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NEW FUND: NordicNinja, Europe’s largest Japanese VC, announces €200M Fund II to help founders tackle global challenges

12 September 2023

Largest Japanese VC in Europe backing companies tackling the world’s carbon footprint with a focus on climate tech, deeptech, and digital society

Change Ventures launches €20M Fund III to double down on pre-seed investing in the “next startup nations”

In 2017 Change Ventures started investing in the Baltic states, establishing the first truly pan-Baltic seed/pre-seed fund. Since then they have backed over 33 startups, which keeps demonstrating an ability to generate outsize startup success stories relative to population and size of the regional economy.

Trind VC raises new €55M fund to invest in startups with a consumer or community component in Europe

26 September 2022

Trind VC, member of EstVCA, announced the closing of their €55M second fund. They aim to invest in 30–40 startups with proven traction in four years. The fund is backed by institutional investors such as European Investment Fund, Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment), LHV Pension Funds, and Swedbank Investment Funds.

SmartCap announced a Call to invest € 20 million in two greentech funds

07 September 2022

SmartCap announced on September 6th a Call for Expressions of Interest (Call) to find up to two private fund managers, who would establish green technology investment funds to which SmartCap Green Fund will make a cornerstone investment of 20 million euros each.

SmartCap Green Fund is bringing 40 million euros to the market

SmartCap Green Fund seeks to invest 40 million euros in total in two private capital funds to accelerate the launch of innovative products, services and technologies supporting the green transition.

NEW FUND! Estonian entrepreneurs co-found a €250 million European investment fund

Estonian startup entrepreneurs Taavet Hinrikus and Sten Tamkivi, together with Ian Hogarth and Khaled Heloui, co-founded a new pan-European investment platform, Plural, with a €250 million early-stage venture fund to back the next generation of founders with global ambitions.

NEW FUND: Superangel announces a new €50m fund

The fund will primarily invest in deeptech startups from across the Baltics and Nordics

NEW FUND: BPM Mezzanine Fund II held the first close to invest in mezzanine debt in the Baltic and Polish growth companies

BPM has reached the first close of its second investment fund, BPM Mezzanine Fund II with the first close commitments close to €60m. The target size of BPM Mezzanine Fund II is €70m.

NEW FUND! United Angels rebrands to Specialist VC and announces the first close of a new €50 million fund

10 February 2022

Leading Estonian tech investor Specialist VC has announced the first close of a new €50 million fund at €42 million. The Specialist VC Fund II has an expanded geographical and strategic reach and is the first-of-its-kind in the Baltic region to implement a dual strategy of integrating secondary transactions into a traditional venture capital fund.

EfTEN launched a new fund and acquired Danske Bank office building in Vilnius

08 December 2021

The fund is successor of EfTEN Real Estate Fund 4, which has completed its investment phase and holds the highest GRESB sustainability rating among property funds in the Baltics of four out of five stars.

SmartCap establishes a green technology investment fund with the support of the funding under recovery and resilience plan 09 November 2021

EfTEN launched a new retail-oriented real estate fund - EfTEN United Property Fund 22 June 2021

EfTEN Capital enters the residential rental property market with a new fund 07 September 2020