Jaan Tallinn

Angel Investor·Tallinn, Estonia·~$130M+ deployed across 200+ investments

Jaan Tallinn is an Estonian programmer, co-founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa, and one of Europe's most prolific deep tech angel investors. He invests primarily through Metaplanet Holdings, which he founded in 2011 to back mission-driven founders working on transformative technologies. He is a former investor director at DeepMind and led Anthropic's $124M Series A round. His portfolio spans over 200 companies, including unicorns Anthropic and Astranis. He co-founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and the Future of Life Institute.

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AI/Machine LearningAI SafetyAerospace/SpaceDeep TechSynthetic BiologyExistential RiskRoboticsSemiconductors

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DeepMind

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AI Research·Acquired

Google DeepMind is an AI research laboratory focused on building artificial general intelligence. Founded in London in 2010 by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleyman, the company was acquired by Google in 2014 for approximately $660M. DeepMind pioneered breakthroughs including AlphaGo, the first program to defeat a world champion at Go, and AlphaFold, which solved the 50-year-old protein folding problem and has been used by over two million researchers worldwide. The lab remains headquartered in London with a large UK engineering presence and continues to push the boundaries of reinforcement learning, large language models, and scientific AI.