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Top 50 Angel Investors in Norway in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in startups based in Norway. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Norway. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Angel Investors in Norway in May 2025

Investor	Norway investments
Trond Riiber Knudsen	9
Erlend Reitan	6
Christian Rokseth	4
Anne Worsoe	4
Aleksander Leonard Larsen	4
Chris Murphy	4
Sean Percival	3
Jon Oyvind Eriksen	3
Johan Brand	3
Avlok Kohli	3
Tharald Nustad	3
Gunnar Rydning	3
Ben Lang	2
Ståle Løvbukten	2
Shawn Xu	2
Thomas Falck	2
Jason Lemkin	2
John Komkov	2
Elizabeth Yin	2
Jeff Morris Jr.	2
Henrik Hatlebrekke	2
Rolf Ahlqvist	2
Trevor McFedries	2
Bent M Skisaker	2
Petter Stordalen	2
Magnus Carlsen	2
Kea Zhang	2
Christian Hager	2
Matt Cohler	2
Evan Weaver	2
Andreas Klinger	2
Kjetil Holmefjord	2
Murshid M. Ali	2
Kris Riise	2
Einar Braathen	2
Thomas Falck	2
Oleg Tikhturov	2
Nicolaj Nielsen	2
Paolo Negri	1
Jason Choi	1
Thomas W. Grieg	1
Harald Mowinckel Troye	1
Marie Mostad	1
Espen Aubert	1
Edvard Engesæth	1
Martin Ingemansson	1
Christian Lundvang	1
Gunnar Evensen	1
Patrick Pichette	1
Josh Buckley	1

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Trond Riiber Knudsen is a Founder of TRK GROUP.

Investment focus

Software, Construction, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Norway, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

OTee — OTee's Industrial Automation platform makes it possible to create and manage industrial-grade virtual control systems, based on open standards and architecture!
Ciloo — The global brand management platform for local, on-demand production of branded products. Reduce costs, waste + shipping distances. Full brand control.
Starflow — Starflow goal is to create a scalable energy system that helps people achieve energy independence.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Finance
Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

EvoluteIQ — Transform your business with EvoluteIQ's GenAI-powered automation platform. Create autonomous agent ecosystems that deliver measurable impact across industries. Request a demo today.
DIME — DIME provides digitalization and automation services to simplify the work of municipalities.
Confidus Venture Capital — Confidus Venture Capital is a Venture Fund designed to outperform. We invest in future winners in digital transformation and automation.Setting the record straight – the quality of an idea and the human capital behind it is far more important than factors such as investment stage, size or profits. We know it from experience working closely withambitious and bold entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs with the power to change the world! Together we have built disruptive global tech companies challenging industry norms. Delivering outstanding results. Our incentive is only upon success: Our belief in sustainable value creation is so strong we have eliminated management fees!

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.

Investment focus

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 — River and coastal risk management to protect assets, people and the environment.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Norway, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

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.

Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.

Investment focus

Gaming, Digital Entertainment, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Norway, Singapore, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
Pixels — Pixels is a play-to-earn MMO game built around the NFT assets you already own. Build your NFT a home in the metaverse and get farming.
Sequence — Horizon is building a New Dimension where Internet economies are fun, accessible, and for the benefit of all participants. We have two amazing products to make this real:Sequence, which consists of i) a friendly crypto, NFT + Web3 smart wallet, and ii) a seamless developer platform for Ethereum, NFTs, Web3, DeFi and Dapps. Sequence makes it easyfor users to access and for developers to build the next generation of Internet economies and experiences.Skyweaver, a digital trading card game—powered by Sequence + blockchain—where players actually own the game items they win and purchase. For the first time, gamers can easily and securely sell and trade their items.

Chris Murphy is a Venture Partner at MS&AD Ventures. He previously cofounded SaaStock and was an early Web Summit employee.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Equipme — The platform for modern IT departments that want to transparently manage all company resources, digitize processes, and automate workflows.
Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
Twirl — A seamless experience for deploying data products

Sean Percival is the Chief Marketing Officer of Iterate Norway.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
United States, Norway, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Tjommi — B2C app helping customers get money back from price drops
Vembla — Vembla offers a vast grocery selection 1500 to 20,000 products - from your local stores or our own warehouses. Get it delivered same day or in minutes.
Lendwill — There is a healthier way to build relationships with money.

