Lithuanian interpretation platform Interactio raises $30 million A round
Vilnius-headquartered remote interpretation platform Interactio, which saw its sales grow 12-fold in 2020 thanks to the lockdowns around the world, said it has...
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Latvia gets first unicorn with Printful’s $130 mln round
Latvia's print-on-demand drop shipping firm Printful said it has raised $130 million from growth equity firm Bregal Sagemount in a deal-making Printful the fir...
Latvia’s Longenesis wins TechChill pitching competition
Longensis, a startup based in Latvia and Hong Kong, won TechChill pitching competition and took home 10,000 euros cash award. Longenesis enables biomedical ...
Lithuanian green investment startup Foros seeks north-bound expansion
Lithuania's FOROS, which is offering a green investment platform for forest management and investments, said it has closed forest deals worth 18 million euros ...
Latvia’s CopyMonkey wins Emerge Challenge
Latvian startup CopyMonkey.ai, the creator of an AI-tool for content generation in e-commerce, won Emerge Challenge 2021 ahead of Russia's Imin, Kazakstan's CE...
Estonia’s LightCode Photonics gets to top 1% in ActInSpace contest
Estonian deeptech startup LightCode Photonics, which is building a lower-cost offering for navigation of autonomous cars, said it qualified to top 1% at this y...
Sweden’s Instabox expands to Holland through Red je Pakketje acquisition
Swedish startup Instabox said it has acquired Red je Pakketje, Dutch market leader in same-day deliveries, and said it plans to install around 3,000 lockers in...
Sustainable solutions for the city of the future: ten top international startups shortlisted for the 2021 Future Hamburg Award
The finalists of the Future Hamburg Award,
Hamburg's international startup award, have been announced: ten European startups
with smart solutions for the city ...
Startup to buy your house – Kodit.io acquires rent-to-own startup Lucas
Finland’s
Kodit.io announced its acquisition of Spanish startup Lucas, combining its automated home selling and buying offering
with Lucas’ rent-to-own pr...
Smartly buys Viralspace.ai
Finland's Smartly.io unveiled its first acquisition buying Viralspace.ai, a "fast-growing startup focused on AI-driven creative optimization for digital advert...
Estonia calls for global entrepreneurs to use the country as a digital testbed
Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid and Government CIO Siim Sikkut made a global call to entrepreneurs who are searching for a way to test solutions to wicked ...
Swedish greentech Ecohelix raises 20 mln crowns
Ecohelix, which has developed a method for producing environmentally friendly bio-polymers from residual products in pulp production from Almi, Molindo Energy ...
ESA incubator backs Estonia’s UP Catalyst to produce oxygen on Mars
Estonian startup UP Catalyst said it has received 50,000 euros of seed money from the incubation programme of the European Space Agency (ESA BIC) for business ...
Howspace raises €12 million A round for Europe, N.Am expansion
Finland's Howspace has closed a €12 million Series A funding round led by Forestay Capital and Inventure. The funding will be used to scale the core business a...
Siena launches secondary fund, buys stake in Bolt
Estonian VC firm Siena Capital launched Siena Secondary Fund of up to 50 million euros for deal-making in the New Nordics (Baltics and Finland) area, providing...
Sweden’s Einride raises $110 mln to boost growth in Europe, US
Swedish startup Einride, developer and provider of electric and autonomous freight mobility technology, said it has raised $110 million Series B funding to sca...
Finnish gaming firm Metacore gets €150 mln credit line from Supercell
Metacore, in whose Merge Mansion game 800,000 players renovate grandma's mansion each day, said it has got a 150 million euros credit line from Supercell to fu...
Finland’s Oura raises $100 million round
ŌURA Health, the company behind the health tech wearable that provides daily personalized sleep and overall health insights, announced its Series C funding rou...
Nordic Unmanned, Aeromon form JV for sea emission monitoring
Finland’s Aeromon said it has signed an agreement to form a joint venture with Norwegian drone firm Nordic Unmanned for providing mobile maritime emission moni...
Swedish horse tech startup Ridesum raises 900,000 euros
Swedish equestrian training app and collaboration platform Ridesum, whish
has users in 80 countries, said it has raised 900,000 euros from private
investors, Z...
Tarmo Virki
Tarmo combines drinks and stories like so many great authors ;) He's one of the founders of Lahhentagge Distillery on the island of Saaremaa in Estonia, and when he's not making drinks, he writes stories for ArcticStartup and other outlets. Tarmo is a die-hard Man United fan - so after a long drought, Tarmo is rather cheerful lately.