Ragnar Sass

Co-Founder

2024 - Current

Darkstar is a coalition of over 30+ unicorn founders, hackers, and investors from Estonia, Ukraine, Germany, France and UK. We are united by one goal: building up the European Defense Tech ecosystem! We are organizing 2x per year extreme BootCamp in Ukraine for 10 Defence Tech startups. We will help these teams grow, scale, and accelerate their progress to the moon.

Co-founder

2021

Captable management for startups

Founder & Truck Driver

2022

Helping 🇺🇦 to win the war. We completed projects worth around $ 7.5 M. Bought, repaired & delivered 411 Pickup trucks to the Ukraine frontline! To evacuate the wounded & save lives. Join our mission here: https://www.help99.co/donate

Co-Founder + history & nature lover

2019

10 years journey to transform 15th-century manor complex into the gateway to Estonian Nature - mixed architecture & history. We built the first modern Nature Villa in between birch trees and fought hard not to take any of them down for it. 2 more in 2022

Angel Investor

2017

Investing 2-3 companies per year. My ticket is usually 20k. Will invest only if my experience, know-how & network can help startup to the next level. And if it relates to my personal values. Focus in B2B+SaaS, lately more open for moonshot ideas from cleantech, climate, food & agritech. And yes - only products with a global impact from day 1. Portfolio of 50+ startups - including - * Veriff - online identity verification solution - Estonia * Restream - Video streaming platform - Ukraine, US * Printify - ondemand print platform - B2B2C - Latvia, US * Mate academy - Extreme coding camp - Ukraine * Planet42 - Access to mobility for the underbanked - South Africa * Woola - waste wool to replace plastic bubble wrap - Estonia

Founder & CEO

2016 - 2021

Running startup centres in Tallinn, Estonia & Kyiv, Ukraine with strong community of 400+ real startup founders / hustlers - doers rather than “bullshitters" with best tech events/meetups.

Co-Founder & CEO

2019 - 2021

#byebyebay * We build a platform to connect startups with the best founders & experts - who will deliver & could help folks to the next level! Hands-on super advisors who can make help you whatever shit hits the fan. Growth-Sales-Marketing-Fundraising or a personal coach to founders to build up the next unicorns.

Co-Founder & Board member

2010 - 2020

Co Founder

2010 - 2020

VP Global Market Development

2010 - 2016

New Markets & Partnerships, HR

Co-founder & Energy Officer

2016 - 2018