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Top 50 Startup Investors in Estonia

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

Investor	Estonia investments
Superangel	35
Specialist VC	34
Tera Ventures	25
Change Ventures	24
Lemonade Stand	22
Icebreaker.vc	20
Prototron	17
Ragnar Sass	14
Jaan Tallinn	12
Thorgate Ventures	12
Sten Tamkivi	12
Martin Tajur	11
Karma Ventures	11
Martin Villig	11
Spring Capital	10
Martin Henk	9
Ambient Sound Investments	9
Taavet Hinrikus	8
Passion Capital	8
Trind Ventures	8
TMT Investments	8
Markus Villig	7
Timo Rein	7
Kristjan Vilosius	7
Taavi Kotka	7
Kaarel Kotkas	7
Kristjan Raude	7
Gorilla Capital	7
Triin Hertmann	6
Andrus Purde	6
Metaplanet	6
Peep Vain	5
Mikko Silventola	5
LIFT99	5
Iron Wolf Capital	5
ff Venture Capital	5
Ahti Heinla	5
Earlybird Venture Capital	5
Sunly	5
Alvar Lumberg	5
Enterprise Estonia	4
Taavi Tamkivi	4
BlackFin Capital Partners	4
Vestman Energia	4
EstBAN	4
Superhero Capital	4
Verge HealthTech Fund	4
Ukrainian Startup Fund	4
Cryptomeria Capital	4
Ott Kaukver	4

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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.

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

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.

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

Drovo — The GIG economy driven on-car mobility media Platform that delivers high reach at low cost CPM via vehicle wrapped advertising campaigns for D2C brands. Adverttu - Get your brand on the road.
Monetizr — Engage with niche Gen Z and Millennial audiences through the fastest-growing mobile in-game advertising platform. Easy to set up and scale for all brands!
Inspectle Food — Automized Food hygiene inspections with Inspectle Food. Compatible with GFSI standards (BRC, IFS, FSSC) - Track and assign non-conformities, Automatic reporting, statistics and notifications.

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

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, Estonia, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Zymego — Zymego develops solutions that relieve healthcare workers of administrative work while improving patient access to healthcare.
Fixably — Fixably is the repair management solution to seamlessly connect all users, from the end customer to the technician, and all repair systems within your service business.
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.

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.

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.

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

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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!

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.

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 — Allow your user to comprehensively monitor their vital signs. Check wellbeing, prevent misdiagnosis, and motivate lifestyle changes thanks to Shen.AI.
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.

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, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Hydrogrid — All-in-one solution for optimizing hydropower plants. Increase revenues by up to 18%, reduce spill by up to 12%, and save valuable time with Hydrogrid Insight.
Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
DRUID — DRUID is an AI platform that allows companies to automate processes by designing and deploying UiPath RPA integrated chatbot virtual assistants.

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-buy 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 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.

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 — Self-hosted open source no-code online database and Airtable alternative. Baserow gives you the powers of a developer without leaving your browser.
Breyta — Unify your customer and user data to get actionable insights throughout your customer lifecycle.
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.

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.

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.

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

Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
Monzo — Spend, save and manage your money, all in one place. Open a full UK bank account from your phone, for free.
SAPI — SAPI enables platform companies to offer business loans to their merchants, earning a revenue share while growing their ecosystem.

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, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Estonia, Finland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Groover — Groover is the best way to promote your music to blogs, radios, record labels, & Spotify playlisters. Get listened to, receive coverage & guaranteed feedback!
Yaga SA — Yaga is an online selling and shopping platform for new and preloved fashion. Buy preloved clothing safely or open your own shop and sell. Find unique second hand clothes, earn extra money and help save the Planet.
Fractory — Metal fabrication services for project and series manufacturing. 1-1 engineering support and payment terms for companies.

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

Feel — We make the cleanest, potent supplements in the world. Delivered straight to your door. Designed by nutritionists for energy, sleep, stress and hair, skin & nails.
Whizz — My Device is a subscription-based rental service provider for devices like electric scooters, bicycles, home sports equipment, etc.
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.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
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.
Fuelfinance — We do your spreadsheets, graphs, and automations. You get P&L, CF, Financial Projections , Plan/Fact , Unit Economics, and finally, peace of mind. All in familiar to you Google Spreadsheets. Forget about months of integrations and insane setup costs. Starting from $999/month.
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.

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 — What is your cancer risk? Let Antegenes have a look at your genetics. Use existing DNA data or have Antegens take a new sample.
Bidrento — With Bidrento you can easily manage PRS, Built-to-rent, Student Housing, Co-Living, Mini-Storages, Commercial real estate in one single software. Save your time and grow your business with Bidrento. Try it already today!

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 — Hypergrowth companies use Klaus to run an effective customer service QA process, coach agents, and boost retention.
Modash.io — High performing marketing teams use Modash to find, analyze and monitor influencers at scale all over the world. Join them today.

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.

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.

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!

