Top 50 SaaS VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Iceland in November 2024
A list of 50 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Iceland in November 2024
Investor | SaaS Iceland investments |
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Frumtak Ventures | 19 |
New Business Venture Fund | 18 |
Brunnur Ventures | 15 |
Crowberry Capital | 6 |
Novator | 3 |
Iceland Venture Studio | 3 |
Investa | 2 |
Inventure | 2 |
Shanda Group | 2 |
Reaktor Ventures | 2 |
Chrysalix Venture Capital | 2 |
BlueYard Capital | 2 |
Preceptor Capital | 2 |
Behold Ventures | 2 |
Index Ventures | 2 |
Saint-Gobain NOVA | 2 |
Slack Fund | 2 |
Seed Capital | 1 |
boldstart ventures | 1 |
Eyrir Venture Management | 1 |
Karma Ventures | 1 |
Tencent | 1 |
Eyrir Vöxtur | 1 |
Novelis | 1 |
Two Ravens | 1 |
Sukna Ventures | 1 |
Greycroft | 1 |
Omega Algae | 1 |
BioInnovation Institute | 1 |
Technology Development Fund | 1 |
Innoport | 1 |
Riverstone Ventures | 1 |
MD ONE Ventures | 1 |
Idlewild Management | 1 |
Mesa Ventures | 1 |
Ridge Ventures | 1 |
Tuesday Capital | 1 |
Asabys Partners | 1 |
Teya | 1 |
whynow | 1 |
Probiocon | 1 |
Atomico | 1 |
APX | 1 |
New Enterprise Associates | 1 |
MGMT Ventures | 1 |
Headline | 1 |
Faber | 1 |
Omega ehf | 1 |
L-Acoustics | 1 |
KOMPAS VC | 1 |
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, Information Technology, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Iceland, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
- 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.
- Porcelain Fortress — Porcelain Fortress was founded by a small band of romantics in the summer of 2016 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
- HaiLa Technologies Inc. — HaiLa's ultra-low power RF technology paves the way for battery-free operation of wireless IoT sensors and devices.
- Liminal — Advanced battery inspection and metrology with ultrasound and machine learning
- Rithmik Solutions — We increase uptime in mines with advanced analytics that optimize maintenance and extend equipment life.
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
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.
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.
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
- Valdera — Valdera is the sourcing and procurement platform that makes it easy to buy or sell chemicals, ingredients, and raw materials. We partner with segment leaders, ranging from the world's largest CPG manufacturers to household names in the beauty industry.
- Tebi — Tebi is a software company that develops integrated management software apps and tools for hospitality and retail businesses.
- Thread AI — Thread AI makes infrastructure simple for enterprises and can drive adoption and innovation in AI.
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.
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.
Seed Capital invests in Danish tech businesses with global ambitions. We are focused on "late seed"-stage companies, typically investing 1-3 MEUR in rounds of 1-6 MEUR. Proud backers of Trustpilot, Vivino, Lunar, Templafy, Dixa, Forecast, and many other great companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Denmark, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Flatpay — Flatpay's fair, flat-rate pricing simplifies payments & cuts costs. Benefit from our comprehensive solution & superior customer service. Join us now!
- Mesh Bio — Mesh Bio is a digital health startup that is transforming chronic disease management through predictive analytics. Mesh Bio works with healthcare providers and stakeholders to provide innovative solutions that transform health screening and disease management. They translate clinical data and numbers into actionable insights that help patientsbetter manage their health, lifestyle and disease risks.
- Embla — Embla provides an online medical weight loss treatment using prescription drugs and coaching. The company provides patients with evidence-based treatments, digital tools, medication, and coaching to facilitate sustainable weight loss. Embla was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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
- Noded Ai — Noded Ai is preparing yourself for that customer meeting is tough. Noded brings them all together using your notes history and gives you exactly what you needed , when you need it. So you’re always prepared and one step ahead.
- 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.
- Lumina — Lumina is a versatile design platform that empowers both designers and non-designers to create content through personalized user experiences match ing your level. Acting as an intelligent creative assistant, Lumina understands you and your business. Just as human creators immerse themselves in your brand, Lumina tailors the content youcreate—whether it's video, graphic design, or 3D—for ads, e-commerce, and more
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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Investment focus
- Software, B2B, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Iceland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
karma.vc is an early stage venture capital fund focusing on seed and early stage technology companies in Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Estonia, Sweden, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- BforeAI — Starting from patented technology developed in years of research, BforeAi is the prediction service that looks for newly registered or morphed domains, and score their maliciousness looking at metadata and links to other bad guys.
- Hydrogrid — All-in-one solution for optimizing hydropower plants. Increase revenues by up to 18%, reduce spill by up to 12%, and save valuable time with Hydrogrid Insight.
- Pactum — Pactum autonomous negotiations help companies unlock hidden value. Our AI negotiates non-strategic supplier contracts on a massive scale.
