Top 5 Mobile Angel Investors in Lithuania in October 2023

Young Sohn is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur whose passion is building businesses and fostering emerging technologies that have the potential to transform the world for the better. Currently, Sohn serves as Corporate President and Chief Strategy Officer of Samsung Electronics and Chairman of the Board of HARMAN. He leads Samsung’s strategy forglobal innovation, investment, and new business creation, and led the company’s $8 billion acquisition of HARMAN. Prior to joining Samsung Electronics, Sohn served as CEO of two successful, public Silicon Valley companies and on the boards of Arm, Cadence, Cymer (ASML), and others. Under his leadership as CEO and board member, he took PLX Technologies, Synnex Technologies, and Inphi public. He was also a seed investor in some of the industry’s most innovative companies, including Bitfury, Fungible, Graphcore, and Zoom.Sohn is a leader of the global Tech for Good movement. He helped launch the Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC), the world’s largest startup competition for entrepreneurs addressing global challenges. He also serves as a North America board member at MIT Sloan, a senior advisor to the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, a board member at Cadence, and an advisor for the University of California Innovation Council. Sohn holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MS from the MIT Sloan School of Management. An avid outdoorsman, Sohn spends his personal time kite surfing, cycling, running, hiking, and competing in triathlons.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Automation
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Revolear — Revolutionize your dealmaking with Revolear, the end-to-end platform for structuring, proposing, negotiating, and approving deals. Designed for Humans. Powered by AI.
Galileo — The ML Developer Platform for Evaluation, Experimentation, and Observability with Unstructured Data
Perfect — A personalized talent-finding and engaging experience made for every team.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Estonia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
TENYX — Tenyx is developing the next generation of voice-based intelligent systems based on proprietary neuroscience-inspired AI technology

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Thomas Plantenga is the CEO at Vinted.

Investment focus

Marketplace, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
Series A, Pre-Seed, Series B
The Netherlands, France, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

77 Foods — La Vie is developing a 100% vegetable edible fat with the ambition of offering different types of vegetable meats.
Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
Breeze — The online dating app for offline dates. Skip the endless swiping and chatting: we will organize your first date at one of our safe and partnered bars.

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2011 – Practica Capital co-founder and partner.2009 – 2012 Partner at CEE Capital, a private investment company. Executed a number of successful transactions in various industries.2008 – 2011 Co-owner and Member of the Board at Itex, IT maintenance and consulting company.2002 – 2010 Founded and managed Interdata, one of leading internethosting companies in Lithuania, which was sold to Baltic Data Centre (TeliaSonera Group).10+ years of experience in business creation and exit to strategic buyer in IT&T sector.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Lithuania, United States

Portfolio highlights

Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
Inbalance grid — Inbalance grid develops charging infrastructure that is built on a cluster system with a master and slave design concept, where the majority of the components are off the shelf and managed by In Balance grid software.

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