Top 15 SaaS Angel Investors in Iceland in October 2023

Danish angel investor, based in London.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Denmark, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Medusa — For developers who must customize e-commerce setups, Medusa is a new digital commerce engine that provides extensibility and customizability with low developer effort. Unlike Shopify, BigCommerce and others, we offer an open, modular architecture that removes the need for hacky workarounds and secures maintainability and speed.
Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.

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Sigþór Sigmarsson is Finance director at Novato. He attended Háskóli Íslands.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

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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David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Denmark, Finland

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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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Nick Gatfield - Co-Founder @ Synchronized

Investment focus

Internet, TV, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
France, Iceland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Karhoo — Karhoo, the first fully-integrated global booking platform for regulated Taxis and PHVs, is funded by RCI Bank and Services (Groupe Renault). It was reborn and remoulded from the assets of a previous business that learnt the hard way that competing against Uber, Didi and Lyft required a radically different and more collaborative approach tomobility. Now Karhoo remains an independent business contributing to Groupe Renault’s sustainable mobility‑as‑a‑service strategy, which covers connected, autonomous, shared, electric vehicles part of multimodal transport.
Overtune — With Overtune you can easily make your own music. Record with voice effects and make videos.
Synchronized — Synchronized.tv | Maximize the value of your video content in a digital world

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Kjartan Olafsson is an entrepreneur and angel-investor-on-occasion with one foot in New York and the other in Iceland. Kjartan is the owner of Volta Labs Venture Development (Volta.is) and the founder of Basno.com, a platform for digital goods. He sits on the board of directors at a handful of companies and organizations in Iceland and theU.S., including Basno and Datamarket.com. Previously Kjartan served as the Director of Business Development for the international media company Bertelsmann Inc. in New York. Kjartan studied philosophy and logic in Iceland and Italy, and holds a master’s degree in business administration from the Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Apps
Angel, Series A
Denmark, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Taktikal — Simple and secure digital signatures Offer high-end signatures to save both your business and your customers valuable time and cost.
Watchbox — Watchbox combines technology and the elements of team-building to unite local and distributed teams. Employees capture all the great things at work or outside of work, with photos and videos. These moments vary from random highlights at work, events, celebrations, and conferences to something interesting in employees’ personal lives outside ofwork. Posts can be viewed in the app, but are also displayed 24/7 in dedicated Watchbox display units, placed in common areas across the ofﬁce. Watchbox provides fun Concepts designed to motivate diverse content creation that reinforces positive culture.

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Soo Boon has over 30 years of global experience in finance and venture capital investing and brings this valuable expertise to each and every investment. She founded iGlobe Partners in 1999, in which the funds sponsor is the Economic Development Board (EDB) of Singapore, the pre-eminent statutory board responsible for enhancing Singapore'sglobal economic and business position. iGlobe Partners also started iGlobe Treasury Fund (NZ$31 million fund) in 2003 as a joint venture with the New Zealand Government.From 1988 to 1999, Soo Boon held executive management positions with Vertex Management Inc., (Vertex), the venture capital arm of Singapore Technologies, managing three funds during her tenure. She established the US operation of Vertex and headed the Silicon Valley office for 9 years, where she was instrumental in the early days of technology transfer for over 100 engineers in Silicon Valley for Chartered Semiconductor and Chartered Microwave. Soo Boon then started Vertex's European operations (headquartered in London, United Kingdom) and ran its European investment operation. As a result of her expertise, she guided numerous successful investments to IPOs, such as Lattice Semiconductor, Creative Technologies, and Activcard SA.Before Vertex, Soo Boon also held various senior management positions in the Treasury and Credit departments in her 12 years of work in the Development Bank of Singapore. Her time there also equipped her with in-depth knowledge of the finance aspect of the venture capital industry. She also headed the International Departments, Credit Division with responsibility for its eight overseas offices and Syndication Department for the Asia-Pacific region.Soo Boon earned her degree in 1973 from King's College, University of London with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics (First Class Honors). She attended the INSEAD Advanced Management program in 1998.Currently, she serves on the boards of directors of several private companies, including Fortemedia (Nanjing), Telenav Inc., and u-blox AG (SWX:UBXN). Since 2003, she serves on the Investment Committee of iGlobe Treasury Fund, a supported by the New Zealand Government. She is also one of the founding members of the Monte Jade (Singapore Chapter) and an EXCO member of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