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
- Ualá — Ualá is a fintech company whose mission is to bring Latin American financial services into the 21st century. Through an app and an international Mastercard card, it offers an innovative and integrated experience. It also brings the unbanked into the financial system by offering cheaper and more convenient services than any other alternative.Itwas founded by the Argentine entrepreneur Pierpaolo Barbieri and launched in October 2017 in Argentina and in September 2020 in Mexico.Ualá offers an international Mastercard card and is the first free card on the market, with no issuance, renewal, maintenance, and closing costs. It can be used to make purchases on any website or store in the world that accepts Mastercard. In addition, it offers the possibility of carrying out a wide variety of financial transactions through the app such as transferring money, paying bills, and topping up cell phones and transportation cards. Users can also track expenses through an analysis tool, apply for loans and invest in mutual funds.With more than 3.100 million cards issued, it is available throughout Argentina for anyone above 13 and Mexico for anyone above 18, both for Android and iOS.
- 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.
- Insighta — Insighta is an early cancer detection company that focuses on developing tests and clinical trials for additional cancer types using technological advancements. It is a joint venture between Prenetics and scientist, Prof. Dennis Lo.
Eyrir Vöxtur is an ESG fund, which focuses on investing in promising ventures for international growth and value creation. The fund invests in companies that have a positive impact on society and the environment.
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Investment focus
- Legal, Legal Tech, Document Management
- Seed
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Justikal — Justikal is an eCourt system that allows different stakeholders in legal proceedings to handle documents in a trusted & secure way by using eIDAS compliant trust services.
- Laki Power — We supply power grid operators with advanced high-voltage line monitoring stations that enable them to optimise performance, safety and cost.
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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.
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.
Sukna ventures is a venture studio and fund based in Saudi Arabia.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Saudi Arabia, United States, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Marn.io — Marn is an hourly work solutions platform connecting Saudi businesses with thousands of Saudi job seekers in Retail, hospitality, F&B, and Hajj industries. As one of the first Saudi on-demand hourly staffing platform, Marn has had the trust of hundreds of well-known brands and hundred thousands of job seekers. Marn enables businesses to hirehourly staff to manage customers during peak hours and high seasons. All employees are fully vetted through interviews and tests that are prerequisites for joining the platform. Brands using Marn for recruiting save time and effort by letting our technology manage interviews, training, placement, shift scheduling, worker payments, performance reports, and task evaluation. Marn offers other services such as mystery shopper for hotels and retail, and sports events management.Learn more at Marn.io
- MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
- 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.
Venture capital and technology investments
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Sybill AI — Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Video Calls
- Guidewheel — In manufacturing unplanned downtime and idle time are huge hidden costs. Guidewheel's real-time machine monitoring helps improve OEE and increase production capacity.
- Contextual AI — Our contextual language models are built to be highly accurate while minimizing hallucinations, are fully auditable, and keep your data safe.
Omega Algae Iceland emphasis to become a global, innovative, cost-effective and sustainable supplier of high quality ingredients extracted from Algae.Omega Algae, based in Iceland, emerged from an initiative of five founders who developed specific systems to maximize the utilisation of the resources supplied by nature to grow one of the oldestand essential organisms in the existence of life on earth. Realizing that the world population is growing, and food chains are stressed to supply the essential elements for the continuance of a healthy future, Omega Algae is able to address these challenges with efficient solutions.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology
- Seed
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Treble — We develop next generation sound simulation and spatial audio technology for digital twins and virtual worlds.
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.
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.
We invest in innovative and high-potential startups.We focus on the global maritime and logistics sectors.We are striving to find disruptive technologies and business models.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, India, Togo
Portfolio highlights
- zero44 — Effortlessly manage your carbon regulations compliance with zero44 software solutions. Streamline your EU ETS and CII management vessel by vessel, charter by charter, and DoC by DoC for effective and hassle-free carbon regulation management.
- ANNEA — ANNEA help renewable energy companies to reduce OPEX by up to 50% while increasing green energy production by up to 15%.ANNEA provides the next generation of condition-based predictive maintenance and underperformance detection for renewable energy assets. It enables automated drive train vibration analysis, based on cutting edge artificialintelligence, physical modelling, and normal behaviour modelling.Operators receive notifications about future failures up to 12 months in advance, containing detailed information on which component has a problem, the root cause of the problem, and the best time window for repair. Besides, ANNEA detects underperformance of renewable assets and helps to maximise energy production.We optimise operations and maintenance across renewable energy sectors, reducing unplanned downtime and lost profit significantly, making green energy more affordable. Let's accelerate the energy transition together!
- 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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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.
MD One Ventures is the Venture Capital team dedicated to supporting National Security Innovation for the UK and Allies. We invest in the frontier technologies that matter.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Security, Cyber Security
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Bifrost AI — Build AI in a day instead of a year, at a fraction of the price, with the Bifrost synthetic data engine.
- 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.
- Labrys Technologies — Visualise & Coordinate Your People. Securely. Anywhere. In Real-Time.
