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Top 15 Hardware Startup Investors in Iceland in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Hardware startups based in Iceland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from Iceland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Hardware Startup Investors in Iceland in February 2025

Investor	Hardware Iceland investments
Brunnur Ventures	5
New Business Venture Fund	3
Chrysalix Venture Capital	2
Reaktor Ventures	2
Shanda Group	2
Crowberry Capital	2
Inventure	2
Frumtak Ventures	2
Novelis	1
Investa	1
Technology Development Fund	1
Hermann Kristjánsson	1
Hermann Kristjánsson	1
Kjartan Olafsson	1
Behold Ventures	1

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Brunnur Ventures is a top venture capital firm in Iceland for startups with high-growth potential.

Investment focus

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.

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.

Leading global venture capital fund that invests in resource intensive industries across North America and Europe.

Investment focus

Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Liminal — Advanced battery inspection and metrology with ultrasound and machine learning
C2CA technology — C2CA Technology is a pioneering company in concrete recycling, established in 2016 by Delft Enterprises, Delft University, and GBN.Our mission is to transform waste concrete into sustainable building materials, replacing virgin aggregates, sand, and cement to mitigate 8% of global CO2 emissions.Our advanced separation, and quality controltechnologies are in use at our demonstration site in Hoorn, the Netherlands.We're committed to achieving 100% circular concrete and building a more sustainable future. Join us and make a positive impact on the planet.
Rithmik Solutions — We increase uptime in mines with advanced analytics that optimize maintenance and extend equipment life.

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.

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

Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Xunlu AI — Xunlu AI is an innovative startup that focuses on the development of AI-powered customer service technologies. Xunlu AI provides AI intelligent customer service and sales robots to businesses in a variety of industries via highly tailored AI solutions, assisting businesses in achieving their goals of cost reduction and increased productivity.
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.
Rubedo Life Sciences — Rubedo Life Sciences is the Premier Longevity Company. Rubedo discovers and develops medicines to keep you biologically young.

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

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Moncyte Health — Unique technology and novel data for personalized and optimal treatment of high cholesterol
Biomatter — Biomatter Designs is pioneering the technologies for generative protein design at the intersection of synthetic biology and AI.
Avenue Biosciences — From biotechnology tools to therapy discovery and development: Our platform enhances production yield and the quality of your end product.

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.

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.

Discover Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling. Learn how our innovative solutions and sustainability initiatives drive the future of lightweight, durable, and recyclable aluminum for industries worldwide.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Iceland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sortera Technologies — Sortera Alloys manufactures low-cost, high-quality metal alloys for domestic manufacturing using its artificial intelligence technology.
Multiscale Technologies — Multiscale Technologies developed an AI platform that accelerates R&D and the discovery of new materials by 100X. The platform digitizes all forms of data (tabular, pdf, simulations etc.) and uses its own unique knowledge fusion platform to connect experiments, simulations, and materials domain expertise to provide predictive analyses andrecommendations for any manufacturing company that does R&D for new materials in their current/future products.
DTE ehf — DTE introduces breakthrough real-time process control analytics for metals production and processing towards Industry 4.0, through our robotic hardware and software solutions, automating current manual sampling processes for improved quality, cost, efficiency and safety.

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 — Spreadsheets run the world and we run 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.

The role of the fund is to support research and development activities, which aim towards innovation in Icelandic industry. The Technology Development Fund is a competitive fund which issues its calls for proposals twice a year.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
Grant, Seed
Iceland, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Orb — Orb's groundbreaking technology is leveraging the latest advances in computer vision and AI for on-site forest assessment with phones, reducing cost by 90% Orb's carbon and biodiversity platform delivers unmatched data and and transparency, maximising value of each carbon credit.
LearnCove — LearnCove's LMS is your go-to for seamless training, compliance, and quality management systems. Enhance performance, retention and growth with our unified platform.
Abler — Abler brings simplicity to the complexities of team management. With easy scheduling, messaging, payment, and data tools, Abler empowers users to spend more time cultivating the essential life skills and values learned through sports and other organised activities.

Hermann Kristjánsson

Investment focus

Hardware, Software, Photography
Seed
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Kúla 3D — Making your own 3D images and videos is easy. New devices to watch 3D are popping up, but something is missing: your own personal 3D imagery; your friends and family in three dimensions. Since 2013 Kúla has made solutions for 3D photography with regular camera because they believe everyone should capture their precious moments in 3D. They make 3Dlenses for DSLR cameras and smartphones accompanied by the image processing software Kúlacode.

Hermann Kristjánsson - CEO & Managing Director @ Vaki

Investment focus

Drones, Electronics
Seed
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Flygildi ehf — Silent Flyer is a flapping-wing bird-like drone with wings that can morph their shape during flight and fold unto the body. The Silent Flyer is manufactured by Flygildi ehf, Reykjavik, Iceland.

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.

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.

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

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.
Porcelain Fortress — Porcelain Fortress was founded by a small band of romantics in the summer of 2016 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Blue Scarab Entertainment — Blue Scarab Entertainment is Stockholm-based video game studio developing a surprising MMORPG for fans of cozy escapism, true-crime, and horses.

Investors by industry

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