Top 40 Gaming Startup Investors in Iceland in October 2023

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• 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.
• SNERPA Power — SNERPA Power develops intelligent energy services.
• Ellie.ai — Grasp your business needs and validate your product ideas before building your data pipelines. Use Ellie's conceptual data models and logical data models to design great data products.

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• Unagi — Collect your favorite football players and pick your best 11 every week!
• Multiscription — Multiscription is a cross-product subscription service. Introducing Unleashd, the first in-game and cross-publisher subscription service for free-to-play games.
• Esports Coaching Academy — ECA's software solution consists of an educational hub and a SaaS solution that provides exercises and complete programming for esports clubs and coaches.

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• HorseDay — HorseDay is a mobile application to track horse activities.
• Spectaflow — Simple housekeeping and task management for hospitality. More effective operations without printouts, phone calls, and yellow stickers. Learn more!
• PayAnalytics — PayAnalytics helps companies monitor, address and close pay gaps. Comply with regulations, use built-in reports or customize your own. Pay equity decisions made easy for HR and compensation managers as well as consultants. Used in over 75 countries for organizations of all sizes.

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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 — ECA's software solution consists of an educational hub and a SaaS solution that provides exercises and complete programming for esports clubs and coaches.

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• Farmless — A farmless fermentation platform has the potential to create an entirely new food repertoire, producing proteins, carbohydrates, beneficial fats, vitamins, and minerals from the ground up," explained Oner. "We are creating a new interface between food and electricity by domesticating microbes chosen for their food properties and abilityto grow on renewable energy-based feedstocks.
• Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
• Atlantic Fish Co — Developing sustainable, cultivated seafood using cellular agriculture

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• 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.

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• Haltian — End-to-end IoT solutions and world-glass product design services from Haltian
• Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
• Value.Space — Space based risk assessments & monitoring

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• Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal registry and science platform
• TreesPlease Games — TreesPlease Games develops various computer and online games. The company is headquartered in London.
• Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.

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• Digift — Security Token DEX: Bridging traditional finance and DeFi.
• Synchron — The endovascular brain computer interface.
• Jimeng Intelligent — Jimeng Intelligent is an industrial internet platform that offers integrated big data production, management and application services.

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• Zebedee — Make financial transactions a native part of your apps and games. Easy to implement, infinitely flexible and inherently global.
• LearnCove — LearnCove provides businesses with a modular and easy-to-use training platform for high-quality training across markets and cultures.
• Netspeak Games — Netspeak Games operates as a zero-crunch studio that develops online multiplayer games. Its first game is a non-violent social MMO, designed to be a fun place to hang out with friends. Players can relax, play, or just get some headspace.

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• Apron — Sort, pay and reconcile your invoices in seconds.
• Worldover — Cosmetic compliance made simple
• Class Companion — Class Companion is a new AI technology that allows professors to provide students with immediate, individualized feedback.

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• PaxFlow — We empower tour operators to streamline operations PaxFlow helps streamline tour operations with resource management, data based workflows, customer communication and self service tools. Discover Streamlined Tour Management PaxFlow integrates with leading booking system providers and integrates booking data with operational features like resource management, shift scheduling, departure management and customer self service portal to...
• Vitar Games — A WW1 Strategy driven Management Game
• Standby Deposits — Standby Deposits is a rental security deposit replacement based on credit.

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• Meeno — Meeno is a relationship mentoring app powered by generative AI
• PartyKit — PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents.
• Iambic Therapeutics — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.

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• CMR Surgical — Welcome to CMR Surgical. Transforming surgery. For good. Our aim is to make the benefits of minimal access surgery available to everyone who needs it.
• Enflame — Suiyuan Technology is a provider of neural network solutions for artificial intelligence. Its products are deep learning high-end chips developed for cloud data centers, and are positioned on artificial intelligence training platforms. The chip will adopt a unique and innovative architecture independently developed, featuring high computing power,high energy efficiency ratio, programmable, low cost, and support for mainstream machine learning frameworks. It is designed and optimized for cloud AI training.
• Broken String Biosciences — Our platform accelerates the characterisation of novel gene editing technologies to unlock the next wave of cell & gene therapies.

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• Vendict — Streamline your security questionnaires. Respond to security questionnaires faster, with elaborated answers and supporting evidence. At Vendict, we use state-of-the-art AI technology to fully automate the response process.
• Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.
• ConfiAbogado — ConfiAbogado is an online legal firm that provides legal solutions to low-income people.

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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.

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• Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
• Strise — Strise is signaling a new era of enterprise software and organizational change, transforming how companies work and empowering individual growth through knowledge. We believe in the AI-enabled financial institution without data silos where users and data are working together to solve even the most complex business problems.
• Opna — Opna is a financing platform for climate projects that remove carbon and protect natural ecosystems. Opna offers data, proprietary risk assessments, and efficient capital structures, helping companies to translate net-zero committed capital from financial institutions, and corporates into direct financing across a project's lifecycle.

