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Top 35 Education Startup Investors in Norway in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 35 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Education startups based in Norway. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Education companies from Norway. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Education Startup Investors in Norway in July 2025

Investor	Education Norway investments
Innovation Norway	3
Creandum	3
Johan Brand	2
Northzone	2
Schibsted Growth	2
Tharald Nustad	2
Anne Worsoe	1
Thomas Falck	1
Edovate Capital	1
North Venture	1
Jamie Brooker	1
Link Venture Capital	1
2M2D	1
Alexander Hars	1
Ferd	1
Alliance VC	1
Trond Riiber Knudsen	1
DNB	1
Schibsted	1
Roger Larsen	1
dlab	1
TRK Group	1
Bjørnar Iversen	1
Viking Venture	1
Amasia	1
Sondo Capital	1
Nordic Makers	1
SOSV	1
Arts Alliance	1
Penny Venture	1
Emerson Collective	1
Founders Fund AS	1
SteenCo	1
Lugard Road Capital	1
Skyfall Ventures	1

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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.
Avisomo — Avisomo is an AgriTech startup that develops vertical farming plant factory solutions. Avisomo's solutions use AI and robots to automate plant growth with a cost-cutting formula that makes vertical farming more profitable than ever. Avisomo offers everything required to start a plant factory, including know-how and guidance on how totransition from startup to stable production.
Aurora Analytica — Founded in February 2023 and incorporated in January 2024, Aurora Analytica is a pioneering health technology company dedicated to optimizing the clinical trial lifecycle and accelerating the development of new treatment options. Our AI-powered platform provides strategic insights, site intelligence, and data-driven tools that enable biotech andpharmaceutical companies to design faster, smarter trials. A single platform that brings together essential assessments, the Aurora Suite™ consists of eleven interconnected modules that function collaboratively within a comprehensive analytics environment. Built on over 30 years of industry expertise, Aurora Analytica bridges the gap between innovation and execution—reducing costs, improving accuracy, and ultimately helping bring better therapies to patients, faster.

We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
Sweden, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
CarOnSale — Operator of B2B auction platform intended to digitize the lease-return and trade-in of cars.
Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface

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 — Discover powerful, zero-emission electric boat motors built in Norway. Explore inboard and outboard options for sustainable boating.

Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital fund that seeks to invest in the healthcare, semiconductors, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gaming industries.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CarOnSale — Operator of B2B auction platform intended to digitize the lease-return and trade-in of cars.
Murphy AI — Murphy uses AI to help businesses recover unpaid invoices through respectful, personalized communication.
Bedrock Ocean Exploration — Bedrock is building smarter, more efficient ways to collect and manage seafloor data.

Investing in great digital companies!

Investment focus

Internet, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden, Norway, France

Portfolio highlights

Bookis — Bookis is the Next-Generation Online Bookstore with Direct Author Compensation, making the sharing of stories and knowledge playfully easy - from all bookshelves, for everyone. We leverage community, technology and innovative distribution to enable radically easier peer-to-peer bookselling, with fair author compensation models. Building theworld's largest network of authors fighting for a more fair book industry worldwide.
Dintero — Dintero is a Norwegian startup delivering payment, checkout, crm & loyalty solutions.
Campanyon — Camping, RV parks, glamping near you. Book your outdoor stays.

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

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.

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

We back impact-focused K12 education entrepreneurs

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Curipod — Join the growing movement of teachers using Curipod to make interactive lessons filled with creativity, reflection and critical thinking
SmartPass — See why SmartPass is the the #1 solution for student movement to maximize learning time. Request your free, personalized demo today to get started.
EveryDay Labs — Proven to increase K-12 attendance, EveryDay Labs can help reduce student absenteeism and chronic absenteeism in schools. Learn how today!

Investment company focusing on the Nordics.

Investment focus

B2B, E-Learning, Corporate Training
Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Vignita — Vignita offers a social learning platform for skilled workers. The Norwegian startup gathers all forms of training into one platform, connecting companies with experts and technology so that they can effectively collaborate to train professionals.

Jamie Brooker is the Founder & Strategic Advisor at Kahoot!

Investment focus

Education, Publishing, EBooks
Seed, Series B
Norway, 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.

Link Venture Capital operates a series of early-stage investment funds.

