Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Estonia in January 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 January 2025
Investor | Hardware Estonia investments |
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Tera Ventures | 8 |
Specialist VC | 8 |
Jaan Tallinn | 5 |
Superangel | 5 |
Ambient Sound Investments | 5 |
Ragnar Sass | 3 |
Decacorn Capital | 3 |
Spring Capital | 3 |
Lemonade Stand | 3 |
ZAKA VC | 3 |
Prototron | 3 |
Sten Tamkivi | 3 |
BADideas.fund | 3 |
TechOne VC | 3 |
Amalfi Capital | 3 |
Kuido Lepik | 2 |
StartersHub | 2 |
Entrepreneurs Fund | 2 |
Batuhan Gültakan | 2 |
TRANGELS | 2 |
Butterfly Ventures | 2 |
Kaarel Kotkas | 2 |
Expansion Capital | 2 |
Priit Kasesalu | 2 |
Taavi Kotka | 2 |
Engin Gürsöz | 2 |
Yiğit Barış Şemin | 2 |
Taavet Hinrikus | 2 |
Sebastien Borget | 2 |
Emre Kozlu | 2 |
Mike Oliinyk | 2 |
Insta Ventures | 2 |
Aydın Mizrahi | 2 |
Curiosity VC | 2 |
Karista | 2 |
Tiny VC | 2 |
Tiny VC | 2 |
Joachim Hedenius | 2 |
Contrarian Ventures | 2 |
Thorgate Ventures | 2 |
EGIAD Angels | 2 |
Aare Järvan | 1 |
Maxis | 1 |
Kersti Kaljulaid | 1 |
Elar Nellis | 1 |
Boundary Holding | 1 |
Link Capital | 1 |
Raigo Õunapuu | 1 |
Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation | 1 |
Greycroft | 1 |
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.
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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.
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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.
Jaan Tallinn is the Co-Founder of the Centre for Study of Existential Risk and Future of Life Institute.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Estonia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
- Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
- TENYX — Discover innovative solutions for digital transformation at Tenyx. Explore our cutting-edge technology services designed to drive business growth and elevate your digital presence.
Early-stage investments from entrepreneurs to entrepreneurs. Our companies include Bolt, Veriff, Fortumo and many more. 10x@superangel.io
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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 Ops teams to implement AI agents by embedding them into their own SaaS tools.
- 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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
- dili — Dili is a deal platform built for venture funds and private equity. We use AI to contextualize new deals and help you make better decision faster.
- 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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Estonia, India, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Esgrid — Manage your value chain ESG data on autopilot, and save hundreds of working hours on legal analysis, ESG data collection and creating improvement guidelines. Become CSRD compliant with Esgrid.
- Ligence — AI Automated Echocardiography - Artificial intelligence-powered automated heart ultrasound echo lab system.
- Black Swan — Black Swan offers autonomous space robotics software solution
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.
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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.
- SharpGrid — SharpGrid is a data and technology business that is redefining on-trade and hospitality market research. To create an accurate and full picture of the on-trade channel, we collect data from all on-trade outlets (restaurants, bars, pubs, or cafés) on the market. SharpGrid's data-driven technologies help companies like Coca-Cola, Heineken, andMakro achieve commercial efficiency and growth.
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.
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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 Packaging — 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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Estonia, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
- Katana — Katana gives thousands of manufacturers a live look at their business with visual, intuitive, and easy-to-use ERP software.
- Entrepreneur First — We are the best place for the world's most ambitious talent to come together and build game-changing technology startups from scratch.
We are comfortable being the first money in the round.
Here is how we help founders, what we look for when investing and how to apply:
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine
Portfolio highlights
- Tingit — Tiings is a zero-effort fashion repairs marketplace for busy people & brands.
- 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.
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.
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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!
International Technology Investment Fund
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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.
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 —
An early-stage VC that backs, mainly but not limited to, Turkey & CEE's founders who work to disrupt the system for good.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
Early Stage Investment Fund and Network
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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.
