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Top 40 Angel Investors in Iceland in December 2024

A list of 40 angel investors that invest in startups based in Iceland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Iceland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 40 Angel Investors in Iceland in December 2024

Investor Iceland investments
Hilmar Veigar Petursson 5
Sigþór Sigmarsson 3
David Helgason 3
Christian Jantzen 2
Sigurdur Olafsson 2
Ziggy Jonsson 1
Hermann Kristjánsson 1
Heini Zachariassen 1
Sameer Singh 1
Birkir Bjarnason 1
Jeff Solomon 1
David Wallerstein 1
Nick Gatfield 1
Magnús Steinarr Norðdahl 1
Thor Fridriksson 1
Andri Sveinsson 1
Sigurdur Arnljotsson 1
Mika Salmi 1
Kristín Pétursdóttir 1
Hermann Kristjánsson 1
Börkur Arnviðarson 1
Anthony Deighton 1
Ari Helgason 1
Soo Boon Koh 1
Ville Laakso 1
Jonathan Slimak 1
Ivar Kristjansson 1
Alfreð Finnbogason 1
Jon S. von Tetzchner 1
Kjartan Olafsson 1
Paige Craig 1
Sigurgeir Gudlaugsson 1
Beatrice Aliprandi 1
Bing Gordon 1
Clément Delangue 1
Charles Huang 1
Birgir Ragnarsson 1
Trausti Kristjánsson 1
Adalsteinn Alli Ottarsson 1
Rahul Vohra 1
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Hilmar Veigar Petursson Angel · Reykjavík, Gullbringusysla, Iceland
Hilmar has been leading CCP Games’ ongoing success and growth since his appointment as Chief Executive Officer in 2004. Under Hilmar’s management CCP’s critically acclaimed science-fiction game EVE Online celebrated an unprecedented ten consecutive years of subscriber growth. In addition, Hilmar has put CCP into the pole position in the VRrevolution by embracing the new technology early. The company released virtual-reality arcade shooter Gunjack for the Samsung Gear VR in 2015, which has been the best-selling game on the platform since launch. And in early 2016 CCP released EVE: Valkyrie, a hotly-anticipated multiplayer spaceship dogfighting shooter built from the ground up for virtual reality, bundled with Oculus Rift pre-orders. EVE: Valkyrie will ship on HTC Vive and PlayStation VR on PlayStation 4 later in 2016. Before his appointment to the CEO position, Hilmar held the title of CCP's Chief Technical Officer, heading the engineering effort required to create the company’s persistent world technology and 3D engine. Prior to joining CCP in 2000, he served as the CTO of SmartVR, an OZ.com spin-off based on that company’s multi-user virtual reality technology following his tenure as the VP of software development for the OZ Studios division of OZ.com.Currently, he is also active on a number of boards and committees relating to Icelandic information technology and innovation. Hilmar has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Iceland.
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Investment focus
  • Online Games, Software, Video Games
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Iceland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Atomontage — Atomontage develops a volumetric graphics and simulation platform that can scale to record-breaking data sets and beyond. The company is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.
  • Quest Portal — Quest Portal makes role-play and tell fantastical stories together by means of crafting and creates characters.
  • Netspeak Games — Netspeak Games operates as a zero-crunch studio that develops online multiplayer games. Its first game is a non-violent social MMO, designed to be a fun place to hang out with friends. Players can relax, play, or just get some headspace.
Sigþór Sigmarsson Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Sigþór Sigmarsson is Finance director at Novato. He attended Háskóli Íslands.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Banking
  • Seed, Series D, Funding Round
  • Iceland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Genis — Genis is pioneering the development and application of therapeutic chitin derivatives.
  • Treble — We develop next generation sound simulation and spatial audio technology for digital twins and virtual worlds.