Jon Oyvind Eriksen - CEO and founder @ Aidiom

Investment focus

Software, Security, Internet of Things
Seed, Series A, Series B
Norway, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kantega — Kantega is an IT consultant company developing custom solutions based on Web services for large corporations and government.Kantega is a leading Norwegian IT company within Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with J2EE, XML and Web Services, creating - user friendly and secure portals - self-service with digital signatures - securesolutions with PKITo customers within banking and finance, industry, energy, commerce and public services.
Unacast — Build better products and make smarter decisions with real-world location data.
Fonn Construction — Get the job right.

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).

Investment focus

Software, EdTech, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series B
Norway, United States, United Kingdom

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.
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 manufactures and designs the world most powerful electric boat motors available in the market - Inboard and Outboard!

Avlok Kohli is the CEO at AngelList and Founder and CEO of LegalReach. He was the former Founder and CEO at Fairy.Avlok Kohli was the creator and founder of Fastbite, a lightening fast food delivery service. Because of Mr. Kohli’s leadership and Fastbite’s incredible value to customers, Square (led by Jack Dorsey, Founder / CEO of Twitter)acquired Fastbite a few months after launch and has since integrated it into Square's own delivery product as "Fastbite by Caviar"Avlok Kohli also plays an active role in other rapidly growing technology companies as an angel investor, advisor and founder.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Canada, Norway

Portfolio highlights

0pass — Say goodbye to phishing links, unsafe content, data leaks, and Shadow AI. Repacket is the simplests and fastest way for teams everywhere to ensure a secure-by-default experience.
Vocode — Vocode is an open-source library for building voice-based LLM applications.
Delphi — Delphi turns your expertise into an always-on presence, so you can grow your reach, serve your audience, and lead with clarity, without burning out.

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.

Investment focus

Farming, Information Technology, Communities
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
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 the leading startup news publication covering the Nordics and Baltics delivering the latest insights on the hottest startups in the region
Differ — Student life can be boring and challenging without friends. Differ help you connect with other students and help start those first awkward conversations

Gunnar Rydning joined Four Seasons Venture in 1986 and working closely with Birger Nergaard he built one of Norway’s leading investment groups.In 2007, he took on the executive directorship role on the General Partner companies serving all the Verdane Funds and he now sits on the of board of GP Verdane V, VI, VII and VIII. Gunnar is alsoManaging Director of Verdane Capital III where he is working alongside Birger Nergaard with the remaining portfolio.At Verdane Gunnar has participated in building a number of Nordic and international companies guiding them from first investment through to trade sale or IPO. Today he is a board member of Eastern Bulk Holding AS, Lorenzten & Stemoco AS, Gambaco AS, Kapnord Fond, Systek AS and Risk Information Group AS in addition to the executive directorships mentioned above. He also works together with Birger Nergaard as an independent advisor for Advent International in Norway and the Nordics.Gunnar played an active role in the initiative to establish Nordic Venture Network in 1999 and has over the years served as Chairman and board member.Gunnar holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MSc in Business and Economics from NHH-Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration.

Investment focus

Financial Services, SaaS, FinTech
Angel, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

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.
Neonomics — Our single API connection point enables you to build PSD2 and open banking-enabled propositions, from payment initiation to bank account aggregation & data access.
Finanstipset AS — Finanstipset is a loan agency that provider refinancing solutions.

Ben Lang is the Head of Community at Notion. Ben Lang attended Ramaz School.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, Norway, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Atlas.co — Your all-in-one map builder
Alta — Alta leverages data and AI to drive business growth 24/7.
PromptLayer — The first dev platform for prompt engineering. Based in NYC.

Ståle Løvbukten is a Norwegian investor, board member, and advisor on business relations and strategy.

Investment focus

Seed, Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

ShiftX — ShiftX is a collaborative tool, empowering teams to easily visualize, understand and improve how your business operates.

Shawn Xu is the Chief of Staff at Lowercarbon Capital.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Norway, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Presail — The platform behind Web 3.0's best investment groups. Manage everything in one place: fundraising, investor management, and token vesting.
Morf Health — Morf is the healthcare hub that makes it easy for practices to streamline their operations and personalize patient care with powerful automation.
Mad Realities — Reality is Mad. Join ours instead. New age entertainment platform, powered by you.

