The Update

Highlights from the Icelandic delegation at Slush 2017

This year, a delegation of nearly 100 people from representing startups, investors, media, diplomatic services, industry groups and more, is at Slush. The delegation was planned by Icelandic Startups and Promote Iceland, with participation from Slush and the Icelandic Embassy in Finland.

In addition to participating in regular conference events, the Promote Iceland is hosting a Team Iceland event to showcase some of what the delegation is doing.

Icelanders are also participating in various official conference events:

Icelandic Meniga was chosen to showcase at the “Showcasing the Next Nordic Tech Superstars” event.
Ólafur Bogason, founder of Genki Instruments, will be part of a panel on the future of instruments – “Future of Instruments – Are they Smart?”
Davíð Helgason, founder of Unity will have a talk called
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Running a Startup with a Big Vision
Salóme Guðmundsdóttir, CEO of Icelandic Startups, and Davíð Helgason, are part of the judging panel for the Nordic EdTech Awards.

Keystrike secures pre-seed funding from Philippe Langlois, cybersecurity entrepreneur

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Smári McCarthy, CEO of Ecosophy and Steph Matti, COO of Ecosophy

Ecosophy's 'OverView' wins in EU Space Agency competition

Ecosophy’s prototype for its platform OverView is among the winners of the EU Space Agency’s (EUSPA) innovation competition. Ecosophy is an Icelandic startup focusing on making environmental data actionable, in part by making access to data from EUSPA’s Copernicus system accessible. The company received a prize of

Kerecis becomes Iceland's first Unicorn after being acquired by Coloplast for up to $1.3 billion

Kerecis has signed an agreement with Coloplast, the Danish medical device manufacturer, to be acquired for up to $1.3 billion, making them Iceland’s first Unicorn company. In today’s Kerecis business meeting, which took place in Ísafjörður where they have a manufacturing facility, Fertram Sigurjónsson, founder and CEO

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