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Top 30 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Norway in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 30 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Food and beverage startups based in Norway. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from Norway. We update this investor list every month.

Top 30 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Norway in January 2026

Investor	Food and Beverage Norway investments
Innovation Norway	2
Orkla Ventures	2
Loyal VC	2
Persimmon Hill	1
SINTEF Venture AS	1
OpenOcean	1
Calvin Ayre	1
Norselab	1
Platform Ventures	1
Founders & Fools	1
Bspoke	1
Mathias Haddal Hovet	1
Skyfall Ventures	1
Sverre Tyrhaug	1
Per Kogstad	1
Newday	1
Ben Sheard	1
Anne Worsoe	1
Startup Norway	1
Eirik Frøyland Rime	1
Simula Innovation	1
Trond Riiber Knudsen	1
Kris Riise	1
Idekapital	1
Wilhelm Joys Andersen	1
Truls Brataas	1
Finn Gjedebo	1
Ikonika Holdings	1
Martin Schütt	1
Christian Hager	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.

Orkla Ventures promotes innovation and creativity opening up the possibility of investing directly in start-up companies. It focuses primarily on technology, concepts, and business models that might be relevant for Orkla’s businesses. The firm was established in 2017 to reach out to a growing universe of entrepreneurial businesses and startupcompanies engaged in innovation outside established companies.

Investment focus

Baby, AgTech, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Norway, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

GroGro — Uvanligere enn du tror.
Farmforce — TECH THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE
Bower — Bower has developed an app that enables consumers to receive a deposit value when recycling their packaging at regular recycling stations.

Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

WASTETIDE — Wastetide turns these wastes into profit, and your excel sheets into useful data.
Bagel AI — Bagel AI is a product intelligence platform that automates product management, helping product teams turn data into insights, streamline GTM, and drive growth
Aisel Health — Aisel Health provides AI that imitates psychiatrists for psychiatric clinics and hospitals to ensure efficient patient access to care.

Persimmon Hill

Investment focus

iOS, Gaming, Retail
Seed
Norway, United States

Portfolio highlights

UNISOT™ — UNISOT™ is a Norwegian B2B Supply Chain Sustainability PaaS, enabling global supply chain actors to be more sustainable as well as enabling them to prove it to their customers and consumers. With our 360° Supply Chain connectivity we also enable our customers to produce verifiable ESG/Sustainability reporting as well as verifiable End-to-EndScope 3 (GHG) reporting.Our main focus is to provide solutions to all actors of global supply chains to be more sustainable by being more efficient as well as provide tools that enable them to Prove their product Quality, Provenance and Sustainability; all functions that are becoming mandatory with the new regulations like UN/EU Supply Chain Traceability laws, EU Taxonomy for Sustainability and EPA Scope 1,2,3 https://unisot.com/esg.
FYX Gaming — Web3 development platform & scaling solutions on the blockchain, proud creator of CryptoFights.

We commercialize technology created by SINTEF's research environments

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Energy
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Norway, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nomono — Nomono delivers studio-grade spoken audio with next-gen wireless tools. Record anywhere, auto-enhance with AI, and edit in the cloud - trusted by storytellers
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.
Hydrogen Mem-Tech — Hydrogen Mem-Tech aim is to make the green shift happen through our state-of-the-art hydrogen separation technology with carbon capture.

OpenOcean is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in B2B software across Europe with offices in London & Helsinki.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nosto — Use Powerful Personalization Made Easy on e-Commerce Platforms. Nosto generates a 10-30% Average Increase in Revenue.
Hygraph — Hygraph is the next generation GraphQL-Native Federated Content Platform. Integrate all your services with our unique content federation approach and deliver to any destination of choice using our content APIs
Sunlight.Io — Sunlight makes performance possible anywhere - from the cloud to the edge. Demanding applications like AI, Big Data, Analytics and Rendering run 3x faster on Sunlight compared to legacy virtualisation, and because Sunlight has a tiny footprint - it’s perfect for the edge. Enterprises and MSPs use Sunlight to cut the costs of delivering highperformance IT by 70%.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Cambridge, UK.

Calvin Ayre (born May 25, 1961, in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Canada) is the founder of the Bodog online gaming and entertainment brand, which he developed and launched in 1994.Ayre received a Bachelor of Sciences (BSc) in General Sciences from the University of Waterloo in 1984. In 1989, Ayre earned an MBA in Management Finance from CityUniversity of Seattle.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Bitcoin
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Mijem — Mijem is the buy sell marketplace app to tap into your campus community. Save money. Earn cash. Connect with students. Download the free app.
Centi — Unlocking Financial Potential with Blockchain Empowering businesses and individuals with innovative solutions that bridge traditional...
Transmira — Augmented and Virtual Reality Solutions

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Agriculture
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Norway, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Looping — Looping offers reuse as a service by substituting reusable transport packaging for single-use plastic products. It produces long-lasting and reusable transport wrapping for building modules, housing modules, and steel containers.
Beefutures — Rooted in the beekeeping legacy and driven by expert engineering, Beefutures delivers accessible nature-based solutions to power a more sustainable world.
Wanda — Wanda.space is a technology and logistics start-up delivering space as a service.

Platform Ventures invests in real estate assets, real estate operating companies, and real estate technologies. Platform Ventures has a highly experienced management team of real estate professionals with extensive experience investing across the risk spectrum. As of December 31, 2017, the firm, through its subsidiaries, has made investments inover 37 states and has over $1.1 billion of assets under management across the United States.

