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Top 50 Startup Investors in Iceland

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in startups based in Iceland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Iceland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Startup Investors in Iceland

Investor	Iceland investments
New Business Venture Fund	26
Brunnur Ventures	17
Frumtak Ventures	16
Crowberry Capital	13
Sisu Game Ventures	6
Hilmar Veigar Petursson	5
Iceland Venture Studio	4
MGMT Ventures	3
Novator	3
byFounders	3
Sigþór Sigmarsson	3
David Helgason	3
Sustainable Food Ventures	2
Investa	2
Slack Fund	2
Silicon Valley Bank	2
Shanda Group	2
Possible Ventures	2
Inventure	2
Reaktor Ventures	2
BlueYard Capital	2
Sigurdur Olafsson	2
PROfounders Capital	2
Christian Jantzen	2
Index Ventures	2
Preceptor Capital	2
Thor Fridriksson	1
Birkir Bjarnason	1
Sigurdur Arnljotsson	1
CRIT Ventures	1
Soo Boon Koh	1
Tennin	1
Credo Ventures	1
Natalia Vodianova	1
Sameer Singh	1
BackingMinds	1
Dagur Sigurdsson	1
VegInvest	1
Greycroft	1
Andri Sveinsson	1
Rahul Vohra	1
Polaris	1
New Enterprise Associates	1
Headline	1
Bing Gordon	1
KB Investment	1
Yanu Holdings	1
HackCapital	1
Birgir Ragnarsson	1
Wonder Investment	1

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The New Business Venture Fund is an evergreen investment fund that actively contributes to the development and growth of the Icelandic economy by investing in promising innovation and start-up companies.The New Business Venture Fund invests at seed and early stage in promising growth companies with great business ideas and strong management anddevelopment teams.The New Business Venture Fund is a state owned investment fund intended to strengthen and develop the Icelandic venture capital market along with promoting startups and business in Iceland thus encouraging economic growth.

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Angel
Iceland, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

PaxFlow — PaxFlow is a travel technology startup that helps tour operators to streamline operations with resource management, data based workflows, customer communication and self service tools.
Vitar Games — A WW1 Strategy driven Management Game
Standby Deposits — Standby Deposits is a rental security deposit replacement based on credit.

Frumtak (a.k.a. Frumtak Investment Fund, Frumtak I, Frumtak 1) was founded December 23rd. 2008. The objective was to invest in early stage growth companies that were post seed and had growth potential. This would result in leading companies that could deliver a good return to investors.At the close of Frumtak‘s investment period on December 31st.2012, the fund had invested in fifteen companies with nine investments still active. The remainder of lifetime of the fund is used to follow on investments and divest assets.Frumtak Ventures (Frumtak II, Frumtak 2) started in February 2015. The fund builds on the legacy of Frumtak 1. The fund invests in early stage innovative companies that are post seed and show great potential for growth. The fund invests primarily in Iceland but is allowed to invest abroad as allowed by law in connection with its portfolio investments to ensure success in foreign markets.Frumtak II emphasizes to invest in companies where growth and sales in foreign markets are the primary objective, but does not specialize in any particular industry. The fund wants to ensure that original ideas get a chance and thereby increasing the probability of creating growth and value. By doing this, it enforces the image that Icelandic innovation is profitable.Frumtak II aspires to be a trusted and popular ally. The fund strives to have a good relationship and co-operation with all stakeholders within the start-up and innovation community. The fund puts a special emphasis on co-operating with stakeholders outside Iceland.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Iceland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

50skills — Bring people, information and tools together. 50skills is a hiring system and so much more.
Spectaflow — Spectaflow is a SaaS solution for accommodations businesses focused on improving housekeeping and maintenance workflows
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.

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, Information Technology, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Iceland, Denmark, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Saidot — Saidot is a governance tool for safe, ethical and transparent AI.
Social First — We create games that are social experiences, span decades and extend beyond gaming; giving our players platforms to create meaningful relationships with people all across the world.
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

Bitmagic — All you need is your imagination and Bitmagic helps you create the game you want to make.
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

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 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.

