Archive for July, 2010

Yesterday Eesti Ekspress published my interview with Priit Alamäe (pictured), the Co-Founder of Webmedia – one of the front ranking Estonian IT companies and the author of about one third of Estonian e-government services. The interview was dedicated to the recent 7 Million EUR investment that the company received from Polish venture capital firm Enterprise Investors. [...]

Estonian state-funded VC, Estonian Development Fund promises to double its investments portfolio by the end of 2010. Ten new investments into technology companies are currently in pipeline, with total amount of money to be invested reaching over 50 million EEKs (3,2 million EUR). Estonian Development Fund was established few years ago. Benchmarking the Finnish SITRA model [...]

Here are some fresh Estonian start-ups I have discovered this month. Some videos in Estonian are included. Testonica Lab is a hardcore technology spin-off of Tallinn University of Technology. The company has managed to build symbiotic friendship with Ericsson the giant, hence really taken off with its business. In a nutshell Testonica develops both hardware and [...]

Starting from today I will do two things: a) Resume blogging on Estonian tech sector in English. My so called identity quest is over. You have probably noticed the name change. TigerPrises.com is now TestMarket.eu, which is more meaningful I’d say. Another change aside from the visual one is that I will start writing on both, [...]




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