# Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Norway in May 2026 ## Trond Riiber Knudsen - Type: Angel - Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Construction, SaaS Trond Riiber Knudsen is a Founder of TRK GROUP. ## Chris Murphy - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Chris Murphy is a Venture Partner at MS&AD Ventures. He previously worked at SaaStock and attended Dublin City University. ## Jon Oyvind Eriksen - Type: Angel - Location: Trondheim, Sor-Trondelag, Norway - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Security, Internet of Things Jon Oyvind Eriksen - CEO and founder @ Aidiom ## Anne Worsoe - Type: Angel - Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Financial Services 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. ## Johan Brand - Type: Angel - Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, EdTech, Information Technology 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). ## Petter Stordalen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Focus: Apps, Energy, Customer Service Petter Stordalen ## Sean Percival - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Manufacturing Sean Percival is the Chief Marketing Officer of Iterate Norway. ## Kris Riise - Type: Angel - Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, B2B, SaaS Kris is a high school dropout and self taught builder who brings ideas to life and newness to the world.He has a relentless focus on empowering people to spend time on what really matters. Kris is highly optimistic, has a strong bias toward action, and rigorously works for the future to be better than the past.Today, Kris is Founder CEO ofUnloc. Their mission is to digitize keys and make life easier for everyone with a front door.Kris never quits once his mind is set on solving a problem.Web: unloc.ai ## Christian Hager - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, B2B, SaaS Christian Hager - Co-Founder @ Hjemmelegene ## Tharald Nustad - Type: Angel - Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Farming, Information Technology, Communities 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. ## Nicolaj Nielsen - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Nicolaj nielsen is an investor at IDUN audio. attended INSEAD MBA, General Management. ## Ryan Sean Adams - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance Ryan Sean Adams ## Anthony Sassano - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency Anthony Sassano is a Product Marketing Manager at Set Labs. He attended La Trobe University. ## Harry Stebbings - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet Harry is the Founder of The Twenty Minute VC, the world's largest independent venture capital podcast with over 100,000 listeners, partnerships with Mattermark and ProductHunt and guests from over 200VCs including the likes of Accel, Kleiner, Y Combinator, Benchmark and Index. He is also a contributor for TechCrunch covering all thingsstartups and VC funding and has recently joined Jason Lemkin at Saastr to build out the platform and expand into new verticals. ## Josh Buckley - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services Josh Buckley is the CEO of Product Hunt. ## Martin Henk - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Martin Henk is the Co-founder of Pipedrive. ## Hiten Shah - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Hiten Shah is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nira. He attended the University of California, Berkeley. ## David Clarke - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, SaaS, Software David Clarke is the Venture Partner at Frontline Ventures. He attended Trinity College Dublin during 1989-1993. ## Jason Jacobs - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Developer APIs, Information Services, Information Technology Jason Jacobs is a Partner at MCJ Collective and was a Founder and CEO at FitnessKeeper. He attended Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business and Wesleyan University. ## Andreas Lundgren - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Developer APIs, Information Services, Information Technology Andreas Lundgren is the head of engineering at Tink AB. ## Wilhelm Joys Andersen - Type: Angel - Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: CMS, PaaS, SaaS In an earlier life, Wilhelm built web browsers. Now he’s leading his own development agency, trying to turn grand visions into running code. He also contributes to the next generation of web standards at W3C. ## kevin bespolka - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Web Apps, Compliance, Consulting kevin bespolka is a Global macro investor. ## Bogomil Balkansky - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software Bogomil Balkansky is a Partner at Sequoia Capital. He started his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Bogomil holds a bachelor of arts in Mathematics from Cornell University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. ## Matt Cohler - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Internet, Social Media, Enterprise Software Matt Cohler is a General Partner at At Benchmark, Matt has partnered with entrepreneurs from across the social, mobile, and cloud industries from around the globe suchas Instagram, Dropbox, Quora, Asana, Domo, Edmodo, Baixing, CouchSurfing, Peixe Urbano, ResearchGate, 1stdibs, and Zendesk.Prior to joining Benchmark he served as the VP of Product Management at Previously Matt was Vice President and General Manager at Matt also has been a consultant in ## Edvard Engesæth - Type: Angel - Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, B2B, E-Commerce Founder at Nurx ## Murshid M. Ali - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, CleanTech Dr. Murshid M. Ali is the Co-Founder at Skyfri, and a serial entrepreneur. He holds a Phd in Economics from