Estonian start-up stories by Toivo Tänavsuu
Wibbit, a start-up operating in Tartu Science Park with origins in Playtech, is getting ready to come to market with a multifunctional food and staple goods price comparison and shopping website. One of the originators of the enterprise, Mehis Pärn (pictured), says that the idea was first developed this spring at the Garage48 start-up event. [...]
Beware, clairvoyants and fortune-tellers! Meet a young man named Timo Sulg (pictured) who predicts the future using algorithms. Timo Sulg is usually, like most IT people, anything but flamboyant. He studies at Tallinn University of Technology and will graduate in two years. What is unusual about him is the fact that whereas students at his [...]
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16 Feb 2009Thanks to an Estonian start-up iComTV - founded by an Estonian rock guitarist Marco Rüütel and a post-production video engineer Arti Itra from New York - sitting on a dentist’s chair during the dentistry is now a pleasant and exciting pastime. How come? Easy. The guys from iComTV believe that “positive thoughts make better treatment”. So they [...]