Estonian companies in latest Mastercard Lighthouse cohort
Enty and Soldera make the grade
Great news to start the week off, two Estonian startups have been plucked into the limelight for Mastercard/Lighthouse programmes.
First up, Enty, a single Control Panel for all boring back-office operations, founded by Kirill Zheleznov, Jane Shmygaleva, and Artem Tolkachev has been selected for the Mastercard Lighthouse FINITIV.
It is a partnership program for startups and early-stage scaleups dedicated to discovering the next fintech or fintech-enabler unicorn in cybersecurity, embedded insurance, payment acceptance, and AI-based solutions.
The programme partners with banks such as Swedbank, SEB, OP, DNB, Danske Bank, Resurs, SpareBank 1 Østlandet, and Nets/Nexi Group.
Next up Soldera, founded by Stenver Jerkku and Al William Tammsaar. Soldera unifies renewable energy registries into a single platform, helping corporations cut compliance costs by 40%. It has been called up to the Lighthouse MASSIV, Mastercard’s impact tech partnership program for sustainable and social impact companies.
The programme says it is ‘designed as a partnership‑driven platform rather than a traditional accelerator’ because it ‘connects high-potential Nordic and Baltic startups with major organisations, the program helps sustainable innovators scale globally.’
Jerkku, who has already benefited from a Mastercard Lighthouse programme with Solid World said, “Soldera sits at the intersection of clean energy and financial infrastructure, and we’re looking forward to working with Mastercard’s partner network to bring that to more corporates globally.”
Solid World pivoted from carbon credits to energy certificates and rebranded to Soldera.