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Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Estonia

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC 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

Investor	Hardware Estonia investments
Specialist VC	7
Ambient Sound Investments	5
Tera Ventures	5
Superangel	5
Jaan Tallinn	5
Lemonade Stand	3
Prototron	3
TechOne VC	3
Sten Tamkivi	3
Ragnar Sass	3
Decacorn Capital	3
Amalfi Capital	3
Spring Capital	3
Sebastien Borget	2
Tiny VC	2
Expansion Capital	2
EGIAD Angels	2
Joachim Hedenius	2
Contrarian Ventures	2
Yiğit Barış Şemin	2
Priit Kasesalu	2
Aydın Mizrahi	2
Emre Kozlu	2
Thorgate Ventures	2
Kuido Lepik	2
Kaarel Kotkas	2
ZAKA VC	2
Batuhan Gültakan	2
StartersHub	2
Taavet Hinrikus	2
Curiosity VC	2
TRANGELS	2
Taavi Kotka	2
Engin Gürsöz	2
Practica Capital	1
Justin Jenk	1
Raigo Õunapuu	1
Lompsa	1
Link Capital	1
Aare Järvan	1
Ergo Sooru	1
Contriber Ventures	1
Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)	1
Sillever OÜ	1
SuperAngel.Fund	1
Boundary Holding	1
Anand Agarawala	1
Intel Capital	1
Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation	1
Maxis	1

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Biteful — Ordering platform for Restaurants, Cafes, Bars and their Suppliers. Order from all your suppliers within one order.
Flowstep — Flowstep is a copilot that helps you create better designs, 10x faster. Just type and get user flows, high-fidelity UI, JTBD and more.
Kingdom Technologies — Kingdom builds novel robotic lawn mowers for large terrains

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Cino — Cino automatically deducts everyone's share from their bank accounts. Create groups with whom you want to share bills, set your ratio split & stop fronting costs!
AI Clearing — Full digital field construction progress tracking. To decrease re-work cost. To mitigate litigation risk. 100% databased.
Flowstep — Flowstep is a copilot that helps you create better designs, 10x faster. Just type and get user flows, high-fidelity UI, JTBD and more.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

OTee — OTee's Industrial Automation platform makes it possible to create and manage industrial-grade virtual control systems, based on open standards and architecture!
Paul-Tech — Soil, weather and satellite data translated into actionable insights. Know precisely when to sow, water or spray with Paul-Tech's soil stations.
BeCause — BeCause makes your sustainability manageable. BeCause is the single source of truth for collecting, coordinating and communicating your sustainability data.

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 — Tenyx is developing the next generation of voice-based intelligent systems based on proprietary neuroscience-inspired AI technology

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, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Estonia, India, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Wowflow — Wowflow is a mobile-first collaboration and workflow for facility maintenance teams.
Grünfin — Grünfin is a sustainable investing platform for people who care about their impact.
Value.Space — Space based risk assessments & monitoring

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 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.

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, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
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 — Lower your emission where it is made!

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.

Ragnar Sass has strongest skill is to find the best people and keep them rocking in speed of 200 km/h. He has organized 20+ Hack-a-thons Garage48 in Eastern Europe + West & East-Africa. He advise other founders and share experience where it could help.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Alvin — Highly accurate, automated column-level lineage, powering your data workflows.
BeTRITON — 100% electric recreational vehicle - revolution in sustainable travel. BeTRITON (formerly known as Z-Triton) offers extraordinary experience and freedom to travel both over land and water.
Around — The largest network of workspaces on flexible terms. We are a savvy team from Latin America providing fast-growing companies with on-demand access to flexible office space. Everywhere.We believe work at its best is always creative and collaborative, expressed with freedom, autonomy, and purpose; and the space surrounding us should help us achieveit, anywhere & everywhere.We are shaping the future of work today by improving workspaces and the rules around them, and helping innovative teams find their ideal space to make their best work every day — our first step on a journey to change the way we work and think about work.Our best work. Anywhere. Everywhere. We are Around.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Iliad — Iliad is a powerful AI image generation system that allows users to create game assets such as characters, environments, and 3D materials with ease. Iliad is unlike other image generators in that it allows users to adjust images as they are generated, giving artists unprecedented control.
Omnistrate — Omnistrate is a control-plane-as-a-service that transforms the user's docker image into a multi-cloud SaaS service. With the help of Omnistrate, businesses and service providers in the world can give the professionals who actually create, deploy, and oversee the life cycle of the applications access to the power of application automation.
JustPaid — Stay in control of your business with payments, AI-powered automation, benchmarking, contract tracking, opportunity alerts, and more, all in one platform.

