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VIS

Ármúli 3, Reykjavík, Gullbringusysla, 108, Iceland

Overview

VIS is an Icelandic ins­urance comp­any which enjoys a strong positi­on in the mar­ket with a mar­ket share of more than 33%. The comp­any of­fers extensi­ve ins­urance services with an emp­hasis on us­ef­ul advice, efficiency, flex­i­bility, and excell­ent service. The principal focus of VIS is ca­sualty ins­urance. The comp­any of­fers property ins­urance, mar­ine and tran­sport ins­urance, compulsory and volunt­ary motor ins­urance, lia­bility ins­urance, accident ins­urance and for­eign reins­urance. The comp­any also owns and opera­tes the life ins­urance comp­any Líf­ís, which of­fers per­sonal ins­urance including life and sickness co­vera­ge. VIS was listed on the Icelandic stock mar­ket in 2013. The comp­any was form­ally esta­blis­hed on Febru­ary 5, 1989 with the mer­ger of Sam­vinnu­trygg­ing­ar and Bruna­bóta­fé­lag Íslands, which traces its history back to 1917.

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Investment portfolio

  • Controlant

    Participated · Series B · Dec 2020

    Controlant provides a cloud-enabled software platform and high-end IoT devices combined with operational services to give real-time visibility and improve efficiency in pharmaceutical supply chains. The company emphasises reusable IoT devices, reverse logistics and automation to reduce CO2 emissions and material waste. Founded in 2007 and based in Iceland, Controlant gained early experience monitoring Iceland’s H1N1 vaccine and later distributed over five million Pfizer vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its offerings aim to simplify and transform pharma logistics through digitalisation and continuous monitoring. Controlant has a climate action plan to establish a greenhouse gas emission baseline in 2023 and begin annual sustainability reporting that year. The company recently raised €37.4M to support its next phase of growth. Controlant builds a real-time cold-chain monitoring platform that uses screen-based IoT tags linked to GSM networks and feeds environmental data into proprietary web and mobile apps. Its devices capture time, temperature and light events from vaccine shipments and stream that data to Controlant’s platform. The company confirmed it is providing monitoring services to Pfizer for the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine and is also working directly with U.S. government stakeholders including the CDC, HHS and Operation Warp Speed. Controlant says its platform is being used throughout the U.S. supply-chain journey of the vaccines. In September the company secured $15 million in Series B funding to drive market expansion of its Cold Chain as a Service platform; total funding to date is $50 million. Gisli Herjolfsson is co-founder and CEO; investors are largely Iceland-based, and include Sjova, VIS and Frumtak.

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