Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Norway in October 2023
Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Norway in October 2023
| Investor | Hardware Norway investments |
|---|---|
| Investinor | 13 |
| ProVenture | 9 |
| SINTEF Venture AS | 6 |
| Alliance | 5 |
| Ferd | 3 |
| Kistefos Venture Capital | 3 |
| Valinor AS | 3 |
| Draper B1 | 3 |
| Antler | 3 |
| Idekapital | 3 |
| Tharald Nustad | 2 |
| Nordic Green Capital | 2 |
| Anne Worsoe | 2 |
| BAGi | 2 |
| The Crowd Angel | 2 |
| Dragonfly | 2 |
| Christian Rokseth | 2 |
| Norselab | 2 |
| Johan Brand | 2 |
| Multicoin Capital | 2 |
| Skagerak Maturo | 2 |
| CoFounder | 2 |
| Rolf Ahlqvist | 2 |
| TeleVenture Management | 2 |
| Stani Kulechov | 1 |
| Momentum | 1 |
| Alliance Ventures | 1 |
| RunwayFBU | 1 |
| OpenAI Startup Fund | 1 |
| Tiger Global Management | 1 |
| Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) | 1 |
| Founders Fund AS | 1 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 1 |
| Jamie Brooker | 1 |
| Green Campus Innovations Oy | 1 |
| Voima Ventures | 1 |
| Overwolf | 1 |
| Sandwater | 1 |
| Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) | 1 |
| Acequia Capital (AceCap) | 1 |
| Firestreak Ventures | 1 |
| Kari Ollila | 1 |
| Tiger Holding | 1 |
| Verdane | 1 |
| Schibsted | 1 |
| Export Development Canada | 1 |
| Nysnø | 1 |
| SNÖ Ventures | 1 |
| Bring Ventures | 1 |
| Luminar Ventures | 1 |
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Investinor invests in Norwegian based, high potential companies that are internationally oriented and in the phases ranging from early growth to expansion. The company has BNOK 4.2 ($500 m) under management and focus on companies within the internet, software, semiconductors, energy, cleantech, marine and life sciences sectors.
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- Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Norway, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Eyr — Eyr offers digital tools for medical consulting and doctor's prescription regarding various health issues.
- Nomono — The Next Generation Audio company.
- Ignite Procurement — A powerful & easy spend management tool to accelerate your procurement success by bringing clarity, clean data & sophisticated analytics to your fingertips
ProVenture invest in young digital technology startups in Norway. ProVenture have three seed funds and more than a billion NOK under management. ProVenture is a member of Norwegian Venture Association (NVCA).
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- Oil and Gas, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Norway, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- InfoTiles — InfoTiles provides real-time analytics solutions for Digital Water that span the water value chain, from supply & consumption to wastewater treatment and surveillance of waterways. InfoTiles unlocks data-driven planning, operations and maintenance.InfoTiles simplifies and automates the tedious steps of consolidating data, applying real-timeanalytics and machine learning so water utilities can turn insights into actions and benefit from more efficient, sustainable operations.
- Wanda — Lageret som henter og leverer hjemme. Rimelig, trygt, enkelt!
- Cimon Medical — Cimon Medical develops and manufactures novel Doppler ultrasound technology for healthcare and aim to become the market leader in continuous direct monitoring of blood-flow. The first product to be released in Q4 21 is NeoDoppler - non-invasive continuous monitoring of blood-flow in the brain of premature or critically ill infants.
SINTEF TTO & Venture invest in spin-off companies from SINTEF, NTNU and other research based institutions in Norway. Our dealflow reflect results from state-of-art research and cover a variety of sectors. SINTEF Venture seek to co-invest with VC funds with sector expertise at an early stage.
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- Manufacturing, Software, Energy
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Norway, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nomono — The Next Generation Audio company.
- Hystar — Hystar is a high tech company specializing in advanced PEM electrolysers for large scale green hydrogen production, that is 100% sustainable.
- KIT-AR — Reduce time and costs spent fixing errors on your manufacturing shopfloor with quality assurance and augmented reality- Click in to find how!
Alliance Venture is a Nordic venture capital firm investing in exceptional early-stage tech companies and purpose-driven founders.
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- Software, Information Technology, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Norway, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Ferd er et familieeid investeringsselskap som er eid av femte og sjette generasjon Andresen.