  • 3Z Pharmaceuticals — 3Z Pharmaceuticals provides research services intended to provide drug development services. It offers drug screening on sleep and epilepsy assays that helps in the development of drugs used to treat neurological disorders, enabling patients to get multiple drug efficacy and toxicity assays.Karl Karlsson and Haraldur Thorsteinsson founded 3ZPharmaceuticals in 2008. It based their company on their research on the sleeping patterns of the zebrafish at the Reykjavik University Neurolab in 2006.
David Helgason Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Gaming, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
  • Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
  • Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!
Christian Jantzen Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Danish angel investor, based in London.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Denmark, Sweden, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Medusa — The most popular ecommerce project on GitHub. Medusa provides the world's most flexible commerce platform for developers to handle specialized commerce cases.
  • Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
  • Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.
Sigurdur Olafsson Angel
Sigurdur Olafsson
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Investment focus
  • Sports
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • Abler — Abler brings simplicity to the complexities of team management. With easy scheduling, messaging, payment, and data tools, Abler empowers users to spend more time cultivating the essential life skills and values learned through sports and other organised activities.
  • The One - Dating App — The One is a wholesome, conversation-first, dating app that systematically matches two strangers every day. Its user gets a few new matches every three days and they spend their time getting to know their matches through chat and exciting profiles. The user also can choose to extend the chat and start sharing photos, voice, live stream, etc. Theapp has a 72-hour countdown timer and unless tap the Extend Chat button the matches disappear forever when the timer reaches zero.
Ziggy Jonsson Angel · New York, New York, United States
Co-founder+CTO @ TheNumber - Senior Partner @ One Zero Capital
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Investment focus
  • Apps, SaaS, Software
  • Angel, Series A
  • Iceland, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • GRID — Spreadsheets run the world and we run spreadsheets.
  • abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
Hermann Kristjánsson Angel
Hermann Kristjánsson
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Investment focus
  • Hardware, Software, Photography
  • Seed
  • Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • Kúla 3D — Making your own 3D images and videos is easy. New devices to watch 3D are popping up, but something is missing: your own personal 3D imagery; your friends and family in three dimensions. Since 2013 Kúla has made solutions for 3D photography with regular camera because they believe everyone should capture their precious moments in 3D. They make 3Dlenses for DSLR cameras and smartphones accompanied by the image processing software Kúlacode.
Heini Zachariassen Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Heini is Vivino’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Credited with bringing a technology revolution to the wine industry, Heini founded Vivino because he was frustrated by not knowing which wine to buy. It’s been his passion project ever since. During his tenure, Vivino has grown into a community of 46 million users, raised $72 million infunding, and rolled out a worldwide wine marketplace. Before starting Vivino, Heini co-founded several startups, including global internet and mobile security company BullGuard. Heini leads the team from Vivino’s European headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. Heini and Vivino’s story is featured in an independent documentary, “Disrupting Wine, The Life of an Entrepreneur.” Heini also hosts the YouTube series Raw Startup, which offers candid advice for entrepreneurs and startups.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, Gaming
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Denmark, Poland, Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • Tiimo — Tiimo helps you manage your daily life and improve your wellbeing. Visualize your day. Improve your routines. Stress less.
  • Uniify — Uniify is a no-code customer onboarding software that makes it fast, easy and secure for financial companies to onboard their customers. Save your business time and money, and build onboarding flows for your customers in minutes instead of months.
  • Finematter — Using technology to help exceptional jewellery designers scale sustainably
Sameer Singh Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Network Effects Investor, Venture Partner @ Speedinvest, Instructor @ Reforge, Atomico Angel
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Software, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Homefans — Discover top-rated sports tours and activities at your destination with Homefans. Go beyond the game and explore with locals for a unique sports travel experience.
  • Konfetti — konfetti is building the leading platform for local workshops and events by empowering workshop providers with customized SaaS solutions
  • HomeCooks — HomeCooks delivers chef-crafted meals from the UK's top independent cooks right to your door. Browse our weekly menus of authentic global cuisines, from spicy Asian delights to comforting home-cooked classics. With quick reheating, you can enjoy restaurant-quality meals anytime at home.
Birkir Bjarnason Angel
Birkir Bjarnason is an Icelandic professional footballer.
