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. Eneba’s platform is designed to reduce risky transactions, simplify the refunding process and deal with fraud threats.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Outvio , an Estonian startup that provides a white-label SaaS fulfillment solution for medium-sized and large online retailers in Spain and Estonia, has closed a $3 million early-stage financing round led by Change Ventures. Also participating were TMT Investments (London), Fresco Capital (San Francisco) and Lemonade Stand (Tallinn).

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Lightyear’s expansion includes the following markets: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. And less than a year after first launching to early U.K.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Based in Tallinn, Estonia, Warren’s self-service distributed cloud platform is gaining traction in Southeast Asia, one of the world’s fastest-growing cloud service markets, and Europe. He added that “the data sovereignty aspect that plays an important role in choosing their cloud platform for many of the clients.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Estonia-based Membo — which is backed by Y Combinator and will be presenting at the incubator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day next week — is aiming to take a slice of the premium end of grocery shopping in Europe and a bite out of supermarket giants’ continued dominance of the traditional weekly food shop. .

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The Verge

MARCH 1, 2022

It’s the latest example of internet platforms blocking Russian media outlets in response to the war. YouTube had already stopped these outlets from generating revenue on its platform via advertising and restricted access to these channels in Ukraine itself. TikTok also banned the two channels.

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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. UniPay: mobile payment platform in Brazil. accelerator and brought on two venture partners to help oversee its India investments.

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The Verge

APRIL 5, 2022

As noted by Wired , cryptocurrency investigation firm Chainanalysis found $200 million in stolen cryptocurrency floating around on the platform in 2021 and early 2022, including $5 million linked to fraud, $4 million linked to ransomware, and $4 million from sanctioned sources. Yellen said. “In billion (~$1.35 million USD) in 2020 alone.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The Estonia-based startup’s “special sauce” is using AI-powered video to verify identifies. Speaking to Kotkas, I asked what else is going on that helps increase the accuracy of Veriff’s platform. They were joined by existing investors IVP and Accel, bringing Veriff’s total funding to date to $200 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

“With Atomized our goal is to provide a platform that allows developers to deploy their applications really quickly. Both founders are immigrants, with Kotov hailing from Russia and Herbert from Estonia. The product is in beta right now with 60 customers running on the platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Katana , an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform for small- and medium-sized manufacturers, has raised €35 million ($34 million) in a Series B round of funding. “Manufacturers already have a tech stack of tools like e-commerce platforms, shipping tools, and accounting software,” Vilosius continued.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2021

The program, which is called Bird Platform, has led some operators to fall into deep debt, OneZero reported last year. The company has since launched Bird Platform in countries like Switzerland and Estonia, cheering investors who hope it will lower Bird’s labor and capital expenses.

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Tableau

JANUARY 6, 2022

When looking for viz-piration, browsing Tableau Public —a free platform to explore, create, and publicly share data visualizations—is an excellent place to start. Priceless. . Data viz inspiration. Now you know about the challenge, the next thing to consider is what to viz. The fine print. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

So far, the Estonia-founded mobility startup that offers rent-to-buy car subscriptions has bought over 12,000 cars for its customers in South Africa and Mexico. TLcom and 4DX drive $13.1M

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Tableau

JANUARY 6, 2022

When looking for viz-piration, browsing Tableau Public —a free platform to explore, create, and publicly share data visualizations—is an excellent place to start. Data viz inspiration. Now you know about the challenge, the next thing to consider is what to viz. There are millions of vizzes to explore, covering numerous topics and data sets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Facetime : While Mark Zuckerberg is promising better metaverse avatars, Estonia-based Ready Player Me is delivering. High-stakes checkout blazes the way : Weeks after Dutchie announced a payment platform, Dutchie Pay, the company launched a new cannabis point-of-sale platform with its own dual-screen register , reports Matt.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

It’s about solving very specific pain points, reducing fragmentation, and serving as a single platform for everyone to connect and communicate. Spain, France, Germany and Estonia. “The platform is used by multiple actors, from riders to hub operators, fleet managers and heads of operations.”

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The Verge

MAY 10, 2021

The program, which is called Bird Platform, has led some operators to fall into deep debt, OneZero reported last year. The company has since launched Bird Platform in countries like Switzerland and Estonia, cheering investors who hope it will lower Bird’s labor and capital expenses.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The Y Combinator-backed startup — which was only founded back in 2018 — has quickly gained traction for a b2b SaaS platform aimed at employers seeking immigration and relocation logistics support. While in Europe she points to veteran Estonia-based startup Jobbatical — which has refocused on relocation in recent years.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Dear Sophie, A few years ago, I moved my startup’s headquarters to New York from Estonia on an E-2 investor visa. Sophie’s podcast, Immigration Law for Tech Startups , is available on all major platforms. I’m considering either having my startup sponsor me for an O-1A visa or self-petitioning an EB-1A green card.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

” He spoke to CEO Zach Perret, CTO Jean-Denis Greze and COO Eric Sager about what they learned while working with Visa, and looked at some new platform features designed to build customer trust while eliciting better insights. from Estonia, where I’m originally from. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

” Asmussen says the core of the platform is the automation of the paperwork with the startup supplementing that by providing a level of (human) support — in the form of case workers, who can field users’ questions and/or troubleshoot issues.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech. Even for one of the richest men in the world, $44 billion is a lot of money to cough up to buy a middling social platform. By October, the platform was his.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

They felt it would work on an external platform as an engaging way to update our regular visitors/members about our penguins – our keepers are rather attached to our little penguin residents. . Felicity: The penguin keepers at the National Aquarium of New Zealand heard of this idea being used internally at another facility.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

So we get on par with countries like France, Portugal, Estonia, Croatia, and the Netherlands. Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat. That’s the second thing that’s going to be a great improvement in order to attract and retain talent.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2022

The New York Times confirmed this policy applies to people using the service from Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. We still won’t allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians.”. content mentions the invasion, self-defense, etc.).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In January 2021, Prince Edward Island-based ScreenScape Networks was acquired by Spectrio for an undisclosed fee, then Halifax-based storytelling platform Wattpad was acquired by Naver in a deal worth $600 million. In November 2020, Newfoundland-based Verafin was acquired by Nasdaq for $2.75 billion in cash.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

However, it is unclear whether OpenAI is developing an in-house tuning tool that is meant to complement platforms like Scale AI or serve a different purpose altogether. May 3, 2023 Hackers are using ChatGPT lures to spread malware on Facebook Meta said in a report on May 3 that malware posing as ChatGPT was on the rise across its platforms.

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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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