Trind Ventures
also invests · investor profileFounded 2016 · 9 employees on LinkedIn · 2 known investors
Trind is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in consumer and community-driven startups across Europe, providing initial and follow-on funding from first ticket through multiple rounds.
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Trind Ventures (also referred to as Trind VC) is an early-stage venture capital firm with offices in Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland. It invests in consumer and community-driven startups across Europe, describing its focus as products aimed at real end users — consumer apps, marketplaces and platforms. The firm states it has backed more than 70 startup teams and supports companies from the first ticket through subsequent rounds. It is a member of the Estonian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EstVCA).
The firm is deploying a €55 million fund raised in 2022 for startups with a consumer or community component in Europe. Third-party investor directories describe initial cheques in the range of roughly €100,000 to €1 million at pre-seed, seed and early-growth stages, with follow-on capacity of up to €3–5 million per company and the ability to lead rounds. Sectors listed include consumer, marketplaces, commerce, SaaS and enterprise software, with investment geography spanning Europe and a home base in Estonia, Finland and Germany.
Portfolio companies highlighted by the firm and third-party profiles include Neural DSP (audio plugins and hardware for guitar and bass), Yaga (second-hand fashion marketplace), Groover (music promotion and feedback platform), Webel (on-demand local home services app), Bahn Express (cross-border used-car logistics), DrHouse (virtual doctor visits and prescription delivery), Xceed (nightlife and event discovery), Ready Player Me / Wolf3D (avatar platform), Jobilla, eAgronom, Your.Rentals, Scorestars, Wudpecker, Mjuk, RangeForce, Tandem, Taimer, Ringy, Aampere, GitHits and Tise.
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Timeline · 20
launches, deals, and filingsGitHits raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding led by Vendep Capital, with participation from Trind VC and angel investors including Peter Sarlin, Zach Shelby and Jerry Liu.
Bahn Express, an automotive logistics platform, raised a €5M seed round led by node.vc and Innovestor with participation from Trind Ventures and angel investors including founders and employees of Wolt, Swappie and Smartly.
eBay entered a definitive agreement to acquire Tise, an Oslo-based consumer-to-consumer social marketplace and Trind Ventures portfolio company first backed in summer 2020. Closing was expected by the end of Q4 2025.
Trind Ventures led a €920k pre-seed round in Bahn Express to advance cross-border used-car deliveries.
Short-term rental management platform Your.Rentals raised €1.7 million from existing shareholders to expand market reach.
Basketball fan engagement platform Scorestars raised €725K in a seed round led by Trind VC with Startup Wise Guys, 3 Comma Capital and Estonian angels.
Trind led the €330,000 pre-seed round of Finnish AI knowledge management startup Wudpecker, joined by Accelerace and Sofokus Ventures.
Webel raised €2.1M led by Trind VC with ZAKA Ventures, Decelera Ventures, Tiburon Ventures and angels including Hugo Arévalo.
Trind Ventures invested in Mjuk, an end-to-end circular marketplace for design products.
Trind Ventures led a €550,000 seed round in Madrid-based home services app Webel.
Trind led a €2 million investment round in Barcelona-based nightlife technology company Xceed.
Trind VC announced a new €55 million fund to invest in startups with a consumer or community component in Europe.
Trind VC joined Iron Wolf Capital, Superangel and United Angels VC in a $7.4M investment in eAgronom.
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Trind VC and Juuri Partners co-led an €8.25 million investment in Jobilla.
Trind VC participated in the $13 million A-round of metaverse avatar platform Ready Player Me.
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Trind VC led a €2.16 million funding round for Finnish talent acquisition startup Jobilla.
Trind Ventures led a $1.3M funding round in Wolf3D.
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Trind Ventures participated in RangeForce's $16 million Series A round.
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Trind Ventures participated in Tandem's $5.7 million Series A round.
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Trind Ventures took part in a $1M pre-seed funding round into Taimer.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Trind Ventures do?
- Estonian-Finnish early-stage VC firm backing consumer and community-driven startups across Europe.
- Who are Trind Ventures's investors?
- Trind Ventures's investors include Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd), Wave Ventures.