Thomas Falck

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, E-Learning
Angel
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Preppio - Science-Driven Onboarding — Preppio is the future of employee onboarding. Build chatbots in MS Teams, Slack & Workplace by Meta. Automate your HR workflows in Workday, SuccessFactors, and more.
Ei Solutions — A practical tool for managing sustainability risk in real estate

Jason M. Lemkin runs SaaStr, the world's largest community for B2B/SaaS founders, and is the managing director of SaaStr Fund, a $90m venture capital firm focused on early-stage enterprise investments.Prior to that, Lemkin was the vice president of and the president of Lemkin has studied at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Tildei — Tildei makes it simple for marketers to create engaging conversations, capture data, and drive conversions through truly personal messages. Leverage the enormous reach of WhatsApp's 2.4 billion users today.
OpusClip — Opus Clip turns long videos into high-quality viral clips for you to share on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Reels to increase social media reach.
Owner — Owner gives you the same tools that major national brands use to drive sales. Online ordering proven to grow sales. Mobile app with rewards. And more.

John Komkov is the Managing Partner at Fathom Capital, an early-stage VC firm focusing on enterprise applications and IT infrastructure. John joined Austin Ventures in 2010 and focuses on early-stage investing. Prior to joining Austin Ventures, John was an Analyst in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley, where he advised onmergers, acquisitions, financings, and other strategic advisory assignments for corporate clients across sectors, including semiconductors, software, Internet, communications equipment, and digital media. Prior to Morgan Stanley, John held research positions at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and the Office of the Governor, State of Texas.John received a BA from Stanford University.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Whereby — Get started for free and integrate WebRTC video calls into your website or app using the Whereby API and SDK.
Whereby — Videonor provides video conferencing services for businesses. Videonor delivers cloud-based software-as-a-service video conferencing at a low monthly cost, avoiding the need to buy expensive equipment or make big up-front investments. As a tech agnostic service provider, Videonor can build solutions that integrate with other conferencing productsand endpoints that customers already have in place. Skype, Cisco, Polycom and others can be enhanced with higher quality video and audio service provided by Videonor. With clients in 50+ countries, Videonor currently helps global enterprises, startups, academic institutions and national sports teams communicate more effectively.
Prisma — Build, fortify, and grow your application easily with an intuitive data model, type-safety, automated migrations, connection pooling, caching, and real-time database subscriptions.

Elizabeth Yin is co-founder and CEO of LaunchBit. She frequently speaks at conferences and events and has previously spoken at Women 2.0 partner events, Web 2.0, Lean Startup events, TechStars, MIT, Stanford, Yale, and Babson among others. Prior to LaunchBit, she built profitable niche websites and previously worked as a product marketingmanager at Google. She holds a BS in electrical engineering from Stanford and an MBA from MIT Sloan.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Norway, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

JustWears — As Seen on Dragons' Den. Your balls deserve better underpants. Sustainably made, try JustWears and say good bye to riding-up, chafing and sweaty balls. Stay dry, feel fly and join the underwear revolution.
WorkWeek — Workweek is a growing collective of industry experts who are changing the world of business by creating content you'll actually enjoy.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

Jeff Morris Jr. is the Founder & Managing Partner at Chapter One.

Investment focus

Software, Productivity Tools, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Cord — Cord, the London-based platform that acts as the connecting bridge between any and all apps.
Bubbles — Bubbles is a collaboration tool that lets you tag anything on your screen and invite your teammates to discuss in-context. Get excited by organic growth and viral loops, and less so by paid advertising. Are active on one or more social platforms like Medium, Twitter, Product Hunt, etc.
Syndicate — Syndicate enables developers to create scalable, atomically composable appchains with complete control over the network, sequencer, and economy.

Henrik Hatlebrekke

Investment focus

SaaS, Energy, Internet
Pre-Seed, Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Presail — The platform behind Web 3.0's best investment groups. Manage everything in one place: fundraising, investor management, and token vesting.
Catchwise — Fyll kvota mer effektivt. Finn den riktige fisken, med mindre tid og diesel.
Starflow — Starflow goal is to create a scalable energy system that helps people achieve energy independence.

