Startup Wise Guys

Startup Wise Guys, founded in 2012 and based in Tallinn, Estonia, is a prominent early-stage investor and accelerator in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region and the Nordics. The organization has accelerated over 165 startups, primarily in B2B SaaS, fintech, and cybersecurity, achieving a startup survival and success rate exceeding 77%. Its intensive three-month accelerator program focuses on product validation, development, and sales to business customers, supported by a network of over 200 international and local mentors. The program culminates in Demo Days and major tech events where startups present their ventures to potential investors. Additionally, participants gain access to an alumni community of more than 145 startups across 40 countries and exclusive alumni events centered on business development and fundraising. Startup Wise Guys also manages dedicated funds targeting various sectors, including an Africa Fund that invests in fintech, health tech, and digital SaaS, among others.

Alexandra Balkova

Partner, Head of Portfolio

Gunce Onur

Venture Partner Turkey

Attila Hudecz

Managing Director, Sustainability

Franziska Kolk

General Partner, Africa

Andrea T. Orlando

Partner

Günce Önür

General Partner, Challenger II

Past deals in Crowdsourcing

Culturate

Seed Round in 2022
Culturate is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed to enhance team culture and connectivity among hybrid workers. By integrating with popular communication tools like Slack and Teams, Culturate aims to foster engagement, support a healthy hybrid work environment, and streamline workflows. The platform addresses challenges such as excessive communication spamming and aims to create an inclusive atmosphere for team collaboration. By improving communication and connection among hybrid teams, Culturate enables organizations to enhance employee productivity and maintain a cohesive team culture.

Workee

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Workee is a back-office solution designed for freelancers, particularly those in appointment-driven professions such as coaching, health consulting, tutoring, and legal services. The platform streamlines business operations by offering tools for managing accounting, invoicing, client interactions, and overall work management in a single interface. Utilizing generative technology, Workee automatically creates personal websites for its users and facilitates the automation of essential tasks like bookings and payments. By centralizing these functions, Workee aims to save freelancers significant time—typically around four hours per week—and reduce operational costs by $200 to $400 per month.

Volee

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Volee is a community platform designed to facilitate brand community growth by managing and analyzing community activities and data in a centralized location. The platform collects information about community members and their interactions across various channels, allowing businesses to identify potential customers, brand advocates, and active participants. By leveraging this data, Volee enhances engagement rates and provides insights tailored to the interests and backgrounds of community members. This approach enables companies to foster stronger connections within their communities and gain valuable information for future interactions.

Contribee

Angel Round in 2021
Contribee operates a content monetization platform designed to assist entrepreneurs and creators in managing fan subscriptions and support. The platform provides tools that facilitate instant payouts and personal shop integration for creators, allowing them to optimize their monetization efforts and engage effectively with their audience. Additionally, it offers various payment options and a content discovery feature for fans, enabling users to access exclusive content. This comprehensive approach helps creators across diverse fields, including gaming, art, and writing, to generate profits through contributions from their supporters.

Pivony

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Pivony is a Self Service Web platform that helps you discover conversation topics and obtain insights from real user generated data, which is provided by the companies’ internal data sources or the outer world, ‘open-data’, like Twitter, Google Play, App Store. With Pivony, you can evaluate your customer satisfaction level, find out what they would like, and develop a marketing strategy accordingly. The underlying technology of Pivony is broadly Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. Pivony gives you the simplicity of making your analysis with only three clicks, so that you no longer need to read thousands of customer feedbacks. Besides, Pivony AI Algorithms support most of the commonly used languages, including Turkish.

Culturate

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Culturate is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed to enhance team culture and connectivity among hybrid workers. By integrating with popular communication tools like Slack and Teams, Culturate aims to foster engagement, support a healthy hybrid work environment, and streamline workflows. The platform addresses challenges such as excessive communication spamming and aims to create an inclusive atmosphere for team collaboration. By improving communication and connection among hybrid teams, Culturate enables organizations to enhance employee productivity and maintain a cohesive team culture.

Cappture

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Cappture is a developer of a platform that enables users to save snapshots of web content for future reference. Through its dashboard and API, the company allows users to collect verifiable copies of webpages and organize these captures into folders for easy access. This functionality is particularly beneficial for journalists, fact-checkers, researchers, and businesses that require reliable evidence of online activity. By providing permanent snapshots, Cappture offers legal protection and helps safeguard brands from potential online information attacks. Its tools facilitate the tagging, grouping, and sharing of saved content, ensuring that users can efficiently manage and utilize the information they need.

Zelos Team Management

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Zelos Team Management specializes in providing a task management application designed for large teams and communities, facilitating self-organization and enhanced productivity. The app caters to gig recruiters and community managers by allowing them to efficiently assign tasks to extensive groups, reaching hundreds or thousands of members. Zelos offers both monthly and yearly licenses to organizations, promoting active community engagement and enabling the development of private talent marketplaces. This solution is particularly beneficial for businesses aiming to streamline operations within gig work environments and foster collaboration among diverse teams.

