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The deadline for submitting smart city solutions for the €100 000 Tallinnovation innovation competition is 15 September.

The Tallinnovation competition, which supports smart city solutions, received ten applications this year. The city of Tallinn, along with the Tehnopol Science and Business Park, chose four winners from among the ten applicants. The winners will receive 100,000 euros of investment, which is a record-breaking sum.

Tallinn's 2023 budget includes bridge funding through Tallinn Industrial Parks to start construction of the Tallinn Film Wonderland. In the area of entrepreneurship, attention will also be paid to promoting Tallinn as an attractive tourist destination, supporting small businesses and green innovation. Operational expenditure is planned to be €2.6 million.

The Tallinn City Government decided at today's meeting to establish the Tallinn Hospital Development Foundation, which will coordinate the construction and development of the hospital's medical campus.

From 4 April, a free online Estonian language course "Learn and speak with me" will be launched by Multikey Online School with the support of the City of Tallinn.

Seedbed for next unicorns! Free business idea development program STARTERtallinn opens its new semester with the Launch Event on the 17th of February at 14:00-18:00 in TalTech Mektory.

In 2021, the Estonian startup ecosystem witnessed several significant moments. Wise became the first Estonian decacorn, investments into Estonian startups more than doubled compared to 2020 and the turnover of startups showed a very high growth rate. Our startups are getting more mature while offering jobs to more than 8100 people and paying 125M EUR in employment taxes in 2021. Furthermore, 4 startups successfully exited and 3 new unicorns were born. Let’s dig deeper to 2021 in the Estonian startup scene!

Estonian Startup Awards 2021 gala took place on January 21, 2022. Over 300 startuppers and impact makers of the sector gathered at Vaba Lava to officially wrap up 2021 and celebrate the biggest wins of the year. Most noteworthily, 8 award trophies found a new home - scroll down to see the FULL SHORTLISTS and WINNERS of Estonian Startup Awards 2021.

This will be your year, founder! Grab the unicorn by the horn or jump into the zebra saddle and apply to Tehnopol Startup Incubator’s growth programme. The application forms are open until January 28.

Estonian startup community is growing well. And this year will bring us more! That’s why we are excited to announce that until 2nd of February is the last chance to get your super early bird tickets to Latitude59 2022 conference.