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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

Estonia’s digital narrative facing generational shift as Tiger Leap hits 30

Estonia’s digital narrative facing generational shift as Tiger Leap hits 30

PAIDE - Thirty years after the launch of the landmark Tiger Leap initiative laid the groundwork for Estonia’s world-renowned e-governance and even tech ecosystem, leaders and youth representatives warn that maintaining the region’s competitive edge requires bridging a widening divide between those digital pioneers and the rising

Tartu Startup Day moves to August 2027

Tartu Startup Day moves to August 2027

The organisers of the Tartu Startup Day conference said they have moved the event from planned end-January dates to August 17-19, citing a scheduling clash with the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC). "It became clear that delivering Startup Day at the scale, quality and format our community deserves

An exited founder: getting to know Andrus Purde

An exited founder: getting to know Andrus Purde

Last week Outfunnel announced that it had been acquired by Pipedrive. The sales and marketing workflow platform was founded in 2018 by Andrus Purde, Markus Leming and Andris Reinman and during those eight years Outfunnel has gone through a few different iterations of itself. Purde had written in Fomo a