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Top 45 Marketplace Angel Investors in Estonia

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 45 angel investors that invest in Marketplace startups based in Estonia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Marketplace companies from Estonia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 45 Marketplace Angel Investors in Estonia

Investor	Marketplace Estonia investments
Markus Villig	4
Triin Hertmann	3
Martin Sokk	3
Kristjan Vilosius	2
Ragnar Sass	2
Martin Henk	2
Tiit Paananen	1
Matteo Gamba	1
Andreas Klinger	1
Chris Adelsbach	1
Martin Tajur	1
Toivo Annus	1
Koray Gultekin Bahar	1
Kaarel Kotkas	1
Alvar Lumberg	1
Anthony Danon	1
Andrius Slimas	1
Mikhail Lugovskiy	1
Gonzalo Manrique	1
Jevgeni Kabanov	1
Mikko Silventola	1
Peter Vesterbacka	1
Mada Arslan	1
Ahmed Faruk Karslı	1
James B Gambrell	1
Erman Turan	1
Markku Jääskelainen	1
Sven Kirsimäe	1
Uğur Şeker	1
Kustaa Valtonen	1
Märt Aro	1
Ahmet Bilgen	1
Kartik Varma	1
Richard Howard	1
Taavet Hinrikus	1
Henry Joseph-Grant	1
Sten Tamkivi	1
Declan Kelly	1
Ali Can Kaya	1
Artis Kehris	1
Carmen Alfonso Rico	1
Martin Cass	1
Kimmo Rytkönen	1
Märt Kelder	1
Kair Käsper	1

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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.

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.

Martin Sokk is a Co-Founder, CEO of Lightyear Company. He attended Estonian Information Technology College.

Investment focus

Rental, FinTech, Finance
Pre-Seed, Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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.

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.

Tiit joined Skype 2005 as a test director after 10 years leading companies in Software Development and holding Engineering Operations roles in Estonia and the Baltics.At Skype he was responsible for Software Quality Assurance and testing for 7 years. In his last 2 years, he served as General Manager of Skype Estonia, coordinating EngineeringL&D, onboarding and community mgmt globally for Skype.Tiit is active member of vibrant ICT community in Estonia and member of the board in Estonian IT and Telecommunications Association, in which he focuses on education and workforce, and heads the IT academy steering committee. IT academy is a joint program between Tallinn Technical University and Tartu University ICT faculties to up level ICT education quality in Estonia.Tiit is also a skydiver, aircraft pilot and beer enthusiast resurrecting microbrewery industry in Estonia.

Investment focus

Retail, Software
Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Cloutex — Cloutex is a data logistics company that allows businesses to synchronize, move and manage their data quickly and easily. Their Google Chrome extension - Cloutex for Chrome enables users to move LinkedIn data available on public profiles into a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform.

Matteo leads the product teams taking care of Payments & Fraud at Wayfair, one of the top e-commerce retailers selling furniture and home goods in North America and Europe. Before Wayfair, he led the product function for the growth teams at (Transfer)Wise.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
Equity Crowdfunding, Convertible Note, Series A
United Kingdom, Italy, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Kroo — B-Social is a financial technology company that develops innovative services for a new generation of customers.It aims to make personal and social finances move at the speed of life. The fintech company builds an app that intuitively connects personal finances with their customers' social world, making it easy for them and their friends tobuy, track, and shares the experiences that bring them closer.Nazim Valimahomed and Tim Brown formed the company in 2016 in London, England.
GuestReady — Premium Airbnb Management Service for your vacation rental. Maximise your revenues and become a Superhost with GuestReady's 5* property management service.
Chip — Get the best savings rates brought to you and smash your savings goals automatically with Chip. Join over 400,000 savers today. We're building the best savings accounts in the world for you, with you.

Hello, my name is Andreas Klinger.I am leading the eng team @ On Deck (beondeck.com). Previously I led things related to eng, product & remote @ producthunt.com, angel.co and coinlist.co. If you want to reach me please use twitter @andreasklinger

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Blocktorch — Blocktorch web3 observability platform provides real-time tracing, logging and monitoring for developers building decentralized applications and smart contracts. Try it for free.
Rivet — Rivet is a corporate & personal tax prep firm, designed to make tax season less taxing. Because everybody deserves a tax prep firm that they love.
PierSight Space — PierSight is building a constellation of SAR satellites to provide persistent monitoring for the maritime industry.

