Startup Wise Guys
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Startup Wise Guys is an accelerator and venture capital firm based in Tallinn, Estonia, that invests in early-stage B2B startups across various verticals and geographies, with a focus on underserved markets. They provide funding, mentorship, and acceleration programs to help startups grow.
Startup Wise Guys is an accelerator headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, founded in 2012. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to growth, in SaaS, fintech, cybersecurity and sustainability. Its stated cheque size is 100K€ Initial ticket in our Flagship programs. 450 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We discover and invest in the strongest technical B2B founders early on and fast track their growth through our acceleration program, that we have been running since 2012.”
— Startup Wise Guys, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Accelerator
- Invests in
- Europe, Africa, global
- Sectors
- SaaS, Fintech, Cybersecurity, Sustainability, Web3, Proptech, Extended Reality
- Cheque size
- 100K€ Initial ticket in our Flagship programs
- Founded
- 2012
- Portfolio
- 450 companies
Team, as Startup Wise Guys publishes it
- Herty Tammo CEO & Co-Founder, General Partner
- Alexandra Balkova General Partner Challenger II & Head of Portfolio
- Andrea T. Orlando General Partner Italy
- Cristobal Alonso General Partner
- Farid Singh General Partner Cyber
- Franziska Kolk General Partner Africa
- Gunce Onur General Partner Challenger II
- Maxime Bauchau General Partner Challenger II
- Petra Wolkenstein General Partner Africa
- Dag Ainsoo General Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on startupwiseguys.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 40 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Specialist VC 5 shared companies: vumonic.com, fractory.com, comodule.com, sensusq.com…
- Presto Ventures 4 shared companies: finmap.online, goramp.com, okredo.co.uk, pibox.com
- FIRSTPICK VC 4 shared companies: goramp.com, ondato.com, realtify.cz, vocalimage.app
- SID Venture Partners 2 shared companies: elai.io, finmap.online
- Lead Ventures 2 shared companies: goramp.com, publishdrive.com
- Trind Ventures 2 shared companies: vumonic.com, fractory.com
- United Angels VC 2 shared companies: vumonic.com, fractory.com
- Buildit Latvia 2 shared companies: castprint.co, beesage.co
- Katalista Ventures 2 shared companies: vocalimage.app, torusadvisors.com
- Clocktower Technology Ventures 1 shared company: novus.com
and 30 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Startup Wise Guys publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://startupwiseguys.com/name, type, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, description, status, confidence
- https://startupwiseguys.com/investors/is_investor, layer, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, people
- https://startupwiseguys.com/about/founded, layer
- https://startupwiseguys.com/portfolio/portfolio_count
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Record 589 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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