Investment focus

Food Processing, Supply Chain Management
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Tag Sensors — Enjoy a new level of supply chain visibility with real-time single-use and disposable GPS trackers, sensor-driven awareness and analysis of in-transit goods, from end to end. Tive also provides freight, road, ocean, and air tracking data complete shipment awareness.

Founders & Fools was established to help Founders fulfill their potential and give the people who back them great returns.

Investment focus

Mobile, Marketing, Social Network
Seed, Angel
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Auk — Auk creates a fully-automatic system that makes it easier to grow vegetables, salads and herbs at your own kitchen
Fauna — When you need something, choose a green option. Through Fauna you will get bonus points for environmentally friendly purchases.

Bspoke expertise in project and test management, software engineering, software development, integration and consulting.

Investment focus

Software, Food Delivery, Online Portals
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Foody — Foody is powering the service getfood.no - the portal for online food orders. The tool helps restaurants and diners build a professional profile with take-away and dine-in order systems, menues, table-reservations and catering.

Mathias Haddal Hovet is a co founder at Wanda.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Savvie — Savvie is your sales forecasting tool, waste tracking tool, sold-out tracker, ordering solution, product manager and analytics dashboard all in one intuitive app. We help you reduce food waste while maximizing sales with our one-click solution for store management.

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

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.

Sverre Tyrhaug is a lawyer working for Thommessen

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Savvie — Savvie is your sales forecasting tool, waste tracking tool, sold-out tracker, ordering solution, product manager and analytics dashboard all in one intuitive app. We help you reduce food waste while maximizing sales with our one-click solution for store management.

Per Haug Kogstad a co-founder of Pexip.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Auk — Auk creates a fully-automatic system that makes it easier to grow vegetables, salads and herbs at your own kitchen

Newday is an investment firm that focuses on Norwegian companies. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Ski, Viken.

Investment focus

Software, Food Processing, Waste Management
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

TotalCtrl — Save your team hours of valuable time by using TotalCtrl to eliminate the tedious pre- and post-stock count tasks and generate stock count reports at one tap of a button.

Ben Sheard

Investment focus

Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Livly — At Livly we are building a global network of vertically integrated kitchens empowering local brands.

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 — OwnersRoom is a fintech startup based in Oslo.
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.

Building a stronger Startup Ecosystem since 2010

Investment focus

EdTech, Software, Gamification
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Aqua Alarm — Safeguarding water on its way to the tap
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.

Eirik Frøyland Rime - CEO and Co-founder @ Tise

Investment focus

Food and Beverage
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Auk — Auk creates a fully-automatic system that makes it easier to grow vegetables, salads and herbs at your own kitchen

Simula Innovation is an early-stage technology investor.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Völur — Ensuring optimal use of every single animal through cutting and processing.
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.

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.

Kris is a high school dropout and self taught builder who brings ideas to life and newness to the world.He has a relentless focus on empowering people to spend time on what really matters. Kris is highly optimistic, has a strong bias toward action, and rigorously works for the future to be better than the past.Today, Kris is Founder CEO ofUnloc. Their mission is to digitize keys and make life easier for everyone with a front door.Kris never quits once his mind is set on solving a problem.Web: unloc.ai

Investment focus

Software, B2B, SaaS
Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Savvie — Savvie is your sales forecasting tool, waste tracking tool, sold-out tracker, ordering solution, product manager and analytics dashboard all in one intuitive app. We help you reduce food waste while maximizing sales with our one-click solution for store management.
Shepherd — An all-in-one meetings tool, bringing structure and efficiency to every meeting.

We manage two investment funds with more than 1 bn NOK under management. We invest in high-growth software and technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Norway, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Appfarm — Quickest way to develop apps
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.
Kongsberg Digital — Kongsberg Digital offers transformative technology and deep expertise to help industrial companies achieve increased productivity and growth.

In an earlier life, Wilhelm built web browsers. Now he’s leading his own development agency, trying to turn grand visions into running code. He also contributes to the next generation of web standards at W3C.

Investment focus

CMS, PaaS, SaaS
Pre-Seed
Norway, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sanity — Sanity is a fully customizable all-code backend for AI, automations, and applications to author and render content.
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.

Truls Brataas Founder, CEO & Board Member at Douchebags.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Auk — Auk creates a fully-automatic system that makes it easier to grow vegetables, salads and herbs at your own kitchen

Finn Gjedebo

Investment focus

Food and Beverage
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Auk — Auk creates a fully-automatic system that makes it easier to grow vegetables, salads and herbs at your own kitchen

Ikonika Holdings provides financial support and assistance to companies.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Livly — At Livly we are building a global network of vertically integrated kitchens empowering local brands.

Co-founder of Askeladden & Co

Investment focus

Food and Beverage
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Auk — Auk creates a fully-automatic system that makes it easier to grow vegetables, salads and herbs at your own kitchen

Christian Hager - Co-Founder @ Hjemmelegene

Investment focus

Software, B2B, SaaS
Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Savvie — Savvie is your sales forecasting tool, waste tracking tool, sold-out tracker, ordering solution, product manager and analytics dashboard all in one intuitive app. We help you reduce food waste while maximizing sales with our one-click solution for store management.
Shepherd — An all-in-one meetings tool, bringing structure and efficiency to every meeting.

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