Past events

2012

    • Springboard programme 26.09.2012 – Cumulus 164
    • 26 Sep 2012 – 15:00
    • Tallinn

    • We are very excited to have Cumulus 164 to participate in our Springboard programme. Cumulus 164 is a new concept of small-craft, multifunctional and easyly developed. Cumulus can be used as a gliding up to 50 hp motor boat, easy to handle sailboat , or comfortable rowboat. In every step its creators have thought of functionality and safety to make boating possible for everybody.

       

      Cumulus 164 as a sailboat
      Suitable for 1 – 8 persons
      Telescopic mast system
      Smart reefing option
      No keel, minimum draught
      only 10 cm
      unsinkable construction
      Comes with up to 50 hp motors
      Excellent stability
      Gliding hull design
      Easily maneuverable
      Optional cabin and steering console
      Cumulus 164 as a rowboat
      Lots of space for fishing equipment
      Low weight – easy to move
      Ergonomic cockpit design
      Easy to transport with specially designed trailer
      Cumulus 164 is made in Estonia by M&R BoatArt OÜ
    • Springboard programme on the 24th of Sept, 2012 – Cognuse
    • 24 Sep 2012 – 16:00
    • Tallinn

    • This September Connect Estonia delighted to have a great startup “Cognuse” pass our Springboard programme. Cognuse LLC was established in 2009 and develops diagnostics and training application for the cognitive rehabilitation and preventive care industry. Their product CognuseRehab is a full cognitive rehabilitation system for diagnostics, treatment and research for medical institutions. CognuseRehab allows health care professionals to manage and treat patients more efficiently. The clinically approved rehabilitation is accessible to patients anywhere on consumer devices – monitored by the therapist. Cloud-based and universally accessible, with their system, doctors and therapists can easily manage out- or inpatients and patients can access effective rehabilitation anywhere through the internet. In June we also took them with us to Auditus conference in London, where they received excellent feedback!

    • Startup Summer Fair 2012!
    • 26 Jun 2012 – 15:00
    • Tallinn

    • We have the pleasure to invite you to welcome the summer season with our annual Startup Summer Fair! This year the event will take place at Wabadus Cafe (2nd floor) in Vabaduse väljak 10. There will be intros and demos by different startups, snacks and drinks as well as great company and networking opportunities! The event is free of charge but please do register on the following link – http://startupsummerfair2012.eventbrite.com

      We look forward to seeing you!

       

       

       

    • Soovist tegelikkuseni: ettevõtjaks saamine. Paneelarutelu ettevõtjatega
    • 25 Apr 2012 – 08:45
    • Tallinn

    • Millal: 25. aprill 2012, 08:45-11:00

      Kus: Von Stackelberg Hotell, Toompuiestee 23 (Kaval-Antsu talu)

       

      Seminaril puudutatakse ettevõtte alustamise ning olemasolevalt “soojalt” töökohalt lahkumisega seotud dilemmasid.  Vastavasisulise ettekande teeb Tallinna Ülikooli professor ja  psühholoogia instituudi direktor Aleksander Pulver, kellel on harukordne oskus liita oma professionaalsed teadmised eluliste näidete ning huvitavate olukordadega.

      Professor Pulver on ka paljude väga edukate ettevõtjate nõustaja meeskonna- ja motivatsioonipsühholoogia teemadel.

      Aleksander Pulver paneb mõtlema alljärgnevatel teemadel

      -          Kuidas mitte mingil juhul ettevõtjana edukas olla

      -          Peapööritus edust ja reaalsed eesmärgid

      -          Enesekindlus ja enesekindlusetus

      -          Ettevõtja ja psühholoogiline kapital, ehk kuidas jääda edukaks   stressiolukordades

      Seminar on mõeldud neile, kes soovivad teada saada, miks head inimesed oma töökohalt ettevõtlusesse lahkuvad ning mis neid selleks tegelikult inspireerib. Samuti inimesed, kes on mõelnud ettevõtjaks hakata ja ka ettevõtjad, kes soovivad teadmisi täiendada ning enda sisse vaadata.

      Paneelarutelus jagavad oma kogemusi ettevõtlusmaastikul hästi tuntud: Andrei Korobeinik (seeriaettevõtja ja Riigikogu liige),Eero Tohver (edukas ettevõtja ja endine poliitik), Bruno Lill (eduka startupi looja) ja Kaur Lohk (seeriaettevõtja).

