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Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Norway in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Norway in January 2025

Investor	Hardware Norway investments
Investinor	13
ProVenture	9
SINTEF Venture AS	6
Alliance VC	6
Nysnø	4
Skyfall Ventures	4
Luminar Ventures	4
Bring Ventures	3
MP Pensjon	3
Kistefos Venture Capital	3
Antler	3
Idekapital	3
Draper B1	3
Valinor AS	3
Ferd	3
Anne Worsoe	2
Johan Brand	2
Magnus Carlsen	2
The Crowd Angel	2
Multicoin Capital	2
Holta Invest	2
TeleVenture Management	2
BAGi	2
Nordic Green Capital	2
Voima Ventures	2
Dragonfly	2
Northzone	2
Rolf Ahlqvist	2
RunwayFBU	2
Christian Rokseth	2
Skagerak Maturo	2
TD Veen	2
Tharald Nustad	2
Acequia Capital (AceCap)	2
Innovation Norway	2
Norselab	2
fresh.fund	2
CoFounder	2
Omid Ashtari	1
Sparebank 1 Smn Invest AS	1
Autodesk	1
Momentum Partners	1
Eviny Ventures	1
Sondo Capital	1
Tiger Global Management	1
Founders Fund AS	1
Propagator Ventures	1
Grieg Kapital	1
A16Z GAMES Speedrun	1
Regan Bozman	1

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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.

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

ProVenture invest in young digital technology startups in Norway. ProVenture have three seed funds and more than a billion NOK under management. ProVenture is a member of Norwegian Venture Association (NVCA).

Investment focus

Software, Oil and Gas, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Norway, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

InfoTiles — InfoTiles provides real-time analytics solutions for Digital Water that span the water value chain, from supply & consumption to wastewater treatment and surveillance of waterways. InfoTiles unlocks data-driven planning, operations and maintenance.InfoTiles simplifies and automates the tedious steps of consolidating data, applying real-timeanalytics and machine learning so water utilities can turn insights into actions and benefit from more efficient, sustainable operations.
Wanda — Wanda.space is a technology and logistics start-up delivering space as a service.
Cimon Medical — Cimon Medical develops and manufactures novel Doppler ultrasound technology for healthcare and aim to become the market leader in continuous direct monitoring of blood-flow. The first product to be released in Q4 21 is NeoDoppler - non-invasive continuous monitoring of blood-flow in the brain of premature or critically ill infants.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nomono — Nomono offers an all-in-one portable podcast kit, the Sound Capsule, designed for effortless recording and professional-quality audio. Simply press record to capture studio-quality sound anywhere, with no setup required. Enhance and edit your podcasts seamlessly with Nomono Cloud's AI-powered audio processing. Ideal for podcasters and broadcast journalists seeking a streamlined workflow and exceptional sound quality.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Deckmatch — Tooling to drink from the firehose of data, that is your top of funnel (TOFU)
Steep — Business intelligence for modern companies. Steep lets anyone on your team stay on top of your data.
Lightbringer — Lightbringer is your all-in-one solution for patent protection. Easily navigate your patent journey with our digital AI-powered platform and seasoned patent attorneys.

Nysnø is a governmental climate investment fund investing in companies that solve climate challenges. The investment fund is set up as a commercial company that invests in technologies that contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It was established in 2017 in Stavanger, Rogalan by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Software, Robotics
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Flocean — Flocean delivers subsea pumping systems for providing clean drinking water in the region.
eSmart Systems — ESmart Systems provides AI-driven software solutions to the energy industry and service providers. The company is based on more than 20 years of international experience in establishing and operating knowledge based, leading IT and energy related companies targeting global markets.The company provides software solutions to the energy industry andservice providers. Its cloud-born platform is designed to handle and exploit the Internet of Things, Big Data and Analytics in real-time. Common to all applications is vast data quantities gathered from sensors, which are analyzed using advanced prediction and optimization models. This results in completely new ways of visualizing data, making decisions and saving resources and costs. The platform is designed for Big Data from the ground up without legacy.eSmart Systems originates from the renowned IFE environment (Institute for Energy Technology). The company was founded in 2012 by an experienced team previously responsible for large IT service exports including delivery of the world's first power exchange to Nord Pool, the Nordic Power Exchange, in 1991. Since 2012 the company has grown rapidly and currently consists of almost 80 employees with offices in Norway, Denmark, the UK, and USA.
Maritime Robotics — Maritime Robotics is a leading provider of advanced autonomous technology, enabling safe, sustainable and cost effective maritime operations and applications.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Luminar Ventures is a venture capital fund that prefers to make early-stage investments in technology companies. They engage with their portfolio companies and are actively helping with strategic, growth, team and organizational, and operational support, and together setting the foundation for future expansion.Luminar's core investment focusis on scalable digital seed-stage companies from the Nordics, founded by highly motivated and talented entrepreneurs with a vision to disrupt or transform major industries. The firm aims to provide experienced seed-stage financing and active operational support to Sweden based early-stage technology companies that are looking to disrupt or transform major industries with digital technologies and innovations.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Yazen — Yazen is a digital obesity clinic that offers weight loss through modern pharmaceutical treatment.
Deckmatch — Tooling to drink from the firehose of data, that is your top of funnel (TOFU)
Lightbringer — Lightbringer is your all-in-one solution for patent protection. Easily navigate your patent journey with our digital AI-powered platform and seasoned patent attorneys.

