Taavet Hinrikus

Taavet is an entrepreneur turned investor. As a founding partner at Skaala he oversees our strategy and participates in investment committee work across all of our asset classes. Taavet spends most of his time as a partner at Plural, where he invests in serious founders on a mission to change the world through technology.

Taavet co-founded Wise in 2010, where he was CEO and later Chairman, which went public in the first-ever direct listing in Europe in 2021. Prior to that, Taavet was Skype’s Director of Strategy until 2008, starting as its first employee. More recently he co-founded Jõhvi Coding School to help increase the number of people with coding skills in Estonia. He’s been an active investor for almost two decades, looking for 10x better solutions to huge problems that have an impact globally – angel activities that over time grew into a family office and then a professional investment partnership that became what we call Skaala today.

Taavet sees technology, education, and entrepreneurship as the most potent agents of positive change and progress, and his commitments reflect his dedication to that.