Estonian start-up stories by Toivo Tänavsuu
Formerly known as Yutiti, now Ganttic – it is a resource planning program developed by the company of the same name in Tartu and has strong sales prospects in spite of the cutthroat competition. As resources and the amount of money spent on them is a vitally important issue for all companies, Ganttic took the [...]
Wibbit, a start-up operating in Tartu Science Park with origins in Playtech, is getting ready to come to market with a multifunctional food and staple goods price comparison and shopping website. One of the originators of the enterprise, Mehis Pärn (pictured), says that the idea was first developed this spring at the Garage48 start-up event. [...]
Recently a video artist Tuuli Lepik (pictured) launched her digital video art company in Ülemiste business incubator. She is looking to awaken Estonian multimedia design from what she sees as a long-dormant state. The name of the company owned by this multimedia graduate of the Academy of Arts is Blue Cat, and it develops multimedia products [...]
Sportlyzer, a startup that unites virtual sports trainer software and social networking, plans to conduct a study starting in January 2011 involving dozens of amateur endurance athletes. Sportlyzer is developing a Web-based service —a user-friendly training and motivation software program aimed at exercise enthusiasts. The goal of the company is to launch a “virtual trainer” [...]
A number of companies in Estonia are developing services for the über-popular gadgets iPhone and iPad. Head and shoulders above the rest is former Skype employee Mikael Suvi (pictured with his wife), whose company CandyCane earned 140,000 euros of net profit in 2009 and has enjoyed good sales in 2010 as well. Suvi, who currently [...]
Beware, clairvoyants and fortune-tellers! Meet a young man named Timo Sulg (pictured) who predicts the future using algorithms. Timo Sulg is usually, like most IT people, anything but flamboyant. He studies at Tallinn University of Technology and will graduate in two years. What is unusual about him is the fact that whereas students at his [...]
It is quite possible that Estonians have come up with the world’s most user-friendly and lowest-cost tool for setting up online stores. The e-store creation platform created by the start-up Pipfrog is so simple and idiot-proof that CEO Bruno Lill says it could even be used by retirees who don’t know anything about computers. But [...]
One of Webmedia’s latest products, the company’s workforce optimization and work schedule planning software StaffLogic, appears so promising that Webmedia is considering launching a separate start-up for this business area. StaffLogic is a tool that will make life much easier for the people responsible for one of the most tiresome jobs – drawing up work [...]
A start-up established by active salespeople, New Pipe Technologies is developing a web-based sales management software program called Pipedrive, which focuses on initiating and closing sales. One of the founders, Urmas Purde, says an ordinary tool used by salespeople – customer records management – is often too complicated, static or time-consuming. Pipedrive on the other [...]