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ruum swings into action

ruum swings into action

Last week I popped along to ruum to see the new space, listen to Plural VC’s Taavet Hinrikus field questions from the new summer cohort, and catch up with the organisers to see how it’s all coming together in the Krulli hacker space. ruum’s summer residency drew

Fomo Academy: Marketing on a budget

Fomo Academy: Marketing on a budget

Need to start marketing your startup but you haven't quite got the budget for that yet? Not to worry, because there are still ways to start marketing your startup with tools and resources you already have. By the end of this article you will have a simple, doable

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

TRIIN HERTMANN: My trip to Riga - lost my jacket but I gained some inspiration

TRIIN HERTMANN: My trip to Riga - lost my jacket but I gained some inspiration

It’s been a special week. Founders from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania got together in Riga to share cool founding stories, talk about challenges and to party. Not the regular meet up where we usually compare charts and discuss who is doing better in terms of new startups or VC

LIINA LAAS Founder-led sales: A practical guide to discovery calls that win customers

LIINA LAAS Founder-led sales: A practical guide to discovery calls that win customers

Outreach opens doors. Discovery closes deals. If your outreach is good, you’ll get meetings. If your discovery is good, you’ll find customers. If both are good, you’ll build a company.

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

Estonia's TOP10 healthtech startups in 2026

Estonia's TOP10 healthtech startups in 2026

Estonia's healthtech companies are built to scale internationally from day one, regardless of the application. Some deliver nanoparticle-based wound care; others deliver platforms for managing migraines. Some are translating genetic findings into personalised medicine; others are building the microfluidic instruments that will yield the next round of

Bilt.me: Built in ruum, helping entrepreneurs worldwide

Bilt.me: Built in ruum, helping entrepreneurs worldwide

In a room called ruum, one of Estonia's promising young startups is being built. And while it's being built, it's helping others "build mobile apps and make money with them," Uku Joost Annus, co-founder and CEO of Bilt.me tells me.

British Ambassador reflects on tech collaboration and security as Estonia term concludes

British Ambassador reflects on tech collaboration and security as Estonia term concludes

TALLINN — As his five-year tenure as the United Kingdom’s Ambassador to Estonia comes to an end, Ross Allen reflected on the deep geopolitical and technological ties binding the two nations, shifting perspectives on defence investment, and his own unexpected foray into Estonian publishing. Speaking on the FOMO Observer

Burn rate to surge this week in Estonian startups

Burn rate to surge this week in Estonian startups

As Estonian founders migrate to the countryside for the next few days, there is to be increased burn rate activity. The Fomo team wants to wish our readers a Head jaanipäeva! May your fires burn well and your (non alcoholic or alcoholic) drinks be cold!

Why a16z is keeping a close AI on Estonian founders

We recently caught up with Gabriel Vasquez, Investment Partner at a16z, who spearheads their global AI investment strategy. He shared why the global VC titan keeps coming back to Estonia. How do investors see the new Nordics for a place to invest? We've been investing in Estonia for

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

OLARI PÜVI: How we help companies make illegal things legal

OLARI PÜVI: How we help companies make illegal things legal

What if your problem is not your runway or your technical challenges, but instead the law that says that what you want to bring to market is not legal? What then? In a cooling economy with fewer and fewer founders, the state’s immediate reaction to liven things up is