Top 40 Agriculture (agtech) Startup Investors in Norway in December 2024

Investor	Agriculture (agtech) Norway investments
Norselab	2
Momentum	2
Norselab	2
Momentum	2
Valinor AS	1
Draper Startup House Ventures	1
World Wildlife Fund	1
Jakob Hatteland	1
Valinor AS	1
Draper Startup House Ventures	1
Pelican Ag	1
Nacre Capital	1
Cibus Fund	1
VIS	1
NTNU Discovery	1
Innovation Norway	1
World Wildlife Fund	1
Innovation Norway	1
Pelican Ag	1
Cibus Fund	1
Nacre Capital	1
VIS	1
Morten Thorsby	1
TeleVenture Management	1
Sandwater	1
Ferd	1
Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund	1
Investinor	1
Skagerak Maturo	1
Norwegian Research Council	1
Investinor	1
Norwegian Research Council	1
Skagerak Maturo	1
Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund	1
Sandwater	1
TeleVenture Management	1
Ferd	1
Jakob Hatteland	1
NTNU Discovery	1
Nysnø	1

Norselab is a leading European impact investment house. We are dedicated to proving that impact is the future of investing across asset classes.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Agriculture
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 — Wanda.space is a technology and logistics start-up delivering space as a service.

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.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, AgTech
Seed, Funding Round
Norway, Finland

Portfolio highlights

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.

Norselab is a leading European impact investment house. We are dedicated to proving that impact is the future of investing across asset classes.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Agriculture
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 — Wanda.space is a technology and logistics start-up delivering space as a service.

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.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Norway, Finland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Glint Solar — Enabling developers to identify and analyze the best solar sites
Gentian Limited — Gentian Limited is pioneering the next generation of ecological surveys by harnessing the power of AI and remote sensing technologies. Founded in 2020, we are committed to transforming how biodiversity is assessed in both rural and urban environments. Our innovative platform utilizes machine learning and high-resolution satellite imagery to deliverfast, accurate, and cost-effective ecological assessments.Our cutting-edge technology provides precise habitat mapping and biodiversity quantification, aligning with global disclosure metrics. This enables organizations to make informed decisions about environmental conservation and sustainability. Whether it's for environmental compliance, land management, or conservation efforts, Gentian’s solutions offer unparalleled accuracy and efficiency compared to traditional survey methods.With a dedicated team led by CEO and Founder Daniel White, we are on a mission to support a more sustainable future by providing the tools necessary for better understanding and protecting our natural world. We are proud to be at the forefront of ecological innovation, making a real impact on how biodiversity is monitored and preserved.Join us on our journey to revolutionize environmental assessment, and discover how Gentian is setting new standards in ecological technology.
Remora Robotics — Remora Robotics is a Norwegian technology firm that specializes on aquaculture robotics.

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.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Robotics, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Norway, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aivero — The Easiest Path from Camera to Machine Learning. Aivero provides an intuitive platform for real-time video streaming across multiple cameras, enabling effortless data capture from both 2D and 3D sensors
Heaten — HeatBooster - Patented high-temperature heat pump technology reducing the reliance on fossil fuels by creating reusable energy.
Sensonomic — Sensonomic helps you improve your land-based decisions by building digital versions of your operations. Test the outcome of your decisions before implementation.

