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Top 50 Startup Investors in Iceland in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) 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 in November 2024

Investor	Iceland investments
New Business Venture Fund	27
Frumtak Ventures	23
Brunnur Ventures	21
Crowberry Capital	14
Sisu Game Ventures	6
Hilmar Veigar Petursson	5
Iceland Venture Studio	4
David Helgason	3
byFounders	3
MGMT Ventures	3
Novator	3
Sigþór Sigmarsson	3
Index Ventures	2
Slack Fund	2
Sigurdur Olafsson	2
Inventure	2
Behold Ventures	2
Christian Jantzen	2
Sustainable Food Ventures	2
Investa	2
Possible Ventures	2
Reaktor Ventures	2
Shanda Group	2
BlueYard Capital	2
Eyrir Vöxtur	2
Tennin	2
Saint-Gobain NOVA	2
Kvika Asset Management	2
Silicon Valley Bank	2
PROfounders Capital	2
Preceptor Capital	2
Chrysalix Venture Capital	2
whynow	1
Jonathan Slimak	1
Farvatn Venture	1
Greycroft	1
HackCapital	1
Nick Gatfield	1
Adalsteinn Alli Ottarsson	1
Jon S. von Tetzchner	1
APX	1
Sigurgeir Gudlaugsson	1
TM	1
Thor Fridriksson	1
Rahul Vohra	1
Bing Gordon	1
Aqua Spark	1
Clément Delangue	1
CRIT Ventures	1
Credo Ventures	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.

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.

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.

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

Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
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.
Porcelain Fortress — Porcelain Fortress was founded by a small band of romantics in the summer of 2016 in Reykjavik, Iceland.

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 — Discover Bitmagic, the revolutionary game development platform powered by Generative AI. Create multiplayer 3D games with simple prompts, no coding needed. Join our community and start creating your own games today!
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.

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!

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

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.
Lovable — Lovable is building software that builds software. We are makers of GPT Engineer app - an AI software engineer.

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Banking
Seed, Series D, Funding Round
Iceland, United Kingdom

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.

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

Valdera — Valdera is the sourcing and procurement platform that makes it easy to buy or sell chemicals, ingredients, and raw materials. We partner with segment leaders, ranging from the world's largest CPG manufacturers to household names in the beauty industry.
Tebi — Tebi is a software company that develops integrated management software apps and tools for hospitality and retail businesses.
Thread AI — Thread AI makes infrastructure simple for enterprises and can drive adoption and innovation in AI.

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 — Discover how a novel representation learning algorithm can increase the predictive power of your data in any domain and with any model.

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.

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

Steep — Business intelligence for modern companies. Steep lets anyone on your team stay on top of your data.
Moncyte Health — Unique technology and novel data for personalized and optimal treatment of high cholesterol
Avenue Biosciences — From biotechnology tools to therapy discovery and development: Our platform enhances production yield and the quality of your end product.

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.

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 a digital commerce platform with a built-in framework for customization.
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.

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 — 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.

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

Reverion — Reverion offers electrical efficiencies for both power generation and energy storage. Reverion was foun ded in 2022 and was headquartered in Bayern, Germany.
LEVY Health — Endometriosis is a condition where tissue like your uterine lining grows outside the womb: on the ovaries, fallopian tubes, pelvic tissues, or more rarely, in other parts of the body.
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

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CPTx — At CPTx, we develop new treatment paradigms across outsized medical challenges, with an initial focus on infectious diseases. The flexibility and precision of CPTx's platform supports multivalent drug development, which is crucial for addressing complex disease states involving multiple binding sites, such as viruses, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.
Clock Bio — Clock Bio operates as a biotech company, that develops novel regenerative medicines.
ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression

Eyrir Vöxtur is an ESG fund, which focuses on investing in promising ventures for international growth and value creation. The fund invests in companies that have a positive impact on society and the environment.

Investment focus

Legal, Legal Tech, Document Management
Seed
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Justikal — Justikal is an eCourt system that allows different stakeholders in legal proceedings to handle documents in a trusted & secure way by using eIDAS compliant trust services.
Laki Power — We supply power grid operators with advanced high-voltage line monitoring stations that enable them to optimise performance, safety and cost.

Tennin is an early-stage angel investment firm.

Investment focus

Series A
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Alda — Empower is a Diversity, Equality and Inclusion solutions provider focused on combining its successful track record in DE&I consulting with technical solutions to support HR and DE&I teams at government and enterprise organizations globally. Empower helps to create organizational change for more inclusive and equal workplaces through highimpact methodologies; Dashboard, goals, KPI´s and creative micro learning content.
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.

