Top 50 SaaS VC Funds in Estonia
A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Saas startups based in Estonia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Saas companies from Estonia. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 SaaS VC Funds in Estonia
Investor | SaaS Estonia investments |
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Specialist VC | 22 |
Superangel | 22 |
Icebreaker.vc | 19 |
Tera Ventures | 19 |
Change Ventures | 14 |
Prototron | 13 |
Lemonade Stand | 13 |
Spring Capital | 10 |
Karma Ventures | 9 |
Thorgate Ventures | 9 |
Trind Ventures | 8 |
TMT Investments | 8 |
Gorilla Capital | 6 |
Passion Capital | 5 |
Earlybird Venture Capital | 5 |
LIFT99 | 5 |
Tiny VC | 4 |
Ukrainian Startup Fund | 4 |
Zenith Family Office | 4 |
Contriber Ventures | 4 |
Tiny VC | 4 |
Presto Ventures | 4 |
Ambient Sound Investments | 4 |
NordicNinja VC | 3 |
Inventure | 3 |
The Spartan Group | 3 |
RubyLight | 3 |
Creandum | 3 |
Atomico | 3 |
Metaplanet | 3 |
LD Capital | 3 |
TechOne VC | 3 |
EstBAN | 3 |
Mapleblock Capital | 3 |
OpenOcean | 3 |
New Nordic Ventures | 3 |
Second Century Ventures | 3 |
Union Square Ventures | 3 |
Iron Wolf Capital | 3 |
BADideas.fund | 3 |
MV Global | 2 |
42CAP | 2 |
u.ventures | 2 |
Vendep Capital | 2 |
Funderbeam | 2 |
StartersHub | 2 |
ZAKA VC | 2 |
Big Brain Holdings | 2 |
Airtree Ventures | 2 |
Token Ventures | 2 |
United Angels VC is an early stage venture capital fund based in Estonia.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Estonia, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Supersimple — Supersimple helps SaaS companies use customer behavior data to drive decisions in product & sales.
- SensusQ — The SensusQ Intelligence Management Platform empowers decision-making and helps plan and conduct military operations 30% faster.
- Kingdom Technologies — Kingdom builds novel robotic lawn mowers for large terrains
Early-stage investments from entrepreneurs to entrepreneurs. Our companies include Bolt, Veriff, Fortumo and many more. 10x@superangel.io
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Estonia, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- OTee — OTee's Industrial Automation platform makes it possible to create and manage industrial-grade virtual control systems, based on open standards and architecture!
- Paul-Tech — Soil, weather and satellite data translated into actionable insights. Know precisely when to sow, water or spray with Paul-Tech's soil stations.
- BeCause — BeCause makes your sustainability manageable. BeCause is the single source of truth for collecting, coordinating and communicating your sustainability data.
Founded in 2016, Icebreaker has invested in over 50 fast-growing tech startups built by domain expert founders from companies like Rovio, Nordea, Pipedrive, Eniram, IBM and BCG. In addition to the fund, Icebreaker also runs a community of more than 1000 founders and pre-founders with 5+ years of relevant industry experience and the will to start,build or join strong tech companies.With the initial ticket sizes of €150k - 800K Icebreaker provides enough funding for companies to get to a position of strength and avoid post-accelerator limbo without having to resort to disreputable sources of capital and unfriendly deal terms.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Finland, Estonia, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- LumiDB — LumiDB - Harness your scanned 3D data
- Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
- Tab — Tab is the API-first company that enables smart receipts to arrive straight to your mobile bank app, all linked to your payment card. We help merchants deliver a seamless checkout experience and to unlock new avenues for post-sale engagement, banks to offer better user experiences & reducing customer support costs and consumers can wave goodbyeto lost receipts, tedious expense reporting processes and a more engaging banking experience.
Tera Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Tallinn, Estonia and focused on exceptional founders from Baltics, Scandinavia and CEE, disrupting digital space globally. Tera builds presence and networks in the markets where our portfolio companies want to expand to - the UK, the US, and Asia. With presence in Estonia, Finland, and California,Tera Ventures is supported by a global advisory network and provides portfolio companies with access to expertise and hands-on support necessary to grow from pre-seed and seed stage to successful exit. While investing we do not take a controlling shareholding as they believe that the management of the company should be adequately motivated by its shareholding in the company.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Estonia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 10Lines — 10Lines is developing autonomous parking lot marking robots and technological solutions to significantly increase productivity in the industry of pavement marking. Our solutions are helping striping businesses do their work much more productively with a smaller environmental footprint.
- Supersimple — Supersimple helps SaaS companies use customer behavior data to drive decisions in product & sales.
