Top 50 SaaS Startup Investors in Iceland in December 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Saas startups based in Iceland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Saas companies from Iceland. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 SaaS Startup Investors in Iceland in December 2024
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Iceland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- PLAIO — The only AI-assisted decision-making platform developed for pharmaceutical manufacturing
- Moombix — Join us for the launch of our advanced learning platform for online music lessons
- Treble — We develop next generation sound simulation and spatial audio technology for digital twins and virtual worlds.
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
- 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.
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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.
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
- 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.
We help people grow and build decentralized companies
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, B2B
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Iceland, India, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Soptle — Founded in Sep 2021, Soptle started to establish an integrated technology to the neglected regional FMCG Manufacturers in India with a B2B Retail Commmerce App. It uses tech and data to distribute at scale and use necessary components (existing Distributor/Wholesaler) in the FMCG Supply Chain to build a high growth and profitable business.
- Expertrons — Expertrons is an upskilling platform that offers advanced training programs | BSFI | HR | Marketing and many more to assure 100% professional success.
- Nanom — Greenvolt Nano creates nano-enhanced materials for use in battery technology. It provides a pathway to clean, inexpensive, and renewable energy sources while reducing environmental toxicity. And makes products smarter, efficient, and longer lasting. It is founded in 2017.
Novator is an alternative investment firm founded and led by the international investor and entrepreneur Thor Bjorgolfsson.Novator's investment portfolio is focused around following sectors: Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, IT and Renewable Energy. In addition, Novator operates a Private Equity Fund and a Credit Opportunities Fund.Novator focuses on developing strong management teams in each of its portfolio companies. While granting them the autonomy to create value, Novator maintains a supervisory role, principally through representation on the Boards of its investee companies. Novator differentiates itself from many other private equity companies in concentrating on complex situations, either by virtue of their structure or their cross-border nature. To create value, Novator undertakes the restructuring or "de-risking" of investment opportunities through re-financing, combining acquired assets with existing businesses, through sale to strategic or financial buyers, or through flotation. Novator's investment portfolio is focused around four main sectors:Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, IT and Renewable Energy.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Online Games
- Funding Round, Series B, Series C
- United Kingdom, United States, Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Better.com — Better Mortgage Corporation is a direct lender dedicated to providing a fast, transparent digital mortgage experience backed by superior customer support.
- Steel City Interactive — Steel City Interactive develops gaming.
BlueYard backs founders building the interconnected elements that can become the fabric of our future.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- CPTx — At CPTx, we develop new treatment paradigms across outsized medical challenges, with an initial focus on infectious diseases. The flexibility and precision of CPTx's platform supports multivalent drug development, which is crucial for addressing complex disease states involving multiple binding sites, such as viruses, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.
- Clock Bio — Clock Bio operates as a biotech company, that develops novel regenerative medicines.
- ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression
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
- 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.
Danish angel investor, based in London.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Denmark, Sweden, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Medusa — The most popular ecommerce project on GitHub. Medusa provides the world's most flexible commerce platform for developers to handle specialized commerce cases.
- Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
- Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.
Leading global venture capital fund that invests in resource intensive industries across North America and Europe.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Liminal — Advanced battery inspection and metrology with ultrasound and machine learning
- C2CA technology — C2CA Technology is a pioneering company in concrete recycling, established in 2016 by Delft Enterprises, Delft University, and GBN.Our mission is to transform waste concrete into sustainable building materials, replacing virgin aggregates, sand, and cement to mitigate 8% of global CO2 emissions.Our advanced separation, and quality controltechnologies are in use at our demonstration site in Hoorn, the Netherlands.We're committed to achieving 100% circular concrete and building a more sustainable future. Join us and make a positive impact on the planet.
- Rithmik Solutions — We increase uptime in mines with advanced analytics that optimize maintenance and extend equipment life.
Sigþór Sigmarsson is Finance director at Novato. He attended Háskóli Íslands.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Banking
- Seed, Series D, Funding Round
- Iceland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Genis — Genis is pioneering the development and application of therapeutic chitin derivatives.
