Top 50 VC Funds in Iceland
A list of 50 VC funds that invest in startups based in Iceland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Iceland. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 VC Funds in Iceland
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, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Iceland, United States, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- PaxFlow — PaxFlow is a travel technology startup that helps tour operators to streamline operations with resource management, data based workflows, customer communication and self service tools.
- Vitar Games — A WW1 Strategy driven Management Game
- Standby Deposits — Standby Deposits is a rental security deposit replacement based on credit.
Frumtak (a.k.a. Frumtak Investment Fund, Frumtak I, Frumtak 1) was founded December 23rd. 2008. The objective was to invest in early stage growth companies that were post seed and had growth potential. This would result in leading companies that could deliver a good return to investors.At the close of Frumtak‘s investment period on December 31st.2012, the fund had invested in fifteen companies with nine investments still active. The remainder of lifetime of the fund is used to follow on investments and divest assets.Frumtak Ventures (Frumtak II, Frumtak 2) started in February 2015. The fund builds on the legacy of Frumtak 1. The fund invests in early stage innovative companies that are post seed and show great potential for growth. The fund invests primarily in Iceland but is allowed to invest abroad as allowed by law in connection with its portfolio investments to ensure success in foreign markets.Frumtak II emphasizes to invest in companies where growth and sales in foreign markets are the primary objective, but does not specialize in any particular industry. The fund wants to ensure that original ideas get a chance and thereby increasing the probability of creating growth and value. By doing this, it enforces the image that Icelandic innovation is profitable.Frumtak II aspires to be a trusted and popular ally. The fund strives to have a good relationship and co-operation with all stakeholders within the start-up and innovation community. The fund puts a special emphasis on co-operating with stakeholders outside Iceland.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Iceland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 50skills — Bring people, information and tools together. 50skills is a hiring system and so much more.
- Spectaflow — Spectaflow is a SaaS solution for accommodations businesses focused on improving housekeeping and maintenance workflows
- 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.
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
- Saidot — Saidot is a governance tool for safe, ethical and transparent AI.
- 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.
- Scaleup Finance — Improve your financial management
Sisu Game Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused 100% on games. We set up shop in 2014 to support the most promising founders in the industry. Sisu has deep roots in the Nordic region, but our network of founders is fully global.The Sisu team consists of Samuli, Paul, Erik, Kalle, Moaffak, Kadri, and Jere - all of whom haveextensive backgrounds in the game industry and startup circles, both as entrepreneurs and investors. We've founded and built sixteen game companies since the early 90s and had several successful exits. Apart from funding companies, the team uses their expertise to act as a studio builder. Individual founders are supported in building their team, honing their product strategy and in gathering the right group of investors.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Virtual Reality
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, United States, Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Bitmagic — All you need is your imagination and Bitmagic helps you create the game you want to make.
- Jam & Tea Studios — Jam & Tea Studios is a remote game studio that develops and offers multiplayer games. The company's games focus on leveraging innovative content and fostering social connections among players.
- Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!
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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Denmark, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Monta — Monta is the ultimate platform powering the entire EV charging ecosystem. From drivers, to businesses, to industry partners, we offer software solutions that cover all EV charging needs.
- QA.tech — Our AI combines the skills of a QA engineer with the speed of automated testing for you. This shortens your time to market, cuts costs and improves the quality of your web apps.
- Dusk — Rune is an automated friend or squad finder and voice chat for players on mobile games. Users can hang out and share amazing experiences together. The company builds the future of LFG for mobile gamers.
MGMT Ventures mission is to support and invest in founders pushing the boundaries of innovation in emerging and future industries.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Sports, Seafood
- Pre-Seed
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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.
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 AI — Discover how a novel representation learning algorithm can increase the predictive power of your data in any domain and with any model.
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
- MoeGo — MoeGo is the best all-in-one pet grooming software designed to automate & simplify your pet grooming business.
- Dazz — Dazz is a cloud security repair service that takes a unique approach to cybersecurity.
- Savvy Wealth — Savvy is the next-generation wealth management firm that pairs world-class advisors with modern software to help clients achieve their financial goals.
BlueYard backs founders building the interconnected elements that can become the fabric of our future.
