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NSA Ventures is changing: Highlights from the annual meeting

NSA Ventures is changing: Highlights from the annual meeting

This post is from the Northstack Memo, our newsletter and commentary on recent happenings in the Icelandic startup ecosystem, written by @kiddiarni. The numbers: $3.6m in losses due to writedowns It shouldn’t surprise anyone that NSA Ventures was quiet last year. No fresh investments, and just over 200m

Minister for Innovation appoints working group about NSA Venture's future

Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir has appointed a four person working group about NSA Venture’s future. She announced her intention to do so at NSA Venture’s annual meeting this May. In a press announcement, the ministry discusses the move: NSA Ventures, which started in 1998, was created because a

Þórdís Kolbrún in interview with VB – several thoughts

Þórdís Kolbrún in interview with VB – several thoughts

This post is from the Northstack Memo, our newsletter and commentary on recent happenings in the Icelandic startup ecosystem, written by @kiddiarni. A couple of weeks ago, Viðskiptablaðið published its annual Entrepreneurs magazine. The paper named Platome startup of the year (í: sproti ársins) and Mint Solutions entrepreneur of the

Travelade wants to solve overcrowding in tourism, starting in Iceland

Travelade wants to solve overcrowding in tourism, starting in Iceland

Travelade, Icelandic travel-tech startup focused on helping travelers personalise their experience, launched their new webpage today. The company aims to expand to four more countries by the end of the year. The company sent out a statement earlier today, discussing their plans. “We are starting with Iceland for a reason.

Lawrence Lessig to design politics in Klang's new game, Seed

Lawrence Lessig, law professor at Harvard and founder of Creative Commons, will assist indy game studio Klang with designing the politics of their upcoming massively multiplayer online game Seed. This is reported in Venture Beat. Lessig happened to meet Mundi Vondi, CEO of Klang, and start talking about games. “After

The ten companies participating in Startup Reykjavik 2017

The ten companies participating in Startup Reykjavik 2017

Icelandic Startups and Arion Bank yesterday announced which ten companies will be participating in the Startup Reykjavik 2017 accelerator program. The companies will participate in a 10 week mentor-driven accelerator, share an office, access to mentors, and receive 2.4mISK (~$20k) in seed funding from Arion Bank in exchange a

CrankWheel launches 2.0 which introduces Instant Demos

CrankWheel launches 2.0 which introduces Instant Demos

CrankWheel, the Icelandic SaaS company working on instant visualisation tools for inside sales teams, just released version 2.0 of its solution. The most notable addition is the new Instant Demos feature, which allows sales teams to go from smart lead capture, to phone call and screen share within seconds.