the University of Stavanger, and a masters degree in International Business from Grenoble Ecole de Management. ## Gustaf Alstromer - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Information Technology, SaaS Gustaf Alstromer is a partner at Y Combinator. Before joining Y Combinator he spent 4.5 years at Airbnb where he worked as a Product Lead on the Growth team, a team he helped start in 2012. ## Jason Choi - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain Jason Choi is Venture Investor at Contrary Capital. ## Luis Cuende - Type: Angel - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Computer, Ethereum, Software Luis is a hacker and free culture lover who founded various startups since he got involved in free software development at age 12.He was awarded as the best hacker of Europe under 18 at age 15.He was also an Advisor to the Vice-president of the European Commission, Neelie Kroes, who is in charge of the EU's Digital Agenda.He hasalready released his first book, that reached the #1 in Amazon's Business category. Although he is 19 he is not attending college and believes a huge change in the educational system has to be made.Luis defines himself as a crypto-anarchist, and because of that he's a Bitcoin lover.His latest startup, called Stampery, wants to provide a digital certification method by using Bitcoin's technology to get rid of notaries. ## 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. ## Christian Rokseth - Type: Angel - Location: Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Electronics, CRM, Security 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. ## Nicolaj B. Petersen - Type: Angel - Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Video Conferencing Founder of Dirtybit. ## Kea Zhang - Type: Angel - Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Software Kea Zhang ## Calvin Ayre - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Information Technology, Bitcoin Calvin Ayre (born May 25, 1961, in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Canada) is the founder of the Bodog online gaming and entertainment brand, which he developed and launched in 1994.Ayre received a Bachelor of Sciences (BSc) in General Sciences from the University of Waterloo in 1984. In 1989, Ayre earned an MBA in Management Finance from CityUniversity of Seattle. ## Carsten Thoma - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Carsten co-founded hybris in 1997. He is responsible for global operations, marketing and corporate planning of the company. After successfully driving the hybris North America market entry Carsten led the team that managed the acquisition of iCongo in August 2011. His relentless pursuit for talent has resulted in a highly motivated and passionateworkforce and unique corporate culture as that is at the center of the company’s success. He began his career at Hewlett Packard, where his ideas for a standardized and flexible e-commerce software were the starting point for what would become hybris. Carsten studied law and also holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration ## Alex MacCaw - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Mr. Alex MacCaw Co-Founded and served as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Clearbit. He is also the Founder of Sourcing.io. He also serves as Advisor at Evergrow. He also serves as an executive at Earl Grey Capital. ## Jamie Brooker - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Education, Publishing, EBooks Jamie Brooker is the Founder & Strategic Advisor at Kahoot! ## Kari Ollila - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Robotics, Software, Industrial Automation Kari Ollila ## Barthélémy Kiss - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Video Games, 3D Technology Barthélémy Kiss ## Thomas W. Grieg - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Software, Collaboration, Asset Management Thomas W. Grieg ## Matteo Leibowitz - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Computer, Ethereum, Software Matteo Leibowitz ## Andrew Lundsten - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Banking, FinTech, Finance Andrew Lundsten is the Chief Operating Officer of Feather. Prior to that, he served Stripe and PwC. ## 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. ## Andreas Randel - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Apps, Fashion, Shopping Andreas Randel ## Zachary Hargreaves - Type: Angel - Location: Berkeley, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Artificial Intelligence Zachary Hargreaves is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Vires Aeronautics. ## Li Jin - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Software, Finance Li Jin is the Founder of Atelier Ventures . Attended Harvard University. ## Sverre Tyrhaug - Type: Angel - Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Food and Beverage Sverre Tyrhaug is a lawyer working for Thommessen ## Roger Amdundsen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Cloud Data Services Roger Amdundsen ## Paolo Negri - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Computer, Software, Network Security Paolo Negri is a technical expert in cloud-based services and APIs. He co-founded Contentful after 10 years in the international I.T. industry driven by his strong belief in the API technology shift. Starting in Italy, Paolo moved to the U.K. to take a more active part in the Web 2.0 wave. He first worked in the software industry before moving toFuture, one of the U.K.’s fastest growing company, as a Business Intelligence specialist. Following a detour in Munich, Paolo joined Wooga, the social gaming platform, where he supported a staggering 10-fold growth in 24-months. ## Mikael Randel - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Apps, Fashion, Shopping Mikael Randel # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co