We help people grow and build decentralized companies

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Iceland, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Soptle — Founded in Sep 2021, Soptle started to establish an integrated technology to the neglected regional FMCG Manufacturers in India with a B2B Retail Commmerce App. It uses tech and data to distribute at scale and use necessary components (existing Distributor/Wholesaler) in the FMCG Supply Chain to build a high growth and profitable business.
Expertrons — Expertrons is an upskilling platform that offers advanced training programs | BSFI | HR | Marketing and many more to assure 100% professional success.
Nanom — Greenvolt Nano creates nano-enhanced materials for use in battery technology. It provides a pathway to clean, inexpensive, and renewable energy sources while reducing environmental toxicity. And makes products smarter, efficient, and longer lasting. It is founded in 2017.

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 — Esports Coaching Academy, the leading platform for youth esports training, education, and certification. Our academy offers top-quality courses, exercises, training sessions, and certifications.

Novator is an alternative investment firm founded and led by the international investor and entrepreneur Thor Bjorgolfsson.Novator's investment portfolio is focused around following sectors: Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, IT and Renewable Energy. In addition, Novator operates a Private Equity Fund and a Credit Opportunities Fund.Novator focuses on developing strong management teams in each of its portfolio companies. While granting them the autonomy to create value, Novator maintains a supervisory role, principally through representation on the Boards of its investee companies. Novator differentiates itself from many other private equity companies in concentrating on complex situations, either by virtue of their structure or their cross-border nature. To create value, Novator undertakes the restructuring or "de-risking" of investment opportunities through re-financing, combining acquired assets with existing businesses, through sale to strategic or financial buyers, or through flotation. Novator's investment portfolio is focused around four main sectors:Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, IT and Renewable Energy.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Online Games
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

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.
Better.com — Better Mortgage Corporation is a direct lender dedicated to providing a fast, transparent digital mortgage experience backed by superior customer support.
Steel City Interactive — Steel City Interactive develops gaming.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Denmark, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Monta — Monta is the ultimate platform powering the entire EV charging ecosystem. From drivers, to businesses, to industry partners, we offer software solutions that cover all EV charging needs.
QA.tech — Our AI combines the skills of a QA engineer with the speed of automated testing for you. This shortens your time to market, cuts costs and improves the quality of your web apps.
Dusk — Rune is an automated friend or squad finder and voice chat for players on mobile games. Users can hang out and share amazing experiences together. The company builds the future of LFG for mobile gamers.

Sigþór Sigmarsson is Finance director at Novato. He attended Háskóli Íslands.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

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.

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!

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

Another Food — Another Food is a plant cell culture startup which develops sustainable coffee from plant cells. A nature-identical coffee, healthier for consumers and better for the planet.
Peruvian Veef — Peruvian Veef is an offline and online store that offers real burgers, grilled seitan, crispy cravings, and vegan nugget products.
Atlantic Fish Company — Atlantic Fish Co is a cultivated seafood company using cellular agriculture to bring the world sustainable delicious seafood.

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.

The Slack Fund is a venture capital fund that invests in and collaborates with entrepreneurs creating the next great software companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

WorkMade — A smarter banking solution for freelancers: Automatically calculates, prepares, pays taxes, discovers write-offs, and gets you paid fast.
Gatheround — Facilitate must-haves like regular team bonding, new hire onboarding, peer learning, and more.
Ensemble AI — Discover how a novel representation learning algorithm can increase the predictive power of your data in any domain and with any model.

Silicon Valley Bank is the financial partner of the innovation economy; helping individuals and investors in the innovation ecosystem achieve extraordinary outcomes.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Debt Financing, Series B, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Denim — Denim is an all-in-one financial enablement platform for the logistics industry. We work with brokerages to offer freight factoring and back office automation.
Thumbtack — Thumbtack is a technology leader building the modern home management platform. Through the Thumbtack app, homeowners can effortlessly manage their homes — confidently knowing what to do, when to do it, and who to hire. Bringing the $500 billion home services industry online, Thumbtack empowers millions of homeowners to fix, maintain, and improvetheir most valuable asset. The company is backed by Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Javelin Venture Partners, Baillie Gifford, and Capital G, among others.
Achieve Life Science — Current smoking treatments are failing. Achieve Life Sciences wants to change that by ending the global smoking health epidemic and supporting smoking cessation.

