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Ott Kaukver

Investor at Checkout.com

Tallinn, Harjumaa

Overview 

Ott Kaukver is an Independent Board Member and Investor who previously served as the CTO at high-profile companies like Checkout.com and Twilio. With a strong background in building and leading high-performance teams, Ott has made significant contributions to the success of various startups and established companies, demonstrating expertise in technical recruiting and scalability. Highlights of Ott's career include his roles as CTO at Checkout.com and Twilio, where he oversaw key functions like engineering, product management, and strategic partnerships, showcasing his ability to drive innovation and growth in fast-paced environments. Currently, Ott leverages his experience and skills to support startups as an investor and board member, focusing on sectors like Social Networks and SaaS at various stages of development.

Work Experience 

Arvo Pärt Centre Endowment

  • Chairman of the Board

    2021 - Current

PA

Phantom Auto

  • Board Member

    2019

Phantom Auto is a software company that offers teleoperation safety solutions and remote operations for logistics vehicles.

Raised $86,000,000.00 from ConGlobal.

phantom.auto
PB

Põhjala Brewery

  • Board Member

    2021

C

Checkout.com

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2021 - 2023

BV

Bessemer Venture Partners

  • Executive In Residence

    2019 - 2020

BVP Forge operates as a private equity firm that focuses on software-enabled businesses.

bvp.com
TI

Twilio Inc.

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2018 - 2019

  • GM Voice/Video & VP of Engineering

    2016 - 2018

  • VP of Engineering

    2013 - 2016

Twilio is a cloud communication company that enables users to use standard web languages to build voice, VoIP, and SMS apps via a web API.

Raised $614,415,525.00 from TCV.

twilio.com
T

TransferWise

  • Advisor / Investor

    2012 - 2017

    Supporting the scaling of engineering team and product development process

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Pipedrive

  • Advisor / Investor

    2013 - 2016

    Helping PipeDrive business to grow and scale the product development to multiple geographic locations

Pipedrive is a software company that offers cloud-based sales management platform design and management services for CRM solutions.

Raised $90,203,108.00 from Atomico, Bessemer Venture Partners, Rembrandt Venture Partners, DTCP, Insight Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Atomico, Rembrandt Venture Partners and Insight Partners.

pipedrive.com

Ambient Sound Investments

  • Advisor / Investor

    2006 - 2013

    ASI Private Equity AS (ASIPEAS) was conceived in 2006 to allow a number of friends and colleagues from Skype to co-invest with the partnership. Working closely together at a heady pace in the early days of Skype aligned our thinking, we often share mutual interests and opinions when considering new technology ventures.

S

Skype

  • Head of Engineering, Consumer Products

    2008 - 2012

    Led shipping of customer facing products Skype clients for Windows, Mac, Linux, mobile and web platforms, payment portals and integrations.

  • Head of Engineering, Core Technology

    2005 - 2008

    Responsible for leading software engineering efforts for Skype's core technology platform. Grew the engineering organization from 60 to 300 persons by 2008. Established CEE development centre in Prague to tap into Central and Eastern European talent pools.

  • Director of Operations

    2004 - 2005

    Created technical and business operation functions including site and hosting infrastructure management, Customer Support, anti-fraud management, payment operations, telecom and routing management. Scaled the team from 2 to 100 persons within 18 months.

Education 

Investments 

Supersimple

Pre Seed

Total funding: $2M

Propel

Seed

Total funding: $90M

Katana

Series A

Total funding: $46M

NFTPort

Series A

Total funding: $26M

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