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…
Digital driving licenses are coming to Iceland, and Smart Solutions is the company building them
The Icelandic startup Smart Solutions, is collaborating with the National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police (is. Ríkislögreglustjóri) and Digital Iceland to digitise driving licenses, which will…
TeaTime Games release Trivia Royale, their newest game
Last week, mobile gaming startup Teatime Games released their newest game, Trivia Royale. With the launch, the founders are returning to their roots of trivia game…
Organise, Standardise, Attract: How Angel Investors Should Contribute to Iceland 2.0
Over the last weeks and months, a lot of talk has been around how innovation (and IP-intensive ventures) should be our focus, when building the next…
Startup SuperNova and the Startup Reykjavik legacy
Startup Reykjavik was founded in 2012, by Arion Bank and Icelandic Startups (then Klak Innovit). That same year was the first year of the Startup Iceland conference, so in a…
Verne Global raises $27m to expand its Icelandic data center campus
Verne Global, a provider of advanced data center solutions for high-performance computing (HPC), recently announced a new round of funding of $27m to expand its Icelandic…
Margrét Ormslev Ásgeirsdóttir joins Brunnur Ventures as partner
Although Northstack generally doesn’t discuss personnel movement, a hire – and new partner – within Icelandic VC is newsworthy. Margrét Ormslev Ásgeirsdóttir, who has served as…