UAE-Estonia Business Council

Principal at Mubadala Investment Company, and the co-chair of the UAE-Estonia Business Council. Currently overlooking Mubadala’s strategic investment partnerships, with 10+ years of professional investments experience as an M&A expert at Mubadala (Abu Dhabi) and Morgan Stanley (London).

Mr Hando Sutter is a member of Eurelectric Board of Directors since March 2015. He also serves as a member of the Council of Estonian Employers’ Confederation and is heading the education working group there. In addition, Mr Sutter is a member of the Council of Estonian Health Trails Foundation. Hando Sutter has graduated Tallinn University of Technology as mechanical engineer, and also completed MBA course in Estonian Business School.

Contact: Fatima Arif Almulla, [email protected]

Ministry of Climate Change and Environment’s mission of spearheading the UAE drive to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change, protect the country’s ecosystems, and enhance its food and water security through developing and implementing effective measures, policies, and initiatives.

Contact: Dr. Faisal Mohamed Al Ali , [email protected]

Develop an innovative Education System for a knowledge and global competitive society, that includes all age groups to meet future labor market demand, by ensuring quality of the ministry of education outputs, and provision of best services for internal and external customers

Contact: Salem Al Shamsi, [email protected] and Obaid Al Nuaimi, [email protected]

Mubadala Investment Company is a sovereign investor managing a global portfolio, aimed at generating sustainable financial returns for the Government of Abu Dhabi.

Mubadala’s $284 billion portfolio spans six continents with interests in multiple sectors and asset classes. The company leverages its deep sectoral expertise and long-standing partnerships to drive sustainable growth and profit, while supporting the continued diversification and global integration of the economy of the United Arab Emirates.

Contact: Ahmed Alawadhi, [email protected] and Amalia Giannakikou, [email protected]

Masdar is a global leader in renewable energy and sustainable urban development. Over the past decade, we have pioneered commercially viable solutions in clean energy, sustainable real estate and clean technology in the UAE and around the world.

Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, we develop renewable energy projects, realise low-carbon urban development and advance clean-tech innovation. We also deliver world-class knowledge and industry platforms

Contact: Sebastian Bock, [email protected]

Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD) is the principal investment arm of the Government of Dubai.
Established in 2006, ICD manages a broad portfolio of assets, both locally and internationally, across a wide spectrum of sectors that support Dubai’s dynamic economy.

ICD’s mandate is to consolidate and manage the Government’s portfolio of commercial companies and investments. ICD also provides strategic oversight by developing and implementing an investment strategy and corporate governance policies that maximise value for the long-term benefit of the Emirate of Dubai.

Contact: Mohammed Almusharrakh, [email protected]

Sharjah Investment and Development Authority. Shurooq is the driving force behind the transformation of Sharjah. Guided by our traditions and inspired by innovation, we are committed to enhancing Sharjah’s appeal as an investment, tourism, and business destination. An independent government entity, we facilitate partnerships and connect investors, corporations, and entrepreneurs with the right opportunities. focusing on Eco tourim, Art, Real Estate and Hospitality.

Contact: Serene Shalan, [email protected]

ADIO, an independent authority, was established by Law No.1 of 2019, issued by the UAE President, His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The office is responsible for implementing a strategy to increase foreign direct investment in Abu Dhabi by supporting investors and companies looking to establish or expand in Abu Dhabi.

In January 2021, ADIO announced the opening of eight international offices in Tel Aviv, New York, San Francisco, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Beijing and Seoul, in an effort to attract global investors to the emirate. ADIO’s international offices provide localised support and facilitate connections between companies in their respective markets and Abu Dhabi.

Contact: Faisal Alhawi, [email protected]

The Foundation is a reflection of the city it was born in; starting with humble beginnings yet driven with ambitious goals. Carrying the torch of innovation and following in the footsteps of our forefathers, the Dubai Future Foundation challenges the status quo, embraces risk-taking and places big bets to build a better future. The Dubai Future Foundation builds a cohesive innovation ecosystem that includes, accelerator programs, incubators, labs, regulatory sandboxes, and knowledge platforms – all with the purpose of challenging the status quo and designing a future-ready city powered by future leaders and disrupters.

