Top 10 Community Startup Investors in Iceland (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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New Business Venture Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Iceland, United States, China | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, SaaS | $299k–$2.6M |
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Inventure
VC Fund
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2 | Finland, Sweden, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $549k–$25M |
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Shanda Group
VC Fund
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2 | United States, China, Israel | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care | $100k–$44M |
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Index Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $1.5M–$102M |
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Reaktor Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Finland, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $137k–$6.8M |
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David Wallerstein
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, Germany | Seed, Series B, Series A | Mobile, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $1.6M–$90M |
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Frumtak Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Iceland, Estonia, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $974k–$20M |
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Atomico
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $5M–$300M |
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Kjartan Olafsson
Angel
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1 | Denmark, Iceland | Angel, Series A | Software, B2B, Apps | |
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David Helgason
Angel
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1 | United States, Denmark, Finland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Gaming, Artificial Intelligence | $242k–$30M |
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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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Iceland, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $400k–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $299k–$520k
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sowilo — Sowilo created Catecut, a platform-agnostic technology that leverages artificial intelligence to detect fashion products and design elements in store product photos.
- Sundra — Sundra turns the materials you already have into structured training courses in hours, then delivers them in 70+ languages. Built for HR and L&D teams.
- Arcana Bio — ArcanaBio is developing realtime biosurveillance solutions that minimize workplace disruptions and support health & wellness
Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Finland, Sweden, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 176
- Round size: Seed $549k–$5.9M; Series A $1.3M–$17M; Series B $1.3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $169M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Leetify — We help gamers identify their weaknesses, work on those weaknesses and track their progression.
- UpCloud — World's fastest cloud servers with a 100% uptime SLA! Sign up for a free trial today.
- ONEiO — ONEiO is a cloud-native integration service provider connecting people, processes, and tools – enabling seamless collaboration without traditional integration hassle. Provided as a turn-key solution, as self-service, or something in between. You choose.
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, China, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $839k–$11M; Pre-Seed $100k–$750k; Series A $5.6M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MiroFish — The World's First Open-Source Swarm Agent Prediction System. Web: https://t.co/F7gQDy0yXO Github: https://t.co/9MhcLAIs7N Discord: https://t.co/wCnMAT2I8f IG: @mirofish_ai
- Buildroid — Autonomous steel factories. A new Steel Robotics experience is on the way.
- Trener Robotics — Trener Robotics develops AI software that enables industrial robots to operate autonomously, adapt to variability, and deploy faster in manufacturing.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1339
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $5M–$38M; Series B $11M–$102M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $117M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Anrok — Anrok automates sales tax compliance across your financial stack, so you can grow your SaaS business in any market.
- Pets Deli — PETS DELI is a leading D2C pet food brand in Germany with a clear focus on subscription based eCommerce, headquartered in Berlin. The company’s vision is to become the ultimate biggest and most customer centric D2C pet food brand in its core markets. PETS DELI’s unique business model is based on multiple diversified and recurring revenuestreams: The company markets its superior product offerings via online subscriptions, their online shop, offline flagship stores as well as selected partners in the most dominant retail chains.
- Acutus Medical — Acutus Medical develops medical technologies to treat complex cardiac arrhythmia. The company's platform displays the heart’s true activation pattern, turning the chaos of a complex arrhythmia into a clear vision for electrophysiologists.Acutus Medical is a privately funded company founded in 2011 and based in Carlsbad, California. Itsproducts are co-developed in the U.S. and Europe with an exceptional team of medical scientists, biomedical engineers, and other professionals.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
Reaktor Ventures they invest in seed stage companies and helps them to create markets.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $137k–$2M; Pre-Seed $159k–$1.8M; Series A $1.7M–$6.8M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
- allies.digital — Allies is a match-making platform curating businesses with IT-, digital and creative agencies. No more miss-matches when buying IT & creative services.
- StarBerry Games — StarBerry Games GmbH is a mobile games company based in Berlin, Germany. The company develops free-to-play casual mobile games and is best known for its games Merge Mayor and Idle Coffee Corp.
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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- Industry: Mobile, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$5.8M; Series B $11M–$90M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
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 — Scaled Inference is a U.S.-based company that operates in stealth mode and offers artificial intelligence as a cloud service. It offers a new generation of intelligent software built by the masses and powered by an open shared platform. Scaled Inference was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
At Frumtak Ventures, we champion founders who have demonstrated early traction and have potential to become global leaders in their space. We take a concentrated, high-conviction, and high-involvement approach to investing and dedicate ourselves to collaboratively work with our portfolio companies from the seed stage through IPO. Our initialticket size usually ranges from €1 million to €3 million.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Iceland, Estonia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $974k–$4.7M; Series A $1.2M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Optise — Optise is the self-improving B2B website platform that automatically ships data-driven improvements every week so you get more leads and customers without becoming a website expert.
- MyDello — Get instant quotes for all transportation modes. Enter a new era of freight forwarding with the MyDello logistics platform. Sign up for free
- Euler — Euler is a software company focused on addressing the issue of build-to-build and machine-to-machine variability in metal additive manufacturing (AM).
Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 246
- Round size: Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $12M–$95M; Series C $25M–$300M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.1B in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Betable — Betable is a leading iGaming platform provider, offering a comprehensive, casino-first solution designed for scalability and multi-vertical integration. Empowering operators with cutting-edge technology and dual licensing (UKGC + Anjouan), Betable delivers a seamless user experience with built-in CRM and acquisition tools.
- Hinge Health — The #1 clinic for joint & muscle pain. Join today and take control of your pain with access to our personalized virtual physical therapy program
- Frontier Health — Frontier Health develops artificial intelligence tools that help healthcare administration teams manage repetitive and high-volume tasks within existing clinical workflows. Its primary product, Juno, functions as an AI coworker that supports care coordination by processing information across multiple patient pathways and software systems. Theplatform is designed to work with a wide range of healthcare applications, enabling organizations to use their current systems while reducing manual administrative work. Frontier Health emphasizes clinical safety, data security, and compliance with healthcare standards, including NHS guidance and information security certifications. The company brings together technology specialists and healthcare professionals with experience working across numerous hospitals to address operational challenges in healthcare delivery.
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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- Industry: Software, B2B, Apps
- Stage:Angel, Series A
- Geography: Denmark, Iceland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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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- Industry: Software, Gaming, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Denmark, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $242k–$2.4M; Series A $4.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ScyAI — Risk intelligence that thinks with you.
- Noah — API-first stablecoin payments, enterprise-grade compliance and real-time settlements, powered by stablecoin technology.
- Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative
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