Estonia’s autonomous delivery startup Starship Technologies announced that it has closed $40M in Series A funding.

The Financial Times listed 100 European leaders and influencers, both companies and individuals, both behind the scenes and in the public eye. Two digital leaders, one person and one company from Estonia made the list.

The Estonian-founded startup, Starship Technologies, that builds a fleet of autonomous robots…

“Estonia is pulling in the money,” writes Sifted, summarising the recent VC investment report that says that Estonia has raised the highest number of investments per capita out of any countries in Europe.

Three unicorns born in Estonia – Wise, Bolt and Pipedrive – are leading the Estonia’s TopTech ranking, but the question is, which one of the TopTech10 will become the next unicorn. Is it Skeleton, Glia, Monese, Veriff, Admirals, Starship or Nortal?

Innovative visions for intelligent mobility and transportation, created in Estonia, are on offer for investment and cooperation as a top-level ITS delegation from Estonia visits the ITS World Congress in Hamburg.

The capital of Estonia is introducing its smart solutions at Expo 2020 Dubai. A city that never stops innovating has the beginning of the word hard-coded even at the end of its name: Tallinn – and ovation naturally follows. But besides that, what actually makes Tallinn the capital of innovation?

Thinking outside the box, a clean and underutilised airspace and efficiency due to the small size – these are but a few advantages that will allow Estonia to greatly benefit from the European drone market in which hundreds of billions of euros will be in play. A number of today’s world-class local success stories predict the future success of this sector’s strong export prospects.

Tallinn provides a developed ecosystem for many different activities, including a strong ecosystem needed for IT and other tech companies, startups, services and creative activities.

7 unicorns founded by Estonians and / or in Estonia have taken the country to Europe’s (and probably the world’s – depending on methodology for counting) top in 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.

Two years ago, two students from the University of Tartu came up with the idea of building the car of the future – something that has never been done before in Estonia. They asked for help from Alvo Aabloo, who is known as the Father of Robotics in the University of Tartu. He proposed that they build a solar-powered car and participate in the worldwide competition World Solar Challenge. Now, a future-oriented educational program supported by Estonian top leaders has developed out of it.

In January 2021, Estonia became the only country in the world with a female president and female prime minister. At the same time, Estonia’s startup sector continues to bloom, with soon-to-be unicorns predicted and the Startup Visa programme bringing extra companies to grow here.