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- Energy, Software, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity
- Norway, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Kistefos focus on investing between NOK 10m and NOK +100m in each company, aiming at obtaining a significant ownership stake. Kistefos is opportunistic with regards to sectors, company sizes, life-cycle stages and geographies. Kistefos’ investment strategy selectively seeks out a diverse range of proprietary transactions in companies of varioussizes, including build-ups, growth capital, rescue financings and buyouts.Kistefos is an active partner to the management teams and founders, providing considerable internal resources to ensure the long-term value creation through identification of the key value drivers. Furthermore, we operate under a flexible investment mandate, giving us the opportunity to optimally support our portfolio companies throughout our ownership period.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Norway, Singapore, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Surer — Surer is a cloud-based insurtech platform with a digital ecosystem of intermediaries and insurers. It provides tech solutions to help orchestrate the network in the insurance industry enabling insurance intermediaries to close deals with greater speed and allows insurers to distribute their product with better efficiency.
- Workclass — Apply for any jobs and get hired in 24 hours now!
- bluesheets — Build a solid data foundation with Bluesheets, the all-in-one tool that connects, categorises and automates your finanical data. Set up once, automate forever.
Established in 1996 as Norsk Vind AS, re-branded Valinor AS in 2019, the company is a family owned investment firm that holds controlling interest in Norsk Vind Energi AS, Norway's largest private wind company. The company re-invests 90% of its profits into clean tech and renewable energy companies worldwide. Its largest investments includeglobal leader in electricity infrastructure Zaptec, and solar energy developer Norsk Solar AS.
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- Renewable Energy, Robotics, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Norway, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Aivero — All-in-one platform for 2D & 3D camera fleet management. Visual data for AI models that help you automate computer vision tasks with precision.
- Heaten — HeatBooster - Patented high-temperature heat pump technology reducing the reliance on fossil fuels by creating reusable energy.
- 1X — At Halodi Robotics we are passionate about robots. Our mission is to bring capable humanoid robots to everyone. We develop safe, capable and affordable robots that help human beings live better lives!
Our mission is to help entrepreneurs who are innovating and transforming the way we live and work.
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- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Spain, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Recovo — Textile SaaS platform that drives circularity in the industry by facilitating the transformation of waste into valuable resources.Our platform connects businesses with circular fabrics and sustainable solutions, fostering material reuse, recycling, and the utilization of recyclable materials for circular design.
- Unibo Neobank — Unibo Neobank are into property management and real estate agents.
- Alef Aeronautics — Armada operates in a stealth mode
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
- Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
- Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.
We manage two investment funds with more than 1 bn NOK under management. We invest in high-growth software and technology companies.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Norway, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Appfarm — Quickest way to develop apps
- 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.
- Kongsberg Digital — Kongsberg Digital offers transformative technology and deep expertise to help industrial companies achieve increased productivity and growth.
Tharald Nustad is the Founder and Owner of Nordic Impact, Founder and Owner of Katapult, and Co-Founder of Katapult Ocean. He is a former Chairman of the Board of Mallin AS. He attended Pacific Lutheran University.
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- Farming, Information Technology, Communities
- Funding Round, Seed, Convertible Note
- Ghana, Kenya, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- 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
We put relentless effort in creating smarter sustainable solutions for all.
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- Electronics, Public Safety, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Intoto — Intoto is a Company from Norway providing real-time data from rivers and streams.
I work with early-stage technology startups and founders with ambitions to solve global challenges. I'm co-founder and partner at Farmhouse, investing primarily in Norwegian startups, and a venture partner at Antler, a global early-stage VC. Previously, I held the position as Portfolio Manager and Partner at B&B while the company scaledfrom 16 to 60+ people in three countries. I initiated and co-founded the co-working space Nordic Innovation House in Silicon Valley, explored new business opportunities in the renewables industry and I was the first CEO of the Norwegian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association. I have experience as a co-founder, angel investor, member of the Board of Directors for startups and VCs, focusing on early-stage ventures, growth, and internationalization. I'm passionate about helping startups scale their impact, and especially empowering female co-founders and angel investors.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Norway, United States, Denmark
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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.
BAGi is the first business angels network created for invest on Startups with direct impact on Girona's region.