Bring Ventures is the Corporate Venture arm of the Norway Post Group. Bring Ventures is dedicated to invest in disruptive and ambitious seed and early phase companies within sustainability and digitalization. We strive to be a value-adding investor by building close relationships, exchange capabilities, expertise, customers and volumes. We believethe success of the future will be created together in a collaboration with other actors such as universities, innovation environments and start-ups. We want to contribute to create and build completely new type of business models – like ecosystem.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, B2B, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tise — Tise is a social, mobile marketplace for second-hand fashion and interiors. Download the app here.
Kavall — Kavall is a grocery delivery startup.
Aviant — Delivering full-stack drone services that enables autonomous and on-demand transport of cargo.

MP Pensjon is a privately owned investment manager.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Norway, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Flocean — Flocean delivers subsea pumping systems for providing clean drinking water in the region.
Sensibel — We develop the next generation MEMS microphone and give you true studio-quality audio in a small MEMS package using optical technology.
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.

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.

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!
fileAI (formerly 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.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

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.

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, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Norway, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Völur — Ensuring optimal use of every single animal through cutting and processing.
Muybridge — Reimagining cameras with weightless software-based viewpoint
Simplifai — Simplifai is a holistic Artificial Intelligence (AI) company with the vision to empower tomorrow's digital winners and to release the full potential of human employees through the smart application of artificial intelligence and automation technology. The company's disruptive, hyper-automation solutions allow customers to automate workprocesses where free-text, natural language emails, documents, or chat are the information carriers. Its Emailbot can automate the handling of up to 80% of the inquiries in an average customer service center.Simplifai was established in 2017 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Dcycle — Dcycle develops environmental intelligence tool.
Dost — Dost automates the process of incoming supplier invoices to help CFOs and Finance Managers of mid-size and large companies with a high volume of invoices to improve efficiency, accuracy in data entry and reduce time when processing incoming invoices by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent process automation (IPA).
Acai Travel — An all-in-one solution to enable your agents be twice as efficient, to optimize your call centers, and gain your customers' trust

Established in 1996 as Norsk Vind AS, re-branded Valinor AS in 2019, the company is a family owned investment firm that holds controlling interest in Norsk Vind Energi AS, Norway's largest private wind company. The company re-invests 90% of its profits into clean tech and renewable energy companies worldwide. Its largest investments includeglobal leader in electricity infrastructure Zaptec, and solar energy developer Norsk Solar AS.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Robotics, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Norway, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aivero — The Easiest Path from Camera to Machine Learning. Aivero provides an intuitive platform for real-time video streaming across multiple cameras, enabling effortless data capture from both 2D and 3D sensors
Heaten — HeatBooster - Patented high-temperature heat pump technology reducing the reliance on fossil fuels by creating reusable energy.
Sensonomic — Sensonomic helps you improve your land-based decisions by building digital versions of your operations. Test the outcome of your decisions before implementation.

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

Investment focus

Energy, Software, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity
Norway, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ludenso — Ludenso is a software developer of AR solutions for the education industry. To make education more creative and engaging, we are giving editors, authors, and teachers the power to bring their learning resources to life through 3D models, animations, videos, and audio support. This is made possible through the Ludenso Studio, where they can createinclusive learning experiences that enables students to learn in their own way.
wheel.me — The first and only autonomous wheel in the world. The innovation transforms anything into an autonomous mobile robot with minimal effort and without the need to alter its design or form. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
Nofence — Nofence is a system virtual fencing for grazing animals. Virtual fencing of livestock has been a concept long discussed in academia. The Norwegian ag-tech startup Nofence has since 2011 developed and patented a solution for virtual fencing that has proven to work. The customers say that this will become a real gamechanger for livestock managementsince pastures can easily be defined by a few clicks on a tablet/smartphone. The herd is then safely fenced in and can be monitored. The system will send notifications if something happens. From the global food security perspective, this solution will make it much easier to utilize the uncultivated land for varied and healthy pasture, and make it possible to produce more food on cultivated land.

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.

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!

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.

