TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Founded in Estonia and now headquartered in New York, the company has taken a majority investment from U.S. Cue statement from current CEO Raj Sabhlok: “Reaching ‘unicorn’ status and partnering with Vista will enable us to accelerate our mission to support SMBs as they continue to digitize their businesses in order to grow.

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The Verge

JANUARY 20, 2021

This broke the EU’s Digital Single Market rules which prohibit those types of barriers. The European Commission says the geo-blocking was to prevent games being activated outside Czechia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Five publishers were fined in total. Focus Home was fined almost €2.9

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The investment highlights once again the strength of the Baltics region as a tech ecosystem, after Lithuania produced its first Unicorn in the shape of Vinted , and Estonia added Pipedrive to its unicorns list. With the increased shift to digital entertainment during the pandemic, the startup has managed to garner much more U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

The company — co-headquartered in New York and Tallinn, Estonia — has now raised more than $150 million overall, it said. As the world settles down (we hope) in the wake of COVID-19 becoming endemic and something we can live with (again, we hope), customer service is unlikely to shift away from those digital channels, he said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The Estonia-based startup’s “special sauce” is using AI-powered video to verify identifies. John Curtius, partner at Tiger Global said: “A reliable IDV solution for today’s digital businesses and consumers has been exacerbated over the past two years as all operations moved online to conduct business.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Instamojo: marketplace to sell your digital creations with just one click. Hunie: community for designers to help them get feedback from their peers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The startup was founded in Estonia and has 21 employees, with no “head office” as such, with the team spread across Estonia, U.S., Kahoot cites figures that predict that digital language learning will be an $8 billion+ market by 2025 and describes Drops as “one of the fastest-growing language platforms in the world.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

And that is having a direct impact on digital customer service, which is seeing unprecedented traffic and demands when things are not running smoothly. “The plan is to significantly scale up and continue to define and meet that demand for digital customer service.” billion) also participating.

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Tableau

JUNE 1, 2021

Winners will each receive one digital conference registration to the digital 2021 Tableau Conference (ARV: $0); (b) gift certificate to the Tableau Store (ARV: $200); and (c) qualification to participate in the finals. The fine print. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Odds of winning depend on number and quality of eligible entries.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

It’s also had a significant presence in Europe, with its primary R&D operation based out of Tallinn, in Estonia (hence the financial endorsement from the EU), and its first substantial city deployment in Milton Keynes in the UK.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Founded out of Tallinn, Estonia, in 2017, Katana is an ERP for the manufacturing sector, with prebuilt integrations for many of the most common tools that a manufacturer might use, including e-commerce platforms (e.g., Shopify and WooCommerce), accounting (e.g., QuickBooks and Xero), shipping, forecasting, CRM, and more.

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Tableau

JANUARY 6, 2022

Winners will each receive one digital conference registration to the 2022 Tableau Conference (ARV: up to $2,000); (b) gift certificate to the Tableau Store (ARV: $200); and (c) qualification to participate in the finals. The fine print. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, France’s digital minister Cédric O shared some news for the European tech ecosystem. According to Cédric O, digital transformation is going to profoundly affect the economy in Europe — just like it strongly reshaped the American economy ten years ago. “We But first, let me rewind just a little bit.

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Tableau

JANUARY 6, 2022

Winners will each receive one digital conference registration to the 2022 Tableau Conference (ARV: up to $2,000); (b) gift certificate to the Tableau Store (ARV: $200); and (c) qualification to participate in the finals. The fine print. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Launched in a number of Nordics markets, and on the verge of opening properties in London, the startup seems to be weathering the pandemic, reaching occupancy rates as high as 90% at its existing properties in Estonia and Finland. 10 proptech investors see better era for residential and retail after pandemic.

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The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

Parliamentarians from the UK, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia had all arranged video calls with a hoaxer claiming to be Leonid Volkov, chief of staff to imprisoned Russian anti-Putin politician Alexei Navalny. They did so by cold-calling and emailing their targets from fake addresses, using a real picture of Volkov as their digital avatar.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

To put it into management speak, our digital infrastructure is world-class. But I think its fair to say that the Dutch post-World War II welfare state isn’t exactly breeding the young and hungry entrepreneur you find in Turkey, Romania and Estonia. A top-notch infrastructure. If we all do that we can form our own tech mafia!

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Localyze’s SaaS is designed to simplify and support staff relocations or cross-border hiring, offering digital tools to automate admin and case tracking, helping companies and employees navigate what can be complex, bureaucratic and even stressful immigration requirements. nationality, family status or education). .”

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

London and Berlin usually top the lists of European startup hubs, but Central and Eastern European countries like the Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia and Poland have claimed a growing portion of the startup pie in the past few years. Indeed, since the beginning of the 20th century, this small city has been home to nine Nobel laureates.

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Tableau

JUNE 1, 2021

Winners will each receive one digital conference registration to the digital 2021 Tableau Conference (ARV: $0); (b) gift certificate to the Tableau Store (ARV: $200); and (c) qualification to participate in the finals. The fine print. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Odds of winning depend on number and quality of eligible entries.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The startup offers admin automation and digital case management tools (plus some human support, of course) to take the strain out of hiring international talent or managing cross-border staff moves. While in Europe she points to veteran Estonia-based startup Jobbatical — which has refocused on relocation in recent years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The package of support looks substantial — covering key areas like tax breaks for investors, talent incentives like stock options and a new digital nomad visa to attract international tech workers, among other measures aimed at cutting red tape and shrinking the time and cost of starting up in Spain.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

April 2023 EU warns Twitter over disinformation Twitter was confirmed April 25 as one of 19 major tech platforms subject to centralized oversight by the European Union’s executive starting this fall, when so-called very large online platforms (VLOPs) are expected to be compliant with the Digital Services Act (DSA).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo is a former Google and Twitter manager and current CEO of Céntrico Digital , a Latin American-based digital agency. He then started Social West , a Calgary-based digital marketing conference that, before long, expanded to three cities. Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

This Friday at its annual Digital Day , the European Commission will be launching a “legislative instrument” called the EU Startup Nations Standard (SNS). Now, before you think I’m about to bore you to death, you might like to know that the SNS is a huge political initiative.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Hinrikus doesn’t quite say it, but as the founder of TransferWise and a prolific angel investor, including backing Estonian verification platform Veriff, there’s little doubt that Certific is partly inspired by the authentication techniques that have gained prominence in fintech, such as video selfies used to onboard new customers at digital banks.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

We’re very excited for the impact they’ll have here at OpenAI,” OpenAI wrote in a brief post published to its official blog. The entire team has joined OpenAI to work on our core products including ChatGPT.”

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