News & events

The results of the Online Startup Demo Day’s poll reveal that the TOP 5 most promising startups in Estonia are: Bolt, Viveo Health, Postoplan, Comodule and FoodDocs.

As Estonia’s borders will be reopened for visitors from Europe from 1 June, investors from Europe can travel to Estonia again. Invest Estonia will, however, continue to offer virtual visits to both, citizens of the European Union and others.

Today, Iseauto’s first self-driving bus arrived at Ülemiste City business district in Tallinn, where it will be tested with the aim to make self-driving vehicles a natural part of Tallinn’s public transportation network. The self-driving buses will start operating from June 15th.

After conquering the world’s scooter market with internet connectivity for scooters, Estonia’s mobility startup COMODULE launched its own eco-friendly e-scooter rental service in Tallinn, using the world’s most durable e-scooters that it developed.

Bolt, the leading transportation platform of Europe, has closed an investment round of €100M as it continues to scale all of its product segments from ride-hailing to micromobility and food delivery in Europe and Africa.

Visory is an Estonian startup that is helping computers understand what lies in a picture or a video: from cars and garbage to traffic flow, from how social distancing rules are being followed to possible crimes on security videos. It is like Google for pictures and videos, knowing everything about what is on and in them.

It is not a surprise that e-Health companies see their opportunity in the situation related to the global spread of COVID-19. And that startups from innovative countries, such as Estonia, are helping to move the medicine systems across the Globe online. Though every move needs to be calculated and steps in the field of medicine taken cautiously, there seems to be no way back to the times before.

Today at 6:45 PM Estonian time, the world’s largest virtual choir will gather at Tallinn Song Festival Grounds to celebrate the end of the emergency situation caused by the spread of COVID-19 in Estonia.