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Top 30 Hardware Angel Investors in Norway in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 30 angel investors that invest in Hardware startups based in Norway. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from Norway. We update this investor list every month.

Top 30 Hardware Angel Investors in Norway in November 2024

Investor	Hardware Norway investments
Magnus Carlsen	2
Christian Rokseth	2
Tharald Nustad	2
Johan Brand	2
Anne Worsoe	2
Rolf Ahlqvist	2
Jake Brukhman	1
Regan Bozman	1
Per Lachenmeier	1
Matteo Leibowitz	1
Jason Choi	1
Calvin Liu	1
Anthony Sassano	1
Luis Cuende	1
Erlend Reitan	1
Ryan Sean Adams	1
Sverre Munck	1
Omid Ashtari	1
Stefan George	1
Jason Choi	1
Jamie Brooker	1
Calvin Ayre	1
Albert Armengol	1
Barthélémy Kiss	1
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen	1
Jonas Rinde	1
Jason Choi	1
Stani Kulechov	1
Kari Ollila	1
Nicolaj B. Petersen	1

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Magnus Carlsen is the Co-founder of Freestyle Chess.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Christian Rokseth is dedicated and focused towards developing new and innovative communication solutions for enterprises. Since Christian Rokseth is started my career in 1999 Christian Rokseth have managed a series of advanced projects within the IT and Telecom industry. These projects have brought me significant knowledge about all the requiredsteps and processes involved in order to bring state of the art electronics and software products to the market. In 2014 Christian Rokseth is managed the development and market introduction of the world's first intrinsically safe smartphone. The product was developed from scratch by a team of 8 engineers. Likely the smallest team ever to develop a smartphone.

Investment focus

Electronics, CRM, Security
Seed, Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Auk — Auk creates a fully-automatic system that makes it easier to grow vegetables, salads and herbs at your own kitchen
Globus.ai — Cover up to 40% more shifts, every day, with our self-learning, AI-based, workforce management software. Book your free trial today.
Intoto — Intoto is a Company from Norway providing real-time data from rivers and streams.

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

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!

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.

Rolf Ahlqvist

Investment focus

Electronics, Public Safety, Information Technology
Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Intoto — Intoto is a Company from Norway providing real-time data from rivers and streams.

Jake Brukhman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at CoinFund.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bagel Network — AI and cryptography research lab. Building AGI.
Dune Analytics — Blockchain ecosystem analytics by and for the community. Explore and share data from Ethereum, Bitcoin, Polygon, BNB Chain, Solana, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, Fantom and Gnosis Chain for free.
Syndicate — Infrastructure for powerful web3 products at scale

Regan Bozman is a Director Of Business Operations at CoinList.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Web3
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

OpenSea — OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens. It includes collectibles, gaming items, and other virtual goods backed by a blockchain. On OpenSea, anyone can buy or sell these items through a smart contract.
Watches.io — Watches.io is a one step destination for the pre-owned luxury watches. Buy, sell, trade and vault your favorite luxury watches within one platform.
Syndicate — Infrastructure for powerful web3 products at scale

Per Lachenmeier is CEO of EasyRobotics. He is a mechanical engineer and was previously the CEO of Lachenmeier ApS for 16 years. Lachenmeier ApS, is a world leader in the production of pallet packaging machines for the global market.

Investment focus

Robotics, Software, Industrial Automation
Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

The Human Touch Robotics — Automating online grocery and food related goods picking with single-item picking robots, through adaptive gripping and AI vision system.

Matteo Leibowitz

Investment focus

Computer, Ethereum, Software
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Dune Analytics — Blockchain ecosystem analytics by and for the community. Explore and share data from Ethereum, Bitcoin, Polygon, BNB Chain, Solana, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, Fantom and Gnosis Chain for free.

Jason Choi is Venture Investor at Contrary Capital.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Encode Club — Learn crypto with our web3 education community. Get learning. Get building. Get hired. Get funding.
Hashflow — Tight spreads. Zero slippage. MEV-resistant.
LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.

