# Top 35 Mobile Angel Investors in Estonia in May 2026

## Kristjan Raude
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Jaan Tallinn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

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

## Andrus Purde
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Public Transportation, Internet

Experienced startup marketer. Co-founder and CEO of Outfunnel. Skype and Pipedrive alumni. Angel investor.

## Märt Kelder
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Public Transportation, Software, Apps

founder at Voog.

## Martin Tajur
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Recruiting

Martin Tajur is the co-founder of Pipedrive.

## Jason Calacanis
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO.

## 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.

## 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.

## Toomas Bergmann
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Hardware, Mobile Apps, Construction

Toomas Bergmann

## Kristjan Vilosius
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Kristjan Vilosius - Co-Founder and CEO @ Katana

## Riccardo Zacconi
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Mobile, Online Games

Previously, Riccardo served as vice president of European Sales and Marketing at uDate.com Ltd., an online dating service, and was involved in driving market penetration and partnerships until the company was acquired by InterActive Corporation in 2002. Before that, he was managing director for Spray Network GmbH an online portal based inHamburg with a presence in Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. In this role, Riccardo demonstrated his understanding for developing solid company strategy, intelligent plans for sustainable growth and strategic partnerships, which supported the successful sale of Spray Network to Lycos for $764 million. In addition, Riccardo has been an entrepreneur-in-residence at Benchmark Capital Partners, a Qualified Case Leader at The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. and a consultant at LEK Consulting LLP. He holds a B.A. in Economics from LUISS University, Italy. Riccardo’s favourite King game used to be Jungle Bubble. He’s currently deciding on his new favourite King game.

## Johannes Jõgi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Mobile, Analytics

Johannes Jõgi

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

Raivo Kütt

## Akim Arhipov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, iOS, Apps

Akim is an Estonian entrepreneur who has cofounded BAASIS ID with Sergey Shcherbak – all-in-one identity verification (KYC) platform for financial institutions and governmental agencies in Southeast Asia. Akim’s team was participated in creation of electronic ID system and eGovernment portals for Estonian government.BAASIS ID use biometric facialrecognition, passport / ID validation, bank account validation and sanctions screening in automatic way providing final approval results in 3 minutes.For businesses, BAASIS ID means the end of vast, vulnerable databases of customer data – hugely reducing the risk of regulatory issues, fraud and the reputational damage of a breach providing the data storage in the blockchain.Proud to be a facilitator of reputation economy among Southeast Asia regulatory sandboxes and governmental agencies, like Security and Exchanges Commision of Thailand and Bank Negara Malaysia. Akim and his team work together with Bahrain government in order to build electronic identity system for citizens.Previously a co-founder of successful companies in IT and transportation sectors – OnniBus.com and SuperBus.com. The first one is the most successful commercial bus operator in Finland: 20 lines, 200+ daily departures, 6+ million passengers served annually.

## Aare Järvan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Gaming, Mobile

Aare Järvan

## Marek Kiisa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Marek Kiisa is the co-founder and Managing Partner at NordicNinja VC, and the co-founder and partner at Superangel.io. He has made 15 private angel investments and created several companies, like Astrec Baltic, Pilvio.io and Kood/Johvi coding school. He has his Master Degree on Machine Design from KTH Stockholm and he is a Kauffman FellowClass 19.

## Thomas Berman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Winnetka, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Seed, Series D
- Focus: SaaS, Energy, Consumer

Thomas Berman

## Anton Gauffin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps

Anton Gauffin is the Founder of Sumoing.

## Ahti Heinla
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Kristian Segerstrale
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Online Games, PC Games

Kristian Segerstrale is the Co-founder of Initial Capital and Board member of Supercell, as well as the Co-founder and CEO of Playfish. Kristian has been at the forefront of the rapidly transforming game industry since 2001.He was a co-founder of mobile gaming pioneer Macrospace – today Glu Mobile (Nasdaq: GLUU) in 2001 through the successfulIPO in 2007. He left to co-found Playfish, the social gaming pioneer, where he served as CEO through the company’s rapid growth to 60 Million players and the subsequent acquisition by Electronic Arts for $400M in 2009. After a period as EVP Digital at Electronic Arts driving the aggressive transformation of the company from packaged goods to digital, Kristian left in March 2013 to focus on startups. Today Kristian leads seed stage investments with Initial Capital and serves on the board of Supercell, the #1 iOS game company.Kristian has previously served on the board of LOVEFiLM, the European streaming video pioneer until its acquisition by Amazon.com.

## Aaron Patzer
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS

In January, I started another company, Vital Software, with Dr. Justin Schrager of Emory University. Vital makes software for hospital emergency rooms. This includes a mobile patient check-in for patients, and the fastest, most usable electronic medical records you've seen for doctors and nurses. We use extensive machine learning and naturallanguage processing to determine patient severity and anticipated actions. Our longer term goal is to cut ER wait times in half, as they are often 4-5 hours long. You might not know it, but there are 140M ER visits in the US alone each year.Medical / sales are in the US, while development is all in Auckland New Zealand. My long-time partner Rebecca, an architect, is a Kiwi and I am now a resident of New Zealand as well.

## Kadri Ugand
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallin, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: mHealth, Health Care, Medical Device

Estonian entrepreneur Kadri Ugand is a Co-Founder of Tallinn-based game accelerator GameFounders. Kadri expands the mentor network, partnership deals and connects the startups to suitable mentors.

