Estonian start-up stories by Toivo Tänavsuu
It’s something that a number of people have thought of. But in February, a group of people met at the Garage48 public services design competition and actually did it – visualized the Republic of Estonia’s budget. Coloured spheres that open on MeieRaha.eu shows the structure and proportion of the revenue and expenditures in the state budget. [...]
The winner of the Garage48 public services competition 112 Mobile allows emergency calls to be placed without calling the dispatcher centre. The new service is characteristic of a trend toward more innovative solutions in emergency response centres and in the area of administration of the Ministry of the Interior in general. The prototype for the [...]
The brothers Kaur and Kaspar Kallas have developed, together with the USA camera producer, Silicon Imaging, probably the world’s first stereoscopic video camera that is able to record a three-dimensional image. This wonder gadget has already drawn the attention of many of the world’s top directors, including James Cameron and Werner Herzog who used it [...]
A former Elion employee Ardi Kristovald (pictured) has founded a startup called GlobeMarket that plans to create an interentrepreneurial data exchange platform – in essence, syncing up very different business software programs (SAP, Oracle, MS, Erply et al). Kristovald says the solution would be geared above all to manufacturers and distributors/resellers. The goal is to [...]
One day I started thinking: why is it that Estonia’s tech sector is teeming with start-ups? Everybody is the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg, everyone travels to Silicon Valley for networking, everyone has hopes of being the second coming of Facebook or Microsoft. Where do these aspiring entrepreneurs and “smart money” get their unshakeable [...]