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Investment focus
  • Sports
  • Seed
  • Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • Abler — Abler brings simplicity to the complexities of team management. With easy scheduling, messaging, payment, and data tools, Abler empowers users to spend more time cultivating the essential life skills and values learned through sports and other organised activities.
Jeff Solomon Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Jeff Solomon is the Co-Founder of Markup Hero.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, iOS, Android
  • Seed
  • United States, Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • The Kive Company — The Kive Company operates under the names Artkive and Lifekive. Artkive the leading service that helps parents celebrate their kids' art. Artkive offers the Artkive app for people who want to DIY or the Artkive Box for people who want to send in their art to be professionally photographed and turned into keepsake books or custom-framed mosaicprints. The Kive Company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
  • Umano — Umano is an audio streaming service.
  • Cubcoats — 2-in-1 wearable & playable transforming friends. A take everywhere that kids and parents equally adore.
David Wallerstein Angel
David A.M. Wallerstein, SEVP of Tencent. David joined Tencent in 2001. He oversees the Company’s international business initiatives through identifying cooperation with multinational partners and he is responsible for Tencent’s operations outside mainland China. Prior to Tencent, David was the Vice President, Business Development of MIH inChina, and was involved in Internet strategy and mergers and acquisitions activities in China. Prior to that, David worked as a management consultant in China's telecommunications and IT industries.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Mobile, Agriculture
  • Seed, Series B, Series A
  • United States, Israel, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Teatime Games — Teatime Games is an Iceland-based gaming startup that reinvents social games.
  • Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.
  • Scaled Inference — Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Tools
Nick Gatfield Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Nick Gatfield - Co-Founder @ Synchronized
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Investment focus
  • Internet, TV, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • France, Iceland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Karhoo — Karhoo, the first fully-integrated global booking platform for regulated Taxis and PHVs, is funded by RCI Bank and Services (Groupe Renault). It was reborn and remoulded from the assets of a previous business that learnt the hard way that competing against Uber, Didi and Lyft required a radically different and more collaborative approach tomobility. Now Karhoo remains an independent business contributing to Groupe Renault’s sustainable mobility‑as‑a‑service strategy, which covers connected, autonomous, shared, electric vehicles part of multimodal transport.
  • Overtune — With Overtune you can easily make your own music. Record with voice effects and make videos.
  • Synchronized — Synchronized.tv | Maximize the value of your video content in a digital world
Magnús Steinarr Norðdahl Angel
Magnús Steinarr Norðdahl is a individual investor.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Payments
  • Funding Round
  • Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • Memento Payments — Easily embed cards into your application or deploy a new & extendable card application in your brand
Thor Fridriksson Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Thor Fridriksson is an Internet entrepreneur who founded Plain Vanilla Games in 2010, a mobile game development studio that created the first multi-platform and real-time social trivia engine. Plain Vanilla Games have released high-profile titles that include Twilight QuizUp and Nat Geo QuizUp before launching their hit social trivia game, QuizUp,the biggest trivia game in the world. Born in Reykjavik, Iceland, Thor holds a BS degree from the Reykjavik University and an MBA from the University of Oxford.
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Investment focus
  • Sports
  • Seed, Angel
  • Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • Inspirally
  • Abler — Abler brings simplicity to the complexities of team management. With easy scheduling, messaging, payment, and data tools, Abler empowers users to spend more time cultivating the essential life skills and values learned through sports and other organised activities.
