EIT Digital opens office in Tallinn, connecting Estonia and the Baltics to its pan-European ecosystem

The new office has been established with the support of TalTech / Tallinn University of Technology and the Estonian Research Council (ETAG). In his welcome remarks, Gert Jervan, Dean at TalTech School of Informatics, pointed out that “The Estonian innovation ecosystem is lively and vibrant, which is illustrated by numerous examples of very successful startups. But this ecosystem requires stronger links with European actors and I consider the EIT Digital Tallinn office as a great opportunity to establish and develop these connections across Europe.”

Järvan’s statement was complemented by Bolt co-founder Martin Villig: “The European ecosystem could learn from Estonia about digital. The Bolt business model was not regulated yet, and we understood that in order to innovate we needed to collaborate with the regulators. We also need to innovate in regulation.” For start-up founders he had three clear recommendations to succeed: “Dream big, don’t sell too early, and fail fast!”