IcelandPlatform
Europe · Pop. 393K
1 Enterprise value
How much Iceland’s VC-backed companies are worth
Combined enterprise value of VC-backed companies headquartered in Iceland, founded since 1990 and still operating, at the end of each year. Companies stay in the total after they list or are acquired.
2 VC investment
How much venture capital flows into Iceland
VC investment into Iceland-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.
3 Startup funnel
Iceland's startup funnel
Companies headquartered in Iceland at each stage today, by total VC raised. Hover a bar for the split.
Source: Dealroom.co
4 Latest quarter
Iceland's latest quarter in venture capital
VC raised by Iceland-headquartered companies in the quarter shown, against the quarter before and the same quarter a year earlier.
Latest complete quarter
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5 Largest rounds
Largest funding rounds in Iceland
A live treemap of $15M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into a company headquartered in Iceland, grouped by Dealroom sector.
Largest rounds in Iceland - 2024–2026
6 Startup hubs
Inside Iceland: 1 startup hub, 7 universities
Hubs are sized by combined enterprise value; universities by the startup founders they produced. Hover any point for its numbers; the lists rank hubs by EV and universities by founders.
7 Founder origins
Where Iceland's unicorn founders build
8 founders born in Iceland are behind 6 unicorns; 17% of those were built in the US. Origins are resolved from biography and education history, not current address. Compare with the other origin countries in Europe, ranked by founders or per 1M inhabitants.
8 Location comparison
Unicorns, decacorns and centicorns — Iceland in a global comparison
Companies count where they were founded or are headquartered. Values are per 1M people or totals, as a share of the US (US = 100%) or absolute; bars scale to the largest value in each column. Hover any value for the per-1M rate and absolute count.
9 Patent intelligence
Iceland startup IP portfolio: 430 patent families
Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in Iceland. Aggregated across the country's hub-level filings — Bay Area, Boston, etc. roll up under the United States row, the same way Tokyo and Osaka roll up under Japan.
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