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.

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.

Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Singapore, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
Enview — Enview offers the next generation of Geospatial Analytics Software and GEOINT technology for energy companies and governments to protect their critical infrastructure.
GOSU Data Lab — Try the World`s first game voice assistant to master the game effortlessly. Learn more - how it works and how can it help you.

Koray Gultekin Bahar is a Co-Founder & CEO at Figopara.Koray attended Eastern Mediterranean University.

Investment focus

Software, Digital Marketing, Sharing Economy
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
Ollang — Ollang provides cutting-edge AI dubbing, accurate subtitle translations, and closed captions services to enhance your multimedia content. Experience superior quality dubbing that brings your videos to life. Explore our services today!
HrPanda — hrPanda - Shaping tomorrow's talent landscape, a next-gen Application Tracking System

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.

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.

Anthony caught the entrepreneurial bug while working at a Fintech startup in the Enterprise SaaS cashflow management space. He joined Anthemis in June 2014, where he collected a range of experiences in his first year – from M&A in the payments space to innovation consulting for banks and portfolio support in the VC environment. During thefollowing years at Anthemis, Anthony focused on sourcing, evaluating and executing seed and series A fintech investments, primarily in European companies such as TrueLayer and Tide. Anthony supported startups in areas ranging from milestone planning and strategy, to business development and follow-on capital support. He isalso an active part of Seedcamp’s Investment Forum and a mentor to some of their portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Apps, Construction, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Estonia, Germany

Portfolio highlights

SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
Sona — The employee 'super' app for frontline teams. Sona combines the power of modern workforce management software with an unparalleled mobile user experience.
Werk — Werk is building a construction labor marketplace, that matches workers internationally to any country, all while automating the paperwork and HR. Our community provides trade union benefits, globally. Think of it as a mix of Deel & LinkedIn, but for construction that disrupts the European gray economy. Werk is building a digital identity forthe workers building our homes and offices.

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

Cloud Factory — Cloud Factory provides consulting, implementation, and support for Dynamics 365 Business Central, MYOB Advanced, SAP B1, Wiise and Korber Warehouse Management.
Promos — Promos is a startup combining machine learning and crowdsourced market research data.
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.

Advisor, financial specialist with Economics and Management background. Mikhail has 5+ years’ experience in financial industry, having worked for a number of large institutions and asset managers.

Investment focus

SaaS, Legal, Software
Pre-Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

LEGID.app — Find expert lawyers to solve your legal issues. The marketplace for affordable, on-demand consultations. 1. Ask - 2. Compare - 3. Resolve

Gonzalo Manrique is Co-Founder and Co-CEO at IronHack.

Investment focus

Recruiting, B2B, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
France, Estonia, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Pandas — B2B e-commerce platform connecting Asia with the +10 million of Latin America small merchants
Werk — Werk is building a construction labor marketplace, that matches workers internationally to any country, all while automating the paperwork and HR. Our community provides trade union benefits, globally. Think of it as a mix of Deel & LinkedIn, but for construction that disrupts the European gray economy. Werk is building a digital identity forthe workers building our homes and offices.
Flowers-Software GmbH — Flowers Software is an organization management for digitizing, simplifying and automating recurring workflows.Flowers -Software can be used independent of company size, industry, region, and existing company structure due to its highly flexible no-code process editor.

Jevgeni 'JK' Kabanov is the CPO & Head of New Verticals at Bọlt.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Apps, Online Portals
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Estonia, Ukraine, United States

Portfolio highlights

MyDello — Get instant quotes for all transportation modes. Enter a new era of freight forwarding with the MyDello logistics platform. Sign up for free
Montonio — 10x lower fees and the most customer-friendly financing solution.
Supliful — Supliful develops an online platform for users to create their own food supplement brand. It provides a catalogue of products, order form templates, online store fronts, shipping, and delivery services. Supliful has fulfilment facilities in Riga, Latvia and Denver, CO. Supliful is founded by a team of serial entrepreneurs who have successfullybuilt and exited an ecommerce company grafomap.com. You can read about it more at Business Insider - https://www.businessinsider.com/

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.

