What Metaplanet does

Metaplanet Holdings OÜ is an evergreen investment firm headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, founded in 2011 by Jaan Tallinn, the founding engineer of Skype and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute and the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. The firm operates as a single-LP vehicle with no external investors and no exit deadlines, deploying capital across AI & Robotics, Life Sciences, Enterprise, Consumer, and Crypto sectors into late Seed and Series A deep-tech companies, with a median initial ticket of roughly $3M for an 8–10% ownership stake and follow-on tickets up to $20M+. Its core product is the evergreen investment fund itself, complemented by a philanthropic grants program that is topped up by a portion of exit proceeds and funds research into neglected existential risks, primarily from AI. Day-to-day operations are led by Managing Partner Rauno Miljand (joined 2016) and General Counsel Sven Böttcher, while Jaan Tallinn remains the founder and principal but is not involved in operations.

The firm's portfolio spans 170+ companies worldwide, including Anthropic, ŌURA, Protocol Labs, Zama, SpaceX, xAI, Substack, The Boring Company, PsiQuantum, Rain AI, and Aerones. Notable exits include DeepMind (acquired by Google), Geometric Intelligence (acquired by Uber), Apprente (acquired by McDonald's), BetterDoctor (acquired by Quest Analytics), Volumetric (acquired by 3D Systems), and Neurio (acquired by Generac). Metaplanet differentiates itself through a founder-friendly posture that explicitly avoids board seats, a hands-off-but-quick-to-act support model, and a thesis focused on mission-driven "missionaries" pursuing civilizational-scale impact rather than short-term returns.

Metaplanet generates revenue primarily through capital gains realized on portfolio exits, which compound inside the evergreen structure rather than being distributed to external LPs; a portion of exit proceeds is also deployed into its philanthropic endowment. Deal flow is sourced through inbound founder pitches via a public submission form, founder referrals within the portfolio community, and selective participation in funding rounds led by other institutional investors. Recent 2025–2026 deployment includes participation in Inherent's $50M seed, ParcelBio's $13M seed, a co-lead of Neurable's $13M round, and Vok Bikes' $6M Series A.

Name

Metaplanet

Legal name

Metaplanet Holdings OÜ

Website

https://metaplanet.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Metaplanet Holdings OÜ is an evergreen, single-LP deep-tech investment firm founded in 2011 that backs mission-driven founders from late Seed through follow-on stages across AI, Life Sciences, Enterprise, Consumer, and Crypto, with a philanthropic arm funding existential-risk research.

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Headquarters

HQ city

Tallinn

HQ country

Estonia

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Capital gains from exits: Primary revenue source: returns generated from successful portfolio exits (50+ exits as of 2025). Evergreen structure means gains compound within the fund rather than being distributed to LPs.
2. Philanthropic endowment top-up: A portion of successful exit proceeds tops up a philanthropic endowment that funds grants to non-venture projects counteracting existential risk. This is a deployment of returns rather than a revenue stream.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Metaplanet is an evergreen investment firm that provides patient capital to mission-driven deep tech founders at late Seed and Series A stages. It invests across AI & Robotics, Life Sciences, Enterprise, Consumer, and Crypto sectors, targeting 8-10% ownership stakes with a median initial ticket around $3M and follow-on rounds up to $20M+. A portion of exit proceeds also funds a philanthropic grants program that counters existential risks, primarily from AI.

Product overview

Metaplanet Holdings OÜ is structured as a single evergreen investment firm rather than a multi-product technology platform. The core offering is the Metaplanet Evergreen Investment Fund, a single-LP vehicle headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, that makes seed-to-Series-A investments (and follow-on rounds) in 170+ deep-tech portfolio companies across AI & Robotics, Life Sciences, Enterprise, Consumer, and Crypto, complemented by the Metaplanet Philanthropy Grants Program that funds projects outside the venture model to counter existential risks (notably from AI). Notable portfolio constituents include Anthropic, ŌURA, Protocol Labs, Zama, SpaceX, and DeepMind (a prior exit to Google).

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Products and services

• Metaplanet Evergreen Investment Fund Single-source evergreen investment vehicle with no external LPs, targeting 8-10% ownership stakes with a median initial ticket of around $3M and follow-on tickets up to $20M+. Invests across AI & Robotics, Life Sciences, Enterprise, Consumer, and Crypto sectors.
• Metaplanet Philanthropy Grants Program

Quantifiable outcome

• 170+ portfolio companies
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

16 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• AnthropicflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Portfolio company since 2021 in AI & Robotics category (United States). AI research and products company focused on safety at the frontier, including Constitutional AI. Metaplanet backs Anthropic with capital and network as a missionary-aligned deep-tech investment.
• ŌURAflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016Portfolio company since 2016 in Life Sciences category (Finland). Smart-ring company translating body signals — sleep, activity, stress, and heart health. Surpassed 2.5 million rings sold by mid-2024 and reached 600+ partnerships and integrations by late 2023.
• Protocol LabsflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014Portfolio company since 2014 in Crypto category. Innovation network behind IPFS and Filecoin driving decentralized storage and web protocols. Backs Metaplanet's mission of long-term, civilizational-scale impact.
• DeepMindflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2011Notable exit (acquired by Google). Metaplanet's earliest deep-tech bet (2011) in AI & Robotics — solving intelligence to advance science and benefit humanity. Helped validate Metaplanet's long-horizon thesis.
• ZamaflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerPortfolio company (France). Open-source cryptographic tools making homomorphic encryption practical, enabling encrypted smart contracts on Ethereum. Raised $73M Series A in March 2024; Metaplanet introduced Zama to its Series A lead investor.
• SpaceXflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerPortfolio company in Enterprise category. Designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft including Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Starship, and Starlink. Demonstrates Metaplanet's willingness to back multi-decade, civilizational-scale missions.
• xAIflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerPortfolio company in AI & Robotics category. Building artificial intelligence to accelerate human scientific discovery. Highlighted repeatedly in Metaplanet's news feed for major funding rounds and product launches.
• SubstackcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPortfolio company in Consumer category. Subscription-based newsletter publishing platform for independent writers; Metaplanet-backed writer-economy play.
• The Boring CompanycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPortfolio company in Enterprise category. Creates safe, fast-to-dig, low-cost transportation, utility, and freight tunnels.
• PsiQuantumflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerPortfolio company in Enterprise category. Quantum computing company on a mission to build and deploy the world's first useful quantum computers; building world's first utility-scale fault-tolerant quantum computer in Australia.
• Rain AIcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPortfolio company in AI & Robotics. Building the most energy-efficient hardware for AI inference.
• BetterDoctorminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNotable exit (acquired by Quest Analytics). Practitioner data accuracy platform for healthcare organizations, originally invested in 2014.
• ApprenteminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNotable exit (acquired by McDonald's in 2019). Intelligent voice-based conversational agents for the enterprise; invested from 2017.
• Geometric IntelligenceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNotable exit (acquired by Uber in 2016). Agents that recognize objects and scenarios from much smaller data sets than usual — now part of Uber AI Labs.
• VolumetricminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNotable exit (acquired by 3D Systems). Advanced biomaterials and bioprinting company.
• Neurio TechnologyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNotable exit (acquired by Generac). Metering technology and sophisticated analytics to optimize energy use in homes or businesses.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Market position

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/metaplanet

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments104 records

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