News & events

Estonian-founded Funderbeam has become a global marketplace connecting professional investors with startups and growth companies looking to raise funds or trade their shares. We explore, how Funderbeam works and is the next future unicorn hidden there?

Kaarel Kotkas is a prime example of an Estonian young entrepreneur who, regardless of great success, stands with two feet firmly on the ground. He founded Veriff as a 20-year-old and it has always seemed that he is genuinely trying to find a solution to a problem and is not in it just for the money.

Estonian Investment Agency received the leading investment promotion agency award from Emerging Europe last week in Brussels, Belgium. Although the competition at the top is intense, the Estonian Investment Agency keeps providing new solutions and developing the customer experience, securing its lead position for the third time in a row.

Euronews writes how Estonia, already having the most unicorns per capita in Europe, is building a unicorn stable through its e-Residency programme to have 25 unicorns by 2025. It means just an additional 15 unicorns.

The shape that Web3 will take is still ongoing, but the world’s most advanced digital country, Estonia, is betting on the industry, currently in its early steps, as the next big thing.

Estonia’s fertile soil for innovation is something that helps to build an extraordinary number of unicorns and bring foreign investors to grow their businesses here. Finnish origin machinery manufacturer Multimek, one of the largest companies in the Northern Estonian town of Kehra, celebrates its 10th anniversary in Estonia this month, prepares investing in automation and robotics, and praises Invest Estonia for years of help and assistance.

Estonia’s blockchain industry company NFTPort which is building NFT infrastructure for developers, announced the closure of a €25 million Series A funding round co-led by Atomico and Taavet+Sten, the investment vehicle of Estonian unicorn builders Taavet Hinrikus and Sten Tamkivi.