Top 5 Payments Startup Investors in Iceland in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in Iceland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Iceland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Payments Startup Investors in Iceland in May 2025

Investor	Payments Iceland investments
Crowberry Capital	4
byFounders	3
Preceptor Capital	3
Karma Ventures	3
Frumtak Ventures	1

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Investor list

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Denmark, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

DREM — Simplifying distributed energy saving solutions
FocalX — FocalX develops AI-powered vehicle inspection technology for the automotive industry. The company's platform leverages image recognition, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to identify, classify, and evaluate external damages on cars. This technology helps businesses digitalize vehicle inspections, empowering inspectors with preciseand efficient tools. FocalX's solutions are used globally to enhance the accuracy and speed of vehicle assessments.
Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.

Preceptor Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

FinTech, Computer, Software
Seed, Series A
Iceland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Anonybit — Revolutionize identity management with Anonybit! Unmatched privacy, strong authentication, and secure solutions for a safer digital world.
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.

karma.vc is an early stage venture capital fund focusing on seed and early stage technology companies in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Estonia, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Patchstack — Keep your WordPress sites safe from vulnerable plugins & themes. Protect sites with virtual patching.
Pactum — Pactum autonomous negotiations help companies unlock hidden value. Our AI negotiates non-strategic supplier contracts on a massive scale.
WunderGraph — Full lifecycle API Management for (Federated) GraphQL. Schema registry, composition checks, analytics, metrics, tracing and routing. Deploy 100% on-prem or use our Managed Service. Apache 2.0 licensed, no vendor-lock.

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.