Top 50 SaaS Startup Investors in Iceland in October 2023
Top 50 SaaS Startup Investors in Iceland in October 2023
| Investor | SaaS Iceland investments |
|---|---|
| New Business Venture Fund | 17 |
| Frumtak Ventures | 14 |
| Brunnur Ventures | 12 |
| Crowberry Capital | 5 |
| Iceland Venture Studio | 3 |
| Novator | 3 |
| Preceptor Capital | 2 |
| Christian Jantzen | 2 |
| Sigþór Sigmarsson | 2 |
| Shanda Group | 2 |
| Inventure | 2 |
| Slack Fund | 2 |
| Reaktor Ventures | 2 |
| BlueYard Capital | 2 |
| Investa | 2 |
| Index Ventures | 2 |
| David Helgason | 2 |
| Eyrir Venture Management | 1 |
| whynow | 1 |
| Börkur Arnviðarson | 1 |
| New Enterprise Associates | 1 |
| David Wallerstein | 1 |
| Asabys Partners | 1 |
| Wellington Partners | 1 |
| Eyrir Vöxtur | 1 |
| Sequoia Capital | 1 |
| Karma Ventures | 1 |
| Hilmar Veigar Petursson | 1 |
| Chrysalix Venture Capital | 1 |
| Tuesday Capital | 1 |
| Tencent | 1 |
| Ridge Ventures | 1 |
| Greycroft | 1 |
| MGMT Ventures | 1 |
| Charles Huang | 1 |
| Jon S. von Tetzchner | 1 |
| Kristín Pétursdóttir | 1 |
| CAA Ventures | 1 |
| Menlo Ventures | 1 |
| Teya | 1 |
| Headline | 1 |
| Nick Gatfield | 1 |
| Mesa Ventures | 1 |
| Technology Development Fund | 1 |
| Atomico | 1 |
| boldstart ventures | 1 |
| APX | 1 |
| byFounders | 1 |
| Sisu Game Ventures | 1 |
| Behold Ventures | 1 |
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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.
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- Software, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Iceland, United States, China
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.
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Iceland, United States, United Kingdom
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.
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.
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- Software, SaaS, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Iceland, United States, Denmark
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.
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.
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- Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Iceland, Denmark, United States
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.
We help people grow and build decentralized companies
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- Health Care, Software, B2B
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Iceland, India, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Soptle — Founded in Sep 2021, Soptle started to establish an integrated technology to the neglected regional FMCG Manufacturers in India with a B2B Retail Commmerce App. It uses tech and data to distribute at scale and use necessary components (existing Distributor/Wholesaler) in the FMCG Supply Chain to build a high growth and profitable business.
- Expertrons — Expertrons is an upskilling platform that offers advanced training programs | BSFI | HR | Marketing and many more to assure 100% professional success.
- Nanom — Greenvolt Nano creates nano-enhanced materials for use in battery technology. It provides a pathway to clean, inexpensive, and renewable energy sources while reducing environmental toxicity. And makes products smarter, efficient, and longer lasting. It is founded in 2017.
Novator is an alternative investment firm founded and led by the international investor and entrepreneur Thor Bjorgolfsson.Novator's investment portfolio is focused around following sectors: Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, IT and Renewable Energy. In addition, Novator operates a Private Equity Fund and a Credit Opportunities Fund.Novator focuses on developing strong management teams in each of its portfolio companies. While granting them the autonomy to create value, Novator maintains a supervisory role, principally through representation on the Boards of its investee companies. Novator differentiates itself from many other private equity companies in concentrating on complex situations, either by virtue of their structure or their cross-border nature. To create value, Novator undertakes the restructuring or "de-risking" of investment opportunities through re-financing, combining acquired assets with existing businesses, through sale to strategic or financial buyers, or through flotation. Novator's investment portfolio is focused around four main sectors:Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, IT and Renewable Energy.
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- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, Iceland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Preceptor Capital is an investment firm.
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- FinTech, Computer, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Iceland, United States
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- 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.
Danish angel investor, based in London.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Denmark, Sweden, Finland
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- 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.
Sigþór Sigmarsson is Finance director at Novato. He attended Háskóli Íslands.
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- Health Care, Medical, Software
- Seed, Funding Round
- Iceland
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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.
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.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, China, Israel
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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.
Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, Sweden, Denmark
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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
The Slack Fund is a venture capital fund that invests in and collaborates with entrepreneurs creating the next great software companies.
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- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Hone — Hone combines the world's largest catalog of live, virtual classes with customizable, cohort-based programs designed to drive impact - all powered by
- Videowise — End-to-end eCommerce Video Platform built for scale & performance to help brands and retailers create interactive shoppable video experiences.
- Courier — Courier offers an API that lets developers intelligently route user notifications across their existing channels – like SendGrid, Twilio, Slack, and Facebook Messenger – using factors like "is the user online?" and "which channel has produced the most engagement for this user previously?"
