Karina Univer

Investment Manager

2021 - Current

Investing in founders in the Baltics and beyond.

Head of Partnerships

2019 - 2021

Head of Partner Relations

2016 - 2021

Investor - Atomico Angel Programme 2020

2020 - 2021

I was part of the 2nd cohort of Atomico’s Angel Programme in 2020. Investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups.

Co-Organizer

2017 - 2018

Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. It is powered by Google for Entrepreneurs - a group inside of Google that supports entrepreneurial initiatives around the world. Startup Grind hosts monthly events in 200 cities and 85 countries. It is the largest independent million-strong global community of entrepreneurs that got there by organizing intimate, local monthly events with a hundred attendees, one speaker, and a single host. Founded in Silicon Valley, Startup Grind has hosted around 5000 fireside chats since its founding in 2010.

Event Manager

2012 - 2014

Garage48 is a non-profit Organization organising 48-hour intensive week-end hackathon events and boosting local startup ecosystem in Eastern European & Central Asian area (Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan) and emerging countries in Africa (Uganda) and Middle East (Oman), with track record of more than 70 events. Garage48 also supports with know-how LIFT99 Co-working & Event Space, Estonian startup centre in Tallinn.