# Investa

> Investa is a VC fund in Reykjavík backing SaaS and Software. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Reykjavík, Iceland
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Oct 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/investa-is/
- Website: http://www.investa.is

Investa is an early stage investor in some of Iceland's most innovative startups. It invests primarily in companies in the technology sector offering products and solutions that have an international appeal.Its policy is to invest in a select few startups and spend a lot of time with them. In addition to investing, the company also providevarious advisory services from time to time to companies, investors and institutions that need help evaluating new opportunities.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Investa. Shizune tracks 6 team members at Investa. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/investa-03b8?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$1.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 50% |
| Software | 2 | 50% |
| Events | 1 | 25% |
| Gaming | 1 | 25% |
| Travel | 1 | 25% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 75% |
| Angel | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Iceland | 2 | 50% |
| United States | 2 | 50% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gunnlaugur Briem | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gunnlaugur-briem |
| Haraldur Thorsteinsson | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haraldur-thorsteinsson |
| Hilmar Gunnarsson | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hilmar-gunnarsson |
| Hjalmar Gislason | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hjalmar-gislason |
| Jóhann Haraldsson | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j%C3%B3hann-haraldsson |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GRID | GRID empowers every-day Excel users to turn their spreadsheets into modern web applications without learning any new skills. It enables the users to instantly turn any spreadsheet into a beautiful, interactive web document that can be securely shared and analyzed online. | $1M | Angel | Oct 31, 2018 |  |
| Aldin Dynamics | Aldin® is an Icelandic VR software company founded in early 2013, focused on creating believable virtual reality experiences and technologies to sustain presence & immersion. Since its founding, the Aldin team has passionately worked towards capturing experiences that are only possible in VR, in ways that entertain and inspire diverseaudiences. To achieve believable reality experiences Aldin has built a base of new XR technologies, design methods and production techniques over the course of several years. A cornerstone of the company’s technological foundation is behavior analysis, enabling more convincing VR AI character reactions and powering the Ghostline® XR toolsuite to enhance design and production of immersive content. Over 250,000 users have played Waltz of the Wizard®, Aldin's most recent experience, which was an honoree in the 2016 Proto Awards for Best Interaction Design and held the #1 spot as the highest rated VR app on Steam in 2017. | $1M | Seed | Jul 03, 2018 |  |
| Travelade | Travelade - the online travel platform allowing tourists to discover, plan, and book more authentic holiday activities by providing them with the world’s largest collection of crowdsourced travel guides Anyone who loves to share travel tips with friends, visitors or customers can create and customize their Wanderguide within minutes — and startreselling local tours and activities immediately for a commission. As easy creating a Pinterest board and as actionable as Shopify, Travelade is reinventing how people share travel recommendations and discover things to do and see. |  | Seed | Dec 27, 2017 |  |
| Avo | Avo creates one source of truth for analytics events and generates personalized tracking libraries that give developers dev time validation that implementation is correct. Avo is a toolbox (UI and dev tool) to define event based analytics, and generate personalized tracking libraries that provide dev time validation of correct implementation.It's like a spell-checker for people to define quality data, and a type-checker for developers to make sure they send analytics according to design. | $1.3M | Seed | Aug 17, 2017 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Crowberry Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crowberry-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Brunnur Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venture-capital-fund-brunnur) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1/0 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1-0-capital-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Unpopular Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unpopular-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Investa invest in?

Investa invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Events startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Iceland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Investa's check size?

Investa typically joins rounds of $1M–$1.3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Investa participates in.

### How do I contact Investa?

Public channels for Investa include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Investa?

The team at Investa includes Gunnlaugur Briem (Partner), Haraldur Thorsteinsson (Partner) and Hilmar Gunnarsson (Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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