We know Estonia as a progressive and tech savvy country. Well, there’s a 600 years old castle in North Estonia called Malla Manor that is set up to become a Bitcoin innovation centre, according to Finnish silver investor and Bitcoin entrepreneur Risto Pietilä. MORE
If you haven't heard of Estonia's Fleep yet, it's only a matter of time MORE
Entrepreneur Europe Latin America accelerators Chile estonia finland funding TechIt’s hard to get the exact data on how many startup acceleration programs are being launched every year, but it’s definitely a lot. MORE
New York-based CartoDB , a location intelligence, data analysis and visualization company, said on Wednesday it has acquired Tartu-headquartered Nutiteq , a mobile mapping software development company with more than 15 million installations of their SDK, and a roster of clients that includes SeatGeek, LonelyPlanet, iRobot and Accenture, among others. The value of the deal was not disclosed. “We We believe there is a big opportunity to rethink how we interact with location data on mobile devices. MORE
When I talk to serial entrepreneur Tõnis Kusmin he is already in Chile, sitting on a balcony in sun, while back home in Estonia its dark and slushy. MORE
After launching in-app payments with debit and credit cards in Baltic countries in April (with Finland and The Netherlands launching in May), Taxify has now rolled out mobile carrier billing in Estonia. Estonia has good history with mobile carrier billing. MORE
In the recent Estonian news, we found out that a company known as "Data Valley Enterprises OÜ" is planning to establish Europe''s largest data centre in Estonia. MORE
The new CountryOS service was built in the co-operation of the government of Estonia, tech entrepreneurs and Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol. The platform is a tailored version of the one that is currently used to manage Estonia. MORE
Estonia doesn’t exactly jump to mind when asked about the hottest European startup countries. Connect Estonia organizes trainings and seminars for angels, and mentoring events for selected companies, where they will pitch to a panel of experts. There is Enterprise Estonia , and WNB. MORE
It's a respectable initiative that all fits into the e-Estonia trend pushed to put Estonia on the forefront of how citizens interact with their government through online services. Estonian entrepreneurs will soon have a new resource to build services off of. MORE
However, Funtikov also expressed his concerns about the game and app development scene in Estonia, as most developers tend to focus on things like web services and enterprise solutions. “We Should some of the future talent in Estonia be diverted to mobile app and game development? MORE
Estonia''s Business Angels Network put out an infographic detailing EstBAN''s first year in review. It''s an interesting look a Estonia''s angel investing scene, detailing the €4.6 million invested by their 59 Angles in their network. MORE
The 2014 founded startup, which has gone through BuildIT accelerator , has so far 38 clients in Estonia GlobalReader's product is a cloud based monitoring platform, with real-time data visualization and reporting, based on data gathered through sensors from production line. MORE
My wife, Ann, and I took a trip this past spring to visit Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Russia. Estonia. Tallinn is the capital of Estonia, located just across the Bay of Finland from Helsinki. In Estonia, I was in front of audiences for twenty-one hours, while delivering seven workshops and lectures and mentoring twelve entrepreneurs. MORE
Two months ago, I returned from my 6-week long trip from Estonia to Silicon Valley, where I attended Draper University and peeked into some unicorns (e.g. Coming back, it really opened my eyes towards the pros and cons of both Estonia and Silicon Valley. MORE
Last entry this year in a series on innovation from places you do not typically expect much innovation from Startup City – Boulder, CO Monument Men – structures across US Desert West Diplomacy and Digital Signatures – Finland, Estonia Technology MORE
We’ve brought you guides to Riga and Lithuania before, and we know quite a few were looking forward to Estonia. For its size, Estonia is generating more high quality startups than you would expect.”. - Naval Ravikant, Founder of AngelList". MORE
Estonian cloud startup Cloutex announces it has raised $600,000 (€441,000) in seed funding. The company provides cloud services integrations to synchronize your customers and records across platforms like Pipedrive, Salesforce, FreshBooks, Highrise, and so on. MORE
Estonia is the first country in the world to offer an ‘e-Residency‘ to people of any nationality. If you become an e-resident, you get a governmentally issued digital identity like other Estonians, that you can use to set up your own company in Estonia — completely remotely. MORE
It has been a while since we have reported an exit for Estonia. First, it is just the second venture backed major exit for Estonia, the other one being Modesat Communications that happened roughly two years ago. MORE
We typically never just re-publish what someone sends us, and Georgia is far from "Arctic" but we got such a crazy email after meeting Georgian game developer Sanders Kvlividze part of the Estonia-based accelerator, Gamefounders , that it sounds better coming straight from him. MORE
As mentioned, the new cases for handsets and laptops are handmade in Estonia and are built from carbon fiber weave and woll felt. MORE
Top Image Courtesy of Shutterstock // Estonia Euro As reported by E24 news , the Estonian government plans to create a fund of funds with a total size of EUR 80 million with an aim to invest into startups. MORE