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- Internet, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Spain, Norway, Switzerland
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- Aniling — Aniling developing its worldwide patent of the second generation genomic analysis and epigenomic.
- Petoons Studio — Petoons Studio is a developer of transmedia projects startup.
- The Smart Lollipop — Welcome to my candy world! I am The Smart Lollipop, a friendly medical device that is dedicated to identify diseases through saliva samples. Our mission is to sweeten the life of little children.
The Crowd Angel is a premium equity crowdfunding platform that enables its users to invest from 3.000€ in a selection of the best Spanish startups. A hybrid between crowdfunding and venture capital, it takes an active part on the board of the companies invested. The platform opens the business angel model to people wanting to enter the startupecosystem.We have co-invested together with some of top Spanish VCs (Inveready, Keyword VC, Antai Venture Builder, Media Digital Ventures, Bankinter, etc). We are backed by Inveready and Keyword VC.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Equity Crowdfunding
- Spain, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- VOLAVA — Volava is a fitness platform that brings the energy and benefits of studio-style workouts to the convenience and comfort of home. It is a connected, technology-enabled fitness boutique. It also makes fitness entertaining, approachable, effective, and convenient, while fostering social connections and building a community around wellness. Volavawas founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.
- Enso Spaces — The best coliving in Spain! We are in Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia. Apartments ready to move in and a community of people like you. Find your space!
- Kymatio. Employee Cyber Risk Management & Human Firewalls Activation — Support your people. Protect the company. New approach to Employee Cybersecurity Management: Kymatio identifies, analyzes, assesses, and provides the means to treat the cyber risk of human origin. Visibility: allows companies to know the cyber risk they are facing, how it's distributed, and having metrics about the evolution along time.Efficiency: provides personalized and targeted plans, that can help to use technological tools where and how they are really needed. IT Risk Management + Neuroscience People: they are not agents that produce incidents, but valuable assets that manage information. They have vulnerabilities and are exposed to threats.Risks can be identified, measured and mitigated.
A cross-border cryptoasset investment firm. Global from day one.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Hong Kong, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
- Ethena — Ethena provides derivative infrastructure in order to transform Ethereum into the first crypto-native yield bearing stablecoin.
- Mahjong Meta — Mahjong Meta is a Web3 gaming platform on Ethereum, providing Mahjong lovers with an innovative gaming experience.
Christian Rokseth is dedicated and focused towards developing new and innovative communication solutions for enterprises. Since Christian Rokseth is started my career in 1999 Christian Rokseth have managed a series of advanced projects within the IT and Telecom industry. These projects have brought me significant knowledge about all the requiredsteps and processes involved in order to bring state of the art electronics and software products to the market. In 2014 Christian Rokseth is managed the development and market introduction of the world's first intrinsically safe smartphone. The product was developed from scratch by a team of 8 engineers. Likely the smallest team ever to develop a smartphone.
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- Electronics, CRM, Security
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Auk — Auk creates a fully-automatic system that makes it easier to grow vegetables, salads and herbs at your own kitchen
- Globus.ai — Cover up to 40% more shifts, every day, with our self-learning, AI-based, workforce management software. Book your free trial today.
- Intoto — Intoto is a Company from Norway providing real-time data from rivers and streams.
Norselab is a leading European impact investment house. We are dedicated to proving that impact is the future of investing across asset classes.
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- Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Norway, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Beefutures — Beefutures combines biotechnology and data science and develops beekeeping tools. Our approach is to improve bee health and safety first and further optimise beekeeping operations and economics with digital tools.
- imove — Een abonnement op een auto geeft je dezelfde vrijheid als autobezit. Je kan er in rijden zoveel en zo ver je maar wilt. Bij imove heb je na de minimaal gekozen contractduur de vrijheid om je abonnement op te zeggen wanneer je maar wilt. Je hoeft je geen zorgen te maken over onverwachte kosten of waardeverlies. Die stress is voor ons. Onze abonnementen zijn all-inclusive, met als resultaat: een waanzinnig comfort, exclusief voor jou.
- Wanda — Lageret som henter og leverer hjemme. Rimelig, trygt, enkelt!
