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Tesonet
Tesonet is a Lithuanian startup venture builder and investor founded in 2008 by Tomas Okmanas and Eimantas Sabaliauskas. The company’s main focuses today are cybersecurity, AI, EdTech, SportTech, and digital solutions. Businesses kick-started or accelerated by Tesonet include Nord Security, Hostinger, Oxylabs, Surfshark, Decodo, Mediatech, and nexos.ai. The number of people employed across the group exceeds 3,500. Structurally, Tesonet rests on 3 pillars: founded companies, investments, and limited partnerships with venture capital firms. Since 2018, Tesonet has extended its reach by investing in successful ventures like CAST AI, Eneba, BC Žalgiris, BC London Lions, Šiaulių bankas, Turing College, Zapp, PartiQlar, and others. History Having originally met in an IRC channel in 1999, Tomas Okmanas and Eimantas Sabaliauskas founded Tesonet in 2008 for a single project. In the end, however, it took 34 different projects and ideas – from web hosting and e-commerce to video ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomas Okmanas
Tomas Okmanas (born November 5, 1987) is a Lithuanian tech entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of several global startups. He is best known as the co-founder and co-CEO of Nord Security, a global cybersecurity company that provides a popular VPN service NordVPN. Okmanas focuses on bootstrapping and leveraging technology to grow businesses in multiple different industries. As the co-founder of Tesonet house of brands, he built a diverse investment portfolio. It currently includes a web intelligence collection platform Oxylabs, a hosting provider Hostinger, and a cybersecurity company Surfshark. All three were listed among the fastest-growing European companies by The Financial Times. Hostinger was also named the fastest-growing brand in its market. Tesonet is a shareholder at Šiaulių Bankas, one of the biggest banks in Lithuania, where Okmanas currently holds a seat on the supervisory board. In 2022, Okmanas entered the sports industry as a part-owner of EuroLeague tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Lions (basketball)
London Lions are a British professional basketball team based in Stratford, London, Stratford, East London, England, and compete in the Super League Basketball (SLB). The team was originally founded in 1977 as the Hemel Hempstead Lakers. Following an ownership take over by Vince Macaulay in 1993, the club subsequently relocated to Watford, and then Milton Keynes, where they were known as Milton Keynes Lions. It was in Milton Keynes that the team won its first silverware in 2008, the BBL Cup. The Lions relocated to London in 2012 and play its home games at the Copper Box Arena in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, as well as occasional EuroCup matches at Wembley Arena. The Lions were purchased by 777 Partners in 2020, ending Macaulay's 27-year tenure of ownership. After the threat of bankruptcy following the end of the 2023–24 season, the club was rescued for the 2024–25 season under the ownership of Tesonet, minority shareholders of BC Žalgiris. History Hemel Hempstead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Šiaulių Bankas
Šiaulių bankas is a major commercial bank in Lithuania providing retail and commercial banking services. It has been designated in 2019 as a Significant Institution under the criteria of European Banking Supervision, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank. History Šiaulių bankas was established in 1992. The bank took over assets from Ūkio bankas totaling LTL2,7 billion in 2013, for which the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) granted the bank a loan of LTL69 million. the largest shareholder of the company was the EBRD, owing 26% of the company's stock after converting loans to the bank into shares. In 2021, 18% of the Banks shares held by the EBRD were sold to Invalda INVL, NordVPN, Nord Security and ME investija. The bank merged Invalda INVL and its retail business in 2023, creating a new company headed by the former INVL Investment Management director. Since 1994 (in Secondary List) and since 2006 (in Main List), th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NordVPN
NordVPN is a Lithuanian VPN service founded in 2012. NordVPN is developed by Nord Security (formerly Nordsec Ltd), a cybersecurity software company that was initially supported by Tesonet, a Lithuanian startup accelerator and business incubator. NordVPN states it operates in Panama, but Nord Security is incorporated in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Its offices are located in Lithuania, the United Kingdom, Panama, and the Netherlands. The service has applications for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, Android TV, and tvOS. Manual setup is available for wireless routers, NAS devices, and other platforms. History NordVPN was established in 2012 by a group of childhood friends, with Eimantas Sabaliauskas and Tomas Okmanas at the helm. It presented an Android app in late May 2016, followed by an iOS app in June of same year. In October 2017, it launched a browser extension for Google Chrome. The service launched applications for Android TV in 2018 and tvOS in 2023 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surfshark VPN
Surfshark is a European VPN service and digital privacy tool founded in Lithuania. It also offers other services such as data leak detection, a private search tool, an antivirus and an automated personal data removal system. In 2021, Surfshark merged with Nord Security. However, both companies still operate independently. Surfshark’s headquarter is in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with additional offices in Lithuania, Poland, Germany and the United Kingdom. In 2024, the Financial Times ranked Surfshark as the 47th fastest-growing European company. History Surfshark was launched in 2018 when it introduced its first VPN application for iOS devices. In 2019, Surfshark launched Surfshark Alert and Surfshark Search and started their research activities, releasing the first Digital Quality of Life (DQL) index. Later, in October 2019, Surfshark became one of the first ten VPN packages to receive an official seal of approval granted by an independent IT-Security Institute AV-TEST. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NordLayer