But in Estonia, this dream shared by Zuck, Gates, and Will-i-am already exists. The goal is to continue Estonia's dominance when it comes to technology, programming, and the e-estonia initiative. "If MORE
The Estonian government has thrown a lot of weight behind the concept, and is preparing an ambitious Personalised Medicine Pilot Programme between 2015-2018, and aims to put Estonia into the forefront of developing Personalised Medicine Applications. MORE
I happen to be from Estonia, a small, but fiercely proud country near the Baltic Sea, one with a burgeoning startup scene that’s full of driven, intelligent and hungry entrepreneurs. You’ll also find a much more committed mindset in Estonia than you will in California. MORE
A team leader''s job is to make sure people get things done, and you can''t improve what you don''t measure. Enter Weekdone, the Estonian productivity and task completion application that now announces it has launched on iOS and a major new web version. MORE
Clearly, Estonia has a strong and enthusiastic startup scene. At the end of August, the Estonian startup scene’s biggest gathering took place. MORE
Startup Incubator , a new program aimed at helping startups, has spun off from Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol and begun accepting applications. The program is named Startup Incubator and it was set apart to serve startups better in a more focused way. MORE
Estonia based start-up Svipe will be bringing its card free payment solutions to retail shops around the world with financial backing from the LHV Bank ing association and mobile payment expert NOW! MORE
Estonia''s Plumbr is transforming into a full featured SaaS product by adding more centralized features and a wider scope to their code performance detection service. MORE
The new EstFund is a first of its kind in Europe and shows how together with local risk capital funds and the Estonian authorities, EIF can help to build a strong investment ecosystem in Estonia," Roger Havenith, The European Investment Fund’s Deputy Chief Executive, said in a statement MORE
Estonia''s Deltabid (formally Liitu) has launched an e-procurement tool to standardize the tender process, cut paperwork, and help companies save money. MORE
This is why it’s always nice to do a recap on Estonia’s Weekdone. No one likes inefficient meetings. They drain your focus, waste your time and on the long run they end up costing a good deal of money. MORE
Finland’s beer taxes and brewery regulations are such that even a young, enterprising Finnish startup like Sori Brewing has chosen to move its operations across the Baltic Sea to Estonia to be able to make their craft beers at an affordable price and without so much bureaucratic red tape. MORE
Unfortunately, outside of Estonia this system and the likes of it are not that wide-spread despite the EU Directive on Electronic Signatures that was put in place in December of 1999. Estonia ? MORE
Commercialized since 2011 in Latvia and Estonia, Dreamapply found its niche and has swept across the continent ever since. Since Estonia adopted the system in 2011, the country has witnessed a fourfold increase in application number which earned Dreamapply a high profile endorsement from the Estonian authority. There are several good co-operation projects going on between Estonia and Finland (X-road, EduCloud). MORE
Data from Estonian Development Fund ( Startup Estonia ), Altum ( Labs of Latvia ) and Enterprise Lithuania ( Startup Lithuania ), as well as crowdsourced community sheets. The stat is particularly impressive in Estonia with 30.6 startup employees for every 1,000 people in Estonia. MORE
So far Karl's frames have been sold mostly in Estonia. The company has also just received 50,000 euros grant from Estonia to support its expansion. MORE
Ooolala, a company based in Estonia decided to introduce this type of members-only flash sales to the Nordic and Baltic region and started in Estonia in 2012. Currently Ooolala boasts over 50 000 members in Estonia and already over 5000 within a month of operations in Finland. MORE
Sayat.me is a new Estonian startup looking to enable better, honest albeit anonymous feedback about people (to begin with). The service was founded by Asko Seeba as well as Priit Salumaa and Indrek Ulst. MORE
We have never received so many applicants from the whole region: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania were all present and below are the absolute best according to our panel of judges. Boldgadgets , Estonia - Not sure if they want us to say what they do yet. MORE
Our portfolio at USV spans ten hours (Estonia to San Francisco/Los Angeles). I was in Europe for most of June and working on a lot of things with people in the bay area. The nine hours time zone were challenging. I was doing a lot of calls in the evenings with people who were just waking up. There were many times when I woke up in Europe to a brief window where I could talk to people in the bay area who were still working and had not wrapped things up for the day before. MORE
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The Next Web
JULY 25, 2017
Estonia is the first country in the world to offer an ‘e-Residency‘ to people of any nationality. If you become an e-resident, you get a governmentally issued digital identity like other Estonians, that you can use to set up your own company in Estonia — completely remotely.
The Next Web
MARCH 3, 2016
Entrepreneur Europe Latin America accelerators Chile estonia finland funding TechIt’s hard to get the exact data on how many startup acceleration programs are being launched every year, but it’s definitely a lot.
