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This year, technology company Yoga is building so-called sample intelligent offices in San Jose, Mumbai and Abu Dhabi. The former head of Hansabank, Indrek Neivelt, recently joined the reborn company. Priit Vimberg (pictured above), a Member of the supervisory board of Yoga, scrolls his finger on the screen of his iPhone. Through the mobile, he [...]
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Despite all the talk of unemployment, there are still lots of unfilled job vacancies in Estonia. The managers of three Estonian start-up companies describe how they are desperately looking for people and how all this can be a real headache. LESSON ONE “The best candidates: morgue vehicle driver and sex shop salesperson” Heikki Haldre (pictured) is the [...]
Estonian start-up GrabCAD plans to attract if not all, then at least the lion’s share of the world’s engineers to Estonia. This may sound rather utopian, but it’s not entirely impossible. The company, set up by two young technology specialists and entrepreneurs – Indrek Narusk and Hardi Meybaum – is developing an all-in-one online environment, which [...]
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Cupoco, a mobile couponing system from Estonian start-up GEOVoucher will announce tonight a marketing campaign, where you can win an iPhone 3GS simply by promoting Cupoco in the social web. There will be a raffle on their website starting from 18 pm tonight. Cupoco application platform is aimed for smartphone users, merchants and service providers. The idea is [...]
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- Tags: Cupoco, GEOVoucher
INTERVIEW: Peep Laja, the Founder of Knowledge Monetizing platform Traindom
In: Companies
1 Feb 2010TigerPrises spoke with Peep Laja (pictured), a “self-made” Estonian entrepreneur, living mostly in US and developing Traindom.com – the site that allows you to monetize your valuable wisdom with ease. Peep, what is Traindom? Traindom is an online platform for monetizing knowledge. It’s an all-in-one solution for creating e-courses, e-trainings, membership sites – any kind of [...]
Allow me to introduce you to an entrepreneur Noel Guinane. He has just moved to Estonia from Middle East with his wife and five children to establish a small programming studio of mobile games and apps in Tallinn. Here’s my e-mail conversation with Noel from last week. Tell me more about your company, what sort of [...]
Last year Estonian venture capital firms joined forces by founding the Estonian Ventur Capital Association (EstVCA). Who are the players on the market today? Here’s a short overview which shows that: the Estonian venture capital market is expanding, VC culture is developing there are several new investors who have transferred from the field of real estate [...]
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- Tags: Ambient Sound Investments, Askembla, Astrec Invest, Baltcap, Celecure, Cresco, Estonian Development Fund, Evikon, Fits.me, Hanseatic Capital, IPC, MarkIT, Massi Miliano, MTVP, Neoqi, Oskando, Pioneer Engineering Group, Quattromed, Redgate Capital, Skype, United Dogs & Cats, Unitree Group, WNB Project
A letter from The Editor: Challenges for 2010
In: Companies
7 Jan 2010I don’t think it is somehow indecorous to wish other people a Happy New Year after 6th of January. So that’s my wish to You, dear readers of TigerPrises. The blog that I started one and a half year ago has now covered way over 100 Estonian start-ups and tech companies. Last month it had readers from [...]
Believe it or not, but there’s an IT start-up in Narva!
In: Companies
7 Jan 2010Unbelievable as it might first sound, but there’s actually at least one IT start-up established in Narva – third biggest Estonian city next to Russian border. On the Estonian rapid IT development ride, Narva has clearly stayed at the back seat. In fact, I have written stories about Narva-born hackers, but I am not sure [...]
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- Tags: Revel Mob, Rewel.net
BIG STORY: Presenting The first Estonian Electric Roadster – ZEV Seven (2 VIDEOS!)
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30 Dec 2009An Estonian company ZEV Motors is striving to develop one of the most efficient electric cars in Europe and to sell at least 50-100 of them in Europe over the next couple of years. The arrival of the so-called “e-cars” is only a matter [...]
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- Smashr – probably the craziest Estonian startup ever! (VIDEO)
- Estonian Development Fund, Regio and Raivo Vare invested into startup Inner Circle
- Garage48 winner Defolio is making buzz – what is it? (VIDEO)
- Garage48 organizer Priit Salumaa: More fun, astonishing achievements! (VIDEO)
- New players, including the Co-Founder of Hansapank entering digital archiving business (VIDEO)
- Vecly knows what will be your home multimedia center in future
- TestMarket.eu is the Estonian winner of „European Enterprise Awards 2010“
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- US tech tiger establishes R&D unit in Estonia, hires 50+ engineers!
- Former Playtech employee runs his online gambling business and is a heavy spammer?