Estonian business stories around the world
CVKeskus, a leading online job searching platform in Estonia, has published its annual list of the most attractive employers in the country. CVKeskus’s 2020 survey of the most attractive employers is based on the responses of 5,699 employees. The Estonian branch of the Swedish telecommunications company, Telia, was chosen to …
According to Statistics Estonia, the country’s official statistics agency, in the second quarter of 2020, the Estonian gross domestic product fell by 6.9% compared with the second quarter of 2019; the GDP at current prices was €6.4 billion. According to Robert Müürsepp, a leading analyst at Statistics Estonia, most of …
Estonian economy contracts by 6.9 per cent in the second quarter of 2020 Read More »
Cachet, an Estonian-founded financial services marketplace for online platform workers, has closed a €1.1 million seed round as it prepares to expand its service offering from rideshare platforms to other fields and launch in new markets like Poland, the Nordic countries and the United Kingdom. Founded in 2018 in Estonia, …
An Estonian financial services marketplace closes a €1.1 million seed round Read More »
Startup Estonia and nine law firms in Estonia have created a set of free model legal documents to make life easier for the country’s startups. The package includes 22 documents and forms, most needed for startups and investors. The startup community development manager at Startup Estonia, Liisi Org, said in a statement …
Startup Estonia publishes free model documents for startups Read More »
Luxury Collection, a Ferrari dealer and the largest luxury car seller in Finland, will open a showroom for Ferraris and other supercars in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, in August. A Luxury Collection showroom for Ferraris and other supercars is to open in the harbour area in the heart of Tallinn …
TaxScouts, a UK-based, Estonian-founded startup, has just closed a £5 million series A funding round; the company, until now operating in Britain, is launching its service in Spain and is planning to expand across Europe. TaxScouts, an online tax preparation platform, was founded in 2018 by Estonians Mart Abramov and …
Estonian-founded startup aims to build a “pan-European” tax service Read More »
Until now, Estonia has had the biggest gender pay gap in the entire European Union – but the good news is that it is finally narrowing. According to Statistics Estonia, Estonia’s official statistics agency, in 2019, the gross hourly earnings of female employees were still 17.1% lower than the gross …
The Estonian entrepreneur, Toivo Annus, one of the founding IT engineers behind the global telecommunication application, Skype, unexpectedly died on 12 July, his widow has announced. “I inform you with the utmost sadness that last weekend, on 12 July, our beloved husband, dad, entrepreneur and investor, Toivo Annus, succumbed to …
Skype cofounder Toivo Annus dies at the age of 48 Read More »
The Estonian parliament on 3 June adopted amendments to the current laws to create a digital nomad visa that would allow people to come to Estonia as a tourist and at the same time continue working for a foreign employer or as a freelancer independent of location; starting from 15 …
Estonian digital nomad visa finally starts to get implemented Read More »
Gratitude Services set out to modernise an old sector, then became the biggest cemetery services provider in Estonia. This is a paid content. They say the simplest ideas are often the best and the idea behind Gratitude Services is simple – to bring customers and service providers together for graveyard …
A debt of gratitude – an Estonian company revolutionises graveyard maintenance Read More »
