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Top 20 Media (Entertainment) Startup Investors in Iceland (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Iceland Media (entertainment) startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Iceland Media (entertainment) startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
New Business Venture Fund
VC Fund
6 Iceland, United States, China Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Medical $400k–$3.4M
Brunnur Ventures
VC Fund
4 Iceland, United States, Denmark Seed, Series A, Angel Software, SaaS, Biotechnology
Shanda Group
VC Fund
2 United States, China, Israel Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Reaktor Ventures
VC Fund
2 Finland, Germany, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Health Care
Inventure
VC Fund
2 Finland, Sweden, Denmark Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Hilmar Veigar Petursson
Angel
1 Iceland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Online Games, Software, Video Games
Hermann Kristjánsson
Angel
1 Iceland Seed Hardware, Software, Photography
Beatrice Aliprandi
Angel
1 Denmark, Germany, Iceland Seed, Series A Health Care, Art, Beauty
Bing Gordon
Angel
1 United States, India, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Gaming, Social Media, Internet
Technology Development Fund
VC Fund
1 Iceland, United States, Japan Grant, Seed Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
Charles Huang
Angel
1 Taiwan, Iceland Seed, Series B Apps, Music, Computer
Rahul Vohra
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Sigurdur Arnljotsson
Angel
1 Iceland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Art, Gaming $1M–$7.8M
Menlo Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, France Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Birgir Ragnarsson
Angel
1 Iceland, Germany, Lithuania Series B, Seed, Series C Medical Device, Art, Peer to Peer
Ivar Kristjansson
Angel
1 Iceland Series A Audio, Music, Brand Marketing
Mika Salmi
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A Online Games, Gaming, E-Commerce
whynow
VC Fund
1 Iceland Seed Apps, Music
Jonathan Slimak
Angel
1 United States, Germany, Iceland Seed, Series A, Series B Machine Learning, Art, Digital Media
Crowberry Capital
VC Fund
1 Iceland, Denmark, Finland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Gaming
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New Business Venture Fund
VC Fund · Reykjavík, Gullbringusysla, Iceland · 6 investments in Iceland Media (entertainment) startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Iceland, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$2.6M; Series A $450k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow

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.
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Brunnur Ventures
VC Fund · Reykjavík, Gullbringusysla, Iceland · 4 investments in Iceland Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Iceland, United States, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Shanda Group
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in Iceland Media (entertainment) startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, China, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Reaktor Ventures
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in Iceland Media (entertainment) startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Finland, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Inventure
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in Iceland Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Finland, Sweden, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 144
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Hilmar Veigar Petursson
Angel · Reykjavík, Gullbringusysla, Iceland · 1 investments in Iceland Media (entertainment) startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Online Games, Software, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Iceland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Hermann Kristjánsson
Angel · 1 investments in Iceland Media (entertainment) startups

Hermann Kristjánsson

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Hardware, Software, Photography
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Iceland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Beatrice Aliprandi
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Iceland Media (entertainment) startups

Beatrice Aliprandi - Principal @ Talis Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Art, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Denmark, Germany, Iceland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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
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Bing Gordon
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Iceland Media (entertainment) startups

Director at Zume Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Social Media, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Technology Development Fund
VC Fund · Reykjavík, Gullbringusysla, Iceland · 1 investments in Iceland Media (entertainment) startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Grant, Seed
  • Geography: Iceland, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Charles Huang
Angel · 1 investments in Iceland Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Music, Computer
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Taiwan, Iceland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Rahul Vohra
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Iceland Media (entertainment) startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Sigurdur Arnljotsson
Angel · Reykjavík, Gullbringusysla, Iceland · 1 investments in Iceland Media (entertainment) startups

Sigurdur Arnljotsson is a Founding Partner at Brunnur Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Art, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Iceland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.8M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AviLabs — AviLabs specializes in software development in aviation.
  • Vitar Games — A WW1 Strategy driven Management Game
  • Quest Portal — Quest Portal is the virtual tabletop for Game Masters who want to boost their storytelling and be confident about the games they run. Create memorable stories, characters and visuals and bring them to your game with ease.
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Menlo Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Iceland Media (entertainment) startups, 27 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 538
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Birgir Ragnarsson
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Iceland Media (entertainment) startups

Birgir Ragnarsson is the Managing Partner at Novator.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical Device, Art, Peer to Peer
  • Stage:Series B, Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Iceland, Germany, Lithuania

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Ivar Kristjansson
Angel · Reykjavík, Gullbringusysla, Iceland · 1 investments in Iceland Media (entertainment) startups

Ivar Kristjansson

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Audio, Music, Brand Marketing
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Iceland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Mika Salmi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Iceland Media (entertainment) startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Online Games, Gaming, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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whynow
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Iceland Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Music
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Iceland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Overtune — With Overtune you can easily make your own music. Record with voice effects and make videos.
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Jonathan Slimak
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Iceland Media (entertainment) startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Machine Learning, Art, Digital Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Iceland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 is the virtual tabletop for Game Masters who want to boost their storytelling and be confident about the games they run. Create memorable stories, characters and visuals and bring them to your game with ease.
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Crowberry Capital
VC Fund · Reykjavík, Gullbringusysla, Iceland · 1 investments in Iceland Media (entertainment) startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Iceland, Denmark, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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