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.
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- Software, Internet, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Finland, Germany, United States
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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.
BlueYard backs founders building the interconnected elements that can become the fabric of our future.
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- Software, Cryptocurrency, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, France
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- Chemify — The aim of Chemify is to digitize chemistry and produce solutions to run chemical code for drug discovery, chemical synthesis, and materials discovery.
- Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
- Castelion — We are a modern defense production company building the next generation of military hypersonic, vehicle, and strike systems to deter future wars.
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.
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- Software, SaaS, Crowdsourcing
- Seed, Angel
- Iceland, United States
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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.
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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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.
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.
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- 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.
Eyrir Venture Management is the venture investment arm of Eyrir Invest, and manages the Eyrir Sprotar venture fund. Eyrir Sprotar focuses on supporting promising ventures for international growth and value creation, investing in seed-stage and early-stage companies. The firm's investment strategy spans all stages of a company´s growth, fromseed capital to funding early-stage companies as well as partaking in international growth.Eyrir Sprotar was founded in 2015 and is based in Reykjavík, Gullbringusysla.
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- Software, B2B, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Iceland, United States
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- Digiphy — Build QR codes and templated pages to connect directly with customers, capture first-party data, tell your origin story, drive sales, product registration and 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.
We bring you the Positive, Powerful and Personal stories from both emerging creatives and established giants in art, fashion, music and entertainment.
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- Apps, Music
- Seed
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Overtune — With Overtune you can easily make your own music. Record with voice effects and make videos.
Börkur Arnviðarson
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- Software, Information Technology
- Seed
- Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Treble — We develop next generation sound simulation and spatial audio technology for digital twins and virtual worlds.
New Enterprise Associates, Inc. is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’slifecycle, from the seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.
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- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, China
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- Meeno — Meeno is a relationship mentoring app powered by generative AI
- Rocket.Chat — Explore Rocket.Chat, where we put data privacy into every conversation and enable teams to collaborate seamlessly.
- Pulumi — Pulumi's open source infrastructure as code SDK enables you to create, deploy, and manage infrastructure on any cloud, using your favorite languages.
David A.M. Wallerstein, SEVP of Tencent. David joined Tencent in 2001. He oversees the Company’s international business initiatives through identifying cooperation with multinational partners and he is responsible for Tencent’s operations outside mainland China. Prior to Tencent, David was the Vice President, Business Development of MIH inChina, and was involved in Internet strategy and mergers and acquisitions activities in China. Prior to that, David worked as a management consultant in China's telecommunications and IT industries.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Mobile, Agriculture
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, Israel, Germany
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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
Asabys Partners is a venture capital firm that invests across the board in human healthcare. The company is active in the health-tech and biopharma industries and aims to invest in Spain and abroad in innovative and transformative technologies. Asabys Partners are motivated by the idea of pushing the boundaries of science and medicine. This is donethrough the sourcing and financing of the most disruptive technologies, and through the collaboration with the best internal and external talents of our industry.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Spain, Belgium, Germany
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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.
Wellington Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in technology and life sciences companies, focusing on Digital Media, Software, Electronics & Photonics, Resource Efficiency, and Biotech/Life Sciences. It is committed to providing outstanding entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to fund their strategies. We typically leadfinancing rounds ranging from € 0.5 million to € 20 million. Depending on the maturity of the company, its own commitment can go as high as € 15 million.Wellington was established in 1998 and has offices in Munich, London, and Zurich.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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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.
Eyrir Vöxtur is an ESG fund, which focuses on investing in promising ventures for international growth and value creation. The fund invests in companies that have a positive impact on society and the environment.
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- Legal, Legal Tech, Document Management
- Seed
- Iceland
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- Justikal — Justikal is an eCourt system that allows different stakeholders in legal proceedings to handle documents in a trusted & secure way by using eIDAS compliant trust services.
We help the daring build legendary companies.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, India
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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.
karma.vc is an early stage venture capital fund focusing on seed and early stage technology companies in Europe.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Estonia, Sweden, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- DRUID — DRUID is an AI platform that allows companies to automate processes by designing and deploying UiPath RPA integrated chatbot virtual assistants.
- Jobbatical — Jobbatical takes care of the entire relocation process for you. Just sit back and relax.
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.
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- Online Games, Video Games, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Iceland, United States, United Kingdom
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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.
Leading global venture capital fund that invests in resource intensive industries across North America and Europe.
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- Energy, Manufacturing, CleanTech
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, The Netherlands
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- Sortera Technologies — Sortera Alloys manufactures low-cost, high-quality metal alloys for domestic manufacturing using its artificial intelligence technology.