Investment focus

Marine Technology, Information Technology, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Norway, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Evoy — Discover powerful, zero-emission electric boat motors built in Norway. Explore inboard and outboard options for sustainable boating.
Glint Solar — Enabling developers to identify and analyze the best solar sites
LIFENESS — Lifeness is a platform specialized in the treatment of lifestyle diseases and an entrepreneur from the fitness industry,

We invest in the unknown. In solutions yet to be built. By ambitious founders on a mission.

Investment focus

Credit, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Angel
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Payr — Payr is an award-winning financial tech company & our mission is simple: to improve peoples financial lives We help our users live more fulfilling lives and create product experiences that people love using science, psychology and technology Our mobile banking app gives users control and financial wellness. Our marketplace reinvents theirrelationship with products, then pair them with better-suited service providers.
Diwala — Issue certificates and credentials to your trainees, that can be verified online in seconds

Alexander Hars - Board member @ Zalster

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Sweden, Norway, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bookis — Bookis is the Next-Generation Online Bookstore with Direct Author Compensation, making the sharing of stories and knowledge playfully easy - from all bookshelves, for everyone. We leverage community, technology and innovative distribution to enable radically easier peer-to-peer bookselling, with fair author compensation models. Building theworld's largest network of authors fighting for a more fair book industry worldwide.
Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
Brink Commerce — Brink Commerce offers leading eCommerce solutions. Boost growth, perfect customer experiences, and unlock agility with our Composable Commerce API.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Energy
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
Norway, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

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 — The world's first digital fence system. With our solution, you get control of your pasture and herd while you're on the move, through our app.
Kvist Solutions — Kvist Solutions tilbyr programvare som forenkler BREEAM sertifisering. Vi gir deg oversikt over hele prosjektet, slik at veien til sertifisering blir oversiktlig og forutsigbar.

Alliance Venture is a Nordic venture capital firm investing in exceptional early-stage tech companies and purpose-driven founders with global ambitions. Offices in Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Helsinki.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Deckmatch — Tooling to drink from the firehose of data, that is your top of funnel (TOFU)
Tana — Stay on top of everything - without the busywork. An AI-native workspace that gives you an unfair advantage.
Lightbringer — Lightbringer is the AI for Patents and IP Management. Fast track your patent process with purpose-built AI and world-class Patent Attorneys.

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.

DNB is a financial services group that offers financial services through mobile, online banking, bank offices, and international offices. The Group provides a full range of financial services, including loans, savings, advisory services, insurance, and pension products for retail and corporate customers. The company’s personal banking products andservices include savings and investment products.DNB offers its products and services to various sectors, including financial institutions, energy, manufacturing, healthcare, packaging, and forest products, shipping, offshore, and logistics, seafood, and telecom, media, and technology. They also distribute its products and services through its branches, in-store postal and banking outlets, and post office counters.DNB was founded in 1822 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.

Investment focus

Energy, Banking, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Post-IPO Debt
Norway, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Mowi — Mowi, a seafood company, produces and supplies farmed salmon products worldwide. It operates through three segments: Feed, Farming, and Sales and Marketing. Mowi is involved in the salmon feed production, salmon farming and primary processing, and seafood secondary processing activities. It offers whole gutted fish, including Label Rouge andorganic salmon; and white fish and other seafood products, as well as fillets, steaks, cutlets, portions, loins, kebabs, and steak combos. Mowi also provides value added products, such as breaded, pre-fried, dusted, marinated, grilled, battered, topped, filled with sauce, delicatessen, fresh fish ready meal, and smoked fish products. It offers its products under the Pieters, The Irish Organic Salmon Company, Rebel Fish, Sterling, Olav's, Supreme Salmon, Ducktrap River, Kritsen, Donegal Silver, Harbour Salmon, Appeti’Marine, Mowi, Laschinger, and Admiral's brands. Marine Harvest that began operation in 1965 became Mowi in December 2018. It has its headquarters in 1965, with its headquarters in Bergen in Norway.
Scandi Standard — Welcome to Scandi Standard. We want to inspire you to choose chicken: a good, healthy choice, which is ideal for today’s consumers. We sell the finest Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish chicken under the Kronfågel, Danpo, Den stolte Hane and Naapurin Maalaiskana brands. We are the leading chicken producer in the Nordic region, serving thedomestic and export markets.In June 2013, we created the Nordic region's market-leading chickenbased product group when Scandi Standard was established. The Company was created by gathering the largest poultry operations in the region into one collective group. At present, the Group has an annual turnover of approximately SEK 5.2 billion and almost 1,700 employees.
Cypress Creek Renewables — Cypress Creek Renewables is committed to making the world cleaner and healthier. From development to operation, we create and operate valuable solar and storage projects that benefit communities for decades.