Peter Vesterbacka served as the Chief Marketing Officer and Mighty Eagle of Rovio Entertainment Oy. Vesterbacka manages the Rovio Entertainment’s business strategy, including expanding Angry Birds into broader entertainment franchise. He serves as Senior Advisor of Transfluent Oy. Previously, he has founded Some Bazaar, he has held severalcommunications industry related positions at Hewlett Packard and founded the Hewlett Packard Mobile E Services Bazaar and he is the co-founder and original initiator of MobileMonday. He serves as a Director of Star Wreck Studios, Start Up Sauna, BlueGiga Technologies Oy, Oy Filmkompaniet Alpha Ab and American Chamber of Commerce in Finland. He served as a Director of F-Secure Oyj since 2014 until April 7, 2015. Vesterbacka has studied marketing at Åbo Akademi.

Investment focus

Fashion, Computer, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed
Estonia, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Edumus — We empower students with the skills they need to succeed in today's world and future careers #edumusschool
Polka Dot Studio — PolkaDot, based in Helsinki, Finland, is a female led mobile games studio that creates fashion and lifestyle games for women. This is highly underserved audience with big spending potential and demand for new experiences. Our first game is a social mobile game where female players can interact with the brands they know, and influencers theyidolize, through fashion, in a fun and rewarding way.

Prior to Id4 ventures Mada was Head of Financial Control & Compliance at Leap Ventures and consultant at Lebanese central bank Banque Du Liban. Before that, she spent 3 years as an auditor at PwC. Mada holds a BBA with an emphasis in accounting & an MBA from the American University of Beirut and is a Certified Public Accountant licenseefrom the State of New Hampshire USA.

Investment focus

Apps, Sports, Consumer Goods
Convertible Note, Series A
Norway, Denmark, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Hooves — Hooves connects horses and riders by communicating through an easy-to-use app. Hooves brings the horse sport into the sharing economy. With the management's app building trust and easing communication, and our insurance securing everything, it is lowering costs and creating new opportunities in a very elitist market.
Drylab R&D — Drylab is the professional filmmakerʼs window into a movie or TV series, from start of shooting to the finished production.
Ampler Bikes — Smart, durable and light e-bikes that look like classic bicycles. Select your Ampler e-bike online today and start your journey.

Ahmed Karslı is the chairman of the board at Papara.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Art, Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.

James B Gambrell - CEO @ Supponor

Investment focus

Sports, Fashion, E-Commerce
Series B, Funding Round
Estonia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rakuten Fits Me — Fit Origin is the ultimate fit recommendation solution for eCommerce fashion retailers which puts fit and body shapes at the heart of the online shopping experience. It combines garment data and shopper data to determine which size garment will fit them, the way they want to wear it.Each shopper’s measurements are calculated based on height,weight, age and body shape. Deep statistical analysis of thousands of detailed body scans allows their data scientists to use these limited data points to infer high quality information about the shopper’s measurements.Every garment is analysed by their garment technologists, taking many factors into account including silhouette, stretch and fit preference. A shopper’s body measurements are used in conjunction with garment measurements to interpret how each size will fit a shopper.Fit Origin recommends the best size to fit shoppers, with the ability to compare sizes based on their own fit preferences.Their fit recommendation solution allows your shoppers to buy with confidence. At Rakuten Fits Me they are all about ‘Me’ fashion, not mass fashion. They are the only size and fit solution provider to align your product data with shopper body data so they get the perfect fit, first time, every time.
Supponor — Supponor provides commercially and technically proven solutions that deliver virtually enhanced advertising spaces in live sports broadcast.

Erman Turan is an investor at Ekmob.

Investment focus

CRM, Apps, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
Vagustim — Vagustim develops a non-invasive bilateral auricular vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) device to improve people's health.
Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.

Markku Jääskelainen.

Investment focus

Drones, Big Data, Software
Series A
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Hepta Airborne — Hepta provides automated power grid management and analysis using autonomous drones and powerful analytics software. Visit our website to find out more!

