Crowberry Capital

Crowberry Capital invests at seed and early stage in outstanding teams building global businesses around true technology advantages. They work with their teams to build fast paced, international companies from the Nordics. They have a strong follow through philosophy. They back the best from seed to exit. The founding partners behind Crowberry Capital have worked together for over 7 years. The Crowberry team has managed over 51 technology start-ups, negotiated a total of 15 exits and made 17 seed investments. The Crowberry team has a Global outlook having lived and worked in a total of 8 countries on 4 continents.

Hekla Arnardóttir

Founding Partner

Jenný Ruth Hrafnsdóttir

Founding Partner

Helga Valfells

Founding and Managing Partner

Past deals in Iceland

Mainframe Industries

Series B in 2021
Mainframe Industries is a Reykjavik, Iceland and Helsinki, Finland-based startup working on the development of an open world, social sandbox MMO for cloud gaming.The company will will work on an open-world, social sandbox MMO specifically designed for cloud gaming, with cross-platform play across mobile, PC, and TV. Mainframe believes that the promise of friction-free access from social networks and streaming platforms on the device of your choice will greatly expand the creative canvas for game developers.

Fractal 5

Seed Round in 2021
Fractal 5 is a startup just exiting stealth mode and building a new social product. The company was founded in 2020 by Gudmundur Hafsteinsson and is based in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Mainframe Industries

Series A in 2020
Mainframe Industries is a Reykjavik, Iceland and Helsinki, Finland-based startup working on the development of an open world, social sandbox MMO for cloud gaming.The company will will work on an open-world, social sandbox MMO specifically designed for cloud gaming, with cross-platform play across mobile, PC, and TV. Mainframe believes that the promise of friction-free access from social networks and streaming platforms on the device of your choice will greatly expand the creative canvas for game developers.

Mainframe Industries

Seed Round in 2019
Mainframe Industries is a Reykjavik, Iceland and Helsinki, Finland-based startup working on the development of an open world, social sandbox MMO for cloud gaming.The company will will work on an open-world, social sandbox MMO specifically designed for cloud gaming, with cross-platform play across mobile, PC, and TV. Mainframe believes that the promise of friction-free access from social networks and streaming platforms on the device of your choice will greatly expand the creative canvas for game developers.

Aldin Dynamics

Seed Round in 2018
Aldin® is an Icelandic VR software company founded in early 2013, focused on creating believable virtual reality experiences and technologies to sustain presence & immersion. Since its founding, the Aldin team has passionately worked towards capturing experiences that are only possible in VR, in ways that entertain and inspire diverse audiences. To achieve believable reality experiences Aldin has built a base of new XR technologies, design methods and production techniques over the course of several years. A cornerstone of the company’s technological foundation is behavior analysis, enabling more convincing VR AI character reactions and powering the Ghostline® XR toolsuite to enhance design and production of immersive content. Over 250,000 users have played Waltz of the Wizard®, Aldin's most recent experience, which was an honoree in the 2016 Proto Awards for Best Interaction Design and held the #1 spot as the highest rated VR app on Steam in 2017.