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Top 45 Gaming Startup Investors in Iceland

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 45 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Gaming startups based in Iceland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Gaming companies from Iceland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 45 Gaming Startup Investors in Iceland

Investor	Gaming Iceland investments
Crowberry Capital	6
Sisu Game Ventures	6
Hilmar Veigar Petursson	3
MGMT Ventures	3
New Business Venture Fund	3
David Helgason	3
Shanda Group	2
Index Ventures	2
Inventure	2
Sustainable Food Ventures	2
Reaktor Ventures	2
CRIT Ventures	1
Sigurdur Arnljotsson	1
CAA Ventures	1
Rahul Vohra	1
Korea Investment Partners	1
KB Investment	1
David Wallerstein	1
Tuesday Capital	1
HackCapital	1
VegInvest	1
Beatrice Aliprandi	1
Atomico	1
Birgir Ragnarsson	1
Sequoia Capital	1
Paige Craig	1
Mika Salmi	1
Bing Gordon	1
Soo Boon Koh	1
Investa	1
Kale United	1
Woori Technology Investment	1
Behold Ventures	1
Tencent	1
Greycroft	1
Bragiel Brothers	1
Headline	1
Aton	1
boldstart ventures	1
Lifely VC	1
Mesa Ventures	1
Jeff Solomon	1
Aqua Spark	1
Seoul Investment Partners	1
Ridge Ventures	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Iceland, Denmark, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Saidot — Saidot is a governance tool for safe, ethical and transparent AI.
Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!
Scaleup Finance — Improve your financial management

Sisu Game Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused 100% on games. We set up shop in 2014 to support the most promising founders in the industry. Sisu has deep roots in the Nordic region, but our network of founders is fully global.The Sisu team consists of Samuli, Paul, Erik, Kalle, Moaffak, Kadri, and Jere - all of whom haveextensive backgrounds in the game industry and startup circles, both as entrepreneurs and investors. We've founded and built sixteen game companies since the early 90s and had several successful exits. Apart from funding companies, the team uses their expertise to act as a studio builder. Individual founders are supported in building their team, honing their product strategy and in gathering the right group of investors.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Virtual Reality
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, United States, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Unagi — Collect your favorite football players and pick your best 11 every week!
Jam & Tea Studios — Jam & Tea Studios is a remote game studio that develops and offers multiplayer games. The company's games focus on leveraging innovative content and fostering social connections among players.
Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!

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.

Investment focus

Online Games, Software, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Iceland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LearnCove — Give your teams the tools to deliver engaging learning experiences that impact what matters - performance, retention, and growth - with LearnCove!
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.

MGMT Ventures mission is to support and invest in founders pushing the boundaries of innovation in emerging and future industries.

Investment focus

Gaming, Sports, Seafood
Pre-Seed
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Loki Foods — We're producing sustainable, plant-based foods from the Arctic. Iceland’s first plant-based cod and seafood!
Esports Coaching Academy — Proving knowledge, tools, and resources to run structured youth esports programs like boot camps, afterschool programs building healthy gaming habits.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.

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.

SFV backs globally early-stage founders building leading Future of Food companies that are: #Cell-based #Plant-based #Recombinant

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Farmless — A farmless fermentation platform has the potential to create an entirely new food repertoire, producing proteins, carbohydrates, beneficial fats, vitamins, and minerals from the ground up," explained Oner. "We are creating a new interface between food and electricity by domesticating microbes chosen for their food properties and abilityto grow on renewable energy-based feedstocks.
Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
Atlantic Fish Co — Developing sustainable, cultivated seafood using cellular agriculture

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.

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 Road Not Taken

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Gaming
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

LOCUS — LOCUS is a comprehensive cultural content producer which operates a diversified content business in multiple fields.
Indent — Indent is a provider of a video review service platform that helps sellers increase their sales by producing purchase reviews from actual buyers.
Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.