ArcticStartup
NOVEMBER 20, 2014
We’ve brought you guides to Riga and Lithuania before, and we know quite a few were looking forward to Estonia. For its size, Estonia is generating more high quality startups than you would expect.”. - Naval Ravikant, Founder of AngelList".
ArcticStartup
MARCH 31, 2016
The new CountryOS service was built in the co-operation of the government of Estonia, tech entrepreneurs and Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol. The platform is a tailored version of the one that is currently used to manage Estonia.
ArcticStartup
DECEMBER 10, 2013
Top Image Courtesy of Shutterstock // Estonia Euro As reported by E24 news , the Estonian government plans to create a fund of funds with a total size of EUR 80 million with an aim to invest into startups.
ArcticStartup
SEPTEMBER 1, 2014
We know Estonia as a progressive and tech savvy country. Well, there’s a 600 years old castle in North Estonia called Malla Manor that is set up to become a Bitcoin innovation centre, according to Finnish silver investor and Bitcoin entrepreneur Risto Pietilä.
ArcticStartup
FEBRUARY 17, 2016
New York-based CartoDB , a location intelligence, data analysis and visualization company, said on Wednesday it has acquired Tartu-headquartered Nutiteq , a mobile mapping software development company with more than 15 million installations of their SDK, and a roster of clients that includes SeatGeek, LonelyPlanet, iRobot and Accenture, among others. The value of the deal was not disclosed. “We We believe there is a big opportunity to rethink how we interact with location data on mobile devices.
ArcticStartup
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
It has been a while since we have reported an exit for Estonia. First, it is just the second venture backed major exit for Estonia, the other one being Modesat Communications that happened roughly two years ago.
ArcticStartup
MAY 12, 2014
Finland’s beer taxes and brewery regulations are such that even a young, enterprising Finnish startup like Sori Brewing has chosen to move its operations across the Baltic Sea to Estonia to be able to make their craft beers at an affordable price and without so much bureaucratic red tape.
ArcticStartup
MARCH 25, 2013
Unfortunately, outside of Estonia this system and the likes of it are not that wide-spread despite the EU Directive on Electronic Signatures that was put in place in December of 1999. Estonia ?
ArcticStartup
OCTOBER 18, 2013
In the recent Estonian news, we found out that a company known as "Data Valley Enterprises OÜ" is planning to establish Europe''s largest data centre in Estonia.
ArcticStartup
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
Ooolala, a company based in Estonia decided to introduce this type of members-only flash sales to the Nordic and Baltic region and started in Estonia in 2012. Currently Ooolala boasts over 50 000 members in Estonia and already over 5000 within a month of operations in Finland.
ArcticStartup
JUNE 19, 2013
Estonia''s Plumbr is transforming into a full featured SaaS product by adding more centralized features and a wider scope to their code performance detection service.
ArcticStartup
MARCH 20, 2012
It's a respectable initiative that all fits into the e-Estonia trend pushed to put Estonia on the forefront of how citizens interact with their government through online services. Estonian entrepreneurs will soon have a new resource to build services off of.
ArcticStartup
JANUARY 16, 2014
Estonian cloud startup Cloutex announces it has raised $600,000 (€441,000) in seed funding. The company provides cloud services integrations to synchronize your customers and records across platforms like Pipedrive, Salesforce, FreshBooks, Highrise, and so on.
ArcticStartup
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
Estonia''s Deltabid (formally Liitu) has launched an e-procurement tool to standardize the tender process, cut paperwork, and help companies save money.
ArcticStartup
MARCH 17, 2016
The 2014 founded startup, which has gone through BuildIT accelerator , has so far 38 clients in Estonia GlobalReader's product is a cloud based monitoring platform, with real-time data visualization and reporting, based on data gathered through sensors from production line.
The Next Web
JANUARY 23, 2014
I happen to be from Estonia, a small, but fiercely proud country near the Baltic Sea, one with a burgeoning startup scene that’s full of driven, intelligent and hungry entrepreneurs. You’ll also find a much more committed mindset in Estonia than you will in California.
ArcticStartup
JANUARY 7, 2014
Estonia based start-up Svipe will be bringing its card free payment solutions to retail shops around the world with financial backing from the LHV Bank ing association and mobile payment expert NOW!
Inc Startups
MAY 11, 2015
If you haven't heard of Estonia's Fleep yet, it's only a matter of time
ArcticStartup
JANUARY 2, 2012
However, Funtikov also expressed his concerns about the game and app development scene in Estonia, as most developers tend to focus on things like web services and enterprise solutions. “We Should some of the future talent in Estonia be diverted to mobile app and game development?