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Investment focus
- Software, Cryptocurrency, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, France
Portfolio highlights
- Insempra — Origin.Bio creates synthetic microorganisms that can make many of the same ingredients as traditional chemical industrialization processes today, but with significantly fewer energy requirements and waste produced while eradicating the need for petrochemicals.The company drives the convergence of engineering with biology, using DNA as theprogramming language. Rather than editing genetic material only in or out of DNA, engineers can hack entirely new organisms that have never existed — all powered by computing, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine-learning while leveraging millions of years of evolution. Operating at an atomic level, the company farms organisms with microscopic precision and integrates them into existing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) manufacturing processes. This asset-light approach enables Origin.Bio to generate sustainable materials at speed in a cost-effective way, without compromising on performance.
- ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression
- Transcripta Bio — Transcripta Bio is a company dedicated to drug discovery, with a focus on numerous diseases at once, at a never-before-seen pace and scale, with lesser risk and greater assurance.
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
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, China, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Digift — Security Token DEX: Bridging traditional finance and DeFi.
- 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.
- Jimeng Intelligent — Jimeng Intelligent is an industrial internet platform that offers integrated big data production, management and application services.
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.
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
- Leya AI — Feel and sound like an English native in 3 months
- Steep — Business intelligence for modern companies. Steep lets anyone on your team stay on top of your data.
- Reveel — Say goodbye to paper maps, brochures, and outdated audio guides. Reveel offers digital solutions for destinations such as UNESCO sites, sights, museums, cities, hotels and parks, taking the visitor experience to the next level. Become part of the smart destination movement, enhance the visitor experience, and discover the future of travel.
SFV backs globally early-stage founders building leading Future of Food companies that are: #Cell-based #Plant-based #Recombinant
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, India, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Another Food — Another Food is a plant cell culture startup which develops sustainable coffee from plant cells. A nature-identical coffee, healthier for consumers and better for the planet.
- Peruvian Veef — Peruvian Veef is an offline and online store that offers real burgers, grilled seitan, crispy cravings, and vegan nugget products.
- Atlantic Fish Company — Atlantic Fish Co is a cultivated seafood company using cellular agriculture to bring the world sustainable delicious seafood.
Possible Ventures backs ambitious teams building frontier technology to positively impact society. We invest globally in the early stages, actively supporting founders via our collective of global entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Insempra — Origin.Bio creates synthetic microorganisms that can make many of the same ingredients as traditional chemical industrialization processes today, but with significantly fewer energy requirements and waste produced while eradicating the need for petrochemicals.The company drives the convergence of engineering with biology, using DNA as theprogramming language. Rather than editing genetic material only in or out of DNA, engineers can hack entirely new organisms that have never existed — all powered by computing, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine-learning while leveraging millions of years of evolution. Operating at an atomic level, the company farms organisms with microscopic precision and integrates them into existing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) manufacturing processes. This asset-light approach enables Origin.Bio to generate sustainable materials at speed in a cost-effective way, without compromising on performance.
- Sumday — Non - financial accounting software. Start carbon accounting, properly, with the support of your existing advisors
- InSpacePropulsion Technologies — ISPTech is a Spin-Off of the Institute of Space Propulsion at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It offers non-toxic, green propulsion solutions
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.
We are PROfounders. We are the proactive European early-stage venture fund.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Travel
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- QA.tech — Our AI combines the skills of a QA engineer with the speed of automated testing for you. This shortens your time to market, cuts costs and improves the quality of your web apps.
- Frontnow — Frontnow is redefining e-commerce with AI, providing businesses with powerful pre-sales tools to maximize core KPIs and provide an in-store-like shopping experience. Our vision is to transform online shopping into a dynamic, hyper-personalized, and inspirational experience through an adaptive interface. By revolutionizing the ecosystem, theyempower businesses to thrive in the digital age and significantly impact the way customers shop online, leading to a more profitable and customer-centric retail world.
- Scaleup Finance — Improve your financial management
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 — Build smart, interactive web calculators & lead-gen tools powered by your 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.
Silicon Valley Bank is the financial partner of the innovation economy; helping individuals and investors in the innovation ecosystem achieve extraordinary outcomes.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Debt Financing, Series B, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Denim — Denim is an all-in-one financial enablement platform for the logistics industry. We work with brokerages to offer freight factoring and back office automation.
- Thumbtack — Thumbtack is a technology leader building the modern home management platform. Through the Thumbtack app, homeowners can effortlessly manage their homes — confidently knowing what to do, when to do it, and who to hire. Bringing the $500 billion home services industry online, Thumbtack empowers millions of homeowners to fix, maintain, and improvetheir most valuable asset. The company is backed by Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Javelin Venture Partners, Baillie Gifford, and Capital G, among others.
