Estonian start-up stories by Toivo Tänavsuu
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 [...]
Cleveron, which provides modern parcel post logistics solutions, is thinking about being listed on stock exchanges in order to implement its expansion plans. Cleveron, which operated the network of SmartPost parcel machines until last summer, has found exciting challenges in a number of European countries, including Russia, Finland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
From time to time we hear how one or another wireless operator claims to have the highest quality of service. It probably means that some “independent expert” has been driving a tech-filled minibus from city to city and established, based on objective parameters, that a particular operator has the best wireless signal and most reliable [...]
HomeViewSolutions, a start-up that evolved out of the Ajujaht 2010 competition, is developing a service that will make it much easier and faster to buy furniture for the home and office. A question that potential buyers always face in such cases is whether the item will fit. One way is to use measuring tape and [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]