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Top 45 Manufacturing Startup Investors in Estonia in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 45 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Manufacturing startups based in Estonia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Manufacturing companies from Estonia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 45 Manufacturing Startup Investors in Estonia in November 2024

Investor	Manufacturing Estonia investments
Prototron	6
Thorgate Ventures	3
Ambient Sound Investments	2
Change Ventures	2
Specialist VC	2
Kaamos	2
42CAP	2
Raivo Kütt	1
Atomico	1
Justin Jenk	1
Syda Ventures	1
Aare Järvan	1
Superhero Capital	1
Superangel	1
Andrius Slimas	1
EstBAN	1
Jaan Tallinn	1
Elar Nellis	1
SOSV	1
Artis Kehris	1
Taavi Tamkivi	1
Bangladesh Angels	1
Crosslight Partners	1
Leovegas	1
Tera Ventures	1
Taavi Veskimägi	1
Martin Henk	1
Toomas Kõuhkna	1
Kersti Kaljulaid	1
Sten Tamkivi	1
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications for Estonia	1
Taavi Kotka	1
Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)	1
Enterprise Estonia	1
Amalfi Capital	1
Little Green Fund	1
Lemonade Stand	1
Baltic Sandbox Ventures	1
Ott Kaukver	1
Vestman Energia	1
Opus11 VC	1
BADideas.fund	1
Ergo Sooru	1
Sergei Anikin	1
Kuldar Väärsi	1

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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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Waybiller — Waybiller is an e-waybill software that helps you create and store your digital waybills and track your vehicles carrying freight.
U24 Solutions — U24 Solutions is a software development studio specializing in the creation of immersive experiences through virtual reality. We make real-time, room-scale simulations, employing stunning realism and custom libraries of hyper-detailed 3D objects and environments optimized for the VR experience.
Hepta Airborne — Hepta provides automated power grid management and analysis using autonomous drones and powerful analytics software. Visit our website to find out more!

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.

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.

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

Supersimple — Supersimple helps SaaS companies use customer behavior data to drive decisions in product & sales.
SensusQ — The SensusQ Intelligence Management Platform empowers decision-making and helps plan and conduct military operations 30% faster.
Kingdom Technologies — Kingdom builds novel robotic lawn mowers for large terrains

Kaamos is an investment management firm that invests in the construction, real estate, energy sector, and wood industry.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Battery, CleanTech
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

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

We are peers amongst entrepreneurs helping the brave to build game-changing companies, just like we have done ourselves.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, France, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Codesphere — Codesphere is your Zeroconfig Cloud. No config - just code and run web apps from your browser. Team work on distributed full stack Typescript, and benefit from our automatic deployments, scaling, tests, and security / privacy audits. We optimize each and every detail to keep things simple for you. Codesphere is next level programming.
simplyblock — High-performance storage software designed for databases with low latency, high scalability and high IOPS. NVMe-optimized. Alternative SAN or EBS. Scalable Block Storage software. Simplyblock | Simply Block | Simplyblock Block Storage
Go Autonomous — Unlock advantages of Autonomous Commerce and experience heightened efficiency, reduced costs, and seamlessly interaction for both buyers and sellers.

Raivo Kütt

Investment focus

Apps, Gaming, Mobile
Angel
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

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

Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

R.grid — Research Grid is the automation engine for admin-free clinical trials. Research Grid has developed two industry-leading products that leverage its AI-powered automation engine.
Raycast — A collection of powerful productivity tools all within an extendable launcher.
Dexory — Discover the only warehouse intelligence platform that helps logistics providers to maximise visibility of daily inventory operations using autonomous robots.

Justin Jenk is the Senior Managing Partner of Raktas OU.

Investment focus

Battery, Electronics, Manufacturing
Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

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

Syda Ventures focuses on investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups.

Investment focus

Drones, Manufacturing
Pre-Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

SKYCORP Technologies — SKYCORP Technologies is a company that designs and manufactures hydrogen drones and accompanying infrastructure.

Aare Järvan

Investment focus

Apps, Gaming, Mobile
Angel
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

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

Early-stage VC searching for the next Superheroes.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Estonia, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

eMabler — We accelerate our customers' business growth by convenience in eMobility with our API-first platform
TheStorage — Flexible industrial heat electrification and scalable energy storage. TheStorage offers cost efficient, sustainable grid scale energy storage that can discharge heat, steam or CHP.
Flow Computing — Flow's Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) gives 100X CPU performance for demanding applications, such as locally-hosted AI and general-purpose parallel computing.

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

OTee — OTee's Industrial Automation platform makes it possible to create and manage industrial-grade virtual control systems, based on open standards and architecture!
BeCause — BeCause makes your sustainability manageable. BeCause is the single source of truth for collecting, coordinating and communicating your sustainability data.
Pactum — Pactum autonomous negotiations help companies unlock hidden value. Our AI negotiates non-strategic supplier contracts on a massive scale.