- CARÁ Health — CARÁ Health is creating a hybrid health and well-being platform for women throughout any stage of maternity to make them feel empowered and make informed choices. We do this by combining all verticals a woman needs (and does not yet knows she needs) during the maternity period, including education, products, podcasts, masterclasses, and servicerecommendations.
We are a seed stage venture capital fund based in the Baltic states, backing ambitious Baltic founders anywhere in the world.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Estonia, United States, Lithuania
Portfolio highlights
- AM Craft — AM Craft designs, manufactures, and delivers 3D-printed, small-batch airplane interior components.
- RivalSense — Monitor competitors of your startup. Receive curated weekly updates.
- Inspectle Food — Automized Food hygiene inspections with Inspectle Food. Compatible with GFSI standards (BRC, IFS, FSSC) - Track and assign non-conformities, Automatic reporting, statistics and notifications.
Prototron is a start-up fund that gives money to teams for turning their great ideas into the first working prototype. Founded in 2012 by Swedbank, Tallinn Technical University and Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol. We finance teams with high growth potential in areas of Greentech, Electronics, Mechatronics and ICT. We run 3-4 rounds of financingevery year. During last 5 years we've funded 58 startups with over 470'000€ in cash + coaching/incubation services. Our protfolio has generated >4,5 M€ revenue and raised >17'000'000€ capital. These results make Prototron the most productive pre-seed fund in Estonia. Do you want to be part of the success? We seek for:
*) New start-up teams who need money for building a prototype. Apply for funding: www.prototron.ee
*) Additional partners who want to be part of Estonia's next success stories.
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Investment focus
- Software, Manufacturing, Energy
- Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed
- Estonia, Germany, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- 10Lines — 10Lines is developing autonomous parking lot marking robots and technological solutions to significantly increase productivity in the industry of pavement marking. Our solutions are helping striping businesses do their work much more productively with a smaller environmental footprint.
- KrattWorks — We build jamming-resistant and high performance drones for front line operators.
- RAIKU Packaging — RAIKU is a cleantech startup that produces 100% natural packaging material that has also great looks and shock absorption - most importantly, it gives 15-20 times more volume to its raw material making it one of the most resource efficient material uses in the world with high margins. Both the production is and products are clean making no harm tonature. RAIKU has raised over 1.2mln€ in the pre-seed stage, built a team of over 10 people, its own IP and clients are already using its packaging material. This material will up-end the 1 trillion € packaging sector.
Lemonade Stand is a VC fund that focuses on early stage B2B investments in Baltic and East European founders no matter the HQ location. Investing €25-300K in strong teams, technology or traction.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Estonia, India, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Grünfin — Grünfin is a sustainable investing platform for people who care about their impact.
- Value.Space — Satellite-based risk assessments for underwriters and risk engineers
- Black Swan — Black Swan offers autonomous space robotics software solution
Investments in exceptional teams in the Baltics & Nordics.Our two main focuses include: 1. Startups with a technological edge. Seed stage. Our check size is from €50K up to €200K. With a vast experience in startup building, we typically get hands-on with our advice and help the founders achieve operational excellence. 2. Innovators oftraditional sectors. SMEs with a proven track and strong market position. Clear plans to accelerate the growth. Our investment ticket can be from €300K to €700K to support these aspirations. If you think we have a match, reach out through invest@springcapital.ee.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Estonia, Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Uniify — Uniify is a no-code customer onboarding software that makes it fast, easy and secure for financial companies to onboard their customers. Save your business time and money, and build onboarding flows for your customers in minutes instead of months.
- Crisp — Crisp connects data between retailers, distributors, and brands to power real-time insights across the supply chain.
- Salesforge — Salesforge is an all-in-one sales execution super app that gives every sales team the highest probability to hit their target by tackling email deliverability and the need to personalize cold email outreach at scale.We do that by enabling real-time AI & machine learning to decision critical sales activities, enhance messaging and eliminatethe need for various sales point solutions, therefore driving superior conversion rates.
karma.vc is an early stage venture capital fund focusing on seed and early stage technology companies in Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Estonia, Sweden, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- BforeAI — Starting from patented technology developed in years of research, BforeAi is the prediction service that looks for newly registered or morphed domains, and score their maliciousness looking at metadata and links to other bad guys.
- Hydrogrid — All-in-one solution for optimizing hydropower plants. Increase revenues by up to 18%, reduce spill by up to 12%, and save valuable time with Hydrogrid Insight.
- DRUID — DRUID is an AI platform that allows companies to automate processes by designing and deploying UiPath RPA integrated chatbot virtual assistants.
