# Kristjan Laanemaa

> Kristjan Laanemaa is a Series A investor at Karma Ventures backing Software. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Karma Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karma-ventures)
- Location: Tallinn, Estonia
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 73%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristjanlaanemaa
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/laanemaa

Kristjan Laanemaa is a founding partner at Karma Ventures - an early-stage venture capital firms specialized in late seed and A round investments in Europe's most promising tech startups. He is also Actively Contributing to early stage companies ecosystem to mentoring teams in accelerator and incubator programs. In his past career Kristjanworked as an investment manager of a global early stage technology investment portfolio at Ambient Sound Investments - an investment company founded by the founding engineers of Skype. He is still Involved with a few companies left in Ambient Sound Investments portfolio.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 53% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 27% |
| Cyber Security | 3 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 20% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 13% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 40% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 20% |
| Seed | 2 | 13% |
| Series B | 2 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Estonia | 3 | 20% |
| France | 1 | 7% |
| Latvia | 1 | 7% |
| Sweden | 1 | 7% |
| Finland | 1 | 7% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Leil Storage | ON-PREMISES DISTRIBUTED FILE STORAGE WITH CLOUD-SCALE DENSITY+23% extra FREE capacity and density NOW +23% extra FREE capacity and density NOW +20% lower CO₂ emissions and power costs NOW up to +70% saved energy in the futureFirst distributed filesystem that supports the biggest HDDs on the planet, enabling enterprises with HM-SMR basedstorage. | $1.7M | Seed | Nov 06, 2025 |  |
| Swarmia | Data-driven superpowers for software teams | $11.5M | Series A | Jun 18, 2025 |  |
| Patchstack | WebARX is a complete website security and monitoring platform including web application firewall, uptime monitoring, domain reputation checks, and security scans on a single dashboard.WebARX analyses around 3000 hacking incidents per day, which comes from our private threat intelligence. Compared to similar service providers on the market, WebARXhas put web application firewall, uptime monitoring, domain reputation checks and security scans on a single dashboard, available even to small website owners. | $5M | Series A | Sep 16, 2024 |  |
| BforeAI | BforeAI focuses in predictive attack intelligence and Digital Risk Protection Services (DRPS). Empowered by PreCrime™ technology featuring behavioral AI, we aim to transform cyber defense from reactive to proactive. Our solutions encompass automated threat intelligence, brand protection, adversary disruption, and domain takedowns. Recognized byGartner in five reports and honored with awards like the FinTech Innovation Lab New York, Bfore.AI offers the industry's swiftest, most precise automated defense against online fraud. | $15M | Series A | Apr 24, 2024 |  |
| Commsignia | Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. | $15M | Series B | Sep 05, 2023 |  |
| BforeAI | BforeAI focuses in predictive attack intelligence and Digital Risk Protection Services (DRPS). Empowered by PreCrime™ technology featuring behavioral AI, we aim to transform cyber defense from reactive to proactive. Our solutions encompass automated threat intelligence, brand protection, adversary disruption, and domain takedowns. Recognized byGartner in five reports and honored with awards like the FinTech Innovation Lab New York, Bfore.AI offers the industry's swiftest, most precise automated defense against online fraud. | $4M | Series A | Nov 07, 2022 |  |
| Druid AI | DRUID is a high-tech company that develops an AI-powered, no-code, chatbot authoring platform that allows citizen developers to create, configure and deploy natural and rich interactions between employees, customers, partners, and enterprise systems, through omnichannel text and voice conversations. The platform features a proprietarymulti-language NLU (Natural Language Understanding) engine which identifies user intents, sentiment, and system entities, a powerful Connector Designer which integrates with any enterprise app (REST/SOAP APIs, SQL/Oracle, ERPs, CRMs, RPA). | $15M | Series A | May 03, 2022 |  |
| CybExer Technologies | CybExer Technologies is a NATO-awarded Estonian cybersecurity company established in 2016. We have wide-ranging experience in providing and maintaining highly sophisticated cyber security training platforms with a special focus on cyber capability development. Our platforms are the key to our successful delivery of a plethora of cybersecuritytrainings and exercises aimed at ordinary users, technical responders and the very top of strategic leadership.CybExer's flagship solution is our proprietary cyber range solutions and the highly realistic live-fire exercises conducted on the range. Our capabilities and solutions have been used to conduct some of the world's largest cyber exercises. | $5.7M |  | Feb 15, 2022 |  |
| Sonarworks | Sonarworks is a deep-tech audio company that delivers personalized sound experiences. Its SoundID technology measures and digitally tunes sound devices to match individual hearing preferences, enhancing audio across various devices. Widely used in recording studios and by audio engineers, the technology enables high-precision sound for consumersand professionals alike. | $6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 14, 2021 |  |
| CGTrader | CGTrader is committed to changing the way people access, adapt and adopt 3D content to transform the way they experience everything. The world’s largest source for licensable stock and custom 3D models, the company‘s activities include two interrelated business lines. The company’s self-service CGTrader Marketplace is the world’s largest sourcefor licensable 3D content with more than 800,000 3D models and a managed community of close to two million users, including highly-skilled 3D designers. They are supported with a designer-friendly platform that enables them to monetize their 3D designs at extremely competitive terms. A wide range of industries leverage 3D content from the CGTrader Marketplace to reduce design costs, scale and accelerate time-to-market including retail, gaming, advertising, animation, 3D printing and architecture. CGTrader Enterprise 3D Modeling allows enterprise customers and online retailers to transform their 2D product images into photorealistic 3D models for Augmented Reality and other 3D customer experiences, eliminating costly photo-shoots while creating immersive customer experiences that lead to increased sales conversions and reduced product returns. With a global network of tens of thousands of highly-skilled 3D designers, CGTrader is perfectly positioned to deliver 3D models of any complexity in any scale. | $9.5M | Series B | Feb 23, 2021 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Karista](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karista) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Addendum Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/addendum-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DIG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dig-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Evli Growth Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evli-growth-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Practica Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/practica-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Specialist VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/united-angels-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Karma Ventures

VC Fund · Tallinn, Estonia

Karma Ventures (karma.vc) is an early-stage venture capital firm, specialised in late seed and A round investments in Europe’s most promising deep tech startups. They back companies with strong ideas delivered with unique technology, customer traction and global ambition. karma.vc accompanies entrepreneurs in figuring out the path to growth in allaspects - commercial, strategic and technical.

5 contacts available at Karma Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Margus Uudam | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/margus-uudam |
| Tommi Uhari | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tommi-uhari |
| Arthen Sirola-Hashemi | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arthen-sirola-hashemi |
| Kristjan Laanemaa | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kristjan-laanemaa |
| Linda Võeras | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/linda-v%C3%B5eras |

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## FAQ

### What does Kristjan Laanemaa invest in?

Kristjan Laanemaa invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Cyber Security startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Estonia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Kristjan Laanemaa last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kristjan Laanemaa closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 15 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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