Andrius Slimas - CEO and co-founder @ Oberlo, formerly head of web agency Studio4, over ten years experience in ecommerce, dropshipping and software development.Oberlo is a dropshipping solution for ecommerce store-owners. It provides a number of dropshipping automation tools and instant access to millions of products available fordropshipping.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Cooking, Jewelry
Seed, Funding Round
Spain, Estonia, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Billo — Most affordable UGC Videos, starting at only $59 per video! Save $400 on Each UGC Video We Create for You! UGC Video Ads, UGC Video Reviews, Video Testimonials, Unboxing videos
Cloud Factory — Cloud Factory provides consulting, implementation, and support for Dynamics 365 Business Central, MYOB Advanced, SAP B1, Wiise and Korber Warehouse Management.
Cloud Factory — Cloud Factory team helps you launch your personal branded jewelry merchandise without any effort, up-front payments or inventory issues. This is the place where to 3D print silver.

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 — Esgrid provides value-chain sustainability management solutions to medium-sized businesses and financial institutions.
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 an AI windshield damage assessment tool that gives an instant repairability decision.

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.

Elar is a full-stack engineer with 12+ years of experience. He has worked for different start-ups during his whole professional career and wouldn't change start-up life for anything. Elar was also the first employee of Estonian flagship startup Pipedrive. If he's not working then he's probably playing piano, writing music or hikingin the endless forests of Estonia.

Investment focus

Software, CAD, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Latvia, Estonia, United States

Portfolio highlights

VOOL — VOOL is a one-stop shop for EV Charging. Experience chargers that are reliable, save money, and look damn good. Made in Estonia.
CENOS — CENOS redefines engineering simulation software category for mass adoption: FROM enterprise niche and multi-purpose software for 100K simulation experts TO mass adoption of intuitive vertical-focused simulation apps by 10M+ practical engineers in production
Corner Renovation — Volume Hiring AI Automator

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

Artis Kehris - Co-Founder @ Printify

Investment focus

Information Technology, Information Services, Legal
Seed, Pre-Seed
Estonia, Latvia, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Cloud Factory — Cloud Factory provides consulting, implementation, and support for Dynamics 365 Business Central, MYOB Advanced, SAP B1, Wiise and Korber Warehouse Management.
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.
Cloud Factory — Cloud Factory team helps you launch your personal branded jewelry merchandise without any effort, up-front payments or inventory issues. This is the place where to 3D print silver.

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.

Bangladesh Angels operates as an angel investing platform. Its mission to nurture innovation and entrepreneurship in Bangladesh, connecting them to both local and global investors. Bangladesh Angels was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Investment focus

Supply Chain Management, Fashion, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Bangladesh, India, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Airwrk — AI recruiting sidekick for founders: post permanent or contractual jobs with AI assessments, interview offshore/nearshore remote developers in 24 hours.
Shuttle — Shuttle is a mass-transit startup based in Bangladesh that provides safe transportation at an affordable fare by moving more people with fewer vehicles and caters to both B2B and B2C customers.
Reverse Resources — The smartest way to deal with leftovers from fashion production

Crosslight Partners is a growth equity firm. The firm invests in the environment, healthcare, impact, and technology sectors across Europe.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, B2B, Medical
Seed, Funding Round
Sweden, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Gelatex Technologies — Gelatex is a Techstars-backed materials technology company that invented the fastest technology for producing bio-based nanofibers on a large scale. It is a platform technology that enables faster and up to 100 cheaper nanofiber production for applications like 3D scaffolds for tissue engineering, cultured meat, bio-based filters, eco-friendlyleather-like textile, energy storage, wound care, and many more. The technology is patent-pending and the machinery fully functional. The company was founded in 2016 and until COVID-19 pandemic developed eco-friendly leather-like textile from gelatin nanofibers, using this nanofiber production technology as part of the process. COVID-19 was a trigger to understand the wider potential of the technology which then led to pivot.The company is based in Estonia and holding incorporated in UK (2019).
Sigrid Therapeutics — Safe Solution For Normalizing Blood Sugar Levels

LeoVegas is the premier GameTech company and is at the forefront of using state-of-the-art technology for mobile gaming. We are the King of Casino.

Investment focus

Gaming, SaaS, Gambling
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Sweden, Estonia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

humbl.ai — humbl.ai offers a modular suite of tools that use Automation and AI to empower iGaming and E-commerce clients in the areas of paid media, affiliation, SEO, and compliance.
Like a Boss Games — Like a Boss is a mobile games studio consisting of an awesome team with decades of experience from the worlds most successful gaming companies. The company is on a clear mission to entertain millions of sports fans with innovative social games for smart phones & tablets.
BeyondPlay — Home to the best multiplayer real money gaming experience, we are on a mission to redefine how people play.

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.
Supersimple — Supersimple helps SaaS companies use customer behavior data to drive decisions in product & sales.
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.

Taavi Veskimägi is a former member of the Estonian Parliament(2003-2009) and Minister of Finance from 2003 to 2005.

