Top 10 Gaming Angel Investors in Iceland (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Hilmar Veigar Petursson
Angel
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3 | Iceland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Online Games, Software, Video Games | $780k–$25M |
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David Helgason
Angel
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3 | United States, Denmark, Finland | Seed, Series A | Software, Gaming, Information Technology | $1.1M–$30M |
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Jeff Solomon
Angel
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1 | United States, Iceland | Seed | Mobile, iOS, Android | $500k–$4.9M |
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Sigurdur Arnljotsson
Angel
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1 | Iceland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Art, Gaming | $1M–$7.8M |
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Paige Craig
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Iceland | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, E-Commerce, Mobile | $91k–$6.5M |
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Birgir Ragnarsson
Angel
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1 | Iceland, Germany, Lithuania | Series B, Seed, Series A | Medical Device, Art, Mobile | $738k–$55M |
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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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Mika Salmi
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A | Online Games, Gaming, E-Commerce | $1.2M–$30M |
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Rahul Vohra
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Financial Services | $1.2M–$298M |
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Soo Boon Koh
Angel
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1 | Singapore, United States, China | Series A, Seed, Series B | Apps, Mobile, Cloud Computing | $1.2M–$53M |
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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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- Industry: Online Games, Software, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Iceland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $780k–$7.8M; Series A $4.3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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 is the virtual tabletop for Game Masters who want to boost their storytelling and be confident about the games they run. Create memorable stories, characters and visuals and bring them to your game with ease.
- 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.
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, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Denmark, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $4.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yousician — Yousician is a fun way to learn the guitar, piano, bass, ukulele or singing. Enjoy thousands of songs with Yousician as your personal music teacher!
- Absurd:Joy — absurd:joy is bringing joy to remote collaboration with Tangle
- Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
Jeff Solomon is the Co-Founder of Markup Hero.
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- Industry: Mobile, iOS, Android
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States, Iceland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Sigurdur Arnljotsson is a Founding Partner at Brunnur Ventures
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- Industry: Software, Art, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Iceland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.8M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AviLabs — AviLabs specializes in software development in aviation.
- Vitar Games — A WW1 Strategy driven Management Game
- Quest Portal — Quest Portal is the virtual tabletop for Game Masters who want to boost their storytelling and be confident about the games they run. Create memorable stories, characters and visuals and bring them to your game with ease.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, India, Iceland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $350k–$3.5M; Angel $91k–$1.7M; Series A $700k–$6.5M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- StackStr — Real time monitoring of machine learning systems.
- CourseHorse — CourseHorse is a provider of a learning platform used to centralize the learning opportunities. Its platform partners with providers of Spanish lessons, cooking courses, yoga classes, and other classes to create a single destination for people seeking personal interest education that enables people to increase ease and confidence in discovering thepath to personal enrichment.It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York.
- Spaceship — A platform for Continuous Delivery. Turn your code into containers automatically. Get it running on Kubernetes instantly.
Birgir Ragnarsson is the Managing Partner at Novator.
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- Industry: Medical Device, Art, Mobile
- Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Iceland, Germany, Lithuania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $738k–$7.8M; Series A $13M–$20M; Series B $16M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Numan — Convenient care, tailored to you. Offering treatments for weight loss, diagnostics, erectile dysfunction, hair loss, and more.
- Quest Portal — Quest Portal is the virtual tabletop for Game Masters who want to boost their storytelling and be confident about the games they run. Create memorable stories, characters and visuals and bring them to your game with ease.
- 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.
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
- Origami Labs — Origami & Company
- Teatime Games — Teatime Games is an Iceland-based gaming startup that reinvents social games.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Online Games, Gaming, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.8M; Series A $1.7M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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 is the virtual tabletop for Game Masters who want to boost their storytelling and be confident about the games they run. Create memorable stories, characters and visuals and bring them to your game with ease.
- Wonder Studios — Producing world-class original content
Rahul Vohra is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Founder & CEO of Superhuman.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8M; Series A $10M–$21M; Series B $30M–$298M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aside — Aside is the company that builds cloud-based platforms. Daffy Charitable is its first not-for-profit community platform.
- Taurus — Creating delightful consumer brands using AI agents.
- Zed Industries — Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
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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- Industry: Apps, Mobile, Cloud Computing
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Singapore, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$1.4M; Series A $1.5M–$17M; Series B $17M–$53M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
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.
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