# Top 45 Manufacturing Startup Investors in Norway in May 2026

## Investinor
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Trondheim, Sor-Trondelag, Norway
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing

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.

## SINTEF Venture AS
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Trondheim, Sor-Trondelag, Norway
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Energy

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.

## ProVenture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Trondheim, Sor-Trondelag, Norway
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Oil and Gas, Software, Information Technology

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).

## CoFounder
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Trondheim, Sor-Trondelag, Norway
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Industrial, SaaS

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.

## Antler
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

## Momentum
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, AgTech, Consumer

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.

## Alliance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Analytics

Alliance Venture is a Nordic venture capital firm investing in exceptional early-stage tech companies and purpose-driven founders.

## Butterfly Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology

Butterfly Ventures is a seed-stage focused VC in the Nordics, investing in deep tech, hardware, and hardware interfacing software. The company prefers to get involved with companies early on; 80% of Butterfly Ventures portfolio companies don't have any revenue at the time of their entry. Butterfly Ventures was founded in 2012 and ever sincethen it has been one of the most active early stage VCs in the region. The company has offices in Oulu, Helsinki and Stockholm.

## Bakken & Baeck
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Chemical, Software, Life Science

A technology-driven design studio. Building digital products, brands and businesses, we help ambitious companies identify, explore and respond to new opportunities.

## Dawn Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

We are a family of investors, entrepreneurs, strategists and operational specialists, drawn together by our passion for helping B2B founders build category-defining companies.

## Valinor AS
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Robotics, SaaS

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.

## TRUMPF Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ditzingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Artificial Intelligence

The corporate venture capital arm TRUMPF Venture extends TRUMPF’s comprehensive activities to promote innovation and to detect disruptive technologies and business models early on. TRUMPF is the world technological and market leader for machine tools used in flexible sheet metal processing as well as industrial lasers. TRUMPF Venture investsglobally in early-stage start-ups active in areas complementary or adjacent to the TRUMPF core, such as Advances Photonics and Smart Factory. Funded start-ups benefit from an extensive network, deep domain knowhow, proven skills in scalability as well as support to access the TRUMPF group and its ecosystem. The requirements for a potential investment are a strategic fit, a high innovation leverage and differentiation in business model or technology, an experienced management team and risk adequate financial returns.

## SEB Pension Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Printing, Logistics, E-Commerce

SEB Pension Fund

## New Age Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device

New Age Ventures

## Kari Ollila
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Robotics, Software, Industrial Automation

Kari Ollila

## The Index Project
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Chemical, SaaS

Design to improve life is about solving real problems, small and large, simple and complex, systemic and emerging and is a life-long pursuit. The Index Project is a call to action. Are you in?

## Golar LNG Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hamilton, Hamilton, Bermuda
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Energy, Industrial, Renewable Energy

Golar LNG Partners owns floating storage and regasification units and liquefied natural gas carriers. Golar LNG Partners are a growth-oriented limited partnership formed by Golar LNG Limited (NasdaqGS: GLNG; OSE: GOL) to own and operate floating storage and regasification units (or FSRUs) and LNG carriers under long-term charters, which they defineas charters of five years or more. They intend to leverage the relationships, expertise, and reputation of Golar, a leading independent owner, and operator of FSRUs and LNG carriers, to pursue growth opportunities in these areas. While they intend to operate their assets under long-term charters with stable cash flows, Golar intends to focus primarily on FSRU and LNG project development, LNG trading and LNG transportation, storage, and regasification activities with contract terms and associated cash flows that are more short-term and/or variable in nature.

## Per Lachenmeier
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Robotics, Software, Industrial Automation

Per Lachenmeier is CEO of EasyRobotics. He is a mechanical engineer and was previously the CEO of Lachenmeier ApS for 16 years. Lachenmeier ApS, is a world leader in the production of pallet packaging machines for the global market.

## BioInnovation Institute
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Convertible Note, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care

BioInnovation Institute is a biotechnology startup that offers entrepreneurs and researchers in life science. Early-stage life science start-ups are supported with up to 10 million DKK in funding, business acceleration, network, labs, and office space. It helps to early-stage start-ups within human health and planetary health. The startup'smission is to use its knowledge, network, funding, and infrastructure to incubate world-class life science and catalyze the commercialization of new solutions through start-ups.BioInnovation Institute was founded in 2018 and is based in Denmark.

## Energy Technology Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Oil and Gas, Hardware

Founded in January 2011, Energy Technology Ventures is a joint venture involving General Electric, NRG Energy, and ConocoPhillips. The fund is focused on the development of next-generation energy technologies. The JV invests in, and offers commercial collaboration opportunities to, venture- and growth-stage energy technology companies in therenewable power generation, smart grid, energy efficiency, oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear energy, emission controls, water and biofuels sectors, primarily in North America, Europe and Israel. With their wide range of deep technical and financial expertise, relationships, services and products, the three companies behind Energy Technology Ventures intend to help start-ups develop next-generation energy technology.The joint venture brings together three market-leading companies with complementary capabilities and significant strategic interests in the development of next-generation energy technology. This is the first corporate venture investment program by both NRG Energy, owner and operator of one of the country's largest and most diverse power generation portfolios, and ConocoPhillips, the third-largest US integrated energy company. GE Capital, through its business units GE Energy Financial Services and GE Capital, Equity, is already among the world's most active energy technology venture and growth capital investors.