Investment focus

Water, Battery, Recycling
Funding Round
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Toomas Kõuhkna

Investment focus

Battery, Electronics, Manufacturing
Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

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

In 2016, Kersti Kaljulaid was elected President of the Republic of Estonia. Previously she served from 2004 to 2016 as a Member of the European Court of Auditors. Kersti Kaljulaid was the CFO and CEO of the Iru Power Plant of state-owned energy company Eesti Energia from 2002 to 2004. From 1999 to 2002, Kersti Kaljulaid was Prime Minister MartLaar's Economic Advisor.Kersti Kaljulaid was a member of the Supervisory Board of the Estonian Genome Center from 2001 to 2004. She was also a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Tartu from 2009 to 2011 and the Council Chair of the University from 2012 to 2016. Kersti Kaljulaid graduated from the University of Tartu in 1992 in the field of genetics in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and completed her master's studies in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration in 2001.

Investment focus

Battery, Electronics, Manufacturing
Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications intends to promote Estonian enterprises' efficiency and people's prosperity.It also encourages entrepreneurship to have a justifiable price for the efficient transport system, a developing information society, and environmentally friendly energy supply.It was headquartered inTallinn, Harjumaa.

Investment focus

CleanTech, GreenTech, Manufacturing
Pre-Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

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 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.

Tallinn University of Technology is a technological university that offers engineering, business, and public administration programs.

Investment focus

CleanTech, GreenTech, Manufacturing
Pre-Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.
MYCEEN — We grow carbon-negative materials combining mushroom mycelium and industrial byproducts.
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.

International Technology Investment Fund

Investment focus

Beauty, Health Care, Location Based Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Estonia, Finland, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

VOOL — VOOL is a one-stop shop for EV Charging. Experience chargers that are reliable, save money, and look damn good. Made in Estonia.
Wirepas — Wireless mesh connectivity for industrial IoT. Proven, ultra-reliable and scalable. Lowest total cost of ownership. The best mesh for IoT.
X-BOLT Orthapaedics — X-Bolt Trauma Solutions for osteoporotic bone fixation. FDA 510(k) approved. Clinical studies include the WHITE One (n=100) and WHITE Four (n=1,140) randomized control trials.

Little Green Fund invests in companies that are good for the Earth, with teams that can get big things done.

Investment focus

CleanTech, GreenTech, Manufacturing
Pre-Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Esgrid — Esgrid provides value-chain sustainability management solutions to medium-sized businesses and financial institutions.
UP Catalyst — UP Catalyst produces sustainable carbon nanomaterials and graphite for the green energy storage industry.
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.

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 — Esgrid provides value-chain sustainability management solutions to medium-sized businesses and financial institutions.
Value.Space — Satellite-based risk assessments for underwriters and risk engineers
Black Swan — Black Swan offers autonomous space robotics software solution

Baltic Sandbox Ventures is an early-stage VC dedicated to developing the Deep Tech and Life Science ecosystem in the Baltic region. Our focus is on early-stage individuals and teams that are engaged in research and development and are seeking to address complex technical challenges with significant potential for commercial applications.

Investment focus

Software, Drones, Infrastructure
Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
Lithuania, Estonia, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Airvolve — Airvolve operates as an aerospace startup.
Biohifas — Biohifas employs the power of mycelium and valorizes industrial side streams into the food.We are developing technology in 3 areas: - Side stream processing into food grade substrates. - Mycelium cultivation in solid state fermentation. - Raw material conservation.We are looking for curious minds, who are amazed by the great kingdom of fungi.Let's employ the power of mycelium and solve the problems that our world faces!
Black Swan — Black Swan offers autonomous space robotics software solution

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

Katana — Katana gives thousands of manufacturers a live look at their business with visual, intuitive, and easy-to-use ERP software.
Propel — Easily build in-product analytics powered by large-scale data. Propel's serverless GraphQL API makes building and running data products seamless.
Supersimple — Supersimple helps SaaS companies use customer behavior data to drive decisions in product & sales.

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.

Opus11 VC is an Investment firm.

Investment focus

Battery, Electronics, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

VOOL — VOOL is a one-stop shop for EV Charging. Experience chargers that are reliable, save money, and look damn good. Made in Estonia.
Mifundo — Mifundo is the bridge between banks and people. Regardless of their location. Look now and open an account!

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.
AM Craft — AM Craft designs, manufactures, and delivers 3D-printed, small-batch airplane interior components.
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.

Ergo Sooru

Investment focus

Apps, Gaming, Mobile
Angel
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

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

Sergei Anikin is the CEO of Tuum. He previously worked at Pipedrive as a Chief Technology Officer. Sergei Anikin attended TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Manufacturing
Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Wingback — Wingback provides tools and APIs for SaaS pricing and packaging. We allow you to ship any feature set of your product at any price using any pricing model with minimum engineering involvement. Don't bother your engineers with changing pricing plans, drive product-led growth, make your sales team more efficient.
Katana — Katana gives thousands of manufacturers a live look at their business with visual, intuitive, and easy-to-use ERP software.

Kuldar Väärsi is the Founder and CEO at Milrem Robotics.

Investment focus

Water, Battery, Recycling
Funding Round
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

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

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