Ventures | Draper Startup House

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Manolin — Manolin is the leading aquaculture management platform to accelerate data insights and aquaculture intelligence for global fish farms and suppliers.
Giftpack — Giftpack is an AI-powered gifting infrastructure that helps HR, Marketers, and Sales streamline gifting operations globally and build up gifting automation from design, manufacturing, global onboarding, employee recognition, client retention, and sales enablement, driving the efficiency and engagement for business success.
PharmInt — A fully integrated B2B Pharmaceutical Products MarketplaceAt Pharmint, we bring together everything that’s required to procure pharma products globally under one roof. We help suppliers get discovered, negotiate prices, and seal the trade terms whereas we help our buyers by vetting all documentation and holding their payments in escrow till theirshipments are delivered and verified.A technology first approach to solving counter-party risk Experience true peace of mind as a buyer as we do the heavy lifting for you. Get access to thousands of verified sellers from across the world while our trade and escrow services ensure that your purchases are protected.Get the best prices & selection of products Our vast network of over 500 verified and onboarded suppliers with a catalogue of over 10,000 products ensures we serve all buyer needs across various MOQ and pricing banHow it works:From product discovery to product deliveryWe assist you in discovering new products, matching with potential qualified manufacturers, and making the deals happen.1. Discover new productsSearch for the high-potential products in the largest human-curated CTD database. Narrow your search applying the industry-specific filter that helps sort products by GMP approvals, country of origin, dossier type, dossier status, stability, and other valuable features.2. Get offers from manufacturers3. Connect with qualified manufacturers directlyThe largest database Simplify product discovery, reduce business development effort and costs with access to an expert curated up-to-date CTD dossier database.Direct supplier relations We enjoy direct working relations with platform manufacturers. We’ll provide the best conditions to negotiate your deal details and use our authority to make the deal happen.Vetted products We match customers only with qualified manufacturers. Our marketplace features only vetted products with up-to-date regulatory data.Industry expertise Pharmint is backed by in-depth understanding of the pharmaceutical market by its founders and associates and a strong track-record in the pharmaceutical industry.Commercial guidance We assist our customers in preparing the deal structure, evaluate annual forecasts and pricing, regulatory requirements and cover other aspects in bringing new products to market.Self-service 24/7 Buyers can search for products, make multiple RFQs, receive commercial offers, negotiate deals and build their pipeline. Sellers can manage an unlimited number of products and indicate market availability at any time.

World Wildlife Fund - The leading organization in wildlife conservation and endangered species. Learn how you can help WWF make a difference.

Investment focus

Seafood, Food Processing, Farming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Norway, Faroe Islands, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

OCEANIUM — OCEANIUM is a world-leading developer of innovative, functional seaweed ingredients to catalyse the seaweed industry for People Health and Ocean Health.
Ocean Rainforest — Ocean Rainforest offer a collection of premium fully-traceable seaweed products, mostly for food and cosmetic producers.
Seaweed Solutions — Seaweed Solutions AS is one of Europe's largest seaweed farmers based in Norway. Our experience in seaweed farming dates back to 1978.

Jakob Hatteland is the Founder of Autostore and has an investment company called Jahatt.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Software
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Sensonomic — Sensonomic helps you improve your land-based decisions by building digital versions of your operations. Test the outcome of your decisions before implementation.

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.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Robotics, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Norway, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aivero — The Easiest Path from Camera to Machine Learning. Aivero provides an intuitive platform for real-time video streaming across multiple cameras, enabling effortless data capture from both 2D and 3D sensors
Heaten — HeatBooster - Patented high-temperature heat pump technology reducing the reliance on fossil fuels by creating reusable energy.
Sensonomic — Sensonomic helps you improve your land-based decisions by building digital versions of your operations. Test the outcome of your decisions before implementation.