Sigurdur Arnljotsson is a Founding Partner at Brunnur Ventures

Investment focus

Art, Content Creators, Social Media Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Ghostlamp — Ghostlamp enables brands and agencies to create on-demand micro influencer campaigns, anywhere in the world via the use of an online self-serve platform.
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.

CAA Ventures is the venture arm of Creative Artists Agency.

Investment focus

Internet, Mobile, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Bungalow — Bungalow is a residential real estate platform that provides renters with a more convenient, flexible, and communal living solution. It utilizes existing housing supply by signing long-term leases with homeowners, and offers multi-bedroom homes in some of the most desirable neighborhoods in cities throughout the United States.Bungalow offersprivate bedrooms with handpicked housemates in beautifully furnished homes across seven major cities. Each home comes furnished and includes wifi, utilities, housekeeping, and monthly community events for members.Andrew Collins and Justin McCarty founded Bungalow in 2016. Its headquarters is in San Francisco in California.
Harper Wilde — Harper Wilde owns and operates an online portal for shopping lingerie.The company is committed not only to lifting up ladies, but also to lifting up the future generation of leading ladies. Harper Wilde's purposeful designs and curated options not only make things easier for customers, but also allow us to save money in production costs andpass those savings onto their customers. In this way, they empower women by providing them with more fairly-priced products, at nearly half of what competitors charge.
DeSo Foundation — DeSo is a layer -1 blockchain designed to build and scale decentralized social apps to 1 Billion users. Take back ownership of your content and social graph with web3 versions of Twitter and LinkedIn.

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.

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.

Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

LabInCube — LabInCube develops inCube materials capable of selective drug release, sustained release, and supporting complex raw materials.
StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.
Syntekabio — Syntekabio is a Korean biotech firm, developing personal genome map which is expected to enable personalized medical service. The company also provides a technology for collecting and integrating decrypted whole genome data.

Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widestnetwork of service branches in Korea.KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Apollon — Apollon develops noninvasive continuous glucose monitoring systems.
AGL — AGL Co., Ltd. is a leading company that specializes in providing integrated solutions, including tee time Global Distribution System (GDS), Pay, and ERP, to both domestic and overseas golf courses.
ReadyPost — ReadyPost is a general meeting service platform that provides services for real estate general meetings.

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.

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

Tuesday Capital (formerly CrunchFund) has been helping early-stage founders build the companies of tomorrow since 2011.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Mexico, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Featureform — A virtual feature store that integrates smoothly with your current infrastructure. Defining, sharing, training, and serving features has never been simpler.
Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
Foundation Health — Foundation Health is a telehealth and nationwide pharmacies and diagnostic distribution centre

Join FoodTech focused investors looking to back impact-driven founders shaping our food system

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

PoLoPo — PoLoPo is a biotech company that produces proteins on a large scale and according to specifications. PoLoPo develops a "superAA" plant by employing directed metabolic engineering techniques and fully utilizing plants' capacity as various metabolite and green protein factories. A significant amount of free amino acids can be producedby the superAA. The increased production of amino acids is then translated into an increase in the scale at which proteins are produced in plant organs.
twig bio — twig bio operates as a bioengineering startup. twig bio using AI and robotics to find sustainable replacements for harmful ingredients.
Cultivated Biosciences — Cultivated - Creamy, dairy-free indulgence

VegInvest provides early-stage capital and guidance to companies striving to replace the use of animals.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Seafood
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Nowadays — The Nowadays nugget is made with just 7 simple, plant-based ingredients.
Loki Foods — We're producing sustainable, plant-based foods from the Arctic. Iceland’s first plant-based cod and seafood!
Dextrous Robotics — Dextrous Robotics is a robotics company that develops AI-enabled warehouse robots. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.

Beatrice Aliprandi - Principal @ Talis Capital

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

Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.

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.

Birgir Ragnarsson is the Managing Partner at Novator.

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.

