Iceland Venture Studio

They are founders and they build companies with founders. They have practical knowledge on how to work with founders who have the capacity to build great companies: They think it is more than “founder picking”, it is also mentoring and coaching. They take an active role in mentoring and coaching the founding team in technology design and development, strategy, business development, team development and recruiting as well as operations. They have explicit experience taking founders from the idea stage to a profitable exit. The greatest value that They add is in helping founders navigate multiple priorities, exposing them to a network of influencers, sequencing tasks and accelerating the value proposition development of the company.

Freyr Hólm Ketilsson

Founder & Chairman of Board

Past deals in Iceland

Atlas Primer

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Developer of a learning assistant intended to supplement teachers by automating many of their most repetitive and unproductive tasks. The company's learning assistant creates a learning environment that combines the accessibility and convenience of audiobooks and podcasts, with the interactivity and flexibility offered by voice assistants and smart devices which adapts to the needs of the learner, enabling teachers to save their time as well as to develop the curriculum and assist students.

Retina Risk

Venture Round in 2020
Retina Risk was founded in 2008 by a group of doctors, statisticians’ and business people. The company focuses its efforts on developing innovative IT-solutions for medical healthcare systems worldwide. Their mission is to use the individual risk and severity profiles to find the optimal use of healthcare resources, such as medication, surgery, laser treatment, surveillance, and follow-up, to optimize the health outcome of that particular individual while at the same time optimizing the allocation of health care resources available. RMS launched its first product in December 2009, the world's first risk calculator that individualizes the risk for diabetic patients of developing sight-threatening eye-complications for diabetic-retinopathy.

Indo

Seed Round in 2020
Indo services is a mobile first technologically advanced neo-bank. Indo is secure, safe and offers the best interest that is available irrespective of the amount a customer would have in their indó wallets.