# Skaala

> Skaala is a VC fund in Tallinn backing Robotics and Software. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Estonia
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/skaala-org
- Website: https://skaala.org

Skaala is an investment company

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Skaala. Shizune tracks 1 team members at Skaala. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/skaala-ae8d?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Robotics | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |
| Food Delivery | 1 | 25% |
| Transportation | 1 | 25% |
| Delivery Service | 1 | 25% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 25% |
| Series C | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finland | 1 | 25% |
| United States | 1 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Taavet Hinrikus | Partner, Investor and Co-founder | 134 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/taavet-hinrikus |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Starship Technologies | 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. | $50M | Series C | Oct 15, 2025 | https://www.starship.xyz/ |
| Verda (formerly DataCrunch) | DataCrunch is a cloud service provider which facilitates utilization and integration of state of the art AI/ML models | $64.7M | Series A | Sep 08, 2025 | https://datacrunch.io |
| Lightyear | Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest your money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees. | $23M | Series B | Jul 24, 2025 | https://www.golightyear.com/ |
| Soldera | Soldera is unifying energy certificate registries. We give corporate energy buyers, sustainability teams, procurement teams, utilities, and traders one infrastructure layer across fragmented registries so they can procure, manage, and cancel renewable energy certificates with far less manual work.The platform combines aggregated procurement fromthousands of utilities with cleaner registry execution and audit-ready, government-backed cancellation statements traceable to the generating machine. That makes renewable energy certificate management easier to run, easier to evidence, and easier to scale across markets. | $2.7M | Seed | Mar 25, 2025 | https://www.soldera.org/ |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [byFounders](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/byfounders) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SmartCap](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/as-smartcap) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Coefficient Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coefficient-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [J12](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j12-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Karma Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karma-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Latitude](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/latitude-6c87) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Skaala invest in?

Skaala invests primarily in Robotics, Software and Food Delivery startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Skaala?

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### Who are the partners at Skaala?

The team at Skaala includes Taavet Hinrikus (Partner, Investor and Co-founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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