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SmartCap Green Fund participated in Gridio's €2.4 million seed funding round

29 January 2025

Gridio, a Tallinn-based software platform for smart charging of electric vehicles and distributed energy devices, has secured €2.4M in funding, led by Neokapital, with support from Encevo, SmartCap, Renergy, and existing investors.

SmartCap participates in Fusebox’s €2.6 million funding round

21 January 2025

Fusebox secures €2.6 Million to strengthen the European energy market. This follows a successful funding round in December 2022, led by the venture arm of Dutch sustainable energy supplier Eneco and Poland’s largest bank, PKO Bank Polski. These strategic investments have been instrumental in Fusebox’s growth and expansion efforts.

Elcogen secures €5 million investment from SmartCap to accelerate growth

20 January 2025

Elcogen, a leading European manufacturer of technology that enables delivery of efficient, affordable green hydrogen and emission-free electricity, today announced that it has secured a €5 million investment from SmartCap, a venture capital fund supporting Estonian Greentech companies.

Siena Secondary Fund launches Fund II with its first investment into the Estonian B2B SaaS startup Katana

14 January 2025

Siena Secondary Fund, which focuses on VC direct secondary investments into high-growth late-stage startups by providing liquidity to early investors, (ex-)employees, and founders, launched its fund II and made its first deal by acquiring a stake in Katana.

Trind Invests In inGain, a Latvian no-code SaaS loan management system provider

Latvian startup inGain has announced that it has raised EUR 650,000 in funding led by Trind Ventures accompanied by Fiedler Capital and the Latvian Business Angels Network and several business angels. This is the first publicly announced investment in Latvian startups this year. inGain offers a no-code SaaS loan management system to fintech companies, as well as other businesses that want to offer lending to their customers.

SensusQ secures the first defence technology investment from Specialist VC

08 February 2024

Specialist VC, known for backing successful ventures like Bolt, Starship, Veriff, and Salv, has made their first investment in the defence industry company SensusQ to help build a global and smart defence industry in Estonia. With the money raised, SensusQ, which has operations in Ukraine, the UK and Estonia, plans to continue its international growth and accelerate product development.

Specialist VC leads the €380k pre-seed investment round to biotech startup Gearbox Biosciences

13 October 2023

Specialist VC led the €380k pre-seed investment round to biotech startup Gearbox Biosciences, together with UniTartu Ventures, AS AMALFI and other angel investors.

Superangel and SmartCap participate in the €1.4 million investment round to Estonian agritech startup Paul-Tech

10 October 2023

Tallinn-based agritech startup Paul-Tech gives farmers and land managers real-time insights to improve their soil management. The Estonian company has just raised a €1.4 million Seed round which will see it advance its product offering and fuel its expansion into the UK market.

Karma Ventures’ portfolio company Commsignia has raised a 15M USD series B investment round

07 September 2023

Commsignia, Inc., the largest company focusing on Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) solutions, announced the closing of an USD 15 million Series B fundraising round led by PortfoLion Capital Partners, Inventure, Day One Capital and Inference Partners, together with Partech, Credo Ventures, and Karma Ventures

Siena Secondary Fund acquired a stake in Finnish scaleup Oura Ring

Siena Secondary Fund, which focuses on secondary market transactions in high-growth late-stage startups by providing liquidity to early investors, (ex-)employees and founders, made its first deal in Finland by acquiring a stake in Oura Ring - the world's leading sleep-tracking healthtech company.

EstVCA participated at the Estonia-Saudi Investment Forum 2023 22 June 2023

Trind Ventures´ portfolio company RoyaltyRange raised €4M+ from current and new investors 13 June 2023

Siena Secondary Fund acquired a stake in Polish scaleup Booksy 22 May 2023

BaltCap to acquire a majority stake in Hansab, the leading Baltic automation services provider 11 May 2023

BaltCap makes a recommended cash offer to acquire AIM listed Xpediator Plc 06 April 2023

BaltCap to become the majority shareholder of HansaMatrix 03 April 2023

Trind Ventures invests in SACLÀB 24 February 2023

Change Ventures participates in the $100M round of its portfolio company Planet42 23 February 2023

Startup Wise Guys raises €25M to invest in "overlooked" global markets 17 February 2023

Trind Ventures led a 550k EUR seed round of Madrid-based startup Webel 07 February 2023

Specialist VC leads and SWG participates in the 1.7M EUR investment round to VOOL 06 February 2023

Specialist VC participated in green investment platform Grünfin's new €2M- round 17 January 2023

Change Ventures participates in a $16M Series A round into real estate VR startup Giraffe360 06 December 2022

Trind Ventures and Specialist VC participate in the €2.2 million investment round to Yaga 10 November 2022

Karma Ventures co-leads the €4 million Series A investment round to Bfore.AI 08 November 2022

Change Ventures leads the €2 million investment round to Cloud Factory 13 October 2022

Livonia Partners invests in wellness platform Stebby 17 August 2022

Bestair Group and Zave Group team up with Livonia Partners for next growth phase 18 January 2022

Change Ventures participates in the $30 million investment round to Planet42 21 December 2021

Superangel invests in cloud storage startup Storadera 25 October 2021

Change Ventures participated in the $1M investment round of edtech startup 99math 02 August 2021

Change Ventures led the $3M investment round to Outvio 30 July 2021

BaltCap backed Workland buys UMA centers in Tallinn and Vilnius 27 July 2021

Change Ventures co-leads the $31m Series A round investment to Interactio 26 May 2021

Trind VC leads the €2.16 million funding round to Finnish talent acquisition startup Jobilla 23 April 2021

BaltCap to finance the largest PPP for the construction of local government road lighting in Poland 25 November 2020

The New Estonian Limited Partnership Regime 02 February 2017

BPM Mezzanine Fund provided financing for paint producer Eskaro 19 September 2016