Tallinn startup directory
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Blackwall
Formerly BotGuard, builds GateKeeper, a reverse-proxy WAF that blocks malicious bot traffic and L7 DDoS for hosting providers and SMBs across 2.3M+ websites. Raised EUR 45M Series B in 2025 led by Dawn Capital.
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Bolt
Bolt is an Estonia-born mobility superapp operating ride-hailing, micromobility (scooters and bikes), food delivery, grocery delivery via Bolt Market, and car sharing through Bolt Drive. The company reported about EUR 2.0b in revenue in 2024 and has said it is preparing for a potential stock market listing when conditions are favorable. Bolt continues to expand across Europe with a multi-vertical platform built around local operations and logistics density.
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Change Ventures
Founded in 2017, Change Ventures is the largest pan-Baltic pre-seed and seed fund, backing ambitious founders across Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania as well as Baltic diaspora entrepreneurs worldwide. Managed by Andris K. Berzins and a team with over 45 years of combined operating experience, the firm closed its €49M Fund II — the largest seed VC fund ever raised in the Baltic States — supported by the European Investment Fund's Baltic Innovation Fund. The firm invests €400K–€3M in B2B and SaaS technology startups, with a strong focus on the Baltic region's next-generation founders. Fund III of €20M doubled down on pre-seed, cementing Change Ventures as the defining early-stage regional franchise.
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CyCon 2026
18th International Conference on Cyber Conflict by NATO CCDCOE, themed 'Securing Tomorrow'. Multidisciplinary tracks across legal, strategy, policy, and technology drawing 600+ decision-makers from ~50 countries.
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CyCon 2027
The 19th International Conference on Cyber Conflict, themed 'Unified Response', is confirmed for 25-28 May 2027 in Tallinn. Organised by NATO CCDCOE, CyCon is a prominent multidisciplinary conference with keynotes and panels spanning legal, strategy, policy, and technology tracks.
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Defence Innovation Day 2026
Tehnopol-run opener of Estonian Defence Week at Kultuurikatel Creative Hub. Brings dual-use startups, NATO defence companies, end-users, and investors together with pitches and a dozen-plus booths. Free with mandatory registration.
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Estonian HealthTech Week 2026
A week-long showcase of Estonia's e-health, healthtech, and biotech ecosystem, opening in Tallinn and moving to Tartu, and including the DTx New Nordics Conference. Free to attend, designed for healthtech entrepreneurs, startups, clinicians, and investors.
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Estonian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (ESTVCA)
The Estonian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EstVCA) is the industry body representing private equity and venture capital investors active in Estonia. It promotes the asset class, gathers market data, advocates on policy and regulation, and connects fund managers, limited partners and the wider startup ecosystem to strengthen access to growth capital in Estonia.
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Frankenburg Technologies
Defence startup founded 2024 by ex-MoD secretary Kusti Salm, building low-cost, mass-manufacturable guided interceptor missiles; its Mark I achieved a live-fire drone intercept in Latvia. Raised EUR 30M Series A.
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Garage48 Foundation
Garage48 is an Estonian non-profit foundation that has run hackathons and startup-acceleration events across Europe and Africa since 2010, helping launch ventures such as Single.Earth and Lingvist. Its weekend hackathons gather developers, designers and founders to build working prototypes in 48 hours, including themed editions like Future of Wood focused on sustainable timber technologies.
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HIPTHER Baltics, Nordics: Tallinn 2026
Grand finale of the 2026 HIPTHER Baltics series at Hilton Tallinn Park. Three parallel tracks on digital governance, fintech compliance, AML, digital identity, and Nordic market expansion with 150+ delegates and 30+ speakers.
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Karma Ventures
Founded in 2016 by Kristjan Laanemaa, Margus Uudam, and Tommi Uhari, Karma Ventures is one of Estonia's most prominent deep-tech venture capital firms. Its €70M Fund I and €100M Fund II back late-seed and Series A European deep-tech software startups, with tickets up to €5M. The firm is particularly active in AI, cybersecurity, health tech, and enterprise software across Europe. Notable portfolio companies include Starship Technologies, Tuum (formerly Modularbank), Sonarworks, Infermedica, and CybExer Technologies, establishing Karma as the go-to Tallinn-based partner for hard-tech European founders.
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Katana
Cloud inventory and manufacturing (MRP) software for product businesses, with real-time stock control across channels and production workflows. Founded 2017 in Tallinn.
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Latitude59 2026
Kultuurikatel-hosted summit with 3,500+ attendees and 600+ investors. The Latitude59 Pitch Competition can reach EUR 1M in syndicate investment and the program heavily features digital-state and defense-tech themes.
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Latitude59 2027
Latitude59 is Estonia's flagship startup and tech conference, gathering founders, investors, and innovators from across the Nordics and Baltics. The 2027 edition returns to Kultuurikatel in Tallinn on May 19–21, with tickets already on sale via Fienta. The event features pitch competitions, investor meetings, and a main-stage program spanning two full days.
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Markus Villig
Founder of Bolt (ride-hailing), Markus (from Estonia) has reinvested some of his gains into fellow CEE startups. He joined a funding round for Sunroof (Polish-Swedish solar roof startup) as an angel. He represents the new generation of founders backing each other across borders. Associated startups: Sunroof, Planet42 (has operations in PL).
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Montonio
Montonio is an Estonian payments and post-checkout platform for e-commerce merchants. Through a single API and dashboard it offers open-banking bank-transfer payments, card payments, Apple Pay and Google Pay, BLIK and Buy-Now-Pay-Later financing, alongside post-checkout tools such as shipping labels, parcel tracking, returns and refunds. The company serves merchants across the Baltics and Poland, aiming to be a unified checkout solution for the region. Its regulated payment-institution entity is registered in Lithuania while the company operates from Tallinn.
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NEVERHACK Estonia
NEVERHACK Estonia is a leading cybersecurity solutions provider headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, with over 15 years of experience serving Estonian and regional markets. The company offers Security Operations Center (SOC) services, offensive security assessments, incident response, and security consulting to private and public sector organizations. As the Estonian arm of the NEVERHACK Group, it organizes and hosts the Nordic Baltic Security Summit, the region's premier annual cybersecurity conference.
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Nordic Baltic Security Summit 2026
A one-day summit focused on AI acceleration, digital dependency, and geopolitical risk, convening security leaders and tech vendors. A focused stage for security and defence founders selling into the Nordic-Baltic public and enterprise sector.
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Nortal
Nortal is a Tallinn-based digital transformation company founded in 2000 that has become one of the most influential govtech and enterprise IT consultancies in Europe. The company helped build Estonia's pioneering e-government infrastructure and now exports that expertise to governments and large enterprises across 25+ countries, including Oman, Finland, and Saudi Arabia. With over 1,500 employees, Nortal delivers end-to-end services spanning strategy, software engineering, data platforms, and cloud migration. It stands as proof that Baltic govtech know-how can scale into a global consulting and technology business.
