# Top 50 Energy Startup Investors in Estonia in May 2026

## Specialist VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, FinTech

United Angels VC is an early stage venture capital fund based in Estonia.

## Superangel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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

## Lemonade Stand
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

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.

## Contrarian Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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

## Vestman Energia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Viljandi, Viljandimaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Water, Software, Logistics

Our focus changes in the same pace with the surrounding world. If the main concern of the mankind is the food and energy supplies and polluted living environment, the current activities of the companies of Vestman Group thus also focus on these topics. Our vision is to be a sustainable forest manager on one of the Estonian largest private forestpossession. We lease out arable lands, give advice and help to find the best solution based on the partner’s needs. We are starting our journey in Eco-friendly Technology to strengthen our Circular economy way of doing things even further. We value the world we live in and the resources we use in our business.

## Spring Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Sunly
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Change Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Kristjan Raude
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Consumer Electronics, Internet of Things, Software

I am a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with 15+ years of international experience in sales & marketing, leading teams of 300+ with annual revenue of 10M+. Founder of 3 international companies and investor to 10+ startups. Member of the board at Estonian Business Angels Network.

## 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.

## Icebreaker.vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Madis Müür
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Smart Building, Marketing Automation

Madis Müür

## Ragnar Sass
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Iron Wolf Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Infrastructure, Manufacturing

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. 

## Trind Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## 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

## Funderbeam
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Software

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.

## Martin Villig
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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

## Norrsken VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, Health Care

We are a venture capital fund investigating in Start-Ups solving the worlds biggest problems while building massive businesses.

## 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.

## Triin Hertmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce

Triin Hertmann is founder of Grünfin, a sustainable investment platform, angel investor (mostly in Estonia and Nordics region). She is a former COO at TransferWise and early employee of Skype.

## Taavi Kotka
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Kaamos
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: CleanTech, GreenTech, Manufacturing

Kaamos is an investment management firm that invests in the construction, real estate, energy sector, and wood industry.

## Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications for Estonia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: CleanTech, GreenTech, Manufacturing

The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications intends to promote Estonian enterprises' efficiency and people's prosperity.It also encourages entrepreneurship to have a justifiable price for the efficient transport system, a developing information society, and environmentally friendly energy supply.It was headquartered inTallinn, Harjumaa.

## Toomas Kõuhkna
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Battery, Electronics, Manufacturing

Toomas Kõuhkna

## Karin Nemec
- Type: Angel
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, GreenTech, Health Care

Karin Nemec is the Founder and CEO.Karin Nemec attended IESE Business School.

## Honey Badger Capital OÜ
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, GreenTech, Health Care

We invest between 50k€ – 150k€ to start-ups along with access to our extensive network and know-how. We work together with an extended group of Pipedrive Angels who have the option to also join the investments we make which can bring the total amount invested up.

## Little Green Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Nanotechnology

Little Green Fund invests in companies that are good for the Earth, with teams that can get big things done.

## Greenco Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Environmental Engineering

Greenco Ventures is an investment firm.

## Alvar Lumberg
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, GreenTech

Alvar Lumberg - CTO, co-founder @ Grünfin

## Eigenkapital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Sustainability, Natural Resources

Eigenkapital is an investment firm.

## Alejandro Jimenez
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Waste Management, Packaging Services

Alejandro Jimenez

## Elar Nellis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, CAD, SaaS

Elar is a full-stack engineer with 12+ years of experience. He has worked for different start-ups during his whole professional career and wouldn't change start-up life for anything. Elar was also the first employee of Estonian flagship startup Pipedrive. If he's not working then he's probably playing piano, writing music or hikingin the endless forests of Estonia.

## Janer Gorohhov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Waste Management, Packaging Services

Janer Gorohhov is the Co-Founder and COO at Veriff.

## Artis Kehris
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Information Services, Legal

Artis Kehris - Co-Founder @ Printify

## EQT Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

EQT Ventures is a European VC fund with just over €2.3 billion in total capital raised. EQT Ventures I launched in May 2016, with commitments totalling €566 million and a simple mission - to be the kind of VC the team would have liked to have had on their own startup journeys. Recognizing that building and growing a company takes more than justcapital, the EQT Ventures team provides founders with support and advice throughout different stages of growth. EQT Ventures doesn't focus on particular markets or industries, but bold and ambitious founders who have the grit and determination to build global success stories. EQT Ventures II launched in November 2019, with commitments totalling €660 million. EQT Ventures III launched in 2022, with commitments totalling €1.1 billion, making it the biggest European Venture Capital fund committed to early stage tech startups. The EQT Ventures team is based across six offices in London, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Paris and San Francisco, taking a locals with locals approach and supporting founders on the ground. Motherbrain, EQT Ventures' in-house-developed artificial intelligence (AI) platform, ensures the team has data-driven approach and has driven more than $100 million in portfolio company investments.

## 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.

## Janis Krums
- Type: Angel
- Location: Riga, Riga, Latvia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Big Data, Financial Services, SaaS

Janis Krums is a Venture Partner at change ventures.

## Taavi Veskimägi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Sustainability, Natural Resources

Taavi Veskimägi is a former member of the Estonian Parliament(2003-2009) and Minister of Finance from 2003 to 2005.

## 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.

## Warmeston
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Natural Resources, Environmental Consulting

We value process in our work. Details and experience combined with innovative technology and effectiveness make us your long term partner.

## Sie Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: CRM, SaaS, Mobile

SIE

## Kersti Kaljulaid
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallin, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Battery, Electronics, Manufacturing

In 2016, Kersti Kaljulaid was elected President of the Republic of Estonia. Previously she served from 2004 to 2016 as a Member of the European Court of Auditors. Kersti Kaljulaid was the CFO and CEO of the Iru Power Plant of state-owned energy company Eesti Energia from 2002 to 2004. From 1999 to 2002, Kersti Kaljulaid was Prime Minister MartLaar's Economic Advisor.Kersti Kaljulaid was a member of the Supervisory Board of the Estonian Genome Center from 2001 to 2004. She was also a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Tartu from 2009 to 2011 and the Council Chair of the University from 2012 to 2016. Kersti Kaljulaid graduated from the University of Tartu in 1992 in the field of genetics in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and completed her master's studies in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration in 2001.

## Cats.vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Grocery, Software

Y generation investment professionals sourcing and closing deals for top tier angels from Europe

## European regional development fund (ERDF)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology

The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) aims to improve the European Union's economic, social, and territorial cohesion by resolving imbalances across its various regions. ERDF funds initiatives for which the European Commission and national and regional governments in member countries share responsibility. Each member state'sgovernment decides which initiatives to support and is responsible for their continued supervision.

## F+ Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Transportation, Automotive

F+ Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Fark Holding dedicated to evaluating and investing in technologies and business model innovations that are transforming our transportation systems. We support “A teams” by helping with customer acquisition and smart capital. F+ invests in innovative solutions, early stage disruptive technologies, startupswith technological value proposition and business model innovation. We seek to make late seed and series A investments in ambitious tech savvy teams building businesses.

## 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.

## Grid.vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Energy, Battery

Grid.vc is the first investor in superb teams disrupting the energy business.

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