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

Kwizie — Kwizie transforms passive video consumption into fun multiplayer quiz games with AI. Share a QR code or link to anyone, anywhere, in seconds!
Xiphera — Xiphera is a Finnish company designing hardware-based security solutions using standardised cryptographic algorithms.
Jungle AI — Jungle uses artificial intelligence to predict component failure, and poor performance in an advanced asset management software.

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.
Montonio — 10x lower fees and the most customer-friendly financing solution.

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 — Hypergrowth companies use Klaus to run an effective customer service QA process, coach agents, and boost retention.
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.

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

Hume AI — The AI toolkit to measure, understand, and improve how technology affects human emotion
Vortexa — State of the art energy analytics that paints a global picture of cargo flows. Identify energy market opportunities before the competition with Vortexa.
Orbillion Bio — At Orbillion Bio, we bring healthy, ethical and flavorful meats with a complete farm-to-table story to the modern consumer.

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 — What is your cancer risk? Let Antegenes have a look at your genetics. Use existing DNA data or have Antegens take a new sample.
Bisly — Bisly is the only truly scalable intelligent building solution, built around the mission of making saving evergy simple and affordable to all.
Bidrento — With Bidrento you can easily manage PRS, Built-to-rent, Student Housing, Co-Living, Mini-Storages, Commercial real estate in one single software. Save your time and grow your business with Bidrento. Try it already today!

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

E-Commerce, Transportation, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Estonia, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

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!
Montonio — 10x lower fees and the most customer-friendly financing solution.
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.

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

Patchstack — Detect vulnerabilities for free with the fastest vulnerability mitigation for WordPress. Protect sites with vPatching. Start for free!
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 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

Traxlo — We are at the technology and retail industries intersection. Our longtime experience in the industry taught us that only the right innovation has the potential to make a positive impact. Thus we aim to make our solutions as seamless as possible to be able to add only benefits to every worker who uses our apps and to every retail store manager whohas lots on her plate, day in, day out.
Repsense — Reputation management software - Repsense is AI powered online reputation management service that helps you track your reputation.
Kingdom Technologies — Kingdom builds novel robotic lawn mowers for large terrains

ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a technology venture capital firm investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. The firm identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at its inception acrossgeographies and emerging industries. With three partners and an acceleration team of 20+ investment and operations professionals, ffVC actively participates with founders to develop products, target markets, and accelerate growth. Since 2008, ffVC has invested in over 100 companies and has helped to create companies with an aggregate market value exceeding $6 billion.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
Paraspot AI — Paraspot enables companies in the field of real estate to conduct automatic inspections free of human error, by using computer vision. Moving the physical visits, online.
ForActive — ForActive The Best App for Sport & Wellness Service Providers

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.

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

Neotaste — Neotaste is the developer of the restaurant-finding app that provides free marketing services for restaurateurs.
Draftwise — DraftWise deals with knowledge management and business intelligence that assists law firms to procure quality contracts swiftly. It enables clients to avail and customize the security according to their requirements. DraftWise was founded in 2020 by Emre Ozen, Ozan Yalti, and James Ding and was headquartered in New York.
Greenlyte Carbon Technologies — Greenlyte Carbon Technologies develops and markets an efficient low temperature DAC process that captures CO2 from the air.

Sunly creates wind & solar parks by engaging local communities. Also, Sunly boosts cleantech startups via capital, know-how and networks.

Investment focus

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

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.

Alvar Lumberg - CTO, co-founder @ Grünfin

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Yaga — Yaga is designed for everyone who wants to sell items online in a convenient and secure manner.
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.
Grünfin — Grünfin is a sustainable investing platform for people who care about their impact.

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

Mobile Apps, CleanTech, Manufacturing
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

ÄIO — Innovative food technologies to replace palm oil, coconut oil and animal fats with sustainable and healthier alternatives.
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.
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.

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

Jeff — Jeff is a personalized loan broker that matches borrowers and lenders through alternative data. Jeff's mission is to help the unbanked to access financial services. In the absence of credit history and bank transactions, Jeff gathers alternative data from sources like smartphones, social media, behavioral patterns, geolocation, and other typesof digital footprint.Jeff then puts this information to good use and find ways on how alternative data points can prove creditworthiness and build trust, building new ways of accessing financing and evolving an alternative credit score.The company was founded in 2019 and is located in Riga, Latvia.
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.