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.

Possible Ventures backs ambitious teams building frontier technology to positively impact society. We invest globally in the early stages, actively supporting founders via our collective of global entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Insempra — Origin.Bio creates synthetic microorganisms that can make many of the same ingredients as traditional chemical industrialization processes today, but with significantly fewer energy requirements and waste produced while eradicating the need for petrochemicals.The company drives the convergence of engineering with biology, using DNA as theprogramming language. Rather than editing genetic material only in or out of DNA, engineers can hack entirely new organisms that have never existed — all powered by computing, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine-learning while leveraging millions of years of evolution. Operating at an atomic level, the company farms organisms with microscopic precision and integrates them into existing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) manufacturing processes. This asset-light approach enables Origin.Bio to generate sustainable materials at speed in a cost-effective way, without compromising on performance.
Sumday — Non - financial accounting software. Start carbon accounting, properly, with the support of your existing advisors
InSpacePropulsion Technologies — ISPTech is a Spin-Off of the Institute of Space Propulsion at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It offers non-toxic, green propulsion solutions

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

Leya AI — Feel and sound like an English native in 3 months
Steep — Business intelligence for modern companies. Steep lets anyone on your team stay on top of your data.
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.

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.

BlueYard backs founders building the interconnected elements that can become the fabric of our future.

Investment focus

Software, Cryptocurrency, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Insempra — Origin.Bio creates synthetic microorganisms that can make many of the same ingredients as traditional chemical industrialization processes today, but with significantly fewer energy requirements and waste produced while eradicating the need for petrochemicals.The company drives the convergence of engineering with biology, using DNA as theprogramming language. Rather than editing genetic material only in or out of DNA, engineers can hack entirely new organisms that have never existed — all powered by computing, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine-learning while leveraging millions of years of evolution. Operating at an atomic level, the company farms organisms with microscopic precision and integrates them into existing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) manufacturing processes. This asset-light approach enables Origin.Bio to generate sustainable materials at speed in a cost-effective way, without compromising on performance.
ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression
Transcripta Bio — Transcripta Bio is a company dedicated to drug discovery, with a focus on numerous diseases at once, at a never-before-seen pace and scale, with lesser risk and greater assurance.

Sigurdur Olafsson

Investment focus

Sports
Seed, Pre-Seed
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

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.
The One - Dating App — The One is a wholesome, conversation-first, dating app that systematically matches two strangers every day. Its user gets a few new matches every three days and they spend their time getting to know their matches through chat and exciting profiles. The user also can choose to extend the chat and start sharing photos, voice, live stream, etc. Theapp has a 72-hour countdown timer and unless tap the Extend Chat button the matches disappear forever when the timer reaches zero.

We are PROfounders. We are the proactive European early-stage venture fund.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Travel
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

QA.tech — Our AI combines the skills of a QA engineer with the speed of automated testing for you. This shortens your time to market, cuts costs and improves the quality of your web apps.
Frontnow — Frontnow is redefining e-commerce with AI, providing businesses with powerful pre-sales tools to maximize core KPIs and provide an in-store-like shopping experience. Our vision is to transform online shopping into a dynamic, hyper-personalized, and inspirational experience through an adaptive interface. By revolutionizing the ecosystem, theyempower businesses to thrive in the digital age and significantly impact the way customers shop online, leading to a more profitable and customer-centric retail world.
Scaleup Finance — Improve your financial management

Danish angel investor, based in London.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Denmark, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Medusa — The most popular ecommerce project on GitHub. Medusa provides open-source ecommerce backend infrastructure in NodeJS.
Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.

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

MoeGo — MoeGo is the best all-in-one pet grooming software designed to automate & simplify your pet grooming business.
Dazz — Dazz is a cloud security repair service that takes a unique approach to cybersecurity.
Savvy Wealth — Savvy is the next-generation wealth management firm that pairs world-class advisors with modern software to help clients achieve their financial goals.

Preceptor Capital is an investment firm.

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.

