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.

Marcel van der Heijden, Partner at Speedinvest: „Obviously, Estonia has a very rich tradition in terms of producing successful startups.“

Ebba Lilliehöök, Investment Manager at Telia Ventures said that Estonia’s startuppers are often digitally driven and highly educated but at the same time ready to enter young companies and do something completely new themselves.

Kadri Tuisk, the founder and CEO of Clanbeat: Estonia’s EdTech experiences could help the world cope better with e-learning during the second wave of coronavirus: “Our solutions are corona-approved, and Estonian EdTech solutions have really taken a big step further.”

Marten Kaevats, Estonia’s National Digital Advisor: „The next big innovation is in the domain on fundamental governments architecture to make it more open and more flexible for also private sector to be included in governance.”

David Goldberg, the founder and CEO of Founders Pledge: “We have seen some great success stories in Estonia. Per capita, Estonia has one of the highest rates of successful entrepreneurship anywhere in the world.”