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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.

'Nagu Naksti!' Ringy's Upgreat takeover marks a new chapter for circular economy startup

'Nagu Naksti!' Ringy's Upgreat takeover marks a new chapter for circular economy startup

TALLINN - Ringy CEO Kristo Kraft stood at the counter of Upgreat, the largest retailer of used and refurbished electronics in the Baltics, wearing shorts and a white polo shirt embroidered with his company's name. It was 10 am on a cool August morning at T1, one of the

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

Inside ruum's summer residency finals: Six startups pitch as alumni reflect on grit, bad coffee, and community

Inside ruum's summer residency finals: Six startups pitch as alumni reflect on grit, bad coffee, and community

TALLINN — In hacker space ruum, six startup teams presented to an audience of founders, investors, and peers at the summer residency’s final pitch session. Showing the growth of ruum, the event moved out of ruum to a parking hall next door, a space 4-5 times larger than at

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

GERT LÕHMUS: From a coffee in Vilnius to a developer infrastructure tool

GERT LÕHMUS: From a coffee in Vilnius to a developer infrastructure tool

Enola’s story started with a shared coffee in Vilnius, continued in Berlin, and eventually became a company founded in Estonia. Dejan and I met on a September day in Vilnius. We had coffee at Brew (a lovely cafe), talked about work and life, and, at some point, Dejan showed