Top 5 Sports Angel Investors in Iceland in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Sports startups based in Iceland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Iceland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Sports Angel Investors in Iceland in January 2026

Investor	Sports Iceland investments
Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson	1
Sigurdur Olafsson	1
Birkir Bjarnason	1
Thor Fridriksson	1
Dagur Sigurdsson	1

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Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson is an Icelandic retired handball player and current coach of VfL Gummersbach.

Investment focus

Sports
Seed
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Abler — Simplify sports team management with Abler. All-in-one app for scheduling, chat, payments and more. Trusted by coaches and clubs.

Sigurdur Olafsson

Investment focus

Sports
Seed, Pre-Seed
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Abler — Simplify sports team management with Abler. All-in-one app for scheduling, chat, payments and more. Trusted by coaches and clubs.
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Birkir Bjarnason is an Icelandic professional footballer.

Investment focus

Sports
Seed
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Abler — Simplify sports team management with Abler. All-in-one app for scheduling, chat, payments and more. Trusted by coaches and clubs.

Thor Fridriksson is an Internet entrepreneur who founded Plain Vanilla Games in 2010, a mobile game development studio that created the first multi-platform and real-time social trivia engine. Plain Vanilla Games have released high-profile titles that include Twilight QuizUp and Nat Geo QuizUp before launching their hit social trivia game, QuizUp,the biggest trivia game in the world. Born in Reykjavik, Iceland, Thor holds a BS degree from the Reykjavik University and an MBA from the University of Oxford.