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      Andrei Korobeinik          Bruno Lill                  Kaur Lohk             Eero Tohver

      Paneelarutelul, tulevad arutlusele paneelis osalevate inimeste ettevõlustee alguses olnud hirmud, adrenaliin, perekonna suhtumine ja palju muud, millest nad seni palju rääkinud ei ole.

       

      Tule veeda hariv hommikupoolik meiega ning jaga ka oma mõtteid ja kogemusi!

       

      Lisainfo:

       

      Seminaril olalemine on tasuta!

      Registreerumine SIIN, või e-maili teel: tarvo.ong@connectestonia.net

       

      Ajakava:

      08.45-09.15         Registreerimine, kohv
      09.15                     Sissejuhatus, avasõnad
      09.20                     Aleksander Pulver
      10.05                     Paus
      10.10                     Paneeldiskussioon , arutelu (~25 min ).
      10.35                     Küsimused ja vastused

      10.45-11.00         Networking                                        

      * seminar toimub eesti keeles

      Moderaator: Tarvo Tamm (Connect Estonia juhatuse liige)

       

       

    • Springboard day on 4th of April
    • 4 Apr 2012 – 13:00
    • Tallinn

    • We are glad to announce that Connect Estonia is hosting two Springboard companies in one day: Positium and Navistepper!

      The purpose of the Springboard Start panel  is to give feedback and advice on business strategy, its development roadmap, positioning, pricing,  go-to-market,  sales channel strategy and readiness  for raising external funding.

      4th of April @Swedbank

      Navistepper is a high performance GPS pedometer logger that combines 3 dimensional sensor technology and GPS tracker for ultra simple user experience with Nordic walking poles.

      Positium is providing location based analytics solutions based on  mobile operator data.   Positium is a revenue generating company in the internationalization phase and considering raising additional funding to support its growth potential.

      You can have a glimpse at both projects teasers:

       

      NAVISTEPPER project teaser

      Paragraph summary
      Navistepper is a high performance GPS pedometer logger that combines 3 dimensional sensor technology and GPS tracker for ultra simple user experience with Nordic walking poles.
      Description of the Solution
      There are several special wrist watches and other gadgets with built-in displays and numerous additional features, not to mention smart phone apps, but they all are too complicated to use by Navistepper target group. Navistepper is a “one button device” for Nordic walkers to track their training (steps and GPS track) and up-load it to Navistepper website for future reference and sharing.

       

      Customers and Addressable Market
      Navistepper targets Nordic walkers, who find available health and training monitoring devices too complicated to use, especially retirees taking daily walks, but who would still like to follow up with their exercise using modern technology in its simplest and user friendly form.

       

      Revenue model and go-to- market strategy
      Navistepper shall be sold directly to customers via TV-shops in US.
      Management team
      Navistepper was invented by Veljo Kurik (lawyer by education; serial entrepreneur and author of several inventions) and who is now the CEO of the company.

      Major achievements
      Company has built functional product prototype.  Company has conducted  preliminary market research and  preparations for focus group study in Florida.

      Finances
      Company has been bootstrapping. Depending on the final strategy, company is considering the external funding round 40 KEUR in the current phase.

       

       

       

       

      POSITIUM project teaser

      Paragraph summary

      Positium has developed location based analytics solution to provide valuable structured information about locations and movement flows of people based on mobile operators’ impersonalized (anonymous) massive positioning data.

      The solution can create a significant value in human location and movement statistics improving decision-making quality in the transportation planning, urban planning, tourism statistics, public rescue and safety as well as market research and advertisement industry (geomarketing).
      Description of the Solution/Product

      Company’s core product – Positium Data Mediator (PDM) is a universal, cost-effective platform enabling processing of mobile operator’s mass raw location data in order to deliver meaningful, understandable information without compromising the privacy of individuals or operator’s trade secrets. This meaningful information is brought to the end-users via company’s web-based applications (Positium Barometer) in form of monitoring tools, decision support systems and on-the-fly analytical reports. The core value of the PDM and corresponding applications is based on spatio-temporal socio-behavioral methodology and proprietary algorithms developed by the research team.

