Top 50 FinTech Startup Investors in Norway in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Fintech startups based in Norway. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fintech companies from Norway. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 FinTech Startup Investors in Norway in November 2024
Investor | FinTech Norway investments |
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Investinor | 4 |
DNB | 4 |
Skyfall Ventures | 4 |
Kistefos Venture Capital | 3 |
Alliance VC | 3 |
Innovation Norway | 3 |
Schibsted Growth | 3 |
Oleg Tikhturov | 2 |
Gunnar Rydning | 2 |
RunwayFBU | 2 |
Northzone | 2 |
Sequoia Capital | 2 |
LocalGlobe | 2 |
Visionaries Club | 2 |
Entrée Capital | 2 |
Skagerak Maturo | 2 |
Geir Olsen | 1 |
FJ Labs | 1 |
Rocket Finance | 1 |
Lemniscap | 1 |
MetaWeb Ventures | 1 |
The LAO | 1 |
Knut Asplund | 1 |
CMT Digital | 1 |
Digital Currency Group | 1 |
Day One Ventures | 1 |
SINTEF Venture AS | 1 |
Shine Capital | 1 |
Petter Mannsverk Andresen | 1 |
Boost VC | 1 |
The Aventures | 1 |
Factor[e] Ventures | 1 |
Harald Mowinckel Troye | 1 |
TRGC | 1 |
Antler | 1 |
Stockholm Techstars Accelerator | 1 |
Bitmain | 1 |
CoFounder | 1 |
Unstoppable Domains | 1 |
EDFI ElectriFI | 1 |
Penny Venture | 1 |
TD Veen | 1 |
Michiko | 1 |
Bent M Skisaker | 1 |
Link Venture Capital | 1 |
CCAP Investments & Advisory | 1 |
Futurum Ventures | 1 |
Harald Strømme | 1 |
Folius Ventures | 1 |
Thomas W. Grieg | 1 |
Investinor invests in Norwegian based, high potential companies that are internationally oriented and in the phases ranging from early growth to expansion. The company has BNOK 4.2 ($500 m) under management and focus on companies within the internet, software, semiconductors, energy, cleantech, marine and life sciences sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Norway, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Eyr — Eyr offers digital tools for medical consulting and doctor's prescription regarding various health issues.
- Calluna Pharma — Join Calluna Pharma to transform therapeutics for inflammatory and fibrotic diseases. With a robust pipeline, seasoned leadership, and strategic alliances, we can revolutionize patient care.
- Ignite — A powerful & easy spend management tool to accelerate your procurement success by bringing clarity, clean data & sophisticated analytics to your fingertips
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.
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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.
We are an early stage venture capital firm based in Oslo, Norway.
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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.
- Starflow — Starflow goal is to create a scalable energy system that helps people achieve energy independence.
- Cardboard — Cardboard's strive is to make SaaS subscription management smarter and more efficient for enterprises.
Kistefos focus on investing between NOK 10m and NOK +100m in each company, aiming at obtaining a significant ownership stake. Kistefos is opportunistic with regards to sectors, company sizes, life-cycle stages and geographies. Kistefos’ investment strategy selectively seeks out a diverse range of proprietary transactions in companies of varioussizes, including build-ups, growth capital, rescue financings and buyouts.Kistefos is an active partner to the management teams and founders, providing considerable internal resources to ensure the long-term value creation through identification of the key value drivers. Furthermore, we operate under a flexible investment mandate, giving us the opportunity to optimally support our portfolio companies throughout our ownership period.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Norway, Singapore, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Surer — Surer is a cloud-based insurtech platform with a digital ecosystem of intermediaries and insurers. It provides tech solutions to help orchestrate the network in the insurance industry enabling insurance intermediaries to close deals with greater speed and allows insurers to distribute their product with better efficiency.
- Workclass — Apply for any jobs and get hired in 24 hours now!
- bluesheets — Build a solid data foundation with Bluesheets, the all-in-one tool that connects, categorises and automates your finanical data. Set up once, automate forever.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Norway, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Ciloo — Ciloo is an operator of a global on-demand platform intended to provide e-commerce software for branded products and corporate gifts.
- Versiro — Versiro helps users make better and faster decisions in the European electricity markets. With an easy-to-use interface and tailored solutions for individual assets, Versiro helps its users to better navigate the uncertainty of the physical power system while staying in full control over their own value chain
- Steep — Business intelligence for modern companies. Steep lets anyone on your team stay on top of your data.
