Investors in Iceland

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Crowberry Capital

Crowberry Capital is a venture capital firm based in Reykjavik, Iceland, focused on seed and early-stage technology startups across the Nordic region. The firm backs teams with strong technology advantages and supports building fast-growing, international companies that can scale beyond the Nordics. It emphasizes a hands-on approach throughout the investment cycle, from seed to exit. The team combines extensive experience in managing technology startups and exits with a global outlook gained from work in multiple countries. Investments span sectors such as health tech, software-as-a-service, fintech, gaming and consumer products, reflecting a broad tech mandate in the Nordic ecosystem.
Made 13 investments in Iceland

Brunnur Ventures

Founded in 2015, Brunnur Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Reykjavik, Iceland. It invests primarily in Icelandic start-ups and growth companies with high growth potential across various sectors such as information technology, consumer products, gaming, cleantech, life science, and ag tech.
Made 5 investments in Iceland

Nordic Investment Bank

Nordic Investment Bank is an international financial institution headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. It provides sustainable, long-term financing to public and private sector clients on market terms, offering loans and guarantees for energy, environment, transport, infrastructure, telecom, and related projects. Owned by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden, the bank funds its lending through international capital markets. It serves governments, municipalities, large and mid-cap companies, financial institutions, and small and medium enterprises in member and non-member countries, and may support on-lending through financial intermediaries. Its projects emphasize competitiveness and sustainability in the Nordic-Baltic region.
Made 1 investment in Iceland

Brunnur Ventures GP

SA Framtak GP ehf. is a venture capital firm based in Reykjavik, Iceland, that focuses on investing in startups and growth capital across various sectors, including software, internet, high-tech, biotech, energy technology, marine technology, and food manufacturing. The firm targets Icelandic startups and typically invests amounts ranging from 100 million ISK to 500 million ISK. It requires an average growth rate of 30% and prefers to make investments over a period of three to five years.

EASME

EASME is a European Union executive agency that supports small and medium-sized enterprises and promotes innovation in Europe. It manages projects in the areas of small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as the environment, energy, and maritime sectors, funded by COSME, LIFE, and EMFF. EASME organizes the European Sustainable Energy Week and serves industries such as environmental management, energy production, and maritime activities.
Made 24 investments in Iceland

Frumtak Ventures

Founded in 2008, Frumtak Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Reykjavik, Iceland. It invests in early-stage technology companies with a focus on software and artificial intelligence, demonstrating early traction and potential for global leadership.
Made 7 investments in Iceland

Investa

Investa is an early-stage investor focused on Iceland's innovative startups, primarily in the technology sector. The company targets firms that offer products and solutions with international appeal, opting to invest in a limited number of startups to ensure dedicated support and involvement. Alongside its investment activities, Investa also provides advisory services to companies, investors, and institutions, assisting them in evaluating new opportunities. This dual approach allows Investa to foster growth in the startups it supports while contributing to the broader entrepreneurial landscape in Iceland.
Made 1 investment in Iceland

Monterro

Founded in 2012, Monterro is a Stockholm-based private equity firm that invests in Nordic B2B software companies. Unlike traditional investors, Monterro's founders and employees have extensive experience in founding, managing, and developing software companies themselves. They provide funding and active support to facilitate company growth.
Made 2 investments in Iceland

Thule Investments

Founded in 2003, Thule Investments is a private equity firm headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland. The company focuses on investments in companies based in Iceland, Europe, and the USA.
Made 1 investment in Iceland

Columbia Ventures Corporation

Founded in 1988, Columbia Ventures is a private investment firm based in Vancouver, Washington. It specializes in strategic, innovative, or contrarian opportunities across various sectors including B2B/B2C services, healthcare, information technology, manufacturing, construction technology, life sciences, real estate technology, agriculture technology, and augmented reality.

Alliance Venture

Founded in 2001, Alliance Venture is a venture capital firm headquartered in Oslo, Norway with additional offices in Palo Alto and Stockholm. It specializes in early-stage investments in technology companies across Norway.

Foobar

Foobar is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 and based in Reykjavik, Iceland. The company focuses on supporting entrepreneurs and investing in technology with a clear mission to accelerate global decarbonization and sustainability. Driven by a sense of curiosity and a commitment to addressing climate change, Foobar aims to create effective procedures that promote environmental stewardship. Through its investments, the firm seeks to foster innovation in the technology sector that contributes to a more sustainable future.

Landsbankinn

Landsbankinn is a banking institution based in Reykjavik, Iceland, offering a comprehensive range of financial services. These services include retail and corporate banking, investment banking, and asset management. The bank provides various products such as savings accounts, loans, credit and debit cards, as well as inflation-indexed and non-indexed loans, including specific options for car financing. Additionally, Landsbankinn emphasizes customer due diligence and offers online and mobile banking solutions to enhance accessibility for its clients. Through its diverse offerings, the bank aims to meet the varied financial needs of both individual and corporate customers.

