# Top 35 Manufacturing Startup Investors in Estonia in May 2026

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

## 42CAP
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

42CAP is a seed stage investment firm based in Munich, Germany.
They initially invest € 0.5 to 1.5m in seed-stage tech- and data-driven companies across Europe with global ambition.With eCircle they previously built one of Europe’s largest SaaS companies and sold the profitable business to Teradata (NYSE:TDC) in 2012.

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

## Ambient Sound Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Ergo Sooru
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Gaming, Mobile

Ergo Sooru

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

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

Toomas Kõuhkna

## Ott Kaukver
- Type: Angel
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, SaaS

Ott Kaukver is Chief Technology Officer at Checkout.com. Attended Estonian Business School.

## Prototron
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant
- Focus: Art, Mobile, Printing

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.

## 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.

## Specialist VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, FinTech

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

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Tera Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## 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

## 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.

## Vestman Energia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Viljandi, Viljandimaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## EstBAN
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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

## Sergei Anikin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Manufacturing

Sergei Anikin is the CEO of Tuum. He previously worked at Pipedrive as a Chief Technology Officer. Sergei Anikin attended TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology.

## 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.

## Atomico
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.

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

Artis Kehris - Co-Founder @ Printify

## Jaan Tallinn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

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

## 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.

## Lemonade Stand
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## 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.

## BADideas.fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Software

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:

## Taavi Tamkivi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, AgTech

Taavi Tamkivi was Helping in Banks & FinTechs fight FinCrime. also a Founder & CEO at Salv .

## Martin Henk
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Martin Henk is the Co-founder of Pipedrive.

## Crosslight Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, B2B, Medical

Crosslight Partners is a growth equity firm. The firm invests in the environment, healthcare, impact, and technology sectors across Europe.

## Raivo Kütt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Gaming, Mobile

Raivo Kütt

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