Andri Sveinsson Angel · Ísafjörður, Vestur-Isafjardarsysla, Iceland
Andri Sveinsson is a partner at the Novator Partners investment firm.Andri earned a master's degree in economics with a concentration on accounting from the University of Iceland. Andri’s first job in the finance and banking sector was with Skandia. He subsequently moved on to Bunadarbanki, where he was asked to serve as the director ofcorporate finance. Andri and several other colleagues then established Gilding, an investment company, which merged in 2001 with Bunadarbanki. Andri began to work alongside Thor in 2002 and was a founding partner of Novator in 2005.At Novator, Andri’s primary focus has been mergers and acquisitions, sourcing investments, finance, and operations. He has worked in several industries, most specifically in the health, telecommunications, and high-tech industries.Andri currently sits on the board and oversees investments in several companies, including SideKick Health, Catapult, Dreamlines, Xantis, Playfusion, and Nova, which are involved primarily in the fields of generic pharma, high-tech, and healthcare.Andri has many other interests, such as skiing, music, football, motorcycles, and boxing. He co-founded the Icelandic Punk Museum, which opened in 2016, and also produced several films.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical Device, Mobile
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • Genis — Genis is pioneering the development and application of therapeutic chitin derivatives.
  • Sidekick Health — Our mission is to develop and deliver effective personalized digital therapeutics that prevent suffering and add millions of quality life years to people around the world. Our multi-chronic digital care platform allows us to scale the production of clinical treatments across major chronic diseases.
Sigurdur Arnljotsson Angel · Reykjavík, Gullbringusysla, Iceland
Sigurdur Arnljotsson is a Founding Partner at Brunnur Ventures
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Investment focus
  • Software, Art, Content Marketing
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • AviLabs — AviLabs specializes in software development in aviation.
  • Vitar Games — A WW1 Strategy driven Management Game
  • Quest Portal — Quest Portal makes role-play and tell fantastical stories together by means of crafting and creates characters.
Mika Salmi Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Mika is a serial entrepreneur whose work life has been primarily centered on discovering talent and driving new ideas. He has done this in numerous industries and have discovered Grammy, Oscar and Emmy winning artists, created the original online short video company, run the internet’s most popular casual games web sites, built one of the firstsports tracking apps, and pioneered new business models in education.A few examples are the Nine Inch Nails (music), Jason Reitman (film), JibJab (animation), AtomFilms (online video), Shockwave/AddictingGames (games), MadRaces (sports) and the INSEAD San Francisco Hub for Business Innovation (education). he did this as a founder, a CEO, or as a senior executive.Entrepreneurs are Mika's favorite kind of talent, and he enjoys helping them realize their ideas and dreams for their start ups. He has done this working with Accel, Raine, and Sequoia and now leads Lakestar, a top global VC based in Europe.
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Investment focus
  • Online Games, Gaming, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Inkd.com — Inkd (formerly Pressplane) has two main products: Inkd, a true "buy & sell" community (rather like CafePress, Zazzle, Etsy and even stock image companies) wherein designers upload print creative and businesses can download and use the content as a cost effective alternative to hiring a designer, and Zapd, an app that allows users tocreate instant, themed websites straight from their iPhones.
  • GemShare — GemShare is the first service focused on finding and sharing high-quality recommendations with people you know and trust for the services needed to manage busy daily life. GemShare for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is the easiest and most dependable way to ask for and store the "best" local services - or "gems" - shared amongone's own trusted friends and networks. Founded in 2013 by two busy working moms, GemShare focuses on important daily needs where taste, trust and personal endorsements matter – everything from home improvement services, SAT tutors, and orthopedic surgeons to marriage counselors, music and language instructors, trusted childcare, and much more. Transforming the frequent exchanges that already happen when people ask “Does anyone know a good…?,” GemShare organizes this information and “best of” recommendations in one simple, searchable place. GemShare is based in San Francisco and backed by angel and venture capital investors including Second Avenue Partners, Greylock Partners, Rich Barton, Mika Salmi and Ellen Levy, among others.
  • Quest Portal — Quest Portal makes role-play and tell fantastical stories together by means of crafting and creates characters.
Kristín Pétursdóttir Angel
Kristín Pétursdóttir
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Software, Productivity Tools
  • Angel
  • Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • GRID — Spreadsheets run the world and we run spreadsheets.
