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Karina Univer

Investment Manager at Specialist Investor

Estonia

Overview 

Karina Univer is an Investment Manager at a Specialist VC in Estonia, specializing in investing in various stages and sectors including Hardware, DeepTech, and FinTech. With a background in partnership management and event coordination, she has successfully invested in companies like imagi at the Pre-Seed stage, showcasing her ability to identify and support promising startups. Karina's career highlights include her roles as Head of Partnerships at Salto Network and Head of Partner Relations at LIFT99, where she demonstrated strong skills in building strategic relationships and fostering collaborations within the startup ecosystem.

Work Experience 

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Specialist VC

  • Investment Manager

    2021 - Current

    Investing in founders in the Baltics and beyond.

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Salto Network

  • Head of Partnerships

    2019 - 2021

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LIFT99

  • Head of Partner Relations

    2016 - 2021

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Atomico

  • 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.

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Startup Grind

  • 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.

The world's largest startup community, actively educating, inspiring, & connecting 5M members across 600+ chapters & 125+ countries.

startupgrind.com
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Garage48

  • 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.

Education 

Investments 

imagi

Pre Seed

Total funding: $300K

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