- Treble — We develop next generation sound simulation and spatial audio technology for digital twins and virtual worlds.
- 3Z Pharmaceuticals — 3Z Pharmaceuticals provides research services intended to provide drug development services. It offers drug screening on sleep and epilepsy assays that helps in the development of drugs used to treat neurological disorders, enabling patients to get multiple drug efficacy and toxicity assays.Karl Karlsson and Haraldur Thorsteinsson founded 3ZPharmaceuticals in 2008. It based their company on their research on the sleeping patterns of the zebrafish at the Reykjavik University Neurolab in 2006.
Preceptor Capital is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Computer, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Iceland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Anonybit — Revolutionizing identity management platform with strong authentication across the user lifecycle without compromising on user privacy or data securityKeywords: identity management, strong authentication
- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Crowdsourcing
- Seed, Angel
- Iceland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- GRID — Spreadsheets run the world and we run spreadsheets.
- Travelade — Find recommendations and local insights from all across the world. Discover hidden gems, book experiences with best price guaranteed, create epic stories.
- Aldin Dynamics — Aldin creates believable realities designed for presence & immersion.
Early stage (first money), venture capital - laser focused on investing in the video games industry.
Based in Sweden with a deep focus on the Nordics, while also being opportunistic about investments worldwide.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Sports, eSports
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Iceland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Red Rover — We're on a mission to reimagine the multiplayer gaming landscape, with an emphasis on crafting groundbreaking survival experiences that champion player agency and drama.
- Porcelain Fortress — Porcelain Fortress was founded by a small band of romantics in the summer of 2016 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
- Blue Scarab Entertainment — Blue Scarab Entertainment is Stockholm-based video game studio developing a surprising MMORPG for fans of cozy escapism, true-crime, and horses.
Saint-Gobain NOVA is the ventures arm of Saint‑Gobain.
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Investment focus
- Software, Industrial Manufacturing, Energy
- Seed, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Treble — We develop next generation sound simulation and spatial audio technology for digital twins and virtual worlds.
- Plantformance — Accelerate your Industry 4.0 journey by simplifying the adoption of advanced technologies across your organization and empowering the rapid creation and deployment of innovative industrial applications.
- Enteligent — Enteligent is a solar product company focused on higher efficiency and harnessing more solar electricity. Enteligent's products reduce conversion losses and other inefficiencies that result in up to a 25% loss of solar rooftop electrical generation. Enteligent is on a mission to increase the effectiveness of solar electricity and providehomeowners with energy independence.
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Tessl — Tessl transforms software development for the AI era with its innovative AI-native development approach. Its AI-powered development platform provides secure, high-quality, and self-maintaining code tailored to the user's requirements.
- Vooma — Vooma is a back-office automation platform that enables automated order entry for brokers and carriers.
- Workflow — A minimalist collaboration platform for creative teams. Manage tasks, get AI reviews, and share work, all in one place.
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
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- 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!
The Slack Fund is a venture capital fund that invests in and collaborates with entrepreneurs creating the next great software companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- WorkMade — A smarter banking solution for freelancers: Automatically calculates, prepares, pays taxes, discovers write-offs, and gets you paid fast.
- Gatheround — Facilitate must-haves like regular team bonding, new hire onboarding, peer learning, and more.
- Ensemble — Discover how a novel representation learning algorithm can increase the predictive power of your data in any domain and with any model.
Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.
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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.
Hermann Kristjánsson
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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.
Discover Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling. Learn how our innovative solutions and sustainability initiatives drive the future of lightweight, durable, and recyclable aluminum for industries worldwide.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Iceland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Sortera Technologies — Sortera Alloys manufactures low-cost, high-quality metal alloys for domestic manufacturing using its artificial intelligence technology.
- Multiscale Technologies — Multiscale Technologies developed an AI platform that accelerates R&D and the discovery of new materials by 100X. The platform digitizes all forms of data (tabular, pdf, simulations etc.) and uses its own unique knowledge fusion platform to connect experiments, simulations, and materials domain expertise to provide predictive analyses andrecommendations for any manufacturing company that does R&D for new materials in their current/future products.
