Top 10 Medical Device Startup Investors in Iceland (May 2026)

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• Olive — Olive's technology evaluation platform finds & compares your best-match enterprise software & manages the selection process. Build requirements from pre-built libraries. Compare all solutions in the market against your unique business needs. Olive takes the best practices of digital transformation and shortens the process allowing you to make smart decisions, faster.
• Klang Games — Klang Games is an entertainment & game development studio in Berlin, developing the MMO Simulation and Virtual World, Seed. Klang is always hiring!
• Sidekick Health — Our mission is to develop and deliver effective personalized digital therapeutics that prevent suffering and add millions of quality life years to people around the world. Our multi-chronic digital care platform allows us to scale the production of clinical treatments across major chronic diseases.

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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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• Genis — GENIS is a biotechnology company headquartered in Siglufjörður, Iceland. They strive to discover, develop and commercialize novel and life-changing products, supplements and medical devices derived from crustacean exoskeletons. The GENIS team has been developing cutting-edge research on the production of chitin, chitosan, and short chain chitosanfor two decades. Their mission is to leverage this accumulated body of world-class scientific research with the intent of providing life-altering benefits for individuals.
• Treble — We develop next generation sound simulation and spatial audio technology for digital twins and virtual worlds.
• 3Z Pharmaceuticals — 3Z Pharmaceuticals provides research services intended to provide drug development services. It offers drug screening on sleep and epilepsy assays that helps in the development of drugs used to treat neurological disorders, enabling patients to get multiple drug efficacy and toxicity assays.Karl Karlsson and Haraldur Thorsteinsson founded 3ZPharmaceuticals in 2008. It based their company on their research on the sleeping patterns of the zebrafish at the Reykjavik University Neurolab in 2006.

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• Genis — GENIS is a biotechnology company headquartered in Siglufjörður, Iceland. They strive to discover, develop and commercialize novel and life-changing products, supplements and medical devices derived from crustacean exoskeletons. The GENIS team has been developing cutting-edge research on the production of chitin, chitosan, and short chain chitosanfor two decades. Their mission is to leverage this accumulated body of world-class scientific research with the intent of providing life-altering benefits for individuals.

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• DeepUll — DeepUll is a biotech company that focuses its activity on the development of a new diagnostic system for early-stage sepsis condition. DeepUll’s proposal is based on quickly identifying the pathogens and offering the antibiogram within a few hours on the one hand, and on using the data and learning about the patient’s immunological and functionalstatus on the other. The system allows doctors to predict the future appearance and evolution of sepsis within a short period of time and thus provide a suitable clinical response even before the symptoms arise.
• Orikine Bio — Orikine Bio is a pioneer biotech company in the field of tailored cytokines with unmatched biological properties for the treatment of immune-mediated disorders.
• Nuage Therapeutics — Nuage Therapeutics is a pharmaceutical company which utilizes chemical biology and biomolecular condensation to develop selective drugs that target proteins with disordered regions for challenging indications to improve patient’s life. The focus of the medication is to enhance selective inhibitors of intrinsically disordered proteins involved inchallenging indications in order to meet unmet medical needs.

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• SafeRide Health — SafeRide Health provides technology-forward non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) services for care providers and health plans offering Medicare Advantage and Medicaid. We intelligently improve and simplify NEMT to improve health outcomes and healthcare satisfaction.
• Rainforest — Rainforest focuses on providing software platforms for payment processing. Rainforest is headquartered in Atlanta, United States.
• Olema Oncology — At Olema Oncology, we leverage our deep understanding of endocrine-driven cancers, nuclear receptors and mechanisms of acquired resistance with the goal of transforming the standard of care for women living with cancer by focusing on developing more convenient and effective therapies. Join us as we aim to design therapies for improving lives.

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• Genis — GENIS is a biotechnology company headquartered in Siglufjörður, Iceland. They strive to discover, develop and commercialize novel and life-changing products, supplements and medical devices derived from crustacean exoskeletons. The GENIS team has been developing cutting-edge research on the production of chitin, chitosan, and short chain chitosanfor two decades. Their mission is to leverage this accumulated body of world-class scientific research with the intent of providing life-altering benefits for individuals.

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• Genis — GENIS is a biotechnology company headquartered in Siglufjörður, Iceland. They strive to discover, develop and commercialize novel and life-changing products, supplements and medical devices derived from crustacean exoskeletons. The GENIS team has been developing cutting-edge research on the production of chitin, chitosan, and short chain chitosanfor two decades. Their mission is to leverage this accumulated body of world-class scientific research with the intent of providing life-altering benefits for individuals.