Innovasjon Norge - vi gir lokale ideer globale muligheter
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Grant, Seed, Funding Round
- Norway, Romania, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Leasi — Leasi delivers a forward-thinking rental and resource management system for companies that engage in internal or external distribution of machinery. This is achieved through an ecosystem that emphasizes the excessive use of data and datasharing, with a focus on user experience. Our goal is to create a simpler, more streamlined, and more efficientworkday for industry players by leveraging the power of data and collaboration within the ecosystem to ultimately reduce emissions, increase efficiency and enhance profitability.
- Plaace — Proptech company creating vibrant streets and cities by helping property owners choose and connect with the right concepts, at the right place, using the right data.
- Carbon Centrum — Measure, Act & Get Rewarded!
Investing in great digital companies!
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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.
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.
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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 — Instant access to leading insurance and retirement providers globally, with flexible contributions, automated accounting and a delightfully simple employee app.
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.
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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.
An early stage VC fund that invests in software-driven technology companies built by ambitious entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Norway, Italy
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.
- Muybridge — Reimagining cameras with weightless software-based viewpoint
- Phantasma Labs — Phantasma Labs is helping self-driving cars understand humans better by putting real humans in virtual worlds to train Artificial Intelligence.
Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital fund that seeks to invest in the healthcare, semiconductors, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gaming industries.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Sweden, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- TrueLayer — We power faster and safer online payments with our open banking payments network. Onboard users, accept payments & make payouts in seconds. Learn more today.
- AirForestry — AirForestry thins forests in a completely new way, namely from the air. #Re-inventing Forestry
- Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.
We help the daring build legendary companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, India
Portfolio highlights
- Tola — Tola offers a simple and easy way for businesses to pay and get paid, however and whenever they want. Sign up today!
- Stem Lingo — LINGO coding kits are designed to teach youth aged 13+ about the fundamentals of hardware and software design.
- Decart — Decart is an AI platform significantly improves the training and inference of large generative models.
Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Clock Bio — Clock Bio operates as a biotech company, that develops novel regenerative medicines.
- Keel — Keel is a London-based startup offering modern businesses a much-needed third choice between off-the-shelf and no-code tools. Keel has developed a powerful programmable operations platform which offers all the benefits of bespoke tooling without the need to build from scratch.Keel was founded in 2022 by Benoit Machefer, Tom Frew and Jon Bretman,who directly experienced the frustration of being underserved by off-the-shelf software when scaling the fastest growing online pharmacy in Europe to over $130m revenue. The company represents a compelling vision of a future without legacy ERP, where ops teams and engineers work more closely together building bespoke tools on the robust and secure Keel platform.
- Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.
Visionaries Club is a leading European early stage VC backed by Europe's most successful digital founders and family business entrepreneurs. We strongly believe that leveraging our entrepreneurial investors' authentic knowledge and access is the best support we can provide to entrepreneurs in their Seed and Early Growth stage to help themtake their companies to the next level.Visionaries Club is divided into two funds:A € 150m seed stage fund leveraging its unicorn and digital founder LP base for very early and exclusive access to the most promising entrepreneurs across Europe.A €200m Early Growth fund leveraging especially the fund's industrial family business LP network is intended to support the most promising European B2B companies in their early growth stage from Series B onwards with global reach and scale.The firm was founded in 2019 by Robert Lacher and Sebastian Pollok and has offices in Berlin and London
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
We're a team of former serial founders managing over $1.25B across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Obligo — Rid yourself from the burden of security deposits and go deposit-free. Landlords paid instantly on claims, while tenants repay in installments.
- Archy — SaaS Practice Management Software for Dental Practices
- Sensi.Ai — Sensi.Ai developed the first audio AI that's able to analyze the routine in long term care environments, detect anomalies and provide insight on trends, with the purpose of improving the quality of care
As an early stage venture firm, we invest in companies with positive impact. Megatrends like climate change and resource scarcity are some of the challenges we are facing. We believe technological innovations will contribute to a positive impact on people and the planet.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Semine — The SEMINE.AI cognitive services offers shared service centers in enterprices and their developers to standardize the most labor-intensive financial object, using a semantic model for the classification of the invoice, and populate AI-models in order to enable automation. The automation includes cost distribution at both GL and dimension levels.Positioned as the market leader with AI in accounts payable the company is experiencing vast growth in the Nordics where most of the AP market leaders are born (Basware, Medius and Visma)
- OptoScale — OptoScale sells real-time monitoring equipment for fish farms. OptoScale engages in precision aquaculture, helping fish farmers unlock unprecedented productivity and sustainability gains.
