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What we do
We are founders and we build companies with founders. We have practical knowledge on how to work with founders who have the capacity to build great companies: we think it is more than “founder picking”, it is also mentoring and coaching. We take an active role in mentoring and coaching the founding team in technology design and development, strategy, business development, team development and recruiting as well as operations. We have explicit experience taking founders from the idea stage to a profitable exit. The greatest value that we add is in helping founders navigate multiple priorities, exposing them to a network of influencers, sequencing tasks and accelerating the value proposition development of the company.
We have brought together a toolbox for Founders through what we call the Developer’s Ecosystem. The Developer’s Ecosystem is a growing multi-disciplinary team of developers, designers, marketers, analysts, scientists and operators who are passionate about solving hard problems and building companies. Building a company is hard, especially if you are a first-time founder, a scientist or a technologist. We have had the opportunity to work with a number of Founders and Entrepreneurs who have also built a global network of investors, mentors, advisors and operators with the same obsession as ourselves in helping founders step up to the next mega-trend.
Through the Venture Studio, we are adding to our Capital Ecosystem, a group of Venture Capital Companies and Angel Investors who believe in our vision and are willing to put ‘skin in the game’. We sit on the side of the Founder and help them with our network and knowledge to navigate the process of building and scaling their companies.
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The founders
Bala Kamallakharan is the Founder and CEO of Startup Iceland, a grassroots initiative aimed at building a sustainable startup ecosystems in Iceland. He has served as an executive board member for Guide to Iceland and TravelShift. Over the years, Bala has invested, mentored, and served as Chairman of the Board at CLARA (Resonata), the Icelandic Community Analytics company, which was acquired by Jive Software in 2013. Bala has invested in various early stage ventures, including Buuteeq (acquired by Priceline.com), Mattermark, and Genome Compiler (acquired by Twist Biosciences).
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The investment board
Bre Pettis is an American entrepreneur, investor, video blogger and creative artist. Pettis is best known as the co-founder and former CEO of MakerBot Industries, a 3D printer company now owned by Stratasys. Bre has been instrumental in building ecosystem approach to new markets as it relates to 3D printing and now doing the same with his new venture in Bantam Tools which makes desktop machines to printed circuit board manufacturing. Bre is also an investor in the Venture Studio.
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Our philosophy
Changing technology landscape driven by customer centricity. Personal data, privacy and security are acknowledged mega-trends that are ready for decentralization.
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