Top 35 Enterprise Startup Investors in Iceland in December 2024
A list of 35 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Enterprise startups based in Iceland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Enterprise companies from Iceland. We update this investor list every month.Top 35 Enterprise Startup Investors in Iceland in December 2024
Investor | Enterprise Iceland investments |
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New Business Venture Fund | 17 |
Frumtak Ventures | 14 |
Brunnur Ventures | 6 |
Crowberry Capital | 4 |
Sigþór Sigmarsson | 2 |
Preceptor Capital | 2 |
Saint-Gobain NOVA | 2 |
Omega ehf | 1 |
Eyrir Invest | 1 |
Karma Ventures | 1 |
Teya | 1 |
Börkur Arnviðarson | 1 |
Omega Algae | 1 |
byFounders | 1 |
Sukna Ventures | 1 |
L-Acoustics | 1 |
Shubert Organization | 1 |
Faber | 1 |
Capital A Partners | 1 |
Baliopharm | 1 |
Seed Capital | 1 |
Ivar Kristjansson | 1 |
Menlo Ventures | 1 |
Jon S. von Tetzchner | 1 |
Two Ravens | 1 |
Innoport | 1 |
Riverstone Ventures | 1 |
Idlewild Management | 1 |
Probiocon | 1 |
MD ONE Ventures | 1 |
Eyrir Vöxtur | 1 |
Eyrir Venture Management | 1 |
Kjartan Olafsson | 1 |
Trausti Kristjánsson | 1 |
KOMPAS VC | 1 |
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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Iceland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- PLAIO — The only AI-assisted decision-making platform developed for pharmaceutical manufacturing
- Moombix — Join us for the launch of our advanced learning platform for online music lessons
- Treble — We develop next generation sound simulation and spatial audio technology for digital twins and virtual worlds.
Brunnur Ventures is a top venture capital firm in Iceland for startups with high-growth potential.
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- Software, SaaS, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Iceland, United States, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- AviLabs — AviLabs specializes in software development in aviation.
- Laki Power — We supply power grid operators with advanced high-voltage line monitoring stations that enable them to optimise performance, safety and cost.
- Porcelain Fortress — Porcelain Fortress was founded by a small band of romantics in the summer of 2016 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Crowberry Capital invests at seed and early stage in emerging technology ventures in the Nordics. Our mission is to back people that are good for companies and build companies that are good for people. We have a strong follow-through philosophy and commit to putting your company first.
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- Software, Gaming, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Iceland, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Tiimo — Tiimo helps you manage your daily life and improve your wellbeing. Visualize your day. Improve your routines. Stress less.
- Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
- Porcelain Fortress — Porcelain Fortress was founded by a small band of romantics in the summer of 2016 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Sigþór Sigmarsson is Finance director at Novato. He attended Háskóli Íslands.
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- Software, Health Care, Banking
- Seed, Series D, Funding Round
- Iceland, United Kingdom
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- 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.
Preceptor Capital is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Computer, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Iceland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Anonybit — Revolutionizing identity management platform with strong authentication across the user lifecycle without compromising on user privacy or data securityKeywords: identity management, strong authentication
- Lucinity — Money laundering is the crime that fuels crime. Lucinity's mission is to Make Money Good® by combining the best of human and artificial intelligence. Lucinity uses Human AI to help banks fight financial crime more efficiently. By designing its AML platform around man and machine, Lucinity allows banks to increase their AML programs'productivity.Lucinity identifies suspicious activity through its proprietary behavior detection system. The approach is entirely risk-based and allows customers to control their risk exposure before efficiently reviewing AML alerts in the Lucinity Case Manager.The company was founded by industry veterans. The core team has experience from Tier-1 banks, international regulators, and leading legacy vendors. Lucinity takes great pride in being the enterprise-ready AML startup that brings the novelty and excitement of a startup and the professionalism and experience of an incumbent.
Saint-Gobain NOVA is the ventures arm of Saint‑Gobain.
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Investment focus
- Software, Industrial Manufacturing, Energy
- Seed, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Treble — We develop next generation sound simulation and spatial audio technology for digital twins and virtual worlds.
- Plantformance — Accelerate your Industry 4.0 journey by simplifying the adoption of advanced technologies across your organization and empowering the rapid creation and deployment of innovative industrial applications.
- Enteligent — Enteligent is a solar product company focused on higher efficiency and harnessing more solar electricity. Enteligent's products reduce conversion losses and other inefficiencies that result in up to a 25% loss of solar rooftop electrical generation. Enteligent is on a mission to increase the effectiveness of solar electricity and providehomeowners with energy independence.
Omega ehf is a private investment vehicle that makes investments in private equity and a variety of ventures.