A global family of digital consumer brands leading the way across media, online marketplaces and technology ventures.

Investment focus

Apps, Financial Services, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Sweden, Norway, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Savr — Savr is an Investment platform disrupting the Swedish fund industry with a lower fee structure and a new business model.
Woilà — ACQUIRED BY KLARNA IN OCTOBER 2020.Woilà was founded in 2017 to reinvent the shopping experience post-purchase, and raised €4M through 2018-2020. By identifying price drops, price guarantees and vouchers, Woilà helped consumers get money back if an item bought online dropped in price after the purchase had already been made. Woilà processed $50Mworth of transactions during 2020 and now the technology will be leveraged by Klarna to further strengthen its value proposition to consumers.
Insurello — Insurello provides a digital solution that helps customers find insurance payments. Insurello intermediates on behalf of its clients the communication and the processes of insurance companies in exchange for 25 percent of any insurance benefit.

Roger Larsen is the Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board, and Investor of Progether - Your Prostate Cancer Network. He previously worked at Skooler AS as a Member of the Board and Investor. Roger Larsen attended Østfold University College.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Education
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Skooler — Skooler has developed pedagogical and smart learning tools inside Office 365 for the learners, teachers and parents! In other words – everything you need during a schoolday is in only one place!

Early-stage venture capital and resources for startups exploring new frontiers in web3, decentralization, and blockchain technology.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

FleetOperate — FleetOperate is a truck driver marketplace platform that enables drivers to provide on-demand driving services to carriers and shippers. The company's platform offers booking shipment from a particular location with registered truck drivers and permits tracking of their location eliminating the problem of driver shortages, driver turnover, andunseated trucks while maintaining low costs, enabling people to transport their essentials with ease. The carriers and shippers avail Driver-as-a-Service to solve the problem of driver shortages, driver turnover, and unseated trucks while maintaining low costs.FleetOperate was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Daler Trading — Daler is an algorithmic trading firm and crypto market maker specializing in options and futures. We provide liquidity and market-making services for the cryptocurrency ecosystem and Real-World Assets (RWA) across over 30 centralized (CEX) and decentralized exchanges (DEX).
WeatherXM — Join WeatherXM's global network powered by blockchain. Earn WXM tokens with accurate, hyperlocal forecasts for agriculture, energy, and more.

An Oslo-based Advisory and Active Ownership Firm.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Internet
Pre-Seed, Seed
Norway, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

NoMy — Norwegian startup that researches and develops sustainable material and food solutions using mycelium
Vilect AI — Vilect is a recruitment software for store managers. The system identifies the most relevant candidates and lets the hiring manager screen recorded video interviews integrated directly into the system - store managers can see their fit, personality, drive, and motivation and save time and money.
Travelin.ai — Business and Leisure travel no longer just exist in silos but are intertwined. Travelin.ai is the Next Generation Corporate Travel Management Platform which reflects the true way we live, work and travel.

Bjørnar Iversen is a Chief Executive Officer and President of Dolphin Drilling. Bjørnar Iversen attended Norwegian School of Economics.

Investment focus

Music, Podcast, Music Venues
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Melodypipe — Collaborate, book gigs, find artists and musicians, connect with industry professionals, and discover new music.

