# Top 50 Enterprise Startup Investors in Estonia in October 2023

## Icebreaker.vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 16
- 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.

## Change Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 11
- 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.

## Specialist VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, FinTech

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

## Lemonade Stand
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 8
- 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.

## Jaan Tallinn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

Jaan Tallinn is the Co-founder of Future of Life Institute.

## Tera Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 8
- 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.

## Ragnar Sass
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 7
- 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.

## Kristjan Vilosius
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Kristjan Vilosius - Co-Founder and CEO @ Katana

## Sten Tamkivi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## Taavet Hinrikus
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## 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

## Gorilla Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Gorilla Capital is a Finnish venture capital fund investing in early stage companies that apply technology to solve real business problems of today.

## TMT Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St. Helier, NA - Jersey, Jersey
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Social Media

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.

## Kaarel Kotkas
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Software, 3D Technology

Kaarel Kotkas is a Co-Founder and CEO at Veriff.

## Earlybird Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

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.

## Ahti Heinla
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Project Management, Software

Ahti is the CEO, CTO and co-founder in Starship Technologies, a startup that intends to disrupt last-mile delivery by introducing self-driving local delivery robots. He is also a co-owner in Ambient Sound Investments, a private investment vehicle launched by Estonian Skype co-founders.Ahti conducts technical reviews of all ASI's potentialinvestments. His experience and knowledge as a system architect is invaluable in assessing and managing ASI's portfolio companies.Ahti picked up programming at the early age of ten, his fascination with all things technical resulting in him being the lead technical architect at Skype. Ahti has also worked on artificial intelligence, 3D graphics engines, signal processing, and building mobile phones.Out of the office, Ahti dons his running gear to enjoy orienteering and adventure racing events, where navigation is his strong-point.

## Karma Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

karma.vc is an early stage venture capital fund focusing on seed and early stage technology companies in Europe.

## Martin Henk
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Martin Henk is the Co-founder of Pipedrive.

## Thorgate Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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

## Martin Villig
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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

## Union Square Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.

## 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.

## Martin Tajur
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Recruiting

Martin Tajur is the co-founder of Pipedrive.

## Ambient Sound Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## LIFT99
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Legal

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.

## Creandum
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile

We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.

## 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.

## hi VC
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

hi VC

## Timo Rein
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Recruiting, Human Resources

Timo Rein - Co-Founder @ Pipedrive

## Markus Villig
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services

Markus Villig is founder and CEO of Taxify. He attended University of Tartu.

## LocalGlobe
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

## Engin Gürsöz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Crowdsourcing, Computer Vision

Engin Gürsöz

## Indrek Prants
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, Recruiting, Professional Services

Indrek Prants - Co-Founder @ Elasteq do Brasil

## Aydın Mizrahi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, InsurTech, Logistics

Aydın Mizrahi

## EstBAN
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, EdTech

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

## Zenith Family Office
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Commercial Real Estate, SaaS, B2B

Independent wealth management company devoted to handling the investments and personal needs of wealthy individuals

## Emre Kozlu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, InsurTech

Emre Kozlu

## Alvar Lumberg
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, GreenTech

Alvar Lumberg - CTO, co-founder @ Grünfin

## Parallax Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Bitcoin

Founded in 2018, Parallax Ventures is a Fintech-focused top quartile Venture Capital firm that focuses on early-stage investments, baking best-in-class entrepreneurs in the Financial Services industry. The firm invests in Fintechs across all subsectors of Financial Industry, including Open Finance, FMI, Exchanges, BaaS, IaaS, B2B SaaS,Blockchain/Web3, Credit, Wealth Management tech, and Productivity, among others. Parallax has invested in Fintechs in Brazil, USA, and Europe.

## InfoCert
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: Cyber Security, SaaS, Software

InfoCert is a software company that provides digitization and dematerialization services for a business. The company also develops and designs IT solutions with high technological value for the dematerialization of document processes of the professional orders, companies, public administration & professionals, and associations.

## Boğaziçi Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Video Games

Boğaziçi Ventures has been established in 2015 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship to take their global success to a next level. We aim to invest in technology start-ups which have talented teams by providing business models and looking for funds and mentoring support for future exponential growth.BV Growth fund will only focus on thetechnology startups established in Turkey at the growth stage while having the ambition to get into the global market.BV Crypto fund will be closed with a minimum fund size of $50M to invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. People are interested in investing in cryptocurrency, especially new initial coin offerings (ICO), but they don’t know which one is reliable. We have an extremely capable team dedicated to cryptocurrency. Our analysts search hundreds of ICO projects, follow their communication, investigate the commitment of their teams, make interviews and if they have a chance, even visit them at their locations to give a much better decision.

## Yiğit Barış Şemin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Crowdsourcing, Computer Vision

Yiğit Barış Şemin

## Batuhan Gültakan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Crowdsourcing, Computer Vision

Batuhan Gültakan

## Priit Kasesalu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: iOS, Apps, Email

Priit is heavily involved in assessing all of ASI's new technology investments.Before ASI, Priit played an integral role in developing Kazaa and later Skype; indeed, he continues to work at Skype as a core library developer.While cryptography and data communication are his areas of expertise, his other passion is computer gamedevelopment. Together with Ahti and Jaan, he wrote the first Estonian commercial computer game, Kosmonaut.When he isn't using his innate ability to solve complex technical problems, Priit enjoys good company, gourmet restaurants and biking.He holds a degree in automation and system technology from Tallinn University of Technology.

## Hummingbird Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Supporting Exceptional entrepreneurs. We value emotional intelligence as much as data, growing internal culture as much as growing revenue, and forming strong, personal bonds with founders. We recognize patterns where other don't.

## Andres Kull
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: AgTech, Farming, Software

Andres Kull

## Joakim Karske
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Education, Recruiting, Professional Services

Joakim Karske

## TRANGELS
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Biotechnology, Energy, Manufacturing

Early Stage Investment Fund and Network

## Kuido Lepik
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, GPS, Pet

Kuido Lepik - Owner & CEO @ Signiti

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