# Top 50 Startup Investors in Estonia in June 2026

## Specialist VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 44
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Tera Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 35
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

Tera Ventures is an international investment firm based in Estonia.

## Superangel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 35
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology

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

## Lemonade Stand
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 29
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

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.

## Prototron
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Internet of Things

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.

## Icebreaker.vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Change Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Apps

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

## Thorgate Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

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

## Ragnar Sass
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, SaaS

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.

## Jaan Tallinn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

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

## Karma Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

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

## Sten Tamkivi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing

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.

## Markus Villig
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

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

## Martin Villig
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Education

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

## Martin Tajur
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Recruiting

Martin Tajur is the co-founder of Pipedrive.

## Spring Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

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.

## Alvar Lumberg
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

Alvar Lumberg

## Trind Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Trind VC is a founder-first venture capital firm investing in early-stage consumer startups across Europe. We back ambitious teams, help them grow, and stay by their side through every stage of the journey.

## Martin Henk
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Martin Henk is the Co-founder of Pipedrive.

## TMT Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St. Helier, NA - Jersey, Jersey
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Social Media

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.

## Kristjan Vilosius
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Kristjan Vilosius - Co-Founder and CEO @ Katana

## Sunly
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Solar, CleanTech, Rental

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.

## Gorilla Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Gorilla Capital helps ambitious startups grow with smart funding and support. Discover how our team invests in early-stage companies.

## Ambient Sound Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

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.

## Taavi Kotka
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Electronics, Battery, FinTech

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.

## Timo Rein
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Recruiting, Human Resources

Timo Rein - Co-Founder @ Pipedrive

## Andrus Purde
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, Internet

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

## Triin Hertmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce

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.

## Superhero Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Some call you founders. We call you Superheroes. Seed stage VC investing in insight-driven startups in Finland and the Baltics. Tickets 100 K€ - 1000 K€.

## EstBAN
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing

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

## Kaarel Kotkas
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Gaming, 3D Technology

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

## Passion Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators who are applying our experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. We are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe, and we believe that the criticaldifferentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders. We take pride in the calibre and success of all of our founders and teams including but nowhere near limited to GoCardless, Tray.io, Mendeley, Digital Shadows, Adzuna, Smarkets, Ravelin, Tide, Marshmallow, Butternut Box, PolyAI, Lendable and Monzo Bank

## Taavet Hinrikus
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Taavet Hinrikus is based out of London, England and is the Partner of Plural Platform and Board Member of CoMind. Taavet previously worked at Wise as a Chairman and Co-founder. Taavet Hinrikus attended INSEAD.

## Ott Kaukver
- Type: Angel
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, SaaS

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

## Kristjan Raude
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Software, Automotive, Internet of Things

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.

## BADideas.fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

BADideas.fund backs bold founders from the Baltics and CEE with fast, founder-friendly funding. Led by a community of unicorn builders, we support early-stage B2B and marketplace startups with global ambition.

## LIFT99
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Legal

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.

## Enterprise Estonia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Mobile Apps

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.

## Metaplanet
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care

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.

## Iron Wolf Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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. 

## Verge HealthTech Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

We make early investments in global healthcare technology companies that address prevention, disease management and health system efficiency that are relevant to emerging Asia​We 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 we can help.

## AU21 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

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

## Vestman Energia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Viljandi, Viljandimaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Water, Software, CleanTech

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.

## Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Backing great companies when they're tiny

## Tiny VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Backing great companies when they're tiny

## Peep Vain
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Genetics, Recruiting

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

## Märt Kelder
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Transportation

founder at Voog.

## Earlybird Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Founded in 1997, Earlybird is a pan-European VC investor backing tech-enabled companies and investing in their growth and development. Funds include Earlybird, Earlybird Health, Growth Opportunities.

## Ahti Heinla
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Internet, Software

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.

## Contrarian Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Renewable Energy, Energy

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

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