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In the end of November, a new startup hub called Spring Hub was opened in Tallinn with a gala evening and a series of open doors events. You can find our recap of the opening night and the first thoughts and expectations from several community members to the new hub over here. Photo: Maido Parv

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In November, The Climate Corporation acquired VitalFields, a farm management software, which marked a great exit for the startup ecosystem members who contributed to their success including Garage48, Startup Wise Guys, SmartCap and Estonian Business Angels Network; Jobbatical raised an additional $1M from an Australian VC-firm AirTree Ventures to help establish and strengthen their presence in the Asia-Pacific region; Sprayprinter and Click&Grow started crowdfunding on Kickstarter and Flexibell on Indiegogo; Cleveron kicked off a cooperation regarding their PackRobot with Walmart; Startup Wise Guys accelerator started crowdfunding their next batch on Funderbeam.

As you can see, November was a busy month for the community and it was busy for our team too. We took part of the biggest tech conference in Europe, Web Summit and had a good time promoting our startup ecosystem; we are slowly starting the organising work for Startup Nations Summit, the largest and most international startup policy event in the world, that we will have the pleasure of hosting in Estonia in 2017; and carried out the first and very successful Startup Week in Estonia.

Take the best of the few weeks before the holidays and find time to wind down, enjoy and relax too! :)

Startup Estonia team

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