Calvin Liu is the Chief Strategy Officer at EigenLayer. He attended Cornell University.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

BounceBit — BounceBit is a chain solution that aims to provide a smart contract execution environment centered on the BTC Token.
Dora Factory — Dora Factory is the digital infrastructure builder of the Global Hacker Movement. It creates protocols, toolings, and public good infrastructures that help open source communities and frontier tech builders to thrive.
Plume Network — Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain for RWAs that simplifies onchain asset deployment while fostering a composable ecosystem through DeFi applications

Anthony Sassano is a Product Marketing Manager at Set Labs. He attended La Trobe University.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zaros Finance — Zaros is a protocol that provides efficient liquidity, boosts staking rewards from LSTs, and aims to become the preferred liquidity hub for on-chain derivatives.
Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.
Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.

Luis Cuende is the Co-founder and President of CitizenX. He previously worked at Aragon One as a CEO.

Investment focus

Software, Computer, Ethereum
Seed, Series A
Norway, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Outdid — Verify identities with no storage, processing, or access of private personal information
Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
Syndicate — Infrastructure for powerful web3 products at scale

Seasoned venture capital investor helping founders and their teams hands-on to accelerate the entrepreneurial journey. Actively looking for investments with unicorn potential.M&A specialist with experience from complex cross-border transactions. Experience from more than 20 M&A transactions including more than 10 cross-border deals, exitswith mainly publicly listed and Private Equity counterparts.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

evoluteIQ — Foster the best-in-class enterprise workflow automation at scale with EvoluteIQ's end-to-end intelligent business automation platform
DIME — DIME provides digitalization and automation services to simplify the work of municipalities.
Confidus Venture Capital — Confidus Venture Capital is a Venture Fund designed to outperform. We invest in future winners in digital transformation and automation.Setting the record straight – the quality of an idea and the human capital behind it is far more important than factors such as investment stage, size or profits. We know it from experience working closely withambitious and bold entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs with the power to change the world! Together we have built disruptive global tech companies challenging industry norms. Delivering outstanding results. Our incentive is only upon success: Our belief in sustainable value creation is so strong we have eliminated management fees!

Ryan Sean Adams

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Rep3 — Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.
Pimlico — Leverage Pimlico to get more users by unlocking the full potential of gas sponsorships.
Soul Wallet — Soul Wallet is a smart contract wallet.

Sverre Munck is a ex-EVP at Schibsted.

Investment focus

Sports, Software, Computer Vision
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

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

Omid Ashtari has held operational roles at Google (business development, strategic partnerships), Foursquare (MD Europe), Citymapper (President), and Streetbees (COO). Currently he is an angel investor and advisor to early stag startups. He serves as the business advisor to the Mayor of London. He blogs on www.startuppragmatism.blog andwww.thefullspectrum.blog

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Sloyd — 3D modeling has never been easier. Select a generator, tweak it, done. Generate with realtime in the Sloyd Webapp or SDK.
Anterior — Lead your plan into the future.
Ctrl Alt — Access the world of alternative assets in a simple, transparent and secure way. Sign up to Ctrl Alt and start your alternative investment journey with us today.

Stefan George - Co-Founder & CTO @ Gnosis

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Private Equity
United Kingdom, Norway, Germany

Portfolio highlights

karpatkey — Market leaders in onchain asset management, karpatkey helps crypto organisations grow their assets responsibly and sustainably. We provide active treasury management, financial services, ecosystem growth and risk management solutions.
Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
Centrifuge — Centrifuge is an open, decentralized operating system to connect the global financial supply chain. It allows participants to transact on a global network while maintaining ownership of their data, including their validated company details, their reputation, business relationships, and subsequent transactions. The company's team built multiplecompanies together over the last 18 years and they still enjoy working as a group. Together, they created software that transacts billions of dollars each day and is used by 97 out of the Fortune 100. With the help of their world-class investors, advisors, partners, and team they started Centrifuge to go on building real software, solving real business problems.

