Top 5 Sports Angel Investors in Iceland in July 2025
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 July 2025
Investor | Sports Iceland investments |
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Thor Fridriksson | 1 |
Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson | 1 |
Sigurdur Olafsson | 1 |
Birkir Bjarnason | 1 |
Dagur Sigurdsson | 1 |
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.
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Investment focus
- Sports
- Seed, Angel
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Inspirally —
- 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.
Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson is an Icelandic retired handball player and current coach of VfL Gummersbach.
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Investment focus
- Sports
- Seed
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Sigurdur Olafsson
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Investment focus
- Sports
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- The One - Dating App — The One is a wholesome, conversation-first, dating app that systematically matches two strangers every day. Its user gets a few new matches every three days and they spend their time getting to know their matches through chat and exciting profiles. The user also can choose to extend the chat and start sharing photos, voice, live stream, etc. Theapp has a 72-hour countdown timer and unless tap the Extend Chat button the matches disappear forever when the timer reaches zero.
Birkir Bjarnason is an Icelandic professional footballer.
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Investment focus
- Sports
- Seed
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Dagur Sigurdsson is a football player.
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Investment focus
- Sports
- Seed
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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