Top 10 Platforms Startup Investors in Iceland in October 2024
A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Platforms startups based in Iceland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Platforms companies from Iceland. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Platforms Startup Investors in Iceland in October 2024
Investor | Platforms Iceland investments |
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Paige Craig | 1 |
Sequoia Capital | 1 |
Tencent | 1 |
Tuesday Capital | 1 |
Jeff Solomon | 1 |
CAA Ventures | 1 |
Ridge Ventures | 1 |
David Helgason | 1 |
Mesa Ventures | 1 |
Soo Boon Koh | 1 |
Paige Craig Is The Partner at Outlander.He attend to the United States Military Academy at West PointUnited States Military Academy at West Point 1992.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- StackStr — Real time monitoring of machine learning systems.
- Qualified — Qualified is the most effective platform for evaluating and training world-class engineers. Utilizing real-world assessment methodology we enable companies to identify high-performing hires.
- Spaceship — A platform for Continuous Delivery. Turn your code into containers automatically. Get it running on Kubernetes instantly.
We help the daring build legendary companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, India
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- Roon — Your Trusted Guide for Health Conditions. Today we are focused on GBM, ALS, Dementia, and Fertility and Family Building.
- Harmonic — Harmonic builds mathematical superintelligence. The company develops Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI), a next-generation artificial intelligence based on mathematical principles that ensures accuracy and eliminate hallucinations.
- Pydantic Services — The team behind Pydantic are build developer tools that put developers first.
Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.
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- Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, United States, United Kingdom
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- Zhipu AI — Zhipu AI combines large-scale knowledge map built by itself to form a two-wheel-driven artificial intelligence framework through R&D.
- TrueLayer — We power faster and safer online payments with our open banking payments network. Onboard users, accept payments & make payouts in seconds. Learn more today.
- Remedy Entertainment — Known for story-driven and visually stunning action games, Remedy have created blockbuster games such as Control, Alan Wake, and Max Payne.
Tuesday Capital (formerly CrunchFund) has been helping early-stage founders build the companies of tomorrow since 2011.
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- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Mexico, Israel
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- Grazzy — Grazzy improves retention and recruiting for hotels, bars, restaurants and salons by powering cashless tipping and instant payouts. Safe, secure, and simple to get started.
- Kollegio — Your Personal College Admissions Counselor
- Foundation Health — Foundation Health is a telehealth and nationwide pharmacies and diagnostic distribution centre
Jeff Solomon is the Co-Founder of Markup Hero.
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- Mobile, iOS, Android
- Seed
- United States, Iceland
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- The Kive Company — The Kive Company operates under the names Artkive and Lifekive. Artkive the leading service that helps parents celebrate their kids' art. Artkive offers the Artkive app for people who want to DIY or the Artkive Box for people who want to send in their art to be professionally photographed and turned into keepsake books or custom-framed mosaicprints. The Kive Company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
- Umano — Umano is an audio streaming service.
- Cubcoats — 2-in-1 wearable & playable transforming friends. A take everywhere that kids and parents equally adore.
CAA Ventures is the venture arm of Creative Artists Agency.
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- Internet, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Iceland
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- Bungalow — Bungalow is a residential real estate platform that provides renters with a more convenient, flexible, and communal living solution. It utilizes existing housing supply by signing long-term leases with homeowners, and offers multi-bedroom homes in some of the most desirable neighborhoods in cities throughout the United States.Bungalow offersprivate bedrooms with handpicked housemates in beautifully furnished homes across seven major cities. Each home comes furnished and includes wifi, utilities, housekeeping, and monthly community events for members.Andrew Collins and Justin McCarty founded Bungalow in 2016. Its headquarters is in San Francisco in California.
- Harper Wilde — The world's most comfortable underthings. High quality everyday garments, priced without the traditional retail markup.
- DeSo Foundation — DeSo is a layer -1 blockchain designed to build and scale decentralized social apps to 1 Billion users. Take back ownership of your content and social graph with web3 versions of Twitter and LinkedIn.
Ridge Ventures (formerly IDG Ventures) is an early stage venture capital fund investing in experienced founders redefining how the world uses software.
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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Finland
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- Besty AI — Bloom is the creator of an online data analysis platform that aims to transform data into revolutionary business outcomes. The firm platform uses artificial intelligence to give real time analytics and business insights, as well as interactive and enterprise data analytics, allowing business teams to monitor and make data-driven choices in realtime.
- Scoop Analytics — Explore Scoop, your single platform for effortlessly combining and analyzing business data. Unlock actionable insights faster with our unique tool that scoops data from all your applications, allowing you to focus on making informed decisions without needing a data team.
