Specialist VC
specialist.vc Direct + LP
Specialist VC is a venture capital fund based in Tallinn, Estonia, investing in early-stage tech companies in the Baltics, Finland, and Ukraine. It focuses on pre-seed to Series A rounds, with typical starting tickets of €250k, and also participates in secondaries in A+ rounds.
Specialist VC is a venture capital firm headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, founded in 2013. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from pre-seed to Series A, in B2B, SaaS, fintech and platforms. Its stated cheque size is €0* to 3m. 80 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We are a venture capital fund supporting forward-thinking founders from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Ukraine.”
— Specialist VC, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Ukraine
- Cheque size
- €0* to 3m
- Founded
- 2013
- Portfolio
- 80 companies
Team, as Specialist VC publishes it
- Riivo Anton Founding Partner
- Gerri Kodres Founding Partner
- Kaspar Hanni Partner
- Karina Univer Investment Manager
- Samela Kivilo Investment Manager
- Oliver Strastin Associate
- Liisa Pent Finance and Operations Specialist
- Tõnu Esko Venture Partner and Scientific Advisor
Names and roles exactly as listed on specialist.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 51 co-investors found.
- United Angels VC 18 shared companies: salv.com, bobw.co, starship.xyz, clickandgrow.com…
- Superangel 17 shared companies: salv.com, nordigen.com, bobw.co, starship.xyz…
- Metaplanet 9 shared companies: starship.xyz, clickandgrow.com, veriff.com, lightyear.com…
- Karma Ventures 6 shared companies: starship.xyz, sonarworks.com, xolo.io, cybexer.com…
- SmartCap 6 shared companies: starship.xyz, eagronom.com, vokbikes.com, fractory.com…
- Trind Ventures 6 shared companies: sonarworks.com, eagronom.com, drhouse.com, vumonic.com…
- Tera Ventures 5 shared companies: monese.com, montonio.com, miros.ai, supersimple.io…
- Lemonade Stand 5 shared companies: montonio.com, veriff.com, koos.io, value.space…
- Startup Wise Guys 5 shared companies: vumonic.com, fractory.com, comodule.com, sensusq.com…
- Seedcamp 4 shared companies: salv.com, nordigen.com, codemagic.io, monese.com
and 41 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Specialist VC publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://specialist.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, portfolio_count, people, status
- https://specialist.vc/portfolio/founded
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Record 625 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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