# Ott Kaukver

> Ott Kaukver is a Series A investor at Checkout.com backing Software and Information Technology. See 30 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Checkout.com](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/checkout-com)
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 30
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ottkaukver
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ottkaukver

Ott Kaukver is a Series A investor at Checkout.com in Menlo Park focused on Software and Information Technology. Ott Kaukver is Chief Technology Officer at Checkout.com. Attended Estonian Business School.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$5.4M |
| Pre-Seed | $401k–$2.2M |
| Series A | $8.5M–$26M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 12 | 40% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 17% |
| SaaS | 4 | 13% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 13% |
| Apps | 3 | 10% |

50 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 12 | 40% |
| Seed | 10 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 13% |
| Series B | 2 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Estonia | 7 | 23% |
| United States | 7 | 23% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 13% |
| Germany | 2 | 7% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Handhold | Handhold is an AI platform that creates multimodal agents to automate the sales and onboarding process for inbound leads. | $3.5M | Seed | Apr 08, 2026 |  |
| Arcjet | Arcjet helps developers protect their apps in just a few lines of code. Implement rate limiting, bot protection, email validation, and defense against common attacks. | $8.5M | Series A | Oct 08, 2025 |  |
| Arcjet | Arcjet helps developers protect their apps in just a few lines of code. Implement rate limiting, bot protection, email validation, and defense against common attacks. | $8.5M | Series A | Oct 08, 2025 |  |
| Qovery | Qovery operates as a container as a service platform that enables anyone to develop and deploy an application. It accelerates and scales the application development cycle with zero infrastructure management investment. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Paris, France. | $13M | Series A | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| Lightyear | Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest your money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees. | $23M | Series B | Jul 24, 2025 |  |
| Sereact | Sereact created an adaptable AI in order to commercialise a new era of intelligent robots. They developed adaptable AI to commercialise a new era of intelligent robots. They use artificial intelligence to assist their customers in closing automation gaps and achieving new levels of cost-efficiency. | $26.1M | Series A | Jan 20, 2025 |  |
| Askel.ai | Askel.ai elevates SaaS with embedded AI automation. | $401.5K | Pre-Seed | Dec 08, 2024 |  |
| Supersimple | Supersimple helps B2B SaaS teams make better decisions using data. | $2.2M | Pre-Seed | Apr 02, 2024 |  |
| Propel | Propel is a serverless analytics platform to power customer-facing web and mobile applications. The platform allows developers to quickly build usage metering, insights dashboards, product metrics, and advanced reporting without having to manage additional complex data infrastructure or create new data silos. They streamline product developmentwith APIs that integrate seamlessly with the most popular charting libraries, including ECharts, ChartJS, Highcharts, D3, and many more.Propel was founded in 2021 and is based in San Francisco, California. |  | Seed | Mar 25, 2024 |  |
| Katana | Katana is a cloud-based software helping thousands of businesses manage their inventory, production, accounting, and reporting in real time, centralized to one platform — giving businesses everything they need to get their products to customers as soon as possible. | $35M | Series B | Oct 12, 2022 |  |

10 of 30 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Atomico](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atomico) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Seedcamp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedcamp) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Crane Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crane-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Matrix](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Speedinvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speedinvest) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Superangel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/superangel) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Checkout.com

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Checkout.com provides the fastest, most reliable payments in more than 150 currencies, with in-country acquiring, world-class fraud filters and reporting through one API. Checkout.com can accept all major international credit and debit cards and popular alternative and local payment methods. The company launched in 2012 and now has a team of morethan 1700 people across 19 offices worldwide, offering local expertise where it’s needed.

5 contacts available at Checkout.com.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ott Kaukver | Chief Technology Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ott-kaukver |
| Remo Giovanni Abbondandolo | SVP MENA | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/remo-giovanni-abbondandolo |
| Zack Levine | Head of Revenue for North America | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zack-levine-10eb |
| Anatoly Yakovenko | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guillaume-pousaz |
| Bradley Riss | Chief Commercial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bradley-riss |

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## FAQ

### What does Ott Kaukver invest in?

Ott Kaukver invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Estonia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ott Kaukver's check size?

Ott Kaukver typically joins rounds of $2M–$5.4M at Seed, $401k–$2.2M at Pre-Seed and $8.5M–$26M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ott Kaukver participates in.

### When did Ott Kaukver last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ott Kaukver closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 30 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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