Top 30 Education Startup Investors in Norway in October 2023

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• Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
• Terralayr — Terralayr uses software to collect energy grid-scale storage, which will be required as we strive to make renewable energy more efficient and lucrative.
• Lindus Health — Lindus Health. From recruitment to delivery, we accelerate clinical trials. Our mission is to make health research accessible for everyone, everywhere.

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• AlumatIQ — AlumatIQ specializes in industrial robotics, automation, and digitalization in the aluminum industry. Their first product is robotic automation of the anode change process, with high accuracy, consistency, and speed. Improves health and safety conditions for operators in pot rooms and reduces emissions of HF and greenhouse gases.
• Hyperhuman — Hyperhuman is the AI-powered video platform for health & fitness. Drive engagement, boost loyalty, attract leads, and streamline your video production.
• Intoto — Intoto is a Company from Norway providing real-time data from rivers and streams.

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• IDOVEN — IDoven develops products to detect heart problems at an early stage to prevent heart diseases.
• Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.
• Bedrock Ocean Exploration — Bedrock is building smarter, more efficient ways to collect and manage seafloor data.

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• Bookis — Bookis is the Next-Generation Online Bookstore with Direct Author Compensation, making the sharing of stories and knowledge playfully easy - from all bookshelves, for everyone. We leverage community, technology and innovative distribution to enable radically easier peer-to-peer bookselling, with fair author compensation models. Building theworld's largest network of authors fighting for a more fair book industry worldwide.
• Dintero — Dintero is a Norwegian startup delivering payment, checkout, crm & loyalty solutions.
• Campanyon — Camping, RV parks, glamping near you. Book your outdoor stays.

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• TikkTalk - powered by Skiwo — TikkTalk is an online marketplace for connecting businesses and consumers for interpretation services. TikkTalk is an open digital solution for managing interpretation services and holding video or phone meetings in a browser on any device. Anyone with interpretation skills can sign up, validate their skills by uploading certifications, and getaccess to interpretation jobs worldwide. Government organisations and businesses can get direct access to a global pool of interpreters, sorted by language, certification levels and ratings.
• ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities through media, events, PR and consulting since 2007.Launched in 2007 by Antti Vilpponen and Miikka Kukkosuo as founding writers and getting out two-three articles a week, ArcticStartup quickly started gaining traction. In 2008 Ville Vesterinen and Karri Saarinen joinedthe founding team and ArcticStartup launched its own that were at first held in a small bar of Dubrovnik in Helsinki. Both the media and events started going international in 2009, expanding to the neighbouring Nordics & Baltics. This growth continued until 2012, when the company nearly shut-down as the founders wanted to move-on to other projects. At that point Dmitri Sarle and Greg Anderson took over the company and re-founded ArcticStartup with Jan Ameri joining very shortly.
• Differ — Student life can be boring and challenging without friends. Differ help you connect with other students and help start those first awkward conversations

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• Ludenso — Ludenso is a software developer of AR solutions for the education industry. To make education more creative and engaging, we are giving editors, authors, and teachers the power to bring their learning resources to life through 3D models, animations, videos, and audio support. This is made possible through the Ludenso Studio, where they can createinclusive learning experiences that enables students to learn in their own way.
• Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
• Evoy — Evoy is a manufacturer of electric propulsion systems intended to be used in speedboats. The company's inboard and outboard electric propulsion systems are fitted with an electric motor that takes the place of the boat owner's current diesel and gasoline systems, allowing them to drastically reduce maintenance and usage costs and travelwithout noise, smell, pollution, or failures.It was established in 2018 and is based in Florø, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway.

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• SolarDuck — SolarDuck provides societies access to affordable renewable electricity using offshore floating solar powerplants. SolarDuck developed a modular solution that can sustain the harsh offshore environment while providing competitively priced energy. SolarDuck has originated from the Dutch maritime industry, and believes that maritime solutions play acrucial role in solving a number of the global challenges.
• Glint Solar — Enabling developers to identify and analyze the best solar sites
• LIFENESS — Lifeness is a platform specialized in the treatment of lifestyle diseases and an entrepreneur from the fitness industry,

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• Skooler — Skooler has developed pedagogical and smart learning tools inside Office 365 for the learners, teachers and parents! In other words – everything you need during a schoolday is in only one place!

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• Scrimba — Scrimba is a fun and fast way of learning to code! Our interactive courses and tutorials will teach you React, Vue, Angular, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and more.
• Confrere — Confrere is a video meeting and conferencing platform for professionals. The video chat solution was developed specifically for doctors, tutors, banks, psychologists, recruiters, personal trainers, and their clients in mind.The video conferencing solution was developed by Svein Willassen, Dag-Inge Aas, and Ida Aalen with a concept of buildingvirtual clinics for professions like doctors and bankers through video solutions, so they can meet their clients without actually meeting them.
• AblePay Technologies — AblePay Technologies was founded in 2009 as a spin-out from the Research Department of Telenor, and the technology has been developed in close collaboration with SINTEF, the largest independent research organisation in Scandinavia.