We help the daring build legendary companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Zafran Security — Zafran offers Risk Mitigation which leverages current security policies to protect enterprises during crucial exploitation periods.
Grow Therapy — Find a psychiatrist or therapist near you who takes your insurance. Finding the right therapist and scheduling your session is easy, safe, and secure. Book today!
Smiths International Group — a diverse conglomerate holding company founded and operated by me. It aims to acquire and manage a wide range of businesses with a focus on long-term growth and profitability. The company’s business model prioritizes sustainable value creation over short-term gains, and it seeks to invest in businesses with strong management teams, competitiveadvantages, and potent

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director at Zume Inc.

Investment focus

Gaming, Social Media, Internet
Series A, Series B, Series C
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.

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.

Investment focus

Virtual Reality, Apps, Cloud Computing
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
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.

Investa is an early stage investor in some of Iceland's most innovative startups. It invests primarily in companies in the technology sector offering products and solutions that have an international appeal.Its policy is to invest in a select few startups and spend a lot of time with them. In addition to investing, the company also providevarious advisory services from time to time to companies, investors and institutions that need help evaluating new opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Crowdsourcing
Seed, Angel
Iceland, United States

Portfolio highlights

GRID — Build smart, interactive web calculators & lead-gen tools powered by your spreadsheets.
Travelade — Find recommendations and local insights from all across the world. Discover hidden gems, book experiences with best price guaranteed, create epic stories.
Aldin Dynamics — Aldin creates believable realities designed for presence & immersion.

Kale United offers a portfolio of over 75+ plant-based game changers

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Sweden, India

Portfolio highlights

Loki Foods — We're producing sustainable, plant-based foods from the Arctic. Iceland’s first plant-based cod and seafood!
THE PACK — Nutritionally complete vegan dog food. Grain-free & developed with food scientists & animal nutritionists, try our delicious vegan dog food now.
Swedish Temptations — Swedish Temptations, founded in 2019 by CEO Pia Qvarnström, built a brand named Bärta for producing organic, vegan and fermented food. The ingredients include Swedish split peas.

Woori Technology Investment Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm focusing on venture capital.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Lambda256 — Founded in 2012, Dunamu (CEO Lee Seok-woo) is currently providing services as the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Korea, 'Upbit' and stock trading platform based on social network, ‘Kakao Stock'. Both services are leading in the industry and ecosystems. (Upbit launched in Oct. 2017, Kakao Stock launched in Feb. 2014) Dunamuprovides the best service in the fields of cryptocurrency, securities, and asset management. Dunamu is getting much attention in both domestic and global market with professional specialists, innovative services and excellent technology. Recently, it announced to make investment of 100 billion dollars in the blockchain industry, leading the way in creating blockchain ecosystem.
Openknowl — OPENKNOWL is an online career management system, offering mentoring facilities and careers camps for those wanting to develop a career in the IT sector.
Reasoned Art — Reasoned Art is the Italian gallery dedicated to CryptoArt. it selects the best digital artists worldwide, curates physical and virtual exhibitions, and certifies the authenticity of works allowing their sale through NFT.

Early stage (first money), venture capital - laser focused on investing in the video games industry. Based in Sweden with a deep focus on the Nordics, while also being opportunistic about investments worldwide.

Investment focus

Gaming, Sports, eSports
Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden, Iceland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vitar Games — A WW1 Strategy driven Management Game
Red Rover — We're on a mission to reimagine the multiplayer gaming landscape, with an emphasis on crafting groundbreaking survival experiences that champion player agency and drama.
Esports Coaching Academy — Proving knowledge, tools, and resources to run structured youth esports programs like boot camps, afterschool programs building healthy gaming habits.

Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Monzo — Spend, save and manage your money, all in one place. Open a full UK bank account from your phone, for free.
Sinovent — Founded in 2016, Sinovent is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on innovation. Sinovent is centered around global standard excellence through its advanced biotechnology platform, decades of management experience, as well as financial support. Sinovent uniquely combines its expertise in science, management and finance, to develop and promoteadvanced treatment methods to solve worldwide healthcare problems. Currently, the company has 12 products in development, primarily in oncology, auto-immune diseases, and infectious diseases.
Pocket FM — Listen to Audio Books, Podcasts and read Novels on Pocket FM. We bring you over 10k+ popular audio shows in multi languages. Best audiobooks app

Venture capital and technology investments

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Addi — Addi is a technology company that provides credit and banking solutions. Addi is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia.
Ocient — Modernize your Data and Analytics Stack with an End-to-End Solution
Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.

Bragiel Brothers is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in seed and Series A rounds. Dan Bragiel launched the firm in San Francisco, California in 2016.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Finland, Japan

Portfolio highlights

UpCodes — UpCodes is a comprehensive code compliance platform. Research, collaborate, and calculate code requirements efficiently, all in one place.
Wunderite — Wunderite is the only digital forms solution built for insurance agents by agents. Wunderite makes PDFs, Supplementals, and ACORDs easy for producers, Account managers, and customers, by putting them online, and making any question assignable with the click of a button, on any device. Additionally, we save time by enriching (auto-filling) customer data.
Inspectify — If you are looking to buy or sell a home, Inspectify helps you find the best home inspectors in your area.

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Helcim Inc. — Helcim is a payments company that lets businesses accept credit cards with ease. Helcim focuses on delivering a better payment service by making it easier to sign up, providing smarter payment tools, and making it more affordable to get paid.
Carewell — Are you a caregiver? At Carewell, find the best home health products with discreet packaging & the support you need with guides, articles, and 24/7 service. 30% OFF 1st Autoship!
Prescient AI — Industry-leading marketing & media mix modeling (MMM) & marketing attribution software powered by AI. Get actionable insights in 36 hours.

ATON GmbH is active within companies operating in seminal markets (raw materials, services and applied technology). The ATON companies are mainly active in business to business areas. ATON does not invest in start up businesses. As a rule, ATON is the majority shareholder. Connected to this is the adoption of responsibility for the ATON-ledcompanies.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage
Series A
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Good Good — Good Good emphasizes on online sales.

Day one partner for developer first, crypto infra & SaaS founders.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Zuplo — Zuplo is fully-managed API Management designed for developers. Add rate-limiting, authentication and more as fast as you can commit to git.
Tres — Crypto Accounting and Web3 Treasury - Enable financial workflows such as reconciliation, balance calculation, audit and reporting. Now businesses can monitor, manage and account for their Web3 assets from on-ramp to off-ramp.
Protect AI — Protect AI builds cybersecurity solutions for AI systems and ML models, helping ML developers and enterprises embrace MLSecOps.

Lifely VC is investing and supporting startups globally with game-changing teams in the food and materials space.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Iceland, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

MYCL | Mycotech Lab — Mycotech is a mining company which deals on future bio-material with agricultural waste to empower farmers. Starting business since 2012 as mushroom gourmet producers, our team realize that mushroom can save the world. After one year growing mushroom medium, we found mushroom grown bag are become harden and hard to breakdown. Since then weinitiate a research to develop this kind of phenomenon from our kitchen by borrowing mom’s pressure cooker. Luckily we don’t have to break many mom’s kitchen tools after had a full access to mycology lab of Indonesian government owned research agency and world class laboratories in Singapore and Switzerland. Since then, the company is developing this material from scratch from lab scale into pilot scale. Our mission is to deliver sustainable material from renewable resources with affordability.
Bucha Bio — Bucha Bio creates a novel biomaterial grown from infinitely renewable bacterial-nanocellulose. Strands of natural fibers interlock to form a high-performance textile with a luxuriously soft handfeel. Produced in weeks rather than months or years, use it in premium applications instead of animal leather, polyurethane, latex, vinyl, and so much more.Creating a reliable material is our goal, adding plastics and petrochemicals like PU polyurethane would make it easy, but we’ve never taken the easy way out. Committed to sustainability, Bucha Bio’s team is dedicated to creating a completely biodegradable textile that enables the next generation of designers to create products for a more sustainable future. Our biomaterial is water-resistant, scratch-resistant, sunlight-resistant, flame-resistant, and so many more reasons to test it out in your next product.
Bond Pet Foods — We make vegan and protein-rich pet food and treats formulated by board-certified veterinary nutritionists.