Contact: Hussain Almahmoudi, [email protected]

Established in 2016 by royal decree of H.H. Sheikh Sultan Bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Ruler of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, The Sharjah Research, Technology, and Innovation Park Free Zone (SRTIP) aims to develop and manage an innovation ecosystem that promotes Research and Development and supports enterprise activities and the triple helix collaboration of industry, government and academia. The park will focus on 6 research areas: Water Management, Renewable Energy, Environmental Technology, Transport & Logistics, Digitalization and Smart Manufacturing.

Contact: Sulaiman Youssif Al Ali, [email protected] and Elmuiz Saad, [email protected]

Thuraya, is the mobile satellite services subsidiary of the UAE-based Al Yah Satellite Communications Company P.J.S.C. (Yahsat), which is a public company and subsidiary of Mubadala Investment Company. Established in 1997, Thuraya is the UAE’s first home grown satellite operator. We offer innovative communications solutions to a variety of sectors including energy, government, broadcast media, maritime, military, aerospace and humanitarian NGO. Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, UAE, Yahsat is the first company in the Middle East and Africa (MENA) to offer Ka-band services Yahsat’s commercial Ka-band coverage has extended to an additional 20 markets, reaching 60% of Africa’s population and over 95% of Brazil’s population. Thuraya’s two satellites, serving over 160 countries, has expanded the group’s satellite fleet to five.

Contact: Nael Khalil, [email protected]

Al Dahra is a prominent multinational leader in agribusiness, specializing in the cultivation, production and trading of animal feed and essential food commodities and end-to-end supply chain management. Serving a large customer base spanning the Government and Commercial sectors, Al Dahra has a widespread geographic footprint, with a workforce of 5,000 employees, operating in over 20 countries and catering to more than 45 markets, with a leading position in Asia and the Middle East. It is also a leading player in the production, packaging, marketing and distribution of grains, operating 3 rice mills and 2 flour mills with the capacity to produce 500,000 MT of flour and 500,000 MT of rice, annually. It further owns and operates a grains hub strategically located at the Fujairah port in UAE with 20 silos and more than 300,000 MT storage capacity.

Contact: Mahmood Mian, [email protected]

The Kanoo Group is a diversified business conglomerate based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with business interests across several industries, including shipping and logistics, travel, machinery, oil and gas, industrial chemicals, and retail.

Contact: Stella Täht, [email protected]

Estonian Aviation Cluster is a private non-for-profit organization, what was established in January, 2019. We are an entry point of Estonian aviation and birthplace of companies with global ambitions. Our geographical location enable us to act as a gateway to Northern and Eastern Europe. We gather the main stakeholders from aviation and interrelated sectors and connect it to the global network of aviation clusters.

Contact: Kuldar Väärsi, [email protected]

Milrem Robotics is the European leading robotics and autonomous systems developer and systems integrator. The company was established in 2013. Its mission is to provide innovative robotics solutions for challenging environments and retrieve people from danger areas and liberate them from dirty, dull, and dangerous tasks.
Milrem Robotics is known for their intelligent functions and autonomous navigation system MIFIK, THeMIS and Multiscope unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) and the Type-X Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV). The THeMIS is intended for supporting dismounted soldiers and the Multiscope for civilian applications (forestry and firefighting), The Type-X RCV is a wingman for mechanized units. Milrem Robotic’ systems are already deployed in 14 different countries, most of them members of NATO.

Contact: Marek Helm, [email protected]

Standard is one of the longest-running trademarks in Estonia, which started producing and selling furniture in 1944. By now, Standard has grown into an international master brand, leading the way in creating modern environments for offices, hotels and cruise ships. Our name – Standard – gives us both the inspiration and clear target to follow. Standard is synonymous with quality, and for us it means a constant pursuit of perfection. The success of Standard is based on offering a functional whole. Former core business of the company – furniture manufacturing – is only half of it today. The other half includes customer counselling, spatial planning, interior design and implementation management so that the details would form a perfectly functioning whole. We are convinced that as a person you can do your best only if the environment around you, both at work and when traveling, considers your actual needs. This is the environment we create for our customers. In most cases, our customers are international hotel chains and offices with many employees who want their guests and employees to have the perfect conditions to spend time away from home.

Contact: Endrus Arge, [email protected]

Silen is an Estonian manufacturer of unique modular silent spaces that give everyone a chance to focus in an open space. Every day, we are set on boosting creativity and on being a smart partner for businesses that care about the well-being of their teams. Or in other words, about the quality of their ideas.

