# Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Estonia in May 2026

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

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

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

## 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.

## 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.

## BootstrapLabs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software

BootstrapLabs is a leading early-stage Venture Capital firm based in San Francisco focused on Applied AI - that was founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. The firm understands firsthand the needs and challenges of building a startup, and invests early in potentially disruptive Applied AI technology startups with global potential. And isuncovering the future by investing in Applied AI. Key sectors of interest include Transportation, Logistic, Energy, FinTech, Future of Work (FoW), Security, Internet of Things (IoT), HealthTech, and others.

## 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

## Christopher Sier
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Education, Recruiting, Professional Services

Christopher Sier - Executive Chairman @ ClearGlass

## AirTree Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paddington, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.

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

Joakim Karske

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

Andres Kull

## Andreas Klinger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Marketplace

Hello, my name is Andreas Klinger.I am leading the eng team @ On Deck (beondeck.com). Previously I led things related to eng, product & remote @ producthunt.com, angel.co and coinlist.co. If you want to reach me please use twitter @andreasklinger

## Declan Kelly
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Founder of Foreword.vc, an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Also advisor at Web Summit and EiR at Seedcamp.
Previously covering Europe for Techstars Ventures and founding member of Web Summits venture fund, Amaranthine.

## Streamlined Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Streamlined Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm. We invest in visionary founders who are building the next generation of transformational technology companies.

## 3TS Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

3TS Capital Partners is a European technology focused private equity and venture capital firms. 3TS provides expansion capital and buyout funding for small and medium-sized businesses in growth sectors including technology & internet, media & communications and technology-enabled services. Investors in the current and past 3TS fundstotaling over €300 million include EIF, EBRD, Cisco, OTP, Sitra, 3i and KfW among others.Its team of highly qualified experts become active business partners of the portfolio companies and deliver substantial value added beyond financing. When analyzing new investment opportunities and supporting portfolio companies, the company often augment its core team by its sector partners, various co-investors and other industry experts. 3TS is also an active member of several international industry associations and other organizations like EVCA – European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, the International Venture Club and the Draper Venture Network.

## 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. 
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## Metaplanet Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning

an early-stage investment firm making long-term bets on contrarians and leveraging the knowledge and network across sectors. We back mission-driven founders working on positively disruptive deep technologies.

## Devotion Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Göteborg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Education, Recruiting, Professional Services

Devotion Ventures is a venture capital firm.

## LHV Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Payments

LHV Ventures is a domestic financial group company that provides banking, financial advisory, and securities brokerage services to private individuals, small and medium-sized companies, and institutional investors. The company's mission is to help create Estonian capital, develop the Estonian economy, and social sustainability.Founded in1999, LHV Ventures is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia.

## Joel Aasmae
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Education, Recruiting, Professional Services

Joel is based in Tallinn and takes care of our operations as the Managing Partner. Chat with him at most industry events in Europe.

## Ullas Naik
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Information Technology

Ullas Naik is the Founder & General Partner at Streamlined Ventures.

## KAYA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS

We are committed to supporting founders at every stage of their journey, from studio projects and pre-seed through to Series A and follow-ons.

## Mistletoe
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Education

Mistletoe is a hub for startups and the overall entrepreneurial ecosystem. It specifically provides learning opportunities for entrepreneurs, facilitates startup communities, invests in and supports startup companies and venture capitals.

## Joe Zadeh
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Human Resources

Joe Zadeh

## Urmas Purde
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Software, Recruiting, Human Resources

Co-Founder of Pipedrive.

## Fund Fellow Founders
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Harjumaa, Eastern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Recruiting, Human Resources

We are founders & tech executives turned into investors. 270+ tech pros invest in companies & fund managers.

## Timo Rein
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources

Timo Rein - Co-Founder @ Pipedrive

## Black Pearls VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

Black Pearls VC is a venture capital firm focusing on Life Quality Technologies. We look for the best entrepreneurs in Poland and the Baltic Sea Region.

## Martin Tajur
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Recruiting

Martin Tajur is the co-founder of Pipedrive.

## Peep Vain
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Genetics, Recruiting

Peep Vain is the Private Investor at Vain and Partners. He attended Bentley University.

## Spring Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Siena Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: CAD, Banking, FinTech

Siena is a VC firm mainly investing in startups in Estonia and California

## 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

## Foreword Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Foreword Ventures is an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Foreword commits to adding value far beyond the small checks they write by devoting time, reputation, and capital to clients' success. Foreword typically invests in the pre-seed and seed stages, but can also invest in Series A and beyond whenthere is an existing relationship with the founder or co-investor.

## Inventure
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.

## Kristel Kruustük
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Education, Recruiting, Professional Services

Kristel is the Founder of Testlio, an expert community of verified mobile testers with a platform that seamlessly integrates into your team’s development process.Testlio believes in quality versus quantity when it comes to both testers and prioritizing issues, resulting in faster development cycles and improved apps.

## 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.

## EchoVC Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software

EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.

## Easypress Technologies
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Education, Recruiting, Professional Services

A leading global provider of cloud based digital publishing solutions to over 500 global publishers.
We understand the issues faced by publishers in the ever-changing digital world, and provide stable, scalable and flexible technology solutions to overcome today's challenges.

## Gonzalo Manrique
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Recruiting, B2B, Software

Gonzalo Manrique is Co-Founder and Co-CEO at IronHack.

## Chris Sang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer, Venture Advisor, Global Investor

## LocalGlobe
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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?

## StartupIst VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Recruiting, Human Resources

StartupIst VC is an investment firm.

## Off the Grid Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Wealth Management

Off The Grid Ventures focuses on women and foreign/immigrant founders in B2B Tech and Fintech

## Swiss Post Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Swiss Post positions its services at the junction between the physical and digital worlds, building on an impressive range of physical products by supplementing them with an increasing number of digital solutions.

## Gunnar Kobin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Education, Recruiting, Professional Services

Gunnar Kobin

## Anthony Danon
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Construction, Artificial Intelligence

Anthony caught the entrepreneurial bug while working at a Fintech startup in the Enterprise SaaS cashflow management space. He joined Anthemis in June 2014, where he collected a range of experiences in his first year – from M&A in the payments space to innovation consulting for banks and portfolio support in the VC environment. During thefollowing years at Anthemis, Anthony focused on sourcing, evaluating and executing seed and series A fintech investments, primarily in European companies such as TrueLayer and Tide. Anthony supported startups in areas ranging from milestone planning and strategy, to business development and follow-on capital support. He isalso an active part of Seedcamp’s Investment Forum and a mentor to some of their portfolio companies.

## Quotidian Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Finance

Quotidian Ventures is a first-check VC firm based in NYC. We partner with founders transforming large industries with software.

## Carmen Alfonso Rico
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Gaming

Lucky friend, family girl. Always chasing the “why” and “so what” of everything. Food explorer. Book lover. My Spotify running playlist is embarrassing. Obsessed with the power of communities and looking for #customerlove in the weirdest places. Lawyer and economist, previously @MorganStanley, @FelixCapital. Launched a D2C brand from my living room(RIP). From Spain but call London home. I collect exotic stamps on my passport.

## Esther Dyson
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Software

Esther Dyson - Founder @ Way to Wellville

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