€100 million Investment Into Infrastructure in the Baltics
BaltCap, the largest private equity investor in the Baltic region, has launched BaltCap Infrastructure Fund (BIF) with the planned size of €100 million. The fun...
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Who is who in Baltic fintech?
Back when Windows XP was still a thing, fintech meant the technology applied to the back-end of established consumer and trade financial institutions. Not anymo...
3 Learnings From Indian Startups
What Baltic and Nordic startups can learn from Indian companies?This is a guest post written by Vivek Patel, a Local Search Specialist at E2M, one of the fastes...
Click & Grow accepted into YCombinator
The first baltic team makes it into the prestigious accelerator.The Baltics are no strangers to Silicon Valley accelerators, the "Estonian mafia" itself was coi...
Super hydrophobic coatings coming to Nordic and Baltic mayo bottles
What a time to be alive.The future is now.This isn't a local startup, but we'll be eating the fruits of their labor. MIT spinoff Liquiglide announced yesterday ...
The Lithuanian startup ecosystem – a pool of opportunities for startups and VCs
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by StartupHighwayThe Lithuanian startup arena has been heating up for the past recent years. A friendly business environment...
Mobile internet for travelers Widerfi enters world's largest accelerator
Lithuanian startup Widerfi, the team behind EUInternet, has been accepted to MassChallenge, world's largest accelerator. The startup aims to use the London-base...
Taxi Pocket another on-demand service for the Baltics
Another day, another taxi app coming out of the Baltics.
We were just remarking with Tech.eu's Robin Wauters about how many taxi apps are coming out of the Balt...
Winner of TechChill Baltics: Edurio
TechChill Baltics continues to live up to its educational reputation - the winner of last week's pitch contest is Latvian edtech startup Edurio. The company is...
Nevermind Finland: 20 Hot Estonian Startups [Part 2/3]
This is the second part of our coverage on Estonia, following our recent Baltic tour. If you'd like to find our more about Baltic entrepreneurship, we recomme...
Nevermind Finland: Here's Estonia! [Part 1/3]
Two weeks ago, we decided to drive to the Baltics together with people from AaltoVG, to promote the Finnish startup scene, find great stories, and build stron...
ArcticStartup And AaltoVG Go Baltics!
This is an exciting week for the Nordic startup scene: each country has seen a boom in startup activity during the recent months, so we have decided to organ...
Lithuania Steps Up its Game
Finland and Estonia aren’t the only growing hotbeds for entrepreneurship in the Baltics. Since our coverage a few months ago, the Lithuanian startup commun...
GetJar Says Mobile Apps Market Becomes Bigger Than The Internet. We Don't Think So
In an interview with Econsultancy, GetJar CEO Ilja Laurs talked about his vision for apps and how they will take over the internet. We disagree. GetJar is the...
The Bad And The Ugly: Entrepreneurship In Europe and In Northern Europe
This is one of those issues that is always topical and never gets a clear answer. Why do we comparatively suck so bad at building companies in Europe and especi...
Joi Ito Is Still Investing, Despite Downturn
I had a chat in LeWeb with Joi Ito of Neoteny. He is also the CEO of Creative Commons and on board of numerous companies and non profits. Joi, like other invest...
What's Your Need Of Financing?
i2m - Ideas to market, a UK based research firm, has released some very interesting figures in terms of startup financing, according to Sun Startup Essential Bl...
Library House Lists 100 Hottest Mediatech Companies
Library House, a research house on startups and other fast growing ventures, has listed 100 of the hottest mediatech companies in Europe. The 100 companies were...
Good Times: Rest in Peace
The recent weeks' downturn in the global economy has dramatically tightened the availability of funding for companies, not only startups but large companies ali...
List of Finnish Startups
Timo Paloheimo has listed a good bunch of Finnish web startups in The Next Web using various sources, including his own blog Startupbin and ArcticStartup. He's ...