# Riivo Anton

> Riivo Anton is a seed investor at Specialist VC backing Information Technology and Credit. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Specialist VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/united-angels-vc)
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riivo-anton-87b14b/

Riivo Anton is a seed investor at Specialist VC focused on Information Technology and Credit. Riivo Anton is Founding Partner of Specialist VC. He attended the University of Tartu.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.6M–$2.6M |
| Pre-Seed | $399k–$799k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 2 | 33% |
| Credit | 1 | 17% |
| Banking | 1 | 17% |
| FinTech | 1 | 17% |
| Finance | 1 | 17% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Estonia | 3 | 50% |
| Latvia | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flowstep | Flowstep is a copilot that assists in designing products. | $2.6M | Seed | Jun 27, 2025 |  |
| SensusQ | SensusQ tackles the toughest challenges in intelligence and decision making software to deliver the operational advantages of ML/AI, deployed in the toughest environments. Focused on the real world situations of our customers, we build software that empowers decision makers with certainty and foresight in their decision making. |  |  | Feb 08, 2024 |  |
| SensusQ | SensusQ tackles the toughest challenges in intelligence and decision making software to deliver the operational advantages of ML/AI, deployed in the toughest environments. Focused on the real world situations of our customers, we build software that empowers decision makers with certainty and foresight in their decision making. |  | Seed | Feb 08, 2024 |  |
| Flowstep | Flowstep is a copilot that assists in designing products. | $799.3K | Pre-Seed | Nov 01, 2023 |  |
| Gearbox Biosciences | Gearbox Biosciences is a biotechnology company that provides new technology for the decoupling of protein production from cell growth. Gearbox Biosciences was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Tartu, Estonia. | $399.5K | Pre-Seed | Oct 13, 2023 |  |
| Nordigen | Nordigen is a free open banking API that provides PSD2 data connections to all major European banks. | $2.6M | Seed | Jun 02, 2021 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Angel Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-invest-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tera Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tera-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [adesso ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adesso-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Black Pearls VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/black-pearls) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Calchas Holding](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/calchas-holding) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Dnipro VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dnipro-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Specialist VC

VC Fund · Tallinn, Estonia

We are a venture capital fund supporting forward-thinking founders from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Ukraine, and Belarus.

3 contacts available at Specialist VC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gerri Kodres | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gerri-kodres |
| Karina Univer | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karina-univer |
| Riivo Anton | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/riivo-anton |

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## FAQ

### What does Riivo Anton invest in?

Riivo Anton invests primarily in Information Technology, Credit and Banking startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Estonia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Riivo Anton's check size?

Riivo Anton typically joins rounds of $2.6M–$2.6M at Seed and $399k–$799k 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 Riivo Anton participates in.

### When did Riivo Anton last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Riivo Anton closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 6 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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