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  1. www.forbes.com › profile › kristo-kaarmannKristo Käärmann - Forbes

    Jun 21, 2024 · K??rmann and cofounder Taavet Hinrikus became Estonia's first two billionaires. The pair met while working in London. K??rmann and Hinrikus started Wise after becoming tired of losing money...

  2. Wise was cofounded in London by Taavet Hinrikus, one of the first employees of Skype, and Kristo Käärmann, a Deloitte management consultant. Hinrikus moved from Estonia to London around 2006, when he began experiencing the challenges of international money transfers.

  3. Jul 7, 2021 · His Estonian cofounder Taavet Hinrikus has a nearly 10.9% stake worth $1.1 billion. Founded in 2011, the startup formerly known as Transferwise offers low-cost money transfers across 56 different...

  4. www.forbes.com › profile › taavet-hinrikusTaavet Hinrikus - Forbes

    Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo Käärmann, the duo behind the rising global money transfer business, named the UK's biggest entrepreneurs of 2015.

  5. Jul 17, 2021 · It all began when co-founders Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus, two Estonians living in London, met at a party in 2007 and discovered they had a gripe in common: rip-off currency...

  6. Learn more. A better way to move money across borders. Each month, they looked up the mid-market exchange rate. Taavet put his euros into Kristos Estonian bank account, and Kristo topped up Taavet’s UK account with his pounds.

  7. Oct 28, 2015 · Business Insider caught up with the company's co-founders, Estonian expats Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo Käärmann, to hear about how things have changed since the mammoth funding round.