has over 150,000 users and tens of thousands of pet profiles. Furthermore, by entering into agreements with corporate companies for their employees or users, they ensure that all pet families have access to DogGO when they need it.
Albert Health — 50% of people with chronic diseases do not take medications as prescribed. Improper medication use, especially for elderly patients, leads to hospitalizations and costs insurers billions of dollars. Current apps in the market are too complicated and difficult to use for the elderly who suffer the most from chronic diseases. Albert is a voice-basedhealth assistant which is accessible through mobile app, Amazon Alexa and Google assistant. Our machine learning algorithms create a unique conversational medication management experience. Elderly patients don’t have to text anymore. They will talk with Albert to manage their medications in an easy and effortless way. Patients can easily track health measurements, keep medical diary and set pill reminder by voice command. Furthermore, “Caregiver Mode” allows family members to manage and monitor their relatives’ treatment remotely. Albert helps elderly patients to take the right dose at the right time and help insurers to have less medical expenses, more satisfied customers.
artlabs — ART Labs introduces tailor-made AR-commerce. A specially designed, effortless, 3D-powered boost for eCommerce

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
Paper — Paper is an digital canvas designed to help designers create and organize their work.
Outcome — TeamOS makes team dependencies visible, speeds up blocker resolution, and offers actionable insights into bottlenecks

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Poland, United States, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

PARTORY — PARTORY simplifies sourcing custom metal parts with 8,000+ machines across Europe. Manage orders and inquiries easily in our app.
CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
Patron GO — Patron GO is a fintech firm that uses AI to detect unnecessarily high costs on a customer's bank account and offers the best solutions.

Yiğit Barış Şemin

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.

Aydın Mizrahi

Investment focus

Software, InsurTech, Logistics
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.
eTasin.com — https://etasin.com

Insta Ventures is a venture capital firm that has been investing in different IT technology sectors since 2019. Currently, we are looking for tech startups that are in the early stages of development of their products. Our investment team consists of experienced professionals with solid backgrounds in the IT sphere. Our goal is to help ambitiousteams create innovative products, spread them globally, and maintain fast-growing companies.Typically, we invest $100K-500K during a growing stage of a company's lifecycle (seed / late seed / pre-round A), and then help to develop its marketing and sales, as well as prepare the company for the next investment phase.We appreciate co-investments. Let's invest together!

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Advertising
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Estonia, France

Portfolio highlights

Ex-human — Create your AI persona from a single photo
RedTrack.io — RedTrack.io offers real-time access to your media buying KPIs/data: ad tracking, impressions, clicks, conversions across multiple channels & 30 data points.
HuLoop Automation, Inc. — HuLoop Automation offers an AI-powered, no-code, unified automation platform that helps clients drive transformation, and achieve revenue growth, cost savings, and productivity gains by automating mundane, repetitive activities.

Karista is an early-stage venture capital firm created in 2001 investing in Health, Digital, Tech, and NewSpace.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Deemea — Deemea is a collaborative AI platform that connects and provides services for the analysis of medical data for physicians. It uses its expertise in clinical research, data science, and software development to help healthcare professionals.
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.
Brightflow — Brightflow operates as a medical device startup.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
Paper — Paper is an digital canvas designed to help designers create and organize their work.
Maiven — We make climate policy simple, so you can act with confidence.

Aare Järvan

Investment focus

Apps, Gaming, Mobile
Angel
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

3DC.io — The 3D Design App for Schools

AngelList creates tools for startups, investors, and fund managers to accelerate innovation.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Consumer Goods
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Siena AI — The autonomous customer service platform designed for commerce. Combine the best of human empathy and intelligent automation to transform the way your customer service teams operate and engage with shoppers.
Big Sur AI — Embrace the future of retail, today.
Paiv (formerly Gamify) — Gamify integrates with CRM that is configurable to the team's needs. Sales data has a greater purpose than being used for micromanaging. Gamify data with leaderboards, spiffs, trophies, and a company currency! Every aspect of the sales cycle is incentivized within its mobile app to get the sales team invested in every moment of their day.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Practica Capital

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, B2B
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Favro — The #1 app making collaborative planning working at scale between teams for SaaS & Live Games companies. Agile team collaboration, smoother than ever.
AMLYZE — AMLYZE Risk Assessment Module is an automated customer AML/CFT Risk Assessment and Management feature for financial companies.
Atrandi Biosciences — Achieve your discoveries easier using high-throughput screening and droplet microfluidics. Create your own custom workflows for any R&D or academic applications.

Maailm liigub - The world is moving

Investment focus

Hardware, Construction, Machine Learning
Seed
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.

Investors by industry