Estonian tech stories around the world.
The Estonian hardware accelerator, Buildit, has opened a call for a new batch, investing up to €20,000 per team in the new round. The three-month programme starts on 15 September; applications are open until 20 July for hardware startups from the whole world. Buildit, the first hardware-focused accelerator in Northern and Eastern Europe, takes in up to […]
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Having to date financed its rapid expansion with sales profits, ZeroTurnaround announced at the beginning of March that it has attracted USD6 million of growth capital. This article was published in partnership with Life In Estonia magazine. By Ann-Marii Nergi. The Estonian software company ZeroTurnaround (ZT) was born in 2007, when Jevgeni Kabanov and Toomas Römer, who
The Estonian start-up, VitalFields, challenges the outdated view that farmers are remote from technology and somewhat wary of it. One of the founders and the CEO of VitalFields, Martin Rand, says that agricultural enterprises are in fact very open to new solutions, first and foremost due to circumstances: after all, every farmer wants to work
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The Estonian company, Pipedrive, has developed valued customer management software, which provides wise and practical help to any salesman. Recently, the Silicon Valley technology guru, Vivek Ranadive, and the former star basketball player, Shaquille O’Neal, invested in the company. This is a lightly edited version of the article first published on Life In Estonia magazine. By
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Taxi ordering application Taxify was named Estonia’s best mobile application 2014 by the Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure, Urve Palo. The contest is organised by the Estonia’s State Information System Authority. Team management tool Weekdone won the top award in the category of business and commerce, together with the taxi ordering application Taxify. Weekdone was
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E-Estonia is a term commonly used to describe Estonia’s emergence as one of the most advanced e-societies in the world – an incredible success story that grew out of a partnership between a forward-thinking government, a pro-active ICT sector and a switched-on, tech-savvy population. These five videos give a little glimpse at how the digital
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Sometimes it seems new Estonian startups pop up like mushrooms after the rain. We have compiled a list of the newest startups to watch, based mostly on usability and usefulness, rather than financial indicators. Most of these are up to six months old and not older than a year. Some, such as Lingvist and Taxify, have
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The winner of the largest Estonian business idea contest, Ajujaht 2014 (Brain Hunt), is Timber Diameter, an application that helps users measure the diameter of logs quickly and accurately. The measurement of logs and/or the size of a pile can be done in seconds using a smartphone. The app is useful for timber industry companies, private
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The Estonian government has approved the concept of issuing digital IDs to non-residents, meaning from the end of 2014, foreigners will be able to receive a secure Estonian e-identity, forging a unique opportunity to create a new set of remotely usable global services. According to Taavi Kotka, the Deputy Secretary General on ICT at the
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The Estonian-invented Stigo foldable scooter has won an “Electricity and Smart Living” award from the French electricity producer EDF. According to the EDF Pulse Awards website, the scooter “is the dream ‘commuter’ of tomorrow in a sustainable city: easy to use, compact, foldable in the blink of an eye, electric and easy to charge”, Stigo
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