NordLayer, formerly known as NordVPN Teams, is a network access security service with applications for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS and Browser extension. The software is marketed as a privacy and security tool that enables the implementation of Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), and Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) in hybrid and multi-cloud cloud environments. It is developed by Nord Security (Nordsec Ltd), a company that creates cybersecurity software, and was initially supported by the Lithuanian startup accelerator and business incubator Tesonet. History NordLayer was founded in 2019 as NordVPN Teams as a subsidiary of NordSecurity, a technology company that develops and provides virtual private network (VPN) services, such as NordVPN and SurfShark. In October 2020, NordVPN Team relocated to the United States as part of a larger effort to expand its operations and better serve its enterprise clients. Nevertheless, Nordlayer comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virtual Private Network
Virtual private network (VPN) is a network architecture for virtually extending a private network (i.e. any computer network which is not the public Internet) across one or multiple other networks which are either untrusted (as they are not controlled by the entity aiming to implement the VPN) or need to be isolated (thus making the lower network invisible or not directly usable). A VPN can extend access to a private network to users who do not have direct access to it, such as an office network allowing secure access from off-site over the Internet. This is achieved by creating a link between computing devices and computer networks by the use of network tunneling protocols. It is possible to make a VPN secure to use on top of insecure communication medium (such as the public internet) by choosing a tunneling protocol that implements encryption. This kind of VPN implementation has the benefit of reduced costs and greater flexibility, with respect to dedicated communication li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NordPass
NordPass is a proprietary password manager launched in 2019. It allows its users to organize their passwords and secure notes by keeping them in a single encrypted vault. NordPass, which operates on a freemium business model, was developed by the VPN service NordVPN. NordPass is available natively on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, as well as via browser extensions for web browsers. History In 2022, NordPass introduced the data breach scanner, that allow users to check if their data had been compromised in a breach. The same year, NordPass announced NordPass for Business, a solution with teams, business, and enterprise tiers designed to help businesses and organizations strengthen their password management and overall cybersecurity posture. In 2023, NordPass introduced passkey support, enabling passwordless authentication. In 2024, NordPass launched email masking, a feature that hides users’ real email addresses when signing up for online services to reduce spam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NordLocker
NordLocker is a file encryption software integrated with end-to-end encrypted cloud storage. It is available on Windows and macOS. NordLocker is developed by Nord Security, the Lithuania-based company behind the NordVPN virtual private network. NordLocker uses a freemium business model, where users are offered a free account with unlimited local file encryption and a set amount of cloud storage with sync and backup features. More cloud storage is available via a paid subscription. History In May 2019, NordVPN announced the upcoming launch of NordLocker, "an app with a zero-knowledge encryption process". Although the initial estimated time of arrival was summer 2019, the actual launch took place in November. The app was launched as a local file encryption tool with secure sharing. Users were able to encrypt up to 5 GB of data for free or pay for unlimited encryption. In March 2020, NordLocker announced newly implemented cloud sharing integrations with Dropbox and Google Drive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuania
Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and the Russian exclave, semi-exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest, with a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Sweden to the west. Lithuania covers an area of , with a population of 2.89 million. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius; other major cities include Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys. Lithuanians who are the titular nation and form the majority of the country's population, belong to the ethnolinguistic group of Balts and speak Lithuanian language, Lithuanian. For millennia, the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea were inhabited by various Balts, Baltic tribes. In the 1230s, Lithuanian lands were united for the first time by Mindaugas, who formed the Kingdom of Lithuania on 6 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Data Scraping
Data scraping is a technique where a computer program extracts data from Human-readable medium, human-readable output coming from another program. Description Normally, Data transmission, data transfer between programs is accomplished using data structures suited for Automation, automated processing by computers, not people. Such interchange File format, formats and Protocol (computing), protocols are typically rigidly structured, well-documented, easily parsing, parsed, and minimize ambiguity. Very often, these transmissions are not human-readable at all. Thus, the key element that distinguishes data scraping from regular parsing is that the data being consumed is intended for display to an End-user (computer science), end-user, rather than as an input to another program. It is therefore usually neither documented nor structured for convenient parsing. Data scraping often involves ignoring binary data (usually images or multimedia data), Display device, display formatting, red ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davos
Davos (, ; or ; ; Old ) is an Alpine resort town and municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It has a permanent population of (). Davos is located on the river Landwasser, in the Rhaetian Alps, between the Plessur and Albula Ranges. The municipality covers nearly the entire valley of the Landwasser, and the centre of population, economic activity and administration is two adjacent villages, ''Davos Dorf'' (engl.: Davos Village) and ''Davos Platz'' (Davos Place), which are above sea level. Gaining prominence in the 19th century as a mountain health resort, Davos is perhaps best known today for hosting the World Economic Forum, an annual meeting of global political and corporate leaders. With its long history of winter sports, Davos also has one of Switzerland's largest ski resorts and hosts the international Spengler Cup, an ice hockey tournament, every December. Name ''Tavau'', the Romansh name, derives from the La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
