Unity files for IPO, will become first Icelander-founded company to be listed on NYSE
Last week, Unity the company behind the game engine that powers more than half of the top 1000 games in the Apple App Store and Google…
Kerecis raises $21m in loans and convertible notes to fuel expansion
Kerecis, the medical fish skin company, recently announced it had raised $21m from Silicon Valley Bank and previous investors to support the company’s expansion plans in…
GRID raises $12m Series A led by NEA
GRID, the SaaS startup set to revolutionize how people work with data and numbers, just announced a $12m funding round led by New Enterprise Associates, with…
BuddyPhone maker Nordic Enterprises raises $1.9m in convertible note
Nordic Enterprises Ltd., the holding company for kids & education audio brands ONANOFF and BuddyPhones, has successfully completed a convertible bond offering. More than 75% of…
‘Stuðnings-Kría’ – government matching loans for startups, opens for applications
‘Stuðnings-Kría’, one of the policies announced as part of the governments response to the Covid-19 outbreak for startups, has started to accept applications. The program, which…
Anti-Money-Laundering startup Lucinity raises $6.1m, co-led by Karma Ventures and byFounders
Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) software startup Lucinity, which uses “Human AI to ‘make money good’, by augmenting financial crime fighters in financial firms with AI technology” just announced…
Mink Campers launch funding campaign on Funderbeam with €500k goal
Icelandic travel company Mink Campers recently launched a fundraising campaign on Funderbeam to raise a minimum of €500k. The company which designs and produces novel, light…
SidekickHealth enters into ‘multi-million’ dollar deal with pharma giant Pfizer
SidekickHealth and Pfizer just announced a partnership where the pharma giant will deploy SidekickHealth’s digital therapeutics platform across Europe, to empower patients to take control of…
Why Game Development could be Iceland’s next Breakout Industry
Last week was an interesting one for the game industry in Iceland. Teatime Games – founded by QuizUp’s cored leadership team – released their most successful…
Here are the ten teams participating in the first batch of Startup SuperNova
The recently launched accelerator, Startup SuperNova – a collaboration between Icelandic Startups and Icelandic telecom Nova – just announced its first batch of ten companies that…