3TS Capital Partners

3TS Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, founded in 1999. The firm specializes in providing growth capital and buyout funding to small and medium-sized businesses, with a strong emphasis on technology and related sectors, including media, communications, and technology-enabled services. It primarily focuses on investment opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly in European Union accession countries, but may also consider exceptional cases in Ukraine and Turkey. The firm typically invests between €1 million and €30 million in companies with enterprise values ranging from €1.5 million to €300 million, often seeking significant minority or majority stakes. 3TS aims to enhance the value of its portfolio companies through active partnership and strategic support, while planning to exit investments within three to five years through sales or initial public offerings. The firm has garnered over €300 million from various investors, including prominent financial institutions and corporations.

Wojtek Degorski

Investor

Marius Ghenea

Managing Partner

Laszlo Hradszki

Partner

Andreas Huber

Partner & Chief Operating Officer

Jozsef Köver

Partner and Chief Legal Officer

Daniel Lynch

Managing Partner - Prague

Pekka Santeri Mäki

Managing Partner

Katarzyna Pac-Malesa

Investor

Mihai Sfintescu

Partner

Piotr Sliwa

Investment Manager

Svetoslav Stefanov

Investment Director

Sever Totia

Partner, Washington DC & Bucharest

Elbruz Yılmaz

Investment Director

Zbigniew Łapiński

Senior Partner

Past deals in Southeastern Europe

Funderbeam

Venture Round in 2016
Funderbeam is an innovative platform that facilitates investing and trading in equity stakes of private companies, primarily targeting early-stage investments. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, with an additional office in London, Funderbeam operates as the world's first primary and secondary marketplace for early-stage investments, utilizing blockchain technology for security. The platform enables founders to raise funds while providing liquidity opportunities for early-stage equity investors. In addition to its main operations, Funderbeam also has a subsidiary based in Zagreb, Croatia, which focuses on equity crowdfunding, further expanding its reach to support investors and startups in South-East Europe.

SmartDreamers

Series A in 2016
SmartDreamers is a business application platform focused on recruitment marketing automation, serving as a central solution for companies seeking to enhance their hiring processes. By leveraging its technology, SmartDreamers helps organizations position themselves as employers of choice, enabling them to attract talent more effectively and efficiently. The platform facilitates connections between professionals and employers, streamlining the recruitment process and aiming to improve the speed, quality, and cost-effectiveness of hiring.

Smart Bill

Seed Round in 2016
Founded in 2007, Smart Bill is a Romanian FinTech startup that offers billing solutions and SaaS-based services. It also provides small- and medium-sized businesses with invoicing and inventory management software. It offers Smart Bill Cloud, an online billing program which can be accessed from anywhere, from any internet-connected device. The company is headquartered in Sibiu, Romania.

Omniconvert

Series A in 2016
Omniconvert is a growth enabler for serious eCommerce companies looking to become customer-centric. We help you optimize your customer journey with data driven decisions …because telling them to buy, buy, buy only gets you vanity metrics. Behind our motto of being data driven is the talent. We’ve been doing this for years. Omniconvert has helped global eCommerce companies become customer-centric through advanced segmentation algorithms, AB testing, web personalization, and web surveys. We have stuck our necks into data, identified barriers, X-ray tech-wise, got insights, hypothesized, prioritized on potential and effort, monitored conversions, learnt and iterated. Meet us at the intersection of creativity, integrity, and tech. We work with companies such as Orange, Avon, Decathlon, Whirlpool, being ranked as “High Performer” by G2Crowd (industry barometer) Our Technology * EXPLORE - A/B testing, web personalization & behavior insight surveys * REVEAL by Omniconvert - a customer intelligence platform for midsize and big online players that helps them become customer-centric. * ADAPT by Omniconvert (beta version) - an ML-based optimization platform that aims to improve the time to create AB testing experiments 25 times & to increase the revenue per visitor for eCommerce websites on autopilot. This project is backed by EU funding. You can get a trial for our software Explore and Reveal visiting our website http://omniconvert.com/

Vola.ro

Series A in 2015
Vola.ro Student Adventure Srl is a Bucharest-based company that specializes in travel booking services. Established in 2007, it offers a comprehensive range of services including the booking of flights, hotels, buses, and holiday packages, along with travel guides. The company also provides car rentals, airport transportation, and travel medical insurance. Vola.ro focuses on finding competitive deals for both low-cost and traditional airline tickets, catering to a diverse clientele seeking affordable travel options. As a subsidiary of FRU.PL Sp. z o.o., Vola.ro continues to enhance its offerings in the travel industry.

Funderbeam

Seed Round in 2015
Funderbeam is an innovative platform that facilitates investing and trading in equity stakes of private companies, primarily targeting early-stage investments. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, with an additional office in London, Funderbeam operates as the world's first primary and secondary marketplace for early-stage investments, utilizing blockchain technology for security. The platform enables founders to raise funds while providing liquidity opportunities for early-stage equity investors. In addition to its main operations, Funderbeam also has a subsidiary based in Zagreb, Croatia, which focuses on equity crowdfunding, further expanding its reach to support investors and startups in South-East Europe.

