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Top 25 Payments Angel Investors in Estonia

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 25 angel investors that invest in Payments startups based in Estonia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Estonia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 Payments Angel Investors in Estonia

Investor	Payments Estonia investments
Markus Villig	2
Triin Hertmann	2
Martin Sokk	2
Jens Ohr	1
Marek Kiisa	1
Jevgeni Kabanov	1
Elad Gil	1
Ashton Kutcher	1
Marat Kichikov	1
Paul Buchheit	1
Veljo Otsason	1
John Tsioris	1
Moaffak Ahmed	1
Kair Käsper	1
Kemal Tamer	1
Melisa İtmeç	1
Kristjan Raude	1
Mikko Silventola	1
Apostolos Apostolakis	1
Rain Lõhmus	1
Evald-Hannes Kree	1
Sven Kirsimäe	1
Ott Kaukver	1
Peter Sandberg	1
Tamerlan Bayramlı	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.

Jens Ohr is the Founder at Bridge Lake Capital

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Mobile Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed
Estonia, Germany

Portfolio highlights

VisioLab — VisioLab combines human-centric artificial intelligence with the responsibility of making data-driven decisions in order to establish a more sustainable agricultural economy. VisioLab was founded by Tim Niekamp and Justin Shenk.
Cino — Cino automatically deducts everyone's share from their bank accounts. Create groups with whom you want to share bills, set your ratio split & stop fronting costs!

Marek Kiisa is the co-founder and Managing Partner at NordicNinja VC, and the co-founder and partner at Superangel.io. He has made 15 private angel investments and created several companies, like Astrec Baltic, Pilvio.io and Kood/Johvi coding school. He has his Master Degree on Machine Design from KTH Stockholm and he is a Kauffman FellowClass 19.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Transportation
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Estonia, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Monese — Monese is a digital banking alternative that provides mobile-only, multi-currency accounts in 31 countries across the European Economic Area, for those who are underserved by the traditional banking system. It was launched in 2015 by Norris Koppel, after his first-hand experience of the hassle involved with opening a bank account in a new country.With a fully-featured and fully localized banking experience (both its apps and its customer service are available in 14 languages), Monese allows people and businesses to spend and save like locals across Europe. Its proprietary “Know Your Customer” technology can validate a customer’s identity in real-time, allowing accounts to be opened in a matter of minutes, from a mobile app.
Wwwash — Download wwwash app. Car wash - hardware and software to connect every car wash to cloud. wwwash.
Warren.io — Warren platform equips partnering providers with a white labelled self-service portal for easy access to infrastructure and managed services.

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/

Elad Gil is the Co-Founder of Color Genomics. He previously worked at Twitter as a Vice President. Elad Gil attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Succinct — The easiest way to discover, develop, and deploy ZK.
Fieldguide — Fieldguide is a workflow automation and collaboration software platform for audit, attestation, assurance, and advisory practices and firms.
Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.

Ashton Kutcher is an actor, investor, entrepreneur, producer and philanthropist.Kutcher has been named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” as well as being honored by Vanity Fair ‘s “New Establishment List,” which identifies the top 50 of an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigiesand entrepreneurs. Twice, Kutcher was named one of Forbes magazine’s “World’s Most Powerful Celebrities,” as well as one of Fast Company magazine’s “Most Creative People.”Kutcher has been investing in technology for over a decade, both as an angel investor and a founding partner of A-Grade Investments and Sound Ventures. His fund portfolio includes Airbnb, Uber, Flexport, Brex, Robinhood, Bird, Airtable and Affirm among others.Kutcher is also the co-founder of Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children (www.thorn.org). Thorn drives technology innovation to fight the sexual exploitation of children.Kutcher currently stars in the Netflix original series, The Ranch. He also serves as Executive Producer. Until 2015, Kutcher starred in the CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men. The show ranked as the second most-watched comedy on all of network television. Kutcher first gained recognition as Michael Kelso on the Fox series That 70’s Show, and went on to star in a variety of box office hits on the big screen – including What Happens In Vegas with Cameron Diaz, The Guardian with Kevin Costner, No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman and the cult hit Dude, Where’s My Car.Kutcher served as co-creator and producer of MTV's hit series, “Punk'd,” and The CW's reality series “Beauty and the Geek” and “True Beauty.” He has also produced films such as No Strings Attached, Killers and The Butterfly Effect. Additionally, Kutcher co-founded APlus, a digital media company devoted to spreading the message of positive journalism, a kind of storytelling that focuses on our shared humanity. In 2016, APlus was purchased by Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

QD-SOL — QD-SOL uses nanoparticles to produce green hydrogen in half the time.
HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
The Fabricant — A digital fashion house leading the fashion industry towards a new sector of digital-only clothing.