Ventures | Draper Startup House

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Manolin — Manolin is the leading aquaculture management platform to accelerate data insights and aquaculture intelligence for global fish farms and suppliers.
Giftpack — Giftpack is an AI-powered gifting infrastructure that helps HR, Marketers, and Sales streamline gifting operations globally and build up gifting automation from design, manufacturing, global onboarding, employee recognition, client retention, and sales enablement, driving the efficiency and engagement for business success.
PharmInt — A fully integrated B2B Pharmaceutical Products MarketplaceAt Pharmint, we bring together everything that’s required to procure pharma products globally under one roof. We help suppliers get discovered, negotiate prices, and seal the trade terms whereas we help our buyers by vetting all documentation and holding their payments in escrow till theirshipments are delivered and verified.A technology first approach to solving counter-party risk Experience true peace of mind as a buyer as we do the heavy lifting for you. Get access to thousands of verified sellers from across the world while our trade and escrow services ensure that your purchases are protected.Get the best prices & selection of products Our vast network of over 500 verified and onboarded suppliers with a catalogue of over 10,000 products ensures we serve all buyer needs across various MOQ and pricing banHow it works:From product discovery to product deliveryWe assist you in discovering new products, matching with potential qualified manufacturers, and making the deals happen.1. Discover new productsSearch for the high-potential products in the largest human-curated CTD database. Narrow your search applying the industry-specific filter that helps sort products by GMP approvals, country of origin, dossier type, dossier status, stability, and other valuable features.2. Get offers from manufacturers3. Connect with qualified manufacturers directlyThe largest database Simplify product discovery, reduce business development effort and costs with access to an expert curated up-to-date CTD dossier database.Direct supplier relations We enjoy direct working relations with platform manufacturers. We’ll provide the best conditions to negotiate your deal details and use our authority to make the deal happen.Vetted products We match customers only with qualified manufacturers. Our marketplace features only vetted products with up-to-date regulatory data.Industry expertise Pharmint is backed by in-depth understanding of the pharmaceutical market by its founders and associates and a strong track-record in the pharmaceutical industry.Commercial guidance We assist our customers in preparing the deal structure, evaluate annual forecasts and pricing, regulatory requirements and cover other aspects in bringing new products to market.Self-service 24/7 Buyers can search for products, make multiple RFQs, receive commercial offers, negotiate deals and build their pipeline. Sellers can manage an unlimited number of products and indicate market availability at any time.

Join the Sustainable Food Revolution. Pelican Ag is the UK's first VC firm powering sustainable food systems. We back Innovators. Pioneering Regenerative Agriculture, Smart Supply Chains and the Sustainable Consumer. Connecting the world to affordable, nutritious and delicious food whilst restoring ecosystems.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Credit
Seed, Series A
Norway, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
Mad capital — Mad Capital is not your normal lender.

Nacre Capital is a global venture builder specialized in creating, building and growing disruptive start-ups with deep technologies .

Investment focus

Software, Aquaculture, Health Care
Series A
Israel, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Aquaticode — Aquaticode builds artificial intelligence for aquaculture. We use machine learning to solve some of the industry's most significant challenges.
Fairtility — Fairtility powers IVF through transparent artificial intelligence to improve outcomes. Welcome to the new frontier of IVF data.

Cibus Capital prioritises Agrifood Tech Investments, contributing to the dynamic future of agriculture - more food, better food, with less impact on our planet.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Food and Beverage
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

BeeHero — BeeHero - Your precision pollination provider for almonds, berries, apples and more We raise and keep exceptional bees by combining generations of commercial beekeeping experience with cutting-edge technology. Get premium bees & pollinate your crops with precision.
Ecorobotix — ecoRobotix contributes to an agriculture that respects the environment, focusing on soil and hydrological resources conservation and using a minimum amount of energy. ecoRobotix aims to offer precise, safe, reliable and affordable robotic solutions that simplify farmers’ life to produce healthy food. In particular, its revolutionary solar-poweredweeding robot offers a more sustainable use of herbicides while reducing farmers costs.
Burro — Burro is a developer of an autonomous farming platform for use on farms and in other tough outdoor environments. It follows people and can autonomously run cargo around, relieving people of strenuous tasks which add little value, so that they can focus on more valuable work.

VIS contributes to solve challenges in society efficiently, making sure that knowledge and ideas into benefits for the society.

Investment focus

Aerospace, Aquaculture, Software Engineering
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Dynaspace — Great insights for greater impact!

Provide financial support in a phase where few others are willing to invest money.