Saint-Gobain NOVA is the ventures arm of Saint‑Gobain.

Investment focus

Software, Industrial Manufacturing, Energy
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Treble — We develop next generation sound simulation and spatial audio technology for digital twins and virtual worlds.
Plantformance — Accelerate your Industry 4.0 journey by simplifying the adoption of advanced technologies across your organization and empowering the rapid creation and deployment of innovative industrial applications.
Enteligent — Enteligent is a solar product company focused on higher efficiency and harnessing more solar electricity. Enteligent's products reduce conversion losses and other inefficiencies that result in up to a 25% loss of solar rooftop electrical generation. Enteligent is on a mission to increase the effectiveness of solar electricity and providehomeowners with energy independence.

Kvika Asset Management manages a broad range of funds including equity funds, bond funds and mixed funds.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series A
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

PLAIO — The only AI-assisted decision-making platform developed for pharmaceutical manufacturing
EpiEndo Pharmaceuticals — Welcome to EpiEndo Pharma | Developing epithelial barrier enhancing drugs to treat chronic respiratory diseases

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

Lithios — Lithios is developing systems based on breakthroughs in electrochemistry to selectively capture and release lithium from complex mixtures.
Bugcrowd — Bugcrowd teams with elite security researchers to reduce risk & improve security ROI through our bug bounty, pen testing, & vulnerability disclosure programs.
DataPelago — DataPelago provides big data analytics solutions. They also provide a data analytics platform that offers hardware and software based products. The platform also provides solutions for extracting insights from data of, speed, or structure at performance and cost levels unsurpassed in the industry.

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.
Carbonx — ClimeFi is your trusted carbon credits procurement and management partner for high-quality permanent carbon dioxide removals to reach your net zero targets.
Scaleup Finance — Improve your financial management

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.

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

HaiLa Technologies Inc. — HaiLa's ultra-low power RF technology paves the way for battery-free operation of wireless IoT sensors and devices.
Liminal — Advanced battery inspection and metrology with ultrasound and machine learning
Rithmik Solutions — We increase uptime in mines with advanced analytics that optimize maintenance and extend equipment life.

We bring you the Positive, Powerful and Personal stories from both emerging creatives and established giants in art, fashion, music and entertainment.

Investment focus

Apps, Music
Seed
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Overtune — With Overtune you can easily make your own music. Record with voice effects and make videos.

Jonathan Slimak was co-founder and COO of Alter (also known as Facemoji) acquired by Google in 2022. Before that, he co-founded Ready Makers and was head of Product. Jon is also the founder of Piictu one of the first social photo networks on the. iPhone. Jon has over 12 years of leading Data-driven Product and Design teams - creating consumersoftware specializing in gaming, mobile and social web. He attended Pratt Institute.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Art, Digital Media
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Solsten — Solsten has created a human insights engine to revolutionize audience understanding, unlocking creative and business potential for companies.
Alter — Alter is an open source, cross-platform SDK consisting of a real-time 3D avatar system and motion capture built from scratch for web3 interoperability and the open metaverse.
Quest Portal — Quest Portal makes role-play and tell fantastical stories together by means of crafting and creates characters.

Planet 9 Venture supports startups and work with venture funds to make a positive imprint on the world.

Investment focus

Water, Apps, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Norway, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LAXEY — LAXEY specializes in sustainable land-based aquaculture and the development of fish farming facilities.
Evari — Evari is pioneering a path to sustainable energy with radically new heat pump compressors.
LIFENESS — Lifeness is a platform specialized in the treatment of lifestyle diseases and an entrepreneur from the fitness industry,

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.

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

Nick Gatfield - Co-Founder @ Synchronized

Investment focus

Internet, TV, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
France, Iceland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Karhoo — Karhoo, the first fully-integrated global booking platform for regulated Taxis and PHVs, is funded by RCI Bank and Services (Groupe Renault). It was reborn and remoulded from the assets of a previous business that learnt the hard way that competing against Uber, Didi and Lyft required a radically different and more collaborative approach tomobility. Now Karhoo remains an independent business contributing to Groupe Renault’s sustainable mobility‑as‑a‑service strategy, which covers connected, autonomous, shared, electric vehicles part of multimodal transport.
Overtune — With Overtune you can easily make your own music. Record with voice effects and make videos.
Synchronized — Synchronized.tv | Maximize the value of your video content in a digital world

As senior development director at Riot Games, Aðalsteinn "Alli" Óttarsson serves as a compass for the development efforts of League of Legends. Alli began his career in 1999 as a web developer at OZ.com and its spin-off virtual world company, Smart VR. In 2001, he joined CCP and built the internal and external Web infrastructure tosupport the launch of EVE Online, the company's flagship game. Soon after, he began leading Web cell efforts and went on to become CCP's senior technical producer, where he oversaw globally distributed development and integration of the Core Technology Platform. Ultimately appointed CCP's Production Director Alli was the primary Agile ambassador within CCP and has since brought his passion for Agile development in large-scale organizations to Riot Games.

