Top 5 Payments VC Funds &amp; Investors in Iceland (May 2026)

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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Preceptor Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Computer, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Iceland, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Anonybit — Anonybit offers top-notch identity protection & secure authentication solutions. Experience the power of decentralized biometric security for enhanced privacy.
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.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Apps
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: Denmark, United States, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 60
Round size: Seed $1M–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $2.1M–$2.1M; Series A $5M–$15M
Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

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.
Rig.dev — Rig.dev offers an open-source application platform for Kubernetes. Rig.dev empower developers to work in their own environments with elevated application abstractions, while still leveraging Kubernetes's reliability, portability, and scalability.
Jellatech — Jellatech is a B2B biotech business based in Raleigh, NC, and with R&D in Wageningen, Netherlands. Jellatech is producing high-quality, pure, animal-free collagen and gelatin. Founded by a group of innovators, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and scientists, Jellatech is eliminating the dependency on animals, to make better ingredient products -starting with collagen and gelatin.

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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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