TransferWise, London-based money transfer service that just closed a $1.3 million equity-based seed round from an absolute Who’s Who of fintech funding and innovation. Lead by Roger Ehrenberg’s IA Ventures, the group includes Index Ventures, Robin Klein, and Saul Klein of The Accelerator Group, Pay Pal co-founder Max Levchin, Wonga co-founder/CEO Errol Damelin, ex-CEO of Betfair David Yu, and Simple co-founder Shamir Karkal. Read more

International startup accelerator Startup Wise Guys launches with support by Estonian Startup Leaders Club. It is targeted for startups in Baltic and CIS region. Read more

Not only one but two Estonian Startup Leaders Club members startups, CrabCAD and Fits.me have reached their next milestone and closed series A rounds in early 2012. For the local startup community it demonstrates that the community is taking bold steps forward. So far typical Estonian startups have done bootstrapping, created proofs of concepts, won competitions and sold-sold-sold, but now it is clear that we are advancing the next phases. Countdown to the first IPO has already begun.  Read more

Eesti Startupi Juhtide Klubi korraldatud küsitlusel selgitati välja 2011. aasta parimad startupid, investorid, aasta jooksul käivitatud uus teenus, Eesti Startupi parim sõber ja 2011nda aasta startupi M&A. Küsitlusel osales üle 30 startup ettevõtte juhi, kes valisid 2011. Aasta Startupiks ZeroTurnaround’i ja Aasta Investoriks Seedcamp’i.  Read more

Skype founder Toivo Annus’s and Herty Tammo’s joint tech investment venture, Poohtech AS, announced today that it closed a deal with smartAD, a Baltic advertising network that services many major brands for the region.  Read more

For our annual meeting 9th of December 2010 of our club,  we asked our members to evaluate best events, best presentations and best guest speakers. We also asked which members dedication and commitment was most appreciated by other members, who inspired them most? 
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The monthly Tallinn startup & tech community event, OpenCoffee Club Tallinn will change it location to Garage48 HUB from January 2011. OpenCoffee takes place 1st Thursday of every month at 9-11 AM. Please follow us and register your attendance at our official Facebook page.
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Tallinn has growing startup and technology community, but lacks a cool and open space for people to work, learn, network, innovate and relax together. Garage48 is about doing things fast. Startup Leaders Club will help launching Garage48 HUB on 1st of December 2010, only 2 weeks from the initial idea.
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Estonian monthly IT magazine "Arvutimaailm" listed most promising Estonian tech startups in their October edition with short overview and list of key persons from each company. Read more

Our october meeting had great speakers among others Andrei Korobeinik from CuteFund, Estonian ex prime minister Mart Laar and Martin Ruubel from Nartest. Read more

Quotista is a website for collecting and sharing book quotes. The idea was first presented during Garage48 in the end of August in Tartu. Now, one month later, the first version is ready.
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Our September meeting was cozy with friendly speakers like our member Jüri Kaljundi about his new startup project Taltentag and recent Silicon Valley trip. Siim Puskai from Utopia-Revolution shared some light regarding the gaming industry and his startup. And we brainstormed about a new project concept - trendy aluminium laptop case. See photos below. Read more

Aalto Venture Garage guys have been seeding the idea of creating the community of startups and founders in the Baltic Sea region. This would cover countries startup from North - Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. People from St. Petersburg, Denmark or Norway are welcome to join. Lets create our own "Valley" here in around the Baltic Sea.
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Two of our startup club members have launched beta versions of their services recently. Jüri launched social recruitment service Emp.ly Beta version and Kresten had HumanIPO beta launch event today in Tallinn. Please have a look and give feedback to the startups. Good luck!  Read more

Reuters recently visited Estonia and created a fun video-story about Estonian Internet Revolution and Startups. Of course they covered Skype as the most popular Estonian tech company, but they visited also many others - Defendec, United Cats and Dogs, Nordic Sonar - all members of our club. Read more

Tänane Äripäev kirjutab: aina rohkem on meil initsiatiivikaid inimesi, kes ei karda põruda ning alustavad julgelt ja loovate ideedega oma internetiäri loomist. Et aga need tooted saaksid tuntuks üle kogu maailma, tuleb nõu ja abi küsida Eesti firmalt Havirtual. Loe kogu artiklit >
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Recently I saw this great TEDx video by an entrepreneur Cameron Herold. I really love his approach. Please have a look and share your thoughts in the comments. Read more

The last weekend saw 16 new potential startups created on pure enthusiasm and caffeine. This was Garage48 the first of its kind in Estonia. 

The idea is similar to other startup boot camps like Startup Weekend where people have a limited amount of time to come up with an idea for a product or a service and implement it as well.
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There have been several Estonian startups (Taxipal, Erply and Fits.me) getting international recognition and attention during the last period. We are happy for those companies and encourage other startups to join international competitions and other events to promote their business and services. Read more

Estonian biggest weekly newspaper Eesti Ekspress wrote a story about 4 Estonian startups, who define global market as their "home market". Read more

Last Friday we had our monthly gathering in Tartu, where Mobi hosted us in their cozy "penthouse" office. We had guest speakers from Regio, Sportilizer and Marco Protano from USA. Read more

Kai, one of the founders of Floobs, was visiting us in Tallinn early December. Now things did not turn out how he was planning and ArcticStartup writes about their plans to shut down the startup company. 
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Mobi Solutions has today announced its investment in Nutiteq OÜ, an innovative location-based mobile mapping company for developers, service and content providers. Read more

Startup club will have its year 2010 opening event on 14th of January at 6pm in Microlink Demokeskus in Ülemiste City.  Read more

Event full program and registration at Arengufond website.
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Finnish VC and startup guests are coming to Tallinn for a traditional ArcticEvening event on 3rd of December. Event is organized by ArcticStartup Blog, OpenCoffee Tallinn and Connect Estonia. Read more

On 12th November Heidi Kakko and Andres Oks met with the Club. We have talked about how startups can benefit from Estonian Development Fund venture capital iniatives. You can find EDF presentation slides below
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Our club have submitted set of ideas how to improve Enterprise Estonia(EAS) grants programs. Today we have had first meeting with EAS CEO Ülari Alamets and 4 directors of EAS divisions. Read more

Estonian Development Fund is one of biggest vechicles for venture capital investments for Estonian startup companies.
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Connect Estonia and Estonian Startup Leaders club invite you to participate an afternoon seminar about if, how and when to raise capital and when to give up.
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5-9 of October Tehnopol hosts Robert Gaal and Patrick de Laive
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Next event is about TIME and HOW TO GET THINGS DONE.
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We had a guest speaker and experienced executive Mr. Üllar Jaaksoo.
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