- Ignite — A powerful & easy spend management tool to accelerate your procurement success by bringing clarity, clean data & sophisticated analytics to your fingertips
Technology, FinTech, Financial Services, Venture Capital Investor
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Investment focus
- Software, Cyber Security, Financial Services
- Funding Round
- Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Beaufort Solutions — Beaufort Solutions is a developed financial software solution intended to combat financial crimes related to the money laundering act.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Formic Technologies — At Formic, we want to increase the collective output of humanity by making automation deployments trivial and easy. Every factory should have access to unlimited 'labor' through robotics and automation rentals. We are building technology, financing, operations and services to make this vision possible.Formic is a fast-growingventure-backed startup focused on unlocking robotic automation in labor-starved industries such as food and beverage, advanced manufacturing, consumer packaged goods and other industrial settings. We combine financial innovation with a firm understanding of what robotics are capable of, to enable manufacturing customers to scale up their manufacturing capacity quickly and with minimal risk.
- nodaFi — nodaFi mounts smart-signs in spaces giving guests the ability to quickly report issues linked directly to their location. nodaFi closes the gap between the maintainers of a facility and its users. Once an issue is reported, staff can leverage the mobile and web applications to collaborate on solving the issue and facility managers can access acomprehensive dashboard to make data-driven decisions about their building operations. nodaFi is a San Francisco/Milwaukee based, Delaware C-Corp.
- OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
Norwegian based investment company
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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
Lemniscap is an investment firm specialising in investments in emerging cryptoassets and blockchain startups.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Fermah — Fermah can generate proofs for any instance in which ZK is used. Fermah is credibly neutral and architected to support all proof systems. This includes zkVMs, zkEVMs, Groth16, and all other proof systems. It is optimized for cheap, fast, and reliable ZK proof generation.
- Hyve — Hyve is a high-throughput data availability solution designed for high-performance decentralized applications and networks.
- Nitro Labs — Termina is a powerful platform designed to streamline the deployment of Solana blocks through an integrated engine for the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM)
MetaWeb.VC is a global crypto venture capital investment firm with a focus on NEAR Protocol. We invest in DeFi, NFT, metaverse, gaming, social, middleware, and infrastructure in blockchain.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, China
Portfolio highlights
- KINO — KINO is a film production company that brings fans behind the scenes of their favorite hollywood films.
- Gateway.fm — GatewayFM is the first truly decentralized blockchain infra/node provider, with globally distributed, multichain infrastructure
- Few and Far — Few and Far is the next-generation platform for experiences in Web3, including NFTs, DeFi, gaming, and more. They help NFT projects with launchpad services, minting tools, outbound marketing, and more. They offer creators the liquidity, ability to earn, and listings alongside the top collections on NEAR.
The LAO is a global group of Ethereum enthusiasts and experts supporting the work of Ethereum builders.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Hook — Hook provides an NFT-native options protocol that enables active traders to earn more with less. For active traders, options allow them to earn multiples of buying the floor for the best trades.
- Keyp — Improve onboarding and payments in your games & apps effortlessly with OAuth logins and debit card transactions. Use simple API calls to verify users, create, transfer & airdrop assets.
- Solv Protocol — Decentralized Liquidity Infrastructure
Knut Asplund
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Investment focus
- Banking, FinTech, Impact Investing
- Funding Round
- Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Spiff — Spiff is a new Norwegian savings app for everyone! Save together or alone, completely free. Most of us think of housing or retirement when talking about savings. It is also as much about the smaller things in everyday life.Certain things in life are difficult to achieve alone. Fortunately, it is easy to save on common goals when using Spiff.Sometimes it holds a monthly move. At other times it is cool to refer to some chronicles that hang and slang.
An exciting new iteration of our website is coming soon.
CMT Digital is a blockchain and digital assets focused subsidiary of the CMT Group, a 24 year-old trading and investments firm. The CMT Group has operated as a valued partner to entrepreneurs, traders, and technologists
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Andrena — Andrena is a developer of an internet distribution platform designed to offer high-speed internet at reduced costs.The company works directly with internet providers who provide internet for universities, hospitals, financial services and other users with heavy data needs and leverage their existing fiber networks to deploy a series of antennas toblanket a geography with internet access, allowing customers and businesses to tap into a faster network wirelessly.
- Axal — Axal is a smart web3 systems by just stating your intent.