International Technology Investment Fund

Investment focus

Beauty, Construction, Location Based Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Estonia, Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

VOOL — VOOL is a one-stop shop for EV Charging. Experience chargers that are reliable, save money, and look damn good. Made in Estonia.
Wirepas — Wirepas vision is to enable profitable large-scale business for their customers by unique multi-hop mesh network solution in the fast growing Internet of Things market. Wirepas Pino is the only connectivity solution in the market offering deterministic performance, local radio adaptability capability and very high reliability at any scale, solvingone of the most common problems in IoT platforms.
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.

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 Kingdom

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.
FoodDocs — Globally trusted Food Safety Management System to get and stay compliant. #1 Food Safety software for production, food service, and retail.
Crisp — Crisp connects data between retailers, distributors, and brands to power real-time insights across the supply chain.

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, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

BlockGames — BlockGames delivers a cross-game and decentralized player network driven by Universal Player Profiles.
Bolero — Invest in the music rights of your favourite songs and get royalties on Bolero, the all-in-one marketplace to invest in Song Shares. Invest in music today!
PlayMakers — Capture, audit, and monetize user-generated content (UGC) in your game. Drive higher engagement, game longevity, and unlock monetization opportunities.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Condukt — Probably just another KYB provider. Solving Business Onboarding, for good.
Transmutex SA — Producing clean energy from nuclear waste is the challenge Transmutex is taking on. Based on experimentaly validated science from CERN in Geneva.
Yacheng Network — Yacheng Network is a provider of information technology and software services that specializes in offering these services.

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

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!

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

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.

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, Energy
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Lithuania, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

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.
Ember — Travel by electric bus between Edinburgh, Dundee, Perth, Kinross and more. Brand-new buses, affordable fares and real-time tracking.
Delfos Energy — Why did it Fail? Avoid unexpected failures across your assetsReduce the risk of unexpected failuresmoreOptimize Maintenance Windowsmoreretain and scale up operational knowledgemoreplatform real time monitoring, analysis and predictions for renewable energy and oil&gas assetsVIEW OUR APPLICATIONS customer and partnerssee what our customers say about our solutions TestimonialsYour failure prediction alarm, helped us avoid an

Yiğit Barış Şemin

Investment focus

Software, Crowdsourcing, Computer Vision
Seed, Pre-Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Co-one — Data annotation for AI teams. Have super fast, accuracy guarenteed annotations. Co-one provides fast&accurate data annotations.

Priit is heavily involved in assessing all of ASI's new technology investments.Before ASI, Priit played an integral role in developing Kazaa and later Skype; indeed, he continues to work at Skype as a core library developer.While cryptography and data communication are his areas of expertise, his other passion is computer gamedevelopment. Together with Ahti and Jaan, he wrote the first Estonian commercial computer game, Kosmonaut.When he isn't using his innate ability to solve complex technical problems, Priit enjoys good company, gourmet restaurants and biking.He holds a degree in automation and system technology from Tallinn University of Technology.

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.

Aydın Mizrahi

Investment focus

Software, InsurTech, Logistics
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Co-one — Data annotation for AI teams. Have super fast, accuracy guarenteed annotations. Co-one provides fast&accurate data annotations.
eTasin.com — https://etasin.com

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 — Data annotation for AI teams. Have super fast, accuracy guarenteed annotations. Co-one provides fast&accurate data annotations.
Myth AI — Myth AI provides artificial intelligence-based "state of the art" pattern design tools that brings together designers and businesses.
eTasin.com — https://etasin.com

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Estonia, United Kingdom, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Waybiller — Waybiller is an e-waybill software that helps you create and store your digital waybills and track your vehicles carrying freight.
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!

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 —

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.

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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
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.
E-mobilio — E-mobilio is a consulting and mediation platform for electromobility.
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.

Batuhan Gültakan

Investment focus

Software, Crowdsourcing, Computer Vision
Seed, Pre-Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Co-one — Data annotation for AI teams. Have super fast, accuracy guarenteed annotations. Co-one provides fast&accurate data annotations.

An early-stage VC that backs, mainly but not limited to, Turkey & CEE's founders who work to distrup 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.
Nerf IT — GAMENESS is a super app enriched with crypto and NFT, where you can participate in tournaments, education, and events within esports.
Quin AI — Quin AI is a real-time digital customer analytics tool that helps e-commerce websites predict visitors’ behavior after only 3-clicks, and engage them in real-time. The tool is very simple to install (just a JavaScript plugin), and only uses in-session clickstream data (cookie-free & GDPR compliant) to make highly accurate predictions to supportconversion for traffic that otherwise drops.Quin significantly increases engagement and incremental revenue on websites through native engagement tools and easy API integration to available tech-stacks which makes the product an ideal solution for e-commerce websites and ideal partner for companies providing services to retail and e-commerce businesses.