Marat is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry and early stage investor. He is the founder of several successful companies, including a consumer finance bank, few e-commerce companies and investment fund. He serves on the board of his several portfolio companies (Bioloka, Wow Cube, F3 and RelesticaHolding), utilizing his knowledge and expertise in Blockchain industry which he joined to in 2013 as a partner in Bitfury Group. In both as a fund and as an angel investor, Marat have invested in 30+ fin tech, e-commerce, blockchain technology, educational, healthcare and gaming companies, providing business expertise and financial & advisory support to founders. Marat has a master's degree in finance & business management and a bachelor's degree in law. In his free time, Marat likes surfing and skiing!

Investment focus

Software, Education, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Intropia — Find Web3 jobs and other opportunities, capitalize your network, and hire the best talent.
Starly.io — Launchpad and marketplace for your gamified NFT collections
EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!

Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008.He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the originalprototype of Google AdSense, and was responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto in a meeting.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Cityfurnish — Cityfurnish is an internet company that specializes in the fields of e-commerce and online rental. It features an online renting zone where contemporary and modern styles amalgamate to establish a new genre of wooden furniture and furnishings. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana.
Character.ai — character.ai is bringing to life the science-fiction dream of open-ended conversations and collaborations with computers.
Perplexity AI — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

Veljo Otsason is Estonian entrepreneur and investor. In 2007 he co-founded mobile payments company Fortumo and served as its CTO. Since 2013 he has been active angel investor and early backer of Bolt (formerly Taxify), Monese, Veriff, Pipedrive & 30+ others. In 2018 he co-founded Superangel, early-stage seed fund and company builder.

Investment focus

Film, Manufacturing, Electrical Distribution
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Estonia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bolt — The smartest way to move around in cities. Forget expensive taxi rides or slow public transport. Get a ride in minutes. Download the Bolt app for iOS and Android.
Veriff — Highly automated identity verification software from Veriff. We help you build trust and transparency online.
Digital Sputnik — Making Hollywood level virtual production simple, fast and budget-friendly. Without big screens and teams. Show anything real on any virtual background and let the AI lights sync with the background. For film makers, influencers, streamers and live event organizers.

John Tsioris is the CEO at InstaShop.

Investment focus

Travel, Internet, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Greece, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Kriptomat — Buying, selling, and storing your favorite cryptocurrencies has never been easier! Register in seconds, and start trading in minutes on Kriptomat.
Pandas — We are Green Panda and our mission is to give consumers the most value out of their smartphone with zero hassle, by empowering them to sell/trade it in the fastest, safest, and easiest way possible. 1Bn (with a B!) smartphones stop being used, every year after you upgrade to the latest and greatest. But there is a solution as simple astrading them in and getting paid while participating in the circular economy. So, why aren’t people selling their old phones, we wondered? This is where Green Panda comes in. Inspired by humans and powered by tech, we make sure that the frustrating experience of selling your smartphone is now as quick and easy as using a kiosk near you. Our patented A.I. technology in the Green Panda kiosks allows us to evaluate a smartphone’s condition, from the smallest nick to serious technical issues, with unprecedented accuracy. Oh, and we pay users on the spot, straight to their bank account/credit card.
Welcome Pickups — Book a trusted local driver to pick you up and introduce you to your next destination, pre-order travel essentials.

Serial entrepreneur and hands-on early stage investor with over 25 years of marketing and business development experience in Europe, North America and Asia.

Investment focus

Music, Cryptocurrency, Video Conferencing
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
Finland, Estonia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ovoro — Ovoro is an automated crypto trading app that offers users a streamlined, efficient and convenient way to manage their investments. With an intuitive interface, Ovoro allows you to easily set up and monitor your trades, eliminating the hassle of manual trading. Trying out Ovoro is risk free as trading can be done in a simulated environment with noreal money involved.
Yousician — Yousician is a fun way to learn the guitar, piano, bass, ukulele or singing. Enjoy thousands of songs with Yousician as your personal music teacher!
Carbo Culture — We are a project developer with proprietary climate technology. We are building a rapidly scalable biochar carbon removal solution.