Rolf Ahlqvist

Investment focus

Electronics, Public Safety, Information Technology
Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Intoto — River and coastal risk management to protect assets, people and the environment.

Trevor McFedries is the Founder of Friends With Benefits, Founder and CEO of Brud, the CEO - Dapper Collectives at Dapper Labs, and a Board Member at Rhizome and SCI-Arc.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Norway, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Fortunafi — We deliver all-in-one liquidity solutions for stablecoin issuers, protocol treasuries, and traditional entities. We offer a variety of investment products, such as private and public debt funds with native minting and redemption.
Hyper — Hyper Online is the ultimate AI mobile app for VTubers & avatar creators to live-stream or record. Works with VRoid / Live2D. For Discord, Twitch streams, or Zoom.
Mad Realities — Reality is Mad. Join ours instead. New age entertainment platform, powered by you.

Bent M Skisaker is a CFO of AutoStore.

Investment focus

Payments, Employee Benefits
Series A
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Bislab — Bislab is an entity that provides credit assessments to individuals and businesses for banking, finance, insurance, and debt collection.
Optio Incentives — Optio helps businesses incentivize employees, manage equity, stay compliant, and report costs with our software and advisory

Petter Stordalen

Investment focus

Apps, Energy, Customer Service
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Tibber — Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that offers smart solutions to minimize their customers’ consumption and costs. Its vision is to make sustainable energy consumption simple and affordable for all households. Tibber's mission is to reduce the residential electricity consumption for European households by 20 %. Founded in Norway andSweden in 2016, the company has expanded its offer to Sweden and Germany where it powers hundreds of thousands of homes. Tibber replaces traditional utilities with smart technology, supplying its customers with renewable energy at fair and transparent prices. In addition, its app provides real-time analytics into energy usage, and pairs with a variety of smart home devices to reduce electricity consumption at home. The company sells tech-gadgets in their online store and recently was licensed to balance the main power grid in Sweden with EVs.

Magnus Carlsen is the Co-founder of Freestyle Chess.

Investment focus

Sports, Software, Computer Vision
Seed, Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

SportAI — SportAI is a B2B sports technology firm that is spearheading the revolution in sports technique coaching, commentary, and analysis using advanced AI and machine learning. The company aims to boost sports performance and make high-quality sports data more accessible. SportAI's SaaS platform, powered by Computer Vision and Machine Learning,delivers unbiased sports technique analysis and AI-generated sports data to different sectors in the sports industry. This technology can seamlessly integrate into broadcasting, training apps, simulators, sporting equipment brands, and product recommendation websites, offering significant benefits to the global sports industry.

Kea Zhang

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Shepherd — An all-in-one meetings tool, bringing structure and efficiency to every meeting.

Christian Hager - Co-Founder @ Hjemmelegene

Investment focus

Software, B2B, SaaS
Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

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.
Shepherd — An all-in-one meetings tool, bringing structure and efficiency to every meeting.

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

Investment focus

Enterprise Software, Software, Internet
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Norway, China

Portfolio highlights

Uber — Uber develops, markets, and operates a ridesharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request that is routed to crowd-sourced partner drivers.Its smartphone application connects drivers with people who need a ride. Its application enables users to arrange and schedule transportation and/or logistics services withthird-party providers. They take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving in more than 600 cities around the world. It also provides Windows Phone App, iPhone App, Blackberry App, and Android App. Uber serves customers in North, Central, and South Americas as well as Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia PacificGarrett Camp, Oscar Salazar, and Travis Kalanick founded UberCab in March 2009 which became Uber Technologies in October 2010, with its headquarters in San Francisco California, and an engineering center in Bengaluru in India as well as a regional office in Singapore.
Enode — Connect to your customers' energy devices to build experiences they love. Control and optimize those energy devices through your app.
PortalOne — PortalOne is a hybrid games company, delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.

Evan Weaver is the Co-Founder and CTO at Fauna.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, CMS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Canada, Norway

Portfolio highlights

MaxFense — MaxFense is a company that focuses on enhancing the security of the internet through their ethical products. Primary among their offerings is the MaxFense Endpoint Security, which enables clients to check, prevent, detect, and respond to potential information security threats, regardless of whether they originate from inside or outside theorganization. This approach aligns with contemporary security standards that have increasingly recognized the importance of robust endpoint security in the face of diversified threat vectors.
Propel — Easily build in-product analytics powered by large-scale data. Propel's serverless GraphQL API makes building and running data products seamless.
Edgeless Systems — Industry-leading solutions for confidential computing. Our products are open source and work across clouds. They are intuitive to use for DevOps and Engineering Teams.

