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Product launch: Takumi – the app that connects influencers with brands

Takumi, an Icelandic startup that aims to connect companies with influencers on Instagram, was launched today in the Appstore. The premise is simple: Instagram users with more than 1,000 followers can sign up in Takumi’s app and start getting paid for posting photos. “We’ve seen a rise

Fintech startup Meniga signs deal with Santander, Eurozone's biggest bank

Icelandic Fintech Startup Meniga has signed a deal with Santander to provide Santander’s customers with their Personal Finance Management solution. Meniga’s software, known to most Icelanders, is sold to Santander as a white label solution, and will give the banks “building blocks to help speed up development of

Here are the 18 Icelandic Startups representing Iceland at Slush

Slush 2015 will be held November 11-12 in Helsinki, Finland. With around 15,000 attendees this year, Slush is one of the biggest startup and tech events in Europe, with hundreds of startups, investors and investors attending. Klak Innovit, entrepreneurship center, in association with, Promote Iceland, the Icelandic embassy in

Box Island featured for Code.org "Hour of Code"

Box Island, the mobile learning game by Radiant Games, will be featured as a mobile tutorial for this years’ Hour of Code events. Radiant Games will publish a special edition of the game called Box Island: One Hour Coding for the event. Box Island is the only new mobile tutorial

CrankWheel, hassle-free in-call screensharing, is launching today

Today, CrankWheel launched after a closed beta since June this year. CrankWheel is an enterprise-friendly, 10-second screen sharing that makes it easy to add visual presentation in the middle of a phone call. The product is aimed at both sales organisations, where showing the product, rather than just telling, can

Startup Tourism – a new accelerator for the tourism industry announced

Earlier today, Klak Innovit and its partners – ISAVIA, Íslandsbanki, Blue Lagoon, Vodafone, Icelandic Tourism Cluster – announced the forming of Startup Tourism, a new accelerator program aimed at startups in the tourism industry. Klak Innovit has previous experience operating the accelerators Startup Reykjavik and Startup Energy Reykjavik. Oddur Sturluson is the

NSA Ventures: A profile of Iceland's biggest VC fund

NSA Ventures is a permanent, semi-official early stage venture fund in Iceland. It was founded in 1997 by a one-time endowment from the Icelandic government of 3 billion ISK ($~25MM) but operates without additional official funds. Its current size is around 5.5 billion ISK ($~44MM). This makes it Iceland’