It was founded in 2018 as a spin-off from its parent company Wallenium. Although Silen is a fairly new manufacturer, its founders already had 20-year know-how in sound reduction and acoustics. Several field awards and recognitions later (such as the Best of NeoCon Innovation award), Silen has become one of the trendsetters in its industry.

With the most complete collection of office pods, we are represented on 6 continents and 42 countries, whilst 50% of our sales take place in the US market. Silen’s products with the best mobility, modularity, and flexibility have been appreciated by big corporations such as Airbus, Volkswagen, Ericsson, Spotify, etc.

Silen’s core mission is to help everyone work more efficiently. That is done by bringing the much-needed silence to open-plan offices. As working in silence helps gain better focus, employees’ productivity levels are higher, which results in increased profit.

Contact: Kadri Tuisk, [email protected]

Clanbeat is a students wellbeing solution with social learners communities. Clanbeat app enables students everywhere to take the lead in their life and learning by focusing on their self-development and well-being.
From teachers easily recognizing students’ needs with actionable insights to students building autonomy and resilience; Clanbeat’s app provides a scientifically-backed solution to today’s toughest classroom challenges.
To put it simply, we’re providing a classroom toolkit that’s helping shape future generations of happy and healthy humans.

Contact: Marko Utsar, [email protected]

Balsnack International Holding AS is a family business founded in 1992 and the biggest potato chips manufacturer in Estonia. What started out as a company that wanted to offer something special and unique for the Baltic markets has grown to be a known player worldwide. We are mainly focused on manufacturing all different kind of snacks with over 100 SKU’s in the portfolio. Our main export articles are Grand Potato Chips and TEXAS Popcorn.

Contact: Liis Kalvik, [email protected]

At LOOV we love the energy that a healthy diet and lifestyle give to people. The exceptionally high nutritional value and intense flavour of Nordic wild berries make them superfoods that grow in untouched forests and bogs in Estonia, Finland, and Sweden. LOOV stores Nordic energy and purity in its products. Enjoy our most delicate freeze-dried berry products and cold-pressed berry juices – it’s all organic and 100% clean! We desire to contribute to cleaner earth and share Nordic forests’ nutritious and tasty superfoods with the rest of the world.

Tartu Smart City offers excellent research at the University of Tartu, in a New Nordic Deep Tech Valley, early-stage investments in the startup capital of Estonia, also city with its physical and virtual environment as a test bed.

Tartu City with benefits through its superiority as a smart city and digital city promises ease of doing business, from bureaucratic & administrative & technical points of view.

City is home for 11 higher educational institutions, the European Space Agency and NATO´s Defense Innovation Accelerator.

It’s easy to make big changes happen in a manageable size and a perfect 15 min concept city.

Contact: Aarne Saareväli, [email protected]

Elegro Technology is a technology company that is established for solving global plastic packaging waste problem and for reversing climate change. Company owns patented technological process for recycling low quality mixed plastic waste that is typically origin from households. Elegro Technology provides full technological solution in the form of turn-key plants that enable to turn mixed plastic waste into new products that will be sold back to the market.

Contact: Jana Silaškova, [email protected]

Estonian ICT Cluster is an NGO acting as a collaboration platform of more than 120 Estonian ICT companies, created to boost the development of new products and solutions and foster their export to the international market. Estonian ICT companies operate on a one-stop shop logic, offering strategy consulting, change management, and IT development for creating working e-solutions. Through Estonian ICT cluster it is possible to have access to the most dynamic network of Estonian ICT companies, share knowledge and experience with highly innovative e-solutions developers, find the right business partners that can help with political and legal drafting, change management, capacity building and technology implementation.

Contact: Madis Sassiad, [email protected]

Contact: Oliver Väärtnõu, [email protected]

Cybernetica builds mission critical systems for a smart and secure world. Our technologies are used in more than 35 countries all over the world, from Asia to North America to the Caribbean and more.
We have 25 years of experience in building future-proof products that rely on research and development. Cybernetica has been a key partner in developing Estonian e-governance solutions, making Estonia known as the most digital society in the world. Our unique expertise ranges from digital identity and secure data exchange like the X-road and digital identity, i-voting, e-customs, information security, situational awareness and more.

