# Top 40 Consumer Startup Investors in Estonia in October 2023 ## Specialist VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Software, FinTech United Angels VC is an early stage venture capital fund based in Estonia. ## Tera Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce 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. ## Taavi Kotka - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Electronics, Battery, FinTech Taavi Kotka, currently the Estonian Government CIO, has a strong background working in private sector. He started his career as a programmer, rapidly rising to be a Managing Director of the most successful software development company in the region – Nortal, former Webmedia. He is a founder of many innovative start-up companies likezeroturnaround.com, plumbr.eu etc. He has a Master of Science in Engineering from Tallinn University of Technology. Also, Taavi Kotka has many honors: he is the European CIO of the Year 2014 (by ICT Spring), he was the president of the Estonian Association of Information Technology and Telecommunications (ITL) and he was elected as an Entrepreneur of the year in 2011 (by Ernst&Young). Taavi is a board member in many ICT initiatives in Estonia and has been the brainpower behind many Estonian e-government innovative initiatives like e-residency, data embassy, no-legacy policy etc. ## Expansion Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Riga, Riga, Latvia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Drones, Big Data, Software Expansion Capital AIFP plans to participate in Latvian state-owned development finance institution ALTUM organized next generation fund manager tender, in order to continue to invest and finance mainly perspective Latvian ideas, projects, and companies. ## Thorgate Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology We invest both capital and our know-how into startups. Join us and let's change the world ## Contrarian Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Energy We are a hands-on, community-focused and founders vetted early-stage sustainable energy transition focused VC in Europe & Israel ## Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created ​by founders for founders​ to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators across ten micro funds.The Fund's $50M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals. ## Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation - Type: VC Fund - Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series C, Series B, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical JJDC, Inc. is the strategic venture capital arm of Johnson & Johnson Innovation. Learn more about our equity investment strategy. ## Opus11 VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Battery, Electronics, Manufacturing Opus11 VC is an Investment firm. ## Domain Associates - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Diego, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Founded in 1985, Domain Associates, L.L.C. is a venture capital firm with an exclusive focus on life sciences. With $2 billion of capital under management, Domain is headquartered in Princeton, NJ with a second office in San Diego, CA.Domain’s three major investment segments are pharmaceuticals, specialty pharmaceuticals, and medical devices,while additional areas of interest include biomaterials, bioinstrumentation, and diagnostics. The Partners of Domain have a total of close to 200 person-years of experience among them in the healthcare/venture capital industries and have been involved in the formation and growth of more than 200 life-sciences companies. The highly focused network, experience, and reputation of this team have made it one of the top private-equity groups participating in the healthcare field. ## Mada Arslan - Type: Angel - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Convertible Note, Series A - Focus: Apps, Sports, Consumer Goods Prior to Id4 ventures Mada was Head of Financial Control & Compliance at Leap Ventures and consultant at Lebanese central bank Banque Du Liban. Before that, she spent 3 years as an auditor at PwC. Mada holds a BBA with an emphasis in accounting & an MBA from the American University of Beirut and is a Certified Public Accountant licenseefrom the State of New Hampshire USA. ## Taavet Hinrikus - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary. ## Entrepreneurs Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series C - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device Entrepreneurs Fund provides early stage and growth financing alongside active support to entrepreneurial teams. Their current areas of investment focus are Life-sciences, Water, Materials and Automotive Technology. ## Metaplanet Holdings - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning 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. ## Link Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Energy, Automotive, Electronics Link Capital is a Nordic venture capital firm. It operates a series of early-stage funds, from pre-seed to A-series. ## Union Labs Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Union Labs Ventures is a DeepTech Seed fund that invests in exceptional founders from diverse backgrounds who are applying deep technologies to solve hard problems in the physical world. Core focus areas include: Industrial IoT, Consumer IoT, Health, Climate Tech, Insuretech, Cyber Security, AI/Machine Learning, Autonomous Technology,Manufacturing. ## James B Gambrell - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B - Focus: Sports, Fashion, E-Commerce James B Gambrell - CEO @ Supponor ## Sunly - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Solar, CleanTech, Hardware Sunly creates wind & solar parks by engaging local communities. Also, Sunly boosts cleantech startups via