- DTE ehf — DTE introduces breakthrough real-time process control analytics for metals production and processing towards Industry 4.0, through our robotic hardware and software solutions, automating current manual sampling processes for improved quality, cost, efficiency and safety.
BioInnovation Institute is a biotechnology startup that offers entrepreneurs and researchers in life science. Early-stage life science start-ups are supported with up to 10 million DKK in funding, business acceleration, network, labs, and office space. It helps to early-stage start-ups within human health and planetary health. The startup'smission is to use its knowledge, network, funding, and infrastructure to incubate world-class life science and catalyze the commercialization of new solutions through start-ups.BioInnovation Institute was founded in 2018 and is based in Denmark.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
- Convertible Note, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
- Denmark, Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- NorFalk — NorFalk rethinks the way to produce surfactants: the active and stabilizing ingredients in household care and personal care consumer products.
- ArcanaBio — ArcanaBio is developing realtime biosurveillance solutions that minimize workplace disruptions and support health & wellness
- HHC Medical — HHC Medical is a health tech company developing targeted non-invasive drug delivery devices through electroporation to transfect a large number of cells. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Hillerød, Denmark.
Idlewild Management LLC (Idlewild) is an investment management firm that focuses on a range of asset classes, including equities, private credit, direct investments, and real estate.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Marine Technology
- Funding Round
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Hefring Marine — Hefring Marine's on-board AI saves fuel consumption, significantly reduces carbon emissions and improves safety in boats and vessels through our real time sea navigation guidance for both manned and unmanned vessels.
Jon von Tetzchner is co-founder and CEO of Vivaldi Technologies, the company behind the Vivaldi web browser and other services for the web’s most demanding and savviest users. He co-founded Opera Software where he served as CEO for 15 years. Jon steered Opera from a small basement nook shared into a global company with more than 900 employees in 13countries.Under his leadership, Opera was an early pioneer in mobile web browsing and more than 350 million people used Opera to enjoy the web on their terms.
Jon is now steering Vivaldi which was came out with its final version in April 2016. He and his team are making a personal and a feature – rich browser that takes into consideration the needs of every user. Vivaldi is self-funded and aims to be this way where the employees hold equity.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Tourism, Search Engine
- Seed
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Dohop — Dohop is an award-winning technology provider founded in Iceland with 15 years’ experience in developing innovative solutions in the field of aviation and travel. Its core technology is focused on creating connecting itineraries. Being at the forefront of digital innovation in the field of interline technology, Dohop has developed solutions forforward-thinking airlines, alliances, and airports all around the globe, including easyJet, Transavia, Eurowings, Jetstar Group, Gatwick Airport, and SkyTeam.
Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Atlys — Atlys is the world's leading visa platform with 99.5% on-time delivery for over 150 destinations.
- Zive — All your company's knowledge, universally accessible to all employees.
- Motion — Motion is a visual analysis hub that helps marketers and creative teams identify what works to make high-performing creatives that convert.
Tuesday Capital (formerly CrunchFund) has been helping early-stage founders build the companies of tomorrow since 2011.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Mexico, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- 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
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
- 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.
Day one partner for developer first, crypto infra & SaaS founders.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Tessl — Tessl transforms software development for the AI era with its innovative AI-native development approach. Its AI-powered development platform provides secure, high-quality, and self-maintaining code tailored to the user's requirements.
- CrewAI — CrewAI is a multi-agent automation platform for enterprises to automate complex tasks. With its automation platform, organizations can deploy and manage AI agents to automate complex tasks and to value across a wide range of use cases, from research and analysis to coding and reporting.The company also offers a range of advanced new featuresincluding self-iteration, performance evaluation, persistent memory, and a range of new agent collaboration structures.