Investment focus

Virtual Reality, Apps, Cloud Computing
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

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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Jon von Tetzchner is co-founder and CEO of Vivaldi Technologies, the company behind the Vivaldi web browser and other services for the web’s most demanding and savviest users. He co-founded Opera Software where he served as CEO for 15 years. Jon steered Opera from a small basement nook shared into a global company with more than 900 employees in 13countries.Under his leadership, Opera was an early pioneer in mobile web browsing and more than 350 million people used Opera to enjoy the web on their terms. Jon is now steering Vivaldi which was came out with its final version in April 2016. He and his team are making a personal and a feature – rich browser that takes into consideration the needs of every user. Vivaldi is self-funded and aims to be this way where the employees hold equity.

Investment focus

Travel, Tourism, Search Engine
Seed
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Dohop — Dohop is an award-winning technology provider founded in Iceland with 15 years’ experience in developing innovative solutions in the field of aviation and travel. Its core technology is focused on creating connecting itineraries. Being at the forefront of digital innovation in the field of interline technology, Dohop has developed solutions forforward-thinking airlines, alliances, and airports all around the globe, including easyJet, Transavia, Eurowings, Jetstar Group, Gatwick Airport, and SkyTeam.

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Anthony Deighton is responsible for product marketing and strategy at QlikTech. Most recently, Anthony was the General Manager of Siebel System's Employee Relationship Management (ERM) business unit. Anthony help found the ERM business at Siebel and it grew to over 300 customers, $20 million a year in license revenue, was recognized asSiebel's fastest-growing product line and named Product Line of the Year. Prior to joining Siebel, Anthony worked as a management consultant at A.T. Kearney in Chicago. Deighton holds a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University and an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Productivity Tools
Angel
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

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

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Hilmar has been leading CCP Games’ ongoing success and growth since his appointment as Chief Executive Officer in 2004. Under Hilmar’s management CCP’s critically acclaimed science-fiction game EVE Online celebrated an unprecedented ten consecutive years of subscriber growth. In addition, Hilmar has put CCP into the pole position in the VRrevolution by embracing the new technology early. The company released virtual-reality arcade shooter Gunjack for the Samsung Gear VR in 2015, which has been the best-selling game on the platform since launch. And in early 2016 CCP released EVE: Valkyrie, a hotly-anticipated multiplayer spaceship dogfighting shooter built from the ground up for virtual reality, bundled with Oculus Rift pre-orders. EVE: Valkyrie will ship on HTC Vive and PlayStation VR on PlayStation 4 later in 2016. Before his appointment to the CEO position, Hilmar held the title of CCP's Chief Technical Officer, heading the engineering effort required to create the company’s persistent world technology and 3D engine. Prior to joining CCP in 2000, he served as the CTO of SmartVR, an OZ.com spin-off based on that company’s multi-user virtual reality technology following his tenure as the VP of software development for the OZ Studios division of OZ.com.Currently, he is also active on a number of boards and committees relating to Icelandic information technology and innovation. Hilmar has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Iceland.

Investment focus

Online Games, Video Games, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Iceland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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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Paige Craig Is The Partner at Outlander.He attend to the United States Military Academy at West PointUnited States Military Academy at West Point 1992.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

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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Börkur Arnviðarson

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology
Seed
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Treble — We develop next generation sound simulation and spatial audio technology for digital twins and virtual worlds.

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Trausti Kristjánsson

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology
Seed
Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Treble — We develop next generation sound simulation and spatial audio technology for digital twins and virtual worlds.

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Jeff Solomon is the Co-Founder of Markup Hero.

Investment focus

Mobile, iOS, Android
Seed
United States, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

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.

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Charles Huang, founder of the iconic gaming franchise, Guitar Hero.

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Computer
Seed, Series B
Taiwan, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Bitmark — Bitmark restores trust in data. Our end-to-end Internet protocol secures the provenance of data. This makes it possible to have verifiable information, digital property rights, and safe sharing of personal data—without the need for trusted third parties. UC Berkeley, Pfizer, and KKBOX use Bitmark in healthcare, music, art, and more. #digitalrights
Overtune — With Overtune you can easily make your own music. Record with voice effects and make videos.

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