capital, know-how and networks. ## One Vision Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Eyewear, Fashion, E-Commerce An independent firm that identifies and supports products, technologies, and sustainable models for the future of the consumer industry. ## Trind VC - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Big Data, Analytics, Market Research We invest in start-ups across Europe, from seed rounds all the way to sustainability, with a focus on ICT ## Superangel - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech Early-stage investments from entrepreneurs to entrepreneurs. Our companies include Bolt, Veriff, Fortumo and many more. 10x@superangel.io ## SpeedUp Venture Capital Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile We are a group of venture capital funds, investing in enterprises in an early stage of development. Areas of our interest include enterprises and entrepreneurs in Central and Eastern Europe, who want to conquer the global market by utilizing their self-developed solutions. Our cooperation with companies is based on a 3-8 years investment horizon.We're looking for innovations from areas such as: consumer internet, electromobility, energy, fintech, martech, adtech, medtech, IoT and hardware. We're interested in technologies like Machine Learning, Picture Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. ## Trind Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Analytics 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. ## Markku Jääskelainen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Drones, Big Data, Software Markku Jääskelainen. ## Artis Kehris - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Information Services, Legal Artis Kehris - Co-Founder @ Printify ## Justin Jenk - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Battery, Electronics, Manufacturing Justin Jenk is the Senior Managing Partner of Raktas OU. ## Bangladesh Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Supply Chain Management, Fashion, SaaS Bangladesh Angels operates as an angel investing platform. Its mission to nurture innovation and entrepreneurship in Bangladesh, connecting them to both local and global investors. Bangladesh Angels was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh. ## Spring Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS 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. ## Ukrainian Startup Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Grant - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS 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). ## Conor Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Analytics, Semiconductor Conor Venture Partners is a new breed technology venture capital fund and management company. Conor invests in early-stage companies originating from Nordic and Baltic countries. Investment areas include information and communications technology, embedded software, semiconductor technology, electronics, new materials and optics. ## Andrius Slimas - Type: Angel - Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Cooking, Jewelry Andrius Slimas - CEO and co-founder @ Oberlo, formerly head of web agency Studio4, over ten years experience in ecommerce, dropshipping and software development.Oberlo is a dropshipping solution for ecommerce store-owners. It provides a number of dropshipping automation tools and instant access to millions of products available fordropshipping. ## Change Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Apps We are a seed stage venture capital fund based in the Baltic states, backing ambitious Baltic founders anywhere in the world. ## Ragnar Sass - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Ragnar Sass has strongest skill is to find the best people and keep them rocking in speed of 200 km/h. He has organized 20+ Hack-a-thons Garage48 in Eastern Europe + West & East-Africa. He advise other founders and share experience where it could help. ## Decacorn Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence Decacorn Capital is a cross-border venture funding initiative, centred around game changing start-ups, enabled by innovative use of technology and led by high-caliber, resourceful founders who are out there with the mission to either create a true delight or solve a real problem. ## The Sharing Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Environmental Consulting, SaaS, Big Data The Sharing Group operates in various markets with a focus on tech, energy and mobility. It is a group of colleagues, brands, members, and investors with a shared interest. ## Toomas Kõuhkna - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Battery, Electronics, Manufacturing Toomas Kõuhkna ## Superhero Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet Early-stage VC searching for the next Superheroes. ## Martin Villig - Type: Angel - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Education Martin is co-founder of Bolt.eu, Estonian Founders Society, Garage48.org, Good Deed Education Foundation and kood/Jõhvi coding school. Read more from http://martinvillig.com ## Ambient Sound Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce 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. ## Sten Tamkivi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence Sten Tamkivi is the Chief Product Officer at Topia (formerly MOVE Guides). He was previously co-founder and CEO of Teleport (acquired by Topia), the place to scout for startup people. He co-founded the company as an EIR at Andreessen Horowitz.Sten has been a tech entrepreneur since 1996. After founding a few companies in Estonia, he joined Skypeas an early executive, ran the original R&D office, and held several global product leadership roles for 8+ years.He has an MS in Management from Stanford GSB. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co