Headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, CyberTech startup Sentinel is developing a multi-layered AI detection platform with the largest database of deepfakes in the wild. With closing a $1,35 million seed round, the company is executing towards a vision to become the trust layer for the Internet.

Estonia’s largest tech and startup conference Latitude59, held for the first time as a hybrid event in Tallinn and online, had almost 2,000 participants from 55 countries, half of whom were on-site visitors. Here’s a brief overview of the Latitude59’s most inspiring thoughts that were said on the stages and in front of the cameras.

August 2020 was a great month for Estonian tech companies, with Auve Tech’s self-driving buses reaching the international markets for the first time and cyber security training platform RangeForce raising 13.5 million euros. It was also the month when Estonia’s largest tech event Latitude59 took place – for the first time ever as a hybrid event.

Estonian startup investor of the year Gerri Kodres says that investors have quickly recovered from the initial corona shock and smart money from investors is finding its way to Estonia again: the majority of the capital from the 30 fund raising campaigns in the first six months was received in the second quarter during the corona pandemic.

In the second quarter of 2020, Estonia’s GDP was 6.9% lower than a year earlier, announced Statistics Estonia. This means that the economy has done significantly better than was forecast in the spring.

Today, Estonia will join the list of 33 countries honoured with the chance to host a WRC stage. In addition to the world’s quickest drivers, Rally Estonia features self-driving vehicles designed and built in Estonia.

The Estonian-founded FinTech startup Cachet, that enables better-priced and personalised insurance payments for ride-hailing drivers of Uber, Bolt and Yandex.Taxi, closes €1.1M seed round to expand to the Nordics, Poland and the UK.

Preparing its digital transformation, Germany finds that there is a lot to learn from Estonia. Last week, the management of ARIC, the artificial intelligence center in Hamburg, visited Estonia to meet several local technology companies, attend the Latitude59 conference and participate in the artificial intelligence roundtable with national digital advisor Marten Kaevats.