# Janis Krums

> Janis Krums is a seed investor at Change Ventures (Riga) backing SaaS and Big Data. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Change Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/change-ventures)
- Location: Riga, Latvia
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Apr 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/janiskrums
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/jkrums
- Website: http://janiskrums.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/janiskrums

Janis Krums is a Venture Partner at change ventures.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $159k–$2.1M |
| Pre-Seed | $708k–$2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 23% |
| Big Data | 3 | 23% |
| Software | 3 | 23% |
| FinTech | 2 | 15% |
| Analytics | 2 | 15% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 54% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 23% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 69% |
| Estonia | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| KWOTA | Verified carbon emission credits from increased material recovery | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Apr 04, 2022 |  |
| PayQin | PayQin is a cross-border payment app for individuals and Businesses. |  | Seed | Jul 26, 2021 |  |
| PayQin | PayQin is a cross-border payment app for individuals and Businesses. | $708.3K | Pre-Seed | Jul 26, 2021 |  |
| Detail | Detail Technologies is a virtual camera that you can use in Zoom, Loom, Meet, Whereby, or your favorite streaming software. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 09, 2021 |  |
| Aerones | We are building heavy lifting drones which can lift up to 200kg (440lbp). We have version which is flying on batteries for rescue and delivery purposes and tethered solution for industrial cleaning and firefighting. | $1.6M | Seed | Jun 16, 2020 |  |
| Funderful | Funderful is pioneering chatbots in Higher Education, helping advancement teams get a response from alumni and increase donations. The vision - replace emails with messaging & chatbots for admissions, student, alumni communications.Funderful has recently partnered with Pomona College, Georgetown, West Point and a few other institutions, whoare already seeing over 80% open rates and 5-10X better click through Facebook Messenger. | $159K | Seed | Sep 20, 2016 |  |
| Mapbox | Mapbox is a technology underpinning location-aware businesses and applications that equips organizations with AI-enhanced tools and data to power navigation for people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers and nearly 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies have chosen Mapbox because of the platform'sflexibility, security, and privacy compliance. | $52.6M | Series B | Jun 17, 2015 |  |
| FiscalNote | FiscalNote is a privately-held company that uses artificial intelligence and big data to deliver immediate predictive analytics of governmental action to pinpoint impact.FiscalNote's flagship platform provides real-time legislative predictive capabilities as well as enterprise collaboration and visualization tools for data on campaignfinance, demographics, news, and open data to government relations professionals to help them make faster decisions. | $7M | Series A | Nov 19, 2014 |  |
| Lenda | Lenda is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of home loan, no fee, and cash-out refinancing. It offers an online platform that enables individuals to refinance their home loans online. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $1.5M | Seed | Sep 30, 2014 |  |
| Whale Path | Whale Path is a Crowdsourced Market Intelligence Platform where over 13,000 analysts compete through research challenges to provide customers with proprietary and reliable market data & analysis to empower their business decisions.Customers request research by launching a Challenge and setting a reward price range for each data point aswell as a maximum budget for the entire project. Multiple analysts then perform research and upload data points and analysis to the platform. Whale Path reviews all data points for accuracy and validity and removes duplicates. Customers receive multiple data point submissions and pay based on the accuracy and value each data point presents to them. | $1.1M | Seed | Sep 04, 2014 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Startup Wise Guys](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startup-wise-guys) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Change Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/change-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Specialist VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/united-angels-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Winklevoss Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/winklevoss-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Change Ventures

VC Fund · Tallinn, Estonia

Change Ventures is a pre-seed stage venture capital fund backing ambitious founders based in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania as well as Baltic diaspora entrepreneurs building their businesses elsewhere in the world. Our investments range from €100k to €500k. Our founder-friendly no-nonsense investment process is designed to help founders with big, boldambitions get fast investment decisions. Once we are on board, we help with getting to product-market fit, raising additional funds, and growing the business, leveraging an unparalleled network of follow-on investors and partners.

4 contacts available at Change Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Janis Krums | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/janis-krums |
| Rait Ojasaar | Investment Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rait-ojasaar |
| Yrjö Ojasaar | Founder and Investment Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yrj-ojasaar |
| Andris K. Berzins | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andris-berzins |

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## FAQ

### What does Janis Krums invest in?

Janis Krums invests primarily in SaaS, Big Data and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Janis Krums's check size?

Janis Krums typically joins rounds of $159k–$2.1M at Seed and $708k–$2M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Janis Krums participates in.

### When did Janis Krums last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Janis Krums closed in Apr 2022. Shizune tracks 13 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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