## Mikhail Lugovskiy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Legal, Software

Advisor, financial specialist with Economics and Management background. Mikhail has 5+ years’ experience in financial industry, having worked for a number of large institutions and asset managers.

## Henry Joseph-Grant
- Type: Angel
- Location: Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Information Technology, SaaS, FinTech

Henry is a globally recognised entrepreneur and operator. He is currently CEO and Co-Founder of Send-Off, a startup based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.Previously, Henry was a key part of the team that built JUST EAT from a startup in the UK to $2.44Bn IPO. He joined the company before any venture capital had been invested and helping thecompany to achieve performance that then attracted investment from top tier VC's Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, 83 North and Vitruvian Partners investing substantially at Series A, B and C. Henry worked directly with JUST EAT's founder Jesper Buch and former CEO David Buttress.
After JUST EAT, Henry went on to hold senior roles at Uber Rival Gett etc and founded the European arm of Abraaj Group's portfolio company The Entertainer. Over the past decade, Henry has worked with Startups, Venture Capital and PE fund across the world as an advisor and operator.Henry is an advisor to several startups and mentors CEO's for several accelerators, investment funds including the likes of Seedcamp, Pi Labs, ZincVC and Techstars and is a contributing writer at Irish Tech News, interviewing the likes of Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Careem co-founder Mudassir Sheikha, Huawei founder Mr Ren Zhengfei and Gary Vaynerchuck.

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

Ergo Sooru

## Ivo Remmelg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Mobile, Sports, Software

Ivo Remmelg is a Venture Partner at Superhero Capital and the Founding Partner of NestCap.

## Erik Kaju
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Fashion, Printing

Erik Kaju

## Mikko Silventola
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Transportation, Apps

Mikko is an active investor, with over 50 investments globally. Besides Europe, he is also active in Southeast Asia, Middle East, and Lat Am. He is the first investor of Bolt (Estonia), an investor of Rappi (Colombia), and of Hugo (El Salvador). He has founded 3 international media companies which in total have generated over €35M in sales overjust a few years. He has helped companies with internationalization, fundraising and M&As in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

## 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.

## Veljo Otsason
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Film, Manufacturing, Electrical Distribution

Veljo Otsason is Estonian entrepreneur and investor. In 2007 he co-founded mobile payments company Fortumo and served as its CTO. Since 2013 he has been active angel investor and early backer of Bolt (formerly Taxify), Monese, Veriff, Pipedrive & 30+ others. In 2018 he co-founded Superangel, early-stage seed fund and company builder.

## Marko Virkebau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile, FinTech, Software

Marko Virkebau is co-founder of MeetFrank, a secret recruitment app. Marko is also a member of the board and chief financial officer at Up Invest OU.
Marko holds a PhD in economics and fiance and a MS in business information technology at Tallinn University of Technology (Tallinna Tehnikaülikool).


## Taavi Madiberk
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dresden, Sachsen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, SaaS

Taavi Madiberk is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Skeleton Technologies. His business development, sales and marketing and company management skills have been instrumental in setting-up and driving growth. He has been the driving force for excellent customer traction, (the company counts as customers European Space Agency and severalTier 1 automotives), business strategy (leveraging the advantage in materials technology to energy storage cells and modules), product development and fundraising from venture capital, private equity and public sources in German, Estonian and EU level. Taavi Madiberk brings knowledge from the IT, locomotive and NGO sectors from his experience prior to Skeleton Technologies. Among other Board positions he has served as the youngest ever Chairman of the Supervisory Board in Estonian Railways Ltd (AS Eesti Raudtee) from 2012-2014 the national railway. He also served as a Member of the Supervisory Board of RKAS in 2014, an Estonian state-owned real estate company with over 400 M EUR of assets.

## Rain Lõhmus
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Mobile Payments, SaaS, Mobile

Rain co-founded Livonia Partners. He has one of the most extensive investment and entrepreneurial track records in the Baltics across a wide range of industries. In 1991 Rain co-founded Hansabank, the largest pan-Baltic financial institution. The bank grew both organically and via acquisitions into the largest bank in the Baltics and was sold toSwedbank in 1998. In 1999 Rain created and later successfully exited a venture capital fund, New Economy Ventures, having invested in 7 technology companies, including Forticom and CV-Online. The fund returned to its investors more than 8 times the invested capital. In 1999 Rain also founded LHV Group, a pan-Baltic banking group, which held its IPO on Tallinn Stock Exchange in 2016. In 2005 he co-founded LHV Capital with Mindaugas Utkevičius and has invested into Veju Spektras, Archyvu Centras, Qvalitas Medical Centre and Baltic Ticket Holdings.

## Oliver Ahlberg
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, SaaS

Oliver Ahlberg is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Skeleton Technologies. He has assured excellent operational capabilities and played a critical role in the development of internal procedures which have kept the company on the forefront of energy storage development. He has had an integral role in securing VC funding and settingup the company's R&D Center in Estonia. Additionally he plays a central role in the company's IT capabilities, production systems and processes and daily administration of the company. Leading the pilot production of the company, he also offers input in product development and has led production optimization efforts. Oliver Ahlberg has previously worked in the IT and law sector in San Fransisco, USA and Tallinn, Estonia. He has co-founded digital media company Vigvam Studio and a daily deals site acquired by the market leader in 2010. Oliver Ahlberg has earned a law degree from University of Tartu.

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