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

Investment focus

Software, Oil and Gas, Energy
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Norway, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Signicat — Signicat is a digital identity service provider (DISP) and one of the leading providers of e-ID and e-signature solutions in Europe. The company delivers online trust based services to the public and private sector globally.The solutions fulfill operational capabilities in line with international standards and requirements, such as Privacy,Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Anti-Terrorist legislation and regulations, as well as Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements for onboarding of new users.Signicat offers some of the most advanced solutions for electronic identity and electronic signatures. The goal is to enable customers to do business more effectively by delivering great user experiences for the end users and at the same time reduce the risk by using advanced security technology.The Signicat solutions are used by banks and financial institutions, insurance companies, government agencies and large corporations as well as small and medium sized businesses. Customers trust Signicat with the responsibility of authenticating users, providing electronic signing, identity proofing and document preservation.Banking grade SLAs are offered, matching customers need for scalability and reliability.Signicat was founded in 2006 as Kantega Secure Identity, a spin-off from Kantega (www.kantega.no). It is owned by Secure Identity Holding (SIH), Viking Venture and the employees.Signicat has offices in UK (London), Germany (Frankfurt), Netherlands (Amsterdam), Portugal (Lisbon), Denmark (Copenhagen), Sweden (Stockholm), Finland (Helsinki) and Norway (Trondheim and Oslo).
EcoOnline — EcoOnline's easy-to-use software system is helping companies to transform their approach to health & safety, chemical safety, and learning data reporting.
Asolvi — Industry leading Field Service Management Software. Search and find best solution. Meets high industry standards. Contact us for info and free demo.

Amasia is a thesis-driven, global venture capital firm currently focused on sustainability and climate. Using a nuanced framework designed around behavior change, we invest in founders with global ambitions, from the Seed to Series B stages, across the United States, Southeast Asia, India, Europe and Latin America. We facilitate their growth withaccess to global markets, global best practices, and global knowledge.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Education
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Topanga.io — We enable businesses and institutions to launch and manage reusable packaging programs.
EvolutionIQ — EvolutionIQ is the leading insurance claims guidance platform, providing faster recoveries and smarter decisions for carriers
Hive Health — Hive Health is a digital platform that provides access to easy-to-use, affordable, and quality HMO plans for SMEs in the Philippines.

Investing 1 - 5MNOK in pre-seed and seed stage teams with a link to Norway.

Investment focus

Software, Real Time, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Norway, United States

Portfolio highlights

Catchwise — Fyll kvota mer effektivt. Finn den riktige fisken, med mindre tid og diesel.
Installer — the OS for installer networks
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.

We know how much grit and luck it takes to build big companies. That’s why we invest our time and our children’s money in crazy, ambitious founders.Founded by a group of serial entrepreneurs that have built, scaled and exited some of the largest technology companies of the Nordics, Nordic Makers is a seed stage hands-on investor, workingactively with companies to take them to the next level.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Denmark, United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Munchfam — Munchfam is your next restaurant software package that covers everything from POS to Webshop to Ingredients.
Hyme Energy — Making green heat for industry accessible. Always. Hyme's solution supports the decarbonisation of industrial heat at large-scale.
Pluto.markets — Pluto is the modern investment app for the 100m Europeans living in countries without the EUR.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

Arts Alliance is a venture capital organisation supporting a growing network of entrepreneurs. They have a "hands on approach" to investment and provide both creative talent and strategic advice to Portfolio Companies in the technology and services, and communications sectors.

Investment focus

Advertising, Mobile, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Spoonshot — Spoonshot's technology leverages food science and artificial intelligence to predict consumer tastes and food trends. We've built our several solutions from this core technology to solve some of the food & beverage industry's key challenges.
Aprila Bank — Aprila is a product- and technology company offering innovative financial solutions to small and medium sized businesses. Aprila’s API-based technology platform is connected to around 130,000 SMEs through partnership agreements with leading online accounting systems and other relevant system providers.
Growth Street — Growth Street offers UK businesses a faster alternative to bank overdrafts.They see that many growing businesses need flexibility to manage their cashflow. Whether it’s managing the seasonal cycle of business or balancing invoice payments against outgoings, managing cashflow can take a lot of time, focus and energy. Often balancing the booksmeans delaying payments, leaning on suppliers or juggling costs, which can suck up your time, put pressure on your supplier relationships and generally make businesses less efficient.

Penny Venture is a venture company investing in high growth, entrepreneurial led start-ups

Investment focus

B2B, Fuel, Energy
Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Vignita — Vignita offers a social learning platform for skilled workers. The Norwegian startup gathers all forms of training into one platform, connecting companies with experts and technology so that they can effectively collaborate to train professionals.
Powerzeek — Powerzeek is a platform company making it easy for the transport sector to find, buy and use cleaner fuels. The company's market is the $150 billion+ maritime fuel and $1 trillion+ land based fuel sector. Powerzeek´s customers are shipping companies and trucking companies buying fuel for their ships and trucks respectively, andoil/gas/energy companies selling fuel. The company meets several of UN´s SDG goals, is generating revenue today, and has many of the world's largest suppliers of LNG and methanol amongst its community members.