Sven Kirsimäe CTO at Rendin

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Lending
Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

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

Uğur Şeker

Investment focus

Marketing, Gaming, Big Data
Seed
Turkey, Estonia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.
Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Revel Games — Revel Games engages in the creation of mobile gaming apps.

Kustaa Valtonen - Board Member @ Valotalive

Investment focus

Education, Marketplace
Pre-Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Edumus — We empower students with the skills they need to succeed in today's world and future careers #edumusschool

Märt Aro

Investment focus

Education, Marketplace
Pre-Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Edumus — We empower students with the skills they need to succeed in today's world and future careers #edumusschool

Ahmet Bilgen Turkish Cypriot entrepreneur and angele investor. He lives in Famagusta-North Cyprus. He finished primary school and high School in Famagusta. He has been a very active person all throughout his life, he received a Black Belt II. Dan in TaeKwon-do, played in the local soccer team while studying at Canbulat high school. Ahmet was alsohelping his family with their farming business by selling the produce to shops, making some money in the meanwhile which he used to buy his first bicycle, first ball or his first pair of sneakers. Ahmet graduated with Bsc in Applied Marth and Computer Science from Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) in 1993. Between 1993 and 1995 he got his Masters degree in Computer Science. Right after he started his PhD degree in Computer Science but decided to quit academia after his first semester. During his masters and PhD degrees, he took part in developing intelligent user interfaces and inmemory data concepts for mobile devices. After leaving academic life, Ahmet worked in various IT companies for about 2 years and then joined SAP where he had his first professional work experience. Ahmet joined SAP Turkey as the Technology Consultant, and therefore took part in the implementation of more than 100 SAP projects with companies like Yaşar, Koç, Sabancı, Havelsan, Arena etc. as these were the first implementers of SAP ERP in Turkey. During his tenure at SAP, he worked in various roles such as technical consultant, business analyst, project and team manager and architect. Ahmet, after working at SAP for 2 years and getting enough project experience and honing on his technical skils, he decided to set up FIT “Future Information Technology” Solutions together with 3 of his friends in 1999. By the end of 1999 FIT had already made its first million USD revenue. FIT has integrated Turkey’s most important e-commerce platform named “Arena Computer Supplier Portal” with SAP. This was featuted as an international success story by SAP Inside magazine in 2001. FIT Solutions(lately became Foriba) has a lot of experience from completing many software integration projects. Working with the top 250 companies also gives the company the advantage to have a more extensible, scalable, sustainable and supportable product. These experiences and know-how attained over the years put the company in an advantageous position to achieve end-to-end e-invoicing solutions. in 2019 Ahmet Bilgen exited from Foriba. Foriba did: - Series A With Revo Capital - Series B With Revo, IFC, Endeavor Catalyst - Exit

Investment focus

Education, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Topi — Topi is an B2B e-commerce platform for wholesale market.
admarket.co — Outdoor,Billboard,Taxi,Bus,Print,sms Advertising,book ad spaces in The USA-admarket
Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.

Kartik Varma

Investment focus

Internet, Insurance, Marketplace
Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Cachet — Personal user-based insurance that takes into account your lifestyle and driving schedule. Quick, convenient and digital.

Richard Howard - Startup Business Development Manager (UK) @ Amazon Web Services

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Insurance
Seed
Estonia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cachet — Personal user-based insurance that takes into account your lifestyle and driving schedule. Quick, convenient and digital.
Mailchain — A secure, open source communications protocol, enabling users to send & receive messages between public addresses

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.

Henry is a globally recognised entrepreneur and operator. He is currently CEO and Co-Founder of Send-Off, a startup based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.Previously, Henry was a key part of the team that built JUST EAT from a startup in the UK to $2.44Bn IPO. He joined the company before any venture capital had been invested and helping thecompany to achieve performance that then attracted investment from top tier VC's Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, 83 North and Vitruvian Partners investing substantially at Series A, B and C. Henry worked directly with JUST EAT's founder Jesper Buch and former CEO David Buttress. After JUST EAT, Henry went on to hold senior roles at Uber Rival Gett etc and founded the European arm of Abraaj Group's portfolio company The Entertainer. Over the past decade, Henry has worked with Startups, Venture Capital and PE fund across the world as an advisor and operator.Henry is an advisor to several startups and mentors CEO's for several accelerators, investment funds including the likes of Seedcamp, Pi Labs, ZincVC and Techstars and is a contributing writer at Irish Tech News, interviewing the likes of Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Careem co-founder Mudassir Sheikha, Huawei founder Mr Ren Zhengfei and Gary Vaynerchuck.