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• Spoonshot — Spoonshot's technology leverages food science and artificial intelligence to predict consumer tastes and food trends. We've built our several solutions from this core technology to solve some of the food & beverage industry's key challenges.
• Aprila Bank — Aprila is a product- and technology company offering innovative financial solutions to small and medium sized businesses. Aprila’s API-based technology platform is connected to around 130,000 SMEs through partnership agreements with leading online accounting systems and other relevant system providers.
• Growth Street — Growth Street offers UK businesses a faster alternative to bank overdrafts.They see that many growing businesses need flexibility to manage their cashflow. Whether it’s managing the seasonal cycle of business or balancing invoice payments against outgoings, managing cashflow can take a lot of time, focus and energy. Often balancing the booksmeans delaying payments, leaning on suppliers or juggling costs, which can suck up your time, put pressure on your supplier relationships and generally make businesses less efficient.

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• Tjommi — B2C app helping customers get money back from price drops
• CluedIn — CluedIn helps enterprise companies achieve easier and reliable access to data that is scattered across their business. We build the Smart Data Fabric.
• Cognigy GmbH — Automate customer and employee services through Conversational AI implementation across any organization with Cognigy. Book demo or try free now!

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• Commons — Joro empowers people to take climate action that matters. Through an intuitive app, people can manage their carbon footprint based on how they spend money, develop a climate action practice, and build community to tackle the biggest crisis of our generation.
• Poko — Enable local payments and successful onramping for wallets, NFT marketplaces, web3 games, and dApps globally.
• Clarity Movement — Clarity Movement is a team of passionate engineers and scientists focused on making a positive impact in the world by tackling the global air pollution crisis. They leverage their expertise in air sensing technology, IoT devices, and data analytics to create solutions that empower communities to make more informed decisions and improve the qualityof life. Having successfully developed the world’s most accurate low-cost particulate matter sensor, Clarity is now deploying the next generation of dense air quality monitoring networks around the world to build smarter cities through smarter data.

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• NoMy — Norwegian startup that researches and develops sustainable material and food solutions using mycelium
• Vilect AI — Vilect is a recruitment software for store managers. The system identifies the most relevant candidates and lets the hiring manager screen recorded video interviews integrated directly into the system - store managers can see their fit, personality, drive, and motivation and save time and money.
• Travelin.ai — Business and Leisure travel no longer just exist in silos but are intertwined. Travelin.ai is the Next Generation Corporate Travel Management Platform which reflects the true way we live, work and travel.

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• Ludenso — Ludenso is a software developer of AR solutions for the education industry. To make education more creative and engaging, we are giving editors, authors, and teachers the power to bring their learning resources to life through 3D models, animations, videos, and audio support. This is made possible through the Ludenso Studio, where they can createinclusive learning experiences that enables students to learn in their own way.
• wheel.me — The first and only autonomous wheel in the world. The innovation transforms anything into an autonomous mobile robot with minimal effort and without the need to alter its design or form. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
• Nofence — Nofence is a system virtual fencing for grazing animals. Virtual fencing of livestock has been a concept long discussed in academia. The Norwegian ag-tech startup Nofence has since 2011 developed and patented a solution for virtual fencing that has proven to work. The customers say that this will become a real gamechanger for livestock managementsince pastures can easily be defined by a few clicks on a tablet/smartphone. The herd is then safely fenced in and can be monitored. The system will send notifications if something happens. From the global food security perspective, this solution will make it much easier to utilize the uncultivated land for varied and healthy pasture, and make it possible to produce more food on cultivated land.

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• Ludenso — Ludenso is a software developer of AR solutions for the education industry. To make education more creative and engaging, we are giving editors, authors, and teachers the power to bring their learning resources to life through 3D models, animations, videos, and audio support. This is made possible through the Ludenso Studio, where they can createinclusive learning experiences that enables students to learn in their own way.
• Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.

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• Savr — Savr is an Investment platform disrupting the Swedish fund industry with a lower fee structure and a new business model.
• Woilà — ACQUIRED BY KLARNA IN OCTOBER 2020.Woilà was founded in 2017 to reinvent the shopping experience post-purchase, and raised €4M through 2018-2020. By identifying price drops, price guarantees and vouchers, Woilà helped consumers get money back if an item bought online dropped in price after the purchase had already been made. Woilà processed $50Mworth of transactions during 2020 and now the technology will be leveraged by Klarna to further strengthen its value proposition to consumers.
• Insurello — Insurello provides a digital solution that helps customers find insurance payments. Insurello intermediates on behalf of its clients the communication and the processes of insurance companies in exchange for 25 percent of any insurance benefit.

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• Climeon — The Climeon Heat Power system, converts waste heat and geothermal heat into clean electricity. Saving fuel and electricity cost - as well as the environment.
• Edify Energy — Edify Energy is a renewable energy company that specializes in solar project structuring, investments, and financing services.
• Ocean GeoLoop — Ocean GeoLoop captures and stores or utilizes CO2 naturally. With no use of chemicals, toxins or other harmful consumables.

