Tallinn startup directory
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Pactum AI
Pactum AI is a Tallinn-founded company, started in 2019 by Kaspar Korjus and Kristjan Korjus, that builds autonomous AI agents to run supplier negotiations at enterprise scale, handling pricing, payment terms, rebates, and contract complexity that traditional procurement workflows leave unsolved. Its agentic negotiation platform is used by more than 60 Global 2000 companies, including Walmart and Maersk, and the company reports negotiation volumes increased fivefold with millions of dollars in documented savings for customers. Pactum raised a EUR 18.4 million round in 2024 to expand its autonomous procurement platform.
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Pipedrive
Pipedrive is a sales-focused CRM platform originally founded in 2010 in Tallinn, Estonia by Timo Rein, Urmas Purde, and a team of experienced salespeople and developers. The platform provides an intuitive pipeline-management interface that helps small and mid-sized businesses track deals, automate follow-ups, and forecast revenue. Pipedrive serves over 100,000 paying companies in 175 countries and employs more than 850 people. In 2020, Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority stake at a reported $1.5 billion valuation. Pipedrive is one of Estonia's most prominent tech exports and a pillar of the Baltic startup ecosystem.
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Ragnar Sass
Co-founder of Pipedrive, this Estonian angel frequently invests in the region including Poland. He loves B2B SaaS and edtech; for example, he’s mentored and funded Polish education startup Mentornaut and others. Ragnar’s cross-border investments help integrate Polish startups into the Baltic network. Associated startups: Mentornaut, Lift99 (community spaces bridging to Poland).
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Salv
Salv is an Estonian anti-financial-crime (RegTech) company building a compliance SaaS platform for banks, fintechs and payment providers. Its products cover AML transaction monitoring, sanctions and transaction screening, customer risk scoring and fraud detection. Salv also operates Salv Bridge, a cross-border real-time platform that lets financial institutions collaboratively share intelligence to fight crime. The founding team previously worked together on AML, KYC and fraud systems at TransferWise (Wise) and Skype.
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Skeleton Technologies
Skeleton Technologies is an Estonian energy storage company founded in 2009 by Taavi Madiberk and Oliver Ahlberg, specializing in ultracapacitors and supercapacitors built with its proprietary Curved Graphene material. The company's products deliver rapid-charge, high-power energy storage for transportation, grid balancing, and industrial applications. Skeleton operates a manufacturing facility in Germany and has raised over EUR 200 million, including backing from the European Investment Bank and strategic partners in automotive and energy. It is one of the most capital-intensive deep-tech startups from the Baltics and a European leader in next-generation energy storage hardware.
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Specialist VC
Formerly United Angels VC, Specialist VC was founded in 2017 by Riivo Anton and Gerri Kodres and rebranded in 2022 upon closing its €50M Fund II — the first Baltic VC fund to integrate secondary transactions alongside primary venture investing. The firm focuses on B2B, SaaS, fintech, and marketplace startups in the Baltic region and beyond, writing initial cheques from €200K to €1M at seed through Series A. Its Fund I portfolio includes two unicorns, Bolt and Veriff, alongside Starship Technologies and Monese, making it one of the highest-performing early-stage funds to emerge from Estonia.
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Stargate Hydrogen
Deep-tech firm manufacturing precious-metal-free alkaline electrolyser stacks (0.5-5 MW) and containerised green-hydrogen systems for refineries, steel and ammonia. Opened a Tallinn factory in 2025; backed by Repsol.
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Starship Technologies
Starship Technologies is a Tallinn-founded robotics company building autonomous sidewalk delivery robots for last-mile grocery, food, and package delivery. Founded in 2014 by Skype co-founders Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis, the company has completed millions of commercial deliveries across the US, UK, and Europe. Starship's six-wheeled robots navigate sidewalks using computer vision and sensor fusion, and have raised over $100 million in funding. The company operates in university campuses, suburban neighborhoods, and city centers, making it one of the most deployed autonomous delivery platforms globally and a flagship Estonian robotics success.
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Startup Estonia
Startup Estonia is the Estonian government's official initiative to supercharge the local startup ecosystem, operating under Enterprise Estonia (EAS) and the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Launched in 2011, Startup Estonia coordinates national policy for startups, runs the Estonian Startup Visa program (one of Europe's first dedicated founder visa schemes), and maintains a comprehensive database of the country's startup ecosystem. The organization played a central role in establishing Estonia's favorable regulatory environment for startups, including the e-Residency program's integration with company formation and the stock option tax framework. Startup Estonia also runs awareness campaigns, organizes ecosystem events, and produces the annual Estonian startup sector report tracking the country's remarkable per-capita unicorn rate, which is among the highest in the world.
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Startup Wise Guys
Startup Wise Guys is a Tallinn-founded B2B startup accelerator and early-stage VC founded in 2012, operating as one of the most active and prolific accelerators in the Central and Eastern European ecosystem. The firm runs over 45 sector-specific programmes annually spanning fintech, cybersecurity, SaaS, sustainability, and agritech, and has invested in over 600 startups from more than 60 countries. Its most recent fund of €45 million reached a first close of €25 million in 2023. Startup Wise Guys provides €100K–200K investments at pre-seed stage in exchange for equity, combined with intensive hands-on mentorship from operators and investors. Notable portfolio exits include VitalFields (acquired by Climate Corporation), StepShot (acquired by UiPath), and VOCHI (acquired by Pinterest).