Emerson Collective is a company that invests in entrepreneurs and innovators driven by purpose and a sense of possibility. We are working to create a world that honors talent, expands opportunity, and ensures the conditions for human flourishing.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Io — Io develops AI-powered devices that reimagine how users interact with technology, moving beyond traditional smartphones and screens. In May 2025, OpenAI acquired io in a deal valued at approximately $6.5 billion, marking OpenAI's largest acquisition to date. The acquisition aims to integrate io's hardware design expertise withOpenAI's AI capabilities to create innovative consumer devices. While specific product details remain undisclosed, reports suggest the development of a pocket-sized, screen-free, contextually aware device that is not a phone or wearable glasses.
Teal Health — Teal Health is on a mission to design a better healthcare experience for women - starting with cervical cancer screenings. Join our waitlist.
myLaurel — Ready Responders was founded in 2016 with the mission of giving patients direct access to healthcare professionals in their homes and giving Responders the opportunity to provide care in their communities. Responders travel to patients’ homes to address their physical, mental, and social health needs, utilizing technology to connect with anadvanced medical or behavioral health provider, and connecting them with external resources and relationships for ongoing, sustained support.With Ready Responders, patients now have access to quality whole-person care in their homes, 16 hours a day, 365 days a year, and talented individuals are provided the opportunity to work with a rapidly growing, mission-driven company. They are in-network with most major insurance companies in the markets they serve. Ready Responders is backed by leading venture capital firms, including Google Ventures, Founders Fund, Rise of the Rest, and City Lights Capital.

Founders Fund AS is a venture capital firm based in Oslo. Founders Fund AS offers investment management, advisory, and other related services. Founders Fund serves customers in Norway.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Internet
Seed
Norway, United States

Portfolio highlights

Scrimba — Scrimba is the fast way of learning to code! Our interactive courses and tutorials will teach you React, Vue, Angular, Web Development, Node.JS, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and more.
Confrere — Confrere is a video meeting and conferencing platform for professionals. The video chat solution was developed specifically for doctors, tutors, banks, psychologists, recruiters, personal trainers, and their clients in mind.The video conferencing solution was developed by Svein Willassen, Dag-Inge Aas, and Ida Aalen with a concept of buildingvirtual clinics for professions like doctors and bankers through video solutions, so they can meet their clients without actually meeting them.
AblePay Technologies — AblePay Technologies was founded in 2009 as a spin-out from the Research Department of Telenor, and the technology has been developed in close collaboration with SINTEF, the largest independent research organisation in Scandinavia.

SteenCo is a private independent company.

Investment focus

EdTech, Gamification
Series A
Norway

Portfolio highlights

House of Math — All the math help you need for free! Get the full mathematics curriculum with instructional videos, interactive problem solving, games and 24/7 chat.

Lugard Road Capital is a venture capital firm that invests primarily in the Internet, software, consumer, and technology sectors. Lugard Road Capital is affiliated with U.S. hedge fund Luxor Capital Group.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, SaaS, Logistics
Series B, Series C, Funding Round
Norway, United States, Spain

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Ageras — Ageras redefines administration for small businesses by integrating banking, accounting, and tax filing in a single platform.
Quince — Quince brings luxury products like Mongolian Cashmere, Italian Leather, Turkish Cotton and Washable Silk to everyone at radically low prices. Shop premium essentials with no middleman.
Superside — We are an always-on design company. Get a team of dedicated designers, speedy turnarounds, magical creative collaboration tech and the top 1% of global talent.

We are an early stage venture capital firm based in Oslo, Norway.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Norway, Denmark, United States

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Deckmatch — Tooling to drink from the firehose of data, that is your top of funnel (TOFU)
Take Take Take — Fantasy Chess is a platform that allows users to pick teams of real-world chess players, track their performance in tournaments, and receive points based on their achievement.
Starflow — Starflow goal is to create a scalable energy system that helps people achieve energy independence.

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