Starship Technologies, the world’s leading provider of autonomous delivery services, today announced that it has raised $100m in the last 30 days, including a new $42m Series B funding round led by the Japanese-Nordic VC firm NordicNinja and the Estonian visionaries Taavet+Sten. Co-founder Ahti Heinla: “We know this industry inside out, because we invented it!”.

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…

The Estonian startup sector continues to grow in full swing. For the first time, investments in Estonian startups have exceeded the 1 billion euros benchmark. The turnover of Estonian startups has increased by 68%. The sector employs nearly 10,000 people and has paid 83 million euros in employment taxes to the state, Startup Estonia’s recent analysis shows.

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Kaarel Kotkas is a prime example of an Estonian young entrepreneur who, regardless of great success, stands with two feet firmly on the ground. He founded Veriff as a 20-year-old and it has always seemed that he is genuinely trying to find a solution to a problem and is not in it just for the money.

Businesses and investors looking to get away from red tape and confusing tax systems are turning to Estonia.

Estonian-founded Pactum, an AI supporting large companies by making contract negotiations smoother and more efficient, hopes its AI will become accessible to everyone in the future. “This startup is truly special,” says Kaspar Korjus, co-founder and CPO of Pactum. “We began working with the Fortune 500 companies immediately.”

The Artificial Intelligence Centre Hamburg (ARIC) opened an artificial intelligence showroom in Hamburg, which is inspired by the e-Estonia Briefing Centre in Tallinn and presents a number of Estonian AI solutions such as AuveTech, Starship, and Flowit.

AI-powered identity verification startup Veriff has just raised $100M in Series C funding and become Estonia’s ninth unicorn.

Invest Estonia has opened doors for several Estonian technology companies to cooperate with the Artificial Intelligence Centre Hamburg (ARIC). The fruitful partnership with ARIC has resulted in Estonian companies signing contracts with companies among Germany’s absolute business elite and helped Estonia’s businesses enter the German market.