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The team is the key: What do Icelandic investors look for in entrepreneurs?

The team is the key: What do Icelandic investors look for in entrepreneurs?

The team is the most important factor when deciding whether to invest or not, at least according to Reykjavik University students Selma Rún Friðjónsdóttir and Tryggvi Björn Guðbjörnsson who recently published their Business Administration thesis focused on influencing factors and decision making processes for Icelandic venture capital funds and angel

The Memo: Iceland might be running into a VC problem, part 2

Good morning everyone – hope you had a great, long weekend. This memo is going out on a Tuesday because we want you to start the workweek with a Memo 🙂 A couple of Memo’s back, I promised to revisit my prediction about Iceland’s VC troubles. I’ve had time

Brunnur – one year later: $3.2 million in two investments

Last week we dug into Frumtak 2’s investment and funds and this time around we’re looking at Brunnur. Brunnur is a 4 bn ISK (~$31 million) fund, focused mainly on various technology sectors as well as food production. We covered the fund in more detail last year. Investments

Frumtak 2 – one year later: $10.85 million in six investments

Roughly one year ago, GP’s at Frumtak announced the closing of their second fund, Frumtak 2. The fund is a 5 billion ISK ($38.5 million) fund focused on investing in companies that are past their seed stage and show promise of growth and expansion. For more info about

Iceland: VR Valley?

In a popular blogpost from earlier this year the investor, tweeter and entrepreneur Marc Andreessen discussed a politician’s pipe-dream: what it would take to create the next Silicon Valley. In essence his argument is simple: Don’t even try. Trying to mimic an organically grown, entrepreneurial community with governmental

Helgarlesturinn: Fullt um fjármagn

Þema helgarlestrarins þessa vikuna er fjármagn & fjármögnun. Fyrr í vikunni gáfum við út hlaðvarp um það sama (sjá hér) og í kjölfarið hefur mikið af áhugaverðu efni um sprotafjármögnun dúkkað upp. a16z hlaðvarpið: Venture Capital með augum LP’s Venture Capital fyrirtæki byggja á tveimur tegundum af Partners, annarsvegar

Fjármögnun sprotafyrirtækja: Hvernig hún virkar og er að breytast – Hlaðvarp Norðurskautsins

Í þætti dagsins fjalla Kiddi og Jökull um fjármögnun sprotafyrirtækja, og hvernig hún gengur almennt fyrir sig í Kísildal. Einnig ræðum við um háværa umræðu vestanhafs um mögulega bólu í fjármögnun tæknisprota, og veltum fram spurningum um umhverfið hér á landi. Hér er bloggfærslan hans Semil sem við ræðum, og