Portfolio
500 Startups
Limited partner in a number of funds since 2012.
Ampler
Investor and happy rider. Ampler makes light e-bikes for urban commuters that look simply like beautiful, understated bycicles.
Andreessen Horowitz
Entrepreneur in Residence 2013-2014, which lead to founding and funding of Teleport.
ASI Private Equity
Partner and Chairman. ASIPEAS is an investment collective of Skype founders and early employees.
Atomico
Limited Partner. Atomico invests in Europe’s most ambitious tech founders at Series A and beyond.
Bolt
Investor. Ride sharing and food delivery powerhouse covering dozens of markets in Europe and Africa with cars and scooters.
byFounders
Collective member and Limited Partner. byFounders is a unique collective of founders backing mostly Nordic and Baltic early stage entrepreneurs.
Career Karma
Seed Investor. Career Karma is a community of peers, mentors and coaches that will help you land a dream career in Tech.
Curve
Investor. Curve is to Banking what Netflix is to TV and Spotify to Music.
Digital Sputnik
Investor. Digital Sputnik’s unqiue software controlled LED lightning systems have been used in movies from Star Wars to Independence Day.
Estelon
Seed investor. Estelon is one of the world’s most luxurious speaker brands.
Estonia’s Friends International Meeting
Patron. EFIM is an annual gathering to thank and recognize business, political and cultural figures whose actions and advice have helped Estonia to develop.
Estonian E-Residency
Member of Supervisory Board. Estonia is the first country to offer e-Residency, a government-issued digital identity and status that provides access to Estonia’s transparent digital business environment.
Estonian Founders Society
President 2019, Vice President 2020. Estonian Founders’ Society (EFS) aims to boost local startup community, strengthen direct relationships between founders, meet face to face in a social setting, share experiences and empower new young founders.
Filecoin
Investor. Filecoin is a decentralized storage network, powered by a blockchain and a native token.
Fleep
Seed investor. Fleep is a conversation-centric work messenger from a group of early Skype engineers.
Forwards Studio
Co-founder & partner in the 90s. Forwards Studio was a legendary sound studio and indie label in Tartu, Estonia.
Founders Pledge
Member. We’re a global community of entrepreneurs finding and funding solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.
Halo Interactive DDB
Founded in 1996, straight out of high school. The first digital media agency in Estonia.
Haridusfond
Donor. Good Deed Education Fund is a philanthropy fund founded by the new generation of Estonian entrepreneurs.
Helmes
Executive and Board member, 2001-2005. Helmes is one of the leading custom software developers and system integrators in the Baltic states, mostly serving large logistics, finance, telecom and utilities companies as well as the public sector.
Human
Seed investor. Human built an iOS app with elegant game mechanics to inspire people to move 30 minutes, every day.
Lahhentagge
Investor and consumer. Lahhentagge is a craft distillery of gin and tonic waters.
Levila
Seed investor. Levila is an experimental media lab inventing the possible futures of journalism.
LHV
Member of Supervisory Board. LHV is the biggest domestic financial group in Estonia.
LocalGlobe
Limited Partner. LocalGlobe has spawned into a notable startup building empire in London.
Maki.vc
Limited Partner. Maki.vc is an early-stage venture capital firm in Helsinki, Finland, partnering with deep tech & brand-driven companies obsessed with challenging category norms.
Miraise
Limited Partner and Mentor. MIRAISE is a Seed VC from Tokyo, Japan focused on engineer founders.
Outfunnel
Seed investor. Sales & Marketing, finally together. Outfunnel is a sales-centric marketing automation tool that tightly integrates with modern CRMs like Pipedrive and Copper.
Oyster
Seed investor. Oyster makes it easy to hire, pay, and give great benefits to your distributed team around the world.
Pactum
Seed investor. Pactum helps companies to unlock value from long tail by automatically negotiating contracts on a massive scale.
Plumbr
Seed investor. Plumbr APM uses tracing to provide insights into your application’s performance.
President Ilves
Advisor to President Toomas Hendrik Ilves of Estonia, 2009-12.
Promonos
Limited Partner. Promonos Capital is on a mission to build prosperous cities that uplift entire regions.
Põhjala Brewery
Invested in 2017. Põhjala was founded in Tallinn, Estonia at the end of 2011 by four Estonian beer enthusiasts and home brewers.
Remote First Capital
Limited Partner. A group of remote founders, operators and early investors investing in the next generation of remote work.
Roam
Seed investor. Roam is a network of global coliving spaces that provide everything you need to feel at home and be productive the moment you arrive.
Safetywing
Seed investor. SafetyWing provides Medical and Health Insurance for the remote workforce roaming around the planet.
Salv
Founding Board Member. Beat financial crime with a flexible AML platform.
Seedcamp
Limited Partner. Seedcamp is Europe’s seed fund based in London, investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology.
Sellfy
Seed investor. A simple, yet powerful e-commerce platform for creators. Sell digital products, physical goods and subscriptions all from one place.
Skillshare
Investor. Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes for creative and curious people, on topics including illustration, design, photography, video, freelancing, and more.
Skype
Early executive 2005-2012. Joined Skype as a startup about 18 months in, just before the eBay acquisition.
Starship
Investor. Starship is building a network of robots ready to serve you anytime, anywhere.
Sunrise
Seed investor. Sunrise built a truly better calendar on web and mobile.
Superangel
Limited Partner. Superangel provides early stage investments from entrepreneurs to entrepreneurs, runs Alpine house, a “high altitude” bootcamp program and Palo Alto Club, a coworking and events space in Tallinn, Estonia.
Supervaisor
Seed investor. Supervaisor is building a better, AI-assisted world by fixing traffic.
Tamkivi.org
Tamkivi Foundation for Natural Sciences aka Tamkivi.org supports young Estonians’ studies and research in the field of natural sciences.
Teleport
Co-founder & CEO, 2014-17. Teleport built software for free people on the move.
The Longevity Fund
Limited Partner. The Longevity Fund is investing in breakthroughs in human longevity.
Tiny Supercomputer
Limited Partner. Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company (TinySCIC) is an early stage venture fund investing in pre-seed and seed stage companies in Europe, from Berlin, Germany.
Topia
Chief Product Officer. Topia’s Global Talent Mobility platform empowers HR teams to effectively deploy, manage, and engage employees across the world.
Transferwise
Seed investor & regular user. The cheap, fast way to send money abroad.
Vabamu
Supervisory Board member since April 2015. Vabamu Museum of Occupations and Freedom and its branch KGB Prison Cells are the largest active non-profit museum in Estonia.
Veriff
Seed investor. Veriff builds smart and scalable identity verification products.
Xolo
Seed investor. Xolo takes care of getting your one-person business up and running.
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