We invest both capital and our know-how into startups. Join us and let's change the world
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Estonia, United Kingdom, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Waybiller — Waybiller is an e-waybill software that helps you create and store your digital waybills and track your vehicles carrying freight.
- U24 Solutions — U24 Solutions is a software development studio specializing in the creation of immersive experiences through virtual reality. We make real-time, room-scale simulations, employing stunning realism and custom libraries of hyper-detailed 3D objects and environments optimized for the VR experience.
- Hepta Airborne — Hepta provides automated power grid management and analysis using autonomous drones and powerful analytics software. Visit our website to find out more!
Trind Ventures is an early stage VC fund based in Tallinn, Estonia. Investing in start-ups across Europe, from seed rounds all the way to sustainability, with a focus on ICT. Trind Ventures partners are Joel Aasmäe, Ivar Siimar, Kimmo Irpola and Taavi Lepmets.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Estonia, Finland, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Groover — Groover is the best way to promote your music to blogs, radios, record labels, & Spotify playlisters. Get listened to, receive coverage & guaranteed feedback!
- Yaga SA — Yaga is an online selling and shopping platform for new and preloved fashion. Buy preloved clothing safely or open your own shop and sell. Find unique second hand clothes, earn extra money and help save the Planet.
- Fractory — Metal fabrication services for project and series manufacturing. 1-1 engineering support and payment terms for companies.
TMT Investments PLC invests in high-growth technology companies across a number of core specialist sectors and has a significant number of Silicon Valley investments in its portfolio. Founded in 2010, TMT has invested in over 65 companies to date. The Company’s objective is to generate an attractive rate of return for shareholders,predominantly through capital appreciation. The Company is traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. www.tmtinvestments.com.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Enty — One subscription for Invoicing, Contracts, and Finances
- Whizz — My Device is a subscription-based rental service provider for devices like electric scooters, bicycles, home sports equipment, etc.
- Mobilo Card — Share your contact details with a tap. The best digital business card for teams. This is a real business card, no app. The best and cheapest digital business card.
Gorilla Capital invests in early stage Finnish, Swedish, Danish and Estonian technology companies
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Finland, Estonia, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Kwizie — Kwizie transforms passive video consumption into fun multiplayer quiz games with AI. Share a QR code or link to anyone, anywhere, in seconds!
- Xiphera — Xiphera protects your critical systems with fully in-house designed cryptographic IP cores implemented in pure hardware logic design.
- Jungle AI — Jungle uses artificial intelligence to predict component failure, and poor performance in an advanced asset management software.
Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators applying their experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. They are Stefan Glaenzer, Eileen Burbidge and Robert Dighero.They have been personally involved in the largest European technology exits of the past decade,including the biggest exits of the year for 4 of the past 10 years by market value (Ricardo.de acquired by QXL, Skype purchased by Ebay, Last.fm acquired by CBS, and QXL/Tradus acquired by Naspers) and want to be involved in many more.They believe that the critical differentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders.They are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe. As an example of this, White Bear Yard is their own hub for activities, ambitions and energy and where have fun in the process.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- PolyAI — The world's only customer-led conversational platform for enterprise.
- CultureAI — Measure and improve human cyber risks and security behaviours to prevent security incidents. Go beyond security awareness training, start your free trial today.
- SAPI — SAPI provides capital access to payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.
Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management,eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Loyi — Loyi is a loyalty platform. Its no-code, white-label solutions provide individualized, gamified experiences.
- Hive — Fulfillment with Hive means 100% peace of mind at up to 30% cost savings. Move your operations to Hive now.
- Grand Games — Grand Games is shaping the future of gaming by creating genre-defining games played by millions worldwide.
LIFT99 is a coworking hub and network of startup founders in Tallinn, Estonia, and Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2018, we launched our Skillsharing Platform for founders around the world.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Legal
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Estonia, United Kingdom, El Salvador
Portfolio highlights
- Patchstack — Detect vulnerabilities for free with the fastest vulnerability mitigation for WordPress. Protect sites with vPatching. Start for free!
- AXDRAFT — AXDRAFT offers on-demand automation of legal processes for enterprise customers, helping them to draft legal documents 10 times faster and avoid mistake. The biggest advantage of AXDRAFT is the ability to roll-out tailored automation for the customer in one week at no cost to the customer. AXDRAFT works with companies, like Carlsberg, BritishAmerican Tobacco, OLX and many other international brands.
- Legal Nodes — Offload your legal tasks to a virtual legal department and get on with running your business. Get started with the Legal Nodes platform for free.
Backing great companies when they're tiny
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Briefly Bio — The tool to make your lab work reproducible. Capture and share your lab work, clearly and consistently.