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Investment focus
- Banking, FinTech, Software
- Series D
- United Kingdom
Eyrir Invest is an international investment company that focuses on investments in industrial companies that have the potential to become true global leaders.
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Analytics, Enterprise Software
- Funding Round
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Activity Stream — Activity Stream is a marketing platform made exclusively for the event industry.
karma.vc is an early stage venture capital fund focusing on seed and early stage technology companies in Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Estonia, Sweden, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- BforeAI — Starting from patented technology developed in years of research, BforeAi is the prediction service that looks for newly registered or morphed domains, and score their maliciousness looking at metadata and links to other bad guys.
- Hydrogrid — All-in-one solution for optimizing hydropower plants. Increase revenues by up to 18%, reduce spill by up to 12%, and save valuable time with Hydrogrid Insight.
- Pactum — Pactum autonomous negotiations help companies unlock hidden value. Our AI negotiates non-strategic supplier contracts on a massive scale.
SaltPay is a FinTech company dedicated to building a better future for merchants by servicing them through payment and management tools. Focused on efficiency, technology, and people, they give merchants the help they need to grow.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Apps, Sales
- Funding Round
- Turkey, Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Odeal — Oedeal is a online payment service company, dedicated in providing wide range of financial solutions to entrepreneurs.
- Salescloud — The power behind your point of sales. Our cloud-based sales and management solutions provide you with powerful tools to help you run and grow your business.
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.
Omega Algae Iceland emphasis to become a global, innovative, cost-effective and sustainable supplier of high quality ingredients extracted from Algae.Omega Algae, based in Iceland, emerged from an initiative of five founders who developed specific systems to maximize the utilisation of the resources supplied by nature to grow one of the oldestand essential organisms in the existence of life on earth. Realizing that the world population is growing, and food chains are stressed to supply the essential elements for the continuance of a healthy future, Omega Algae is able to address these challenges with efficient solutions.
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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.
byFounders is the community-powered early-stage venture fund investing in globally ambitious teams connected to the Nordic and Baltic countries. With its unique Collective of founders and operators, byFounders offers its portfolio operational expertise and a global network. Believing in the power of tech to shape our future, byFounders takes an impact-aware approach to investing and working with the broader startup ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Denmark, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- DREM — Simplifying distributed energy saving solutions
- Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.
- DataCrunch.io — DataCrunch is a cloud service provider which facilitates utilization and integration of state of the art AI/ML models
Sukna ventures is a venture studio and fund based in Saudi Arabia.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Saudi Arabia, United States, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
- Octa — Octa is a one-click automated system for collecting invoices that ensures timely payment to business-to-business firms.
- Hefring Marine — Hefring Marine's on-board AI saves fuel consumption, significantly reduces carbon emissions and improves safety in boats and vessels through our real time sea navigation guidance for both manned and unmanned vessels.
Welcome to L-Acoustics. We set the benchmark for pro audio sound systems and are always at the cutting-edge of audio technology.
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Investment focus
- Audio, Music, Software
- Series B
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Mixhalo — Mixhalo is a real-time audio platform that delivers an immersive experience for live events including concerts, conferences, festivals, sporting events, and anywhere people gather to hear content. Founded by Incubus Guitarist and songwriter Mike Einziger and internationally-acclaimed violinist, Ann Marie Simpson-Einziger, Mixhalo enables live eventorganizers to give audiences exactly what they came for, with real-time audio delivered directly to attendees’ own phones (via a free app) and headphones.It was established in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Treble — We develop next generation sound simulation and spatial audio technology for digital twins and virtual worlds.
Shubert Organization owns, operates, and manages theatres in New York; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The organization also produces plays and musicals in New York City and other parts of the United States; operates a ticketing agency for theatres in New York City; and provides a research repository of theatrical documents and other relateditems. In addition, the company offers a source for various ticketing needs, including box office, telephone, internet, season and subscription, group, and more sales to various segments of the entertainment industry.Shubert Organization was formerly known as Select Theatres Corporation and changed its name to Shubert Organization in 1973.The company was founded in 1900 and is based in New York, United States. It operates as a subsidiary of The Shubert Foundation, Inc.
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Analytics, Enterprise Software
- Funding Round
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Activity Stream — Activity Stream is a marketing platform made exclusively for the event industry.
Faber is a Lisbon-based venture capital firm investing in outstanding entrepreneurs who innovate at the intersection of science and technology to drive digital transformation and climate action. The firm combines a specialist focus on deep tech early-stage startups with dedicated funds, investment teams and expert advisors to actively help foundersbuild global companies powered by AI/data or climate/ocean technologies.