123FormBuilder

Venture Round in 2015
123FormBuilder is a powerful web form builder that allows organizations to easily create forms and surveys without programming skills. With 123FormBuilder users are provided with the ability to create their forms visually, obtain the script in a few clicks and start collecting data on their webpages within minutes. It enables small businesses to create any kind of forms, including contact forms, lead generation forms, surveys, registration forms, online forms, and others no matter how complex it is. 123FormBuilder integrates with many third party applications, such as Google Docs, SalesForce, MailChimp, and many more. It offers a Facebook application and plugins for the major publishing platforms such as Wordpress, Blogger, and Google Sites. Founded in 2008, in Timisoara, Romania, 123FormBuilder offers free services for a limited number of forms, with premium accounts to scale up and get access to more powerful features.

MammothDB

Seed Round in 2015
MammothDB EOOD specializes in business analytics solutions, offering both cloud-based and on-premises options. The company's flagship products include MammothDB Storm, an enterprise data warehouse utilizing map reduce and SQL, and MammothDB On-Premises, designed for organizations needing robust analytics capabilities. The platform is a parallel SQL-compliant analytical database that supports standard SQL queries, enabling users to efficiently process data and generate reports. MammothDB is designed for scalability, accommodating small data sets while also capable of handling tens to hundreds of terabytes of data. In addition to its software solutions, the company provides business intelligence consulting, development support, and a range of training services, including private sessions and online education. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria, MammothDB operates as a subsidiary of MariaDB Corporation Ab as of March 2018.

ZOOT

Private Equity Round in 2015
ZOOT a.s. is an online fashion retailer based in Prague, Czech Republic, specializing in a diverse range of clothing, footwear, and accessories for men, women, and children. The company, founded in 2012 by Ladislav Trpak and Oldrich Bajer, offers a multi-brand platform that includes not only fashion apparel but also housing and design products. ZOOT serves customers in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania, providing its products through an accessible web platform and mobile application. Its offerings encompass a wide variety of items, such as jeans, shirts, dresses, jackets, and home decor, catering to a broad demographic and promoting a stylish lifestyle.

Green Horse Games

Series A in 2015
Green Horse Games SRL is a company based in Bucharest, Romania, that specializes in developing web-based social and mobile games tailored for sports fans. Founded in 2013, the company focuses on creating online community-based games, fostering engagement and interaction among players who share a common interest in sports.

InternetCorp

Venture Round in 2009
Romania's biggest independent online publisher

Axigen

Series A in 2007
Axigen is an integrated email, calendaring and collaboration platform, masterfully built on our unique Linux mail server technology, for increased speed and security. The Axigen messaging platform is available in three solutions, all tailored to customer needs: - Axigen Business Messaging The full benefits of email communication & collaboration, integrated in a smart & secure solution based on a powerful mail server for business. - Axigen Service Providers Messaging Multi-tenant messaging for SPs looking to host hundreds to millions of business-level email users, based on a powerful mail server for ISP. - Axigen Free Mail Server The Axigen Free Mail Server is a great alternative to open source: it is a turnkey messaging solution with an amazing number of free email users. Currently, AXIGEN is distributed internationally by over 200 partners from 100 countries and manages email traffic for more than 11,000 companies with 6 million end-users.

CV-Online

Venture Round in 2001
CV-Online is a internet recruitment company, established in 1996 in Estonia and rolled out to Latvia and Lithuania in 1999. CV-Online achieved promptly the market leader status across the Baltic Countries based on its well elaborated technology in combination with the service minded organisation culture. Currently CV-Online holds the market leadership not only by the sales turnover, but also as the forerunner of innovation in its segment. CV-Online is not only a jobboard in the internet, but strong service organisation that works to be the best partner to all stakeholders: employers, jobseekers, own staff and investors. To add value to whole society by making the jobseeking and employment easy and transparent process hence increase the well-being of everyone. Since 2012 CV-Online belongs to Alma Media OYJ – one of the leading Finnish media concerns listed on Helsinki stock exchange. Alma Media has wide portfolio of leading online job portals across the region: www.monster.fi in Finland, www.monsterpolska.pl in Poland, www.jobs.cz and www.prace.cz in Czech Republic, www.profesia.sk in Slovak Republic, www.monster.hu in Hungary, www.posao.ba in Bosnia and Herzogvina, www.poslovi.infostud.com in Serbia and www.mojposao.net in Croatia. From January 2014 the global leader of internet recruitment: www.monster.com have obtained a share in Alma Media recruitment portals. Now CV-Online belongs to the world biggest internet recruitment group and can offer services around the globe. Belonging to group of leading online players enables CV-Online to stay continuously in forefront of innovation and improved customer service quality.