- C2CA technology — C2CA Technology is a pioneering company in concrete recycling, established in 2016 by Delft Enterprises, Delft University, and GBN.Our mission is to transform waste concrete into sustainable building materials, replacing virgin aggregates, sand, and cement to mitigate 8% of global CO2 emissions.Our advanced separation, and quality controltechnologies are in use at our demonstration site in Hoorn, the Netherlands.We're committed to achieving 100% circular concrete and building a more sustainable future. Join us and make a positive impact on the planet.
- VerAI Discoveries — VerAI Discoveries is disrupting Mineral Exploration by deploying a revolutionary Artificial Intelligence Platform that detects concealed mineral deposits.
Tuesday Capital (formerly CrunchFund) has been helping early-stage founders build the companies of tomorrow since 2011.
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- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Mexico, Israel
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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.
Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.
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- Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, United States, United Kingdom
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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.
Ridge Ventures (formerly IDG Ventures) is an early stage venture capital fund investing in experienced founders redefining how the world uses software.
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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Finland
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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.
Venture capital and technology investments
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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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.
MGMT Ventures mission is to support and invest in founders pushing the boundaries of innovation in emerging and future industries.
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- Gaming, Sports, Seafood
- Pre-Seed
- Iceland
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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.
Charles Huang, founder of the iconic gaming franchise, Guitar Hero.
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- Apps, Music, Computer
- Seed, Series B
- Taiwan, Iceland
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- 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.
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.
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- Travel, Tourism, Search Engine
- Seed
- Iceland
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- 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.
Kristín Pétursdóttir
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- SaaS, Software, Productivity Tools
- Angel
- Iceland
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- GRID — Explore interactive analysis. Build beautiful reports. Collaborate with ease. Make fast, data-driven decisions.
CAA Ventures is the venture arm of Creative Artists Agency.
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- Internet, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Iceland
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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.
Menlo Ventures is a Bay Area venture capital firm that pursues companies with the potential to disrupt huge markets. We invest in all stages, across consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technologies.
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- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Canada, France
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- Levelpath — Levelpath provides a simple and clear way to view and collaborate on all procurement activities.
- Cartwheel — Cartwheel provides multi-tiered, evidenced-based mental health support from licensed clinicians, designed around your entire school community.
- Arc Boats — Arc manufactures and sells high-performance electric boats for watersports.
SaltPay is a FinTech company dedicated to building a better future for merchants by servicing them through payment and management tools. Focused on efficiency, technology, and people, they give merchants the help they need to grow.
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- Information Technology, Apps, Sales
- Funding Round
- Turkey, Iceland
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- Odeal — Oedeal is a online payment service company, dedicated in providing wide range of financial solutions to entrepreneurs.
- Salescloud — The power behind your point of sales. Our cloud-based sales and management solutions provide you with powerful tools to help you run and grow your business.
Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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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.
Nick Gatfield - Co-Founder @ Synchronized
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- Internet, TV, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- France, Iceland, United Kingdom
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- 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
MESA Ventures is a Seed and Series A venture fund focused on e-commerce, advertising, media, enterprise software, and mobile technologies. The Fund co-invests between $50,000 and $250,000 alongside established early stage venture firms. We actively support talented entrepreneurs building big businesses. To do that, we invest social capitalthat we believe valuable as financial capital. This comes from tapping into the team’s global network of media, entertainment and technology relationships to provide investor introductions, executive team hiring, business development, client & advertiser introductions, and marketing support. The Fund's goal is to help its portfolio companies whenever and wherever it can.
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- Mobile, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, Iceland
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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.
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.
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- Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Grant, Seed
- Iceland, United States, Japan
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- 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.
Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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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.
Day one partner for developer first, crypto infra & SaaS founders.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
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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.
APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
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- askui — Use natural language to automate your UI tests. Our UI test solution is based on visual features and offers a real no-code black-box test.
- CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
- Genie — Genie is a productive web development framework in Julia. Build web applications, UIs, backends, integrate with databases, set up web services and APIs.
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.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Denmark, United States, Germany
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- 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.
Sisu Game Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused 100% on games. We set up shop in 2014 to support the most promising founders in the industry. Sisu has deep roots in the Nordic region, but our network of founders is fully global.The Sisu team consists of Samuli, Paul, Erik, Kalle, Moaffak, Kadri, and Jere - all of whom haveextensive backgrounds in the game industry and startup circles, both as entrepreneurs and investors. We've founded and built sixteen game companies since the early 90s and had several successful exits. Apart from funding companies, the team uses their expertise to act as a studio builder. Individual founders are supported in building their team, honing their product strategy and in gathering the right group of investors.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Virtual Reality
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, United States, Iceland
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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.
Early stage (first money), venture capital - laser focused on investing in the video games industry. Based in Sweden with a deep focus on the Nordics, while also being opportunistic about investments worldwide.
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- Gaming, eSports, PC Games
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Iceland, United Kingdom
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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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