BlackFin Capital Partners is the leading pan-European Financial Services PE Platform. The team consists of +35 experienced professionals from several nationalities.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Series A, Private Equity, Series B
France, Germany, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Indy — Indy offers end-to-end and advanced AI-powered accounting software. Indy is an accounting robot that aims to automate the accounting of freelancers and professionals. It is an accounting robot for the liberal professions. It automates the management of accounting, recovers bank entries to turn them into accounting lines, and sends tax returnsdirectly to an AGM.It was founded in 2016 as Georges by Côme Fouques, Pablo Larvor, Romain Koenig, and Adrien Plat to simplify independent accounting, which is certainly simple but repetitive and time-consuming.
Carbon Equity — Carbon Equity we believe there is no greater cause within our lifetime than fighting climate change. Fighting climate change requires action at every possible level – government regulation, taxation, changes in consumer and corporate behavior, paradigm shifts, cultural shifts and massive investments in technology to name but a few.
Formalize — A Whistleblower Software system made for accountants and lawyers that have clients, the whistleblower software system helps businesses implement a compliant solution that is both secure and transparent. their products are reporting links, case management, partner account they have designed a journey that makes feel safe about the process. AWS ishandling the physical security of the infrastructure, whistleblower software takes the shared responsibility of security between our cloud infrastructure and application seriously.

Our focus changes in the same pace with the surrounding world. If the main concern of the mankind is the food and energy supplies and polluted living environment, the current activities of the companies of Vestman Group thus also focus on these topics. Our vision is to be a sustainable forest manager on one of the Estonian largest private forestpossession. We lease out arable lands, give advice and help to find the best solution based on the partner’s needs. We are starting our journey in Eco-friendly Technology to strengthen our Circular economy way of doing things even further. We value the world we live in and the resources we use in our business.

Investment focus

Water, Software, CleanTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

KWOTA — Kwota offers digital validation and trading services for recycled material CO₂ emissions.
Spacedrip — Spacedrip develops automated water treatment and reuse systems that recycle wastewater back to pure usable water with minimal maintenance. Our systems provide off-grid water without the need for centralized sewage/water solutions.
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.

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

VSight — VSight is an industrial collaboration and knowledge-sharing platform powered by Augmented Reality to empower the industrial workforce.
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.
DriveX Technologies — DriveX offers a trustworthy self-serviced car inspection software for the used car, insurance and car rental markets.

Early-stage VC searching for the next Superheroes.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, Estonia, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

Phaver — Welcome to the biggest mobile app on Lens Protocol. Access all that Web3 Social has to offer through one easy-to-use app. Engage with your favourite creators, connect your NFT's, earn rewards and more
MyDello — Get instant quotes for all transportation modes. Enter a new era of freight forwarding with the MyDello logistics platform. Sign up for free
Fractory — Metal fabrication services for project and series manufacturing. 1-1 engineering support and payment terms for companies.

We make early investments in global healthcare technology companies that address prevention, disease management and health system efficiency that are relevant to emerging AsiaThey believe that innovation can happen anywhere, from the streets of Dhaka to the labs of Oxford, however without the right support network, these solutions might notscale, or find the best world-changing application. This is where they can help.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Medical
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Singapore, Estonia, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

MX Labs — Allow your user to comprehensively monitor their vital signs. Check wellbeing, prevent misdiagnosis, and motivate lifestyle changes thanks to Shen.AI.
Saludtools — Saludtools is a digital platform that improves access, quality and reliability of medical services for thousands of patients in Latin America. Our innovative and friendly technology breaks the barriers that prevent a better medical attention. We are about making outstanding healthcare accessible for everyone.
Pathway Medical — Pathway is an accurate and efficient point-of-care reference tool that gives you rapid access to evidence-based guideline summaries, interactive algorithms, key findings from landmark trials, clinical calculators, and more. Available anytime, anywhere.

USF originally set up to promote the development of the local startup ecosystem and today is the largest local angel investor with already 130 funded startups and the most extensive startups database and stakeholders (over 3,000 applications).

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Imabys — Imabys - Influence marketing by subscription
AssayMe — AssayMe App helps you measure and interpret 10 important parameters of your body in just 2 minutes. Click on any test button on the menu to learn more about possible risks of being outside of a normal range of values for a particular indicator.
Fintellect — Get more profitability from your projects with price estimations, automated analytics, and projections

We help you to enter the Chinese crypto market. We invest in blockchain projects.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Estonia, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

MetaMundo — MetaMundo is the destination for collecting unique 3D avatars ready to use across games, VR/AR, social media and the metaverse.
Tradelize — Tradelize is LinkedIn for crypto traders and investors backed by real trading stats. Here anyone can find a way to increase their returns on the cryptocurrency market.
IQ Labs — IQ Marketplace offers unique NFTs with exclusive utilities, boosting your in-game experience. With flexible renting parameters and multiple payment options, rent without collateral and unlock the full utility of NFTs. Say goodbye to gas fees with our gasless renting feature and multiply the value of NFT collections with our multi-utility renting. Explore now

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

NFTPort — Simple & powerful NFT infrastructure and APIs. Mint NFTs, deploy contracts, get multi-chain NFT data and enhanced APIs. Grab your free API Key now: nftport.xyz
Hookdeck — Hookdeck helps developers release their features faster. Less time spent developing, testing, deploying, monitoring, and troubleshooting webhooks.
Katana — Katana gives thousands of manufacturers a live look at their business with visual, intuitive, and easy-to-use ERP software.

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