- Arya Health — Arya Works is more than just payroll software. It's a opporations and finance tool set powered by automation and real-time data. We help businesses streamline operations, save costs, and make employees happy by getting more out of pay.
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.
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- Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Denmark, Finland
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- 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!
MESA Ventures is a Seed and Series A venture fund focused on e-commerce, advertising, media, enterprise software, and mobile technologies. The Fund co-invests between $50,000 and $250,000 alongside established early stage venture firms. We actively support talented entrepreneurs building big businesses. To do that, we invest social capitalthat we believe valuable as financial capital. This comes from tapping into the team’s global network of media, entertainment and technology relationships to provide investor introductions, executive team hiring, business development, client & advertiser introductions, and marketing support. The Fund's goal is to help its portfolio companies whenever and wherever it can.
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- Mobile, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, Iceland
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- Arconex — Arconex - Vertical AI SaaS for the Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) Industry.
- Zipdrug — Discover the innovative capabilities and solutions from CarelonRx that help remove barriers, personalize experiences, and improve health outcomes.
- MessageYes (formerly ReplyYes) — MessageYes' mission is to help people effortlessly discover and purchase items they love using their mobile phones. MessageYes is the first platform to offer frictionless e-commerce over mobile messaging for brands looking to engage and transact directly with their customers. Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), human-assisted AI, andintegrated payments, the MessageYes platform learns from customer feedback to make the experience serendipitous to each person and brand. Message recipients simply reply "Yes" to instantly buy from their mobile phones.
Soo Boon has over 30 years of global experience in finance and venture capital investing and brings this valuable expertise to each and every investment. She founded iGlobe Partners in 1999, in which the funds sponsor is the Economic Development Board (EDB) of Singapore, the pre-eminent statutory board responsible for enhancing Singapore'sglobal economic and business position. iGlobe Partners also started iGlobe Treasury Fund (NZ$31 million fund) in 2003 as a joint venture with the New Zealand Government.From 1988 to 1999, Soo Boon held executive management positions with Vertex Management Inc., (Vertex), the venture capital arm of Singapore Technologies, managing three funds during her tenure. She established the US operation of Vertex and headed the Silicon Valley office for 9 years, where she was instrumental in the early days of technology transfer for over 100 engineers in Silicon Valley for Chartered Semiconductor and Chartered Microwave. Soo Boon then started Vertex's European operations (headquartered in London, United Kingdom) and ran its European investment operation. As a result of her expertise, she guided numerous successful investments to IPOs, such as Lattice Semiconductor, Creative Technologies, and Activcard SA.Before Vertex, Soo Boon also held various senior management positions in the Treasury and Credit departments in her 12 years of work in the Development Bank of Singapore. Her time there also equipped her with in-depth knowledge of the finance aspect of the venture capital industry. She also headed the International Departments, Credit Division with responsibility for its eight overseas offices and Syndication Department for the Asia-Pacific region.Soo Boon earned her degree in 1973 from King's College, University of London with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics (First Class Honors). She attended the INSEAD Advanced Management program in 1998.Currently, she serves on the boards of directors of several private companies, including Fortemedia (Nanjing), Telenav Inc., and u-blox AG (SWX:UBXN). Since 2003, she serves on the Investment Committee of iGlobe Treasury Fund, a supported by the New Zealand Government. She is also one of the founding members of the Monte Jade (Singapore Chapter) and an EXCO member of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Apps, Cloud Computing
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Singapore, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Movi — Movi is building a new canvas for creation and ownership of web 3.0 visual content.
- Luxola — Luxola was launched in Singapore in 2011 and has quickly grown into the destination for beauty in Southeast Asia; carrying over 4000 products and serving customers across the region including Australia, India and the UAE. Easily accessible. Luxola is committed to providing you with outstanding customer service and bringing you the best brandsfrom around the world, under one platform. All of our products are 100% authentic. We carry over 250 brands, of which over 65 brands across multiple markets are exclusive to Luxola.Education empowers our customers. With each product, Luxola provides ‘how-to’ advice and a review platform, giving you the power to hear from others with similar skin tones and types.Staying relevant is at the core of everything we do. In addition to providing a platform to purchase all your beauty favourites when you want, every week we pen LX Edit, our digital lifestyle magazine, offering inspiration and the latest insight into makeup, skincare, hair and celebrity fashion.
- QuizUp — Plain Vanilla is an Icelandic Game Studio based in Reykjavik Iceland and in San Francisco. It develops a real-time multiplayer quiz platform for mobile devices.
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