       

      Customers and Addressable Market

      Company targets both various public sector and commercial verticals. In the public sector, Positium targets various public organizations dealing with tourism statistics as a market entering first-line customers. Organizations like statistical offices, tourism boards, national banks, large municipalities use Positium’s monitoring tool for generating inbound, outbound and domestic tourism statistics. Company is planning to enter traffic and urban planning, rescue and public safety markets in the following rounds of expansion to the new markets. In the commercial sector, market research and outdoor advertisement are key market segments to enter. Those sectors add up to several hundred million EUR of addressable market.
      Revenue model and go-to- market strategy

      Company is considering data brokerage model providing upside and revenue sharing model for operators thereby lowering entry barriers. The operators are considered as data providers with Positium (and or local Partners) acting as data service provider for the end-users. Company plans to engage global telco vendor partners and local integration partners for the market entry depending on the specific cases.
      Management team

      The company has a long term experience in location based services, computer sciences and data integration combined with top academic academic research experience in human geography and GIS. Company has 8 FTE lead by Margus Tiru (CEO) and Erki Saluveer (CTO). 
      Major achievements
      Company has built functional product and has strong traction in the above mentioned sectors where it has a proven sandbox-monetization in Estonia; It has a 6+ years of developing, fine-tuning and utilizing its spatio-temporal socio-behavioral methodology resulting in the customer cases.

      Company is in the advance negotiation phase with pilot cases in Ireland, Ukraine and Austria to enter international markets.

      Finances
      Depending on the final strategy, company is considering the external funding round ca 200-300 KEUR in the current phase.

       

       

       

       

2011

    • Connect Norra kutsub: Telenor Partnertreff Oslos
    • 6 May 2011 – 09:00
    • Oslo

    • CONNECT Østlandet (Norway) is currently looking for 6-8 promising startups/early stage companies in ICT, preferably related to mobile phones, from CONNECTs network in the Nordic countries.
      The start-ups are invited to present themselves to Telenor and its partners at “Telenor Partnertreff” on June 9 th. 2011.

      Telenor Partnertreff 2010 was attended by more than 150 potential partners to new companies in ICT and we expect the number to be even higher this year.

      CONNECT Østlandet is hosting a major part of the program and will give the selected companies around 10 minutes each on the main stage.
      In addition to the presentations there will be many opportunities for networking and direct meetings.

    • Ajujahi finalistide esitluste peaproov toimub 5.mail
    • 5 May 2011 – 11:00

    • Millal: 5. mail kell 17.00-19.00
      Kus: Garage Hub ( Vana-Lõuna 39a-7,http://hub.garage48.org/location)

      Connect Estonia korraldab neljapäeval, 5. mail äriplaanivõistluse Ajujaht finalistide esitluse peaproovi ja viimase tagasiside andmise.

    • Elevator Pitch Contest at ItechLaw
    • 2 May 2011 – 11:00

    • THE INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY LAW ASSOCIATION
      in collaboration with
      ENTERPRISE ESTONIA and  PITCH CONTEST ORGANIZERS       Arctic Startup, Tehnopol, Estonian Development Fund, Connect Estonia announce the

      Elevator Pitch Contest

      on June 3, 2011

      to be held in Conjunction with the Association’s Fourth Annual Tallinn Conference (June 2-3, 2011, Swissotel, Tallinn, Estonia)

      Practice your pitch and get ready for professional venture capitalists’ feedback!

    • EAS ootab ärksaid ettevõtjaid liituma ärimentorprogrammiga!
    • 22 Mar 2011 – 11:28

    • EAS ootab ambitsioonikaid alustavaid ettevõtjaid kandideerima ärimentorprogrammi! Programmist osavõtjatel on võimalus aasta jooksul osaleda alustava ja kogenud ettevõtja koostööpaari töös ning erinevatel ettevõtlusalastel koolitustel ja seminaridel.

    • Seminar Soome kasvuettevõtete arengust
    • 9 Feb 2011 – 16:00

    • Connect Eesti korraldab 9. veebruaril Tallinna Teaduspargis Tehnopol seminari Soome start-up maastiku võimalikest õppetundidest Eestile.

    • Seminar ettevõtete finantsplaneerimisest
    • 17 Jan 2011 – 11:41

    • Connect Estonia korraldab 17. jaanuaril seminari edukast finantsplaneerimisest ettevõtetes, kus muuhulgas selgitatakse, kuidas valmistada kasvuettevõte ette investori sisenemiseks.

