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 stimuli won’t work. But policymakers shouldn’t be… Read More Iceland: VR Valley?
Today, CCP Games are releasing Gunjack, a VR arcade shooter for the Samsung Gear VR platform. This is announced just a week after the company announced a $30 million funding round to help the company boost its VR development efforts. The title will be available with the official release of Samsung Gear VR. “We believe… Read More CCP releases Gunjack – its first VR title
In this episode of the podcast, Jökull and Kiddi discuss the influx of cash into VR development in Iceland, with last weeks CCP and Sólfar funding rounds. They also discuss the new accelerator Startup Tourism, and entrepreneurship in the tourism industry. The final topic was the launch of Jökull’s startup, Takumi. Follow us on SoundCloud… Read More The Podcast #2 – A huge week for VR, the new Startup Tourism accelerator and launch of Takumi
Sólfar Studios, a VR game studio founded by CCP veterans, announced last Wednesday (Nov 11.) that they had secured a €2 million in seed funding from a syndicate of venture capitalist funds. The syndicate includes Shanda Group, Tianqiao Chen’s private investment group, Iceland’s NSA Ventures, and Finnish VCs Inventure and Reaktor Ventures along with individual investors.… Read More Sólfar studios secures €2 million in seed funding
CCP Games, makers of Eve, just announced a $30 million financing round to boost its Virtual Reality development efforts. The round was led by NEA Ventures, and private equity firm Novator Partners LLP participated in the round as well. Harry Weller, partner at NEA, has joined CCP’s board of directors, and his colleague, Andrew Schoen… Read More CCP raises $30 million to boost VR development efforts
