The Estonian startup visa has allowed 931 people to move to the country within the past two years since it was launched. Altogether, the startup visa programme received 1,108 applications, Startup Estonia said in a blog post. “When in 2017 we had 167 employees and 107 founders relocate to Estonia, then in 2018, the numbers […]
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During the first six months of 2018, €245.6 million has been invested in Estonian startups – just €26.5 million shy of the total investments of 2017. According to Startup Estonia, 15 investments in Estonian startups have taken place in the first half of the year, making the average investment size €16.3 million. “Last yeah, the
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Kwun-Lok Ng, a startup founder from Hong Kong, is one of the increasing number of entrepreneurs who have benefitted from the Estonian startup visa programme. This article is paid for by Startup Estonia. At the beginning of 2017, Estonia launched a new programme – called the startup visa – allowing non-EU nationals to come and
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In its first year, the Estonian startup visa that enables non-EU nationals to come and work for the country’s startups has received 325 applications from 47 countries. The startup visa, initiated by the local startup community and the country’s ministry of the interior together with Startup Estonia in the beginning of 2017, has received most
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Estonia is hosting the Startup Nations Summit 2017, a startup-focussed gathering that explores how digital disruption is changing the world. The event, organised annually by the Global Entrepreneurship Network and hosted in Tallinn by the Estonian ministry of economic affairs and Startup Estonia, brings together policymakers and entrepreneurs, such as Taavet Hinrikus from TransferWise, for
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According to the statistics compiled by Startup Estonia, the country’s startups contributed €16.6 million in employment taxes in the first half of 2017, which is significantly more than in the same period in 2016. In the first half of 2016, the Estonian startups paid €12.6 million, which makes the year-on-year increase four million euros. The
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Startup Estonia, in cooperation with various lawyers, has published a series of free templates of industry-standard legal documents for companies to use. The aim of publishing these templates is to help startups and investors in Estonia focus on company and deal specific matters. “These documents are made freely available in the hope that they will
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A new startup visa programme Estonia launched in January 2017 has in its first three months brought a total of 106 applications from 29 countries. The startup visa programme, initiated by the local startup community and the Estonian ministry of interior, allows non-EU nationals to come and work for Estonian startups, relocate their existing startups
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Within the first month after the launch of the Estonian startup visa programme, the country received over 50 applications from more than 10 countries; out of these applications, 14 received a positive evaluation. Under the startup visa programme, initiated by the local startup community and the country’s ministry of the interior, non-EU national are allowed
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Estonian startups attracted €102.5 million in investments in 2016 with the average deal size of €2.5 million, according to the statistics compiled by Startup Estonia. 2016 was a record year for the country’s startups in terms of attracting investments, even though by Christmas, it looked like 2016 would be a step back from the previous
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