e-Residency

Every month, our Live Q&A brings together the e-Residency team and members of our global community to answer your questions. This month, we're putting the spotlight on the community. Alongside our regular guidance on applying for e-Residency, setting up an Estonian company, banking, and tax considerations, we'll hear more in-depth from experienced e-residents about what it's really like to build a business through Estonia. Joining our Community Manager Stina Remmer and Head of Partnerships Raimo Matvere are: 💬 Carolin Desirée Toepfer, co-founder & CISO at Cyttraction® 💬 Daeho Choi, co-founder of Boundee 💬 Stefano Amorelli, Tech Community Leader and software engineer They'll share their experiences, lessons learned, and practical advice – giving you a chance to hear not just how the process works, but what it's like in practice. Whether you're exploring e-Residency or already planning your next steps, we'd love to have you join the conversation and bring your questions 👉 August 19 at 3PM EEST!

Nearly every second startup founded in Estonia over the past two years has involved an e-resident. 💡 That clearly shows that e-Residency has become an important part of Estonia's startup ecosystem. 📊 The latest data reveals: ▪️ 48% of startups founded in Estonia in recent years were connected to an e-resident. ▪️ 43% of active startups in Estonia have e-residents involved. ▪️ 7 of the 18 Estonian startups that raised funding in Q1 2026 were founded by or connected to e-residents. ▪️ 67 of the 465 Latitude59 startup competition applicants included at least one e-resident. From AI and deeptech to defence technology, founders from around the world are choosing Estonia as the place to build companies that are designed to grow internationally from day one. Why? Because starting and running an EU company can be done fully online, with minimal bureaucracy, while giving founders access to one of Europe's most founder-friendly business environments. As our Managing Director, Liina Vahtras, puts it: "Estonia is the preferred choice for many startup entrepreneurs with bright ideas precisely because of e-Residency, which allows a company to be launched quickly, completely digitally, and with minimal bureaucracy." 🇪🇪 Today, every fifth new company established in Estonia is founded by an e-resident. Together, they have founded more than 40,000 Estonian companies, generated over €433 million in economic impact, and continue to strengthen Estonia's position as a global hub for entrepreneurship.

What do The Tinder Swindler, Richard Branson, an Atlantic rowing boat and a song about expense software have in common? Somehow, Winning Friends. 😃 In this clip, Cecilie Fjellhøy, Jason Caldwell, Jeff Pan and Mike Southon share four unexpected stories that, in a lighthearted way, invite us to think about judgement, timing and the strange ways business relationships can begin. 💬 Where did your most unexpected business opportunity come from? 🎧 Explore the full conversations 👉 https://lnkd.in/eGJFWz3s

Is there such a thing as useful failure? 🤔 Failure and entrepreneurship go hand in hand, yet "fail fast" is not very useful advice on its own. The useful part is not the failure itself, but the way the attempt is set up, measured and understood afterwards. In this clip, Winning Friends guests David Gram, Jeff Pan and Pepe Villatoro share three perspectives on failure: 🔹 What companies can learn from experiments that do not quite work 🔹 Why founders should move quickly towards better answers 🔹 How to practise educated trying without putting the whole business at risk The common thread is discipline: failure becomes useful only when it helps the team make a better next decision. 🎧 Explore the full conversations from our website!

"You'll have many moments when you want to give up. Don't." This mindset helped Igor Raikhelgauz build Magrat through financial crises, shifting banking landscapes, and constant change, all while supporting e-residents on their journey. Meet the people behind the companies supporting e-residents. 🌍 One of the best things about the e-Residency Marketplace is that every service provider brings their own founder story, shaped by real challenges and experience, and is carefully vetted by us. A reminder that resilience, adaptability, and truly listening to your customers go a long way. From early challenges to becoming a top-rated e-Residency service provider, this is the story of Magrat. 👇

What does an effective experimentation actually look like? Let's talk about that and what teams of any size can learn from LEGO's approach to innovation. 💡 LEGO's turnaround did not come from "more creativity" – it came from changing how the organisation made decisions under uncertainty: what to test, how to learn early, and how to avoid turning experimentation into expensive theatre. David Gram spent nearly a decade inside LEGO working on that shift. In this episode of Winning Friends, he shares the practices that made experimentation more disciplined and more adoptable, including how to plan for resistance, build support before you need it, and push change without burning bridges. 💬 How do you decide which ideas are worth testing and which to leave alone? If you've ever felt the gap between a good idea and a system that can actually absorb it, this conversation will resonate. 🎧 Watch the full episode from the link below!