- Hypernative — Detect attacks in progress & prevent loses in real time by proactively monitoring on and off chain data sources and help mitigate security, governance and financial risks with early warnings & actionable insights.
We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
- TurnStay — We help hotels radically reduce payment fees.
- aviva — Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.
Day One Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs customer-obsessed companies and spearheads their communications. This enables the Day One team to become actively involved in its portfolio companies and plays a real, tangible role in helping them grow. The firm invests across industries from pre-seed to seed - and occasionally series A, andinvests between $100k and $5 million.Day One Ventures was founded by Masha Drokova, who is an angel investor, entrepreneur, communications executive, and Forbes 30 Under 30 Honoree.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Artisan AI — Artisan is on a mission to build the first generation of AI employees, called Artisans, who can automate specific roles & workflows.
- Abel Police — Abel Police liberates patrol from paperwork so they can focus on making cities safer.
- NetNow — Offer your business customers the convenience of buy now pay later with our easy-to-use embedded check-out.
SINTEF TTO & Venture invest in spin-off companies from SINTEF, NTNU and other research based institutions in Norway. Our dealflow reflect results from state-of-art research and cover a variety of sectors.
SINTEF Venture seek to co-invest with VC funds with sector expertise at an early stage.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Software, Energy
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Norway, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nomono — Introducing Nomono Sound Capsule
- Hystar — Hystar develops polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyzers designed for large-scale green hydrogen production. Founded in 2020, Hystar's technology uses a unique cell design and process architecture that provides the ability to reduce electricity consumption and increase hydrogen output, enabling professionals to tackle various criticalenergy challenges and having the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- KIT-AR — Reduce time and costs spent fixing errors on your manufacturing shopfloor with quality assurance and augmented reality- Click in to find how!
Shine is a venture capital firm that partners with relentless, creative, convincing entrepreneurs from the earliest stages of company building.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Spain, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- 10Beauty — The only 5-step manicure machine in the world.
- iVerify — IVerify is a mobile threat hunting company that provides mobile security solutions for individuals who want to know they can trust their devices with their most sensitive information without sacrificing privacy.
- Mother Games — MOTHER Games is an art and media company that creates transformative experiences through play, blending creativity and innovation to craft unique and engaging interactive experiences.
Petter Mannsverk Andresen is a financial advisor, business developer and active owner with experience from vast number of industries and regions.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services
- Angel
- Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Finanstipset AS — Finanstipset is a loan agency that provider refinancing solutions.
Boost VC: The Pre-Seed Fund Making Sci-FI a Reality. Investing in crypto, virtual reality, augmented reality, AI, Ocean Tech, Space Tech, human augmentation, exoskeletons and more.
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Investment focus
- Software, Virtual Reality, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- forml — Discover how our platform can help your business harness the power of Machine Learning and drive growth. Get started today!
- AstroBeam — AstroBeam is focused on creating more comfortable, more accessible, and more human ways to hangout and have fun with friends in VR!
- Smooth Ag Solutions — Smooth Ag Solutions Inc. - The Ranch Rover: Autonomous Feed Rover for Cattle
The team comes from heavy tech oriented background such as Cloud Infrastructure, Data Science, Theoretical Physics, Machine Learning, Software Development and Business development. We like to brand ourselves as "the nerds" in the tech space. We speak the same technical language as the founders and like to be an active part in the venturewe enter, depending on the needs of the founders. Our thesis is that we are building bridge spanning over the knowledge gap between deeptech founders and traditional investors.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Denmark, United States, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Capsule — CAPSULE wardrobe app I rediscover your wardrobe I style and create outfits I follow wardrobes for styling inspiration
- 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.
Impact venture builders dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that turn challenges in energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste into de-carbonized solutions for emerging and frontier markets.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, Kenya, India
Portfolio highlights
- Terralima — Terralima is building a digital platform where we connect a trusted network of farmers in Africa to food producers and co-operatives who get high-quality, traceable agricultural commodities at a fair, transparent and stable market price. We are also bridging the funding gap for farmers and aggregators through embbeded fintech.Our online Tradingand Fintech platform delivers direct access to markets, on-demand credit, and efficient logistics for smallholder farmers; thus ensuring we can get food from where it is produced to where it's required, while eliminating food waste and maximising profits for farmers.
- InspiraFarms — InspiraFarms provides on-and-near farm, grid & solar powered Cold Rooms & Packhouses for agribusinesses & distributors. Reduce energy costs & food losses!