Johan is co-founder of Kahoot!, an educational gaming platform with millions of users world wide. Johan has over a decade's experience merging creativity, innovation and technology. Johan's work has included high profile projects for brands including Mercedes, BBC, HP, and Unilever, as well as startups in London and abroad. In 2010 heset up what has become We Are Human, a lean co-creative company, with global impact. In addition to working with some of the world's most recognised brands, We Are Human also incubates and develops its own IP, including the innovative EdTech platform Kahoot! Johan is regular facilitator, speaker and lecturer at universities and events. These include SXSW, OECD, Design Week, UCL and UiO. Johan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).
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- Software, EdTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series B
- Norway, United States, United Kingdom
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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.
Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Switzerland
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- Fhenix — End-to-End Encrypted Web3 Fhenix is the first blockchain powered by fully homomorphic encryption to bring Computation Over Encrypted Data to EVM smart contracts Join us Learn more A new, encrypted web is waiting for you Truly functional markets require end-to-end encryption. Fhenix rises to the challenge by unlocking unprecedented encryption capabilities in the public blockchain
- Tableland — A 3k generative NFT built from 1,074 handcrafted works of art for the builders and creatives of cyberspace.
- FastLane — FastLane is an easy to integrate protocol that rewards participating validators for protecting the health of the Polygon blockchain.
As an early stage venture firm, we invest in companies with positive impact. Megatrends like climate change and resource scarcity are some of the challenges we are facing. We believe technological innovations will contribute to a positive impact on people and the planet.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Norway
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- Semine — The SEMINE.AI cognitive services offers shared service centers in enterprices and their developers to standardize the most labor-intensive financial object, using a semantic model for the classification of the invoice, and populate AI-models in order to enable automation. The automation includes cost distribution at both GL and dimension levels.Positioned as the market leader with AI in accounts payable the company is experiencing vast growth in the Nordics where most of the AP market leaders are born (Basware, Medius and Visma)
- OptoScale — OptoScale sells real-time monitoring equipment for fish farms. OptoScale engages in precision aquaculture, helping fish farmers unlock unprecedented productivity and sustainability gains.
- Ignite Procurement — A powerful & easy spend management tool to accelerate your procurement success by bringing clarity, clean data & sophisticated analytics to your fingertips
CoFounder is a management and investment company for technology companies with great growth potential. They are experienced entrepreneurs and business developers who provide management resources and early-stage capital. They work with spin-offs from both research and industrial environments, as well as standalone entrepreneurial companies.
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- Manufacturing, Industrial, SaaS
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Norway
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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.
- Nicoustic — Nicoustic developed accurate, non-intrusive technology for separator-level measurement based on Guided Ultrasonic Waves. Their technique uses guided ultrasonic waves to measure the amounts of solids and liquids using sensors. It is being developed to measure the interface layers between emulsion and foam.Nicoustic's prototype is the outcomeof 20 years of study at the German Fraunhofer IKTS and a response to a challenge put forth by Equinor, the largest energy company in Norway.
- Aviant — Delivering full-stack drone services that enables autonomous and on-demand transport of cargo.
Rolf Ahlqvist
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- Electronics, Public Safety, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Intoto — Intoto is a Company from Norway providing real-time data from rivers and streams.
Making Venture Happen. Televenture is one of the leading venture capital companies in Norway.
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- Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Norway, United States
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- CrayoNano — CrayoNano is a next generation semiconductor company. We specialize in nanotechnology that will enable a more sustainable and healthier life for tomorrow.
- Genetic Analysis — Genetic Analysis AS (GA) has the goal of being a leader within the field of molecular diagnostics of diseases related to gut imbalances. By utilizing the DNA-based GA-map™ array technology, profiles of a patient’s gut microbiota is quickly generated and can be related to various health conditions. Genetic Analysis has developed a DNA-basedtechnology platform that allows for simultaneous analysis of a large number of similarities (but not identical) gene fragments in one reaction. The company’s focus is to utilize this technology platform to identify variations in the hundreds of different bacteria that exist in the gut (large and small intestine). The GA - map makes it possible, for the first time, to offer a diagnostic solution – including early detection - for many diseases that are affected by imbalances in the gut microbiota. Genetic Analysis will offer kits and services for a wide range of applications.
