Top 10 Community Startup Investors in Iceland
A list of 10 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Community startups based in Iceland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Community companies from Iceland. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Community Startup Investors in Iceland
Investor | Community Iceland investments |
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Inventure | 2 |
Reaktor Ventures | 2 |
New Business Venture Fund | 2 |
Index Ventures | 2 |
Shanda Group | 2 |
David Wallerstein | 1 |
Frumtak Ventures | 1 |
Atomico | 1 |
Kjartan Olafsson | 1 |
David Helgason | 1 |
Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Leya AI — Feel and sound like an English native in 3 months
- UltiHash — Data powers breakthroughs. UltiHash is the storage foundation to accelerate them: blazing fast, highly efficient, and built for sustainable long-term growth.
- Reveel — Say goodbye to paper maps, brochures, and outdated audio guides. Reveel offers digital solutions for destinations such as UNESCO sites, sights, museums, cities, hotels and parks, taking the visitor experience to the next level. Become part of the smart destination movement, enhance the visitor experience, and discover the future of travel.
Reaktor Ventures has moved to the next phase by focusing its efforts to actively supporting current portfolio companies. This means that the fund has ended its investment period and is not investing into new companies. Between 2013 and 2018 we have invested into 42 different companies and one early stage fund. We will naturally keep makingfollow-up investments to current portfolio companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Finland, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
- Swappie — Buy refurbished iPhones at an affordable price - Swappie offers refurbished and cheap iPhones with a free 12-month Swappie warranty.
- Videoly — The easiest way for online retailers to get hand-picked and automatically embedded product videos.
The New Business Venture Fund is an evergreen investment fund that actively contributes to the development and growth of the Icelandic economy by investing in promising innovation and start-up companies.The New Business Venture Fund invests at seed and early stage in promising growth companies with great business ideas and strong management anddevelopment teams.The New Business Venture Fund is a state owned investment fund intended to strengthen and develop the Icelandic venture capital market along with promoting startups and business in Iceland thus encouraging economic growth.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Iceland, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- HorseDay — HorseDay is a mobile application to track horse activities.
- Spectaflow — Spectaflow is a SaaS solution for accommodations businesses focused on improving housekeeping and maintenance workflows
- PayAnalytics — PayAnalytics, a leading pay equity and workforce analytics solution, aids companies in closing pay gaps and fostering workplace equity. Ensure compliance with pay transparency regulations, assess wage disparities, and analyze workforce demographics conveniently.
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- SESO — Seso is a labor solution for agriculture. We provide support with the entire H-2A process, including the H-2A Visa, recruiting farmworkers, H-2A compliance, and digital worker onboarding.
- Vizcom — Vizcom is an Ai-powered creative tool designed for design and creative professionals. It offers a transformative approach to concept drawing, enabling users to turn their sketches into impressive realistic renderings quickly and efficiently.
- Nourish — Achieve your desired health and wellness through personalized nutrition counseling. Nourish is the easiest way to find a registered dietitian and get it covered by your insurance. Find a dietitian today and start your telehealth appointments.
Shanda Group is a private investment firm that was founded in 1999 by Tianqiao Chen and Chrissy Luo. The company works across venture capital, private equity, public markets, and real estate, prioritizing investments in the financial services, technology, and healthcare sectors. Shanda has offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong, New York, Singapore andMenlo Park. It invests in innovative companies and great management teams that have the vision and determination to change the world.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, China, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Digift — Security Token DEX: Bridging traditional finance and DeFi.
- Mojo Vision — Mojo Vision is a developer of augmented reality products and platforms intended to invent the future of computing. The company has developed a smart contact lens with a built-in display that gives timely information without interrupting the focus and delivers immediate, powerful, and relevant information without the intrusions of today'smobile devices, enabling users to connect with others at a glance, anytime, anywhere handsfree.Mojo Vision was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Saratoga, California.
- Jimeng Intelligent — Jimeng Intelligent is an industrial internet platform that offers integrated big data production, management and application services.
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
Frumtak (a.k.a. Frumtak Investment Fund, Frumtak I, Frumtak 1) was founded December 23rd. 2008. The objective was to invest in early stage growth companies that were post seed and had growth potential. This would result in leading companies that could deliver a good return to investors.At the close of Frumtak‘s investment period on December 31st.2012, the fund had invested in fifteen companies with nine investments still active. The remainder of lifetime of the fund is used to follow on investments and divest assets.Frumtak Ventures (Frumtak II, Frumtak 2) started in February 2015. The fund builds on the legacy of Frumtak 1. The fund invests in early stage innovative companies that are post seed and show great potential for growth. The fund invests primarily in Iceland but is allowed to invest abroad as allowed by law in connection with its portfolio investments to ensure success in foreign markets.Frumtak II emphasizes to invest in companies where growth and sales in foreign markets are the primary objective, but does not specialize in any particular industry. The fund wants to ensure that original ideas get a chance and thereby increasing the probability of creating growth and value. By doing this, it enforces the image that Icelandic innovation is profitable.Frumtak II aspires to be a trusted and popular ally. The fund strives to have a good relationship and co-operation with all stakeholders within the start-up and innovation community. The fund puts a special emphasis on co-operating with stakeholders outside Iceland.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Iceland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 50skills — Bring people, information and tools together. 50skills is a hiring system and so much more.
- Spectaflow — Spectaflow is a SaaS solution for accommodations businesses focused on improving housekeeping and maintenance workflows
- 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.
Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- deeploi — deeploi - This is IT. We are on a mission to become the #1 IT OS for smart companies. Our IT-as-a-service solution transforms pain into peace by eliminating all IT-related inefficiencies and insecurities. If you are looking to take the trouble out of your IT and get a solution that manages all your needs in one place: IT as a Service.
- Unfabled — Menstrual care and wellness products for your cycle. Organic period products in sustainable packaging. Curated brands for skincare, sleep, cravings, cramping, mood swings, and relaxation. For all your self-care needs, we have you covered.
- Pelago — Quit Genius is the world’s first digital clinic for treating nicotine, alcohol and opioid addictions. Built on the evidence-based approach of Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT), Quit Genius combines virtual cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with approved medication and connected devices to help employers and health plans tackle the high cost ofaddiction, while improving the lives of their employees and members.
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.
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!
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