Thor Fridriksson is an Internet entrepreneur who founded Plain Vanilla Games in 2010, a mobile game development studio that created the first multi-platform and real-time social trivia engine. Plain Vanilla Games have released high-profile titles that include Twilight QuizUp and Nat Geo QuizUp before launching their hit social trivia game, QuizUp,the biggest trivia game in the world. Born in Reykjavik, Iceland, Thor holds a BS degree from the Reykjavik University and an MBA from the University of Oxford.

Investment focus

Sports
Seed, Angel
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Inspirally —
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.

Birkir Bjarnason is an Icelandic professional footballer.

Investment focus

Sports
Seed
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

The Road Not Taken

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Indent — Indent is a provider of a video review service platform that helps sellers increase their sales by producing purchase reviews from actual buyers.
KTX Finance — KTX Finance is an online trading platform. It provides permissionless, decentralized on-chain trade of perpetuals.
Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.

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.

Tennin is an early-stage angel investment firm.

Investment focus

Series A
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Smitten — Smitten Dating app makes it super easy to start a conversation with the people you match. Always have something to say; with engaging icebreakers, your conversations never dry up. Smitten dating app is free and available on Android and iOS.

We partner with outstanding technology founders from Central and Eastern Europe to help them realize their global ambitions.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Picogrid — Picogrid builds a unified platform for autonomous systems. Connect, command, and monitor sensors and autonomous systems at global scale.
Kurs Orbital — Kurs Orbital expands human activities beyond Earth
Collabwriting — Collabwriting is a simple browser extension that helps you share, comment and collaborate on content you find online

Natalia Mikhailovna Vodianova, nicknamed Supernova, is a Russian model, philanthropist and occasional film actress. She is well known for her rags to riches life story and for her eight-season, seven-figure contract with Calvin Klein.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Wellness
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Cyprus

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SOULA — Account-based Marketing
DECREE Skincare — DECREE Skincare is a dermatologist skin care brand.

Network Effects Investor, Venture Partner @ Speedinvest, Instructor @ Reforge, Atomico Angel

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Homefans — Find top-rated sports tours and activities in your destination through Homefans. Go beyond the game with trusted locals.
Konfetti — konfetti is building the leading platform for local workshops and events by empowering workshop providers with customized SaaS solutions
HomeCooks — HomeCooks delivers chef-crafted meals from the UK's top independent cooks right to your door. Browse our weekly menus of authentic global cuisines, from spicy Asian delights to comforting home-cooked classics. With quick reheating, you can enjoy restaurant-quality meals anytime at home.

We help great minds unleash their full potential!

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Sweden, Finland, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Mylla — Mylla is a digital marketplace for buying and selling food from farm to table.
Lingio — Lingio is driven by the vision of making language learning more fun! By combining gaming principles, social and education they are providing a truly fun experience to their users.
SNERPA Power — SNERPA Power develops intelligent energy services.

Dagur Sigurdsson is a football player.

Investment focus

Sports
Seed
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Venture capital and technology investments

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Embrace — Stay informed with Embrace's mobile monitoring solutions. Optimize app performance & user experience with our comprehensive platform. Learn more now.
Octave — Octave is a national behavioral health practice that’s creating a new standard for care delivery that’s both high-quality and accessible to more people. With in-person and virtual clinics in California and New York, the company offers personalized care plans that can include individual therapy, couples therapy, and groups, while pioneeringrelationships with payers to make care more affordable through insurance. Grounded in science, Octave enables clients to experience profound change that is as measurable as it is meaningful.
Contextual AI — Contextual AI offers a pioneering approach to generative AI for the workplace.

