Full Picture of the Estonian VC’s ... Last year Estonian venture capital firms joined forces by founding the Estonian Ventur Capital Association (EstVCA). Who are the players on the market today? Here’s a short overview which shows that: the Estonian venture capital market is expanding, VC culture is developing there are several...

A letter from The Editor: Challenges for... I don’t think it is somehow indecorous to wish other people a Happy New Year after 6th of January. So that’s my wish to You, dear readers of TigerPrises.  The blog that I started one and a half year ago has now covered way over 100 Estonian start-ups and tech companies. Last month it had...

“Do-yourself-a-mobile-service̶... Fortumo, an Estonian developer of mobile phone services, is planning a penetration into Asia, targeting China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan and other countries. In order to achieve success there, a Taiwanese sales team has been recruited to work in Tartu. Fortumo – create your own SMS service in...

Former Skype engineers to provide all-in... 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...

E-stonia at Glance in The Demo Center... So here should be it: close to 30 of the very best Estonian information and communication technology solutions all in one showroom called The Demo Center. The Estonian-version of an ICT heaven was established in Tallinn, Ülemiste City, and it was officially opened last week in the presence of Estonian...

Sten Tamkivi: Skype has had Great Impact... Together with my Nordic colleaques from ArcticStartup.com we have interviewed The Chief Evangelist at Skype, Sten Tamkivi. Tamkivi told us about how there’s a lot going on in Skype and how they are doing really well in terms of revenues. He also gave his opinion about Skype’s influence on...

Skype Founders to Make Marine Navigation... There’s an interesting technology evolving in the incubator of Ambient Sound Investments - the investments vehicle of the Estonians who founded Skype. The company with the initial name InkSpinTwo is developing digital forward-looking sonar, that would make marine navigation safer and easier. Arno...

Keep Your Pledge or Donate to Charity!... Three Estonians, two of them working for Skype – Andrus Purde, Priidu Zilmer and Joonathan Mägi, have founded a funny start-up called Pledgehammer – a website, that helps you keep your promises. The project that was launched just weeks ago allows you to make a public pledge – for...

GuardTime: Timestamping our Digital Life... The digitized world screams for technologies that would help to prove the validity of any digital data. One such timestamping infrastructure solution is provided by GuardTime, a company founded in Estonia. The technology invented by digital data security experts and cryptology specialists Märt Saarepera...

Skype-men to Launch News Site that Predi... The Estonian tech-visionaries, led by Ahti Heinla – one of the Founders of Skype, and Rainer Nõlvak are developing what they call “predictive content personalization technology”. They plan to debut this technology in a project called DailyPerfect. That is a news site that predicts your interests...