- Open Access Energy — Open Access Energy provides energy management software.
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.
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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
We back visionary teams and companies that are in pursuit of a better global financial system, with an aim to foster the growth of the world’s most promising projects in the emerging technologies sector. Leveraging both our deep understanding of the ecosystem and our extensive industry connections, we are able to put capital to work efficiently,supporting the next wave of trailblazing blockchain, Web3 and DeFi innovators.
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- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, France
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- Hemi Labs — Hemi (https://hemi.xyz) is a modular protocol that integrates Bitcoin and Ethereum to amplify and extend the core capabilities of the two leading blockchain networks. This offers a novel perspective on blockchain interoperability and scaling by approaching Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a single supernetwork. The result providessecurity that exceeds that of Bitcoin (“superfinality”) and new levels of blockchain programmability, portability, and potential. Hemi was co-founded by Jeff Garzik (former Bitcoin core developer) and Max Sanchez (inventor of the Proof-of-Proof consensus protocol), and is surrounded by a team of renowned blockchain engineers, strategic partners and investors.
- KRNL Labs — KRNL Labs is a decentralized infrastructure protocol that makes smart contracts and develops an open, multichain software registry for the Web3 ecosystem. That allows developers to build dApps that can leverage multiple blockchains simultaneously.
- Apex Fusion — Apex Fusion uses cutting-edge technology to connect segregated UTXO and account-based networks, unlocking blockchain's full potential by allowing for seamless asset movement and growth across various yet unified protocols.
Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia
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- FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
- Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
- Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.
The Stockholm Techstars Accelerator invests in early-stage, high-growth companies looking to build and expand in the Nordic-Baltic startup ecosystem.
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- Pet, FinTech, Finance
- Pre-Seed
- Israel, Norway, Sweden
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- goscore — Fair human credit scoring, credit check, and assessment for you
- Terrawaste — TerraWaste is a next-generation chemical recycling company that turns non-recyclable waste into value by creating new, climate-positive materials with a pollution-free process. TerraWaste focuses on lowering the level of need for virgin oil extraction by recycling plastics with chemical recycling technology 'htloop' into high-qualityclimate-positive crude oil, biochar, and high-value chemicals to support companies globally to become more sustainable and circular. Our technology (htloop) is developed on a process developed in the laboratory for over 20 years and hasn’t been commercialized until recently. TerraWaste is the first company to use HTL to recycle plastic waste and turn it into new plastic products. The unique thing is the state-of-the-art technological system that will recycle waste in a continuous-flow system, at the same time reusing heat and water in a loop, that way dramatically decreasing energy consumption. Our process is pollution free, and we produce carbon-negative output materials, that way offsetting other, carbon-heavy industries.
- Five Letter Foods — Real food for dogs. Ultra-processed junk food is boring and makes your dog sick. Our meal kits have a full swing of variety. Death to kibble.
Bitmain is a manufacturer of Bitcoin mining hardware and other related services.Bitmain was founded by several of the digital currency industry’s earliest players, and their team is comprised of passionate and pedigreed engineers, financial experts, and Bitcoin enthusiasts.Bitmain is headquartered in Beijing and has offices in San Francisco,Tel Aviv, Hong Kong, Chengdu and Shenzhen.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, China, Singapore
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- Joystream — JoyStream is a blockchain powered decentralized media distribution, curation, discovery, and monetization platform.
- Shentu Chain — The Shentu Chain's mission is to create a more trustworthy blockchain world for all, starting with the Shentu Chain, a public platform that's secure, decentralized and compatible & interoperable with other blockchain ecosystems. Where security is a need, not a nice-to-have.
- Core Scientific — Explore Core Scientific, a leader in digital infrastructure for high-performance computing and bitcoin mining.
CoFounder is a management and investment company for technology companies with great growth potential.
They are experienced entrepreneurs and business developers who provide management resources and early-stage capital. They work with spin-offs from both research and industrial environments, as well as standalone entrepreneurial companies.
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- Manufacturing, Industrial, SaaS
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Norway
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- AlumatIQ — AlumatIQ specializes in industrial robotics, automation, and digitalization in the aluminum industry. Their first product is robotic automation of the anode change process, with high accuracy, consistency, and speed. Improves health and safety conditions for operators in pot rooms and reduces emissions of HF and greenhouse gases.
