# Ahti Heinla

> Ahti Heinla is a seed investor at Starship Technologies (Tallinn) backing Apps and Internet. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Starship Technologies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/starship-technologies)
- Location: Tallinn, Estonia
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: May 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahtiheinla
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ahtih
- Website: https://www.starship.xyz/ahti-heinla/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ahtih

Ahti Heinla is a seed investor at Starship Technologies in Tallinn focused on Apps and Internet. Ahti is the CEO, CTO and co-founder in Starship Technologies, a startup that intends to disrupt last-mile delivery by introducing self-driving local delivery robots. He is also a co-owner in Ambient Sound Investments, a private investment vehicle launched by Estonian Skype co-founders.Ahti conducts technical reviews of all ASI's potentialinvestments. His experience and knowledge as a system architect is invaluable in assessing and managing ASI's portfolio companies.Ahti picked up programming at the early age of ten, his fascination with all things technical resulting in him being the lead technical architect at Skype. Ahti has also worked on artificial intelligence, 3D graphics engines, signal processing, and building mobile phones.Out of the office, Ahti dons his running gear to enjoy orienteering and adventure racing events, where navigation is his strong-point.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $90k–$2.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 2 | 29% |
| Internet | 2 | 29% |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| Human Resources | 2 | 29% |
| Task Management | 2 | 29% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 57% |
| Angel | 1 | 14% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Estonia | 4 | 57% |
| United States | 2 | 29% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LIFT99 | Founders' success is often defined by their physical location. Tapping into top startup ecosystems need expensive relocation and time. LIFT99 connects startup founders across borders by sharing unique knowhow through an invite-only online platform. Founders connect over burning topics like fundraising, entering new markets, hiring, etc. LIFT99supports founders across their lifecycle and uses behavioral and company data to provide the highest value to founders.The online platform is supported by physical co-growing centers in emerging markets (CEE) and founder-focused events. | $2.3M | Seed | May 25, 2018 |  |
| Swap.com | Swap.com has simplified the entire process of buying and selling pre-owned items with its proprietary technology. With and inventory of 1.5 million items--and counting--for women, men and children, Swap.com is the largest online store for thrift and consignment. As a result, shoppers never have to leave the privacy of their home to shop forgently-used items, sift through piles and piles of clothes to find what they need. Swap.com is all about real clothes for real people--not a so-called "designer clearinghouse" nor do we target single high-value items to drive big dollar sales. Our inventory if curated to ensure top quality, consistent and reliable pre-owned shopping. Swap.com is the online and consignment thrift store people can trust for everyday needs clothing needs that are one of a kind.Another appeal to buying pre-owned items is sustainability. Unfortunately, 85% of discarded clothes ends up in landfills every year. People who buy from Swap.com can feel good about their purchases knowing they gave pre-owned items a second life. | $4M | Series A | Dec 16, 2014 |  |
| Fleep | Fleep is a web, Android, iOS, Mac and Windows app that wants to bridge the gap between ‘reply all’-style group email and enterprise messaging/IM services.Founded by ex-Skypers, Fleep is a messaging service that fills the gap between email and various IM/texting services. They take email’s ability to contact anyone and marry it withreal-time messaging.They are based in Estonia, with offices in Tallinn and Tartu. Their services are hosted on Amazon EC2 in Dublin, Ireland. | $382K | Seed | Mar 18, 2014 |  |
| VitalFields | VitalFields is a digital agriculture company that offers an easy-to-use farm management system for farmers to plan, manage and analyze their field activities, including simplified tracking and reporting of all crop inputs to help ensure compliance with European Union environmental standards. Founded in 2011 and based in Tallinn, Estonia,VitalFields is available in several European countries. | $531K | Seed | Jan 07, 2014 |  |
| Weekdone | Weekdone is a weekly planning and quarterly objectives (OKRs) tool. It allows leaders to refocus your team and get everyone on track towards achieving their goals and getting work done. In Weekly Planning + Progress Tracking, your team will share their most important plans and accomplishments, so that everyone can stay up to date. UnderQuarterly Objectives + Key Results you can manage long-term goals using the best practice methodology of OKRs, used by Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, and other world-leading companies. Many managers don't know their employees current goals, accomplishments and problems. People on the other hand want more feedback from their managers.Weekdone lets leaders set goals and OKRs, then quickly know what's happening in their teams and give feedback to employees. It's a hassle-free weekly employee status reports, dashboard and feedback system.It makes life easier for managers and teams more productive.Weekdone's vision is to be the single most used tool in any manager's pocket. | $200K | Seed | Nov 15, 2013 |  |
