This week, Estonia, one of the most vibrant startup ecosystems on Earth, will introduce its smooth and bureaucracy-free business opportunities in Brazil. At three events powered by e-Recidency and Startup Estonia, you will learn how to set up a company online in just 15 minutes and start your go-global success story from here.

197 FinTechs ranging from innovative startups like Salv to Blockchain leader Guardtime make Estonia a global centre of excellence for FinTech and a home already to three FinTech unicorns.

2022 was a year of major foreign investments in Estonia’s IT, logistics and industry, as well as the country’s booming startup sector. These are some of the most popular stories of the year, read by the nearly 2 million readers on the Invest Estonia website.

“Estonia once again tops the charts,” states Atomico’s recent report, where Estonia is continuously leading Europe in terms of startups, unicorns and investments per capita.

Estonian negotiation AI Pactum raises €19M to further expand in the US and Europe and enable enterprises to unlock value in deals they typically can’t negotiate on their own.

Estonia had the best tax code in the OECD for the last nine years, according to the freshly published Tax Competitiveness Index. In 2022 the country also appeared as the leader in the individual taxes category.

SLUSH, one of the biggest startup conferences in Europe, wrapped up last week in Helsinki, Finland. With dozens of startups, hundreds of attendees and one very special “Digitally Wild” side event, Estonia became a special star of the conference.

Consultancy company Civitta published a report covering the startup and venture ecosystem in the Baltic region in the last five years. Commissioned by Google, it highlights Estonia as the winner by almost any metric, with bright prospects ahead.

On November 1-4, Lisbon hosted Web Summit, one of the world’s biggest tech conferences. With the highest number of startups per capita in Europe, Estonia delivered a fantastic performance, both on the main stages and at the Digital Spirits side event.

Estonia will participate in the Web Summit 2022 to introduce the digital spirit, services and business advantages of the world’s leading digital country.

Kaja Kallas became Estonian Prime Minister of the so – called “Sunrise Government” in January of 2021, in the middle of one of the biggest crises in world history. The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic was at its peak, security situation in the region was worsening, and the results of climate change were becoming everyday issues. Meanwhile, as in many other countries, Estonian politics had ceased debating decisive solutions and begun a reality TV level of “playing the (wo)man, not the ball”.