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Doctor-founder plays the long game to shorten hormone testing

Doctor-founder plays the long game to shorten hormone testing

At the 2025 Startup Awards, Muun Health took home the HealthTech of the Year Award. The company is busy creating a wearable continuous hormone monitor in a research lab at Tallinn’s TalTech University. I caught up with CEO and co-founder Kerli Luks about how the deeptech is coming

Europe's energy tech playbook: Putting nuclear reactors on drones for lazy users?

Europe's energy tech playbook: Putting nuclear reactors on drones for lazy users?

HELSINKI – Europe finds itself at a critical juncture in the energy sector, grappling with issues of security, sovereignty, and the urgent need for scalable innovation, said investors at this week’s Deep Tech Investor Day panel discussion, "The New Energy Tech Playbook: Security, Sovereignty and Resilience" The consensus

LIINA LAAS: AI did not make your sales email better, it just made more of them

LIINA LAAS: AI did not make your sales email better, it just made more of them

Everyone is talking about AI. We need AI everywhere. AI will replace your sales team, your HR team, your finance team, your co-founder, your therapist, and probably your mum. At this point, if your toaster does not have a Claude integration and a “strategic reasoning layer”, investors might ask

The most influential female business angel in Europe: Estonians are positive and optimistic

The most influential female business angel in Europe: Estonians are positive and optimistic

Did you know that the winner of this year’s Business Angels Europe (BAE) Golden Aurora Award lives here in Estonia? Vicky Brock won the award, which is given to Europe’s most influential female business angel. I caught up with Brock at the EBAN Congress in Vilnius this week

Meet the unconventional Dutchman who open-sourced ESTonia

Meet the unconventional Dutchman who open-sourced ESTonia

TALLINN - When destination marketing veteran Peter Kentie arrived in Tallinn on a cruise a decade ago, his initial impression was far from digital. "For me, it was like medieval," Kentie recalls. Yet, after meeting Enterprise Estonia representative Shardee Rebas at a conference in Finland, he was introduced to

The “Vinted Effect”: How Lithuania replicated the Skype phenomenon to rewrite the playbook

The “Vinted Effect”: How Lithuania replicated the Skype phenomenon to rewrite the playbook

VILNIUS - When Mantas Mikuckas recalled the intense pressure surrounding Accel Partners' 2013 investment into Vinted, he framed it as a baseline trial for an entire nation. Addressing a packed hall at the LOGIN innovation conference inside the Litexpo exhibition centre in Vilnius, Vinted’s co-founder noted that international

Lithuania’s co-investment strategy offers blueprint for boosting angel investments

Lithuania’s co-investment strategy offers blueprint for boosting angel investments

TALLINN — The Estonian startup ecosystem, which has seen an 83% drop in direct angel investments over the last few years, could follow Lithuania's lead in seeking a solution to get angels off the sidelines. Fomo.Observer caught up with Viktorija Trimbel, Managing Director of Lithuania's state-