2010

    • Springboard skriinimissessioon Tallinnas 16. novembril
    • 16 Nov 2010 – 11:48

    • Connect Estonia järgmine skriinimissessioon leiab aset 16ndal novembril Tallinnas.

      Springboard programmi skriinimine toimub teisipäeval, 16.11.2010 algusega 15.00, et võtta Springboard programmi vastu uusi ettevõtteid. Ettekande teeb 4-6 start-up’i, kellele annab tagasisidet ekspertpaneel.

    • Ametisse valiti Connect Estonia uus nõukogu (2010-2012a)
    • 25 May 2010 – 11:51

    • 25. mail 2010 toimus Tallinnas igaastane Connect Estonia üldkoosolek, kuhu oli kogunenud ligi 30 liikmesorganisatsiooni esindajad. Üldkoosolekul valiti muuhulgas valiti ametisse uues koosseisus nõukogu.

    • Springboard companies selected
    • 8 Feb 2010 – 11:53

    • We are happy to announce that we have decided to re-energize the Springboard programme with some key modifications.
      First, we introduced screening session before formal enrollment into springboard programme. This session allows us to evaluate the quality level of springboard at entry level, activate the member base and unlock the coaching resources. Secondly, we will introduce the wider- based coaching system. Having extended coaching system with 5 external coaches in place we can provide springboard programme to at least 15 growth companies annually. This would be a significant volume increase allowing us leverage the network resources and catalyze the development of growth companies.

2009

    • ArcticEvening in Tallinn
    • 3 Dec 2009 – 13:00

    • (Arctic Startup in cooperation with Connect Estonia and OpenCoffeeTallinn)

    • Partnership and Deal-Making in the Global Arena
    • 28 Oct 2009 – 12:58

    • Partnerships and using them when entering foreign markets was the main topic of the seminar held in October.
      Andris Berzins from Latvia and Andreas Sundgren from Swedish company Toontrack talked about their experience in different  types of partnership- technology, reseller, strategic. Entrepreneur Indrek Kask joined our guest speakers for the panel discussion.
      Event was siupported by Estonian Development Fund and IN.ee.

       

    • How to Make Start-ups Grow?
    • 30 Sep 2009 – 12:56

    • On the last day of September, Connect Estonia seminar and networking event took place. At the event it was possible to learn some good tips and recommendations from the entrepreneurs who have raised funds. Altogether there were about 60 participants attending. Speakers Ragnar Sass (United Dogs& Cats) and Jouko Vierumäki (Fromdistance) were looking answers to questions: If and when to look for an investor? How to find a suitable one? When you should drop the idea?

    • Sea-kayaking Trip to Pedassaare
    • 27 Aug 2009 – 13:01

    • Fun and sporty kayaking trip from Valkla to Pedassaare and back. The event was held in cooperation with Sorainen Law Office.

      We made a round with circa 30 people with two seated kayaks around the island and enjoyed the view of sunset to the sea while drinking hot tea.

      The tradition of Connect Estonia member events started in August 2008, when we got acquainted with golfing.

       

    • Connect Estonia Annual General Assembly
    • 3 Jun 2009 – 12:55

    • At the Assembly we concluded the financial year 2008 and affirmed the annual report. In the panel discussion programs’ development possibilities were discussed and the evening finished with quiz in teams and lively networking under the palm trees of Tallinn Botanical Garden.

       

    • Selling products and services to foreign customer: tax aspects which need attention
    • 19 May 2009 – 12:53

    • Seminar in cooperation with Deloitte, Speakers: Ivo Vanasaun and Olga Lavrova

      The focus of the morning seminar was on tax issues which entrepreneurs need to know when they are selling their goods to foreign customers. Speakers gave an overview and answered all questions regarding sales tax and income tax in cross-border transactions.

       

    • From Science to Entrepreneur & From Entrepreneur to Science
    • 29 Apr 2009 – 12:52

    • Seminar in cooperation with University of Tartu

      At the seminar about commercialization and partnership presentations were made by diverse experts: David Brown (Canatu), Jari Mieskonen (Conor Venture Partners), Juhani Lahdenperä (PlexPress), Erik Puura (Tartu Ülikool) and leaders of university research projects.

2008

No events

2007

No events

2006

No events

2005

No events