Karma Ventures | karma.vc
A-ROUND FOR EUROPE
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Karma Ventures | karma.vc
A-ROUND FOR EUROPE
Focus
Focus
Karma Ventures (karma.vc) is an early-stage venture capital firm, specialised in late seed and A round investments in Europe’s most promising deep-tech software startups. We back companies with strong ideas unique technology, customer traction and global ambition. Karma Ventures accompanies entrepreneurs in figuring out the path to growth in all aspects - commercial, strategic and technical. We believe in open and honest dialogue and the active hands-on attitude.
Technology
Investing in deep-tech companies that create innovative technologies in ICT field and have initial commercial traction.
Seed & series-a
Initially investing up to 5M EUR per opportunity and making follow-on investments in later rounds.
Europe
Investing in European early-stage technology companies that target global markets.
Team
Advisors
Advisors
Ahti Heinla
Founding Engineer and Chief Technical Architect at Skype (acquired by eBay). Founder of Starship Technologies. Co-founder of Ambient Sound Investments. Chief Technical Architect at Joltid. Developer at everyday.com (Tele2).
Till Quack
Former VP of Product at Mapillary (acquired by Facebook), Senior Manager at Apple, Product Manager at Qualcomm (Vuforia business unit), Founder and CEO of Kooaba (acquired by Qualcomm).
SERGEI ANIKIN
Former CTO of Pipedrive, Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft, Engineering Manager and Software Architect at Skype (acquired by eBay) and Director of Software Engineering at Swedbank.
Jaan Tallinn
Founding Engineer at Skype (acquired by eBay). Founder of Future of Life Institute. Co-founder of Ambient Sound Investments. Founder of Metamed. Investor in DeepMind Technologies (acquired by Google).
Jani Huoponen
Product Manager at Google (Stadia business unit). Formerly Product Manager at Google (Youtube business unit), VP roles at On2 Technologies (acquired by Google) and Hantro Products.
Portfolio
Portfolio
Experience
Experience
Sustainability
Sustainability
Karma Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, supporting entrepreneurs in figuring out the path to growth in all aspects-commercial, strategic, and technological. As investment manager, we have a duty to act in the best long-term interests of our investors. In this fiduciary role, we believe that environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) issues have an impact on the performance of our investment portfolio. We believe that healthy growth is intertwined with taking responsibility–environmentally, socially and in governance. Our ESG policy is a set of principles expressing how our values and responsibility are mirrored in our investment activities and our business operations.