Hello, my name is Andreas Klinger.I am leading the eng team @ On Deck (beondeck.com). Previously I led things related to eng, product & remote @ producthunt.com, angel.co and coinlist.co. If you want to reach me please use twitter @andreasklinger

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Atlas.co — Your all-in-one map builder
Isembard — Isembard has experience from the military, government, large enterprises, and a successfully exited technology business.
Atlas — Atlas is an all-in-one platform for creating, collaborating on, and sharing custom maps and performing geospatial analysis.

Kjetil Holmefjord

Investment focus

Finance, Software, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Bislab — Bislab is an entity that provides credit assessments to individuals and businesses for banking, finance, insurance, and debt collection.
Presail — The platform behind Web 3.0's best investment groups. Manage everything in one place: fundraising, investor management, and token vesting.
Lightsonic — We transform how critical infrastructure is monitored to help preserve and optimise natural resources, reduce carbon emissions, and create a more sustainable and resilient environment.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, CleanTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Norway, United States

Portfolio highlights

Factiverse — AI-powered fact-checking solutions tailored to media and finance that accelerate research, access credible sources, and protect organizational reputations.
Waved — We are changing the way people think of guest experience with technology that senses and elevates the ambience.
Investables — Make every interaction count! Leverage Chorus' conversation intelligence backed by ZoomInfo's leading B2B data to distill premium insights from sales calls.

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

Investment focus

Software, B2B, SaaS
Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

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.
Shepherd — An all-in-one meetings tool, bringing structure and efficiency to every meeting.

Einar H. Braathen is Web3 investor @ CoinFund.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Norway, Denmark, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Januar — Innovative EU crypto companies use Januar's payment account solutions to accept payments & send payout's while maintaining full compliance & stable business operations.
Presail — The platform behind Web 3.0's best investment groups. Manage everything in one place: fundraising, investor management, and token vesting.
STON.fi — STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain. Explore the full range of STON.fi. Swap cryptocurrencies, stake tokens, provide liquidity on the TON blockchain.

Thomas Falck

Investment focus

Marketing, Content Marketing
Seed, Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Inzpire.me — Software and services tailored to the Nordics. We empower brands and creators to captivate their audience with impactful, inspiring content

I am an active Angel Investor in pre-seed and seed startups, having invested in 80+ startups. I invest in ambitious founders building scalable products for large markets and support founders with advice, strategic network of investors. Currently Founding Partner at TrueSight Ventures, Venture Capital firm investing in European early-stage startups.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Norway, Germany

Portfolio highlights

MEplace — MEplace creates a new approach to children’s wellbeing and preschool education. MEplace was founded in 2019 and was headquartered in England, UK.
Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.

Nicolaj nielsen is an investor at IDUN audio. attended INSEAD MBA, General Management.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Self-Storage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Denmark, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Deckmatch — Tooling to drink from the firehose of data, that is your top of funnel (TOFU)
Kin, Personal AI — Get inspired, talk things through, navigate situations or get personalized guidance with Kin. Built for privacy, security, and with memory in mind.
Hyphen - Personal AI made private — Get inspired, talk things through, navigate situations or get personalized guidance with Kin. Built for privacy, security, and with memory in mind.

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.

Investment focus

Computer, Software, Network Security
Seed, Series A
Norway, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Whereby — Get started for free and integrate WebRTC video calls into your website or app using the Whereby API and SDK.
Edgeless Systems — Industry-leading solutions for confidential computing. Our products are open source and work across clouds. They are intuitive to use for DevOps and Engineering Teams.

Jason Choi is Venture Investor at Contrary Capital.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Arch — The pioneering network for building bridgeless apps directly on Bitcoin. Arch makes it easy to deploy interoperable smart contract-like programs on the L1, without fracturing liquidity or taking on bridge risk.
Hashflow — Tight spreads. Zero slippage. MEV-resistant.
LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.

Thomas W. Grieg

Investment focus

Software, Collaboration, Asset Management
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

VesselMan — Digital Vessel Management is a cloud-based maritime SaaS dry docking software for ships repair and maintenance, technical projects and Digital Fleet Management.