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, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
Open Cosmos — Driven by the vision of making space accessible to anyone, Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.Open Cosmos went from design to delivery of qb01, their first nanosatellite, in only four months, followed by a launch and deployment in LEO early April 2017. They are currently working with innovative payload developers towardsin-orbit demonstration and constellation deployment to enable services ranging from remote sensing to maritime domain awareness and machine-to-machine communications.
Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Orq.ai — Unlock the potential of Generative AI with orq.AI. Explore advanced Gen AI tooling and enterprise generative AI at AI Generative collaboration platform.
Ringfence — Harness the power of AI to create more dynamic, monetizable content for your audience.
Version Lens — Meet your new Product Management Co-Pilot. Reduce overhead for your product team so you can focus on what truly matters, building outstanding products.

Early Stage Investment Fund and Network

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

& New Me — Discover your new aesthetic companion in Turkiye with This is New Me. Explore top treatments, real reviews, and active doctors, all with accredited clinics for a safe and seamless experience.
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.

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 — Data annotation for AI teams. Have super fast, accuracy guarenteed annotations. Co-one provides fast&accurate data annotations.

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.

Justin Jenk is the Senior Managing Partner of Raktas OU.

Investment focus

Battery, Electronics, Manufacturing
Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

VOOL — VOOL is a one-stop shop for EV Charging. Experience chargers that are reliable, save money, and look damn good. Made in Estonia.

Raigo Õunapuu CEO and Co-founder at FOB Solutions

Investment focus

GPS, Pet, Apps
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.
MyGames —

Lompsa is in the office administrative services industry. It is based in Otepaa vald, Estonia.

Investment focus

GPS, Pet, Apps
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.

Link Capital is a Nordic venture capital firm. It operates a series of early-stage funds, from pre-seed to A-series.

Investment focus

Energy, Automotive, Electronics
Seed, Funding Round
Norway, Denmark, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

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.

Aare Järvan

Investment focus

Apps, Gaming, Mobile
Angel
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

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

Ergo Sooru

Investment focus

Apps, Gaming, Mobile
Angel
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

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

.Cocoon | Hubs | Investments

Investment focus

Software, Apps, 3D Technology
Seed, Angel, Series A
Estonia, Finland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Speakly — SPEAKLY is a powerful language learning tool
Timbeter — Timbeter is a smartphone application that enables to measure timber quickly and accurately. Timbeter is an innovative solution to measure timber quickly and accurately. Timbeter's purpose is to reduce time-consuming and boring manual measurement, bring transparency and efficiency to the industry.
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.

Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created by founders for founders to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators across ten micro funds.The Fund's $50M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Indemn — Buy insurance online
Khyaal — Khyaal is a full-stack digital solution for senior citizens designed and developed to improve their quality of life. We facilitate on-demand services and organise fun and engaging activities for seniors. Being a part of the Khyaal family means making a difference in the world by enriching the lives of the elderly. If selflessness and empathy is atrait that you carry and would want to put at work, then you will find Khyaal as the perfect place to invest your valuable time.At Khyaal, we value your individuality and the skills that you bring to the table. We also believe in the power of collective consciousness to serve others and make their lives easier and wholesome. We want all members of the Khyaal family to feel respected personally and professionally. Our working environment will always make way for new ideas, ownership and collective growth.
Segwise — Segwise is an AI powered observability platform for Product Growth teams.

Sillever OÜ operates as an investment firm.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

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.
candidate.fyi — Candidate.fyi, is a candidate engagement suite for recruiting team and give candidates a single hub to learn about the company, prepare for interviews, track progress, schedule interviews, and provide feedback.

Boundary Holding is a European deep tech investment firm with presence in Luxembourg and France that invests in technologies enabling 4th industrial revolution.

Investment focus

Drones, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Switzerland, India, France

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Intel Capital is uniquely positioned to help build the companies of tomorrow. Our investment team is backed with deep domain knowledge and the resources of Intel to assist companies in their paths to success.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Eliyan — Ultimate Chiplet Systems at a fraction of total cost of ownership. Without the downsides of advanced packaging, you achieve higher number of cores, compute performance, test coverage, and yield.
Bria — Bria is a Computer Software company.
Figure — Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Series C, Series B, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.

Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

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.

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