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Top 10 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Iceland

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Media (entertainment) startups based in Iceland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Media (entertainment) companies from Iceland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Iceland

Investor	Media (entertainment) Iceland investments
Hermann Kristjánsson	1
Hilmar Veigar Petursson	1
Bing Gordon	1
Birgir Ragnarsson	1
Sigurdur Arnljotsson	1
Ivar Kristjansson	1
Rahul Vohra	1
Nick Gatfield	1
Mika Salmi	1
Charles Huang	1

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Hermann Kristjánsson

Investment focus

Hardware, Software, Photography
Seed
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

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

Hilmar has been leading CCP Games’ ongoing success and growth since his appointment as Chief Executive Officer in 2004. Under Hilmar’s management CCP’s critically acclaimed science-fiction game EVE Online celebrated an unprecedented ten consecutive years of subscriber growth. In addition, Hilmar has put CCP into the pole position in the VRrevolution by embracing the new technology early. The company released virtual-reality arcade shooter Gunjack for the Samsung Gear VR in 2015, which has been the best-selling game on the platform since launch. And in early 2016 CCP released EVE: Valkyrie, a hotly-anticipated multiplayer spaceship dogfighting shooter built from the ground up for virtual reality, bundled with Oculus Rift pre-orders. EVE: Valkyrie will ship on HTC Vive and PlayStation VR on PlayStation 4 later in 2016. Before his appointment to the CEO position, Hilmar held the title of CCP's Chief Technical Officer, heading the engineering effort required to create the company’s persistent world technology and 3D engine. Prior to joining CCP in 2000, he served as the CTO of SmartVR, an OZ.com spin-off based on that company’s multi-user virtual reality technology following his tenure as the VP of software development for the OZ Studios division of OZ.com.Currently, he is also active on a number of boards and committees relating to Icelandic information technology and innovation. Hilmar has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Iceland.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

LearnCove — Give your teams the tools to deliver engaging learning experiences that impact what matters - performance, retention, and growth - with LearnCove!
Quest Portal — Quest Portal makes role-play and tell fantastical stories together by means of crafting and creates characters.
Netspeak Games — Netspeak Games operates as a zero-crunch studio that develops online multiplayer games. Its first game is a non-violent social MMO, designed to be a fun place to hang out with friends. Players can relax, play, or just get some headspace.

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.

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.

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.

Ivar Kristjansson

Investment focus

Audio, Music, Brand Marketing
Series A
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

ATMO Select — ATMO Select covers all aspects of audio branding for companies and brands. Based on research & development, and years of experience, we analyze the music and sound correlation between a brand and its customer base. Customer demographics and brand information is used to develop an audio branding strategy and detailed music profile report thatwe deliver to our customers across the globe. Headquartered in Iceland, ATMO Select is based as well in Scandinavia, Germany, Benelux and the United States.

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.

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

Mika is a serial entrepreneur whose work life has been primarily centered on discovering talent and driving new ideas. He has done this in numerous industries and have discovered Grammy, Oscar and Emmy winning artists, created the original online short video company, run the internet’s most popular casual games web sites, built one of the firstsports tracking apps, and pioneered new business models in education.A few examples are the Nine Inch Nails (music), Jason Reitman (film), JibJab (animation), AtomFilms (online video), Shockwave/AddictingGames (games), MadRaces (sports) and the INSEAD San Francisco Hub for Business Innovation (education). he did this as a founder, a CEO, or as a senior executive.Entrepreneurs are Mika's favorite kind of talent, and he enjoys helping them realize their ideas and dreams for their start ups. He has done this working with Accel, Raine, and Sequoia and now leads Lakestar, a top global VC based in Europe.

Investment focus

Online Games, Gaming, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Inkd.com — Inkd (formerly Pressplane) has two main products: Inkd, a true "buy & sell" community (rather like CafePress, Zazzle, Etsy and even stock image companies) wherein designers upload print creative and businesses can download and use the content as a cost effective alternative to hiring a designer, and Zapd, an app that allows users tocreate instant, themed websites straight from their iPhones.
GemShare — GemShare is the first service focused on finding and sharing high-quality recommendations with people you know and trust for the services needed to manage busy daily life. GemShare for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is the easiest and most dependable way to ask for and store the "best" local services - or "gems" - shared amongone's own trusted friends and networks. Founded in 2013 by two busy working moms, GemShare focuses on important daily needs where taste, trust and personal endorsements matter – everything from home improvement services, SAT tutors, and orthopedic surgeons to marriage counselors, music and language instructors, trusted childcare, and much more. Transforming the frequent exchanges that already happen when people ask “Does anyone know a good…?,” GemShare organizes this information and “best of” recommendations in one simple, searchable place. GemShare is based in San Francisco and backed by angel and venture capital investors including Second Avenue Partners, Greylock Partners, Rich Barton, Mika Salmi and Ellen Levy, among others.
Quest Portal — Quest Portal makes role-play and tell fantastical stories together by means of crafting and creates characters.

Charles Huang, founder of the iconic gaming franchise, Guitar Hero.

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Computer
Seed, Series B
Taiwan, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Bitmark — Bitmark is building a new institution to champion a future in which art fosters vibrant communities spanning the internet.
Overtune — With Overtune you can easily make your own music. Record with voice effects and make videos.

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