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Top 50 Startup Investors in Estonia in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in startups based in Estonia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Estonia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Startup Investors in Estonia in February 2025

Investor	Estonia investments
Specialist VC	38
Superangel	36
Tera Ventures	30
Change Ventures	25
Lemonade Stand	23
Icebreaker.vc	21
Prototron	16
Ragnar Sass	14
Sten Tamkivi	12
Thorgate Ventures	12
Jaan Tallinn	12
Karma Ventures	11
Martin Tajur	11
Martin Villig	11
Spring Capital	11
TMT Investments	9
Ambient Sound Investments	9
Martin Henk	9
Taavet Hinrikus	8
Markus Villig	8
Trind Ventures	8
Taavi Kotka	7
Kristjan Raude	7
Timo Rein	7
Triin Hertmann	7
Alvar Lumberg	7
Sunly	7
Metaplanet	7
Kristjan Vilosius	7
Kaarel Kotkas	7
Passion Capital	7
Gorilla Capital	7
LIFT99	6
BADideas.fund	6
Andrus Purde	6
Ott Kaukver	6
EstBAN	5
Earlybird Venture Capital	5
Peep Vain	5
Ahti Heinla	5
Tiny VC	5
Mikko Silventola	5
Iron Wolf Capital	5
Enterprise Estonia	5
Märt Kelder	5
AU21 Capital	5
Tiny VC	5
Taavi Tamkivi	4
Shima Capital	4
Presto Ventures	4

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Askel.ai — Stop wasting your team's time. Start automating. Askel.ai enables 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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

10Lines — 10Lines is developing autonomous parking lot marking robots and technological solutions to significantly increase productivity in the industry of pavement marking. Our solutions are helping striping businesses do their work much more productively with a smaller environmental footprint.
Miros — Revolutionizing ecommerce with AI-powered visual search and semantic search. Seamless, tagless, and intuitive product discovery for all shoppers.
CARÁ Health — CARÁ Health is creating a hybrid health and well-being platform for women throughout any stage of maternity to make them feel empowered and make informed choices. We do this by combining all verticals a woman needs (and does not yet knows she needs) during the maternity period, including education, products, podcasts, masterclasses, and servicerecommendations.

We are a seed stage venture capital fund based in the Baltic states, backing ambitious Baltic founders anywhere in the world.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Estonia, United States, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

Modash.io — High performing marketing teams use Modash to find, analyze and monitor influencers at scale all over the world. Join them today.
Certific — Certific is a platform that enables certified remote medical testing at scale.
Origin Robotics — Origin is a defense technology company that specializes in advanced autonomous systems. It was co-founded in 2022 by UAV industry serial entrepreneurs to address the growing security threats in Europe.

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

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

Founded in 2016, Icebreaker has invested in over 50 fast-growing tech startups built by domain expert founders from companies like Rovio, Nordea, Pipedrive, Eniram, IBM and BCG. In addition to the fund, Icebreaker also runs a community of more than 1000 founders and pre-founders with 5+ years of relevant industry experience and the will to start,build or join strong tech companies.With the initial ticket sizes of €150k - 800K Icebreaker provides enough funding for companies to get to a position of strength and avoid post-accelerator limbo without having to resort to disreputable sources of capital and unfriendly deal terms.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Modash.io — High performing marketing teams use Modash to find, analyze and monitor influencers at scale all over the world. Join them today.
Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
Grid Raven — Maximize the safety and capacity of your grid with accurate ratings based on our hyper-local weather model that accounts with every tree, building and hill.

Prototron is a start-up fund that gives money to teams for turning their great ideas into the first working prototype. Founded in 2012 by Swedbank, Tallinn Technical University and Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol. We finance teams with high growth potential in areas of Greentech, Electronics, Mechatronics and ICT. We run 3-4 rounds of financingevery year. During last 5 years we've funded 58 startups with over 470'000€ in cash + coaching/incubation services. Our protfolio has generated >4,5 M€ revenue and raised >17'000'000€ capital. These results make Prototron the most productive pre-seed fund in Estonia. Do you want to be part of the success? We seek for: *) New start-up teams who need money for building a prototype. Apply for funding: www.prototron.ee *) Additional partners who want to be part of Estonia's next success stories.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

10Lines — 10Lines is developing autonomous parking lot marking robots and technological solutions to significantly increase productivity in the industry of pavement marking. Our solutions are helping striping businesses do their work much more productively with a smaller environmental footprint.
KrattWorks — We build jamming-resistant and high performance drones for front line operators.
RAIKU — RAIKU is a cleantech startup that produces 100% natural packaging material that has also great looks and shock absorption - most importantly, it gives 15-20 times more volume to its raw material making it one of the most resource efficient material uses in the world with high margins. Both the production is and products are clean making no harm tonature. RAIKU has raised over 1.2mln€ in the pre-seed stage, built a team of over 10 people, its own IP and clients are already using its packaging material. This material will up-end the 1 trillion € packaging sector.

