Investors in Iceland

Eyrir sprotar slhf is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, early venture, mid venture, and late venture investments. It prefers to invest in industrial companies including healthcare, food processing, industrials, technical solutions, and oil and gas industry. The firm typically invests in Europe and Nordic countries with a focus on Northern Europe. Eyrir sprotar slhf was founded in 2014 and is based in Reykjavík, Iceland.

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 and development 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.

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 General Partner of Brunnur Venture Capital Fund a USD 40M fund.

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.

Crowberry Capital invests at seed and early stage in outstanding teams building global businesses around true technology advantages. We work with our teams to build fast paced, international companies from the Nordics. We have a strong follow through philosophy. We 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.

Andreessen Horowitz LLC is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid stage, growth, and late stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services, consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data-storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

Maki.vc team is a unique collection of strong professionals, family offices, private individuals as well as corporate and institutional investors. They aim to create a strong community with strong professional ties and to offer invaluable help for the most promising founders in the region . Their extended team includes iconic entrepreneurs, top-tier investors and those who have never conformed to industry standards. Diverse set of strengths, complementary skills, invaluable contacts, and unconditional support – the whole Maki family at your service.

SEP has been building businesses for over 20 years, enabling founder led teams to achieve their ambitions. Providing investment, alongside expertise and access to an international network, SEP’s knowledgeable and down to earth team work hard to help management maximise company growth and value. Technology focused, with particular expertise in SaaS, consumer internet, energy technology and tech enabled service businesses, SEP has been a supportive investor to more than 160 companies, including some of Europe’s most successful.

Sisu Game Ventures is a special advisory and investment organization working with the gaming industry. It was set up in 2014 and focuses on the best gaming companies in the Nordic region. They only consider investments outside of the Nordics if they come via their own network. Sisu consists of four active partners - Samuli, Moaffak, Paul, and Kalle - all of whom have extensive backgrounds in the game industry and startup circles, both as entrepreneurs and investors. They have founded and built a dozen companies and had several successful exits.

Play Ventures is a new games VC Firm.