2025 was a record year for Estonia's flagship e-Residency program, bringing in €125 million to state coffers, a rise of 87 percent. Estonian e-residents founded 5,556 companies (a rise of 15 percent ...

A planned transition to remote biometric identity verification for e-Residency could generate an additional 3 to 9 million euros in tax revenue each year.

The e-residency program of Estonia is now under the local regulator’s radar as foreigners registered as e-residents of the Baltic nation are being linked to cryptocurrency frauds. The local police’s ...

Digital residency could nullify the worst-case scenario of a no-deal Brexit for small companies and entrepreneurs, according to Ott Vatter, managing director of Estonia’s e-Residency programme.

Estonia introduced the groundbreaking e-residency initiative in December 2014, revolutionizing the entrepreneurial landscape. Estonia's e-Residency program is a digital infrastructure that empowers ...

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Pope Francis on Tuesday became an e-resident of Estonia while on a visit to the cyber-savvy Baltic country known for being one of the world's most wired nations. "Pope Francis is the 37,647th ...

An open market in the Estonian capital of Tallinn. Source: Wiki Commons. This month, the tiny European Republic of Estonia is rolling out the world's first "e-residency" program. What the heck is ...

Liina Vahtras, managing director of e-Residency, is seeking to build an international "fanbase" for the eastern European country of Estonia. In the topsy-turvy geopolitical times in which we find ...

The small Baltic Sea nation of Estonia is emerging as an AI powerhouse. Estonia is pushing an AI-based education integration program and expanding AI-assisted cancer diagnosis technology and automated ...