Ragnar Sass is the Co-Founder of Darkstar Camp. He previously worked at LIFT99 as a Founder and CEO. Ragnar Sass attended Estonian Business School.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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!

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Estonia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
TENYX — Discover innovative solutions for digital transformation at Tenyx. Explore our cutting-edge technology services designed to drive business growth and elevate your digital presence.

karma.vc is an early stage venture capital fund focusing on seed and early stage technology companies in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
Estonia, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Patchstack — Keep your WordPress sites safe from vulnerable plugins & themes. Protect sites with virtual patching.
BforeAI — Starting from patented technology developed in years of research, BforeAi is the prediction service that looks for newly registered or morphed domains, and score their maliciousness looking at metadata and links to other bad guys.
Pactum — Pactum autonomous negotiations help companies unlock hidden value. Our AI negotiates non-strategic supplier contracts on a massive scale.

Martin Tajur is the co-founder of Pipedrive.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Recruiting
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Estonia, Poland, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

YuMuuv — YuMuuv is an employee wellness platform that uses science-based formulas to capture data and keeps track of physical activity & leaderboard.
Shen.AI @ MX Labs — Health monitoring with face-scanning technology. Clinically validated software for vital-signs measurements.
SegmentStream — SegmentStream is a data intelligence platform which helps collect and unify from different data sources into own data warehouse for advanced analytics and attribution. Our solution is trusted by leading brands such as Benetton, Nespresso, New Balance, myToys, Eventim Group, and others.

Martin is co-founder of Bolt.eu, Estonian Founders Society, Garage48.org, Good Deed Education Foundation and kood/Jõhvi coding school. Read more from http://martinvillig.com

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Education
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Estonia, Spain, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-own car service for private clients.
Mentornaut — Mentornaut is a new online tutoring platform is aiming to increase inclusion in personalized education and counts Super angel, United Angels VC, and a list of EdTech advocates like Bolt co-founder Martin Villig, and Clanbeat co-founder Kadri Tuisk among its investors.
StudentFinance — Catapult your career with leading re-skilling and up-skilling bootcamps. Study now and pay us back once you land a job & start earning!

Investments in exceptional teams in the Baltics & Nordics.Our two main focuses include: 1. Startups with a technological edge. Seed stage. Our check size is from €50K up to €200K. With a vast experience in startup building, we typically get hands-on with our advice and help the founders achieve operational excellence. 2. Innovators oftraditional sectors. SMEs with a proven track and strong market position. Clear plans to accelerate the growth. Our investment ticket can be from €300K to €700K to support these aspirations. If you think we have a match, reach out through invest@springcapital.ee.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

TMT Investments PLC invests in high-growth technology companies across a number of core specialist sectors and has a significant number of Silicon Valley investments in its portfolio. Founded in 2010, TMT has invested in over 65 companies to date. The Company’s objective is to generate an attractive rate of return for shareholders,predominantly through capital appreciation. The Company is traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. www.tmtinvestments.com.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Enty — All-in-one subscription for Invoicing, Contracts, Finances, and Pre-accounting of your European company
Global Work — We help freelancers find remote jobs and gigs faster with AI. Unlock the latest job search strategies with our AI-powered platform.
Mobilo Card — Share your contact details with a tap. The best digital business card for teams. This is a real business card, no app. The best and cheapest digital business card.

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.

Martin Henk is the Co-founder of Pipedrive.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Baserow — Discover Baserow, the open-source no-code platform for building databases and applications. No code or technical skills needed. Start creating for free today!
Breyta — Gather all your qualitative data and our AI assistant transcribes, analyses and delivers you accurate product insights and patterns at scale in seconds.
SegmentStream — SegmentStream is a data intelligence platform which helps collect and unify from different data sources into own data warehouse for advanced analytics and attribution. Our solution is trusted by leading brands such as Benetton, Nespresso, New Balance, myToys, Eventim Group, and others.

Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.

Markus Villig is founder and CEO of Taxify. He attended University of Tartu.

