Top 5 Travel Startup Investors in Iceland in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Travel startups based in Iceland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Travel companies from Iceland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Travel Startup Investors in Iceland in May 2025

Investor	Travel Iceland investments
New Business Venture Fund	2
Jon S. von Tetzchner	1
General Electric	1
Capital A Partners	1
Frumtak Ventures	1

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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.

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.

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.

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.

General Electric Company offers infrastructure and financial services worldwide. It operates in various segments, including power and water, oil and gas, energy management, aviation, healthcare, transportation, appliances and lighting, GE capital, and more.Its power and water segment offers gas, steam and aeroderivative turbines, nuclearreactors, generators, combined cycle systems, controls, and related services; wind turbines; and water treatment services and equipment. Its oil and gas segment provides surface and subsea drilling and production systems, equipment for floating production platforms, compressors, turbines, turboexpanders, reactors, industrial power generation, and auxiliary equipment. The company’s energy management segments offers plant automation hardware, software, and embedded computing systems. Its aviation segment offers jet engines; aerospace systems and equipment; and replacement parts and repair and maintenance services. The healthcare segment provides medical imaging, software and information technology (IT), patient monitoring and diagnostics, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies, and performance improvement solutions. Its transportation segment offers freight and passenger locomotives, and diesel engines for rail, marine, and stationary power applications; railway signaling and communications systems; underground mining equipment; motorized drive systems; IT solutions; and replacement parts and value added services. The appliances and lighting segment manufactures home appliances; and lighting products for commercial and industrial applications. Its capital segment offers commercial loans and leases, fleet management, financial programs, credit cards, personal loans, and other financial services.General Electric Company was founded in 1892 and is headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Investment focus

Energy, Software, Renewable Energy
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Israel, China

Portfolio highlights

Morphisec — Breach prevention made easy. Morphisec's endpoint security solution prevents attacks that bypass NGAV, EDR and EPP through Moving Target Defense technology.
Travelshift — Transform the travel industry with Travelshift software. Work with the complete industry marketplace platform, top partners and regional expertise. Learn More.
Crowntech Photonics — Crowntech Photonics is an ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified world leading designer and manufacturer of passive ﬁber-optics components, integrated modules, and subsystems serving the telecommunications and datacom industries. Driven by the increasing broadband demands, Crowntech Photonics is committed to deliver the solutions enabling the bandwidthgrowth through our innovative ﬁber-optics product lines.Crowntech Photonics was incorporated in 2008 with headquarters, sales division and R&D center in Shanghai while operations center, and the large manufacturing facilities are located in Yingkou City, Liaoning Province, China. Over 120,000 square feet (12,000 square meters) of facilities were commenced in operations with 40,000 square feet of manufacturing cleanroom space positioning Crowntech to serve the ever increasing demand of fiber-optics products to our valuable partners with high quality, competitive pricing, and superior customer service.

venture capital and private equity for early stage businesses

Investment focus

3D Printing, Software, 3D Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Quizy — Quizy Games is an online platform to participate in pool of quizzes and get earn money instantly. Try out your brain and luck together, earning money is fun.
Kaptio — Kaptio is the next generation booking system that places customer experience at the heart of the travel economy. Powered by the Salesforce Platform, it frees travel companies from their legacy systems – equipping them to embrace new ways of working, transform the customer experience and deliver operational efficiencies. Kaptio was launched byArnar Laufdal Olafsson and Ragnar Fjölnisson in 2012 and has offices in United Kingdom, Iceland and Germany.
Chargeup — Chargeup is a full-stack EV Financing & Asset Management Platform. We enable last-mile drivers with ownership and higher earnings

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.