ArcticStartup
FEBRUARY 3, 2012
Startup Incubator , a new program aimed at helping startups, has spun off from Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol and begun accepting applications. The program is named Startup Incubator and it was set apart to serve startups better in a more focused way.
ArcticStartup
FEBRUARY 27, 2013
But in Estonia, this dream shared by Zuck, Gates, and Will-i-am already exists. The goal is to continue Estonia's dominance when it comes to technology, programming, and the e-estonia initiative. "If
ArcticStartup
MAY 12, 2014
We typically never just re-publish what someone sends us, and Georgia is far from "Arctic" but we got such a crazy email after meeting Georgian game developer Sanders Kvlividze part of the Estonia-based accelerator, Gamefounders , that it sounds better coming straight from him.
ArcticStartup
DECEMBER 5, 2013
As mentioned, the new cases for handsets and laptops are handmade in Estonia and are built from carbon fiber weave and woll felt.
A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
JULY 5, 2017
Our portfolio at USV spans ten hours (Estonia to San Francisco/Los Angeles). I was in Europe for most of June and working on a lot of things with people in the bay area. The nine hours time zone were challenging. I was doing a lot of calls in the evenings with people who were just waking up. There were many times when I woke up in Europe to a brief window where I could talk to people in the bay area who were still working and had not wrapped things up for the day before.
ArcticStartup
MAY 5, 2015
After launching in-app payments with debit and credit cards in Baltic countries in April (with Finland and The Netherlands launching in May), Taxify has now rolled out mobile carrier billing in Estonia. Estonia has good history with mobile carrier billing.
deal architect
DECEMBER 29, 2013
Last entry this year in a series on innovation from places you do not typically expect much innovation from Startup City – Boulder, CO Monument Men – structures across US Desert West Diplomacy and Digital Signatures – Finland, Estonia Technology
ArcticStartup
OCTOBER 3, 2013
A team leader''s job is to make sure people get things done, and you can''t improve what you don''t measure. Enter Weekdone, the Estonian productivity and task completion application that now announces it has launched on iOS and a major new web version.
ArcticStartup
NOVEMBER 13, 2015
Data from Estonian Development Fund ( Startup Estonia ), Altum ( Labs of Latvia ) and Enterprise Lithuania ( Startup Lithuania ), as well as crowdsourced community sheets. The stat is particularly impressive in Estonia with 30.6 startup employees for every 1,000 people in Estonia.
ArcticStartup
MARCH 30, 2016
So far Karl's frames have been sold mostly in Estonia. The company has also just received 50,000 euros grant from Estonia to support its expansion.
ArcticStartup
SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
Sayat.me is a new Estonian startup looking to enable better, honest albeit anonymous feedback about people (to begin with). The service was founded by Asko Seeba as well as Priit Salumaa and Indrek Ulst.
Gust
JULY 12, 2012
My wife, Ann, and I took a trip this past spring to visit Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Russia. Estonia. Tallinn is the capital of Estonia, located just across the Bay of Finland from Helsinki. In Estonia, I was in front of audiences for twenty-one hours, while delivering seven workshops and lectures and mentoring twelve entrepreneurs.
ArcticStartup
SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
Estonia doesn’t exactly jump to mind when asked about the hottest European startup countries. Connect Estonia organizes trainings and seminars for angels, and mentoring events for selected companies, where they will pitch to a panel of experts. There is Enterprise Estonia , and WNB.
ArcticStartup
MAY 1, 2016
Commercialized since 2011 in Latvia and Estonia, Dreamapply found its niche and has swept across the continent ever since. Since Estonia adopted the system in 2011, the country has witnessed a fourfold increase in application number which earned Dreamapply a high profile endorsement from the Estonian authority. There are several good co-operation projects going on between Estonia and Finland (X-road, EduCloud).
ArcticStartup
MAY 19, 2015
The Estonian government has thrown a lot of weight behind the concept, and is preparing an ambitious Personalised Medicine Pilot Programme between 2015-2018, and aims to put Estonia into the forefront of developing Personalised Medicine Applications.
ArcticStartup
MAY 11, 2015
We have never received so many applicants from the whole region: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania were all present and below are the absolute best according to our panel of judges. Boldgadgets , Estonia - Not sure if they want us to say what they do yet.
ArcticStartup
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
Clearly, Estonia has a strong and enthusiastic startup scene. At the end of August, the Estonian startup scene’s biggest gathering took place.
ArcticStartup
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
Estonia''s Business Angels Network put out an infographic detailing EstBAN''s first year in review. It''s an interesting look a Estonia''s angel investing scene, detailing the €4.6 million invested by their 59 Angles in their network.
ArcticStartup
FEBRUARY 21, 2016
When I talk to serial entrepreneur Tõnis Kusmin he is already in Chile, sitting on a balcony in sun, while back home in Estonia its dark and slushy.
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