- bunch — bunch is the operating system (OS) for private market investing, handling digital entity creation, seamless investor onboarding and portfolio management. The company's platform focuses on saving time, money and mental energy by eliminating legacy intermediaries, overwhelming regulatory complexity, and low-tech administration.Operating acrosslegal structures, asset classes and jurisdictions allows bunch to fully unlock private markets for everyone, enabling businesses and investors to make private markets easy, cost-efficient and fast.
- Solideon — Additive Space Technologies uses additive manufacturing systems, a machine-learning collaborative system for building vehicles and infrastructure on Earth, the Moon, or Mars.
USF originally set up to promote the development of the local startup ecosystem and today is the largest local angel investor with already 130 funded startups and the most extensive startups database and stakeholders (over 3,000 applications).
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Grant
- Ukraine, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Imabys — Imabys - Influence marketing by subscription
- AssayMe — AssayMe App helps you measure and interpret 10 important parameters of your body in just 2 minutes. Click on any test button on the menu to learn more about possible risks of being outside of a normal range of values for a particular indicator.
- Fintellect — Get more profitability from your projects with price estimations, automated analytics, and projections
Independent wealth management company devoted to handling the investments and personal needs of wealthy individuals
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Investment focus
- Commercial Real Estate, SaaS, B2B
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Estonia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Remato — Remato provides all-in-one solution for your crew, tools and construction sites. Time tracking, site diary, photos, timesheets and much more.
- Moderan — Moderan is an online software for commercial real estate lease lifecycle management and asset reporting. So easy, any team can start using it in a day. Get your lease and property information organised. Save time with automated reports and make sure no deadline is missed.
- VideoCV.io — Spend less time reading stacks of resumes, and more time on finding the best fit for your company. VideoCV helps you increase your hiring productivity by streamlining your talent management processes.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, 3D Technology
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Estonia, Finland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Speakly — SPEAKLY is a powerful language learning tool
- Timbeter — Timbeter is a smartphone application that enables to measure timber quickly and accurately. Timbeter is an innovative solution to measure timber quickly and accurately. Timbeter's purpose is to reduce time-consuming and boring manual measurement, bring transparency and efficiency to the industry.
- Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
Backing great companies when they're tiny
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Briefly Bio — The tool to make your lab work reproducible. Capture and share your lab work, clearly and consistently.
- bunch — bunch is the operating system (OS) for private market investing, handling digital entity creation, seamless investor onboarding and portfolio management. The company's platform focuses on saving time, money and mental energy by eliminating legacy intermediaries, overwhelming regulatory complexity, and low-tech administration.Operating acrosslegal structures, asset classes and jurisdictions allows bunch to fully unlock private markets for everyone, enabling businesses and investors to make private markets easy, cost-efficient and fast.
- Solideon — Additive Space Technologies uses additive manufacturing systems, a machine-learning collaborative system for building vehicles and infrastructure on Earth, the Moon, or Mars.
We're a Prague-based VC firm investing in fast growing tech companies and empowering talented startup founders from Central and Eastern Europe.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Czech Republic, Estonia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Zerops — Zerops is a cloud platform that builds, deploys, runs and manages your apps, no matter the size or environment.
- Elin.ai — Elin.ai is a cognitive antivirus. It serves as your companion for the online world. It keeps an eye on your experience and analyzes the content you read, listen, watch, or produce. Right on your screen, it provides a useful context in various ways to protect you from harmful emotional reactions.
- Jeff — Jeff is a personalized loan broker that matches borrowers and lenders through alternative data. Jeff's mission is to help the unbanked to access financial services. In the absence of credit history and bank transactions, Jeff gathers alternative data from sources like smartphones, social media, behavioral patterns, geolocation, and other typesof digital footprint.Jeff then puts this information to good use and find ways on how alternative data points can prove creditworthiness and build trust, building new ways of accessing financing and evolving an alternative credit score.The company was founded in 2019 and is located in Riga, Latvia.
Ambient Sound Investments (ASI) was established in 2003 as an equal partnership by four founding engineers at Skype to hold a minority stake in Skype. At the end of 2005 ASI sold its Skype shares to eBay and now operates as a private investment vehicle.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Estonia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cgates — Cgates is largest independent pay TV and internet service provider. It provides digital and interactive television, fibre-optic broadband internet and fixed telephony to subscribers across the country. The company was founded in 1991 and has developed into a leading telecom operator via numerous acquisitions and organic growth. Investor consortiumled by Livonia Partners acquired a significant minority stake in September 2017 to support growth of the company and further network and technology upgrades.