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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
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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Drones, Big Data, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Latvia, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- FIS.solutions — Loan Management System | Loan Servicing Software | Lending Software. Instalment loans, mortgages, car leasing & rentals, credit line, business loans, factoring
- Hepta Airborne — Hepta provides automated power grid management and analysis using autonomous drones and powerful analytics software. Visit our website to find out more!
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.
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.
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.
Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, 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.
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, 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.
- Alliance Games — Next level Web3 Gaming Infrastructure, Now Fully Decentralized
- OpenLedger — OpenLedger is the sovereign data blockchain for AI.
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 — 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
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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.
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!
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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.
Aydın Mizrahi
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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
Investing in the next generation B2B software companies in the Benelux, Nordics & Baltics
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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.
Karista is an early-stage venture capital firm created in 2001 investing in Health, Digital, Tech, and NewSpace.
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- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- France, United States, Finland
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- 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
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
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- JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.
- Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
- Briefcase — Briefcase automates the legwork in accounting so you can focus on growing your practice
Backing great companies when they're tiny
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
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- GlassFlow — GlassFlow is a serverless and production-ready setup that empowers everyone in your data team to build and transform event-based pipelines in minutes.
- Neuphonic — Neuphonic is developing the best ultra low latency text-to-speech system to enable the most lifelike and responsive discussions with AI conceivable. We are transforming AI engagement by rethinking what it means to have a voice. We're building a future in which interacting with AI feels natural and seamless, AI can act to make people'slives easier, and people will look at their phones less and communicate more.
- Round Treasury — Put your startup cash on autopilot. Maximise your runway with smart deposits and withdrawals from your account, safeguarded and administered by regulated brokers.
Joachim Hedenius is the VPE and Co-Founder of KRY.
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- Gaming, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Sweden, Estonia, Germany
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- 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.
We are a hands-on, community-focused and founders vetted early-stage sustainable energy transition focused VC in Europe & Israel
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- Software, Renewable Energy, Energy
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Lithuania, United Kingdom, France
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- 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.
- altrove AI — Altrove - Sustainable Alternatives to Critical Materials
- Decade Energy — Decade Energy is the energy infrastructure and optimization partner for transport operators and depot managers who want to electrify their fleets.
We invest both capital and our know-how into startups. Join us and let's change the world
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Estonia, United Kingdom, Norway
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- 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
- U24 Solutions — U24 Solutions is a software development studio specializing in the creation of immersive experiences through virtual reality. We make real-time, room-scale simulations, employing stunning realism and custom libraries of hyper-detailed 3D objects and environments optimized for the VR experience.
- Hepta Airborne — Hepta provides automated power grid management and analysis using autonomous drones and powerful analytics software. Visit our website to find out more!
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.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Turkey, Estonia
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- 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
Aare Järvan
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- Apps, Gaming, Mobile
- Angel
- Estonia
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- 3DC.io — The 3D Design App for Schools
Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank
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- E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Turkey
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- Co-one — Data annotation for AI teams. Have super fast, accuracy guarenteed annotations. Co-one provides fast&accurate data annotations.
- Figopara — Figopara is a solution that discounts companies' e-invoices before their due dates with the offers received by financial institutions. It provides secure information to the financial companies that the customer is associated with and wants to reach by providing them with printed invoice information.Figopara was established in 2017 to developfinancial technology applications and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Mindsite — Mindsite enables eCommerce professionals to boost their online sales by tracking and analyzing eCommerce fundamentals such as product availability, price&promo strategy, product content and brand visibility.
In 2016, Kersti Kaljulaid was elected President of the Republic of Estonia. Previously she served from 2004 to 2016 as a Member of the European Court of Auditors. Kersti Kaljulaid was the CFO and CEO of the Iru Power Plant of state-owned energy company Eesti Energia from 2002 to 2004. From 1999 to 2002, Kersti Kaljulaid was Prime Minister MartLaar's Economic Advisor.Kersti Kaljulaid was a member of the Supervisory Board of the Estonian Genome Center from 2001 to 2004. She was also a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Tartu from 2009 to 2011 and the Council Chair of the University from 2012 to 2016. Kersti Kaljulaid graduated from the University of Tartu in 1992 in the field of genetics in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and completed her master's studies in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration in 2001.