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Estonia, Poland, Sweden

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.
Sera — Sera's AI streamlines prospecting with tailored lists and enriched profiles, including accurate emails and metrics.
Tab — Tab is the API-first company that enables smart receipts to arrive straight to your mobile bank app, all linked to your payment card. We help merchants deliver a seamless checkout experience and to unlock new avenues for post-sale engagement, banks to offer better user experiences & reducing customer support costs and consumers can wave goodbyeto lost receipts, tedious expense reporting processes and a more engaging banking experience.

Trind Ventures is an early stage VC fund based in Tallinn, Estonia. Investing in start-ups across Europe, from seed rounds all the way to sustainability, with a focus on ICT. Trind Ventures partners are Joel Aasmäe, Ivar Siimar, Kimmo Irpola and Taavi Lepmets.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Estonia, Finland, Sweden

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.
Groover — Groover is the best way to promote your music to blogs, radios, record labels, & Spotify playlisters. Get listened to, receive coverage & guaranteed feedback!
Jobilla — Reach and activate your target group with a powerful recruitment solution. Increase the amount of applications and get 7X more qualified candidates.

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.

I am a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with 15+ years of international experience in sales & marketing, leading teams of 300+ with annual revenue of 10M+. Founder of 3 international companies and investor to 10+ startups. Member of the board at Estonian Business Angels Network.

Investment focus

Consumer Electronics, Internet of Things, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
Estonia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Askly — Add multilingual chat to any site in 2 minutes. Providing multilingual customer support is easy and affordable. Start a 30-day free trial today.
Snabb — Barking delights vehicle owners by enabling services such as parking, washing, charging, and fuelling from one user-friendly and convenient interface- the Barking App. Browse, book, navigate, start, pay, review and manage your vehicle services from one easy-to-use App.Founded in 2015, we've grown from a Tallinn-based private parking App toan international platform that serves over 50,000 users in 10 markets on a monthly basis.We are constantly working towards connecting all vehicle service providers to our platform and thus enabling the ultimate convenience and simplicity to vehicle owners.
Promoty — Influencer marketing platform that helps you to find creators, manage influencer relationships, and save time on influencer marketing. Get started here!

Timo Rein - Co-Founder @ Pipedrive

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources
Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
Estonia, Finland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

YuMuuv — YuMuuv is an employee wellness platform that uses science-based formulas to capture data and keeps track of physical activity & leaderboard.
Antegenes — Antegenes’ novel genetic tests assess a patient’s personal cancer risks, and include clinical recommendations for personalized cancer prevention. The tests are based on innovative polygenic risk score technology which helps to clarify a person’s genetic predispositions to cancer. It therefore allows for more accurate prevention and early detectionmeasures – crucial in the fight with cancer. The tests are currently being used to determine the genetic risk for four cancers: breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, and skin melanoma.
Bidrento — One powerful platform for your entire portfolio. The leading property and tenant management software. Scale your operations and maximize your profit with Bidrento. Try it already today!

Triin Hertmann is founder of Grünfin, a sustainable investment platform, angel investor (mostly in Estonia and Nordics region). She is a former COO at TransferWise and early employee of Skype.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Yaga — Yaga is designed for everyone who wants to sell items online in a convenient and secure manner.
Grünfin — Grünfin is a sustainable investing platform for people who care about their impact.
CARÁ Health — CARÁ Health is creating a hybrid health and well-being platform for women throughout any stage of maternity to make them feel empowered and make informed choices. We do this by combining all verticals a woman needs (and does not yet knows she needs) during the maternity period, including education, products, podcasts, masterclasses, and servicerecommendations.

Alvar Lumberg - CTO, co-founder @ Grünfin

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
Estonia

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.
Grünfin — Grünfin is a sustainable investing platform for people who care about their impact.
Supersimple — Supersimple helps SaaS companies use customer behavior data to drive decisions in product & sales.

Sunly, a renewable energy company, is active in the Baltics and surrounding markets. Sunly is developing renewable energy projects through Sunly Infra and manages a renewable energy and electrification portfolio of start-ups through Sunly Startup.