- Pomelo Fashion — Shop the latest fashion at POMELO fashion. Designed and manufactured in house for quality and style. Dresses, tops, knits, jackets, denim, accessories and more!
- Ampler Bikes — Smart, durable and light e-bikes that look like classic bicycles. Select your Ampler e-bike online today and start your journey.
NordicNinja VC invests in startups in the Nordic-Baltic region.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Finland, Sweden, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- LiveEO — LiveEO is the leading solution provider for AI-powered satellite-based monitoring of large infrastructure networks. Trusted worldwide.
- Griffin — Griffin is making a bank you can build on. They provide banking-as-a-service solutions for companies that want to offer financial services products. The company is currently seeking regulatory approval from the PRA and FCA to become the UK's first platform bank. It was founded in 2017 and based in London, England.
- Onego Bio — Onego Bio is a cell ag company, specialized in animal-free egg white protein. We produce bioalbumen with an innovative precision fermentation process.
Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Leya AI — Feel and sound like an English native in 3 months
- Steep — Business intelligence for modern companies. Steep lets anyone on your team stay on top of your data.
- Reveel — Say goodbye to paper maps, brochures, and outdated audio guides. Reveel offers digital solutions for destinations such as UNESCO sites, sights, museums, cities, hotels and parks, taking the visitor experience to the next level. Become part of the smart destination movement, enhance the visitor experience, and discover the future of travel.
We advise, invest and build with the best entrepreneurs in Web3.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kintsu — Kintsu provides superior liquid staking solutions that boost your staking benefits and flexibility in DeFi ecosystems.
- Redacted Coin — Redacted is a Web3 entertainment and gaming platform.
- Sentient — Community-built open AGI
RubyLight is experienced tech entrepreneurs that founded a new technology investment fund in 2010.Their passion is to help fast growing internet and mobile startups to scale and expand globally. Social media, content sharing, communications, and crowd sourcing are their favorite areas of investment.RubyLight offers startups its professionaltech team, proprietary technology, and financial funding to help young companies scale up and expand globally much faster than their competitors.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Estonia, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Yaga — Yaga is designed for everyone who wants to sell items online in a convenient and secure manner.
- Yaga SA — Yaga is an online selling and shopping platform for new and preloved fashion. Buy preloved clothing safely or open your own shop and sell. Find unique second hand clothes, earn extra money and help save the Planet.
- Peerby — Borrow and rent goods from others nearby - affordable, convenient and green. Tools, bikes, party equipment, electronics and more. Try it now.
We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Sweden, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Prewave — Supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain management and sustainability managers.
- Plancraft — MISSION We empower our customers to focus on what they love: crafts & construction VISION In times of automation, individual and high-quality work of craftsmen will be as demanded as ever. Plancraft paves the way for profitable projects by bringing powerful calculation to an easy-to-use and accessible level.
- Visibly — Visibly developing technology to bring about the change our built environment requires by providing businesses with the tools they need to reduce the industry's skills gap and ensure our infrastructure can meet the needs of the population.
Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
- Iconic.AI — Iconic AI is an AAA games studio AI-driven game development
- Lakera AI — Lakera Guard empowers organizations to build GenAI applications without worrying about prompt injections, data loss, harmful content, and other LLM risks. Powered by the world's most advanced AI threat intelligence.
an early-stage investment firm making long-term bets on contrarians and leveraging the knowledge and network across sectors. We back mission-driven founders working on positively disruptive deep technologies.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Astranis — Four billion people still have no internet access. Astranis is here to change that. We're making small satellites for geostationary orbit, recently signed a contract to triple the satellite internet capacity of Alaska, and raised our Series A from Andreessen Horowitz.
- WeatherXM — Join WeatherXM's global network powered by blockchain. Earn WXM tokens with accurate, hyperlocal forecasts for agriculture, energy, and more.
- Perceptive Space — Perceptive Space is developing an AI-powered space weather platform that delivers predictions and decision intelligence to ensure safe and reliable operations in challenging space environments. By providing hyperlocal space weather forecasts and asset-specific insights into space weather impacts, Perceptive Space aims to help satellite operatorsand launch providers extend mission lifetimes and reduce operational downtimes and service interruptions.
LD Capital is one of Asia's earliest organizations focusing on value investing in blockchain field. Owing to industrial resource advantages and professional investment research teams, LD Capital has successively discovered and invested in projects such as Qtum, Vechain and Eos which all achieved over 100 times return.Their teams spread overChina, the United States, Europe, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, and have accumulated rich experience in areas of traditional internet, Fintech, and advanced blockchain technology. They are committed to the globalization of blockchain and quality investment in the entire industry.LD Capital focuses on blockchain innovation projects within finance, games, content publishing, Internet of Things and other circuits, and we have been propelling broad layout of blockchain technology and infrastructure construction to facilitate the comprehensive development of the global blockchain ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Swan Chain — FilSwan provides a layer 2 cross-chain infrastructure for Web3 projects by integrating data, computing, and payment into one suite. FilSwan offers a complete solution that enables web3 developers to integrate decentralized storage, edge computing, and payment across multiple chains with ease.
