News & events

The concept of Brand Estonia, an approach of using unified tools to introduce Estonia has won the City Nation Place Award 2018 in the category for Best Use of Design.

You probably have never considered how identity verification on online platforms such as Airbnb, Uber and others works. There is a company out there thinking hard about it and in the process they managed to attract the attention of the world famous actor Ashton Kutcher, who invested in the company.

Prime Minister Jüri Ratas headed for an official visit to Kazakhstan on Sunday. The prime minister is accompanied by representatives of 25 Estonian enterprises, who seek cooperation opportunities in Kazakhstan in the fields of transport and logistics, waste treatment, e-services, and others.

Prime Minister Jüri Ratas introduced Estonia as an investment destination, the country’s potential in the banking sector and the ease of doing business in Estonia to Norwegian business leaders and representatives of business organisations yesterday.

Click & Grow, the leading producer of smart indoor gardens, closed its latest financing round led by Estonian-based United Angels VC alongside two strategic investors: Ingka Group, the world’s largest home furnishing retailer operating 367 IKEA stores, and SEB Alliance, the corporate venture arm of French Groupe SEB. This is the most significant round Click & Grow has raised so far. The round aimed to expand and accelerate Click & Grow’s worldwide presence and further popularize hyper-local gardening. Y Combinator and Yunqi VC also participated in the round.

WePower today announces the successful delivery of a landmark nationwide energy tokenisation pilot project in Estonia in partnership with transmission system operator (TSO) Elering – paving the way for the digital revolution of the energy sector.

Telia, Ericsson and Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) have joined forces to launch Estonia’s first 5G network by the end of 2018. The pilot network will be operated on the campus of TalTech and companies and startups will be invited to help develop future services and new business models.

Allan Martinson is the CEO of LeapIn, a turn-key solution to set up a location independent company with a bank account. In March this year, Martinson resigned from the COO and Chief Sales Officer seats of Starship Technologies, a company that builds last-mile delivery robots and is heralded as one of the most promising European tech startups.