#EstonianMafia Wall of Fame keeps growing despite 2020 being probably
one of the most challenging years for founders and startup employees.
Warm welcome Paxful, RangeForce & Klaus to the Wall of Fame!
#ESTONIANMAFIA WALL OF FAME CRITERIA:
80% - 100% revenue growth a year
€ 3M+ annual revenue and/or €5M+ funding
€ 100 000+ Taxes paid to Estonian Government per quarter
Impact to the community
Paxful
Paxful, Inc. is a US startup founded in New York City in 2015 by two guys; Ray and Artur. Paxful is a leading peer-to-peer powered bitcoin marketplace and a universal money translator. Their mission is social justice through financial freedom worldwide. The platform opens up a new market of 2 billion people who have no access to banking services but do have the ability to buy bitcoin via one of the 300+ payment methods enabled by Paxful.
Currently, they have over 200 dedicated employees globally and are growing rapidly: “We have millions of users, a strong business model, and are completely bootstrapped. One of our pillars is giving back to the communities we help through initiatives such as #BuiltWithBitcoin.”
Paxful is making Bitcoin work for the underbanked people of the world and making a real difference in the. These folks have a real option now thanks to Bitcoin and Paxful.
RangeForce
RangeForce was founded in 2015 by three entrepreneurs Taavi Must, Margus Enrits, and Jaanus Kink who worked together as contractors to help create the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence (CCDCOE) cyber range. This safe “red team/blue team” space was used to recreate realistic cyberattacks and improve the detection and containment operations for member nation cyber defense teams.
In 2015, the founders created the RangeForce Cyber Skill Training Platform. Four years later, the company has grown to over 50 people, 100 customers, hundreds of training modules, and ten cyber exercises, but the founding principles learned from working with NATO are still followed.
Klaus
Tallinn-based startup Klaus is a conversation review and QA platform for customer support teams, improving customer service quality by making internal feedback easy and systematic. Klaus was founded in 2018 by Kair Käsper, Martin Kõiva and Egon Sale.
Klaus provides companies a quick way of getting started with a quality assurance program by connecting to popular help desk software. It allows companies to easily filter out conversations they want to review, rate them based on a customized scorecard and notify agents that received feedback automatically through email or Slack. For companies that already have a process in place, it promises to cut the time spent on reviewing one conversation by 70%.
Estonian-founded SaaS startup Klaus has secured $5.4 million in funding to boost the development of its platform, which helps large support teams improve conversations with customers by speeding up and simplifying the internal feedback process. The financing round was led by Global Founders Capital. Klaus is also backed by Creandum, Icebreaker and the founders of Estonian CRM scale-up Pipedrive, among other entrepreneurs/angel investors.