- Gamic — Gamic is a decentralized community app designed for the crypto community. With Gamic, you can connect with like-minded individuals and stay up-to-date on the latest trends in blockchain, NFTs, AI and cryptocurrency. Gamic is powered by Web3 technology, ensuring a secure and decentralized experience for all users. Plus, with our Airdrop feature, you can easily reward members of your community with crypto tokens. Join the Gamic community today and be a part of the future of social networking!
- BabylonChain — Babylon is a VC-backed blockchain project founded by Claude. E. Shannon Award recipient, Professor David Tse from Stanford University. The project’s mission is to bring Bitcoin’s unparalleled security to all PoS blockchains in the world. To this end, we are building, as the bridge between Bitcoin and the PoS world, a new public Cosmos-based PoSblockchain called Babylon with a native token.
TechOne VC is a venture capital firm. It invests in innovative tech startups founded by visionary entrepreneurs solving global problems, to deliver superior returns for our investors.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Carbon Centrum — Measure, Act & Get Rewarded!
More than just a business angel network Building synergy between startups and angel investors EstBAN is member led organisation committed to finding, funding and mentoring ambitious young companies from pitch through to a successful exit. About estban Latest news Created with Fabric.js 3.5.0 All news For investors Get access to quality pre-selected internationaldeal-flow, and be
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- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
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- VSight — VSight is an industrial collaboration and knowledge-sharing platform powered by Augmented Reality to empower the industrial workforce.
- RAIKU Packaging — RAIKU is a cleantech startup that produces 100% natural packaging material that has also great looks and shock absorption - most importantly, it gives 15-20 times more volume to its raw material making it one of the most resource efficient material uses in the world with high margins. Both the production is and products are clean making no harm tonature. RAIKU has raised over 1.2mln€ in the pre-seed stage, built a team of over 10 people, its own IP and clients are already using its packaging material. This material will up-end the 1 trillion € packaging sector.
- DriveX Technologies — DriveX offers an AI windshield damage assessment tool that gives an instant repairability decision.
Mapleblock Capital is an investment firm that exclusively consults and invests in crypto-assets and blockchain companies. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Delhi, India.
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- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Estonia
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- Cookie3 — Cookie3 utilizes off- and on-chain analytics and an AI data layer to determine quality users who bring value on-chain and reward them for their contribution. It's a three-platform hub for businesses, creators, and users with a unique value offering for all.
- Tevaera — Tevaera is a ZK Stack powered gaming ecosystem for effortlessly launching and playing web3 games.
- Gamic — Gamic is a decentralized community app designed for the crypto community. With Gamic, you can connect with like-minded individuals and stay up-to-date on the latest trends in blockchain, NFTs, AI and cryptocurrency. Gamic is powered by Web3 technology, ensuring a secure and decentralized experience for all users. Plus, with our Airdrop feature, you can easily reward members of your community with crypto tokens. Join the Gamic community today and be a part of the future of social networking!
OpenOcean is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in B2B software across Europe with offices in London & Helsinki.
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- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
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- Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
- Binalyze — Binalyze enhances all your digital forensics and incident response processes at max speed.
- Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier
NNV is a seed stage VC fund. We invest in B2B startups from CEE and CIS region and help them to expand internationally
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Latvia, Estonia, Georgia
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- OHMYSYNT — AI-powered tool for businesses and creators, that alters videos in seconds using text prompts.
- DrugCards — Local literature screening will be under control with DrugCard. It's: continuous, regular, transparent, multi-language, and cost-effective.
- Rapid Delivery Analytics — RDA: Unlock data-driven insights for mobile-first grocery and convenience delivery. Monitor stock availability, market shares, search performance, and more in real-time.
Strategy We de-risk investments and maximize returns by building meaningful partnerships our companies and key industry players within the world's largest verticals. Vision We have created a unique network of executives, entrepreneurs, thought-leaders and individual practitioners for portfolio companies to navigate and accelerate growth in these verticals. Capability We seek to define and deliver the
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- Real Estate, Software, FinTech
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Australia
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- RealSage — We are on a mission to revolutionize the way the real estate industry makes decisions. Real estate decision-making is hard. What makes it harder is your broken data! This creates a data decision gap for your teams and managers. That’s why RealSage combines all of your scattered and nontransparent data to give you a single holistic source of allyour answers with AI that helps you make faster, better decisions.
