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EstBAN to host EBAN congress in 2024
Last week 300 international angels gathered in sunny Thessaloniki at the EBAN Congress. EBAN congress is one of European Business Angels Network's flagship events. It is hosted in a different city each year to spotlight a fast-growing startup and investment...
4NGELS last training of the season and rooftop luncheon
Last week during Latitude59 week in Estonia we were happy to host the last of the 4NGELS investment training programme's training to our international guests. The training continued to a rooftop luncheon with EstBAN members and international friends. Katri...
7 main reasons startups miss out on pitching opportunities
Last year EstBAN's dealroom in Dealum got hundreds of applications from startups raising funding. Each month our screening committee goes over a preselected variety of 10-15 companies and out of those selects 5-7 to pitch at our monthly pitch event. You can do the...
Latitude59’s pitching contest win surpassing giants like Slush
The victory of the pitching competition of Latitude59, the Estonian flagship startup and technology conference, this time was shared between three startups - Flowstep earned the most significant investment of 600,000 euros, Cino 500,000, and ÄIO Tech 150,000. In...
Deeptech Sandbox #2 brought Cambridge ecosystem to Tallinn
In the second event in the Deeptech Sandbox series we had experts from Cambridge startup ecosystem share their insights and ways that have led to success in the area. Cambridge is one of the leading deep-tech startup ecosystems in the UK - with the highest rate of...
The winners of sTARTUp Pitching 2023 have been announced!
Altogether 271 teams started this year’s sTARTUp Pitching competition. After a fierce competition, the winners of sTARTUp Pitching 2023 have been announced. EstBAN awarded a syndicate of €200k to Paul-Tech, Baltic Sandbox Ventures gave out a €125k investment to...
Annual General Meeting 2023 awarded the most notable members
EstBAN angels took an afternoon on March 9 to gather for the annual general meeting in the Club of Different rooms, to go over the past year and recognize the most distinguished members. New horizons and board for EstBAN We shared what has happened in 2022 and...
Deeptech Sandbox brings international deeptech experts to Tallinn
In cooperation between Tehnopol Startup Incubator, EstBAN, TalTech and Startup Estonia, a series of events with a focus on deep technology called Deeptech Sandbox was launched. The aim is to contribute to the development of the deep technology ecosystem in Estonia, to...
Welcoming fresh EstBAN members
There are more than 280 members in EstBAN, including individuals, fund members and partners. 2022 was very active for EstBAN regarding events and planning future activities. We were happy to have more than 30 new angels join the network. Here is a long overdue sneak...
VERVE Ventures is now an Associate member of EstBAN
We are pleased to announce that Verve Ventures is now taking a step from the Fund Member status to an Associate Member position. This enables EstBAN members to access directly Verve Ventures deal flow and use the vast network and know-how. Therefore we...
EstBAN 10th anniversary video recap
In October 2022 we celebrated EstBAN's 10th anniversary and 10 years of Angel Investing in Estonia. This is a recap video of Angel Summit that took a few months ago when several hundred angel investors, partners and guests from Estonia and abroad got together. Kristel...
4NGELS angel training program is starting
After months of planning, the collaboration between the business angel networks in the region is starting yet again. 4NGELS is a cross border training and investment programme for business angels launching this Spring. It has been brought to life by Estonian,...
Estonian MedTech company Nanordica Medical receives €2.4M EIC Accelerator funding and closes €375k oversubscribed investment round
Tallinn, February 6, 2023 – Nanordica Medical announced it successfully closed an oversubscribed seed funding round at €375k. The round was led by experienced Estonian health and startup investors: Erki Mölder (Founding Partner of Health Founders and Managing Partner...
EstBAN is the Estonian Startup Community Cooperator 2022
Almost each month Estonian startup ecosystem community organisations meet to give an overview of their activities, share practices and of course network. All organised by Startup Estonia. Collaboration is after all the key to success and in such a small community as...
EstBAN and Tera.VC uniting for Latitude59 2023 Pitch Competition with a prize fund of 1M euros
Latitude59, Estonia's flagship tech and startup conference, is launching a Pitch Competition with a prize fund of up to one million euros, and is calling for international startups to submit their application before April 9, 2023. The fund – the biggest of its kind in...
Happy holidays to all!
Dear EstBAN angels, partners and friends! We're incredibly happy to have you with us all through 2022! It's been eventful and busy, so let's take a little breather, enjoy the holiday season and the end of the year. Have a Merry Christmas and a festive New Year!...
2022 wrap up for the Estonian tech ecosystem
2022 has surely been interesting and brought out the pain points to focus on. Estonian startup sector is strong, stronger than could have been expected. The unicorn herd keeps growing and there is definitely room for more. Last week we wrapped up the year...
Grab2GO has raised 300,000 euros to pilot a fully automated convenience store
Grab2GO has raised 300 thousand euros to finance its further activities, with its main target being the completion of product development activities for the first client’s pilot equipment and the preparation of the next client’s pilot equipment. The first lot of...
REACH data incubator looking for promising big data startups and SMEs
The Reach Incubator has a €3.5 Million fund to foster the creation of data value chains across Europe and is looking for 30 promising big data startups and SMEs to take part in its third round of incubation. The REACH Incubator provides the following...
Estonian startup/tech ecosystem annual 2022 wrap-up on Dec 14, 2022
Estonian Founders Society, Startup Estonia, EstVCA, EstBAN, and Estonian Investment Agency invite you to join us on December 14 at 17:00. Location: Cafe NR99 (Sakala 3, Tallinn) We are definitely getting together also this year for the annual wrap-up event of five...