Top 40 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in Iceland in December 2024

Investor	Media (entertainment) Iceland investments
New Business Venture Fund	6
New Business Venture Fund	6
Brunnur Ventures	4
Brunnur Ventures	4
Reaktor Ventures	2
Shanda Group	2
Inventure	2
Reaktor Ventures	2
Shanda Group	2
Inventure	2
Menlo Ventures	1
Sigurdur Arnljotsson	1
Nick Gatfield	1
Technology Development Fund	1
Crowberry Capital	1
Birgir Ragnarsson	1
Hilmar Veigar Petursson	1
Rahul Vohra	1
Beatrice Aliprandi	1
Bing Gordon	1
Birgir Ragnarsson	1
Hilmar Veigar Petursson	1
Ivar Kristjansson	1
Hermann Kristjánsson	1
Jonathan Slimak	1
Mika Salmi	1
Sigurdur Arnljotsson	1
Hermann Kristjánsson	1
Charles Huang	1
whynow	1
Mika Salmi	1
Technology Development Fund	1
Nick Gatfield	1
whynow	1
Menlo Ventures	1
Crowberry Capital	1
Rahul Vohra	1
Bing Gordon	1
Charles Huang	1
Beatrice Aliprandi	1

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.

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, 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.

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

Vitar Games — A WW1 Strategy driven Management Game
Standby Deposits — Standby Deposits is a rental security deposit replacement based on credit.
Porcelain Fortress — Porcelain Fortress was founded by a small band of romantics in the summer of 2016 in Reykjavik, Iceland.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Menlo Ventures is a Bay Area venture capital firm that pursues companies with the potential to disrupt huge markets. We invest in all stages, across consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technologies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Orb — Drive business model innovation with Orb. We power billing for the world's leading software companies.
HomeLight — We use data to help homebuyers and sellers find the best real estate agents nationwide
All Hands AI — All Hands AI operates as an open source agent for developers.

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.

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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
Porcelain Fortress — Porcelain Fortress was founded by a small band of romantics in the summer of 2016 in Reykjavik, Iceland.

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.

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.

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.

Beatrice Aliprandi - Principal @ Talis Capital

Investment focus

Health Care, Art, Beauty
Seed, Series A
Denmark, Germany, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

NØIE — Noie is a consumer goods company that offers cosmetics and skincare products. The company offers customized a customized skincare platform that combines deep dermatological knowledge with feedback from the community and the users' individual needs to eliminate guesswork and coincidence in the search for skincare that actually works.
Quest Portal — Quest Portal makes role-play and tell fantastical stories together by means of crafting and creates characters.
Vinehealth — Best ePRO data collection tool | Digital patient support programmes for cancer patients | Remote PROMs data collection | Real-world studies | Oncology clinical research | Cancer support app | Cancer companion app for patients self-management | Self-reporting tool f

Director at Zume Inc.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Social Media
Series A, Series C, Series B
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.

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.

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.

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.

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 — 12traits is an AI firm engaged in understanding human behavior in the digital world for powering the future of customer experience.
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.

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.

Sigurdur Arnljotsson is a Founding Partner at Brunnur Ventures

Investment focus

Software, Art, Content Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

AviLabs — AviLabs specializes in software development in aviation.
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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bitmark — Bitmark develops technology that secures the property rights of unique digital assets, without relying on trusted third parties.
Overtune — With Overtune you can easily make your own music. Record with voice effects and make videos.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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.

Menlo Ventures is a Bay Area venture capital firm that pursues companies with the potential to disrupt huge markets. We invest in all stages, across consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technologies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada, Brazil

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Sana — Sana is an AI company building the next generation of knowledge tools. Designed and engineered in Stockholm, Sweden.
New Lantern — New Lantern provides cutting-edge AI-powered cloud-native PACS solutions for healthcare providers, enabling faster and more accurate radiology diagnostics.
Relyance AI — Full visibility and proactive data protection. Know how data moves through your code base, infrastructure, and third-party vendors. Learn more.

Crowberry Capital invests at seed and early stage in emerging technology ventures in the Nordics. Our mission is to back people that are good for companies and build companies that are good for people. We have a strong follow-through philosophy and commit to putting your company first.

Investment focus

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

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Tiimo — Tiimo helps you manage your daily life and improve your wellbeing. Visualize your day. Improve your routines. Stress less.
Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
Porcelain Fortress — Porcelain Fortress was founded by a small band of romantics in the summer of 2016 in Reykjavik, Iceland.

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

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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

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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.

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

Investment focus

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

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Bitmark — Bitmark develops technology that secures the property rights of unique digital assets, without relying on trusted third parties.
Overtune — With Overtune you can easily make your own music. Record with voice effects and make videos.

Beatrice Aliprandi - Principal @ Talis Capital

Investment focus

Health Care, Art, Beauty
Seed, Series A
Denmark, Germany, Iceland

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NØIE — Noie is a consumer goods company that offers cosmetics and skincare products. The company offers customized a customized skincare platform that combines deep dermatological knowledge with feedback from the community and the users' individual needs to eliminate guesswork and coincidence in the search for skincare that actually works.
Quest Portal — Quest Portal makes role-play and tell fantastical stories together by means of crafting and creates characters.
Vinehealth — Best ePRO data collection tool | Digital patient support programmes for cancer patients | Remote PROMs data collection | Real-world studies | Oncology clinical research | Cancer support app | Cancer companion app for patients self-management | Self-reporting tool f