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• P0x Labs — P0x labs is the team behind Manta Network is a privacy-preserving technology operating on the Polkadot blockchain.
• Deckmatch — Tooling to drink from the firehose of data, that is your top of funnel (TOFU)
• Xverse — Xverse is the most advanced and user-friendly Bitcoin wallet. Earn BTC, trade Ordinals, and connect to Web3 apps powered by Stacks. Download for iOS, Android and Chrome.

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• Deckmatch — Tooling to drink from the firehose of data, that is your top of funnel (TOFU)
• Databutton — Databutton is an online app builder that empowers the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators. It enables anyone to create dynamic online apps in minutes by connecting to a growing array of sources, models, and integrations, or by utilizing their own datasets. 먹튀검증 https://muktts.net/
• Optio Incentives — Optio helps businesses incentivize employees, manage equity, stay compliant, and report costs with our software and advisory

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• Ownersroom — Handle your investor network like a professional, providing a single entry point to all the information they need!
• SafetyWing — Health and insurance products for remote companies and remote workers worldwide, as a replacement for national welfare systems.
• Savvie — Savvie is your sales forecasting tool, waste tracking tool, sold-out tracker, ordering solution, product manager and analytics dashboard all in one intuitive app. We help you reduce food waste while maximizing sales with our one-click solution for store management.

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• Vignita — Vignita offers a social learning platform for skilled workers. The Norwegian startup gathers all forms of training into one platform, connecting companies with experts and technology so that they can effectively collaborate to train professionals.

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• Ageras — Ageras redefines administration for small businesses by integrating banking, accounting, and tax filing in a single platform.
• Quince — Quince brings luxury products like Mongolian Cashmere, Italian Leather, Turkish Cotton and Washable Silk to everyone at radically low prices. Shop premium essentials with no middleman.
• Superside — We are an always-on design company. Get a team of dedicated designers, speedy turnarounds, magical creative collaboration tech and the top 1% of global talent.

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• Vignita — Vignita offers a social learning platform for skilled workers. The Norwegian startup gathers all forms of training into one platform, connecting companies with experts and technology so that they can effectively collaborate to train professionals.
• Powerzeek — Powerzeek is a platform company making it easy for the transport sector to find, buy and use cleaner fuels. The company's market is the $150 billion+ maritime fuel and $1 trillion+ land based fuel sector. Powerzeek´s customers are shipping companies and trucking companies buying fuel for their ships and trucks respectively, andoil/gas/energy companies selling fuel. The company meets several of UN´s SDG goals, is generating revenue today, and has many of the world's largest suppliers of LNG and methanol amongst its community members.

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• Vignita — Vignita offers a social learning platform for skilled workers. The Norwegian startup gathers all forms of training into one platform, connecting companies with experts and technology so that they can effectively collaborate to train professionals.

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• Bookis — Bookis is the Next-Generation Online Bookstore with Direct Author Compensation, making the sharing of stories and knowledge playfully easy - from all bookshelves, for everyone. We leverage community, technology and innovative distribution to enable radically easier peer-to-peer bookselling, with fair author compensation models. Building theworld's largest network of authors fighting for a more fair book industry worldwide.
• Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
• Brink Commerce — Brink Commerce offers leading eCommerce solutions. Boost growth, perfect customer experiences, and unlock agility with our Composable Commerce API.

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• Zilift Limited — Zilift was established in May 2009 exclusively to develop and market permanent magnet technologies for innovative artificial lift applications.
• MemfoACT — MemfoACT has proprietary technology for upgrading of biogas and separation of other gases. MemfoACT AS was founded in August 2008, as a joint venture between NTNU Technology Transfer (TTO) and the entrepreneurs professor May-Britt Hägg, PhD Jon Arvid Lie and PhD Arne LindbrÃ¥then. The company core business is gas purification, with focus on biogasupgading to fuel quality using a novel carbon molecular sieve membrane. This membrane is capable of performing the separation to spec with acceptable recovery in a single stage setup. This gives this membrane a significant advantage in this process compared with competing polymer membranes.
• ExproSoft — ExproSoft is a software & consultancy company increasing well uptime for oil & gas operators. They deliver solutions that allow the operators to understand the failures and risk of well equipment, and use this knowledge to reduce intervention cost and increase production throughout the wells’ life cycle.

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• Melodypipe — Collaborate, book gigs, find artists and musicians, connect with industry professionals, and discover new music.

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• Preppio - Science-Driven Onboarding — Preppio is the future of employee onboarding. Build chatbots in MS Teams, Slack & Workplace by Meta. Automate your HR workflows in Workday, SuccessFactors, and more.

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• House of Math — All the math help you need for free! Get the full mathematics curriculum with instructional videos, interactive problem solving, games and 24/7 chat.

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• Strise — Strise is signaling a new era of enterprise software and organizational change, transforming how companies work and empowering individual growth through knowledge. We believe in the AI-enabled financial institution without data silos where users and data are working together to solve even the most complex business problems.
• Curipod — Join the growing movement of teachers using Curipod to make interactive lessons filled with creativity, reflection and critical thinking
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