Estonian start-up stories by Toivo Tänavsuu
What a coincidence: Estonian telecom companies declared joint efforts to provide the whole country with fast broadband Internet access by 2015 and the next day, the telecom giant Ericsson announced that it will develop a mobile networks factory in Estonia of key importance for the whole region. The recently established Estonian Broadband Development Foundation has [...]
This is a column (first from a series) from an entrepreneur and lawyer Yrjö Ojasaar (pictured), who’s a fan of TigerPrises.com Start-ups face the old dilemma – walking the path is much harder than knowing the path. Everything a successful start-up needs to know is available on the internet and its almost always free. But [...]
Estonia-born US venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson (pictured) from Draper Fisher Jurvetson gave a captivating interview for us, where he analyzed what’s hot and what’s not. What are your most exciting new investments? Overall we have a lot of exciting investments in the fields of energy and cleantech – new approaches to sustainable fuels. Chemicals and energy [...]
The founding members of Skype engineering and operations team, headed by Toivo Annus have established SUInfra – company that offers all-in-one web tool for small software developers. SUInfra, currently in beta-stage development, claims to be a solid and simple web environment, integrating bug tracking, wiki, SVN and other useful services. All in one web, no install, no setup. [...]
Estonian technology company Smartdust Solutions closed an investment round with WNB Project and Spring Capital. The capital gives a boost to the development of the company and makes it possible to grow from a customer specific solution provider to “a product” company. Smartdust has also recently opened up office in Finland and is aiming for [...]
Heikki Haldre, Founder of Massi Miliano, that received in total 4,85 million EEK from the fund for its virtual fitting-room project Fits.me: “Thanks to Estonian Development Fund we have received an advantage considering our further development. Preferably the investor needs to provide more than just money, he needs to support defining strategy and he also needs [...]
Yes, that’s true - 160 projects or start-ups in two years time. Isn’t it great for a small country like Estonia? Lot of people consider Estonian Development Fund as mainly thinktank. But sending your business plan there to apply for venture capital funding is indeed worth a shot. Heidi Kakko, fund’s investment expert says they have [...]