Mihkel Välja

Fund Manager, Partner at Trigon Asset Management

📍 Estonia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2021
Angel investor🌍 Estonia
8
Total investments
5
Early stage
2
Mid stage
0
Late stage
9y
Years active

Portfolio

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Angel Investor
2021
Building the financial superstore for Southeast Asias underbanked.
Angel Investor
2021
Parcelsea is a technology company offering an open network platform for e-commerce customers and last mile delivery service providers. Our focus is on developing a smart mailbox that is secure and simple to use for everybody. With our mailbox you can order groceries and parcels online and collect them contactless at your convenience. Our mailbox is designed with a purpose to save time in your busy calendar. For couriers we offer an alternative to the traditional delivery service with no need to contact your customer and hence more efficient and secure way to drop off parcels. Our network of smart mailboxes helps to increase the rate of successful deliveries at first attempt and consequently decreases the cost of courier service as a whole.
Angel Investor
2020
YAGA is the fastest growing marketplace for preloved fashion in South Africa and Estonia. Yaga launched a pilot in Tallinn, Estonia and expanded to South Africa in early 2020 where Yaga shortly became the number one choice for South Africans for selling their preloved fashion pieces online. Fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world - producing a single pair of jeans takes 7600L of water, and 33kg of CO2 is emitted. Establishing circular economy models is directly contributing to peoples wellbeing and global sustainability. In 2022, Yagas net revenue grew 2.3x (to €1M), MAU grew 2x, GMV grew 2.6x, and €12M worth of fashion items were sold on the platform (2x growth YoY). We raised a €2.35M seed round to scale up in South Africa and reach profitability. We support local communities by giving everyone the chance to start their online business on Yaga. Our goal is to make person-to-person buying and selling secondhand as easy and safe as possible. We truly believe in saving the world one t-shirt at a time - we aspire to help the next generation turn to a more sustainable consumption and see the future of shopping in the hands of individuals. This also means that the demand is driven by need, instead of retail giants and brands, as more and more people turn to second hand to contribute to sustainable lifestyle.
Angel Investor
2020
Build more with less and take a step closer to #stressfreeconstruction!
Angel Investor
2019
𝗥𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀 Today, farming accounts for 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions, but we believe it could become carbon neutral. eAgronom helps farmers generate additional revenue streams, improve soil quality, and access better financing. We bring together world-class experts from IT, agronomy, and environmental sciences to help farmers return carbon back into the soil, grow crops sustainably and profitably while leading the world toward cleaner nature and healthier food. eAgronom 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 allows farmers to get paid for creating Carbon Credits, improve the quality of their soil, reduce the cost of inputs and get access to better financing terms. All together, making carbon-neutral farming profitable. 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘂𝘀: hiring@eagronom.com - for career opportunities. hello@eagronom.com - for partnership enquiries.
mid stageFarming
Angel Investor
2019
FoodDocs helps to create and maintain food safety management systems with minimum effort for you. The HACCP builder saves 120 working hours on getting compliant and the connected food safety system saves 1 working day each week on staying compliant. Saving time and money by using this powerful software makes it especially attractive for newly born and fast-growing companies. All food handlers benefit from saving their and their employees time on filling compliance monitoring with the pre-filled solutions. Yes, it is possible to switch to digital food safety in 1 hour. Setting up and managing your food safety is now 10 times easier and 500 times faster.
Angel Investor
2018
Fractory provides scalable metal fabrication services. We use our network of audited manufacturing partners to offer capabilities and capacity suitable for large project and series manufacturing. With a single point of contact that handles everything from quoting, production planning, execution, quality assurance, and delivery, we streamline the whole process for our customers, mainly engineering SMEs looking for a reliable partner to scale their production with. Every business customer is assigned a dedicated Project Engineer to support with everything from Design for X to project execution.
Angel Investor
2017
danabijak is an Indonesian online financial service provider & OJK licensed P2P Fintech. By developing our proprietary technology, we scored, qualified, and provided more than 50,000 users with socially inclusive financial services ranging from micro single payment loans to larger installment loans. With Danabijak, it takes less than 5-minutes to start building a credit score for a better future and get access to an inclusive, transparent & fast financing solution. By developing a credit scoring technology based on our users digital footprint and other statistically significant data, weve reduced time-to-finance from weeks to minutes. This disruptive approach to financing has also enabled us to service the underbanked market and supported us in our primary mission : Accelerating access to credit! Danabijak is changing the way Indonesians seek for financial opportunities. We provide our users with an opportunity to learn good financial behavior and build their credit possibilities through education, gamification and a risk-based fee structure. DanaBijak is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia. Learn more at www.danabijak.com.
Experience · 10 entries
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Investments (8)
2023
Partner
Dec 2023
Trigon Asset Management is an Emerging Europe focused independent investment boutique. Our experienced investment team manages over EUR 800 million of clients assets allocated in Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey and the Baltics. Our core business areas include active management of 2 open-ended UCITS funds and several contractual mandates. Trigon funds consistently rank among top-perfoming funds in their peergroup and we take pride in winning numerous awards for their superior performance over the years. In 2017, Trigon Asset Management was awarded as the Best Small Equity Company in Europe by Thomson Reuters Lipper Fund Awards. More information and enquiries: https://trigoncapital.com/asset-management/ or funds@trigoncapital.com
2022
Partner
Feb 2022
Opus11 is an investment company focusing on early stage startups. We are a group of founders and entrepreneurs looking for promising tech startups.
2021
Angel Investor
2021
Building the financial superstore for Southeast Asias underbanked.
Angel Investor
2021
Parcelsea is a technology company offering an open network platform for e-commerce customers and last mile delivery service providers. Our focus is on developing a smart mailbox that is secure and simple to use for everybody. With our mailbox you can order groceries and parcels online and collect them contactless at your convenience. Our mailbox is designed with a purpose to save time in your busy calendar. For couriers we offer an alternative to the traditional delivery service with no need to contact your customer and hence more efficient and secure way to drop off parcels. Our network of smart mailboxes helps to increase the rate of successful deliveries at first attempt and consequently decreases the cost of courier service as a whole.
2020
Angel Investor
2020
YAGA is the fastest growing marketplace for preloved fashion in South Africa and Estonia. Yaga launched a pilot in Tallinn, Estonia and expanded to South Africa in early 2020 where Yaga shortly became the number one choice for South Africans for selling their preloved fashion pieces online. Fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world - producing a single pair of jeans takes 7600L of water, and 33kg of CO2 is emitted. Establishing circular economy models is directly contributing to peoples wellbeing and global sustainability. In 2022, Yagas net revenue grew 2.3x (to €1M), MAU grew 2x, GMV grew 2.6x, and €12M worth of fashion items were sold on the platform (2x growth YoY). We raised a €2.35M seed round to scale up in South Africa and reach profitability. We support local communities by giving everyone the chance to start their online business on Yaga. Our goal is to make person-to-person buying and selling secondhand as easy and safe as possible. We truly believe in saving the world one t-shirt at a time - we aspire to help the next generation turn to a more sustainable consumption and see the future of shopping in the hands of individuals. This also means that the demand is driven by need, instead of retail giants and brands, as more and more people turn to second hand to contribute to sustainable lifestyle.
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