Estonian start-up stories by Toivo Tänavsuu
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. [...]
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” [...]
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 [...]