Investment focus

Aquaculture, Information Technology
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Optimeering Aqua — We help farmers make better decisions by bringing together data and optimization

Innovasjon Norge - vi gir lokale ideer globale muligheter

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Seed, Funding Round
Norway, Romania, United States

Portfolio highlights

Leasi — Leasi delivers a forward-thinking rental and resource management system for companies that engage in internal or external distribution of machinery. This is achieved through an ecosystem that emphasizes the excessive use of data and datasharing, with a focus on user experience. Our goal is to create a simpler, more streamlined, and more efficientworkday for industry players by leveraging the power of data and collaboration within the ecosystem to ultimately reduce emissions, increase efficiency and enhance profitability.
Plaace — Proptech company creating vibrant streets and cities by helping property owners choose and connect with the right concepts, at the right place, using the right data.
Carbon Centrum — Measure, Act & Get Rewarded!

World Wildlife Fund - The leading organization in wildlife conservation and endangered species. Learn how you can help WWF make a difference.

Investment focus

Seafood, Food Processing, Farming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Norway, Faroe Islands, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

OCEANIUM — OCEANIUM is a world-leading developer of innovative, functional seaweed ingredients to catalyse the seaweed industry for People Health and Ocean Health.
Ocean Rainforest — Ocean Rainforest offer a collection of premium fully-traceable seaweed products, mostly for food and cosmetic producers.
Seaweed Solutions — Seaweed Solutions AS is one of Europe's largest seaweed farmers based in Norway. Our experience in seaweed farming dates back to 1978.

Innovasjon Norge - vi gir lokale ideer globale muligheter

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Seed, Funding Round
Norway, Romania, United States

Portfolio highlights

Leasi — Leasi delivers a forward-thinking rental and resource management system for companies that engage in internal or external distribution of machinery. This is achieved through an ecosystem that emphasizes the excessive use of data and datasharing, with a focus on user experience. Our goal is to create a simpler, more streamlined, and more efficientworkday for industry players by leveraging the power of data and collaboration within the ecosystem to ultimately reduce emissions, increase efficiency and enhance profitability.
Plaace — Proptech company creating vibrant streets and cities by helping property owners choose and connect with the right concepts, at the right place, using the right data.
Carbon Centrum — Measure, Act & Get Rewarded!

Join the Sustainable Food Revolution. Pelican Ag is the UK's first VC firm powering sustainable food systems. We back Innovators. Pioneering Regenerative Agriculture, Smart Supply Chains and the Sustainable Consumer. Connecting the world to affordable, nutritious and delicious food whilst restoring ecosystems.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Credit
Seed, Series A
Norway, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
Mad capital — Mad Capital is not your normal lender.

Cibus Capital prioritises Agrifood Tech Investments, contributing to the dynamic future of agriculture - more food, better food, with less impact on our planet.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Food and Beverage
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

BeeHero — BeeHero - Your precision pollination provider for almonds, berries, apples and more We raise and keep exceptional bees by combining generations of commercial beekeeping experience with cutting-edge technology. Get premium bees & pollinate your crops with precision.
Ecorobotix — ecoRobotix contributes to an agriculture that respects the environment, focusing on soil and hydrological resources conservation and using a minimum amount of energy. ecoRobotix aims to offer precise, safe, reliable and affordable robotic solutions that simplify farmers’ life to produce healthy food. In particular, its revolutionary solar-poweredweeding robot offers a more sustainable use of herbicides while reducing farmers costs.
Burro — Burro is a developer of an autonomous farming platform for use on farms and in other tough outdoor environments. It follows people and can autonomously run cargo around, relieving people of strenuous tasks which add little value, so that they can focus on more valuable work.

Nacre Capital is a global venture builder specialized in creating, building and growing disruptive start-ups with deep technologies .

Investment focus

Software, Aquaculture, Health Care
Series A
Israel, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Aquaticode — Aquaticode builds artificial intelligence for aquaculture. We use machine learning to solve some of the industry's most significant challenges.
Fairtility — Fairtility powers IVF through transparent artificial intelligence to improve outcomes. Welcome to the new frontier of IVF data.

