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From Veriff to lockers: Taavi Lindmaa's quest to eliminate a receptionist (or two)

From Veriff to lockers: Taavi Lindmaa's quest to eliminate a receptionist (or two)

TOOSIKANNU, Estonia — For more than a decade, Taavi Lindmaa helped fuel the rapid rise of some of Estonia’s most prominent financial technology and healthtech platforms. But after years of shaping early-stage corporate growth for others, the veteran operator is betting on a new direction: eliminating human intervention from

TARMO VIRKI: The one metric that makes a unicorn

TARMO VIRKI: The one metric that makes a unicorn

Spending the weekend at Investeerimisfestival in Toosikannu always serves as an excellent reality check in the middle of the summer. Sharing the stage with Matias Mäenpää provided some of the sharpest takeaways of the festival, heavily backed by the exhaustive research he and Anssi Kiviranta put into their EXIT book

AI agents' collaboration tool raises €470K

AI agents' collaboration tool raises €470K

TALLINN - Estonian startup Display.dev has raised €470,000 in pre-seed funding to grow its publishing and collaboration platform for AI agents. Display.dev gives every agent the ability to publish documents with a shareable URL – colleagues comment, agents read the comments and publish updated versions, and it works

From bees to biotech: 11 teams picked for new DeepTech Accelerator

From bees to biotech: 11 teams picked for new DeepTech Accelerator

TALLINN - The new early-stage public accelerator to support the commercialisation of scientific innovations offers up to €170,000 in equity-free business development support, along with tailored mentoring, training, and access to investor and business networks. Deeptech development is not a sprint, but a marathon – it grows over years

Building cognitive defence: Inside President Karis's vision for Estonia's AI shift

Building cognitive defence: Inside President Karis's vision for Estonia's AI shift

TALLINN — Estonia is embedding artificial intelligence natively across its high school network, marking a massive public-private shift designed to redefine the country’s digital workforce in the coming years. Under the banner of the national AI Leap initiative (AI Hüpe), an ambitious pilot phase has rolled out to thousands

From Estonia to Silicon Valley and back: Why a veteran tech investor made a bet on Estonia

From Estonia to Silicon Valley and back: Why a veteran tech investor made a bet on Estonia

TALLINN - In 1992, Silicon Valley tech investor Andrew Thompson arrived in the newly liberated capital of Estonia carrying bags packed with boots, clothes, and tinned food. The shops in Tallinn were entirely empty. The Soviet occupation had left the Baltic nation flat on its back financially. Thirty years later, Thompson

UP Catalyst's Nordic handshake in Oulu

UP Catalyst's Nordic handshake in Oulu

TALLINN - UP Catalyst has signed a pre-agreement with Finnish utility Oulun Energia to build a factory that turns carbon dioxide emissions into battery materials to ease Europe’s reliance on Chinese graphite imports. The deal highlights how Nordic energy infrastructure is becoming a magnet for clean-tech startups looking