Investment focus

iOS, Video, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round
Iceland, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

OZ, US — A leading tech company energizing live events and bringing communities together through out of this world experiences.
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.
Klang Games — Klang Games is an entertainment & game development studio in Berlin, developing the MMO Simulation and Virtual World, Seed. Klang is always hiring!

Jon von Tetzchner is co-founder and CEO of Vivaldi Technologies, the company behind the Vivaldi web browser and other services for the web’s most demanding and savviest users. He co-founded Opera Software where he served as CEO for 15 years. Jon steered Opera from a small basement nook shared into a global company with more than 900 employees in 13countries.Under his leadership, Opera was an early pioneer in mobile web browsing and more than 350 million people used Opera to enjoy the web on their terms. Jon is now steering Vivaldi which was came out with its final version in April 2016. He and his team are making a personal and a feature – rich browser that takes into consideration the needs of every user. Vivaldi is self-funded and aims to be this way where the employees hold equity.

Investment focus

Travel, Tourism, Search Engine
Seed
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Dohop — Dohop is an award-winning technology provider founded in Iceland with 15 years’ experience in developing innovative solutions in the field of aviation and travel. Its core technology is focused on creating connecting itineraries. Being at the forefront of digital innovation in the field of interline technology, Dohop has developed solutions forforward-thinking airlines, alliances, and airports all around the globe, including easyJet, Transavia, Eurowings, Jetstar Group, Gatwick Airport, and SkyTeam.

APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

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Spike Technologies — November 30, 2022 - Spike technology, REST API end-points, and Cloud architecture are designed with data privacy and security at heart. We process billions of
Eleos — Get income protection insurance online with Eleos. All policies include 24x7 Virtual GP, gym discounts and other benefits.
DC Connected — Mobility Enhancement Platform

Sigurgeir Gudlaugsson is the Chief Executive Officer of Genis.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Funding Round
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

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

TM is a company that provides all insurance and damage related services through call, online chats & emails.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Funding Round
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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.

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.

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, Aquaculture, Seafood
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United States, Norway, India

Portfolio highlights

Tepbac — Less work for farmer, more fish for people.
eniferBio — Enifer Bio is an expert at squeezing every last drop of value from biorefining operations. The solution is built on decades of Finnish expertise to allow the production of valuable protein-rich feed from streams previously considered worthless. The company has developed a new, sustainable production process for high-quality fish feed raw material.The company's method enables the efficient production of a single cell protein from fish by-products as a raw material for fish feed. The protein can replace soy, which is commonly used in fish feed and whose cultivation poses ecological challenges, such as deforestation in South America.
Sea6 Energy — Sea6 Energy is a platform that utilizes the unlimited potential of the oceans in a sustainable and ethical way. It visualizes a future where the abundant oceans will be the biomass farms of the future, to provide solutions in energy, agriculture, and food.Sea6 Energy has a team of professionals from diverse fields like industrial automation,plant pathology, ocean engineering, bioprocess engineering, marine biology, and aerospace engineering, with the goal of building a whole new economy based on marine biomass.It develops technologies to convert biomass into biofuel, plant growth stimulants, plant defence products, animal feed ingredients, and other bio-renewable products to replace chemicals and plastics, effectively creating a Bio-refinery out of marine biomass, churning out a whole variety of products leaving nothing to waste.Sea6 Energy was founded on 2010 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Clément Delangue - CEO & Co-Founder @ Hugging Face

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Japan, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Alinia AI — Alignment Platform for Generative AI. Alinia makes it easy for enterprises to control and guide Gen AI applications based on their policies and preferences.
Pika — The idea-to-video platform that sets your creativity in motion.
Helical — Helical is an intermediary platform that offers bioinformaticians free access to the technologies from AI and biological computation.

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.
Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.
Supervillain Labs — Supervillain Labs is a gaming studio that specializes in Web3 gaming innovation to develop socially interactive gaming experiences.

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

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