EpiEndo Pharmaceuticals raise €2m seed round, receive €2.7m in grants
EpiEndo Pharmaceuticals just announced raising a €2m seed round, in addition to receiving a €2.5m grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC). The funding round, which…
Sidekick Health partners with Germany’s Bayer to provide digital support for PAD patients
Nordic digital therapeutics company SidekickHealth has entered into a strategic partnership with German pharmaceutical and life science company Bayer to provide a digital medication management and…
NetApp doubles down, Arion Bank the Venture Capitalist, and more on Kría
The following is a post from the Memo – Northstack’s weekly opinion and analysis column on recent news in the tech, venture and innovation sector in…
Arion acquires 51% of Igloo in $670k funding round
Arion Bank, the owner and principal backer of Startup Reykjavik has Leiguskjól in Iceland), a fintech company that participated in Startup Reykjavik. After the transaction, Arion…
Florealis launches fundraising campaign through Funderbeam
Today, Florealis, an Icelandic herbal medicine company, launched an equity fundraising campaign on Funderbeam. The funding will be used to support the company’s growth in Sweden…
Þórdís Kolbrún: “With Kría, we’re providing oxygen” – an interview with the minister of innovation
What follows is an interview I conducted with Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir, the minister for innovation and industries, on the biggest policy announcement from last week’s…
An innovation and entrepreneurship think tank, and more policy actions to come
Last Thursday, Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir presented actions for the benefit of the innovation environment of Iceland at the Federation of Icelandic’s Industry’s (SI) Technology Summit…
Minister of Innovation announces Kría, the Icelandic Venture Initiative
Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir, the minister of innovation, just announced plans for Kría an Icelandic Venture Initiative at the Federation of Icelandic Industry’s (SI) Technology Summit…
Northstack is asking for your help
Northstack has since 2015 covered, gathered data on, analysed, commented, and discussed the Icelandic startup, innovation and venture ecosystem. What started as a simple blog has…
Reykjavík continues winning – in the per capita game
Silicon Valley has, for many years, been a global center for technology and innovation. Still, more and more people have started to wonder if the region…