Faber’s unique approach in Southern Europe is led by an entrepreneurial management partnership and backed by notable thesis-driven institutions and private investors. Investing since 2013, the firm has been an early investor in hard tech companies such as Unbabel, SWORD Health, Codacy, iLoF or YData
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Portugal, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Opnova — Opnova breaks through the rework barrier in IT, security, and compliance operations, delivering intelligent automation to workflows where implementing conventional automation was not previously practical or possible.
- 1s1 Energy — 1s1 Energy is developing material technology for PEM water electrolysis systems for green hydrogen production. The company's mission is to develop viable and scalable solutions to reduce carbon emissions within the decade. 1s1 Energy Inc. was founded in 2019 by Daniel Sobek, Sukanta Bhattacharyya, and T. Don Tilley.
- Mitiga Solutions — Mitigating the risk from climate-driven perils to your business assets everywhere.
venture capital and private equity for early stage businesses
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Investment focus
- 3D Printing, Software, 3D Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Quizy — Quizy Games is an online platform to participate in pool of quizzes and get earn money instantly. Try out your brain and luck together, earning money is fun.
- Kaptio — Kaptio is the next generation booking system that places customer experience at the heart of the travel economy. Powered by the Salesforce Platform, it frees travel companies from their legacy systems – equipping them to embrace new ways of working, transform the customer experience and deliver operational efficiencies. Kaptio was launched byArnar Laufdal Olafsson and Ragnar Fjölnisson in 2012 and has offices in United Kingdom, Iceland and Germany.
- Chargeup — Chargeup is a full-stack EV Financing & Asset Management Platform. We enable last-mile drivers with ownership and higher earnings
Baliopharm AG is a biotechnology company focusing on the development of novel therapeutics for the treatment of autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn`s disease, psoriasis and multiple sclerosis, and for cancer.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Consulting, Health Care
- Seed
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Seed Capital invests in Danish tech businesses with global ambitions. We are focused on "late seed"-stage companies, typically investing 1-3 MEUR in rounds of 1-6 MEUR. Proud backers of Trustpilot, Vivino, Lunar, Templafy, Dixa, Forecast, and many other great companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Denmark, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Flatpay — Flatpay's fair, flat-rate pricing simplifies payments & cuts costs. Benefit from our comprehensive solution & superior customer service. Join us now!
- Mesh Bio — Mesh Bio is a digital health startup that is transforming chronic disease management through predictive analytics. Mesh Bio works with healthcare providers and stakeholders to provide innovative solutions that transform health screening and disease management. They translate clinical data and numbers into actionable insights that help patientsbetter manage their health, lifestyle and disease risks.
- Embankment Group — Embankment Group is a recruitment consultancy specialising in candidate short markets. We pride ourselves on matching the best talent to the right companies.
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.
Menlo Ventures is a Bay Area venture capital firm that pursues companies with the potential to disrupt huge markets. We invest in all stages, across consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technologies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Canada, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Sana — Sana is an AI company building the next generation of knowledge tools. Designed and engineered in Stockholm, Sweden.
- New Lantern — New Lantern provides cutting-edge AI-powered cloud-native PACS solutions for healthcare providers, enabling faster and more accurate radiology diagnostics.
- Relyance AI — Full visibility and proactive data protection. Know how data moves through your code base, infrastructure, and third-party vendors. Learn more.
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.
Two Ravens focuses on investing in pre-seed and early seed stage technology companies.
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- Senvo — Centralized last mile data analytics for optimization, automation, and financial transparency.
- Hefring Marine — Hefring Marine's on-board AI saves fuel consumption, significantly reduces carbon emissions and improves safety in boats and vessels through our real time sea navigation guidance for both manned and unmanned vessels.
We invest in innovative and high-potential startups.We focus on the global maritime and logistics sectors.We are striving to find disruptive technologies and business models.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, India, Togo
Portfolio highlights
- Portcast — Our solution improves your supply chain resilience and profitability by accurately predicting arrival times and monitoring valuable container shipments around-the-clock.
- ANNEA — ANNEA help renewable energy companies to reduce OPEX by up to 50% while increasing green energy production by up to 15%.ANNEA provides the next generation of condition-based predictive maintenance and underperformance detection for renewable energy assets. It enables automated drive train vibration analysis, based on cutting edge artificialintelligence, physical modelling, and normal behaviour modelling.Operators receive notifications about future failures up to 12 months in advance, containing detailed information on which component has a problem, the root cause of the problem, and the best time window for repair. Besides, ANNEA detects underperformance of renewable assets and helps to maximise energy production.We optimise operations and maintenance across renewable energy sectors, reducing unplanned downtime and lost profit significantly, making green energy more affordable. Let's accelerate the energy transition together!
- Hefring Marine — Hefring Marine's on-board AI saves fuel consumption, significantly reduces carbon emissions and improves safety in boats and vessels through our real time sea navigation guidance for both manned and unmanned vessels.