Investment focus

Information Technology, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
Estonia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nada — Finance, Invest and Bank your real estate.
Gigimot — With Gigimot, you can manage your existing and future customers from a single app. Schedule your online sessions with an easy booking option, set your price, livestream, accept payments, and promote your business online. Sign up for our exclusive pilot with 250 coaches and get early access to the early beta.

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.

Founder of Foreword.vc, an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Also advisor at Web Summit and EiR at Seedcamp. Previously covering Europe for Techstars Ventures and founding member of Web Summits venture fund, Amaranthine.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Werk — Werk is building a construction labor marketplace, that matches workers internationally to any country, all while automating the paperwork and HR. Our community provides trade union benefits, globally. Think of it as a mix of Deel & LinkedIn, but for construction that disrupts the European gray economy. Werk is building a digital identity forthe workers building our homes and offices.
Tactic — Generate new customer insights using AI from web, internal, and 3rd party data in a few clicks.
Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.

Ali Can Kaya

Investment focus

Marketing, E-Commerce, Peer to Peer
Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.

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.

Lucky friend, family girl. Always chasing the “why” and “so what” of everything. Food explorer. Book lover. My Spotify running playlist is embarrassing. Obsessed with the power of communities and looking for #customerlove in the weirdest places. Lawyer and economist, previously @MorganStanley, @FelixCapital. Launched a D2C brand from my living room(RIP). From Spain but call London home. I collect exotic stamps on my passport.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Gaming
Pre-Seed, Seed
United Kingdom, Sweden, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

SigmaOS — SigmaOS is a new type of browser designed for founders, researchers, and content creators to make it better and faster to work on the web.
Cauldron — Cauldron aim is to create a Worldbuilding is the art form that is foundational to everything at Cauldron. We want people to truly feel they can not only escape into our worlds, but through the advances of Web3, be a part of them.
Werk — Werk is building a construction labor marketplace, that matches workers internationally to any country, all while automating the paperwork and HR. Our community provides trade union benefits, globally. Think of it as a mix of Deel & LinkedIn, but for construction that disrupts the European gray economy. Werk is building a digital identity forthe workers building our homes and offices.

Martin Cass

Investment focus

Internet, Insurance, Marketplace
Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Cachet — Personal user-based insurance that takes into account your lifestyle and driving schedule. Quick, convenient and digital.

Founder & CEO @ Income | Fintech | P2P and Crowdfunding | Consumer Credit |

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Marketplace
Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Income — Income is a European marketplace for investing into consumer loans from around the world. Built by investors to investors, we seek to fix the problems of the current peer to peer platforms and to make a better investment experience for all. We connect consumer lending companies around the world to investors and enable an easy, fast and improvedway to invest.

founder at Voog.

Investment focus

Public Transportation, Software, Apps
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Estonia, Bangladesh, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Jatri — Jatri is a public transport journey planner, digital ticketing and mobility marketplace, driving productivity by helping drivers to offer reliable transport to the commuters through our state-of-the-art technology.
BusCaro — Comfort, Reliability Consistency. Your one-stop solution for hassle-free commute. Commute Made Easier About BusCaro Innovative approach towards mobility for organizations across Pakistan. BusCaro is a tech-based startup providing solutions aimed at simplifying commute. Paired with a reliable technology stack, and the mission to drive a positive change in the mobility sector, BusCaro is a seamless
Detail — Record and edit videos with Detail for iOS and macOS. Everything you need to create videos and podcasts, fast. Download for free on the App Store.

Kair Kasper is the Co-Founder and CRO at Klaus.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Recruiting
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Estonia, Lithuania, United States

Portfolio highlights

Corner Renovation — Volume Hiring AI Automator
Montonio — 10x lower fees and the most customer-friendly financing solution.
Frontu (formerly Tasker) — Field service management software designed to simplify business operations. Learn how FSM can transform your field service company. Try now!

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