VIS contributes to solve challenges in society efficiently, making sure that knowledge and ideas into benefits for the society.

Investment focus

Aerospace, Aquaculture, Software Engineering
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Dynaspace — Space technology meets aquaculture. Dynaspace advances the transparency of aquaculture by utilizing satellite imagery to provide a cloud based platform with the most comprehensive map of aquaculture operations. This empowers farmers to gain access to the resources they need to ensure environmental and sustainable production.Dynaspace turns rawdata into actionable insights through our cloud-based platform InsightSPHERE. Our insights enable global environmental and sustainable monitoring, directs suppliers of carbon-neutral feed, life improving technology, renewable energy and antibiotic-free health products to farmers, and helps governments to effectively improve food security and resource utilization. InsightSPHERE technology can leapfrog the aquaculture industry by improving farmers’ access to financial and insurance products by providing the critical data needed to de-risk investments.

Morten Thorsby is a pro football player and founder of We Play Green.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Software
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Sensonomic — Sensonomic helps you improve your land-based decisions by building digital versions of your operations. Test the outcome of your decisions before implementation.

Making Venture Happen. Televenture is one of the leading venture capital companies in Norway.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Norway, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Investment focus

Apps, AgTech, Energy
Series A, Seed
Norway, Finland

Portfolio highlights

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.
XO Life — XO Life is to build the largest real-world evidence platform for patient insights for all medications and therapies. Together with one of Europe's leading research institutes for patient-centered research, the PROMIS Institute Germany of the Charité, and various pharmaceutical manufacturers, patient experiences are to be recorded in astandardized and systematic manner across a wide range of diseases. Patients are to be enabled to record their therapy course and outcome independently as well as scientifically validated so that these patient insights from real treatment practice can be used in the life science industry and by medical professions.
CardioSignal — Access information about your heart health in just one minute using your phone.

Ferd er et familieeid investeringsselskap som er eid av femte og sjette generasjon Andresen.

Investment focus

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.

Rabobank emerged from several small agricultural cooperative banks, founded by Dutch farmers in the late nineteenth century. Food & Agriculture (F&A) is in our DNA, from which we built a unique position in the F&A sector as a key financier and international player, attributes which we leverage for the benefit of our stakeholders andportfolio companies. We recognise and understand the food security challenges lying ahead of us and how Innovation in F&A supply chains is key to the solution, which is why we are dedicated to committing capital to the space.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Farming
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, The Netherlands, Canada

Portfolio highlights

30MHz — The data platform for horticulture | Sense. Act. Impact.
MiAlgae — MiAlgae is a new-age microalgal production company that aims to revolutionize the £340 billion global livestock feed industry by producing microalgal products – through the remediation of wastewater – as nutrient supplements for fishmeal in livestock feeds. Their microalgal products are high in omegas and proteins, both of which are required forthe production of many livestock feeds, especially in the aquaculture sector.Their production methodology uses circular economy to reduce the operating costs involved in the production of microalgae and as such allows them to compete with other supplements currently on the market.
EarthOptics — EarthOptics is building the cloud-based machine learning platform for soil and ground management.

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.

Investment focus

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.
Calluna Pharma — Join Calluna Pharma to transform therapeutics for inflammatory and fibrotic diseases. With a robust pipeline, seasoned leadership, and strategic alliances, we can revolutionize patient care.
Ignite — A powerful & easy spend management tool to accelerate your procurement success by bringing clarity, clean data & sophisticated analytics to your fingertips

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

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 — A powerful & easy spend management tool to accelerate your procurement success by bringing clarity, clean data & sophisticated analytics to your fingertips

The Norwegian Research Council is the government's central research advisor. In 2012, the Research Council researched with more than 7 billion. This represents about 30% of R & D funding in the state budget.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Biotechnology
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
Norway, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

CrayoNano — CrayoNano is a next generation semiconductor company. We specialize in nanotechnology that will enable a more sustainable and healthier life for tomorrow.
Elkem — Elkem is one of the world’s leading companies in the environmentally responsible manufacture of silicones, silicon and carbon based materials.
Aqualung Carbon Capture — Aqualung Carbon Capture provides industrial scale carbon capture units to speed up decarbonisation and mitigate carbon emissions.

