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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...
EstBAN syndicate for sTARTUp Day 2023!
sTARTUp Pitching 2023 is coming again with a prize pool of over €350k! We are calling all startups to apply for the sTARTUp Pitching competition. Apply before 5 February 2023 to compete for prizes worth over 350,000 euros and present your startup in front of 4000...
Ender Turing the Baltics in New Nordics Pitching Grand Final this year!
This May, during Latitude59, EstBAN syndicate chose Ender Turing as the target for one of the EstBAN syndicates. EstBAN angels chose to invest €200 000 into the company. Therefore we were happy to see the founder Olena Iosifova representing the Baltics in the...
EstBAN celebrated a decade of angel investing in Estonia
On October 20th weeks and months of planning resulted in EstBAN10 Angel Summit during the day and Jubilee Gala in the evening. The day was to commemorate the years EstBAN has been paving the road for angels to get connected, learn and build trust. During the Summit we...
Angel Summit program is NOW LIVE!
EstBAN10 Angel Summit is in 3 weeks and we're delighted to announce that the program is now live and published! It will be a get-together for business angels, VCs, partners and friends to meet, hear the expert speakers and discussions on stage, see the...
Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Jaan Tallinn and Kärt Siilats join Angel Summit as speakers!
We're unbelievably happy to announce that Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former president of Estonian Republic, joins EstBAN10 Angel Summit with Jaan Tallinn to discuss the impact of past decisions to Estonian tech ecosystem as well as the opportunities for the future. ...