- Nicoustic — Nicoustic developed accurate, non-intrusive technology for separator-level measurement based on Guided Ultrasonic Waves. Their technique uses guided ultrasonic waves to measure the amounts of solids and liquids using sensors. It is being developed to measure the interface layers between emulsion and foam.Nicoustic's prototype is the outcomeof 20 years of study at the German Fraunhofer IKTS and a response to a challenge put forth by Equinor, the largest energy company in Norway.
- Aviant — Delivering full-stack drone services that enables autonomous and on-demand transport of cargo.
Buy .x, .crypto, .eth and other web3 domains to own your digital identity
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- Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Norway, United States
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- Gateway.fm — GatewayFM is the first truly decentralized blockchain infra/node provider, with globally distributed, multichain infrastructure
- Polyhedra Network — Polyhedra is bringing interoperability and scalability to Web3 with the fastest zero-knowledge proof systems.
Impact investment in sustainable energy
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- Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Kenya, Nigeria
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- WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
- Amped Innovation — At Amped Innovation, we design breakthrough products for people living on less than four dollars per day. Our first product, the Blossom, is a solar home power system which is the lowest-cost and highest-performance product in its class, at one third the price and twice the power handling of competing systems. We built the Blossom with asoftware-enabled Pay-As-You-Go interface, which allows customers to purchase it in payment installments that are equivalent to what they currently spend on kerosene, while providing much more light, cell-phone charging, and ability to run appliances like televisions and sewing machines.
Penny Venture is a venture company investing in high growth, entrepreneurial led start-ups
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- B2B, Fuel, Energy
- Pre-Seed
- Norway
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- 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.
TD Veen is concerned with sustainable social development. Their contribution is to invest in companies and solutions that are good for both owners and society at large. The foundation of TD Veen is job satisfaction, creativity and a strong determination to invest in the very best people.At one stage they saw sense in targeting the investmentprofile, which also gave us a new perspective on the demand for returns and the role of investors. As a financial owner, they want to establish a healthy attitude toward results and returns. In companies where value is created over time.A differentiated portfolio is important to us. That is why they work with investments in new industries, such as e.g. health, or in parts of the world where they have not been before. Despite their Stavanger address, they want to invest outside of the petroleum sector.TD Veen has for many years supported the work of SOS Children’s Villages, including the project The Long Run, where they renovated old children’s villages in Romania and Lebanon. They have also contributed to starting up a separate pioneer project for foster families in Murmansk. Going ahead, they will to a greater degree also contribute to society at home, by building up a community of social entrepreneurs in Eiganesveien 95.
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- Software, Internet, Video Streaming
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Norway, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Mobai — Provider of attack detection, image manipulation detection and authentication. Strong and successful research team on biometrics.
- Dagens — Together with farmers and chefs, we co-create a transparent and resilient food system for the future. The farmers get a bigger part of the profit. Buyers get easy access to unique, biodiverse produce at competitive prices.
- Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
Michiko is a family holding company of Dag Lilletvedt
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- Fuel, Energy, Shipping
- Pre-Seed
- Norway
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- 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.
Bent M Skisaker is a CFO of AutoStore.
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- Payments, Employee Benefits
- Series A
- Norway
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- Optio Incentives — Optio helps businesses incentivize employees, manage equity, stay compliant, and report costs with our software and advisory
Link Venture Capital operates a series of early-stage investment funds.
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- Marine Technology, Information Technology, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Norway, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
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- 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,
CCAP Investments & Advisory is an investment firm.
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- Finance, Leasing, Payments
- Series A
- Norway, Austria
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- linx4 - Pay-per-Use Financing — linx4 is an Austrian based financing company with a unique market USP in true Pay-per-Use Financing for industrial equipment, where linx4 takes over up to 75% usage risk.
- Optio Incentives — Optio helps businesses incentivize employees, manage equity, stay compliant, and report costs with our software and advisory
Futurum Ventures is a venture capital firm.
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- Payments, Employee Benefits
- Series A
- Norway
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- Optio Incentives — Optio helps businesses incentivize employees, manage equity, stay compliant, and report costs with our software and advisory
Harald Strømme
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- Financial Services
- Angel, Funding Round
- Norway
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- Shifter —
- Finanstipset AS — Finanstipset is a loan agency that provider refinancing solutions.
Folius Ventures: Invest in, evangelize, and #buidl Web3 initiatives.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, India
Thomas W. Grieg
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- Software, Collaboration, Asset Management
- Funding Round
- Norway
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- VesselMan — Digital Vessel Management is a cloud-based maritime SaaS dry docking software for ships repair and maintenance, technical projects and Digital Fleet Management.
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