| Weekdone | Weekdone is a weekly planning and quarterly objectives (OKRs) tool. It allows leaders to refocus your team and get everyone on track towards achieving their goals and getting work done. In Weekly Planning + Progress Tracking, your team will share their most important plans and accomplishments, so that everyone can stay up to date. UnderQuarterly Objectives + Key Results you can manage long-term goals using the best practice methodology of OKRs, used by Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, and other world-leading companies. Many managers don't know their employees current goals, accomplishments and problems. People on the other hand want more feedback from their managers.Weekdone lets leaders set goals and OKRs, then quickly know what's happening in their teams and give feedback to employees. It's a hassle-free weekly employee status reports, dashboard and feedback system.It makes life easier for managers and teams more productive.Weekdone's vision is to be the single most used tool in any manager's pocket. | $90K | Seed | Mar 01, 2011 |  |
| Talentag | Talentag as a company runs 3 online services: Talentag.com, Utopic.me & Emp.ly. Talentag allows you to crowd-source your social talent profile. You tag your friends to tell them what they're good at or what describes them, creating a social profile for them. You also receive tags and vouches back, getting feedback from others. Yourprofile says, what others think of you. Talentag can be also used as a community database to find people according to tags. Utopic.me shows the hottest topics among your friends. You can browse the most popular links, videos, music, movies & events, shared and liked by your friends. You'll have a personalized real-time view of what's trending today among people who matter to you the most. Initial content comes mostly from Facebook, with other data sources like Twitter, Youtube and others to be added shortly. Utopic was launched in March, 2011. The company also operates Emp.ly, a a simple web app to post job ads to social networks like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and add rewards and incentives for people to spread the word. It's the quickest and easiest way to post vacancies on multiple networks and get stats on views, clicks and sharing.The company is based in San Francisco, California and Tartu, Estonia. | $70K | Angel | Mar 01, 2011 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cambridge Angels group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cambridge-angels-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Loudspring](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cleantech-invest) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Passion Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/passion-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Tera Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tera-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TMT Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tmt-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Starship Technologies

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Starship Technologies is a robotics company building fleets of self-driving delivery robots designed to deliver goods locally within 30 minutes. The robots drive autonomously 99% of the time to make safe and environmentally friendly curb-side deliveries from a local hub. They also offering people convenient new services that improve everyday life.Starships Technologies robots are equipped with a sensor suite that includes cameras, GPS, and inertial measurement units. The company's aim is to fundamentally reshape how goods are shipped and delivered, and make local delivery, ultimately, free. It also enables a new era of instant delivery that works around your schedule at much lower costs.Starships Technologies was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

5 contacts available at Starship Technologies.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ahti Heinla | Co-Founder & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ahti-heinla |
| Alastair Westgarth | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alastair-westgarth |
| Henry Harris-Burland | VP of Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/henry-harris-burland |
| Janus Friis | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/janus-friis |
| Joseph Miller | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joseph-miller |

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## FAQ

### What does Ahti Heinla invest in?

Ahti Heinla invests primarily in Apps, Internet and Software startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Estonia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ahti Heinla's check size?

Ahti Heinla typically joins rounds of $90k–$2.3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ahti Heinla participates in.

### When did Ahti Heinla last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ahti Heinla closed in May 2018. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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