- Achieve Life Science — Current smoking treatments are failing. Achieve Life Sciences wants to change that by ending the global smoking health epidemic and supporting smoking cessation.
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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Investment focus
- Mobile, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Panjo — Panjo is a mobile marketplace for the world’s most ardent auto, sport, and hobby enthusiasts. Existing marketplaces poorly underserve and ignore this audience. Each year, 350M worldwide enthusiasts spend $15B buying products, parts, and accessories from their peers through a patchwork of inefficient methods.
- 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.
Flerie is an active long-term life science investor, focusing on biotech and pharmaceutical investments globally.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Sweden, Israel, Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- AnaCardio — AnaCardio develops drugs targeting a novel mechanism that improves cardiac contractility and aims to improve clinical outcomes in heart failure.
- Synerkine Pharma — Synerkine Pharma. Connecting Cytokines for the benefit of patients.
- Vitara Biomedical — Vitara Biomedical has developed a therapeutic platform to support premature infants. Vitara Biomedical's platform was inspired by natural physiological processes to transform neonatal care.
We help great minds unleash their full potential!
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Investment focus
- Health Care, SaaS, Medical Device
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Mylla — Mylla is a digital marketplace for buying and selling food from farm to table.
- NitroVolt — NitroVolt: the next generational step of sustainable ammonia.
- SNERPA Power — SNERPA Power develops intelligent energy services.
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
- Kibsi — Harness the power of AI and machine learning with computer vision and turn any image or video into actionable data.
- Aeqium — A better way to understand, decide, and automate how businesses pay for their most important assets: people.
- WireMock — WireMock develops an API Developer productivity platform. With the increasing growth of Microservices and API first architecture, dev teams' increased dependency on 3rd party APIs as well as internal APIs presents challenges that impact their dev productivity. WireMock helps developers to mock/virtualize APIs, break that dependency andimprove productivity.WireMock delivers the popular WireMock open-source tool as well as a cloud edition - WireMock Cloud.
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.
- Clay — Clay's spreadsheet helps you find, enrich and act on people and company data from any source - without a line of code. Get started for free, today.
- Tres — Crypto Accounting and Web3 Treasury - Enable financial workflows such as reconciliation, balance calculation, audit and reporting. Now businesses can monitor, manage and account for their Web3 assets from on-ramp to off-ramp.
Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Pika — The idea-to-video platform that sets your creativity in motion.
- Dusk — Rune is an automated friend or squad finder and voice chat for players on mobile games. Users can hang out and share amazing experiences together. The company builds the future of LFG for mobile gamers.
- Sekai Studio — We are creating next-level entertainment for Anime fans between episodes.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Sidecar Health — Looking for a new kind of health insurance? Sidecar Health offers transparent & affordable health insurance for individuals, and you can choose any doctor you like. Learn more.
- Abnormal Security — Advanced email protection to prevent credential phishing, business email compromise, account takeover, and more.
- Kinetic Automation — Kinetic is ushering in the next generation of mobility (EVs, AVs) with a network of highly automated service centers.
Lifely VC is investing and supporting startups globally with game-changing teams in the food and materials space.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Iceland, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- MYCL | Mycotech Lab — Mycotech is a mining company which deals on future bio-material with agricultural waste to empower farmers. Starting business since 2012 as mushroom gourmet producers, our team realize that mushroom can save the world. After one year growing mushroom medium, we found mushroom grown bag are become harden and hard to breakdown. Since then weinitiate a research to develop this kind of phenomenon from our kitchen by borrowing mom’s pressure cooker. Luckily we don’t have to break many mom’s kitchen tools after had a full access to mycology lab of Indonesian government owned research agency and world class laboratories in Singapore and Switzerland. Since then, the company is developing this material from scratch from lab scale into pilot scale. Our mission is to deliver sustainable material from renewable resources with affordability.
- Bucha Bio — Bucha Bio creates a novel biomaterial grown from infinitely renewable bacterial-nanocellulose. Strands of natural fibers interlock to form a high-performance textile with a luxuriously soft handfeel. Produced in weeks rather than months or years, use it in premium applications instead of animal leather, polyurethane, latex, vinyl, and so much more.Creating a reliable material is our goal, adding plastics and petrochemicals like PU polyurethane would make it easy, but we’ve never taken the easy way out. Committed to sustainability, Bucha Bio’s team is dedicated to creating a completely biodegradable textile that enables the next generation of designers to create products for a more sustainable future. Our biomaterial is water-resistant, scratch-resistant, sunlight-resistant, flame-resistant, and so many more reasons to test it out in your next product.