Zelos Team Management

Seed Round in 2019
Zelos Team Management specializes in providing a task management application designed for large teams and communities, facilitating self-organization and enhanced productivity. The app caters to gig recruiters and community managers by allowing them to efficiently assign tasks to extensive groups, reaching hundreds or thousands of members. Zelos offers both monthly and yearly licenses to organizations, promoting active community engagement and enabling the development of private talent marketplaces. This solution is particularly beneficial for businesses aiming to streamline operations within gig work environments and foster collaboration among diverse teams.

Partly

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Partly is a community platform designed to connect individuals seeking assistance with various household tasks to verified and background-checked professionals. Through its digital platform and mobile app, Partly facilitates a range of services, including socket installation, dishwasher repair, furniture assembly, home cleaning, and animal care. By providing a safe and efficient way for users to find trusted service providers, Partly aims to simplify the process of completing everyday tasks, transforming to-do lists into accomplished activities.

HIVE

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Hive is a platform that connects land surveyors, farmers, drone owners and anyone who uses high precision satellite measurements to get the job done with special ground-based stations. HIVE is a descriptive solution because unlike others we make a cloud SaaS which defragments the market and helps both of the sides reach their goals in the most effective and cost-efficient way.

Contentivo

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Contentivo is an Employee advocacy platform that allows companies to amplify social media campaigns by turning employees into social media advocates. Employees through their personal networks amplify the message for their companies and in-turn companies reward their socially engaged employees through a points based recognition system. Contentivo’s employee advocacy resources also include an E-book on employee advocacy. Contentivo was launched in 2014 by Priyabrat Mohanty.

TheTakes

Pre Seed Round in 2013
TheTakes.com is a cloud-based project management platform specifically designed for the film production industry. Recognizing the complexities and costs associated with filmmaking, TheTakes offers a tailored solution that addresses the unique workflows tied to screenplays. Unlike generic project management tools, it accommodates the intricate demands of film crews, which can include hundreds of personnel and frequent changes, thus minimizing the high costs associated with mistakes. The platform supports all stages of pre-production and production, allowing users to manage film crews, break down scripts, create storyboards, and coordinate resources effectively. By facilitating communication and monitoring, TheTakes enhances the efficiency of film projects and has already demonstrated its value through a base of paying customers.

Camorka

Seed Round in 2013
Camorka is an Estonian-based startup that focuses on engaging consumers with brands through creative contests. The company provides a social platform that allows both brands and individuals to organize photo contests. Users can access the platform via iOS and Android applications, as well as through web and Facebook extensions. This enables businesses and private users to create contests and offer products or services as tangible prizes, thereby enhancing brand visibility and consumer interaction. Camorka aims to excite audiences about various brands and products through innovative and interactive experiences.

Edumoko

Seed Round in 2013
Place where students can find and take a remote internship in a company from other city or country with all benefits of online education and remote work.

Brickflow

Seed Round in 2013
Brickflow is a personal, visual-content discovery app. Content is aggregated from all around social media and recommended based on the individual user’s profile. NEED Generation X uses social media mostly on mobile, and they consume visual content, not long articles. Yet, it’s surprisingly hard to discover and share unique visual content, especially on mobile. Visual content is king. Personalized content can be delivered. Why wouldn't we do it? SOLUTION Brickflow analyzes your profiles and gives you a personal content flow of images, GIFs and short videos, based on what you previously shared. We help users, mostly US millennials, to boost their visual profiles. You skip or share by swiping left or right, on a Tinder-like interface. - Aggregates content - #Tag search + Recommendation - Content from Instagram, Twitter, Vine and Giphy - By using Brickflow 5 min a day, you can grow your blog.

Vite

Seed Round in 2013
Vite lets you follow others' recommendations for a personalized feed of interesting events & easily invite any of your Facebook or phone contacts to follow up in a private group chat and work out the details.

Epiclist

Seed Round in 2012
Epiclist is a visual discovery app, helping people to explore, plan and share curated activities and travel experiences around the world or just around the corner. Follow adventure heroes, get inspired from lifestyle and travel brands, and book curated activities right from the palm of your hand. - Massive demand: 50 Million people plan their travel on their phone in 2013 - Huge market = $100 Billion: Global Tours and Activities market in 2013 - Fragmented supply: 250.000 SMEs in Travel Business, 95% without any mobile presence - Lots of money: Average spending per adventure trip in 2013, from $593 in 2009.

Like a Local

Pre Seed Round in 2012
Like A Local Guide is about finding those cool and cozy spots that locals' like to hang out at and missing the tourist traps. They have built this awesome web site and a mobile app where the travel tips are being created by well-selected local editors of each city who know what they're talking about.
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