Karma Ventures

Karma Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Tallinn, established in 2016. The firm specializes in late seed and series A investments, primarily targeting Europe's most promising technology startups. Karma Ventures seeks to support companies that demonstrate strong ideas, innovative technology, customer traction, and global ambitions. The firm offers guidance to entrepreneurs in navigating growth strategies across commercial, strategic, and technical dimensions, helping them to realize their potential in the competitive tech landscape.

Federico Fini

Associate

Kristjan Laanemaa

Founding Partner

Marili Merendi

Associate

Arthen Sirola-Hashemi

Investment Manager

Tommi Uhari

Founding Partner

Margus Uudam

Founding Partner

Linda Võeras

Associate

Past deals in Estonia

Jobbatical

Series A in 2022
Jobbatical OÜ is an Estonian company founded in 2014 that provides an online platform for connecting professionals, such as developers, graphic designers, and marketers, with employers offering short-term employment opportunities. The service enables individuals seeking a combined work and travel experience to find temporary positions while helping employers fill short-term vacancies. Jobbatical also offers immigration and settlement services, streamlining the onboarding process for companies hiring international talent. By facilitating these connections, Jobbatical simplifies the complexities of short-term contracts and global mobility for both job seekers and employers.

CybExer Technologies

Funding Round in 2022
CybExer Technologies OÜ is a joint venture founded by two prominent Estonian companies, BHC Laboratory OÜ and Bytelife Solutions OÜ, each holding a 50% share. The company specializes in developing and commercializing advanced cyber security products, leveraging the expertise of its founding partners. Bytelife Solutions is recognized for its strong capabilities in cyber infrastructure and software development, particularly in executing complex projects, while BHC Laboratory focuses on enhancing cyber capabilities for international and domestic clients. CybExer Technologies offers a sophisticated cyber security platform that provides training services aimed at preparing individuals and organizations for various cyber threats. Its offerings include on-premise, deployable services for technical exercises, innovative exercise environments, and an automated deployment tool, all designed to enhance cyber security preparedness through a novel approach to training.

Tuum

Series A in 2022
Modularbank is a cloud-native banking platform that allows to establish a new banking business or digitally transform an existing one. The platform builds next-generation banking experiences both in the retail and business banking landscape. Its API based banking platform follows the microservice architecture and is composed of flexible and independent modules that cover end-to-end everyday banking processes. Modularbank also offers sophisticated and flexible modular-based banking not just to existing banks and challenger banks, but to any business wishing to quickly roll out tailored financial services to their customers. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Tallinn, Estonia.

Xolo

Series A in 2021
Xolo is focusing on 40 million professionals globally who have chosen to run their business independently. Its aim is to reduce time spent on business administration to near zero by offering an incredibly simple online platform that merges company formation, banking, accounting, and other services. Xolo is the quickest and easiest way to launch and run a one-person freelancing business in Europe. Its largest markets are Germany, Spain, France, the UK, Ukraine, and Turkey. Xolo's typical customers are software developers, management consultants, designers, or other independent professionals.

MeetFrank

Seed Round in 2019
MeetFrank OÜ, also known as secret, owns and operates recruitment application that uses machine learning and chatbot wrapper for passive job hunting and talent-to-vacancy matching. The application connects companies intending to fill their job vacancies with talented job seekers. The company provides its services to companies in Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, and Germany. MeetFrank OÜ was founded in 2017 and is based in Tallinn, Estonia.

Xolo

Series A in 2019
Xolo is focusing on 40 million professionals globally who have chosen to run their business independently. Its aim is to reduce time spent on business administration to near zero by offering an incredibly simple online platform that merges company formation, banking, accounting, and other services. Xolo is the quickest and easiest way to launch and run a one-person freelancing business in Europe. Its largest markets are Germany, Spain, France, the UK, Ukraine, and Turkey. Xolo's typical customers are software developers, management consultants, designers, or other independent professionals.

MeetFrank

Seed Round in 2018
MeetFrank OÜ, also known as secret, owns and operates recruitment application that uses machine learning and chatbot wrapper for passive job hunting and talent-to-vacancy matching. The application connects companies intending to fill their job vacancies with talented job seekers. The company provides its services to companies in Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, and Germany. MeetFrank OÜ was founded in 2017 and is based in Tallinn, Estonia.

SpectX

Seed Round in 2017
SpectX OÜ, established in 2017 and based in Tallinn, Estonia, offers a robust browser-based analytics platform designed for various data analysis needs, including log analysis, incident analysis, and data processing automation. The platform accommodates unlimited machine data from on-premises, cloud, or public sources, allowing users to analyze complex and real-time modified datasets while preserving their original form. SpectX features an intuitive SQL-like query language and its own Pattern Matching Language, enabling users to conduct sophisticated analyses such as dataset joins, aggregations, and correlation analysis across various data formats. The platform supports easy integration with existing applications and scripts via a REST API. Its high-speed performance enhances the user experience, eliminating common issues such as parsing errors and streamlining the process of saving and sharing queries within organizations.

Plumbr

Venture Round in 2017
Plumbr makes Java applications faster and more reliable. It builds upon world class algorithms (patent pending) and crowd sourced knowledge base to effectively verify that your Java Java application does not have performance bottlenecks. It understands the architecture of the monitored application and interprets metrics in the context of that application. Should the application have performance threats, Plumbr's unique approach traces the reasons down to source code or environment configuration and creates human readable detailed instructions that help engineers solve the problems fast. Without Plumbr, such problems typically take weeks of engineering effort to understand and fix.