News & events

Today, 18th of September, 35 electric cars started the 2,600-kilometer rally from Tallinn to Monaco. Among the competitors is a team of the Estonian Investment Agency that this year focuses on the rally stages held in Germany.

Luminor, one of the banks in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania announced today that it has entered into a new strategic corporate partnership with a consortium led by private equity funds managed by Blackstone. As part of the transaction, the consortium will acquire a 60% majority stake in the bank alongside its current owners Nordea Bank and DNB Bank for a cash consideration of €1 billion.

Estonian ride-hailing company Taxify will launch its new brand of e-scooters, called Bolt, in Paris today.

Icelandair is outsourcing some of its operations to a subsidiary company based in Estonia.

Startups in Estonia have attracted over half a billion dollars in investments in just 1.5 years.

It’s fair to say people have better things to do than visit government offices and fill out paper forms — in Estonia the government agrees.

According to Statistics Estonia, in the 2nd quarter of 2018 compared to the same quarter of the previous year, the total production of Estonian construction enterprises in Estonia and foreign countries increased by 20%. Taking into account only Estonian construction market, construction volume increased by 22%.

Minister of Entrepreneurship and Information Technology Urve Palo (SDE) has appointed Kaido Höövelson to the supervisory board of Enterprise Estonia, a body which promotes business and regional policy in Estonia.