- Bond Pet Foods — We make vegan and protein-rich pet food and treats formulated by board-certified veterinary nutritionists.
TM is a company that provides all insurance and damage related services through call, online chats & emails.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
- Funding Round
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Genis — Genis is pioneering the development and application of therapeutic chitin derivatives.
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
- Bee — Bee is an AI developer of a life administration wearable assistant.
- Contextual AI — Our contextual language models are built to be more customizable, scalable and trustable, while keeping your data safe.
1/0 Capital is a privately held partnership that invests in growth stage companies.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Singapore, Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Span.IO — Span reinvented the electrical panel. Control every circuit in your home from your phone. Contact us!
- abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
- Climb Credit — Climb Credit (NMLS# 1240013) is an innovative student lending platform that makes career creation and transformation more accessible, affordable, and accountable than ever before. Driven by a mission to empower individuals to unlock their career potential – no matter what their credit profile – Climb identifies programs and schools with ademonstrated ability to improve the earnings of their graduates. Then they provide learners with financing options that are priced and structured to meet the unique needs of those seeking career elevation and increased earning power.Recognizing the dynamic and diverse nature of an economy in rapid change, Climb partners with schools that teach everything from cybersecurity to pilot training, heavy machine operation to data science, and culinary arts to coding. While some colleges are struggling to meet the real-world needs of their students, Climb and its partner schools are committed to an inspiring practicality that brings real career results as individuals Own Their Next chapter.
venture capital and private equity for early stage businesses
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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 operates as a battery swapping network for e-rickshaws.
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.
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- Energy, Software, Renewable Energy
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, China
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- 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.
Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widestnetwork of service branches in Korea.KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance
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- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
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- Xpanner — Xpanner(Builtworlds Top 50), digital contech site solution, not only can bring productivity improvement(by 15% average), management efficency, safety and ESG improvement through our smart integration of conTech disparate products.
- Hypersonic Laboratories — Hypersonic Laboratories is a venture startup building HELIX, a high-fidelity metaverse.
- Bright Peak Therapeutics — Bright Peak is a biotech company that develops a portfolio of immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. At Bright Peak, they are creating innovative cytokine therapeutics that are uniquely engineered to precisely control and expand desired biological properties.
Wellington Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in technology and life sciences companies, focusing on Digital Media, Software, Electronics & Photonics, Resource Efficiency, and Biotech/Life Sciences. It is committed to providing outstanding entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to fund their strategies. We typically leadfinancing rounds ranging from € 0.5 million to € 20 million. Depending on the maturity of the company, its own commitment can go as high as € 15 million.Wellington was established in 1998 and has offices in Munich, London, and Zurich.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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- Nosto — Use Powerful Personalization Made Easy on e-Commerce Platforms. Nosto generates a 10-30% Average Increase in Revenue.
- Minervax — MinervaX is pursuing the development of a vaccine against Group B streptococcus (GBS) infections by utilizing a particular fusion protein : click to read more
- Seamless Therapeutics — Seamless Therapeutics is changing the paradigm of gene editing through a pioneering approach to restore health in patients with severe conditions in a safe and precise manner. Seamless technology platform unlocks the reprogramming of recombinases, a highly versatile class of enzymes.
Join FoodTech focused investors looking to back impact-driven founders shaping our food system
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- Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
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- twig bio — twig bio operates as a bioengineering startup. twig bio using AI and robotics to find sustainable replacements for harmful ingredients.
- RAAAM Memory Technologies Ltd. — RAAAM provides a unique on-chip memory technology that offers the highest-density embedded memory solution in any standard CMOS process.RAAAM develops a high-density memory technology that allows for up to 50% higher on-chip memory density with no cost, complexity, or performance-penalty.
- Cultivated Biosciences — Cultivated - Creamy, dairy-free indulgence
Kale United offers a portfolio of over 75+ plant-based game changers
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- Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Sweden, India
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- The Pack — Nutritionally complete vegan dog food. Grain-free & developed with food scientists & animal nutritionists, try our delicious vegan dog food now.
