Wise went public in London, making its founders Estonia's first tech billionaires.

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1. Silicon Canals · 21 Sep 2026

   A country of fewer than 1.4 million people has produced ten billion-dollar startups — about 7 for every million residents, more than three times the US rate — and the first of them was a voice-call app a handful of engineers built in Tallinn in 2003.

   A nation smaller than most American cities has cracked the code on startup creation, producing more billion-dollar companies per capita than anywhere else on Earth.