Editorials

Why Game Development could be Iceland's next Breakout Industry

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 game to date, Trivia Royale. The game got featured in the U.S. App Store very close to the top (and those who know mobile

Organise, Standardise, Attract: How Angel Investors Should Contribute to Iceland 2.0

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 phase of the Icelandic economy. The government has announced and delivered some measures towards that goal – by increasing R&D tax refunds, speeding

Startup SuperNova and the Startup Reykjavik legacy

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 sense, 2012 is the year that some of the longer living programs, that put their mark on the year and

Bring on the Experts: Iceland should target remote workers and help them work from Iceland

Bring on the Experts: Iceland should target remote workers and help them work from Iceland

The last couple of weeks were quite eventful. The country is formally opening on June 15, the second Covid package for the economy is going through parliament, and – finally – the spring weather that Icelanders love so much is coming. In this newsletter, I want to try a new format, inspired

We need your help to gauge the status of Icelandic tech scene

Northstack is working with London based VC fund Atomico on their annual State of European Tech report. You can find their 2015 edition here. Click here to take the State of European Tech survey. A part of the report analyses the local tech communities based on a survey of founders,

Growing, fast – an overview of the state of Icelandic Tech

In the last five years, turnover in the IT sector in Iceland has grown by a total of 60%, almost double the growth of other parts of the Icelandic economy, which for the same time period was 32%. The IT sector is also steadily growing as part of GDP, where

Why are we shy about the money?

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