Riverstone Ventures focuses on early stage climatetech companies.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Marine Technology
- Funding Round
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Hefring Marine — Hefring Marine's on-board AI saves fuel consumption, significantly reduces carbon emissions and improves safety in boats and vessels through our real time sea navigation guidance for both manned and unmanned vessels.
Idlewild Management LLC (Idlewild) is an investment management firm that focuses on a range of asset classes, including equities, private credit, direct investments, and real estate.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Marine Technology
- Funding Round
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Hefring Marine — Hefring Marine's on-board AI saves fuel consumption, significantly reduces carbon emissions and improves safety in boats and vessels through our real time sea navigation guidance for both manned and unmanned vessels.
Probiocon is a consulting company offering comprehensive services for pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies. We give advice and support for all kind of corporate development activities (services) needed for biotech and pharma companies, including but not limited to Corporate Financing, Licensing & Partnering, Merger & Acquisition,and Corporate Organisation.Their vision is to provide optimized and cost-effective solutions to the special needs of companies developing biopharmaceutical compounds.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Consulting, Health Care
- Seed
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
MD One Ventures is the Venture Capital team dedicated to supporting National Security Innovation for the UK and Allies. We invest in the frontier technologies that matter.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Security, Cyber Security
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Bifrost AI — Build AI in a day instead of a year, at a fraction of the price, with the Bifrost synthetic data engine.
- Hefring Marine — Hefring Marine's on-board AI saves fuel consumption, significantly reduces carbon emissions and improves safety in boats and vessels through our real time sea navigation guidance for both manned and unmanned vessels.
- Labrys Technologies — Visualise & Coordinate Your People. Securely. Anywhere. In Real-Time.
Eyrir Vöxtur is an ESG fund, which focuses on investing in promising ventures for international growth and value creation. The fund invests in companies that have a positive impact on society and the environment.
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Investment focus
- Legal, Legal Tech, Document Management
- Seed
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Justikal — Justikal is an eCourt system that allows different stakeholders in legal proceedings to handle documents in a trusted & secure way by using eIDAS compliant trust services.
- Laki Power — We supply power grid operators with advanced high-voltage line monitoring stations that enable them to optimise performance, safety and cost.
Eyrir Venture Management is the venture investment arm of Eyrir Invest, and manages the Eyrir Sprotar venture fund. Eyrir Sprotar focuses on supporting promising ventures for international growth and value creation, investing in seed-stage and early-stage companies. The firm's investment strategy spans all stages of a company´s growth, fromseed capital to funding early-stage companies as well as partaking in international growth.Eyrir Sprotar was founded in 2015 and is based in Reykjavík, Gullbringusysla.
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Investment focus
- Software, B2B, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Iceland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Digiphy — Build QR codes and templated pages to connect directly with customers, capture first-party data, tell your origin story, drive sales, product registration and more.
- 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.
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.
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.
KOMPAS is an early-stage venture capital firm with offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen and Tel Aviv. We fund breakthrough innovations that accelerate the digital transformation and decarbonisation of the building and manufacturing industries. KOMPAS invests €1.0 – 5.0 million in Seed and Series A rounds with continued support throughout thecompany’s entire lifecycle.
We partner with exceptional founders who disrupt the way buildings are designed, built and managed. We strive to eliminate emissions from building and manufacturing activity, reduce energy consumption, promote sustainable building materials, eliminate waste and support a circular economy. We invest in digital technology and automation to make industrial processes from procurement to manufacturing more efficient. We operate with purpose whilst delivering strong financial returns to our investors.
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Investment focus
- Construction, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Optiml — OPTIML is an end to end software platform harnessing the power of optimization to generate intelligent low cost and low carbon investment strategies for existing buildings. Real estate owners and consultants benefit from the novel data driven approaches scaled from the asset to portfolio level with increased productivity and accuracy for multi yearplanning. OPTIML is a GmbH, LLC headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. OPTIML leverages over four years of cutting edge engineering, sustainability, and policy research at ETH Zurich with multiple PhDs on the technology.With OPTIML asset, long term strategies to 2050 can be developed for any unique building asset considering all aspects of renovations for asset and construction management. Minimal data input is required but the models can be leveraged with maximum customizability. Scaled to any number of buildings, OPTIML portfolio develops portfolio budgetary and CO2 pathways considering asset level granularity with minimal planning cost.
- Treble — We develop next generation sound simulation and spatial audio technology for digital twins and virtual worlds.
- Again — SecondCircle makes carbon negative chemicals for a cleaner future. We are the first carbon negative chemical manufacturer that can scale to meet global demand. The best thing about it: we use carbon dioxide as a feedstock.
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