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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

The Podcast #2 – A huge week for VR, the new Startup Tourism accelerator and launch of Takumi

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

Sólfar studios secures €2 million in seed funding

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