- Hypernative — Detect attacks in progress & prevent loses in real time by proactively monitoring on and off chain data sources and help mitigate security, governance and financial risks with early warnings & actionable insights.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Denmark's Export and Investment Fund (EIFO) serves as a single point of contact for Danish firms seeking risk-tolerant government finance. We aspire to help successful enterprises that can expand the Danish economy and green the world on a daily basis, guided by professionalism and an international perspective.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Denmark, Ukraine, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cernel — Webshop content that writes itself (perfectly).
- NitroVolt — NitroVolt: the next generational step of sustainable ammonia.
- Antag Therapeutics — Antag Therapeutics operator of a biotechnology company intended to develop metabolic and anti-obesity therapeutic drugs.The company specializes in the development of peptide-based GIP receptor antagonist in order to monitor dietary-related metabolic diseases through the infusion, enabling the healthcare industry to decrease blood flow and lipiduptake in adipose tissue in an efficient manner.
Eyrir Invest is an international investment company that focuses on investments in industrial companies that have the potential to become true global leaders.
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Analytics, Enterprise Software
- Funding Round
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Activity Stream — Activity Stream is a marketing platform made exclusively for the event industry.
Shubert Organization owns, operates, and manages theatres in New York; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The organization also produces plays and musicals in New York City and other parts of the United States; operates a ticketing agency for theatres in New York City; and provides a research repository of theatrical documents and other relateditems. In addition, the company offers a source for various ticketing needs, including box office, telephone, internet, season and subscription, group, and more sales to various segments of the entertainment industry.Shubert Organization was formerly known as Select Theatres Corporation and changed its name to Shubert Organization in 1973.The company was founded in 1900 and is based in New York, United States. It operates as a subsidiary of The Shubert Foundation, Inc.
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Analytics, Enterprise Software
- Funding Round
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Activity Stream — Activity Stream is a marketing platform made exclusively for the event industry.
Welcome to L-Acoustics. We set the benchmark for pro audio sound systems and are always at the cutting-edge of audio technology.
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Investment focus
- Audio, Music, Software
- Series B
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Mixhalo — Mixhalo is a real-time audio platform that delivers an immersive experience for live events including concerts, conferences, festivals, sporting events, and anywhere people gather to hear content. Founded by Incubus Guitarist and songwriter Mike Einziger and internationally-acclaimed violinist, Ann Marie Simpson-Einziger, Mixhalo enables live eventorganizers to give audiences exactly what they came for, with real-time audio delivered directly to attendees’ own phones (via a free app) and headphones.It was established in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Treble — We develop next generation sound simulation and spatial audio technology for digital twins and virtual worlds.
Faber is a Lisbon-based venture capital firm investing in outstanding entrepreneurs who innovate at the intersection of science and technology to drive digital transformation and climate action. The firm combines a specialist focus on deep tech early-stage startups with dedicated funds, investment teams and expert advisors to actively help foundersbuild global companies powered by AI/data or climate/ocean technologies.
Faber’s unique approach in Southern Europe is led by an entrepreneurial management partnership and backed by notable thesis-driven institutions and private investors. Investing since 2013, the firm has been an early investor in hard tech companies such as Unbabel, SWORD Health, Codacy, iLoF or YData
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Portugal, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Opnova — Opnova breaks through the rework barrier in IT, security, and compliance operations, delivering intelligent automation to workflows where implementing conventional automation was not previously practical or possible.
- 1s1 Energy — 1s1 Energy is developing material technology for PEM water electrolysis systems for green hydrogen production. The company's mission is to develop viable and scalable solutions to reduce carbon emissions within the decade. 1s1 Energy Inc. was founded in 2019 by Daniel Sobek, Sukanta Bhattacharyya, and T. Don Tilley.
- Mitiga Solutions — Mitigating the risk from climate-driven perils to your business assets everywhere.
Eyrir Venture Management is the venture investment arm of Eyrir Invest, and manages the Eyrir Sprotar venture fund. Eyrir Sprotar focuses on supporting promising ventures for international growth and value creation, investing in seed-stage and early-stage companies. The firm's investment strategy spans all stages of a company´s growth, fromseed capital to funding early-stage companies as well as partaking in international growth.Eyrir Sprotar was founded in 2015 and is based in Reykjavík, Gullbringusysla.
