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Iron Wolf Capital Launches €100 M Seed Fund

Vilnius-based deep tech venture capital firm Iron Wolf Capital has launched its newest EUR 100M early-stage Baltic deep tech and AI fund. Targeting 25 early-stage companies across Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Baltic diaspora, the fund will back deep tech startups in sectors such as AI, robotics, photonics, and space innovation.

NEW FUND: 2C Ventures launches EUR 50 million fund to invest in early-stage cleantech companies in Estonia and the New Nordics

24 January 2024

Alternative investment manager 2C Ventures launches its first fund to support early-stage cleantech companies in Estonia and the New Nordics. The fund has a target size of EUR 50 million and aims to help the world tackle climate change, improve capital availability for early-stage cleantech companies and turn climate-neutral economy into a competitive advantage for Estonia.

BaltCap launches €200 million successor infrastructure fund

17 October 2023

The 20-year successor fund aims to contribute to increasing the resilience of the region with a focus on renewable energy generation, energy demand reduction, and social as well as transport infrastructure investments in the Baltics and Poland. The fund is an Article 9 fund under the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation.

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 11 April 2022

NEW FUND! United Angels rebrands to Specialist VC and announces the first close of a new €50 million fund 10 February 2022

EfTEN launched a new fund and acquired Danske Bank office building in Vilnius 08 December 2021

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