News & events

The threat of cyber attacks has been growing immensely across the globe over the past few years. But so have Estonian cyber security companies’ skills and investments in those companies.

President Alar Karis talked to Ramia Farrage of Forbes about the digital journey Estonia has gone through, stressing how easy it is to start and run a business in Estonia and explaining why we have the largest number of unicorn companies per capita.

10 unicorns founded by Estonians and / or in Estonia have taken the country to Europe’s (and probably the world’s – depending on the way of counting) top in the number of unicorns per capita. We explore how each unicorn that was born here or has Estonians among its founders, reached the billion-dollar valuation – and how Estonia’s e-society, agile business environment and supporting startup community influenced them on the way.

Президент Алар Каріс відвідав павільйон України на виставці «ЕКСПО-2020» в Дубаї та підкреслив необхідність надання допомоги українській економіці, навівши в якості хорошого прикладу веб-сайт Invest Estonia, який допомагає українським підприємствам тимчасово переводити своїх співробітників в інший регіон, щоб не припиняти власну роботу.

Estonia, a world leader in numbers of unicorn companies per capita, got its tenth unicorn Glia: the digital customer service provider raised $45M in Series D funding and exceeds $1B valuation.

President Alar Karis visited Ukraine’s pavilion at EXPO 2020 in Dubai, stressing the need to help the Ukrainian economy and bringing Invest Estonia’s website helping Ukrainian businesses to temporarily relocate their employees to ensure business continuity as a good example.

Estonia’s parcel locker company Cleveron launched a modular grocery locker Cleveron 503 that can be used for grocery and regular parcel pickup. The Cleveron 503 is suitable for both indoor and outdoor use, enables retailers to make their grocery pickup faster, offer convenience while saving on delivery costs and increase their physical footprint without building new stores.

If you haven’t been able to visit the e-Estonia’s bright blue pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, then now is the best time to do it. Over the month of March there are different events taking place as well as business conferences. And on March 20 Estonia`s National Day introduces you the Estonian culture as well as Estonian flavours. Drop by and get to know more about Estonia – the unicorn factory.