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• Movi — Movi is building a new canvas for creation and ownership of web 3.0 visual content.
• Luxola — Luxola was launched in Singapore in 2011 and has quickly grown into the destination for beauty in Southeast Asia; carrying over 4000 products and serving customers across the region including Australia, India and the UAE. Easily accessible. Luxola is committed to providing you with outstanding customer service and bringing you the best brandsfrom around the world, under one platform. All of our products are 100% authentic. We carry over 250 brands, of which over 65 brands across multiple markets are exclusive to Luxola.Education empowers our customers. With each product, Luxola provides ‘how-to’ advice and a review platform, giving you the power to hear from others with similar skin tones and types.Staying relevant is at the core of everything we do. In addition to providing a platform to purchase all your beauty favourites when you want, every week we pen LX Edit, our digital lifestyle magazine, offering inspiration and the latest insight into makeup, skincare, hair and celebrity fashion.
• QuizUp — Plain Vanilla is an Icelandic Game Studio based in Reykjavik Iceland and in San Francisco. It develops a real-time multiplayer quiz platform for mobile devices.

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• Goodmylk — Served all over India. Free home delivery available. Order now for plant-based dairy needs!
• Nowadays — The Nowadays nugget is made with just 7 simple, plant-based ingredients.
• Loki Foods — We're producing sustainable, plant-based foods from the Arctic. Iceland’s first plant-based cod and seafood!

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• UpCodes — Explore a searchable database of US construction and building code. Code regulations are consolidated by state and city for easier navigation.
• Wunderite — Wunderite is the only digital forms solution built for insurance agents by agents. Wunderite makes PDFs, Supplementals, and ACORDs easy for producers, Account managers, and customers, by putting them online, and making any question assignable with the click of a button, on any device. Additionally, we save time by enriching (auto-filling) customer data.
• Inspectify — If you are looking to buy or sell a home, Inspectify helps you find the best home inspectors in your area.

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• Teatime Games — Teatime Games is an Iceland-based gaming startup that reinvents social games.
• Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.
• Scaled Inference — Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Tools

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• Indent — Indent is a provider of a video review service platform that helps sellers increase their sales by producing purchase reviews from actual buyers.
• KTX Finance — KTX Finance is an online trading platform. It provides permissionless, decentralized on-chain trade of perpetuals.
• Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.

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• Lambda256 — Founded in 2012, Dunamu (CEO Lee Seok-woo) is currently providing services as the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Korea, 'Upbit'​ and stock trading platform based on social network, ‘Kakao Stock'​. Both services are leading in the industry and ecosystems. (Upbit launched in Oct. 2017, Kakao Stock launched in Feb. 2014) Dunamuprovides the best service in the fields of cryptocurrency, securities, and asset management. Dunamu is getting much attention in both domestic and global market with professional specialists, innovative services and excellent technology. Recently, it announced to make investment of 100 billion dollars in the blockchain industry, leading the way in creating blockchain ecosystem.
• Openknowl — OPENKNOWL is an online career management system, offering mentoring facilities and careers camps for those wanting to develop a career in the IT sector.
• Reasoned Art — Reasoned Art is the Italian gallery dedicated to CryptoArt. it selects the best digital artists worldwide, curates physical and virtual exhibitions, and certifies the authenticity of works allowing their sale through NFT.

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• Bungalow — Bungalow is a residential real estate platform that provides renters with a more convenient, flexible, and communal living solution. It utilizes existing housing supply by signing long-term leases with homeowners, and offers multi-bedroom homes in some of the most desirable neighborhoods in cities throughout the United States.Bungalow offersprivate bedrooms with handpicked housemates in beautifully furnished homes across seven major cities. Each home comes furnished and includes wifi, utilities, housekeeping, and monthly community events for members.Andrew Collins and Justin McCarty founded Bungalow in 2016. Its headquarters is in San Francisco in California.
• Harper Wilde — Harper Wilde owns and operates an online portal for shopping lingerie.The company is committed not only to lifting up ladies, but also to lifting up the future generation of leading ladies. Harper Wilde's purposeful designs and curated options not only make things easier for customers, but also allow us to save money in production costs andpass those savings onto their customers. In this way, they empower women by providing them with more fairly-priced products, at nearly half of what competitors charge.
• DeSo Foundation — DeSo is a layer -1 blockchain designed to build and scale decentralized social apps to 1 Billion users. Take back ownership of your content and social graph with web3 versions of Twitter and LinkedIn.

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• GRID — Explore interactive analysis. Build beautiful reports. Collaborate with ease. Make fast, data-driven decisions.
• 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.

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• Vitar Games — A WW1 Strategy driven Management Game
• 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.
• Esports Coaching Academy — ECA's software solution consists of an educational hub and a SaaS solution that provides exercises and complete programming for esports clubs and coaches.

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• JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
• Vera — Vera develops an assessment platform to identify and address risks in artificial intelligence and machine learning models. It engages key stakeholders across teams to create data-driven assessments and use data science tools to investigate AI and ML models, helping organizations navigate through uncertainty and protecting companies and individualsfrom risky artificial intelligence systems.
• Nextdata — Nextdata offers an operating system for decentralized data at scale on an AI platform.