Hermann Kristjánsson Angel
Hermann Kristjánsson - CEO & Managing Director @ Vaki
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Investment focus
  • Drones, Electronics
  • Seed
  • Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • Flygildi ehf — Silent Flyer is a flapping-wing bird-like drone with wings that can morph their shape during flight and fold unto the body. The Silent Flyer is manufactured by Flygildi ehf, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Börkur Arnviðarson Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Börkur Arnviðarson
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology
  • Seed
  • Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • Treble — We develop next generation sound simulation and spatial audio technology for digital twins and virtual worlds.
Anthony Deighton Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Anthony Deighton is responsible for product marketing and strategy at QlikTech. Most recently, Anthony was the General Manager of Siebel System's Employee Relationship Management (ERM) business unit. Anthony help found the ERM business at Siebel and it grew to over 300 customers, $20 million a year in license revenue, was recognized asSiebel's fastest-growing product line and named Product Line of the Year. Prior to joining Siebel, Anthony worked as a management consultant at A.T. Kearney in Chicago. Deighton holds a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University and an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Software, Productivity Tools
  • Angel
  • Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • GRID — Spreadsheets run the world and we run spreadsheets.
Ari Helgason Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Ari Helgason
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Developer Tools
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United Kingdom, France, Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • Cutover — Cutover is a Work Orchestration and Observability platform. It enables teams to plan, orchestrate, and analyze complex work faster, smarter, and with greater visibility.
  • GRID — Spreadsheets run the world and we run spreadsheets.
  • LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
Soo Boon Koh Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Soo Boon has over 30 years of global experience in finance and venture capital investing and brings this valuable expertise to each and every investment. She founded iGlobe Partners in 1999, in which the funds sponsor is the Economic Development Board (EDB) of Singapore, the pre-eminent statutory board responsible for enhancing Singapore'sglobal economic and business position. iGlobe Partners also started iGlobe Treasury Fund (NZ$31 million fund) in 2003 as a joint venture with the New Zealand Government.From 1988 to 1999, Soo Boon held executive management positions with Vertex Management Inc., (Vertex), the venture capital arm of Singapore Technologies, managing three funds during her tenure. She established the US operation of Vertex and headed the Silicon Valley office for 9 years, where she was instrumental in the early days of technology transfer for over 100 engineers in Silicon Valley for Chartered Semiconductor and Chartered Microwave. Soo Boon then started Vertex's European operations (headquartered in London, United Kingdom) and ran its European investment operation. As a result of her expertise, she guided numerous successful investments to IPOs, such as Lattice Semiconductor, Creative Technologies, and Activcard SA.Before Vertex, Soo Boon also held various senior management positions in the Treasury and Credit departments in her 12 years of work in the Development Bank of Singapore. Her time there also equipped her with in-depth knowledge of the finance aspect of the venture capital industry. She also headed the International Departments, Credit Division with responsibility for its eight overseas offices and Syndication Department for the Asia-Pacific region.Soo Boon earned her degree in 1973 from King's College, University of London with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics (First Class Honors). She attended the INSEAD Advanced Management program in 1998.Currently, she serves on the boards of directors of several private companies, including Fortemedia (Nanjing), Telenav Inc., and u-blox AG (SWX:UBXN). Since 2003, she serves on the Investment Committee of iGlobe Treasury Fund, a supported by the New Zealand Government. She is also one of the founding members of the Monte Jade (Singapore Chapter) and an EXCO member of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Apps, Cloud Computing
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Singapore, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Movi — Movi is building a new canvas for creation and ownership of web 3.0 visual content.
  • Luxola — Luxola was launched in Singapore in 2011 and has quickly grown into the destination for beauty in Southeast Asia; carrying over 4000 products and serving customers across the region including Australia, India and the UAE. Easily accessible. Luxola is committed to providing you with outstanding customer service and bringing you the best brandsfrom around the world, under one platform. All of our products are 100% authentic. We carry over 250 brands, of which over 65 brands across multiple markets are exclusive to Luxola.Education empowers our customers. With each product, Luxola provides ‘how-to’ advice and a review platform, giving you the power to hear from others with similar skin tones and types.Staying relevant is at the core of everything we do. In addition to providing a platform to purchase all your beauty favourites when you want, every week we pen LX Edit, our digital lifestyle magazine, offering inspiration and the latest insight into makeup, skincare, hair and celebrity fashion.
