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- Merilin Lukk: Startup Visa Project Lead
Mari Vavulski: Head of Startup EstoniaPast Role: Eesti Arengufond, Head of the Startup Estonia program
Startup Estonia is a governmental initiative aimed to supercharge the Estonian startup ecosystem to birth more of the international success stories, such as Transferwise and GrabCAD have already become. For that, we are making Estonia one of the world's best places to start a company, partnering with and uniting the best of startups,
incubators, accelerators, private and public sector into one big successful Estonian Mafia family, a term that has become a recognized brand for the local startup community.
Today, Startup Estonia divides its activities into 4 categories:
• Developing the Estonian startup ecosystem – uniting and building the community through different events and activities, creating and executing unified marketing and branding strategies;
• Working on educating the startup founders and employees in areas they currently lack certain knowledge of that keeps them from achieving their (international) business goals; cooperating with higher education institutions to bring quality entrepreneurial education to a wider audience; and developing niche startup areas in Estonia, such as cleantech, healthtech and cybertech;
• Working on educating the local investors to help them invest more and smarter, as well as attracting foreign investors to Estonia;
• Working on eliminating regulative issues and barriers that are complicating the process of operating a startup, investing or raising funding in Estonia.