Investment focus

Solar, CleanTech, Rental
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Estonia, France, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Themo — Themo's innovation is an algorithm that optimizes the price of exchange electricity and the consumption of electricity. Themo offers an easy and environmentally friendly way to save on electricity consumed by heating.
Vok Bikes — E-cargo bicycles perfect for last-mile deliveries and business use cases in the city. Vok Bikes develops and produces electric cargo bikes in Europe.
UP Catalyst — UP Catalyst produces sustainable carbon nanomaterials and graphite for the green energy storage industry.

an early-stage investment firm making long-term bets on contrarians and leveraging the knowledge and network across sectors. We back mission-driven founders working on positively disruptive deep technologies.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Pyka — We believe that electrification and automation will make aviation safer, more affordable, and more accessible than has ever been possible in human history.
OneSkin — It's time to redefine how we think about skin health. Explore how we use aging & longevity science principles for products that'll leave your skin feeling healthier.
Qminder — Set up Qminder queue management software in minutes. Real-time reports on customer service & employee performance. Cloud-based. Wireless. Free Support.

Kristjan Vilosius - Co-Founder and CEO @ Katana

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Estonia, South Africa, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yaga — Yaga is designed for everyone who wants to sell items online in a convenient and secure manner.
Klaus — Klaus is a conversation review tool that improves customer service quality by making internal feedback easy and systematic. It also integrates with your help desk, good for improving the quality of answers and on-boarding new agents. They also connect to your favorite help desk solution and saves time on fumbling around with spreadsheets and comingup with the review system.Klaus is based in Tallinn, Estonia.
Modash.io — High performing marketing teams use Modash to find, analyze and monitor influencers at scale all over the world. Join them today.

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.

Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators applying their experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. They are Stefan Glaenzer, Eileen Burbidge and Robert Dighero.They have been personally involved in the largest European technology exits of the past decade,including the biggest exits of the year for 4 of the past 10 years by market value (Ricardo.de acquired by QXL, Skype purchased by Ebay, Last.fm acquired by CBS, and QXL/Tradus acquired by Naspers) and want to be involved in many more.They believe that the critical differentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders.They are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe. As an example of this, White Bear Yard is their own hub for activities, ambitions and energy and where have fun in the process.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

PolyAI — The world's only customer-led conversational platform for enterprise.
CultureAI — Measure and improve human cyber risks and security behaviours to prevent security incidents. Go beyond security awareness training, start your free trial today.
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.

Gorilla Capital invests in early stage Finnish, Swedish, Danish and Estonian technology companies

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Finland, Estonia, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Orijin — A turnkey solution to solve EUDR for coffee & cocoa importers and producers
Planmark Oy — Planmark develops an AI-powered reporting platform that streamlines ESG data collection and report generation, allowing companies to focus on core business.
Serviceform — Welcome to future of communication - the truly all-in-one conversion and management software built for established businesses. Start now!

LIFT99 is a coworking hub and network of startup founders in Tallinn, Estonia, and Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2018, we launched our Skillsharing Platform for founders around the world.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Legal
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Estonia, United Kingdom, El Salvador

Portfolio highlights

Modash.io — High performing marketing teams use Modash to find, analyze and monitor influencers at scale all over the world. Join them today.
AXDRAFT — AXDRAFT offers on-demand automation of legal processes for enterprise customers, helping them to draft legal documents 10 times faster and avoid mistake. The biggest advantage of AXDRAFT is the ability to roll-out tailored automation for the customer in one week at no cost to the customer. AXDRAFT works with companies, like Carlsberg, BritishAmerican Tobacco, OLX and many other international brands.
Legal Nodes — Offload your legal tasks to a virtual legal department and get on with running your business. Get started with the Legal Nodes platform for free.

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:

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.

Experienced startup marketer. Co-founder and CEO of Outfunnel. Skype and Pipedrive alumni. Angel investor.

Investment focus

Software, Public Transportation, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Estonia, United Kingdom, Cyprus

Portfolio highlights

Avrio — Capture and share data analysis, user research, and learnings directly in context, with your team.
Klaus — Klaus is a conversation review tool that improves customer service quality by making internal feedback easy and systematic. It also integrates with your help desk, good for improving the quality of answers and on-boarding new agents. They also connect to your favorite help desk solution and saves time on fumbling around with spreadsheets and comingup with the review system.Klaus is based in Tallinn, Estonia.
SegmentStream — SegmentStream is a data intelligence platform which helps collect and unify from different data sources into own data warehouse for advanced analytics and attribution. Our solution is trusted by leading brands such as Benetton, Nespresso, New Balance, myToys, Eventim Group, and others.

Ott Kaukver is Chief Technology Officer at Checkout.com. Attended Estonian Business School.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Estonia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sereact — Discover the world's easiest pick and place automation solution. Significant cost savings, productive 24/7, deployment in one day and no training required.
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.
Supersimple — Supersimple helps SaaS companies use customer behavior data to drive decisions in product & sales.

