fff.club: Investor Story

Today, our guests are from Skaala, which some might know by the previous name Taavet+Sten. From its origins in tech to its evolution into a purpose-driven investment powerhouse. We'll explore the core concepts of family offices, dissect what it really takes to build one from the ground up, and look into the merits of global investment strategies. We'll also dig into how Skaala is doing it. Talk about strategic asset allocation and the potential for scaling a family office into something…bigger. This people are... Kristina Siimar and Artur Erik Lindmaa.

Today, our guest is someone who brings an American-style approach to investing in Baltics. As the Founding Partner at Livonia Private Equity Fund, he has led about 10 major investments in the last 10 years, while those companies are offering jobs for over 1,000 people. Quite often you can see this man on a bike, running or swimming as he is also an Ironman. We explored the story and the setup up Livonia Partners, their proactive, risk-taking philosophy and what it takes to scale businesses successfully. We talked competition and diversification.  This person is… Kaido Veske.

Today our guest someone, who got into Venture Investment back in 2011. He started off his investment career in Real Estate before becoming one of the founding partners of Practica Capital [https://practica.vc/], the leading Lithuanian Early-Stage fund, focusing on the Baltics. Among other investments, Practica Capital have invested in Montonio [https://montonio.com/], Ovoko [https://about.ovoko.com/], PvCase [https://pvcase.com/], TransferGo [https://www.transfergo.com/] while recently announcing their fund III, ready to deploy another 80m€ into future success stories of the Baltics. This person is… Donatas Keras

Today our guest is someone who has been a Chairman of the biggest Baltic asset management company. He has experience in active fund management across multi asset classes, having managed over 2b € worth of assest across his career.  Currently, he is serving as a Managing Director of efTEN [https://eften.ee/en/about-eften/], the largest Real Estate fund in the Baltics. We talked about what is a real estate fund, how does it operate and addressed specific example of latest fund of EfTEn - Special Opportunity Fund [https://eften.ee/en/funds/eften-special-opportunities-fund/]. This person is Kristjan Tamla.

Today our guest is someone, who within last several years has became one of the strongest early stage fund GPs in the Baltic region.  Despite the fact that she is running marathons, word "acceleration" is not something that fully describes what they do at FIRSTPICK [https://firstpick.vc/]. We talked about how to get access to the deals and pick first, looked intro early stage market in Lithuania and discussed the power of the community as a bridge to foreign markets.