- Futurerent — Futurerent is a tool that offers solutions to residential property investors for investment capital and cashflow needs.
- Propi — Propi is a platform that accelerates the rental of residential real estate for landlords and tenants. Propi is revolutionizing the real estate sector in Latam with top-notch proprietary software transforming a painful process with high information asymmetry into a seamless end-to-end experience, for tenants, landlords, and buyers.
Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Neynar — Developer Platform for Web3 Social
- UNIGRID — At UNIGRID, we are dedicated to exploring sodium chemistries that are safe, sustainable, and affordable, for stationary energy storage and e-mobility applications.
- Molten Industries — Decarbonizing the world's chemical and heavy industries
We are here to make you succeed! Iron Wolf Capital is an international venture capital firm with an experienced team of professionals with global outlook and strong roots in the Baltics. and a mandate for helping entrepreneurs realise their ideas into successful businesses.
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- Software, Infrastructure, Manufacturing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Lithuania, Estonia, United Kingdom
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- PIXEVIA — PIXEVIA - AI for retail. Our flagship product - fully autonomous stores, powered by AI, cameras, and sensors. You simply walk in, take what you want, and go.
- Repsense — Reputation management software - Repsense is AI powered online reputation management service that helps you track your reputation.
- Kingdom Technologies — Kingdom builds novel robotic lawn mowers for large terrains
We are comfortable being the first money in the round.
Here is how we help founders, what we look for when investing and how to apply:
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- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine
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- Tiings — Tiings is a zero-effort fashion repairs marketplace for busy people & brands.
- AM Craft — AM Craft designs, manufactures, and delivers 3D-printed, small-batch airplane interior components.
- Salesforge — Salesforge is an all-in-one sales execution super app that gives every sales team the highest probability to hit their target by tackling email deliverability and the need to personalize cold email outreach at scale.We do that by enabling real-time AI & machine learning to decision critical sales activities, enhance messaging and eliminatethe need for various sales point solutions, therefore driving superior conversion rates.
Master Ventures is a blockchain focused venture studio. We combine visionary ideas, exceptional talent, and investment capital to invest and build the next generation of revolutionary blockchain businesses and products.
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- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
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- Nibiru Chain — Nibiru is a smart contract ecosystem with a high-performance, EVM-equivalent execution layer. Nibiru is engineered to meet the growing demand for versatile, scalable, and easy-to-use Web3 applications.
- Gasp — Trade crypto without gas, front-running & MEV. L1 chain powered by Substrate. Start trading with Mangata X.
- Silencio Network LLC — Silencio is a data-driven platform specializing in the collection, processing, and monetization of noise pollution data. Through innovative decentralized technologies, it offers comprehensive, real-time noise mapping solutions, catering to sectors such as real estate, hospitality, and urban planning, enabling better decision-making and fostering aharmonious living environment.
We are peers amongst entrepreneurs helping the brave to build game-changing companies, just like we have done ourselves.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, France, Sweden
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- Codesphere — Codesphere is your Zeroconfig Cloud. No config - just code and run web apps from your browser. Team work on distributed full stack Typescript, and benefit from our automatic deployments, scaling, tests, and security / privacy audits. We optimize each and every detail to keep things simple for you. Codesphere is next level programming.
- simplyblock — High-performance storage software designed for databases with low latency, high scalability and high IOPS. NVMe-optimized. Alternative SAN or EBS. Scalable Block Storage software. Simplyblock | Simply Block | Simplyblock Block Storage
- Go Autonomous — Unlock advantages of Autonomous Commerce and experience heightened efficiency, reduced costs, and seamlessly interaction for both buyers and sellers.
u.ventures invests in early stage technology startups with world-class teams and potential for global growth. Our goal is to support local entrepreneurs
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- E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Instock — Instock offers a gravity-defying ecommerce fulfillment.
- Carmoola — Ready to hit the road? Find the car of your dreams and make your money move. Spread the cost with flexible payment plans to get new wheels, on your terms.
- Dynamiq — Build, deploy and monitor on-premise GenAI applications to solve specific business needs, reducing costs, driving revenue and boosting competitiveness - all in one platform
Vendep Capital is a B2B SaaS specialist VC operating in Nordics and Baltics. We invest in the best early-stage software entrepreneurs. Our first ticket is 0.1–3M euros depending on the company’s stage. e support the brilliant startup founders by leveraging our extensive SaaS expertise and global networks to expedite their growth.