- Stingray Marine Solutions — Stingray Marine Solutions is a Norwegian technology firm that produces a laser unit which, when lowered into salmon farming pens, kills sea lice. It is based on entrepreneur Esben Beck’s patented idea in 2010 for salmon louse removal using camera vision and laser. It all started with Esben Beck and a lathe in his basement in 1999. After more than10 years of deliveries to oil, gas and offshore companies, he decided to invest in his own products. He decided to found and develop his own salmon louse project, where design, production, software development, testing, and installation were carried out by using in-house resources.Stingray is based in Oslo, Norway.
Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience developing technology in the crypto, blockchain, and fintech space. Stani is also a mentor to many founders and advisors of ICOs and blockchain projects and has spoken at numerous FinTech, Blockchain and cryptocurrency events,particularly on topics related to Ethereum Smart Contracts.
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- Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Huddle01 — Building the 1st decentralized real-time communication network. Leverage Huddle01's suite of developer-friendly SDKs to enable live audio & video experiences with just a quick plug-in.
- Squid — Squid is a routing protocol that connects users and developers with cross-chain liquidity. It allows any token to be swapped between blockchains and unlocks access to apps across chains with a single click.
- RedStone — RedStone delivers frequently updated, reliable and diverse data for your dApp and smart contracts.
Momentum Partners clear ambition is to build the leading consulting environment in Western Norway within our service. They create value and growth for their clients through a wide range of services with an operational approach to strategy development and profitability improvement.
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- Manufacturing, AgTech, Consumer
- Seed, Funding Round
- Norway, Finland
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- Glint Solar — Enabling developers to identify and analyze the best solar sites
- Amina Charging — Amina Charging develops high-quality and easy-to-use chargers for the mass market.
- Remora Robotics — Remora Robotics is a Norwegian technology firm that specializes on aquaculture robotics.
Learn more about the Renault Nissan Mitsubishi Alliance and its ambitions for 2030.
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- Software, Automotive, Artificial Intelligence
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, China, Israel
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- Bits Technology — Bits Technology connects data sources & orchestrates workflows for financial tech services.
- 1X — At Halodi Robotics we are passionate about robots. Our mission is to bring capable humanoid robots to everyone. We develop safe, capable and affordable robots that help human beings live better lives!
- The Mobility House — Their approach within the world of smart energy is to realize e-mobility - by emphasizing on individual mobility and fuelled by energy from regenerative resources. Companies and individuals can easily enter the electric mobility area - in a safe, sustainable and affordable way, thereby walking away from fossil fuel consuming solutions from thepast.Ever since 2009 The Mobility House has become one of Europe’s leading providers for electric mobility.Within the fast-growing market environment they specialize on charging solutions and managing the battery pack for energy storage. They stand for an international access to e-mobility – which is safe and customer-oriented. The quality of their products combined with reasonable prices and optimum customer service, ensure satisfaction of their customers and their business partner.Operating b2b with the automotive industry, leasing services and energy utilities, and b2c with EV customers: Fulfilling the customers´ needs is their benchmark for competition within the market.
An early stage VC fund that invests in software-driven technology companies built by ambitious entrepreneurs.
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- Software, SaaS, B2B
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Norway
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- Complai — ComplAI is a compliance platform for business processes. ComplAI works together among several actors (auditors, asset owners, standard owners, consultants, and stakeholders) providing access to compliance records, guidelines, reporting plans, and customizable requirement lists - minimizing supply chain problems and streamlining the auditingprocedure.
- Adminkit — Adminkit is a digital toolbox that provides better control - saving time and frustration.
- Shapemaker — Your new software for civil engineering design and analysis, starting off with telecommunication infrastructure.
The OpenAI Startup Fund is investing $100 million to help AI companies have a profound, positive impact on the world.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Legal, Robotics
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Speak — People spend $90 billion a year on human english teachers that are expensive and ineffective. Speak offers a mobile app where you can have english conversations with your phone about real world scenarios like interviewing for a job or asking for directions. It uses speech recognition to identify english words through thick accents and teach peopleto speak more clearly. Meanwhile, it’s building a massive database of accented-english speech, which can be used to improve its system and other speech recognition systems. Speak’s team formerly built accent detection systems and sold Flashcards+ to Chegg. Though AI translation might reduce the need for people to know other languages, speaking English remains a valuable skill people are willing to pay for.
