Top 10 Hardware VC Funds &amp; Investors in Iceland (May 2026)

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

Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Iceland, United States, China

Investor stats

Total investments: 37
Round size: Seed $400k–$2.6M; Series A $450k–$3.4M
Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow

Portfolio highlights

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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Brunnur Ventures invests in entities in Iceland and has the ability to invest abroad as a part of the expansion of its portfolio companies internationally. The venture firm does not have a specific industry focus. However, it investments in companies that show great growth potential in specific industry sectors. Brunnur Ventures is the GeneralPartner of Brunnur Venture Capital Fund a USD 40M fund.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, SaaS, Biotechnology
Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
Geography: Iceland, United States, Denmark

Investor stats

Total investments: 24
Round size: Seed $1M–$3.5M; Series A $1.5M–$5.5M
Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

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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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Internet, Health Care
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Finland, Germany, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 54
Round size: Seed $129k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $161k–$1.8M; Series A $1.7M–$6.4M
Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

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.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Iceland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 29
Round size: Seed $380k–$2.7M; Series A $1.2M–$6.5M
Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $57M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

50skills — Bring people, information and tools together. 50skills is a hiring system and so much more.
Spectaflow — Simple housekeeping and task management for hospitality. More effective operations without printouts, phone calls, and yellow stickers. Learn more!
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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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, China, Israel

Investor stats

Total investments: 29
Round size: Seed $485k–$10M; Pre-Seed $150k–$750k; Series A $5.6M–$50M
Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

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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Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Finland, Sweden, Denmark

Investor stats

Total investments: 138
Round size: Seed $482k–$3M; Series A $1.1M–$12M
Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $154M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

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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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, SaaS, Crowdsourcing
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: Iceland, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Round size: Seed $1M–$1.3M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Gaming, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Iceland, Denmark, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 34
Round size: Seed $1M–$3M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1.3M; Series A $6.1M–$15M
Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

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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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
Stage:Grant, Seed
Geography: Iceland, United States, Japan

Investor stats

Total investments: 109
Round size: Grant $50k–$410k
Lead/follow: 97% lead, 3% follow

Portfolio highlights

LearnCove — LearnCove provides businesses with a modular and easy-to-use training platform for high-quality training across markets and cultures.
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.
Princeton NuEnergy — Princeton NuEnergy is a clean-tech startup focused on the direct recycling of lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles and consumer electronics. Its patented Direct Battery Recycling technology to produce high-quality and high value-added cathode active materials with low operating cost from spent lithium-ion batteries and delivers sustainableenergy and environmental solutions.

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