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- SaaS, Software, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, United States, Canada
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- Agileday — Connect your business elements in one tool and manage your entire operations with Agileday. Match sales, projects, and talent together and optimize your business.
- Happeo — This intranet keeps your teams informed, aligned, and productive with a template-based page builder, integrations, and universal search across all company tools.
- My Telescope — My Telescope is the Share of Search analytics tool marketers use to track campaigns and build data-driven branding strategies.
Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.
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- Apps, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Estonia, United Kingdom
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- Pynk — Pynk is the Multi-Award Winning London Fintech that rewards you for making predictions on assets like Gold, NASDAQ and Bitcoin. Free sign up, start today!
- FleetFox — UpSteam is building the future of car care via disrupting both the user experience, and the business side of car the car care industry. With UpSteam you can get a car wash delivered to your doorstep. It works pretty much like ordering a food delivery from Bolt/Uber. While you’re having a business meeting, our operator cleans your carinside-and-out, right at your parking spot. Also, we’re helping our business users save time on fleet management via offering various car care services such as refueling trips, damage control, car relocating, etc.As of August 2021, we've serviced more than 40K cars in 3 countries. UpSteam is combining the key-strengths of its traditional competitors, as users get the comfort of a self-service wash, the quality of a stationary hand wash, at the price-point of an automatic car wash. UpSteam was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia.
We are StartersHub. We are here for people who want to grow their start-up and find their angel investors. Find your venture capital now!
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Turkey, United States, Latvia
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- Earnado — A system that makes marketing decisions based on algorithms and completes tasks with online professionals. Seo, social media and ads management.
- Quin AI — Quin AI is a real-time digital customer analytics tool that helps e-commerce websites predict visitors’ behavior after only 3-clicks, and engage them in real-time. The tool is very simple to install (just a JavaScript plugin), and only uses in-session clickstream data (cookie-free & GDPR compliant) to make highly accurate predictions to supportconversion for traffic that otherwise drops.Quin significantly increases engagement and incremental revenue on websites through native engagement tools and easy API integration to available tech-stacks which makes the product an ideal solution for e-commerce websites and ideal partner for companies providing services to retail and e-commerce businesses.
- Kassa — Kassa is an app that allows the user to easily share the expenses with their friends. The app reviews the user's balance of income and expenses, together with their savings to make financial decisions accordingly. Kassa keeps every mutual expense made to share it evenly.
ZAKA Startups is a private pre-seed and seed venture capital company. It is focused on early-stage software driven investments across the whole EU with primary focus on CEE, DACH and Baltics. ZAKA operates primarily from Prague and Bratislava with scouts in Berlin and Baltic region.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
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- Webel — Webel is an on demand Home Services Marketplace (cleaning, nannies, tutors...) where clients can search, book, compare, pay and review these services. Thanks to a deep analysis of the current methods for hiring these services and the competition outlook, we have created a unique and revolutionary business model that will outperform the market.
- E-mobilio — E-mobilio is a consulting and mediation platform for electromobility.
- SharpGrid — SharpGrid is a data and technology business that is redefining on-trade and hospitality market research. To create an accurate and full picture of the on-trade channel, we collect data from all on-trade outlets (restaurants, bars, pubs, or cafés) on the market. SharpGrid's data-driven technologies help companies like Coca-Cola, Heineken, andMakro achieve commercial efficiency and growth.
Big Brain Holdings is Focused on Investing in Solana projects that have strong potential.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Nubit — Nubit is a provider of data availability layer for bitcoin-native data.
- XOCIETY — The XOCIETY metaverse is being developed by a well-established team of over 50 developers with decades of experience in the tech and web2 gaming fields.
- Mirror World — Mirror World is a blockchain-based virtual world, also known as the Metaverse, where we aim to connect Mirror World with different games and experiences, allowing users to move through different game scenarios with interconnected & independent economic systems.
AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Australia, United States, Singapore
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- M^0 Labs — M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age.
- TrueState — Accelerate your AI adoption with TrueState's library of high-impact AI solutions, infinitely customisable for your unique business context.
- Zeta Markets — Trade crypto like never before. Zeta lets you trade all your favorite assets at lightning speed without compromising security.
We see a bright future of blockchain-based technologies.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Estonia, France, Switzerland
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- Arcium — The first parallelized confidential computing network.
- Elusiv — Elusiv offers compliance in mind with next-generation privacy solutions for a better Web3.
- Swipelux — Swipelux is a payment gateway widget, that enables the end-user to buy crypto using his credit/debit card. Swipelux is B2B focus, with the ability to integrate this fast, safe and flexible widget into all kinds of Websites, Crypto exchanges, Crypto wallets, Defi, NFT marketplaces.
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