Andri Sveinsson is a partner at the Novator Partners investment firm.Andri earned a master's degree in economics with a concentration on accounting from the University of Iceland. Andri’s first job in the finance and banking sector was with Skandia. He subsequently moved on to Bunadarbanki, where he was asked to serve as the director ofcorporate finance. Andri and several other colleagues then established Gilding, an investment company, which merged in 2001 with Bunadarbanki. Andri began to work alongside Thor in 2002 and was a founding partner of Novator in 2005.At Novator, Andri’s primary focus has been mergers and acquisitions, sourcing investments, finance, and operations. He has worked in several industries, most specifically in the health, telecommunications, and high-tech industries.Andri currently sits on the board and oversees investments in several companies, including SideKick Health, Catapult, Dreamlines, Xantis, Playfusion, and Nova, which are involved primarily in the fields of generic pharma, high-tech, and healthcare.Andri has many other interests, such as skiing, music, football, motorcycles, and boxing. He co-founded the Icelandic Punk Museum, which opened in 2016, and also produced several films.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Mobile
Series A, Funding Round
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Genis — GENIS is a biotechnology company headquartered in Siglufjörður, Iceland. They strive to discover, develop and commercialize novel and life-changing products, supplements and medical devices derived from crustacean exoskeletons. The GENIS team has been developing cutting-edge research on the production of chitin, chitosan, and short chain chitosanfor two decades. Their mission is to leverage this accumulated body of world-class scientific research with the intent of providing life-altering benefits for individuals.
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.

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, Health Care
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 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.
Zed Industries — Code at the speed of thought. Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

Polaris is a launchpad for businesses aspiring to accelerate their growth. Polaris offers our partners the opportunity to enhance their value by co-creating financial solutions that leads to additional revenue streams and financial sustainability.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Payments
Funding Round, Debt Financing
Iceland, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Eezee — Singapore’s first & largest industrial marketplace that connects local suppliers to corporate clients, leveraging technology to help both parties make informed decisions.The company offers a secure platform for buyers and sellers to transact.Our aim is to improve the efficiency of business to business (B2B) transactions. We do this byensuring that the process of selecting and purchasing your supplies becomes quicker, more convenient and transparent. We support local suppliers in establishing their presence online, enabling them to be discovered by corporate organisations.
Memento Payments — Easily embed cards into your application or deploy a new & extendable card application in your brand
Zero Motorcycles — Manufacturer of 100% electric motorcycles for the street and dirt.

New Enterprise Associates, Inc. is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’slifecycle, from the seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Meeno — Meeno is a relationship mentoring app powered by generative AI
Rocket.Chat — Explore Rocket.Chat, where we put data privacy into every conversation and enable teams to collaborate seamlessly.
Pulumi — Pulumi's open source infrastructure as code SDK enables you to create, deploy, and manage infrastructure on any cloud, using your favorite languages.

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

Nivoda — Nivoda provides the most profitable and trusted way to buy and sell diamonds with over 1.6 million lab-grown, natural and melee diamonds available to purchase at the best prices with zero inventory risk.
Plumery — The platform for rapid innovation in modern banking. Enabling banks to implement their mobile and web apps blazingly fast, at lower cost, and to continuously deliver meaningful value to their customers multiple times a day. Get started Learn more Proudly crafted by the builders of globally leading banking platforms. Add Your Heading Text Here Why
Heard Technologies — Heard combines smart software with real humans to handle accounting, payroll and taxes. We act as a trusted financial advisor for your private practice.

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.

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 1.4 Billion of asset under management as of December 2013. 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, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Hyku — Hyku Biosciences is developing the next generation of covalent medicines by targeting histidine, tyrosine and lysine binding pockets in disease-causing proteins.
Wonderwall — Wonderwall is an online art learning platform.
Passionate Powerhouse — Passionate Power as a full-fledged multi-content IP in the future by designing and producing games, cartoons, movies, franchise items, and so on in constant partnership with domestic and overseas partners.

Yanu Holdings is a global investment firm.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Funding Round
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Genis — Genis is pioneering the development and application of therapeutic chitin derivatives.

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

twig bio — twig bio operates as a bioengineering startup. twig bio using AI and robotics to find sustainable replacements for harmful ingredients.
RAAAM Memory Technologies Ltd. — RAAAM provides a unique on-chip memory technology that offers the highest-density embedded memory solution in any standard CMOS process.RAAAM develops a high-density memory technology that allows for up to 50% higher on-chip memory density with no cost, complexity, or performance-penalty.
Cultivated Biosciences — Cultivated - Creamy, dairy-free indulgence

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.

Wonder Investment

Investment focus

Series A
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Smitten — Smitten Dating app makes it super easy to start a conversation with the people you match. Always have something to say; with engaging icebreakers, your conversations never dry up. Smitten dating app is free and available on Android and iOS.

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