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What's up with the constant "Annual Report"-reporting?

What's up with the constant "Annual Report"-reporting?

Last week, Viðskiptablaðið published a news article titled “Grid valuated at 1.7bn ISK” (or ~12m at current exchange rates). The article, which is reporting straight out of the annual report of Brunnur Ventures, states the following: “In the fund’s books, a 1.9% share of Grid is valued

Lessons learned from raising - yet another - round

It’s incredible – even to me – but the fundraising round we at GRID disclosed last week is the 10th time I raise capital for one of my ventures. Admittedly this one was in many ways unique, and also the largest one. Yet. Despite this, I’m still learning. For one

Impact Investing is trending in the Nordics – Glimpse of Rising North’s latest funding round

Impact Investing is trending in the Nordics – Glimpse of Rising North’s latest funding round

The Rising North fund has given out over €400 000 in the first application round 2018. This is the largest amount of funding given out so far. The most dominant trend amongst the 10 pan-Nordic projects was the interest towards building a strong impact investment community in the Nordics. A

More investors for seafood startups

One of the greatest challenges for the 100% fish utilization movement is financing. I have felt that investors. financiers and bankers which have some focus on seafood have little or no knowledge about the new seafood industry; nutraceutical or functional food from fish protein or new technology for extending shelf

Innovative solutions for the environment, good business

Innovative solutions for the environment, good business

Iceland is surrounded by some of the richest and most prolific fishing grounds in the North Atlantic Ocean and fisheries have long been the mainstay of the Icelandic economy. Healthier oceans and environment is therefore a matter of fundamental importance for the country. I am very pleased to see how

Introducing “The Incredible Fish Value Machine”

Introducing “The Incredible Fish Value Machine”

The following drawing is inspired by the “The Incredible Bread Machine”, a text written by R.W Grant in 1966. The book had an accompanying poem entitled “Tom Smith and His Incredible Bread Machine.” The Tom Smith poem is about a man who invents a machine for producing bread very

Building bridges with clusters

Building bridges with clusters

In 1973, Mark Granovetter came up with an idea in sociology which would later have a huge influence on the study of relationships in networks. The idea was fairly simple: weak relationship ties can act as important bridges in a network building, and for that purpose, they are sometimes more