{"id":44576,"date":"2018-02-20T13:30:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T11:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/?p=44576"},"modified":"2018-02-20T13:32:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T11:32:17","slug":"estonian-startups-rocked-estonia-whole-world-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/estonian-startups-rocked-estonia-whole-world-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"How Estonian startups rocked Estonia and the whole world in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/startup-estonia-2017-overview.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-44577 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/startup-estonia-2017-overview-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/startup-estonia-2017-overview-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/startup-estonia-2017-overview-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/startup-estonia-2017-overview-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/startup-estonia-2017-overview-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/startup-estonia-2017-overview-400x225.png 400w, https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/startup-estonia-2017-overview-200x113.png 200w, https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/startup-estonia-2017-overview-270x152.png 270w, https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/startup-estonia-2017-overview-544x306.png 544w, https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/startup-estonia-2017-overview.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startupestonia.ee\/\">Startup Estonia<\/a> presents the overview of the year 2017 in Estonian startup scene, including the statistics about biggest employers, investments and exits, taxes paid, turnovers and much more.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>3 Exits<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teleport.com\/\">Teleport<\/a>\u00a0was acquired by MoveGuides<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planet.os\/\">PlanetOS<\/a>\u00a0by Intertrust<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zeroturnaround.com\/\">Zeroturnaround<\/a>\u00a0by Rogue Wave Software\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>*Deal sizes are undisclosed, but\u00a0at\u00a0least one\u00a0ofthem estimated to be in 50MEUR range<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>270M raised in 2017\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Transferwise 240M<\/p>\n<p>Skeleton Technologies 15M<\/p>\n<p>Jobbatical 3,5M<\/p>\n<p>Zeroturnaround\u00a03,5M<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Emplyment Taxes gowth was 30%\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tax contributions have been growing by a 3rd year- on -year basis totalling to 37M eur in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>*from 28M (2016) and\u00a021M a year before.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Startup Headcount\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since 2017 employment data is publicly accessible through\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stat.ee\/en\">Statistics Estonia.<\/a>\u00a0More than 500 new jobs were created during the year only in Estonian offices.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Biggest employers \u2013\u00a0<\/strong><strong>4300<\/strong> <strong>people in total including \u00a0offices abroad<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Transferwise\u00a0486 in EE; \u00a0350 abroad<\/p>\n<p>Pipedrive\u00a0287 in EE; \u00a072 abroad<\/p>\n<p>Taxify went from 39 to 174 people in EE; \u00a0150 abroad<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Quarterly and annual turnovers<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>270M eur in revenues\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>*The turnover data relies on quaterly data published by Statistics Estonia since April 2017. Only turnovers consolidated into Estonian business antities have been included.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>See the detailed infographic and a deeper analysis with comments from seasoned members of Estonian startup scene from Startup Estonia blog <a href=\"http:\/\/startupestonia.ee\/blog\/how-estonian-startups-rocked-estonia-and-the-whole-world-in-2017\">HERE<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startupestonia.ee\">www.startupestonia.ee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>Sources:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/startupestonia.ee\/\" target=\"_self\">Startup Estonia<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stat.ee\/en\" target=\"_self\">Statistics Estonia<\/a>, Crowdsourced databases, Estonian startup Jobs and Headcount, Funding of Estonian Tech Startups #estonianmafia<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Data crunched by:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rivoriistop\/\" target=\"_self\">Rivo Riistop<\/a>\u00a0(Startup Estonia)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Startup Estonia presents the overview of the year 2017 in Estonian startup scene, including the statistics about biggest employers, investments and exits, taxes paid, turnovers and much more.\u00a0 3 Exits Teleport\u00a0was acquired by MoveGuides PlanetOS\u00a0by Intertrust Zeroturnaround\u00a0by Rogue Wave Software\u00a0 *Deal sizes are undisclosed, but\u00a0at\u00a0least one\u00a0ofthem estimated to be in 50MEUR range 270M raised in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":44577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}