UN Sustainable Development Goals

The Mind, mental health and public healthcare

WHO has published a new report on the status of Mental Health and Mental Healthcare around the world and the result is not good. Most countries are falling short and the need is only growing rapidly. There are several solutions in the market that can help but they are not part of the mainstream healthcare.

FutureCast: Episode 7 Anna Worthington De Matos, founder and CEO of Reykjavik Tool Library

Sharing tools, teaching people how to fix things and also being an activist on reducing waste. Anna moved to Iceland from the UK but is originally from Brazil, we talk about Circular Economy, sustainability and how to reuse tools.

Mussila – Decentralized Music Education

Iceland Venture Studio is leading an investment syndicate in Mussila, the award winning decentralized music learning app. We are doing a deep dive into showing how we make decisions on a team we chose to back. The Mussila team answered the 7 questions that gives you an idea of how they are thinking and where they plan to take Mussila.

Startup Iceland joins LOOP to inspire the global economy to transition to Circular Economy

Startup Iceland joins LOOP to inspire and transition the global economy to circular economy. LOOP was launched in 2018 by Avanto Ventures, Sitra and Nordic Innovation to take circular economy from strategy to action.

Vaccines

We need to invest in Iceland to build a vaccine technology company in Iceland. COVID-19 is not the only infection that is going to come our way and even vaccine for that needs infrastructure and know-how. I believe Iceland has all the ingredients to start a biotechnology company focused on vaccines using new technology.

Refactoring Work

How we work has been changing since the advent of machines. The last 2 decades have seen the total transformation of how we are able to leverage technology at the workplace. Refactoring work to enable a Human+Machine paradigm is going to become the next norm that means it is going to take less capital to build companies contrary to what is believed by the VC industry

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