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Estonia Start-Up Visa

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Name of visa/program: Startup Estonia

Duration of visa: 1 year

Average duration until acceptance: Unknown

Cost: 80 Euro

URL: Program Link

The Estonian Startup Visa helps non-EU founders grow their startup in Estonia. Estonia is a well known place for start-up.

  • Your startup business model must be scalable and have big growth potential
  • your startup must be innovative and offer something that the market does not
  • have yet startup must have the potential to grow globally, you must already
  • have a MVP (minimum viable product) startup must be approved by the Startup Committee.

So far, Estonia has been the birthplace of 10 unicorns: Skype in 2005, Playtech in 2007, Wise in 2015, Bolt in 2018, Pipedrive in 2020, Zego, ID.me and Gelato in 2021, Veriff and Glia in 2022. That’s 7.7 unicorns per million capita.
This is impressive but based on language and personal experience, you may find Estonia less suited to your personal needs, especially if your have other options. Please also see e-residency in Estonia.

 

 

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