Join EstBAN as a Fund Member

EstBAN has a separate membership status for VC fund managers who’d like to join the network. You’ll get access to quality deal flow, network of 300+ angel investors with their portfolio startups and plenty of visibility opportunities within the network activities.

  • As a Fund Member you will meet hundreds of potential co-investors, gain access to quality pre-selected deal flow, and be a part of a unicorn mindset startup investor community.
  • Pre-screened deal flow from the nearby region (New Nordics) in Dealum
  • EstBAN pitch events, training sessions, workshops and study trips on the same conditions as angel members.
  • Participating as a speaker at EstBAN events or providing keynotes on relevant topics, organising workshops
  • Opportunity to send and receive information, offers and access to all EstBAN members and associated partners (300+ angel investors)
  • Outlining your Fund in EstBAN website special VC fund members page and also mentions in promotional materials (i.e. homepage, newsletter, social networks)
  • EstBAN will primarily share syndication opportunities with our Fund Members.
Nordic Secondary Fund

Nordic Secondary Fund’s investment focus is exclusively on Nordic and Baltic companies, where the founder and key employees are domiciled. All startups have a proven and scalable business model, locally as well as globally.

Nordic Secondary Fund

Trind VC is an industry-agnostic tech fund based in Tallinn, Helsinki and Munich. We join founders based in EU at seed stage and aim to be helpful partners for the long term. We have made about 50 tech investments since 1999 and our entrepreneurial team has lots of “skin in the game”.

Ivar Siimar
ivar@trind.vc

Gorilla Ventures

Gorilla Capital is New Nordics most active pre-seed/ seed investor in technology driven companies. Check out www.gorillacapital.fi and get in touch!

Siena Ventures

“Siena Secondary Fund is the first 100% secondary deals focused VC fund from the Baltics whose aim is to provide liquidity for early backers (investors, employees, founders) of successful late stage startups from the broader “New Nordics” region. The fund is backed by the founders, early employees and angels of unicorns like Bolt, Wise, Pipedrive, Vinted, Unity, Twilio, Checkout.com etc. Our mission is to help to develop the local ecosystem to the new level so that capital is recycled even faster which again will help to boost the emergence of investments into new startups. Siena Secondary Fund has been operating from the beginning of 2021 and has acquired positions in 5 startups: Bolt, Starship Technologies, Testlio, TransferGo and Kry.”

Lauri Isotamm
lauri.isotamm@siena.ee

Yolo Investment

Yolo Investments is a venture capital, focused on seed- and A-stage investment opportunities across gaming and fintech. Yolo’s mission is to invest in outstanding people with bright ideas, who are focused on innovating and disrupting the norm in all manner of tech startups. Founded in 2017 by Tim Heath as Vereeni Investments, Yolo has created a thriving ecosystem with ventures across a variety of industries, including fintech, gambling, media, software development, crypto and blockchain-related companies.

Practica Capital

Practica Capital is an early-stage VC dedicated to backing Baltic founders in their ambition in seed and selected pre-seed and A stages partnering with them as company builders.

Practica Capital manages four funds with €84M in AUM. To date, they’ve made more than 50 investments, including great companies like PVcaseTransferGo, InteractioEnebaOvoko,

TrafiCGtrader, and others.

Practica is the most active Baltic syndicate partner co-investing with local, regional, and international VCs & PEs, accelerators & incubators, angels, corporates, public agencies, banks, crowdfunding platforms and others.

They are an independent local team of investment professionals with long-term pan-Baltic VC&PE, investment banking, Big4 and other advisory experience with several banks, funds as well as former entrepreneurs who exited their businesses.

Change Ventures Fund II

Change Ventures is the largest Pan-Baltic seed stage investor. We back ambitious Baltic founders all around the world.

.Cocoon Ventures

.Cocoon Ventures invests in outstanding founders interested in self-hacking and looking at entrepreneurship as a way for self-development.

Firstpick

FIRSTPICK is an accelerator and venture capital fund investing in tech companies across the Baltics. It‘s not a regular venture fund. And here‘s why.

FIRSTPICK supports founders from the idea to the growth stage. The team at FIRSTPICK are like coaches that run side-by-side while founders train for the marathon. Here they benefit from a bulletproof combination of investment and know-how shared through the fund‘s pre-acceleration and acceleration programs.

The core members of the FIRSTPICK team have gathered experience by working with 50 startups in their early steps. This experience is multiplied by the support from leading Baltic tech community members. They provide FIRSTPICK’s portfolio startups with precious early market access, impactful partnerships, and deep expertise for the growing community and portfolio of 14 companies and 30 founders.