Contact: Anneli Aljas, [email protected]

Eurora is an Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning-backed (AI/ML) cross-border e-commerce compliance platform focusing on automating global trade. The platform automates tax, compliance, and customs services. It assigns e-commerce products an appropriate HS code, calculates the applicable tax and duty amounts, and automatically creates electronic declarations for EU duties and taxes via simple API integration. It can automatically process 5,000 requests per second with up to 96% accuracy, the highest level of accuracy, speed, and automation available on the market.

Eurora’s mission is to use a holistic approach to automate every aspect of the cross-border supply chain by reducing the amount of manual labor, the time spent on compliance and the overall carbon footprint of the industry. All to help companies more easily reach their customers. Eurora was founded in 2019 and now operates in Europe, Asia, Middle East, and North America. Eurora employs over 150 people in 15 countries.

The company raised a $40m Series A round in 2022; the funds will be used for product development, potential acquisitions and geographical expansion in the UK, the US, and the Middle East.

Contact: Martin Talvari, [email protected]

Falk supports passionate founders who are shaping the future, backing companies from Estonia and Finland, with the potential to scale through UAE and UK.

Contact: Lehari Kaustel, [email protected]

Using a wide range of modern tools, Miltton digitalises stakeholder relations, stages remote capital markets days, holds virtual product launches and executes the most innovative virtual, hybrid and physical events. Included within the solution is provision of customised platforms, platform setup, streaming, studio setup, simultaneous translation, integration of different materials, a highly secure connection, speaker
communications and more.

Our distinguished clients include the UN, World Bank, NATO, CERN, to name a few. Our events range in size, from smaller scale webinars to large scale high-level hybrid gatherings.

Contact: Taavi Einaste, [email protected]

Nortal is a trusted strategic partner for governments, healthcare institutions, leading businesses and global Fortune 500 companies. With our 23 offices across Europe, the Middle East, and the U.S., we are close to our customers while backed by a vast global talent pool.

Nortal brings together world-class strategic consulting, software engineering, data and design practices to deliver value and shape a better future through seamless digital transformation.

Our seamless teams help our customers transform and future-proof their organizations by building world changing solutions with the right technologies. Be it better tax systems in Estonia, Finland and Oman, laying the foundation for a proactive government in Saudi Arabia, accelerating public services in Germany, modernizing healthcare in Lithuania, or improving services for tens of millions in the U.S.

Contact: Taavi Rõivas, [email protected]

Auve specialises on the development and manufacturing of autonomous transportation systems. We offer a full-scope service that entails the autonomous vehicles, their integration to various environments and fleet management. The shuttle, Iseauto, is aimed at enhancing last-mile transportation offering alternative means of transport in closed areas and mixed traffic environments that are safe, smart and sustainable.

Contact: Hannes Plinte, [email protected]

GScan develops Atmospheric Ray Tomography (ART) technology and devices.
GScan muonFLUX 3D scanners combine precise particle detection hardware and machine learning to enable automated detection of materials & objects in security checkpoints to detect illegal cargo. GScan’s modular engineering enables production of custom sized scanners.

GScan second business vertical – detection of early signs of construction fatigue in critical infrastructure (bridges, wind turbines, nuclear plants etc). With ART technology we are able to see deep into concrete, where other technologies fail.

GScan scanners are safe to humans, they are highly penetrative and equipped with automatic material detection algorithms. GScan scanners are efficient in day-to-day operating and over the lifetime are having significantly better Return-On-Investment (ROI), compared to x-ray alternatives.

First industrially produced muonFLUX small scanner will be ready in Q4 2022, followed by medium and large scanners in 2023 and 2024 respectively. One of the biggest impacts of using GSCan muonFlux scanning technology will be in aviation security. We are currently planning to start acquiring necessary certifications for use in aviation security in 2023.

Contact: Urmas Hiie, [email protected]

ETS NORD is a company specialized in comprehensive ventilation solutions. We operate in EU and Middle East. Our main activity is to design, manufacture and market high quality and innovative products and solutions for ventilation. The NORDcanopy product group has a large selection of solutions for every ventilation need in a professional kitchen. The range varies from compact backshelf canopies to entire ventilation ceilings.

Contact: Erki Mölder, [email protected]

DTx Estonia is the industry alliance of Estonian digital therapeutics manufacturers. Our goal is to accelerate the adoption of evidence-based digital therapeutics that revolutionize how healthcare is delivered. DTx Estonia founding members are: Activate Health, Dermtest, Migrevention, SpeakTx ja Triumf Health.