Smedvig Capital

Smedvig Capital, established in 1996 and headquartered in London, is a private equity and venture capital firm focusing on direct investments in early to late-stage technology and B2B SaaS companies. It primarily invests in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the Nordics, with a typical investment size ranging from £2 million to £15 million. The firm also considers fund of fund investments and co-investments in larger financings.

AB Max Sievert

AB Max Sievert is a private equity firm based in Stockholm, Sweden, originally founded in 1882 and relaunched in 2014. The firm focuses on growth-stage investments, specializing in buyouts and recapitalizations. It targets sectors such as materials, industrials, machinery, consumer markets, healthcare, information technology, and telecommunications, with a strong preference for opportunities in the Nordic region, including Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. AB Max Sievert typically invests a minimum of $5 million in equity in companies that have a minimum sales value of $10 million, taking a majority stake in its investments. The firm utilizes its personal capital and balance sheet for financing.

CryptoStar

CryptoStar Corp is a cryptocurrency mining company operating in Canada, the United States, and Iceland. Based in Toronto, Canada, the company provides infrastructure solutions within the blockchain industry. CryptoStar engages in mining digital currencies and operates data centers globally. Its business segments are divided by geographical locations (Canada and the USA) and operations (self-mining, hosting, and miner sales), with a significant portion of its revenue generated from the United States. The company earns income through digital currency received for providing mining services to blockchain networks.

Healthline Media

Healthline Media is a leading global health information company. Established in 1999, it provides reliable health content through its flagship platforms Healthline.com and YourDoctor.com, reaching over 85 million people monthly. The company offers expert content alongside genuine care, supporting users towards better health outcomes. With offices across San Francisco, New York City, UK, Iceland, and Taiwan, Healthline Media is committed to expanding its reach and impact worldwide.

MGMT Ventures

MGMT Ventures, founded in 2019 and based in Reykjavík, Iceland, is a venture capital investment firm focused on supporting and investing in innovative founders within emerging and future industries. The firm primarily targets the information technology sector, aiming to foster advancements and breakthroughs that push the boundaries of innovation.

Kvika Asset Management

Kvika Asset Management is an Icelandic-based firm offering a diverse range of investment products, spanning fixed-income securities, equities, and private equity across both domestic and international markets.

Brightly Ventures

Founded in 2018, Brightly Ventures is a Stockholm-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments. It focuses on the Nordic region and sectors such as HealthTech, FinTech, Marketplaces, DeepTech, and MediaTech. The firm invests between SEK 2 million to SEK 50 million, with enterprise values ranging up to SEK 150 million.

Preato Capital

Preato Capital is a private equity firm based in Stockholm with an office in Helsinki, focusing on buyouts of small and medium-sized companies in the Nordic region. Founded in 2004, the firm typically makes balance sheet investments and prefers majority stakes, often with management or owners co-investing alongside the firm. It pursues opportunities across sectors, with emphasis on manufacturing, retail, and services, and operates in Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark and Finland. Typical transaction sizes range from €5 million to €20 million, corresponding to enterprise values roughly SEK 50 million to SEK 300 million.

Íslandsbanki

Íslandsbanki is a commercial bank based in Kopavogur, Iceland, founded in 1990. The bank provides a range of financial services, including mortgages, pension plans, credit cards, and online banking, catering to households, corporations, and investors. It specializes in sectors such as fisheries, energy, tourism, and oil and gas, focusing on both domestic and North Atlantic markets. For its commercial clients, Íslandsbanki offers services related to the purchase and sale of businesses, acquisitions and mergers, asset sales, and other ownership-related activities.

Integer.pl Group

Integer.pl Group is one of the most successful private postal groups in Europe. In only 3 years, the InPost parcel lockers technology can be found in the following countries: Australia, Chile, Great Britain, Italy, Ireland, Iceland, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Estonia, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala. By offering a unique customer experience to its users, as illustrated by an NPS (NET PROMOTER SCORE, as for February 19th) of 89%, Integer.pl Group aims to build a strong global footprint in the global logistics sector. The innovative nature of the InPost parcel locker solution was confirmed by a number of awards that the Group has won, including World Mail Awards 2013, Retail Innovation of the year (2013), Delivery Innovation Excellence UK (2014).

Wave Ventures

Founded in 2016, Wave Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in pre-seed investments across the Nordics and Baltic regions. Based primarily in Finland with an additional office in Sweden, it focuses on supporting Gen Z entrepreneurs at the earliest stage.

