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SmartCap announces Patrik Louko as new CEO

SmartCap announces Patrik Louko as new CEO

SmartCap, Estonia’s state-owned fund manager, has announced its new CEO. Patrik Louko will step into the vacant position, replacing Sille Pettai. Louko brings 20 years of experience in investment, venture capital, and growing technology companies. Since 2023, he has served as Chief Investment Officer at the University of

ALEJANDRO JIMENEZ: You’re wrong about the Dot-Com crash, so stop saying AI-driven stocks will be a tragic repeat

ALEJANDRO JIMENEZ: You’re wrong about the Dot-Com crash, so stop saying AI-driven stocks will be a tragic repeat

The financial press and “enlightened” social media influencers keep warning that today’s AI-driven stock market is a bubble ready to burst, comparable to the dot-com implosion in 2000. They’ve warned us for years, yet the market keeps rising. Frustrated with the constant gloomy predictions, I’ll

Wisby raises €250,000 to fuel growth after restructuring

Wisby raises €250,000 to fuel growth after restructuring

TALLINN — Label-ordering platform Wisby has raised €250,000 in strategic growth capital to validate its market valuation after a successful pivot from survival mode to profitability, and to scale product and business development across the company's primary markets in Scandinavia and Western Europe. Wisby needed to convert

Estonian cancer AI caught four tumours radiologists had missed

Estonian cancer AI caught four tumours radiologists had missed

TARTU - During a six-month deployment at Tartu University Hospital, an Estonian-built artificial intelligence tool flagged suspicious kidney lesions in four patients whose tumours had been overlooked in the original radiology reports. Now, Better Medicine, the company behind the technology, is raising a seed round to take the same

Fomo Academy: Exit routes: Why startups get bought (or don't)

Fomo Academy: Exit routes: Why startups get bought (or don't)

Founders talk about ‘exits’ like it's one thing. It’s not. Who buys you, why, and what happens after depends on what they're actually buying, and on how much work you put into finding them before you need to. Here are the routes that actually happen.

Kärt Klein takes over as head of EstVCA

Kärt Klein takes over as head of EstVCA

TALLINN — The Estonian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (EstVCA) has tapped Kärt Klein as head of the organisation from September, taking over from Madis Lehtmets, who ran the operations for the last two years. Klein brings a comprehensive background spanning community management, foreign direct investment, and venture capital to

ANDRES KÜTT: Estonian planned approach to agents, services and identity

ANDRES KÜTT: Estonian planned approach to agents, services and identity

Your human-oriented service being consumed by agents represents a service design failure. The same goes for your documents or knowledge sets that, before AI, were designed for human consumption. If your customers need a piece of software to interact with your software, why isn't that software part