MESA Ventures is a Seed and Series A venture fund focused on e-commerce, advertising, media, enterprise software, and mobile technologies. The Fund co-invests between $50,000 and $250,000 alongside established early stage venture firms. We actively support talented entrepreneurs building big businesses. To do that, we invest social capitalthat we believe valuable as financial capital. This comes from tapping into the team’s global network of media, entertainment and technology relationships to provide investor introductions, executive team hiring, business development, client & advertiser introductions, and marketing support. The Fund's goal is to help its portfolio companies whenever and wherever it can.

Investment focus

Mobile, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Panjo — Panjo is a mobile marketplace for the world’s most ardent auto, sport, and hobby enthusiasts. Existing marketplaces poorly underserve and ignore this audience. Each year, 350M worldwide enthusiasts spend $15B buying products, parts, and accessories from their peers through a patchwork of inefficient methods.
Zipdrug — Zipdrug provides patients access to low-cost pharmacies who deliver prescriptions right to their homes. Its platform allocates medicare advantage patients to pharmacies that will drive adherence for the lowest cost. It was founded in 2015 and is based in New York City.
MessageYes (formerly ReplyYes) — MessageYes' mission is to help people effortlessly discover and purchase items they love using their mobile phones. MessageYes is the first platform to offer frictionless e-commerce over mobile messaging for brands looking to engage and transact directly with their customers. Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), human-assisted AI, andintegrated payments, the MessageYes platform learns from customer feedback to make the experience serendipitous to each person and brand. Message recipients simply reply "Yes" to instantly buy from their mobile phones.

Jeff Solomon is the Co-Founder of Markup Hero.

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.

Aqua-Spark is an investment fund with a focus on sustainable aquaculture businesses around the world. The small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) they invest in are working toward the production of safe, accessible aquatic life, such as fish, shellfish and plants, in ways that do not harm their oceans. Their investors value the fact that each investmentaims to create triple impact—specifically, each investment is chosen for its potential to generate significant financial returns while also activating positive environmental and social outcomes.Aqua-Spark believes that committing to a long-term vision is the way to realize effective and lasting impact results. When it comes to investments, they do not seek quick exits; instead, they look for entrepreneurs who strive to build and scale toward the future, who see their business as major economic opportunities that can also help solve looming environmental and food security challenges over the long-term. As an essential of each investee, Aqua-Spark seeks sustainability.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Seafood, Aquaculture
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, Norway, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Tepbac — Less work for farmer, more fish for people.
Kuehnle Agrosystems — Kuehnle AgroSystems curates a unique set of algae originating from pristine waters and ecosystems of Hawaii, as well as tropical botanical accessions representing plants prized by Polynesian voyagers.
Wanda Fish Technologies — Wanda Fish is an innovative FoodTech company with a platform that produces a wide variety of delicious fish fillets using sustainable cell-cultivation practices.

Seoul Investment Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on investments in small and medium businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Medical
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Pluto — Pluto provides a SaaS solution that includes both discovery and academic search engines customized for the institution.
Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.

Ridge Ventures (formerly IDG Ventures) is an early stage venture capital fund investing in experienced founders redefining how the world uses software.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Espresa — Unify your employee experience and create a workplace culture of total wellbeing, community, and recognition with Espresa's web- and app-based experience that people love.
OfferFit — OfferFit is a marketing decisioning engine that selects the best message, incentive, timing, and channel for every customer. OfferFit's self-learning AI proactively experiments -- it's like adding an AI "brain" to your MarTech stack.
MaintainX — MaintainX helps you track your reactive maintenance, preventive maintenance, and control the daily operations of your business. Get started for Free!

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