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Estonian Startup Ecosystem Tallinn, 2019 startupestonia.ee #startupestonia Maarika Truu Head of Startup Estonia Estonia. Your startup OS. Start Europe here startupestonia.ee #startupestonia Estonian Startup Scene in Numbers 650 startups, of
Maarika Truu
Head of Startup Estonia
- Estonia. Your startup OS.
Start Europe here
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Estonian Startup Scene in Numbers
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650 startups, of which 130 startup visa founded Startup founders: 18% foreigners, 15% women 4900 new jobs created, 46% women, 20% foreigners Startups paid €32.7M in employment taxes (2019 1st Half), 72% of the total in 2018 Raised over €1.1B in the last 12 years (90% foreign funds)
Global top for Unicorns per capita
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On their way to unicorn status
Investments into Estonian Startups
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Biggest exits: 2012 Modesat to Xilinx 2014 GrabCad to Stratasys 2017 Zeroturnaround to Rogue Wave Software
Startup Estonia A-Team
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A team of 9 people Mission driven startup minded small team
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Startup Estonia is supercharging the Estonian startup ecosystem to create more international success stories.
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Focus Areas in Startup Estonia
Estonian Startup Community
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Attracting talent (since January 2017):
- founders from non-EU countries
- new talent to Estonian startups
Altogether 1503 individuals have relocated
- r granted the right to move to Estonia!
- TOP countries for founders: Russia,
Iran, Turkey, India
- TOP countries for employees: Brazil,
India, Russia, Ukraine
Startup Visa
Startup Visa vs e-Residency
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Startup Visa e-Residency
- Physical access to the
Estonian ecosystem
- Permit to enter the country
- Main goal - relocation
- 1650 + applications from 90
countries, 35% success rate
- Virtual access to the Estonian
ecosystem
- Not a permit to enter the country
- Main goal - ease of doing business
remotely by using Estonian e-services
- 65,000+ e-residents
Ease of access
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To the country To c-level business people/advisors and VC’s To highest level government
- fficials
To the rest of the EU markets
Feedback
”Startup Visa gave us access to the European market”
– Pavel Kirienko (Russia) His startup Zubax Robotics is designing and manufacturing aerospace hardware.
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Feedback
”Things are good here in Tallinn! The tech scene is very active, and the connections here are very
- close. It is easy to get to know someone
relevant in the industry”
– Kwun Lok Ng (Hong Kong) His startup Kipwise is building a Slack integration that helps teams create and share learnings and the whole team can add comments and annotations to the content without having to leave Slack.
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”We made a matrix listing many jurisdictions, and crossing taxes, regulation and costs. Plus, because of our idea of approaching the EU market in the future, Estonia jumped to the top of the list.”
– Edilson Osorio Jr. (Brazil) His startup OriginalMy allows a Proof-of-Authenticity, Digital Signature, Digital Certificate and Document Authenticity via Blockchain.
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