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Jana Saastamoinen: "Tartu people know how to organize quality events"
25.03.2024
Jana Saastamoinen is the newest Head Organizer of sTARTUp Day! She first joined the festival marketing team in 2019 as an assistant; the next year, she was already the Head of Marketing. Now, after a few years' break, she returned...
Head Organizer Noora Ustav: We keep innovating with Refresh
20.02.2024
Refresh, the biggest product and UX design conference in Estonia, is taking place in Tartu for the second time on April 11-12,...
Arts of Survival: How Entrepreneurs Make It in Culture and Artists Become Executives
12.12.2023
Culture and business can seem as two juxtaposing worlds: one driven by burning artistic passion, the other by cold hard cash. Yet...
sTARTUp Day joins forces with Tartu 2024
26.09.2023
Tartu together with Southern Estonia is the European Capital of Culture in 2024. We’re excited to announce Tartu 2024 as one of...
Kristen Tamm from Futuclass on innovating education with VR and building an EdTech startup
31.08.2023
Futuclass is a Tartu-based EdTech startup on a mission to make learning more engaging with the help of virtual reality. We talked...
What do you believe yourself to be capable of achieving?
10.08.2023
Personal Power comes from our perception of self and is the key to unlocking our true potential, writes Rein Lemberpuu in an essay...
HOPP design store – your trusted guide into the unknown
03.08.2023
Nestled at the heart of Tartu, HOPP is the design store of Tartu Centre for Creative Industries, launched very much in the...
Marek Alliksoo on the hydrogen revolution and its possibilities for Tartu and Estonia
20.07.2023
Hydrogen is seen to play a key role in reducing global CO2 emissions and transitioning to clean, renewable energy. We discussed the...
CDL Estonia helps to scale science- and technology-based startups
07.07.2023
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a non-profit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies. In...
Uku Tomikas from Messente on the future of SMS, combating user authentication fraud and effective leadership principles
01.06.2023
Uku Tomikas is the CEO of Messente Communications, the Tartu-based business messaging platform servicing companies worldwide. He is also a father, a...
The Pursuit of Scrappiness: Merging the Baltic startup bubbles
27.05.2023
Janis Zeps and Uldis Teraudkalns are co-hosts of The Pursuit of Scrappiness, the popular English-language startup podcast dedicated to actionable and scrappy...
sTARTUp Day recognized at the European Enterprise Promotion Awards
30.11.2022
sTARTUp Day was shortlisted in the category of supporting the internationalization of business at the European Enterprise Promotion Awards. Our team attended...
Marii Ingriin Saaremäe on bringing back the good old Refresh conference in a whole new way
10.11.2022
In January 2023, Refresh, the biggest product, UX design and front-end conference in Estonia, is returning after a 4-year hiatus. We had...
Kristjan Lind – the Estonian Young Entrepreneur of 2022!
13.10.2022
Kristjan Lind is the CEO and co-founder of Bikeep, the leading smart commercial scooter and bike parking and charging provider. Today, Kristjan...
Juudit Gross: a career change to IT must start with interest and desire to work there
22.09.2022
The career change from sea surveyor to IT developer was a logical step for Juudit (30), but at the same time a well-thought-out...
What do teens and your future employees really want? Wise shares 3 key takeaways from the latest survey
09.08.2022
Wise has been keeping a close eye on the youth for years now and has asked Kantar Emor to survey teens aged...
sTARTUp Day joins forces with Fractory
15.02.2022
The Tartu-founded cloud manufacturing company Fractory joins as one of the co-organizers of sTARTUp Day.
Meet our podcast hosts Marleen Aasa and Otto Oliver Olgo
01.12.2021
It’s time to get to know Marleen Aasa and Otto Oliver Olgo, consultants at Miltton New Nordics and the hosts of Season...
Sandra Saarniit on supporting local startup community and personal growth
21.10.2021
This week’s hero is Sandra Saarniit, Startup Community Development Manager at Startup Estonia whose mission is to foster collaboration and learning between...
Martin Kikas: "I scare off laziness with my fears."
20.09.2021
Ö STUDIO is a dynamic form of collaboration between audiovisual companies and artists that offers specialized art-directed multidisciplinary solutions such as video,...
Culture is what separates a great company from an average one
16.08.2021
Finding specialists with certain specific skills can be challenging in Estonia. But widening the search for talent from across borders gives the...
Digital nomads: a community of modern age builders and innovators
11.08.2021
By their very nature, digital nomads are inquisitive thinkers – they left the comfort of their hometown, the familiarity of their nine-to-five...
E-Residency of Estonia: The digital key to the perfect base for your growing startup
30.07.2021
Even while travel remains constrained, launching the next global startup means taking a global perspective. Digitally, we are all closer together than...