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.

Investment focus

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.
Calluna Pharma — Join Calluna Pharma on our mission to revolutionize the treatment of inflammatory and fibrotic diseases. With a robust pipeline, seasoned leadership, and strategic alliances, help us reshape the treatment landscape for the better.
Ignite — A powerful & easy spend management tool to accelerate your procurement success by bringing clarity, clean data & sophisticated analytics to your fingertips

The Norwegian Research Council is the government's central research advisor. In 2012, the Research Council researched with more than 7 billion. This represents about 30% of R & D funding in the state budget.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Biotechnology
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
Norway, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

CrayoNano — CrayoNano is a next generation semiconductor company. We specialize in nanotechnology that will enable a more sustainable and healthier life for tomorrow.
Elkem — Elkem is one of the world’s leading companies in the environmentally responsible manufacture of silicones, silicon and carbon based materials.
Aqualung Carbon Capture — Aqualung Carbon Capture provides industrial scale carbon capture units to speed up decarbonisation and mitigate carbon emissions.

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.

Investment focus

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 — A powerful & easy spend management tool to accelerate your procurement success by bringing clarity, clean data & sophisticated analytics to your fingertips

Rabobank emerged from several small agricultural cooperative banks, founded by Dutch farmers in the late nineteenth century. Food & Agriculture (F&A) is in our DNA, from which we built a unique position in the F&A sector as a key financier and international player, attributes which we leverage for the benefit of our stakeholders andportfolio companies. We recognise and understand the food security challenges lying ahead of us and how Innovation in F&A supply chains is key to the solution, which is why we are dedicated to committing capital to the space.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Farming
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, The Netherlands, Canada

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30MHz — The data platform for horticulture | Sense. Act. Impact.
MiAlgae — MiAlgae is a new-age microalgal production company that aims to revolutionize the £340 billion global livestock feed industry by producing microalgal products – through the remediation of wastewater – as nutrient supplements for fishmeal in livestock feeds. Their microalgal products are high in omegas and proteins, both of which are required forthe production of many livestock feeds, especially in the aquaculture sector.Their production methodology uses circular economy to reduce the operating costs involved in the production of microalgae and as such allows them to compete with other supplements currently on the market.
EarthOptics — EarthOptics is building the cloud-based machine learning platform for soil and ground management.

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

Investment focus

Apps, AgTech, Energy
Series A, Seed
Norway, Finland

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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.
XO Life — XO Life is to build the largest real-world evidence platform for patient insights for all medications and therapies. Together with one of Europe's leading research institutes for patient-centered research, the PROMIS Institute Germany of the Charité, and various pharmaceutical manufacturers, patient experiences are to be recorded in astandardized and systematic manner across a wide range of diseases. Patients are to be enabled to record their therapy course and outcome independently as well as scientifically validated so that these patient insights from real treatment practice can be used in the life science industry and by medical professions.
CardioSignal — Access information about your heart health in just one minute using your phone.

Making Venture Happen. Televenture is one of the leading venture capital companies in Norway.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Norway, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

Ferd er et familieeid investeringsselskap som er eid av femte og sjette generasjon Andresen.

Investment focus

Energy, Software, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity
Norway, Sweden, United States

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

Jakob Hatteland is the Founder of Autostore and has an investment company called Jahatt.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Software
Funding Round
Norway

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Sensonomic — Sensonomic helps you improve your land-based decisions by building digital versions of your operations. Test the outcome of your decisions before implementation.

Provide financial support in a phase where few others are willing to invest money.

Investment focus

Aquaculture, Information Technology
Funding Round
Norway

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Optimeering Aqua — We help farmers make better decisions by bringing together data and optimization

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.

Investment focus

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.