- Cultimate Foods — Cultimate Foods is a cellular agriculture company. It develops cultivated fat for hybrid alt-meat products. It's cultivated fat replicates the structure of animal fat tissue and it uses a "unique technological approach to 3D cultivation that creates the structure of their ingredient and reduces production costs."
- Swedish Temptations — Swedish Temptations, founded in 2019 by CEO Pia Qvarnström, built a brand named Bärta for producing organic, vegan and fermented food. The ingredients include Swedish split peas.
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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- Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
- Metronome — Metronome helps software companies launch, iterate, and scale their usage-based business models, with billing infrastructure that works at any size and stage.
- Second Front Systems — The continuous accreditation and deployment of commercial software is crucial for U.S. national security missions. With Second Front Systems' Game Warden platform, you'll be achieving exactly that.
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.
Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- South Korea, United States, China
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- Petpharma — Petpharma is an Operator of an e-commerce platform intended to provide veterinary medicines.
- Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
- Indent — Indent is a provider of a video review service platform that helps sellers increase their sales by producing purchase reviews from actual buyers.
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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- Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Grant, Seed
- Iceland, United States, Japan
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- 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.
Kvika Asset Management manages a broad range of funds including equity funds, bond funds and mixed funds.
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- Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Series A
- Iceland
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- EpiEndo Pharmaceuticals — Welcome to EpiEndo Pharma | Developing epithelial barrier enhancing drugs to treat chronic respiratory diseases
Aqua-Spark is an investment fund with a focus on sustainable aquaculture businesses around the world. The small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) they invest in are working toward the production of safe, accessible aquatic life, such as fish, shellfish and plants, in ways that do not harm their oceans. Their investors value the fact that each investmentaims to create triple impact—specifically, each investment is chosen for its potential to generate significant financial returns while also activating positive environmental and social outcomes.Aqua-Spark believes that committing to a long-term vision is the way to realize effective and lasting impact results. When it comes to investments, they do not seek quick exits; instead, they look for entrepreneurs who strive to build and scale toward the future, who see their business as major economic opportunities that can also help solve looming environmental and food security challenges over the long-term. As an essential of each investee, Aqua-Spark seeks sustainability.
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- Biotechnology, Aquaculture, Seafood
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- United States, Norway, Israel
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- Oceano Fresco — Oceano Fresco develops and produces bivalves varieties with superior performance for shellfish farmers at a competitive cost, respecting environmental sustainability and ensuring consumer safety.They use a multi-disciplinary approach including expertise in molecular biology, genetics, animal physiology, computational biology and intellectualproperty to select value adding traits to shellfish farmers and contribute to the sustainability and profitability of the aquaculture industry.They work with hatcheries, nurseries and research centers in order to test and validate their solutions and ensure that they suit the specific needs of each customer, in each technical and environmental context.
- Kuehnle Agrosystems — Kuehnle AgroSystems curates a unique set of algae originating from pristine waters and ecosystems of Hawaii, as well as tropical botanical accessions representing plants prized by Polynesian voyagers.
- Wanda Fish Technologies — Wanda Fish is an innovative FoodTech company with a platform that produces a wide variety of delicious fish fillets using sustainable cell-cultivation practices.
We partner with outstanding technology founders from Central and Eastern Europe to help them realize their global ambitions.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Czech Republic
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- Picogrid — Picogrid builds a unified platform for autonomous systems. Connect, command, and monitor sensors and autonomous systems at global scale.
- Kurs Orbital — Kurs Orbital expands human activities beyond Earth
- Collabwriting — Collabwriting is a simple browser extension that helps you share, comment and collaborate on content you find online
We help the daring build legendary companies.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, India
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- Cyera — Cyera provides organizations with data reality for cloud data security. Cyera was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in San Mateo, USA.
- Captions — Say hello to Captions, the only camera and editing app that automatically transcribes, captions and clips your talking videos for you.
- Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
Yanu Holdings is a global investment firm.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
- Funding Round
- Iceland
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- Genis — Genis is pioneering the development and application of therapeutic chitin derivatives.
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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- Legal, Legal Tech, Document Management
- Seed
- Iceland
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- 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.
The Road Not Taken
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- Blockchain, Information Technology, Gaming
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
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- LOCUS — LOCUS is a comprehensive cultural content producer which operates a diversified content business in multiple fields.
- Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.
- Supervillain Labs — Supervillain Labs is a gaming studio that specializes in Web3 gaming innovation to develop socially interactive gaming experiences.
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