Estonian tech stories around the world.
The Estonian bicycle brand, Viks, celebrates its second birthday with a new carbon version of its distinctively designed two-wheeler. Viks was set up in 2013 by GrabCAD co-founder Indrek Narusk, who is a dedicated bicycle buff. The bicycle has since become a sort of an icon of new generation of Estonian design and featured on many […]
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“We want to change the world of testing,” claim Kristel Viidik (26) and Marko Kruustük (33), the power duo behind the testing startup, Testlio. “Our goal is to change the mindset so that this occupation would be seen as sexy. Being a tester does not have to be a launchpad for becoming a developer. Testlio
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The Estonian-British startup, TransferWise, has been chosen as a technology pioneer by the World Economic Forum. The company was chosen by a jury of 68 academics, entrepreneurs and investors from hundreds of candidates. Candidates are judged based on innovation, potential innovation, viability and leadership. “TransferWise is part of a group of entrepreneurs who are more
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An international e-residency hackathon, taking place in September in Vormsi island, will focus on building apps and services using the Estonian open ID-platform to benefit both the e-residents and service providers. The hackathon aims to attract web and mobile developers, designers, project leads, marketeers and visionaries in the field to spend a weekend to create working prototypes
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ResultsOnAir is the newest member of #EstonianMafia and the founders of the company have an ambitious plan to shape the direct-response TV advertising (DRTV) market with their analytics service. To learn from the very best, they successfully applied to one of the most famous startup accelerators, called 500 Startups. Brit Tammeorg met up with the
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Rakuten, a Japanese ecommerce and internet company, has acquired a 100% stake in the Estonian-founded fit preference specialist, Fits.me. Rakuten said it expects the tech startup to further strengthen its ecommerce offerings and marketing solutions by providing a greater personalisation of the retail experience for shoppers. The Fits.me story began in 2009, when the Estonian entrepreneur, Heikki Haldre, got less
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ZeroTurnaround, the Estonian-founded producer of developer tools for creating quality software, has announced it has raised US$5 million in series B financing, led by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from Western Technology Investment, both existing investors. This brings the total amount of funding since the company’s founding in 2007 to US$15 million. ZeroTurnaround was born in 2007, when
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Jaan Tallinn, one of the co-founders of Skype and an investor in Fleep among other firms, talks about the future of business communication. Skype was launched 12 years ago. What do you think has changed within the communication industry during those years and what are the areas that haven’t been disrupted yet? I think the
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The Estonian startup, Pipedrive, won the Best B2B Startup of the Year award and the founders of TransferWise, Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo Käärmann, were honoured as the best startup founders at this year’s the Europas Conference and Awards for European Tech Startups. We’re very happy to have won Best B2B Startup of The Year at
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A jury comprising industry experts selected the e-residency digital ID application environment as the winner of the Best Estonian E-Service 2015 prize, with the environment increasing the number of e-residency applicants dozens of times over in its first week of service. Jury chairperson Aet Rahe said the jury’s decision was based on the presumption that
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