Sisu Game Ventures

Sisu Game Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on gaming, founded in 2014 and based in Helsinki, Finland. It concentrates on investing in Nordic gaming startups while maintaining a global founder network. The team draws on extensive experience in the game industry and startups, having founded and built numerous game companies since the 1990s and delivered several exits. Beyond funding, the firm leverages its expertise as a studio builder to help founders shape their teams, refine product strategy, and assemble the right investor syndicate for growth.
Made 6 investments in Iceland

KBC Fund Management

KBC Fund Management is a Dublin-based money management firm specializing in asset management and mutual funds. Established in 2007, it manages balanced equity and fixed-income funds and oversees a diversified fund lineup. The company operates as a subsidiary of KBC Asset Management and is part of the KBC Group. It is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland, with assets overseen by the executive management team.

Versant Ventures

Founded in 1999, Versant Ventures is a global healthcare investment firm dedicated to supporting exceptional entrepreneurs building innovative companies. With over $2 billion under management and offices across North America and Europe, the firm invests across all stages of healthcare company development, with a focus on novel therapeutics. Versant's team, with deep investment, operating, and scientific expertise, takes a hands-on approach to company building.

MD ONE Ventures

MD ONE Ventures is a venture capital investment firm established in 2021 and based in London, United Kingdom. The firm focuses on supporting innovation in the national security and deep tech sectors, specifically targeting opportunities within the United Kingdom, Europe, and allied nations. By investing in these critical areas, MD ONE Ventures aims to foster advancements that enhance national security capabilities and technological development.
Made 2 investments in Iceland

Behold Ventures

Behold Ventures is a Stockholm-based venture capital firm that specializes in early-stage investments in the video games sector. Founded in 2021, it focuses on the Nordic region while also investing across Europe, providing initial funding to startups developing games and related technologies.
Made 1 investment in Iceland

Innoport

Established in 2019, Innoport is a global venture capital firm headquartered in Singapore. It focuses on investing in seed-stage startups worldwide, with a particular emphasis on the maritime and logistics sectors across Europe and Asia.
Made 2 investments in Iceland

WI Harper Group

WI Harper Group is a venture capital firm with cross-border operations in the United States and Greater China. Founded in 1993 and based in San Francisco, the firm maintains a presence in Beijing and Taipei and invests in early and early-expansion stages across the United States, Mainland China, Taiwan and the Asia Pacific. It focuses on technology, healthcare, biotech, artificial intelligence, robotics, fintech, sustainability and new media, supporting portfolio companies from seed through growth rounds and working to help them scale globally through international collaboration.
Made 3 investments in Iceland

Digital Currency Group

Digital Currency Group is a Stamford, Connecticut-based corporate venture capital firm that invests in and supports companies operating in fintech, bitcoin, web3 infrastructure, platforms, decentralized finance, data, metaverse, and blockchain sectors. Through its portfolio, the firm provides capital and strategic guidance to a global network of startups and mature ventures. Digital Currency Group also owns and operates CoinDesk, a prominent blockchain media and events platform, Genesis Trading, a leading bitcoin brokerage, and Grayscale Investments, a major digital asset management firm, which together extend its ecosystem beyond investment into media, trading, and asset management services.
Made 3 investments in Iceland

Two Ravens

Two Ravens is a venture capital firm established in 2013 and located in Bellevue, Washington. The firm specializes in investing in pre-seed and early-seed-stage technology companies, aiming to support innovative startups in their formative stages. Through its strategic investments, Two Ravens seeks to identify and nurture promising business ideas that have the potential to shape the future of technology.
Made 1 investment in Iceland

Faber

Founded in Lisbon in 2013, Faber is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage deep tech startups. It invests in innovative companies at the intersection of science and technology, with a specialization in AI/Data, Web3, and Ocean/Climate technologies. Faber's unique approach combines dedicated funds, investment teams, and expert advisors to support founders building global companies.
Made 1 investment in Iceland

Sukna Ventures

Sukna Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2012 and headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The firm focuses on investing in high-growth start-ups by collaborating with entrepreneurs and experienced professionals. Through these partnerships, Sukna Ventures aims to foster innovation and support the development of promising business ventures, contributing to the broader entrepreneurial ecosystem in the region.
Made 1 investment in Iceland

Riverstone Ventures

Riverstone Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York. It focuses on investing in early-stage climate technology startups across sectors such as electrification & storage, transportation, agriculture, emissions, natural resources, and efficiency.
Made 1 investment in Iceland

Scottish Equity Partners

Founded in 2000, Scottish Equity Partners is a leading European venture capital firm specializing in growth equity investments. It focuses on technology-enabled companies and services across sectors such as consumer internet, infrastructure, renewable energy, healthcare, and enterprise software. The firm invests primarily in the United Kingdom, with a focus on Scotland and Ireland, and typically commits between £1 million to £40 million per investment. Scottish Equity Partners takes minority or majority stakes and works closely with management teams to maximize business growth.
Made 2 investments in Iceland