## ConocoPhillips Technology Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Houston, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Automotive

Implementing emerging technologies in our operating assets and exploration efforts has enabled us to realize improvements in various activities. 

## Voima Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

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.

## Green Campus Innovations Oy
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Battery, Biotechnology

Provide an effective, outsourced incubation and acceleration platform .

## AVG Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lenzingerberg, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Electronics, Manufacturing, Semiconductor

AVG Group specializes in renewable energy, nordic ESG, and impact investing services.

## Viking Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Trondheim, Sor-Trondelag, Norway
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Oil and Gas, Software, Energy

Viking Venture (The Nordic software investor) - We invest in fast-growing B2B software companies in the Nordics.

## The Nordic Web Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

The Nordic Web Ventures is an Angel Fund run by Neil S W Murray, backed by 50+ community builders, entrepreneurs and investors passionate about supporting early-stage Nordic startups.

## Trond Riiber Knudsen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Construction, SaaS

Trond Riiber Knudsen is a Founder of TRK GROUP.

## Nordic Impact
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Chemical, Life Science, Visual Search

Nordic Impact invests in, supports, and builds businesses and funds based around technology. The company's goal is to make impact investing mainstream and mobilize all business and capital towards solving the big problems in the world while making great financial returns.

## Chevron Technology Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Houston, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Software, Oil and Gas

Chevron Technology Ventures champions innovation, commercialization and integration of emerging technologies within Chevron.

## Industrifonden
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology

Industrifonden is a Nordic evergreen venture capital firm with a fund size of $600m, that focuses on early-stage technology and life science companies with international potential. The company works long term with the entrepreneurs we invest in, and have a strong track record of building game changing companies. Industrifonden-backed companiesinclude tech companies Qlik, Arcam, Soundtrack Your Brand, Fishbrain, and life science companies CellaVision, Oncopeptides and AMRA.

## Capricorn Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

Capricorn Partners is a unique independent manager of venture capital, growth capital and quoted equity funds

## Erlend Reitan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Finance

Seasoned venture capital investor helping founders and their teams hands-on to accelerate the entrepreneurial journey. Actively looking for investments with unicorn potential.M&A specialist with experience from complex cross-border transactions. Experience from more than 20 M&A transactions including more than 10 cross-border deals, exitswith mainly publicly listed and Private Equity counterparts.

## Skagerak Energi
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Battery, Electronics

Skagerak Energi is a future-oriented supplier of clean energy for welfare, growth and development.

## Sandwater
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: AgTech, Energy, Battery

We are Sandwater. Regeneration of our resources. Vitalizing healthcare & education. Improving life through technology.

## Global Ship Lease
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Energy, Industrial, Renewable Energy

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## Grieg Kapital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Robotics, Manufacturing, Semiconductor

Grieg Kapital is an investment company creating sustainable businesses. Do you have an investment opportunity for us that fits our strategy?

## Helge Rasmussen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Software, Marketing, Advertising

Helge Rasmussen is a managing director at HighComp.

## Wiski Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, AgTech, Energy

Venture capital firm focused on tech startups.

## Standard Lithium
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Energy, Industrial, Renewable Energy

Standard Lithium is the next generation of lithium producer. By applying a disciplined strategy and reducing resource, political, permitting and technology risk, and aligning with existing US based brine producing partners, the company is positioning itself to rapidly develop new production. Standard Lithium is focused on unlocking the value ofexisting large-scale US based lithium bearing brine resources that can be brought into production quickly. The company believes new lithium production can be brought on stream rapidly by minimizing project risks at selection stage; resource, political & geographic, regulatory & permitting, and by leveraging advances in lithium extraction technologies and processes.

## MKS PAMP
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Energy, Industrial, Renewable Energy

MKS PAMP specializes in all aspects of the precious metals industry. It offers a full range of precious metals products for every segment of the market, with particular emphasis on investment, jewelry, and industrial applications. They provide global clients with the comprehensive service solutions available, from mining financing and refining tofabrication, physical and financial trading, as well as transport and storage options.

## Ivo Remmelg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Mobile, Sports, Software

Ivo Remmelg is a Venture Partner at Superhero Capital and the Founding Partner of NestCap.

## Shell Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Software

Shell Ventures invests in companies to speed up development and deployment of new technologies which complement our business.

## Nysnø
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Manufacturing

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.

## Azolla Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Environmental Engineering, Forestry, CleanTech

Azolla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies.

## Export Development Canada
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing

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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