  • QuizUp — Plain Vanilla is an Icelandic Game Studio based in Reykjavik Iceland and in San Francisco. It develops a real-time multiplayer quiz platform for mobile devices.
Ville Laakso Angel
Ville Laakso
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Investment focus
  • Pre-Seed
  • Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • The One - Dating App — The One is a wholesome, conversation-first, dating app that systematically matches two strangers every day. Its user gets a few new matches every three days and they spend their time getting to know their matches through chat and exciting profiles. The user also can choose to extend the chat and start sharing photos, voice, live stream, etc. Theapp has a 72-hour countdown timer and unless tap the Extend Chat button the matches disappear forever when the timer reaches zero.
Jonathan Slimak Angel · New York, New York, United States
Jonathan Slimak was co-founder and COO of Alter (also known as Facemoji) acquired by Google in 2022. Before that, he co-founded Ready Makers and was head of Product. Jon is also the founder of Piictu one of the first social photo networks on the. iPhone. Jon has over 12 years of leading Data-driven Product and Design teams - creating consumersoftware specializing in gaming, mobile and social web. He attended Pratt Institute.
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Investment focus
  • Machine Learning, Art, Digital Media
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Germany, Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • Solsten — 12traits is an AI firm engaged in understanding human behavior in the digital world for powering the future of customer experience.
  • Alter — Alter is an open source, cross-platform SDK consisting of a real-time 3D avatar system and motion capture built from scratch for web3 interoperability and the open metaverse.
  • Quest Portal — Quest Portal makes role-play and tell fantastical stories together by means of crafting and creates characters.
Ivar Kristjansson Angel · Reykjavík, Gullbringusysla, Iceland
Ivar Kristjansson
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Music, Brand Marketing
  • Series A
  • Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • ATMO Select — ATMO Select covers all aspects of audio branding for companies and brands. Based on research & development, and years of experience, we analyze the music and sound correlation between a brand and its customer base. Customer demographics and brand information is used to develop an audio branding strategy and detailed music profile report thatwe deliver to our customers across the globe. Headquartered in Iceland, ATMO Select is based as well in Scandinavia, Germany, Benelux and the United States.
Alfreð Finnbogason Angel
Alfreð Finnbogason is a is an Icelandic professional footballer.
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Investment focus
  • Sports
  • Seed
  • Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • Abler — Abler brings simplicity to the complexities of team management. With easy scheduling, messaging, payment, and data tools, Abler empowers users to spend more time cultivating the essential life skills and values learned through sports and other organised activities.
Jon S. von Tetzchner Angel · Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Jon von Tetzchner is co-founder and CEO of Vivaldi Technologies, the company behind the Vivaldi web browser and other services for the web’s most demanding and savviest users. He co-founded Opera Software where he served as CEO for 15 years. Jon steered Opera from a small basement nook shared into a global company with more than 900 employees in 13countries.Under his leadership, Opera was an early pioneer in mobile web browsing and more than 350 million people used Opera to enjoy the web on their terms. Jon is now steering Vivaldi which was came out with its final version in April 2016. He and his team are making a personal and a feature – rich browser that takes into consideration the needs of every user. Vivaldi is self-funded and aims to be this way where the employees hold equity.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Tourism, Search Engine
  • Seed
  • Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • Dohop — Dohop is an award-winning technology provider founded in Iceland with 15 years’ experience in developing innovative solutions in the field of aviation and travel. Its core technology is focused on creating connecting itineraries. Being at the forefront of digital innovation in the field of interline technology, Dohop has developed solutions forforward-thinking airlines, alliances, and airports all around the globe, including easyJet, Transavia, Eurowings, Jetstar Group, Gatwick Airport, and SkyTeam.