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• Cerby — Collaborate without chaos. Cerby helps your team be productive while protecting your brand. Secure unmanageable applications. Only with Cerby.
• 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.

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• Good Good — Good Good emphasizes on online sales.

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• Hyku — Hyku Biosciences is developing the next generation of covalent medicines by targeting histidine, tyrosine and lysine binding pockets in disease-causing proteins.
• Wonderwall — Wonderwall is an online art learning platform.
• Passionate Powerhouse — Passionate Power as a full-fledged multi-content IP in the future by designing and producing games, cartoons, movies, franchise items, and so on in constant partnership with domestic and overseas partners.

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• StackStr — Real time monitoring of machine learning systems.
• Qualified — Qualified is the most effective platform for evaluating and training world-class engineers. Utilizing real-world assessment methodology we enable companies to identify high-performing hires.
• Spaceship — A platform for Continuous Delivery. Turn your code into containers automatically. Get it running on Kubernetes instantly.

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• Olympix — Olympix is a pioneering DevSecOps tool that puts security in the hands of the developer by proactively securing code from day one.
• Protect AI — Protect AI builds cybersecurity solutions for AI systems and ML models, helping ML developers and enterprises embrace MLSecOps.
• Roadie — Easier, scalable and zero-maintenance. With security, scorecards and customizability built-in.

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• 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.

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• Openknowl — OPENKNOWL is an online career management system, offering mentoring facilities and careers camps for those wanting to develop a career in the IT sector.
• Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
• Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.

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• Loki Foods — We're producing sustainable, plant-based foods from the Arctic. Iceland’s first plant-based cod and seafood!
• THE PACK — Nutritionally complete vegan dog food. Grain-free & developed with food scientists & animal nutritionists, try our delicious vegan dog food now.
• 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.

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• Tepbac — Less work for farmer, more fish for people.
• eniferBio — Enifer Bio is an expert at squeezing every last drop of value from biorefining operations. The solution is built on decades of Finnish expertise to allow the production of valuable protein-rich feed from streams previously considered worthless. The company has developed a new, sustainable production process for high-quality fish feed raw material.The company's method enables the efficient production of a single cell protein from fish by-products as a raw material for fish feed. The protein can replace soy, which is commonly used in fish feed and whose cultivation poses ecological challenges, such as deforestation in South America.
• Sea6 Energy — Sea6 Energy is a platform that utilizes the unlimited potential of the oceans in a sustainable and ethical way. It visualizes a future where the abundant oceans will be the biomass farms of the future, to provide solutions in energy, agriculture, and food.Sea6 Energy has a team of professionals from diverse fields like industrial automation,plant pathology, ocean engineering, bioprocess engineering, marine biology, and aerospace engineering, with the goal of building a whole new economy based on marine biomass.It develops technologies to convert biomass into biofuel, plant growth stimulants, plant defence products, animal feed ingredients, and other bio-renewable products to replace chemicals and plastics, effectively creating a Bio-refinery out of marine biomass, churning out a whole variety of products leaving nothing to waste.Sea6 Energy was founded on 2010 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

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• PoLoPo — PoLoPo is a biotech company that produces proteins on a large scale and according to specifications. PoLoPo develops a "superAA" plant by employing directed metabolic engineering techniques and fully utilizing plants' capacity as various metabolite and green protein factories. A significant amount of free amino acids can be producedby the superAA. The increased production of amino acids is then translated into an increase in the scale at which proteins are produced in plant organs.
• twig bio — twig bio operates as a bioengineering startup. twig bio using AI and robotics to find sustainable replacements for harmful ingredients.
• WNWN Food Labs — We're WNWN Food Labs and we love food. We're creating delicious, sustainable and ethical alternatives to unsustainable and ethically dubious foods. We're starting with cacao-free chocolate. Changing chocolate? It's Win-Win #alt-chocolate #altchocolate #alt-universe #altuniverse #alt-protein

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• Mission Brasil — Mission Brasil is an information technology solution that provides a digital outsourcing platform for business development. Their services include legal and administrative, retail and monitoring, research and audit, hidden shopper, data and accreditation, logistics, and direct sales.
• NUMA Group — Life's hard. Travelling shouldn't be. Book a fully furnished room or apartment in some of Europe's coolest neighbourhoods and see how simple travel can be.
• Trellis Research — Trellis Research is a research tool for litigators.

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• 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 — Zipdrug provides patients access to low-cost pharmacies who deliver prescriptions right to their homes. Its platform allocates medicare advantage patients to pharmacies that will drive adherence for the lowest cost. It was founded in 2015 and is based in New York City.
• 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.

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• The Kive Company — The Kive Company operates under the names Artkive and Lifekive. Artkive the leading service that helps parents celebrate their kids' art. Artkive offers the Artkive app for people who want to DIY or the Artkive Box for people who want to send in their art to be professionally photographed and turned into keepsake books or custom-framed mosaicprints. The Kive Company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
• Umano — Umano is an audio streaming service.
• Cubcoats — 2-in-1 wearable & playable transforming friends. A take everywhere that kids and parents equally adore.