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!

Kemal Tamer is a Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board at Defimec.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
Turkey, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Defimec — Defimec is an ecosystem of applications that includes deX, tokenization platforms, and DAO protocol.
Ziv4 Technology — Ziv4 Technology is an artificial intelligence algorithm-focused financial technology startup.

Melisa İtmec is a Coordinator of EGİAD Angels Investment Network.

Investment focus

Software, Cryptocurrency, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Ziv4 Technology — Ziv4 Technology is an artificial intelligence algorithm-focused financial technology startup.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Apostolos is a serial entrepreneur turned investor. He started his career at Boston Consulting Group where he spent 2 years consulting businesses. On his entrepreneurial path, he has co-founded e-shop.gr, Openfund, e-food, doctoranytime and was a key investor in Taxibeat. Since 2010 he has invested and supported a large number of startups with afocus on e-marketplaces and SaaS. He studied civil engineering at NTUA and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Greece, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HairRemoval.co.uk — HairRemoval UK is an international recognized company that is specialized in laser hair removal treatments.
Packhelp — Packhelp makes it easy for anyone to create, order and manage fully custom-branded packaging. It connects customers with the most suitable production possibilities, offering them a broad range of packaging products. Packhelp covers everything from local deliveries of small quantities to global procurement of large volumes, with Packhelp Studio – anonline editor for small businesses, instantly purchasable products and orders from 30 pieces, and Packhelp Plus, which helps mid-market companies scale their packaging needs. Founded in 2015, Packhelp currently serves 50,000 customers from over 30 countries. The list of customers includes brands recognized worldwide, like BMW, H&M, Google, L’Oreal, T-Mobile, Uber, Bolt and Wrangler, and many of the local champions from Europe.
Kriptomat — Buying, selling, and storing your favorite cryptocurrencies has never been easier! Register in seconds, and start trading in minutes on Kriptomat.

Rain co-founded Livonia Partners. He has one of the most extensive investment and entrepreneurial track records in the Baltics across a wide range of industries. In 1991 Rain co-founded Hansabank, the largest pan-Baltic financial institution. The bank grew both organically and via acquisitions into the largest bank in the Baltics and was sold toSwedbank in 1998. In 1999 Rain created and later successfully exited a venture capital fund, New Economy Ventures, having invested in 7 technology companies, including Forticom and CV-Online. The fund returned to its investors more than 8 times the invested capital. In 1999 Rain also founded LHV Group, a pan-Baltic banking group, which held its IPO on Tallinn Stock Exchange in 2016. In 2005 he co-founded LHV Capital with Mindaugas Utkevičius and has invested into Veju Spektras, Archyvu Centras, Qvalitas Medical Centre and Baltic Ticket Holdings.

Investment focus

Mobile Payments, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
Estonia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
Wwwash — Download wwwash app. Car wash - hardware and software to connect every car wash to cloud. wwwash.
Snabb — Barking delights vehicle owners by enabling services such as parking, washing, charging, and fuelling from one user-friendly and convenient interface- the Barking App. Browse, book, navigate, start, pay, review and manage your vehicle services from one easy-to-use App.Founded in 2015, we've grown from a Tallinn-based private parking App toan international platform that serves over 50,000 users in 10 markets on a monthly basis.We are constantly working towards connecting all vehicle service providers to our platform and thus enabling the ultimate convenience and simplicity to vehicle owners.

Evald-Hannes Kree

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Finance
Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Swapin.com — Ultra-fast payments between Crypto and Banks. Use #Bitcoin to transfer money and pay bills. Boost your business by accepting crypto.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Peter Sandberg is a co-founder of Nordic Secondary Fund, and a venture partner at Startup Wise Guys. He has extensive experience as a Business Angel and in asset management.

Investment focus

Internet, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market
Denmark, Kenya, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Simporter — Make better products with more confidence, in just a fraction of the time.
Cavea — Adlab connects brands with streamers to empower collaboration in the new creator economy. We bring creative, engaging ad campaigns to streams across the globe through automated sponsorship campaigns, which allows brands to reach specific audiences, and streamers to effortlessly monetize their content.
Hive.id — Proactively prevent fraud, build secure experiences for your customers and drive your revenue growth.