Ragnar Sass
Founder of Darkstar Camp
Tallinn, Harjumaa
Overview
Work Experience
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 & Military Hackathons in Europe. We will help these teams grow, scale, and accelerate their progress to the moon. We are looking dual use but also product for only Military use!
Founder & Truck Driver
2022
Helping 🇺🇦 to win the war. We completed projects worth around $ 10 M. Bought, repaired & delivered 500+ 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 * Woola - waste wool to replace plastic bubble wrap - Estonia
Co-founder
2021 - 2024
Captable management for startups
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
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.
Co-founder & Energy Officer
2016 - 2018