Andreessen Horowitz

Founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz in 2009, Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm investing primarily in software businesses. It focuses on seed to late-stage investments across sectors such as consumer internet, business internet, mobile software, infrastructure, enterprise services, and fintech.
Made 2 investments in Iceland

Infranity

Infranity is an asset management company specializing in infrastructure investments.
Made 1 investment in Iceland

Tencent

Founded in 1998, Tencent is a leading global technology company based in China. It operates the world's largest game publishing business and owns WeChat, one of the most widely used messaging apps globally with over 1 billion users. The company offers a range of services including social networking, gaming, fintech, cloud computing, online advertising, and digital content.
Made 2 investments in Iceland

Ardian

Ardian, established in 1996, is a France-based asset manager offering global investment management services. It primarily focuses on fund of funds (55.21%), followed by direct funds (19.79%), infrastructure (16.67%), and private debt (7.29%), with a minor allocation to real estate (1.04%). Ardian invests across various sectors, including food value chain, healthcare, technology, and industrials, with a presence in Europe and North America.
Made 1 investment in Iceland

Karma Ventures

Founded in 2016, Karma Ventures is a Tallinn-based venture capital firm specializing in late seed and Series A investments in Europe's most promising deep tech startups. The company focuses on backing companies with strong ideas, unique technology, customer traction, and global ambition.
Made 2 investments in Iceland

byFounders

byFounders is a Copenhagen-based venture capital firm and founder-led collective that invests in early-stage technology startups across the Nordic and Baltic regions. Founded in 2017 by accomplished entrepreneurs, it operates on a founder-centric model described as for founders, byFounders, providing capital and hands-on support to help ambitious startups scale. The organization emphasizes collaboration among founders and accelerates growth through mentorship, strategic guidance, and access to a regional network.
Made 2 investments in Iceland

Scottish Investment Bank

The Scottish Investment Bank is a public body supporting economic growth in Scotland. It facilitates finance for small to medium-sized businesses, focusing on sectors such as renewable energy, technology, life sciences, and creative industries. The bank works closely with portfolio companies to strengthen management teams and accelerate growth.
Made 1 investment in Iceland

General Electric

Founded in 1892, General Electric is a multinational conglomerate operating in various sectors including power and water, oil and gas, aviation, healthcare, transportation, appliances, and financial services. It offers a wide range of products and services, from jet engines and medical imaging equipment to wind turbines and home appliances. GE is committed to driving progress through its innovative technologies and sustainable practices.
Made 1 investment in Iceland

HTC

HTC is a Taiwanese consumer electronics company that designs, manufactures, and sells mobile devices and virtual reality products. Headquartered in New Taipei City, the company develops smartphones and tablets for global markets and licenses devices under various brand names, including its own HTC brand as well as operator and OEM variants. It maintains a history of partnerships and brands such as Dopod and Qtek and has pursued the full cycle from research and design to manufacture and after-sales services. In addition to mobile devices, HTC develops immersive virtual reality products through its Vive line, offering high-definition headsets and related software for consumer use. The company focuses on advancing mobile and VR technologies and positioning itself as a technology provider across hardware, accessories, and support services.
Made 2 investments in Iceland

Alibaba Group

Alibaba Group facilitates online marketplaces connecting buyers and sellers globally. It specializes in retail and wholesale transactions via platforms like Taobao and Tmall. Additionally, it offers cloud computing services and digital media entertainment.
Made 2 investments in Iceland

General Catalyst

Founded in 2000, General Catalyst is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage and growth equity investments. It focuses on accelerating ideas, careers, and companies towards success by providing ongoing momentum and mentorship based on deep experience.
Made 2 investments in Iceland

Frasers Group

Frasers Group is a prominent retail company based in Shirebrook, UK, specializing in sports, premium, and luxury brands. Founded in 1982, it offers a diverse range of products including shirts, pants, jackets, caps, coats, and various accessories. The company has a varied portfolio that features well-known brands such as Nike, Adidas, Under Armour, and Puma, as well as lifestyle brands like Flannels and Cruise. Frasers Group operates through multiple channels, including stand-alone stores, multi-fascia retail spaces, department stores, and online platforms. Its operations extend across several segments, including UK Sports, Premium Lifestyle, International, Property, and Financial Services, with a presence in the UK, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the USA.
Made 1 investment in Iceland

Equinor

Equinor is a Norway-based integrated energy company, established in 1972, that engages in the exploration, development, and production of oil and gas, as well as renewable energy sources like wind and solar power. It operates globally, with a significant presence on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, and produces a substantial amount of oil and gas, including refined products such as petrol, diesel, and natural gas. Additionally, Equinor invests in innovative companies through its venture capital arm, Equinor Ventures, focusing on energy, technology, and climate solutions, with a preference for minority stakes and a typical investment range of $1 million to $20 million.
Made 1 investment in Iceland