500 Emerging Europe

500 Emerging Europe is a €50M early-stage fund under the broader 500 Global network that invests in the Baltics, Eastern Europe & Turkey. We back seed-stage companies and help them scale globally. Over the past 5 years, we’ve invested in 50 companies, and have several unicorns & soonicorns in the portfolio including Carbon Health, BillionToOne, Insider, Plum & Firefly, who have collectively raised more than $1 billion from top tier funds.

Arın Özkula
arin@500.co

Tera Ventures

Tera Ventures is an Estonian VC firm investing in early-stage born-global digital startups. We currently invest out of our 45 MEUR 2nd fund. Our goal is to discover world-class founders tackling big problems and support them on the way to becoming industry leaders. Estonia is our home market, we also invest in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and the Czech Republic. Our HQ is in Tallinn, but our team is in London, Amsterdam, and Helsinki.

Krokodilli Kapital

Krokodilli Kapitali missiooniks on tagada
inimese, looduse ja ühiskonna harmooniline kooselu. Panustame inimesele ja keskkonnale kasulikke tehnoloogiaid ja teenuseid arendavatesse ettevõtmistesse, et kindlustada võimekus jätkusuutlikuks eluks ja kohanemiseks muutuvas maailmas.

Sunly

Sunly is a rapidly growing renewable energy company in Baltics & Poland. In conjunction to developing & operating solar and wind, we directly invest in pre-seed & seed electrification startups. By investing in startups in sectors that we understand – renewable energy, storage, battery technology & smart city applications we are not afraid to back ambitious founders even in hardware-led startups. Our HQ is in Tallinn, but our team is in Krakow, Riga and Vilnius allowing for a broad support base on top of the early investment.

Orion Ventures

Orion Ventures is a Lithuanian VC company investing in early and seed stage startups. It was established as an employee fund by investment banking firm Orion Securities in 2021. When evaluating start-ups, the team of Orion Ventures draws on their experience in corporate finance and investing, which has accumulated over nearly 30 years of operations. The experienced team thoroughly evaluates all financial indicators and takes the time to analyse the market and dig deep into the start-up’s plans. They are looking for ambitious teams and companies with strong background in technology to invest in and work with.

Depo Ventures

DEPO Ventures is an investor in early-stage startups in the CEE region, backed by an angel community. It manages angel funds that enable active investor involvement. In its first two angel funds DEPO Ventures has made nearly thirty-five investments, including companies such as Tatum, SmartGuide, Oxus.AI, Supertalent, and Ringil. Last autumn, DEPO Ventures launched its third angel fund.

 

The investment group also manages the international syndicate DEPO Angels, which connects investors with high-quality startups and simplifies the entire investment process. 

Emerald Foundry

Emerald Foundry empowers startups with expert guidance, funding, and a vibrant ecosystem. Unlock your potential with our comprehensive services.

Emerald support startups by providing strategic advisory, discussing the business, diagnosing challenges, helping the identification of feasible scenarios for growth and outlining rationales, pros/cons, key resources.

Their approach focuses on unlocking the potential of the people in your organization, as well as leveraging on the power of collaboration within a strong ecosystem of players.

 

Federico Pirola
federico.pirola@emeraldfoundry.eu

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Iron Wolf Capital
Iron Wolf Capital is a leading early-stage VC that backs exceptional founders in building global AI and deep tech startups out of the New Nordics.
 
With over 20 investments in the last 4 years, it is one of the most active investors in the Baltics and beyond. Its investments include startups like LitilitPixeviaeAgronomEyeVi TechnologiesSquad Robotics, and more.
 
Its international investment team has extensive operational expertise as well as a strong finance and engineering background, enabling it to offer invaluable assistance to AI and deep tech entrepreneurs.
Tenity

Tenity, a global early-stage VC with backing from the Swiss stock exchange, specializes in Fintech & Insurtech. Their mission centers on nurturing innovative co-founded startups in the finance, insurance, and sustainability sectors.

Tenity operates across four hubs and boast a global team spanning Europe and Asia. Their team strongly believes in the transformative power of collaboration, uniting ambitious founders with prominent corporations, forward-thinking investors, and dedicated mentors.

This synergy forms a dynamic ecosystem shaping the future of finance.

Kevin Chavanne
kevin@tenity.com

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Fund Fellow Founders (fff)

Started off as and angel-investor community in early 2021, fff.vc has grown and evolved. It is now a community of founders, active angels, finance people and C-level professionals with strong expertise in the technology and financial sectors. Diverse skills of its members allows them to easily understand and evaluate different investment opportunities in different asset classes. They are are 250+ members, with 25+ countries represented.

Baltic Sandbox Ventures

Baltic Sandbox Ventures is an early-stage VC dedicated to developing the Deep Tech and Life Science ecosystem in the Baltic region. Our focus is on early-stage individuals and teams that are engaged in research and development and are seeking to address complex technical challenges with significant potential for commercial applications.