More than just a business angel network Building synergy between startups and angel investors EstBAN is member led organisation committed to finding, funding and mentoring ambitious young companies from pitch through to a successful exit. About estban Latest news Created with Fabric.js 3.5.0 All news For investors Get access to quality pre-selected internationaldeal-flow, and be

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

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.
RAIKU — RAIKU is a cleantech startup that produces 100% natural packaging material that has also great looks and shock absorption - most importantly, it gives 15-20 times more volume to its raw material making it one of the most resource efficient material uses in the world with high margins. Both the production is and products are clean making no harm tonature. RAIKU has raised over 1.2mln€ in the pre-seed stage, built a team of over 10 people, its own IP and clients are already using its packaging material. This material will up-end the 1 trillion € packaging sector.
DriveX Technologies — Boost your windshield damage assessment accuracy with an AI inspection tool that provides instant repairability decisions.

Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management,eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

eyva.ai — The decisonOS for beauty and personal care
GEMMABio — GEMMABio, a new therapeutics company, will serve as the research and innovation arm to speed the research of and global access to life-changing advanced therapies for those living with rare diseases.
Upvest — Upvest empowers financial institutions to offer investment products in their app with a modular, scalable, and accessible API. Upvest brings together everything that’s required to offer a broad range of investment products on the website and app. They are connected to the world’s leading asset providers and exchanges to provide the bestinvestments, at the best prices and execution speed.

Peep Vain is the Private Investor at Vain and Partners. He attended Bentley University.

Investment focus

Software, Genetics, Recruiting
Seed, Angel
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Antegenes — Antegenes’ novel genetic tests assess a patient’s personal cancer risks, and include clinical recommendations for personalized cancer prevention. The tests are based on innovative polygenic risk score technology which helps to clarify a person’s genetic predispositions to cancer. It therefore allows for more accurate prevention and early detectionmeasures – crucial in the fight with cancer. The tests are currently being used to determine the genetic risk for four cancers: breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, and skin melanoma.
Bisly — Bisly is the only truly scalable intelligent building solution, built around the mission of making saving evergy simple and affordable to all.
Bidrento — One powerful platform for your entire portfolio. The leading property and tenant management software. Scale your operations and maximize your profit with Bidrento. Try it already today!

Ahti is the CEO, CTO and co-founder in Starship Technologies, a startup that intends to disrupt last-mile delivery by introducing self-driving local delivery robots. He is also a co-owner in Ambient Sound Investments, a private investment vehicle launched by Estonian Skype co-founders.Ahti conducts technical reviews of all ASI's potentialinvestments. His experience and knowledge as a system architect is invaluable in assessing and managing ASI's portfolio companies.Ahti picked up programming at the early age of ten, his fascination with all things technical resulting in him being the lead technical architect at Skype. Ahti has also worked on artificial intelligence, 3D graphics engines, signal processing, and building mobile phones.Out of the office, Ahti dons his running gear to enjoy orienteering and adventure racing events, where navigation is his strong-point.

Investment focus

Internet, Project Management, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
Estonia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fleep — Fleep is a web, Android, iOS, Mac and Windows app that wants to bridge the gap between ‘reply all’-style group email and enterprise messaging/IM services.Founded by ex-Skypers, Fleep is a messaging service that fills the gap between email and various IM/texting services. They take email’s ability to contact anyone and marry it withreal-time messaging.They are based in Estonia, with offices in Tallinn and Tartu. Their services are hosted on Amazon EC2 in Dublin, Ireland.
LIFT99 — LIFT99 is a coworking hub and network of startup founders in Tallinn, Estonia, and Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2018, we launched our Skillsharing Platform for founders around the world.
Swap.com — Swap is an online consignment and thrift store shop high-quality secondhand clothes. Shop the best brands at up to 90% off.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
Outcome — Our mission: Give companies the power to continuously evolve
Briefcase — Briefcase automates the legwork in accounting so you can focus on growing your practice

Mikko is an active investor, with over 50 investments globally. Besides Europe, he is also active in Southeast Asia, Middle East, and Lat Am. He is the first investor of Bolt (Estonia), an investor of Rappi (Colombia), and of Hugo (El Salvador). He has founded 3 international media companies which in total have generated over €35M in sales overjust a few years. He has helped companies with internationalization, fundraising and M&As in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

Investment focus

Transportation, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Estonia, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
Awesomic — Get matched with the best-fit designer on a fixed budget with no stress. Place a design task and see the first results on the next business day. Start today!
Tab — Tab is the API-first company that enables smart receipts to arrive straight to your mobile bank app, all linked to your payment card. We help merchants deliver a seamless checkout experience and to unlock new avenues for post-sale engagement, banks to offer better user experiences & reducing customer support costs and consumers can wave goodbyeto lost receipts, tedious expense reporting processes and a more engaging banking experience.