Jason Choi is Venture Investor at Contrary Capital.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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

Albert Armengol took up his MBA at Esade.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Apps, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Spain, United Kingdom, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Moonoa — Moonoa is a developer of an online platform to help people sleep better.
WOODEA — Constructora industrializada de edificios en madera. Reducimos incertidumbre y plazos de manera sostenible y digital.
Banktrack — Banktrack provides All the bank movements by Email, WhatsApp, or your favorite channel.

Barthélémy Kiss

Investment focus

Video Games, 3D Technology
Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Sloyd — 3D modeling has never been easier. Select a generator, tweak it, done. Generate with realtime in the Sloyd Webapp or SDK.

Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen is a Co-Founder & serves as a Partner at 2xN. Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen was General Partner at Balderton Capital in London from 2015-2021 through four funds. He joined after spending a decade in Silicon Valley where he was with Uber and Dropbox.Since 2012 his venture track record includes two IPOs (Uber, Dropbox) and 11acquisitions.Lars joined Balderton from Uber which he joined when the company was operating in less than 20 cities. His role as Vice-President resulted in strategic alliances. Lars joined Uber from Dropbox as one of the company’s first 25 employees. As Head of Mobile, his growth deals with Samsung and other mobile OEMs helped Dropbox reach its first 100 million users. Prior to that Lars held positions at Voicesignal (acq. Nuance), Skyhook Wireless (acq. TruePosition), Ness Technologies (acq. Opentable), 3Jam (acq. Skype) and T9 Tegic (acq. AOL). More than a billion people have used the software and services distributed as a result of mobile growth partnerships led by Lars.His venture investments include Voi (Raine), Labster (A16Z), Hiya (Ericsson), Cambridge Quantum Computing (HON), Hopin (A16Z), Opensea (A16Z), Yassir (YC), Beacon (Eric Schmidt), The org (Sequoia), Octant (A16Z), Zycada (Khosla), Monarch Money (Accel) and Kukua (Tencent), Dubsmash (acq. Reddit), Tempow (acq. Google), Rahko (acq. Odyssey Therapeutics), Pocket (acq. Mozilla), Blue Bottle (acq. Nestle), Marble (acq. Caterpillar).Lars, who is Danish-Portuguese, grew up across Africa and served with the Royal Danish Guards. He holds a MBA from London Business School, where he also serves on the Board of Trustees, an MSc from Oxford University Keble College and a BSc from King’s College, London. He lives in London with his wife and three children.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HUBUC — A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products.  e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks.
LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
Quantrol Ox — Building Machine Learning Based Software for Quantum Control with a goal to maximise quantum computer uptime.

Jonas Rinde

Investment focus

Video Games, 3D Technology
Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Sloyd — 3D modeling has never been easier. Select a generator, tweak it, done. Generate with realtime in the Sloyd Webapp or SDK.

Jason Choi

Investment focus

Computer, Ethereum, Software
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Dune Analytics — Blockchain ecosystem analytics by and for the community. Explore and share data from Ethereum, Bitcoin, Polygon, BNB Chain, Solana, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, Fantom and Gnosis Chain for free.

Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience developing technology in the crypto, blockchain, and fintech space. Stani is also a mentor to many founders and advisors of ICOs and blockchain projects and has spoken at numerous FinTech, Blockchain and cryptocurrency events,particularly on topics related to Ethereum Smart Contracts.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

karpatkey — Market leaders in onchain asset management, karpatkey helps crypto organisations grow their assets responsibly and sustainably. We provide active treasury management, financial services, ecosystem growth and risk management solutions.
RISE Labs — The Gigagas Layer 2
Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.

Kari Ollila

Investment focus

Robotics, Software, Industrial Automation
Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

The Human Touch Robotics — Automating online grocery and food related goods picking with single-item picking robots, through adaptive gripping and AI vision system.

Founder of Dirtybit.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Video Conferencing
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

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.

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