Harald holds an Master of Business Administration from the University of Southern California. He has more than 27 years of experience from Norwegian and international asset management and has been CFO in Vesta (Tryg) andheld leading positions in DnB Nor Asset Management. Harald has extensive experience from different board positions, and has beenpart of Borea since 2005.

Investment focus

Insurance, Life Insurance, Personal Finance
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Tribe Insurance — Tribe is insurance based on social mechanisms. Insurance customers know far more about good and bad risks in their social network than the traditional insurance companies do. Through using social networks Tribe will be able to dramatically reduce risk cost and distribution cost.The Tribe team consists of experts on marketing,communication and online conversions. It consists of people from the two most respected online companies in Norway in addition to insurance industry expertise.Beta launch at

Marie Mostad - Co-Founder & COO @ Inzpire.me

Investment focus

Marketing, Content Marketing
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Inzpire.me — Software and services tailored to the Nordics. We empower brands and creators to captivate their audience with impactful, inspiring content

Espen Aubert is an Angel Investor.

Investment focus

Information Services
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Adminkit — Adminkit is a digital toolbox that provides better control - saving time and frustration.

Founder at Nurx

Investment focus

SaaS, B2B, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Greece, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Tajir — Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.
Breyta — Gather all your qualitative data and our AI assistant transcribes, analyses and delivers you accurate product insights and patterns at scale in seconds.
Journey Clinical — Journey Clinical is a platform that provides services to member psychotherapy practices that are independently owned and operated, and in no way owns, directs, or controls the mental healthcare clinicians providing care.

Martin Ingemansson

Investment focus

Marketing, B2B, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round
Sweden, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Sparta — Sparta is a web-based application and software that enables sales directors to run effective sales competitions. It enables its users to builds sales competitions, invite their team, manage them with rankings, statistics, and reports. It also enables its users to control the metrics and behaviors that they desire to control in a sales environment.Sales directors can run multiple competitions, team-based competitions, send and receive email notifications, receive daily update emails, access a chat feed with @mentions, access reports and insights, and perform many more tasks through the app and software.Sparta was founded by Niklas de Besche, Aref Abedi, Aref Abedi, and James Pember. It is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Inzpire.me — Software and services tailored to the Nordics. We empower brands and creators to captivate their audience with impactful, inspiring content
Albacross — First-party Intent Data to understand your audience, uncover unseen prospects, and enrich every record to increase marketing & sales efficiency.

Christian Lundvang - Co-Founder @ Norselab

Investment focus

Information Services
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Adminkit — Adminkit is a digital toolbox that provides better control - saving time and frustration.

Gunnar Evensen

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Industrial Automation, Machinery Manufacturing
Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

OTee — OTee's Industrial Automation platform makes it possible to create and manage industrial-grade virtual control systems, based on open standards and architecture!

Patrick Pichette currently Board Member at LightSpeed and Twitter. He is a former Google's chief financial officer, where he started in June of 2008. He has nearly 20 years of experience in financial operations and management in the telecommunications sector, including seven years at Bell Canada, which he joined in 2001 as executive vicepresident of planning and performance management.During his time at Bell Canada, he held various executive positions, including CFO from 2002 until the end of 2003, and was instrumental in the management of the most extensive communications network in Canada and its ongoing migration to a new national IP-based infrastructure.Prior to joining Bell Canada, Patrick was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was a lead member of McKinsey's North American Telecom Practice. He also served as vice president and chief financial officer of Call-Net Enterprises, a Canadian telecommunications company.Patrick earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from UniversitA© du Quebec A MontrA©al. He holds a master's degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University, where he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He also serves on the board of Engineers Without Borders (Canada).

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mobai — Provider of attack detection, image manipulation detection and authentication. Strong and successful research team on biometrics.
Kaedim — Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today.
Apheris — Build ML-powered products using data that spans organizational or geographical boundaries, while ensuring compliance with regulation.

Josh Buckley is the CEO of Product Hunt.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

Vial — Vial is a hyper scalable biotech - advancing programs into the clinic powered by dramatically cheaper trials and computationally designed therapeutics.
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.
Pomelo — Send money cross border with zero transfer fees. Use and build credit with Pomelo.

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