Kjartan Olafsson Angel
Kjartan Olafsson is an entrepreneur and angel-investor-on-occasion with one foot in New York and the other in Iceland. Kjartan is the owner of Volta Labs Venture Development (Volta.is) and the founder of Basno.com, a platform for digital goods. He sits on the board of directors at a handful of companies and organizations in Iceland and theU.S., including Basno and Datamarket.com. Previously Kjartan served as the Director of Business Development for the international media company Bertelsmann Inc. in New York. Kjartan studied philosophy and logic in Iceland and Italy, and holds a master’s degree in business administration from the Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
  • Software, B2B, Apps
  • Angel, Series A
  • Denmark, Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • Taktikal — Simple and secure digital signatures Offer high-end signatures to save both your business and your customers valuable time and cost.
  • Watchbox — Watchbox combines technology and the elements of team-building to unite local and distributed teams. Employees capture all the great things at work or outside of work, with photos and videos. These moments vary from random highlights at work, events, celebrations, and conferences to something interesting in employees’ personal lives outside ofwork. Posts can be viewed in the app, but are also displayed 24/7 in dedicated Watchbox display units, placed in common areas across the office. Watchbox provides fun Concepts designed to motivate diverse content creation that reinforces positive culture.
Paige Craig Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Paige Craig Is The Partner at Outlander.He attend to the United States Military Academy at West PointUnited States Military Academy at West Point 1992.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • StackStr — Real time monitoring of machine learning systems.
  • Qualified — Qualified is the most effective platform for evaluating and training world-class engineers. Utilizing real-world assessment methodology we enable companies to identify high-performing hires.
  • Spaceship — A platform for Continuous Delivery. Turn your code into containers automatically. Get it running on Kubernetes instantly.
Sigurgeir Gudlaugsson Angel
Sigurgeir Gudlaugsson is the Chief Executive Officer of Genis.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
  • Funding Round
  • Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • Genis — Genis is pioneering the development and application of therapeutic chitin derivatives.
Beatrice Aliprandi Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Beatrice Aliprandi - Principal @ Talis Capital
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Art, Beauty
  • Seed, Series A
  • Denmark, Germany, Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • NØIE — Noie is a consumer goods company that offers cosmetics and skincare products. The company offers customized a customized skincare platform that combines deep dermatological knowledge with feedback from the community and the users' individual needs to eliminate guesswork and coincidence in the search for skincare that actually works.
  • Quest Portal — Quest Portal makes role-play and tell fantastical stories together by means of crafting and creates characters.
  • Vinehealth — Best ePRO data collection tool | Digital patient support programmes for cancer patients | Remote PROMs data collection | Real-world studies | Oncology clinical research | Cancer support app | Cancer companion app for patients self-management | Self-reporting tool f
Bing Gordon Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Director at Zume Inc.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, Social Media
  • Series A, Series C, Series B
  • United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Mino Games — Mino Games is a free-to-play mobile gaming studio that produced the top 50 grossing mobile game Mino Monsters, with over 13 million downloads. We create deeply engaging, widely appealing games for millions of fans. We’re currently building our world class development studio in Montreal.We are a small group of passionate engineers, artists andanalysts with a mission to create games that millions of people all around the world love to play for years. We are funded by the best angel investors, institutional investors, and gaming companies from across the world.Our third and latest game, Cat Game, has already hit the App Store’s Top 100 Grossing Chart in Canada. The game, currently in soft launch, is showing world class key metrics, and we are expecting it to be a global hit when we launch it by February 2019.We are looking today to grow the team and looking for world class ambitious talent to come join us on the journey, to develop and support this newest title into a global success on both iOS and Android, and help us with future projects as we rapidly grow.
  • Quest Portal — Quest Portal makes role-play and tell fantastical stories together by means of crafting and creates characters.
  • Mayhem Studios — Mayhem Studios is a mobile gaming app. It is a arm of mobile premier league.