We are here to make you succeed! Iron Wolf Capital is an international venture capital firm with an experienced team of professionals with global outlook and strong roots in the Baltics. and a mandate for helping entrepreneurs realise their ideas into successful businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Infrastructure, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Lithuania, Estonia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

PIXEVIA — PIXEVIA - AI for retail. Our flagship product - fully autonomous stores, powered by AI, cameras, and sensors. You simply walk in, take what you want, and go.
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.
Kingdom Technologies — We build robotic lawn mowers for large terrains.

Enterprise Estonia (EAS), established in 2000, promotes business and regional development in Estonia. Enterprise Estonia is one of the largest institutions within the national support system for entrepreneurship, providing financial assistance, advisory, cooperation opportunities and training for entrepreneurs, research establishments, public andthird sector.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Mobile Apps
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

MYCEEN — We grow carbon-negative materials combining mushroom mycelium and industrial byproducts.
Grid Raven — Maximize the safety and capacity of your grid with accurate ratings based on our hyper-local weather model that accounts with every tree, building and hill.
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.

founder at Voog.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Public Transportation, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Estonia, Pakistan, Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

BusCaro — Comfort, Reliability Consistency. Your one-stop solution for hassle-free commute. Commute Made Easier About BusCaro Innovative approach towards mobility for organizations across Pakistan. BusCaro is a tech-based startup providing solutions aimed at simplifying commute. Paired with a reliable technology stack, and the mission to drive a positive change in the mobility sector, BusCaro is a seamless
Supersimple — Supersimple helps SaaS companies use customer behavior data to drive decisions in product & sales.
Detail — Record and edit videos with Detail for iOS and macOS. Everything you need to create videos and podcasts, fast. Download for free on the App Store.

A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

A-World — A-world is a super metaverse card tower defense battle game based on BNB CHAIN.
Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
Vue Protocol — Vue Protocol operates as a layer2 for Web3 Social.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
Outcome — Our mission: Give companies the power to continuously evolve
Briefcase — Briefcase automates the legwork in accounting so you can focus on growing your practice

Taavi Tamkivi was Helping in Banks & FinTechs fight FinCrime. also a Founder & CEO at Salv .

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, AgTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Estonia, Latvia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GIG-A — Open a bank account in Japan from your mobile. Receive salary, manage everyday spending, or transfer money with ease.
Introwise — Introwise makes it easy for everyday experts to offer coaching and advice online.
Lightyear — Investing with an edge. Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest in stocks and ETFs without unnecessary barriers and fees.

Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Utila — Utila is an enterprise-scale self-custody platform that manages your organization's crypto strategy with safe, chain-agnostic wallet infrastructure.
Kodiak Finance — Kodiak Finance is a DEX project solution provider, combines centralized and automated liquidity management. Their product package is intended to provide traders with the greatest possible trading experience while also simplifying centralized liquidity provisioning for liquidity providers and protocols. They provide a full range of trading andliquidity solutions by integrating the DEX layers: Decentralized Exchange (Kodiak DEX), Automated Liquidity Manager (Kodiak Islands), Comprehensive incentive layer (Sweet Island), Codeless Token Deployment Factory (Panda Factory)
Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow — A web3 social deduction game & community built by former Disney and Club Penguin veterans. For aficionados of mirth, mayhem, and the mysterious.

We're a Prague-based VC firm investing in fast growing tech companies and empowering talented startup founders from Central and Eastern Europe.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Czech Republic, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

BlueQubit — BlueQubit is on a mission to democratize Quantum Computing and make it accessible to everyone. Through our BQ platform users can develop, test and run programs on Quantum Computers.
Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.
Bavovna AI — Bavovna Inc., a Delaware C-corp, is a dual-use tech company primarily focusing on AI-driven alternative navigation for Unmanned Vehicles operating in GPS-denied and Electronic Warfare (EW) threatened environments. Bavovna combines fully NDAA complaint modular hardware and SaaS AI software for aerial, surface, and subsurface UV platforms to addressmalicious and natural challenges to Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) systems. Bavovna has tested its solutions widely in Ukraine, EMEA, and the US for different types of UAVs, including VTOL, fixed-wing, multi-copters, and surface and underwater vehicles.

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