What a pleasant compliment for Estonian tech sector and economy! US tech tiger Seven Networks, one of the leading providers of mobile email and messaging solutions on mass market devices, will establish a considerable R&D unit in Estonia. Current plan is to grow the Estonia office to approximately 50+ employees by the end of this year. There are not too many IT companies that size here.

„Are you ready to help build a technology that has the power to change the way people communicate?“ the company asks in their Estonian job ads. „We are dedicated to building a world-class team to create the next wave of innovative mobile services.“

Isabelle Dumont, Product and Corporate Marketing Director of Seven Networks tells me that the company will open a new office in Tallinn to support its worldwide growth and plans to enter aggressively into new product areas that tackle some of the most challenging problems faced by the telecom industry today. Seven, she says, is a profitable business and continues to expand globally.

“We have secured several new global customers over the past 12 months, including Samsung Mobile,” Dumont explains. According to her, the focus of the Estonia office will be R&D and it will be staffed primarily with development engineers and related supporting infrastructure.

New location was selected based on its proximity to the Seven office in Helsinki, Finland. No wonder the Estonian business registry shows that Seven Networks Estonia is lead by a Finn Petri Tapani Tuura.

But the reputation of Estonian tech sector also seems to play a role.

“Estonia, one of the smallest new European Union member states has established itself as one of the fastest-expanding economies of the EU. The proximity to the Nordic countries, well-known for their technological and telecommunication innovations, has had a positive effect on Estonia, bringing the country among the most advanced in Europe in terms of telecommunications infrastructure,” Dumont praises us.

What else we would need to know about Seven, besides the fact that its headquarters is located in California? Maybe that even though it has a global reach – products in production around the world in 14 languages and 70 countries, running on more than 550 device models across six operating platforms – it only has four R&D centers, one in Redwood City (US), one in Hangzhou (China), one in Helsinki (Finland) and now … in Estonia!

I tried to look for the financial results of Seven, but that wasn’t very easy task.  How big is the company in terms of revenue and how profitable it is?