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  Estonian programming school //kood opened its offices in Ukraine and Kenya with the support of the Estonian Service for International Development ( ESTDEV ). In Ukraine //kood cooperates with Zhytomyr Polytechnic University, and in Kenya the partner is GreatWell Training College in Nairobi. 

Estonian energy startup Gridraven has signed a contract with Finland's national grid operator Fingrid . Gridraven's software will increase the capacity of the country's existing transmission lines by 30%.

  Plural , a venture capital firm founded by Estonian entrepreneurs, has invested $8.5M in technology startup Sunrise Robotics .

Paynt , a payment technology company, has bought Canadian company E-xact Transactions . The acquisition of E-xact, which processes more than CAD 3.5B in more than 50M transactions annually, will create a new operations center in Vancouver, Canada.

Climate finance company InSoil has signed a €100M partnership agreement with Canadian investment firm Key Carbon . With the new investment, InSoil plans to expand its international carbon farming program to 1M hectares by the end of 2026.

Pactum , a developer of AI agents, has raised around €47M in a Series C, organized by Insight Partners .

Lithuanian artificial intelligence startup Sintra has raised €14.9M in a Seed round. The round was organized by Earlybird VC with participation of Inovo , Practica Capital and renowned business angels Mantas Mikuckas from Vinted and Einaras von Gravrock from Cast AI. Sintra will use the raised funds to further develop its products and expand its development and engineering team.