- Harvey — Harvey builds custom LLMs for elite law firms to tackle the most complex legal challenges across every practice area, jurisdiction and legal system in the world.
- Class Companion — Class Companion is a new AI technology that allows professors to provide students with immediate, individualized feedback.
Tiger Global Management is an investment firm that deploys capital globally.Tiger Global seeks to earn superior risk-adjusted returns for its investors over the long term. The firm’s fundamentally oriented investments focus primarily on the global Internet, technology, telecom, media consumer, and industrial sectors. The private equity strategyhas a ten-year investment horizon and targets growth-oriented private companies. The public equity efforts emphasize deep due diligence on individual companies and long-term secular themes.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, China
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- JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
- Databricks — Databricks combines data warehouses & data lakes into a lakehouse architecture. Collaborate on all of your data, analytics & AI workloads using one platform.
- Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.
Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created by founders for founders to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators across ten micro funds.The Fund's $50M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.
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- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- hound — Hound is the best united states veterinary job board. We're here to help you find veterinary technician jobs, veterinary job openings, and veterinarian job openings.
- Offered.ai — Get offers at high-paying jobs or it's free
- Scape Mexico — SCAPE takes qualified therapists and selected by an expert team to your home, office, to give you the best quality massage. Just select the desired massage, indicate your full address and payment method and in a maximum of 3 hours SCAPE will be with you to provide you with a great experience. It's that simple, just enter, select and relax.
Founders Fund AS is a venture capital firm based in Oslo. Founders Fund AS offers investment management, advisory, and other related services. Founders Fund serves customers in Norway.
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- B2B, SaaS, Internet
- Seed
- Norway, United States
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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.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Castelion — We are a modern defense production company building the next generation of military hypersonic, vehicle, and strike systems to deter future wars.
- Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
- Blackbird — We believe the next great hospitality technology platform should connect restaurants and their customers directly, in meaningful and ongoing ways. Blackbird is founded by a team with a passion for restaurants and a track record of using technology to solve problems.
Jamie Brooker is the Founder & Strategic Advisor at Kahoot!
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- Education, Publishing, EBooks
- Seed, Series B
- Norway, United Kingdom
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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.
Provide an effective, outsourced incubation and acceleration platform .
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- Energy, Battery, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Seed
- Finland
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- Akkurate — Sandvik Battery Electric Loaders and Trucks TH550B LH518B Mobile Charging Station Battery as a Service
- Solar Foods — The Finnish company Solar Foods Oy produces an entirely new kind of nutrient-rich protein using only air and electricity as the main resources. The goal of the company is to start commercial production of the environmentally revolutionary protein in 2020.Solar Foods’ concept redefines the basics of food production, as it is not dependent onagriculture, the weather, or the climate. The price of the protein product is also competitive compared to sources such as soy protein.
- The Human Touch Robotics — Introducing robotics with the lightness of the human touch in realms once thought impossible.
Voima Ventures’ mission is to solve major global problems by combining science, entrepreneurship, and value adding capital. They shed light on the ideas and technology which require time and courage to build. Industry domains include bio and new materials, medical technologies and life sciences, imaging and optics, IoT and electronics, robotics,software & ICT and AI. In addition, Voima Ventures has invested in more than 30 deep tech startups, including companies like Solar Foods, Infinited Fiber Company, and Dispelix. Cornerstone investors are VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and European Investment Fund (EIF), backed by Finnish private and institutional investors.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Finland, Norway, Sweden
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- ÄIO — Innovative food technologies to replace palm oil, coconut oil and animal fats with sustainable and healthier alternatives.
- Alba Health — Discover your baby's gut health & microbiome for the best start in life.
- Quantagonia — Advanced quantum algorithms, for your most important business problems, delivering breakthrough performance on today's high-performance computers, with seamless migration for later use on quantum computers.
Overwolf is an all-in-one platform for creating, sharing and monetizing in-game apps and mods
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- Gaming, Video Games, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, Israel, Norway
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- Gankster — Gankster is the all-in-one competitive gaming platform that makes it easy to team up, practice, and compete in your favorite games.
- Bring It On — Bring It On is a mission to redefine the skill games category, merging strong technological infra.
- SuperDuperSecret — The developer's initial game, Royale Chess, a ten-player battle royale chess game, is the first of many to be released on their meta-game platform, which focuses on multiplayer, evergreen games.
