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Estonian startup intelligence service Funderbeam raises €500,000

Estonian World / May 28, 2015

The Estonian startup intelligence service, Funderbeam, has raised €500,000 from new and current angel investors, taking the two-year-old company to €1.1 million in total funding. New investors include UK-based Rockspring, headed by David Gammon, and Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype and noted thinker on artificial intelligence. Funderbeam is a subscription service for discovering, tracking, and […]

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Andrus Ansip: Building a digital single market for Europe

Life in Estonia / May 20, 2015

My aim is to make sure that Europe, its citizens and businesses, get the best of the online world in the safest and most open environment possible. Openness and opportunity: not obstacles. By Andrus Ansip, VP of the European Commission for the digital single market. Published in collaboration with Life in Estonia magazine. I Estonia is

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Estonian company GoSwift wins the 2015 Transport Achievement Award

Estonian World / May 18, 2015

The Estonian smart border crossing management service, GoSwift, has won the 2015 Transport Achievement Award at the International Transport Forum, arranged by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). GoSwift is a public-private partnership, operating an innovative queue management service at the Estonian border crossing points. The service allows vehicles to pre-book time slots

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Estonian startup Pipedrive raises USD9 million in funding

Estonian World / May 14, 2015

The Tallinn-based software company, Pipedrive, which provides wise and practical help to salesmen, announced on 14 May it had raised an additional USD9 million in funding to help accelerate its growth. “This investment will help us hire more talented people to join our current family of employees. With their help, we will build more technology, market more

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Startup Spotlight: Sportlyzer

Silver Tambur / May 12, 2015

In Startup Spotlight, we zoom in on numerous Estonian startups, to find out more about their business model and how they operate. This time we’re featuring Sportlyzer, an all-in-one sports team management software for sports clubs to automate their everyday tasks and concentrate on building an efficient sports club. We spoke with the company’s founder and CEO,

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The Estonian tech event of the year – the ICT Week

Life in Estonia / May 6, 2015

The Estonian ICT Week takes place on 8–15 May 2015 and strives to be the most eventful week in the centre of the sizzling Nordic-Baltic ICT powerhouse. The ICT Week brings opinion leaders, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, foreign top officials and representatives of international organisations to Tallinn and combines several conferences and special events with keynotes

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Startup Spotlight: Investly

Silver Tambur / April 20, 2015

In Startup Spotlight we zoom in on numerous Estonian start-ups, to find out more about their business model and how they operate. This time we’re featuring the financial technology platform Investly. Investly launched its peer-to-peer business lending platform in August last year while on the Startup Wise Guys accelerator program. We spoke with the company’s founder

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A new Estonian invention: customised shoe inserts let women wear high heels without pain

Viktoria Naumenko / April 13, 2015

A new Estonian invention – Heelosophy shoe inserts – says it allows women wear their high heels daily, have ultimate comfort in footwear, and all of this without compromising on the looks. Most women have probably, at least once in their life, experienced the moment when heels that made her so happy when she purchased

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Estonian firm Funderbeam aims to offer low-cost startup intelligence

Estonian World / April 3, 2015

An Estonia-based startup, Funderbeam, aims to offer a suite of low-cost startup-discovery and analysis tools, launching €39-€99 monthly subscriptions that serve angel investors, prospecting consultants, and bootstrapping startups. “For most angels, consultants, and others, chatting up every interesting startup is humanly impossible. It’d also be a massive waste of founders’ time,” Funderbeam founder and CEO,

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An Estonian defence company invents a plastic mobile bomb shelter

Estonian World / March 26, 2015

An Estonian defence company, Terramil, has started manufacturing plastic bomb shelters that can be assembled in less than two hours and accommodate up to 12 people. The Terramil mobile bomb shelter, called Sub Safe U1, is made of polyethylene – the common plastic. It is UV, acid, soil and weather proof and will endure extreme

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