Clément Delangue Angel · New York, New York, United States · 16 investments in the past 12 months
Clément Delangue - CEO & Co-Founder @ Hugging Face
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, France, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Letta — Letta specializes in memory management technology, enabling AI models to remember users and conversations. Its featured products include Hosted Cloud and Lett_ API. Hosted Cloud creates, deploys, and manages agents at scale with Letta Cloud. Also, its Lett_ API adds memory to LLM services to give them reasoning capabilities and transparentlong-term memory powered by MemGPT.
  • Marimo — Marimo is an open-source reactive platform for developers working on Python.
  • Galileo — Inspecting Your ML Data Needs a Purpose-built Tool
Charles Huang Angel
Charles Huang, founder of the iconic gaming franchise, Guitar Hero.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Music, Computer
  • Seed, Series B
  • Taiwan, Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • Bitmark — Bitmark restores trust in data. Our end-to-end Internet protocol secures the provenance of data. This makes it possible to have verifiable information, digital property rights, and safe sharing of personal data—without the need for trusted third parties. UC Berkeley, Pfizer, and KKBOX use Bitmark in healthcare, music, art, and more. #digitalrights
  • Overtune — With Overtune you can easily make your own music. Record with voice effects and make videos.
Birgir Ragnarsson Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Birgir Ragnarsson is the Managing Partner at Novator.
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Investment focus
  • Medical Device, Art, Peer to Peer
  • Series B, Seed, Series C
  • Iceland, Germany, Lithuania
Portfolio highlights
  • Quest Portal — Quest Portal makes role-play and tell fantastical stories together by means of crafting and creates characters.
  • Nord Security — Nord Security is the leader in the field of online privacy and security. Our security tools have earned praise from respected experts and tech outlets.
  • Sidekick Health — Our mission is to develop and deliver effective personalized digital therapeutics that prevent suffering and add millions of quality life years to people around the world. Our multi-chronic digital care platform allows us to scale the production of clinical treatments across major chronic diseases.
Trausti Kristjánsson Angel
Trausti Kristjánsson
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology
  • Seed
  • Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • Treble — We develop next generation sound simulation and spatial audio technology for digital twins and virtual worlds.
Adalsteinn Alli Ottarsson Angel · Santa Monica, California, United States
As senior development director at Riot Games, Aðalsteinn "Alli" Óttarsson serves as a compass for the development efforts of League of Legends. Alli began his career in 1999 as a web developer at OZ.com and its spin-off virtual world company, Smart VR. In 2001, he joined CCP and built the internal and external Web infrastructure tosupport the launch of EVE Online, the company's flagship game. Soon after, he began leading Web cell efforts and went on to become CCP's senior technical producer, where he oversaw globally distributed development and integration of the Core Technology Platform. Ultimately appointed CCP's Production Director Alli was the primary Agile ambassador within CCP and has since brought his passion for Agile development in large-scale organizations to Riot Games.
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Investment focus
  • iOS, Video, Gaming
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Iceland, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • OZ, US — A leading tech company energizing live events and bringing communities together through out of this world experiences.
  • Abler — Abler brings simplicity to the complexities of team management. With easy scheduling, messaging, payment, and data tools, Abler empowers users to spend more time cultivating the essential life skills and values learned through sports and other organised activities.
  • Klang Games — Klang Games is an entertainment & game development studio in Berlin, developing the MMO Simulation and Virtual World, Seed. Klang is always hiring!
Rahul Vohra Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Rahul Vohra is the Founder and CEO at Superhuman. He is also the Technical Advisor at BOLDstart Ventures and Investor & Advisor at Partender and Investor of sendwithus and EasyPost.Rahul Vohra is a former CEO and Co-Founder of Rapportive and Game Designer at Jagex. Rahul received a bachelor of arts in Computer Science at the University ofCambrigdge.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Bubbles — Bubbles is a collaboration tool that lets you tag anything on your screen and invite your teammates to discuss in-context. Get excited by organic growth and viral loops, and less so by paid advertising. Are active on one or more social platforms like Medium, Twitter, Product Hunt, etc.
  • Quest Portal — Quest Portal makes role-play and tell fantastical stories together by means of crafting and creates characters.
  • Zed Industries — Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
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