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Top 35 Education Startup Investors in Norway in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 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 February 2025

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

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

Swan — Use Swan's APIs to embed white-labeled banking features like accounts, cards, and IBANs into your workflows and UX.
Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
Project Eaden — PROJECT EADEN combines pioneering technology and engineering expertise with an immense love for food and lust for life. For full indulgence. With zero guilt.

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 helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities through media, events, PR and consulting since 2007.Launched in 2007 by Antti Vilpponen and Miikka Kukkosuo as founding writers and getting out two-three articles a week, ArcticStartup quickly started gaining traction. In 2008 Ville Vesterinen and Karri Saarinen joinedthe founding team and ArcticStartup launched its own that were at first held in a small bar of Dubrovnik in Helsinki. Both the media and events started going international in 2009, expanding to the neighbouring Nordics & Baltics. This growth continued until 2012, when the company nearly shut-down as the founders wanted to move-on to other projects. At that point Dmitri Sarle and Greg Anderson took over the company and re-founded ArcticStartup with Jan Ameri joining very shortly.
Differ — Student life can be boring and challenging without friends. Differ help you connect with other students and help start those first awkward conversations

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

Portfolio highlights

Nivoda — Nivoda provides jewellery businesses with a simple solution to strengthen profits, increase efficiency and accelerate growth with its B2B diamond marketplace. Designed to save you time and money whilst giving you access to the world’s diamond supply at the best prices with zero inventory risk, Nivoda is trusted by thousands of retailers all overthe globe.
Tana — Tana is a software development company that reinvents how humans, teams, and computers work together. Tana was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
Berry Street — Nutrition therapy by registered dietitians covered by insurance.

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 — Campanyon is a provider of an outdoor accommodation booking platform intended for people to find and book their next outdoor adventure by connecting campers with hosts.

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!

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

Poko — Enable local payments and successful onramping for wallets, NFT marketplaces, web3 games, and dApps globally.
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.

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 — Tana is a software development company that reinvents how humans, teams, and computers work together. Tana was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
Lightbringer — Lightbringer is your all-in-one solution for patent protection. Easily navigate your patent journey with our digital AI-powered platform and seasoned patent attorneys.

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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.
Light Protocol — Light allows developers to reduce the cost of on-chain state by orders of magnitude without sacrificing the security and performance of the Solana L1.
WeatherXM — Join WeatherXM's global network powered by blockchain. Earn WXM tokens with accurate, hyperlocal forecasts for agriculture, energy, and more.

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.

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Sonair — Sonair is an award-winning deep tech startup building a breakthrough, patented 3D ultrasonic sensor that enables true machine autonomy by making robots safe, affordable, and efficient. Sonair was spun out from a leading European independent research organization, SINTEF, to exploit deep science-to-tech advancements in ultrasonics andMicro-ElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS). Using this technology, the company is delivering a sensor that will transform a robot’s vision from 2D to 3D, offering a significantly improved safety performance over traditional vision systems while cutting costs by 50-80%. The company, based in Oslo, Norway, was founded in 2022 by an experienced team of serial entrepreneurs led by Knut Sandven, former CEO of GasSecure.
Deckmatch — Tooling to drink from the firehose of data, that is your top of funnel (TOFU)
Starflow — Starflow goal is to create a scalable energy system that helps people achieve energy independence.

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 — Invester uden minimumskurtage

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.

Reach Capital is the leading venture capital firm focused on education and workforce development, backing the biggest and most beloved brands in teaching and learning.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, E-Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Apoia — Apoia is a platform providing free, expert-led personalized courses for accessible and impactful learning.
Tenor — Tenor is an AI designed to assist leaders in practicing important dialogues.
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, EdTech, Database
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Norway, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bislab — Bislab is an entity that provides credit assessments to individuals and businesses for banking, finance, insurance, and debt collection.
Atlas — Atlas is an all-in-one platform for creating, collaborating on, and sharing custom maps and performing geospatial analysis.
Starflow — Starflow goal is to create a scalable energy system that helps people achieve energy independence.

Adler Konsult is an investment company.

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.

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.

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

Emerson Collective is an organization dedicated to removing barriers to opportunity so people can live to their full potential. Established and led by Laurene Powell Jobs, we center our work on education, immigration reform, the environment, and other social justice initiatives. We use a wide range of tools and strategies—partnering withentrepreneurs and experts, parents and policymakers, advocates and administrators—to develop and execute innovative solutions that will spur change and promote equality.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Education
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Advex AI — Advex AI assists the world's largest manufacturers in cutting costs and increasing productivity by producing highly dependable computer vision models in hours.
WeaveGrid — WeaveGrid operates with utilities and owners of electric vehicles (EV) to allow and speed up transportation electrification. Using machine learning, optimization, and predictive analytics, the company's software solution solves several EV-grid integration challenges for utilities in a systems-oriented manner; helps integrate renewable energyresources on the grid; and saves utility customers' money on their bills.
Umoja Biopharma — Pioneering immunotherapy by reprogramming T cells in vivo to target cancer cells.

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

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

Edify Energy — Edify Energy is a renewable energy company that specializes in solar project structuring, investments, and financing services.
Ocean GeoLoop — Ocean GeoLoop captures and stores or utilizes CO2 naturally. With no use of chemicals, toxins or other harmful consumables.
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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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