We are Sandwater. Regeneration of our resources. Vitalizing healthcare & education. Improving life through technology.
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- AgTech, Energy, Battery
- Seed, Series A
- Norway
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- Evyon — Eyvon is an electrical company that provides EV battery solutions to accelerate into a fully renewable future for everyone. The company's proprietary hardware and Battery Cloud ecosystem enable the conversion of EV batteries into high-quality, affordable, and plug-and-play battery energy storage systems.Eyvon's mission is to convertbattery waste into high-quality battery systems by repurposing discarded EV batteries. By leveraging a standardized and data-driven value chain, their ambition is to provide solutions at less than half the price of new ones.It was founded in 2020 and is based 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.
Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created by founders for founders to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators across ten micro funds.The Fund's $50M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.
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- Software, FinTech, Health Care
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Australia, India
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- SATIM — SATIM provides insights based on satellite radar data acquired regardless of weather and day/night time. Using developed software and algorithms SATIM can solve the problem of optimal information extraction from complex SAR imagery.
- Revio — Subscription billing and payments made easy.
- Vera — Vera develops an assessment platform to identify and address risks in artificial intelligence and machine learning models. It engages key stakeholders across teams to create data-driven assessments and use data science tools to investigate AI and ML models, helping organizations navigate through uncertainty and protecting companies and individualsfrom risky artificial intelligence systems.
We are a leading early-stage investment platform. We are at the center of a global ecosystem that attracts and fuels the technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Puraffinity — Puraffinity develops targeted materials for water treatment, focused on forever chemicals called PFAS. Our strategic intent is to provide 1 billion people with PFAS safe water by 2030
- Windup Minds — Windup Minds is a game studio focused on creating VR and MR virtual pet experiences. The company runs a gaming studio that aims to bring virtual pet games to market.
- Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.
We invest in pre-seed and seed stage companies in the developer tooling, infra, OSS, cybersecurity and ML and AI infra.
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- Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Israel, France
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- BentoML — BentoML is the platform for software engineers to build AI products.
- Filigran — Anticipate cyber threats and disrupt crisis preparation. Home of OpenCTI, OpenEx and more.
- Speakeasy — Speakeasy product & overview
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- Robotics, Software, Industrial Automation
- Pre-Seed
- Norway
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- The Human Touch Robotics — Introducing robotics with the lightness of the human touch in realms once thought impossible.
Tiger Holding was added in 2010.
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- Internet, Wireless, Messaging
- Funding Round
- Norway
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- Ping Communication — Home Control, Jensen of Scandinavia and Ping Communication have merged to become Heimgard Technologies. We are on a mission to...
The preferred growth partner to tech-enabled businesses in Northern Europe.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
- Sweden, Norway, Germany
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- Blinto — Blinto offers an online auction platform that offers both sellers and buyers the opportunity to meet via a complete online auction service. The products primarily auctioned on its websites are construction machines, commercial vehicles, and tools.
- Verified — Verified specializes in providing services for electronic signing, identification, anti-money laundering and API integration solutions.
- Urban Volt — UrbanVolt makes sustainability easy via our unique light as a service model. They retrofit commercial premises with led lighting for no upfront cost. Their unique light as a service business model allows their clients to enjoy cash and energy savings from the moment of installation. They created this company and capex-free model because theybelieve businesses should not bear the financial risk of energy reduction projects. Their commitment to maintaining light fittings makes sustainability easy.
A global family of digital consumer brands leading the way across media, online marketplaces and technology ventures.
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- Apps, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Sweden, Norway, Brazil
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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.
Export Development Canada (EDC) is a Crown corporation dedicated to assisting Canadian businesses of all sizes in achieving global success. It provides them with the tools they need to grow their business with confidence, including trade knowledge, financial solutions, equity, insurance, and connections.
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- Software, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Canada, United States, India
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- Niricson — Niricson Software has developed a proprietary damage assessment software platform paired with a patent-pending drone-based data collection technology that helps infrastructure owners inspect their structures (e.g. hydro dams) in a way that is more accurate, five times faster, and 50% more cost-effective. Niricson is differentiated by its ability toautomatically detect and quantify not only surface damage, but also subsurface damage.