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- 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.
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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- Software, CAD, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Latvia, Estonia, United States
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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.
- 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
Boundary Holding is a European deep tech investment firm with presence in Luxembourg and France that invests in technologies enabling 4th industrial revolution.
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- Drones, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Switzerland, India, France
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- Aero41 — Aero41 is developing a drone entirely dedicated to crop protection, a flexible and intelligent platform that will integrate AI and collect data to make crop protection more and more eco-responsible while being effective to ensure the necessary yields.
- Neo Medical — Neo aims at transforming the current approach to spinal surgery by providing a unique answer to the worldwide strive for healthcare cost optimization through efficient, versatile and high quality systems.
- Remidio Innovative Solutions — Remidio is engaged in designing & developing Smart, Innovative & Disruptive Imaging Technologies in Vision Care, using a product development approach called “Design Thinking”.As part of the Design Thinking process, Remidio takes into account different facets of a customer’s experience with a product, as part of its overall productdesign approach, with the intent of inventing a new customer experience with the product.Customers can be an amazing resource to glean insight and understanding, but they are generally not able to articulate their latent and anticipated needs. Remidio hence focuses on making quick functional prototypes, that can then be given to the customer to understand these latent needs while observing their use of the prototypes.Founded by professionals with a passion for product innovation, Remidio is currently focussed on creating game changing products and solutions in the ophthalmology space.We look at constraints posed by a developing nation context- infrastructure, skilled resources and affordable pricing as an opportunity to innovate.We bring to market very high quality products that are reliable and extremely simple to use.
Link Capital is a Nordic venture capital firm. It operates a series of early-stage funds, from pre-seed to A-series.
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- Electric Vehicle, Energy, Software
- Seed, Funding Round
- Denmark, Norway, Estonia
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- Gridio — GridIO enables households to earn cash using their existing electrical devices by combining them into virtual power plants.In doing so,GridIO provides flexibility to power grids and unlocks a future full of green electricity
- Viggo — Viggo is a ride-hailing service running 100% with zero-emission cars. We give you Denmark's best drivers in electric cars.
- FLEXeCHARGE — Optimize EV charging with FLEXeCHARGE. Control all charging stations through one load and energy management platform.
Raigo Õunapuu CEO and Co-founder at FOB Solutions
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- GPS, Pet, Apps
- Pre-Seed
- Estonia
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- Traxby — Traxby OÜ (formerly Huntloc OÜ) is a company owned by Estonian owners, founded in 2013, which develops various real-time tracking platforms via a smartphone and manufactures tracking devices. The company’s product portfolio includes the following solutions: hunting platform Huntloc for hunters, team management platform LiveTeam, dog tracking appDoglo. The company has developed its own GPS-GSM tracking device, which is mainly intended for tracking dogs. The device is long life, robust, water resistant, no distance limitation.
- MyGames —
JJDC, Inc. is the strategic venture capital arm of Johnson & Johnson Innovation. Learn more about our equity investment strategy.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Series C, Series B, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- CVRx — CVRx is a medical device company that develops implantable technology for the treatment of high blood pressure. Its products include Rheos implantable pulse generator that provides control and delivery of the activation energy; and Rheos carotid sinus leads, which conducts activation energy from the Rheos implantable pulse generator to the left andright carotid arteries. The company also offers a Rheos programmer system that communicates with the Rheos pulse generator. CVRx was founded in 2001 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- Binx Health — Binx Health is creating new categories of healthcare solutions that deliver on-demand testing to people where they need it most. With its proprietary, desktop, PCR-based point-of-care testing platforms and consumer mobile offerings, the company is redefining “convenient care” for the modern consumer
- Osteal Therapeutics — Osteal Therapeutics is a privately-held, clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing novel musculoskeletal therapeutics to treat orthopedic infections and their consequences.
Venture capital and technology investments
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Addi — Addi is a technology company that provides credit and banking solutions. Addi is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia.
- Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
- Mother Science — Discover Mother Science, a revolutionary biotech skincare brand with a clinically proven serum for hyperpigmentation and sun damage.
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