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- Software, B2B, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Iceland, United States
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- Digiphy — Build QR codes and templated pages to connect directly with customers, capture first-party data, tell your origin story, drive sales, product registration and more.
- 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.
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.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Denmark, United States, Sweden
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- DREM — Simplifying distributed energy saving solutions
- Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.
- DataCrunch.io — DataCrunch is a cloud service provider which facilitates utilization and integration of state of the art AI/ML models
APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
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- Spike Technologies — November 30, 2022 - Spike technology, REST API end-points, and Cloud architecture are designed with data privacy and security at heart. We process billions of
- DC Connected — Mobility Enhancement Platform
- Synergi — Synergi app features smart charging, smart climate, solar charging, and more to help you use electricity when it's cheap and good for the planet. Start saving and earning with smart electricity use!
Venture capital and technology investments
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Reflexivity — Say goodbye to stodgy terminals and clunky, decades-old interfaces. By asking questions in natural language, our institutional-grade analytic tools come alive and at your service.
- Hippocratic AI — The First Safety Focused LLM for Healthcare
- Thread AI — Thread AI makes infrastructure simple for enterprises and can drive adoption and innovation in AI.
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.
Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
- Iconic.AI — Iconic AI is an AAA games studio AI-driven game development
- Lakera AI — Lakera Guard empowers organizations to build GenAI applications without worrying about prompt injections, data loss, harmful content, and other LLM risks. Powered by the world's most advanced AI threat intelligence.
Kristín Pétursdóttir
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- SaaS, Software, Productivity Tools
- Angel
- Iceland
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- GRID — Build smart, interactive web calculators & lead-gen tools powered by your spreadsheets.
Two Ravens focuses on investing in pre-seed and early seed stage technology companies.
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- Senvo — Centralized last mile data analytics for optimization, automation, and financial transparency.
- Hefring Marine — Hefring Marine's on-board AI saves fuel consumption, significantly reduces carbon emissions and improves safety in boats and vessels through our real time sea navigation guidance for both manned and unmanned vessels.
Riverstone Ventures focuses on early stage climatetech companies.
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- SaaS, Software, Marine Technology
- Funding Round
- Iceland
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- Hefring Marine — Hefring Marine's on-board AI saves fuel consumption, significantly reduces carbon emissions and improves safety in boats and vessels through our real time sea navigation guidance for both manned and unmanned vessels.
Co-founder+CTO @ TheNumber - Senior Partner @ One Zero Capital
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- Apps, SaaS, Software
- Angel, Series A
- Iceland, Singapore
MGMT Ventures mission is to support and invest in founders pushing the boundaries of innovation in emerging and future industries.
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- Gaming, Sports, Seafood
- Pre-Seed
- Iceland
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- Loki Foods — We're producing sustainable, plant-based foods from the Arctic. Iceland’s first plant-based cod and seafood!
- Esports Coaching Academy — Esports Coaching Academy, the leading platform for youth esports training, education, and certification. Our academy offers top-quality courses, exercises, training sessions, and certifications.
Börkur Arnviðarson
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- Software, Information Technology
- Seed
- Iceland
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- Treble — We develop next generation sound simulation and spatial audio technology for digital twins and virtual worlds.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Canada, France
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- Eppo — Hypothesis-centered A/B experimentation, built for today's product and data teams.
- HomeLight — We use data to help homebuyers and sellers find the best real estate agents nationwide
- Goodfire — Goodfire's mission is to advance humanity's understanding of AI by examining the inner workings of advanced AI models (or “AI Interpretability”). As an applied research lab, Goodfire bridges the gap between theoretical science and practical applications of interpretability.
Ari Helgason
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- Software, SaaS, Developer Tools
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United Kingdom, France, Iceland
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- Cutover — Cutover is a Work Orchestration and Observability platform. It enables teams to plan, orchestrate, and analyze complex work faster, smarter, and with greater visibility.
- GRID — Build smart, interactive web calculators & lead-gen tools powered by your spreadsheets.
- LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
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