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.
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.
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.
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
Asabys Partners is a venture capital firm that invests across the board in human healthcare. The company is active in the health-tech and biopharma industries and aims to invest in Spain and abroad in innovative and transformative technologies. Asabys Partners are motivated by the idea of pushing the boundaries of science and medicine. This is donethrough the sourcing and financing of the most disruptive technologies, and through the collaboration with the best internal and external talents of our industry.
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- Biotechnology, Medical Device, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Spain, France, Belgium
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- Medlumics — Medlumics is a medical device start-up born in 2009 from a compromise with improving human living standards by means of technology.
- Augustine Therapeutics — Augustine, Innovative therapies for neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases
- INBRAIN Neuroelectronics — We are scientists, doctors, techies and humanity lovers, with the mission of building neuroelectronic interfaces to cure brain disorders.
SaltPay is a FinTech company dedicated to building a better future for merchants by servicing them through payment and management tools. Focused on efficiency, technology, and people, they give merchants the help they need to grow.
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- Information Technology, Apps, Sales
- Funding Round
- Turkey, Iceland
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- Odeal — Oedeal is a online payment service company, dedicated in providing wide range of financial solutions to entrepreneurs.
- Salescloud — The power behind your point of sales. Our cloud-based sales and management solutions provide you with powerful tools to help you run and grow your business.
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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- Apps, Music
- Seed
- Iceland
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- Overtune — With Overtune you can easily make your own music. Record with voice effects and make videos.
Probiocon is a consulting company offering comprehensive services for pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies. We give advice and support for all kind of corporate development activities (services) needed for biotech and pharma companies, including but not limited to Corporate Financing, Licensing & Partnering, Merger & Acquisition,and Corporate Organisation.Their vision is to provide optimized and cost-effective solutions to the special needs of companies developing biopharmaceutical compounds.
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- Medical, Consulting, Health Care
- Seed
- Iceland
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- 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.
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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- R.grid — Research Grid is the automation engine for admin-free clinical trials. Research Grid has developed two industry-leading products that leverage its AI-powered automation engine.
- Raycast — A collection of powerful productivity tools all within an extendable launcher.
- Dexory — Discover the only warehouse intelligence platform that helps logistics providers to maximise visibility of daily inventory operations using autonomous robots.
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
- Eleos — Get income protection insurance online with Eleos. All policies include 24x7 Virtual GP, gym discounts and other benefits.
- DC Connected — Mobility Enhancement Platform
Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.
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- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, China
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- Sana — Sana is an AI company building the next generation of knowledge tools. Designed and engineered in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Outrider — Autonomous yard operations have set a new standard. Yard automation transforms yard operations into an efficient, safe, and sustainable solution.
- Pathos — Pathos is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on re-engineering drug development with the power of advanced AI technologies.
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.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- 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.
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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- Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Portugal, United Kingdom, United States
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- 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.
- 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.
- Mitiga Solutions — Mitigating the risk from climate-driven perils to your business assets everywhere.
Omega ehf is a private investment vehicle that makes investments in private equity and a variety of ventures.
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- Banking, FinTech, Software
- Series D
- United Kingdom
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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- 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.
KOMPAS is an early-stage venture capital firm with offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen and Tel Aviv. We fund breakthrough innovations that accelerate the digital transformation and decarbonisation of the building and manufacturing industries. KOMPAS invests €1.0 – 5.0 million in Seed and Series A rounds with continued support throughout thecompany’s entire lifecycle.
We partner with exceptional founders who disrupt the way buildings are designed, built and managed. We strive to eliminate emissions from building and manufacturing activity, reduce energy consumption, promote sustainable building materials, eliminate waste and support a circular economy. We invest in digital technology and automation to make industrial processes from procurement to manufacturing more efficient. We operate with purpose whilst delivering strong financial returns to our investors.
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- Construction, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, Germany, United States
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- Optiml — OPTIML is an end to end software platform harnessing the power of optimization to generate intelligent low cost and low carbon investment strategies for existing buildings. Real estate owners and consultants benefit from the novel data driven approaches scaled from the asset to portfolio level with increased productivity and accuracy for multi yearplanning. OPTIML is a GmbH, LLC headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. OPTIML leverages over four years of cutting edge engineering, sustainability, and policy research at ETH Zurich with multiple PhDs on the technology.With OPTIML asset, long term strategies to 2050 can be developed for any unique building asset considering all aspects of renovations for asset and construction management. Minimal data input is required but the models can be leveraged with maximum customizability. Scaled to any number of buildings, OPTIML portfolio develops portfolio budgetary and CO2 pathways considering asset level granularity with minimal planning cost.
- Treble — We develop next generation sound simulation and spatial audio technology for digital twins and virtual worlds.
- Again — SecondCircle makes carbon negative chemicals for a cleaner future. We are the first carbon negative chemical manufacturer that can scale to meet global demand. The best thing about it: we use carbon dioxide as a feedstock.
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