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Sten Tamkivi
Sten Tamkivi is an Estonian entrepreneur and investor who spent over eight years at Skype as an early executive, helping grow the Tallinn R&D office to 450 people before its $8.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft. He co-founded Teleport (acquired by Topia in 2017) as an EIR at Andreessen Horowitz, and made roughly 40–50 angel investments before co-founding the Taavet+Sten partnership with Taavet Hinrikus in 2020. He is currently a partner at Plural, a pan-European early-stage VC fund focused on ambitious founders.
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Taavi Veskimägi
Taavi Veskimägi is the CEO and Founding Partner of Sentris Capital, a venture capital firm focused on the Nordic and Baltic energy and deep tech investment landscape. He previously served as CEO of Elering, Estonia's national electricity transmission system operator, giving him deep expertise in Nordic energy infrastructure and the energy transition. Veskimägi is a confirmed speaker at NORDEEP 2026.
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Tallinn Creative Hub
The Tallinn Creative Hub (Kultuurikatel) is a multidisciplinary innovation and creative space housed in a renovated former power plant on Tallinn's waterfront in the Noblessner district. Operated by the City of Tallinn, the hub brings together startups, creative professionals, cultural organizations, and tech companies in a shared environment designed to foster cross-sector collaboration. The venue hosts startup events, hackathons, design sprints, and cultural programming, serving as a bridge between Estonia's strong digital tech sector and its vibrant creative industries. For startups, the Creative Hub provides event space, short-term project offices, and connections to Tallinn's broader ecosystem including Garage48 events, Startup Estonia programs, and the city's e-governance innovation community. The hub has become a landmark venue for ecosystem events and international delegations visiting Estonia's digital society.
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Tallinn Digital Summit 2026
The Tallinn Digital Summit 2026 is Estonia's signature high-level digital-policy summit, themed 'How to Thrive in the Agentic Era? Competitiveness. Security. Efficiency.' It convenes government leaders, technology companies and innovation ecosystems around AI governance, defence and digital resilience, and emerging technologies for competitiveness. Organized by the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) with Estonian ministries; attendance is by invitation and curated application.
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Tehnopol
Tehnopol Science and Business Park is a Tallinn-based innovation hub that helps early-stage and growing technology companies scale faster through incubation, acceleration, office and lab space, and connections to universities and investors. Home to hundreds of technology companies, it runs the Tehnopol Accelerator (formerly its startup incubator) and is one of Estonia's central startup-ecosystem institutions.
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Tera Ventures
Founded in 2016 by Andrus Oks and partners, Tera Ventures is a Tallinn-based early-stage VC that invests in born-global digital startups across Estonia and the broader Nordic-CEE corridor including Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Czech Republic. The firm invests €200K–€1.5M from its €45M Fund II with substantial reserves for follow-on. Tera has been backing AI-powered innovations for over 15 years, spanning Enterprise SaaS and Robotics/DeepTech, and maintains offices in Tallinn, Helsinki, and Los Angeles. The fund has made 65+ investments across its lifetime, with a portfolio spanning fintech, network security, and AI.
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Trind Ventures
Founded in 2018 by Joel Aasmäe, Kimmo Irpola, Taavi Lepmets, and Ivar Siimar — veterans behind LHV Bank and New Economy Ventures, the Baltics' first VC fund — Trind Ventures focuses exclusively on consumer and consumerised B2B software startups across Europe. Its €55M Fund II, closed in 2022, targets 30–40 companies with initial tickets up to €1M and follow-ons to €5M, covering pre-seed and seed stages. The firm has offices in Tallinn, Helsinki, Munich, and Riga and has backed 75+ companies including Ready Player Me, Neural DSP, Tise, Rangeforce, and Fractory, distinguishing itself in the Baltic ecosystem through its pure-play consumer and creator-economy angle.
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Tuum
Cloud-native, API-first core banking platform letting banks, fintechs and neobanks launch accounts, payments, lending and cards on modular infrastructure. Clients include LHV Bank and OP Financial Group; raised EUR 25M in 2024.
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Veriff
Veriff is an Estonia-born identity verification company that has become part of the trust layer for digital businesses operating in regulated or fraud-sensitive environments. The platform helps companies confirm that a user is real and matches the identity documents they present, combining document analysis, biometric checks, liveness detection, and contextual fraud signals into a single workflow. That matters for fintech, mobility, marketplaces, and online platforms that need to balance conversion, compliance, and abuse prevention at scale. Estonia is a fitting home for a company like Veriff because the country's digital-state legacy and export-oriented software culture created strong conditions for trust infrastructure businesses. Within the broader European ecosystem, Veriff stands out as a Baltic company that turned regional technical strengths into a globally relevant category. It also connects naturally with adjacent infrastructure players in the directory: onboarding-heavy fintechs need identity verification, and workflow platforms can automate the compliance and security processes around those checks. As a result, Veriff is not just another startup profile, but a useful example of how European infrastructure companies become indispensable across many other sectors.
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Xolo
Admin platform for solo freelancers and one-person businesses, handling company setup (incl. e-Residency), invoicing, taxation and compliance. Serves 150,000+ users across 160 countries and has processed over EUR 6B in invoices.