- Koios Intelligence — MISSIONKoïos Intelligence is on a mission to Improve the insurance value chain using conversational AI.Our platform Olivo is built for insurance customers with the goal of eliminating waiting time, reducing operational costs and offering an unprecedented customer experience. Based on Natural Language Processing and state-of-the-art ArtificialIntelligence, Olivo is made to answer new customer needs and expectations in today’s digital world.
- Vive Crop Protection — Vive makes effective and sustainable pesticides for organic and non-organic production. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Nysnø is a governmental climate investment fund investing in companies that solve climate challenges. The investment fund is set up as a commercial company that invests in technologies that contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It was established in 2017 in Stavanger, Rogalan by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry.
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- Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Norway
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- Tise — Tise is a social, mobile marketplace for second-hand fashion and interiors. Download the app here.
- eSmart Systems — ESmart Systems provides AI-driven software solutions to the energy industry and service providers. The company is based on more than 20 years of international experience in establishing and operating knowledge based, leading IT and energy related companies targeting global markets.The company provides software solutions to the energy industry andservice providers. Its cloud-born platform is designed to handle and exploit the Internet of Things, Big Data and Analytics in real-time. Common to all applications is vast data quantities gathered from sensors, which are analyzed using advanced prediction and optimization models. This results in completely new ways of visualizing data, making decisions and saving resources and costs. The platform is designed for Big Data from the ground up without legacy.eSmart Systems originates from the renowned IFE environment (Institute for Energy Technology). The company was founded in 2012 by an experienced team previously responsible for large IT service exports including delivery of the world's first power exchange to Nord Pool, the Nordic Power Exchange, in 1991. Since 2012 the company has grown rapidly and currently consists of almost 80 employees with offices in Norway, Denmark, the UK, and USA.
- Morrow Batteries — To solve the climate crisis, we need to accelerate the green energy transition. Morrow Batteries are building a giga-scale battery cell factory in the South of Norway. We will develop and industrialize new and innovative battery technology.
SNÖ is an early stage venture capital firm that empowers Nordic technology entrepreneurs and startups. They founders are builders and entrepreneurs themselves, with unique digital expertise, and are extremely passionate about the various aspects that make a startup succeed.SNÖ is based in Oslo, Norway. It was founded by Magne Uppman and TeodorBjerrang in 2015.
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- Software, SaaS, Video Games
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Norway, Vietnam
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- Breyta — Unify your customer and user data to get actionable insights throughout your customer lifecycle.
- Stablegains — No hidden fees, no minimum balances, no commitment periods. Takes only a few minutes to get started.
- Ignite Procurement — A powerful & easy spend management tool to accelerate your procurement success by bringing clarity, clean data & sophisticated analytics to your fingertips
Bring Ventures is the Corporate Venture arm of the Norway Post Group. Bring Ventures is dedicated to invest in disruptive and ambitious seed and early phase companies within sustainability and digitalization. We strive to be a value-adding investor by building close relationships, exchange capabilities, expertise, customers and volumes. We believethe success of the future will be created together in a collaboration with other actors such as universities, innovation environments and start-ups. We want to contribute to create and build completely new type of business models – like ecosystem.
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- E-Commerce, B2B, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom
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- Tise — Tise is a social, mobile marketplace for second-hand fashion and interiors. Download the app here.
- Kavall — Kavall is a grocery delivery startup.
- Aviant — Delivering full-stack drone services that enables autonomous and on-demand transport of cargo.
Luminar Ventures is a venture capital fund that prefers to make early-stage investments in technology companies. They engage with their portfolio companies and are actively helping with strategic, growth, team and organizational, and operational support, and together setting the foundation for future expansion.Luminar's core investment focusis on scalable digital seed-stage companies from the Nordics, founded by highly motivated and talented entrepreneurs with a vision to disrupt or transform major industries. The firm aims to provide experienced seed-stage financing and active operational support to Sweden based early-stage technology companies that are looking to disrupt or transform major industries with digital technologies and innovations.
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- Software, Information Technology, Insurance
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Sweden, United States, Norway
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- Muninn — AI-powered cyber security - defending your entire network
- Aviant — Delivering full-stack drone services that enables autonomous and on-demand transport of cargo.
- Vibrant — The best in taking easy payments! Start accepting contactless transactions straight through your phone!
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