Archive for August, 2009

How to know if an e-shop is trustworthy?

In: Companies

29 Aug 2009

From September the Association of Estonian E-commerce will start giving out quality marks for trustworthy e-shops. According to Sirja Mäekivi, head of the association, the goal of the quality mark is to certify e-shops and build trust between the shops and consumers. The quality mark will show that the shop is not failing its customers, the owners [...]

Rockstar venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson: Synthetic Genomics and Nanotech booms ahead

In: Companies|Venture Capitalists

28 Aug 2009

Estonia-born US venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson (pictured) from Draper Fisher Jurvetson gave a captivating interview for us, where he analyzed what’s hot and what’s not. What are your most exciting new investments?  Overall we have a lot of exciting investments in the fields of energy and cleantech – new approaches to sustainable fuels. Chemicals and energy [...]

Crystalsol raised 2,5 million euros

In: Companies

24 Aug 2009

Crystalsol, the next generation photovoltaic developer has closed its seed financing round with two Nordic venture capital funds. Together with Enterprise Estonia the investment volume reaches 2.5 million euros. Crystalsol developes entirely new type of flexible photovoltaic module, that has significant advantages in cost (reduction of 70-80 percent) and versatility. Interestingly the technology, that has [...]

Positium LBS tells you how many Latvians visited the Madonna concert

In: Companies

21 Aug 2009

Ordinary geographic maps are static: there are dots and lines, rivers, borders and roads, but no people, no cars, no bicycles, nor their movement.  Thanks to technology being created at Positium LBS this is about to change. Estonian undertaking Positium uses data from different positioning systems, puts them on the map and analyses it. Thus creating maps that describe [...]

Former Skype engineers to provide all-in-one tool for software developers

In: Companies|Venture Capitalists

19 Aug 2009

The founding members of Skype engineering and operations team, headed by Toivo Annus have established SUInfra – company that offers all-in-one web tool for small software developers. SUInfra, currently in beta-stage development, claims to be a solid and simple web environment, integrating bug tracking, wiki, SVN and other useful services. All in one web, no install, no setup. [...]

Smartdust got funded, congratulations!

In: Companies|Venture Capitalists

14 Aug 2009

Estonian technology company Smartdust Solutions closed an investment round with WNB Project and Spring Capital. The capital gives a boost to the development of the company and makes it possible to grow from a customer specific solution provider to “a product” company. Smartdust has also recently opened up office in Finland and is aiming for [...]

Fortumo enters Spain, France and Portugal

In: Companies

13 Aug 2009

TigerBriefs: Estonian start-up Fortumo, that offers possibilities to create your own mobile service in 5 minutes and earn money with it, is expanding rapidly. Thus far the service has been very popular in Nordic countries, Eastern Europe and Asia. But now Fortumo “fever” is drifting towards Western Europe. The company has entered French, Spanish and [...]

iCom TV opened TV channel in Swedbank

In: Companies

12 Aug 2009

TigerBriefs: Estonian start-up iComTV has launched it’s next Out-Of-Home (OOH) Media solution – iN-Store TV. iN-Store TV channel is available in Swedbank offices across Estonia. Swedbank clients are entertained with specially created silent short movies, information and advertising clips. iComTV has provided the technical solution and manages the network and content updates. Marco Rüütel, the [...]

Raintree faced bad luck with Schwarzennegger, new big chance ahead with Obama (VIDEO)

In: Companies

12 Aug 2009

Estonian e-health software developer Raintree is anticipating what will be the outcome of Barack Obama’s plan to invest 17 billion dollars into electronic health information technology and records under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Raintree’s software is already related to over one million patients in US and used by over 14 000 medical doctors. [...]

Smartdust puts smartness into sensor nets, says the business is growing

In: Companies

10 Aug 2009

Last week I talk to the founders of Smartdust Solutions – an Estonian technology company that specializes in wireless sensor networks. Jaanus Tamm, Jürgo Preden and Tauri Tuubel (their work desk pictured above) founded the company in 2006 and have worked it up from a startup to a stabile business. “Smart dust motes” are the building blocks of a [...]




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