Narvi Payments Oy, a Finnish startup founded in 2021, is setting its sights on international expansion. The company provides business bank accounts with dedicated Euro IBANs for e-resident companies of all sizes. Opening an account online takes less than 10 minutes, allowing businesses to start sending and receiving Euro payments from over 100 countries within …
The three finalists of each program were chosen for their progress in the program, innovation, partnership readiness, and impact potential.Axiology was selected as the regional Baltic Class Winner, as well as the Overall Winner of the Mastercard Lighthouse FINITIV Program 2025 Spring edition. Axiology develops DLT market infrastructure for regulated tokenized securities under EU DLT …
Leading a country or a company in Europe presents similar challenges: protecting citizens and clients, securing markets and borders, attracting investment, managing partnerships and foreign policy, and attracting and retaining talent. The book called “Strategies and Visions for Europe” explores these issues through the lens of startups and various sectors including Defense/CyberSec, Healthcare/MedTech, Public/GovTech, Environment …
At the international startup conference Latitude59 held in Tallinn, the 2025 victory was shared by three companies. Investments ranging from €175,000 to €250,000 will be made in Estonian green energy solutions developer MarkeDroid, Latvian construction startup Adventum Tech, and Lithuanian defense technology company Luna Robotics. The syndicated investments are provided by business angels from Estonia, …
Latitude59, which took place for the 13th time in Tallinn, Estonia, was visited by more than 3,500 people, including more than 900 startup representatives and 20 national delegations. Nearly 700 investors participated this year. 170 speakers could be seen on Latitude59’s stages. In total, there were participants from more than 70 different countries worldwide. This …
Lead by Estonian startup UP Catalyst, a two-year pilot program was launched to design and build a scalable shipping container synthesis reactor that is capable of transforming CO2 emissions into graphite, a mineral now classified by the EU as a critical raw material, and various carbon nanomaterials. By Teele Niidas Until now, 500 thousand tons …
Altermail, worlds’ first blockchain-based communication platform, offers an alternative to email, messaging and file sharing. Altermail disrupts existing information sharing with the help of the latest technological innovation in blockchain. The company has attracted $75 200 from two grant programs and looks to scale its service with the next financing round. Altermail addresses the gap …
Bisly, the Estonian tech company developing intelligent building solutions, has raised 1.7 million euros to carry out its aggressive expansion plan into European countries. The tech start-up’s technology helps to make energy consumption up to two times more efficient. According to Siim Vips, founder and CEO of Bisly, buildings consume up to 40% of energy …
The technology startup UP Catalyst, founded in 2019, received €50 000 of seed money from the 2021 ESA BIC (Business Incubation Centre) programme for business and product development to boost their novel way of oxygen production on Mars. In addition to the funding UP Catalyst receives technical support from the European Space Agency and hands …
Avokaado, a contract lifecycle management platform (CLM) from Estonia, announces a €700K pre-seed round, including Hong Kong’s ParticleX as a strategic investor. Avokaado was founded by legal tech innovator Mariana Hagström in 2016, after experiencing significant inefficiencies in service delivery during her extensive career as an attorney-at-law and managing partner at a law firm. What …
