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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The Verge

JANUARY 14, 2021

A coalition of health and tech companies, which includes Microsoft, Salesforce, and Oracle, is working on an initiative that aims to make it easier for people to access their COVID-19 vaccination records digitally. One effort, by Estonia and the World Health Organization, began developing a digital COVID-19 vaccine certificate in October.

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The Verge

MARCH 1, 2022

In an open letter, the leaders of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, said that Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter had become accessories to Russian aggression by allowing the country space on their sites and apps. In response, Russia too has blocked or limited access to a number of US tech platforms, including Twitter and Facebook.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

And the French government is taking advantage of this opportunity to make some progress on the tech startup policy front. In an interview with TechCrunch, France’s digital minister Cédric O shared some news for the European tech ecosystem. Leveling up tech visas. For instance, France has created the French tech visa.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Started as a side project by its founders, Warren is now helping regional cloud infrastructure service providers compete against Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Google and other tech giants.

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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

MARCH 21, 2022

The company — co-headquartered in New York and Tallinn, Estonia — has now raised more than $150 million overall, it said. The blended approach, and the attention to providing tech-based webbing to make the transition from one to the other easier for all kinds of users, is what has attracted investors to Glia so far. “As

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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. Which sectors is your tech ecosystem strong in? What are the tech investors like in Wroclaw?

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Now, in a spot of perfect timing, a startup out of Talinn, Estonia, called Ready Player Me — which has built a popular platform for creating dynamic, animated avatars to use across virtual worlds built and operated by others — is announcing $56 million in funding to grow its business.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Facetime : While Mark Zuckerberg is promising better metaverse avatars, Estonia-based Ready Player Me is delivering. Xiaolang Zhang pleaded guilty this week to stealing confidential driving information from the tech giant and then going to work for an electric vehicle company. Big Tech Inc. See you there! Christine and Haje.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Backing a transportation startup is a notable move for it, considering that a lot of the IFC’s interest in tech has typically been around financial services. Last year alone it invested $22 billion in companies, it said. For example, it has also invested money into CurrencyCloud , Remitly , CompareAsiaGroup and Kreditech , among others.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Dan Michaeli, the co-founder and CEO who is based out of New York (the company has a substantial operation in Estonia too), said it will be used to continue developing its technology and expanding to address inbound interest for its services after seeing its revenues grow by 150% in 2020.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

From Asias tech hubs to Europes historic towns, these 10 destinations are leading the remote work revolution and offering a chance to truly engage, not just pass through. In particular we are seeing a lot of tech industry workers coming over from northern California to work remotely and experience a different lifestyle and culture in Europe.”

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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. For example, instead of listing tech entrepreneurship as your area of expertise, narrow it to something like entrepreneurship focused on developing machine learning software for the healthcare industry.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

While in Europe she points to veteran Estonia-based startup Jobbatical — which has refocused on relocation in recent years. “We have a tonne of companies in the engineering space, more traditional retail,” she tells TechCrunch. “And then we now start having conversations with the really big global companies.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

On the competitor front, Asmussen names Estonia-headquartered Jobbatical as its closest rival for relocation support with the same digital focus. Tech companies are looking at more flexible work models when offices reopen. Firstbase raises $13M to make remote work suck less.

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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

Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office Court documents show that Twitter owes three months’ rent to its Boulder landlord, and a judge has signed off on evicting the tech giant from that office. In fact, it’s unclear whether anyone else can even see your check briefly reappear.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Atlantic Canada had four major tech acquisitions in a five-month period. About 100 companies are created every year in fields as diverse as life sciences, cleantech and ocean tech. Sandy Bird is one of the protagonists of the Atlantic Canada tech-driven economic revival.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Lisbon’s startup scene rises as Portugal gears up to be a European tech tiger. The letter welcomes the EU’s Startup Nations Standard, in particular its specific recommendations to Member States on “changes to stock options rules designed to help startups attract talent, speed up tech visas targeting and procurement.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Certific , a health tech startup co-founded by TransferWise’s Taavet Hinrikus, is breaking cover today with the launch of what it claims is the first “certified” remote COVID-19 testing service. to develop a computational risk model for mass testing for “super spreader” environments, such as large events.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders. ChatGPT is a general-purpose chatbot that uses artificial intelligence to generate text after a user enters a prompt, developed by tech startup OpenAI. Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? How does it work?

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Ars Technica

MARCH 28, 2025

On April 14, the Pixel 9a will arrive in Europe, launching in Germany, Spain, Italy, Ireland, France, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Portugal, Switzerland, Poland, Czechia, Romania, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, and Finland.

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