Triin Kask: "Female founders are catching up!"
02.06.2021
In the most recent episode of the sTARTUp Day podcast, our program manager Triin Kask talked about statistics related to female founders,...
Time donation as an effective team building method
25.04.2021
You know that feeling when you come back from a team event and feel really lucky because it was just so nice...
Exciting news from .Cocoon Ventures!
20.04.2021
We have two awesome announcements for you! For their first investment, .Cocoon Ventures joined the investment round for Jobilla with a 100,000€...
Ede and Sten Tamkivi – fearlessly breaking stereotypes
19.01.2021
Both women and men, entrepreneurs and employees in startups and large corporations, are trying to find and improve work-life balance. Although society...
Wrapping up the startup year 2020
31.12.2020
This year has been unpredictable, challenging, and demanding for all of us. You could even say that the everyday life of almost...
Trust and shared values are fundamental for a thriving community
16.12.2020
The statement “Think globally act locally” has never been more relevant. The restrictions on travel, meetings, and many other areas have not...
Remato – this year’s most outstanding startup in Tartu!
26.11.2020
Each year, the City of Tartu awards its best companies, including one noteworthy startup. This year, the title of the Most Outstanding...
7 challenges that make startups fail (and solutions)
09.11.2020
One of our co-organizers, .Contriber has been working with startups since 2014 when they opened offices and co-working spaces in Tartu. They...
Mart Lättekivi: "Maybe the midlife crisis just hit me at the age of 24."
23.10.2020
Mart Lättekivi is our amazing COO! He has been in the sTARTUp Day family for 3 years now. The first year he...
How Business Events Have Adapted to the COVID-19 Crisis
29.05.2020
The global COVID-19 pandemic has taken over the whole world, forcing businesses to adapt and innovate to stay afloat in this unprecedented...
New workforce sharing platform Share Force One emerges to help businesses resolve workforce-related problems during the crisis
23.03.2020
Developed by members of the sTARTUp Community and headed by Lauri Sokk, the first Head Organizer of sTARTUp Day, Share Force One...
The future of startup ecosystems as impact creators for the society - Sten-Kristian Saluveer
10.02.2020
Sten-Kristian is an Estonia/Japan based curator, audiovisual producer, and content & technology entrepreneur bridging Asia with Europe. He is the Founder of...
sTARTUp Mindset - what does it really mean?
24.01.2020
When we talk about sTARTUp Day, we’re always saying that we’re bringing together people with the startup mindset – not necessarily the...
Throwback to 2019 sTARTUp City highlights
31.12.2019
2019 is over and now it’s time to take a look back to everything that has happened in sTARTUp city! And oh...
Tartu Wall of Fame has been opened in SPARK Demo
26.12.2019
Since the end of November, the SPARK Demo features Tartu's own Wall of Fame, which currently shows 13 outstanding startups. Companies that...
Sorainen: Startup fundraising – how to do it right?
12.12.2019
Building a startup may seem like fun and games at first, but there are quite a few legal things to address when...
TransferWise: How To Teach Technology To Youngsters?
04.12.2019
sTARTUp Day has put together an exciting program for youngsters. Youth Area’s agenda includes idea-generating and prototyping workshops and offers young entrepreneurs...
sTARTUp Day idea founder Andres Kuusik leaves footprints to Tartu Pioneers' Alley
12.09.2019
This year Andres Kuusik, sTARTUp Day idea founder, was added to Tartu Pioneers' Alley. The purpose of the alley is to recognize...
Swedbank Has Stepped Into the Co-Organizers Circle
23.08.2019
We have some great news – Swedbank is now one of the 9 co-organizers of sTARTUp Day!
Meet our new Head Organizer Marili Vihmann
15.08.2019
Marili has been with sTARTUp Day since the very beginning. She started as the volunteers’ team lead and was a member of...
UX Tartu 2019 presents: Cleveron — helping people save time through innovation
17.04.2019
On this Thursday, 18th of April, the event UX Tartu will take place for the third time already! UX Tartu is a...
Hero of the Week: Rein Lemberpuu, CEO and Founder of .Contriber: “You Often Have to Work on Balancing the Opposites.”
17.01.2019
Rein Lemberpuu – a man who needs no further introduction. Though if you do – he is one of the Tartu startup...
The Successful sTARTUp Year 2018
16.01.2019
Tartu is the only city in the world which is in the word ‘sTARTUp’. 2018 was a remarkably successful year for Tartu’s...
sTARTUp Day is born from synergy of the community
14.01.2019
sTARTUp Day, which has now grown to be the biggest business festival in the Baltics, was brought to life two years ago...