The Crowd Angel is a premium equity crowdfunding platform that enables its users to invest from 3.000€ in a selection of the best Spanish startups. A hybrid between crowdfunding and venture capital, it takes an active part on the board of the companies invested. The platform opens the business angel model to people wanting to enter the startupecosystem.We have co-invested together with some of top Spanish VCs (Inveready, Keyword VC, Antai Venture Builder, Media Digital Ventures, Bankinter, etc). We are backed by Inveready and Keyword VC.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Equity Crowdfunding
Spain, Norway

Portfolio highlights

VOLAVA — Volava is a fitness platform that brings the energy and benefits of studio-style workouts to the convenience and comfort of home. It is a connected, technology-enabled fitness boutique. It also makes fitness entertaining, approachable, effective, and convenient, while fostering social connections and building a community around wellness. Volavawas founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.
Enso Spaces — The best coliving in Spain! We are in Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia. Apartments ready to move in and a community of people like you. Find your space!
Kymatio — Support your people. Protect the company. New approach to Employee Cybersecurity Management: Kymatio identifies, analyzes, assesses, and provides the means to treat the cyber risk of human origin. Visibility: allows companies to know the cyber risk they are facing, how it's distributed, and having metrics about the evolution along time.Efficiency: provides personalized and targeted plans, that can help to use technological tools where and how they are really needed. IT Risk Management + Neuroscience People: they are not agents that produce incidents, but valuable assets that manage information. They have vulnerabilities and are exposed to threats.Risks can be identified, measured and mitigated.

Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Drift — Drift brings on-chain, cross-margined perpetual futures to Solana. Making futures DEXs the best way to trade.
Gradient Network — Gradient Network is a provider of decentralized computing services that aim to improve interoperability between blockchain networks. The company provides a system that allows for liquid staking and computing power sharing while also ensuring cross-chain compatibility and effective resource allocation, allowing developers and enterprises to improvetheir blockchain applications.
Permissionless Labs — Permissionless Labs is redefining digital content distribution by pioneering the free and safe movement of content around the world.

<p>Holta Invest AS is a privately held investment company headquartered in Oslo, Norway.</p>

Investment focus

Computer, Software
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Decisions — Make your meetings more productive with our Agenda Builder, one-click meeting minutes and tracking of tasks & decisions from within Teams and Outlook.
Maritime Robotics — Maritime Robotics is a leading provider of advanced autonomous technology, enabling safe, sustainable and cost effective maritime operations and applications.

Making Venture Happen. Televenture is one of the leading venture capital companies in Norway.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CrayoNano — CrayoNano is a next generation semiconductor company. We specialize in nanotechnology that will enable a more sustainable and healthier life for tomorrow.
Genetic Analysis — Genetic Analysis AS (GA) has the goal of being a leader within the field of molecular diagnostics of diseases related to gut imbalances. By utilizing the DNA-based GA-map™ array technology, profiles of a patient’s gut microbiota is quickly generated and can be related to various health conditions. Genetic Analysis has developed a DNA-basedtechnology platform that allows for simultaneous analysis of a large number of similarities (but not identical) gene fragments in one reaction. The company’s focus is to utilize this technology platform to identify variations in the hundreds of different bacteria that exist in the gut (large and small intestine). The GA - map makes it possible, for the first time, to offer a diagnostic solution – including early detection - for many diseases that are affected by imbalances in the gut microbiota. Genetic Analysis will offer kits and services for a wide range of applications.
Stingray Marine Solutions — Stingray Marine Solutions is a Norwegian technology firm that produces a laser unit which, when lowered into salmon farming pens, kills sea lice. It is based on entrepreneur Esben Beck’s patented idea in 2010 for salmon louse removal using camera vision and laser. It all started with Esben Beck and a lathe in his basement in 1999. After more than10 years of deliveries to oil, gas and offshore companies, he decided to invest in his own products. He decided to found and develop his own salmon louse project, where design, production, software development, testing, and installation were carried out by using in-house resources.Stingray is based in Oslo, Norway.

BAGi is the first business angels network created for invest on Startups with direct impact on Girona's region.

Investment focus

Internet, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Spain, Norway, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Aniling — Aniling developing its worldwide patent of the second generation genomic analysis and epigenomic.
Petoons Studio — Petoons Studio is a developer of transmedia projects startup.
The Smart Lollipop — The Smart Lollipop is the non-invasive medical device in the shape of a lollipop for the diagnostic and disease monitoring through a saliva sample. The sweetest lab is The Smart Lollipop.

We put relentless effort in creating smarter sustainable solutions for all.

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.

Voima Ventures’ mission is to solve major global problems by combining science, entrepreneurship, and value adding capital. They shed light on the ideas and technology which require time and courage to build. Industry domains include bio and new materials, medical technologies and life sciences, imaging and optics, IoT and electronics, robotics,software & ICT and AI. In addition, Voima Ventures has invested in more than 30 deep tech startups, including companies like Solar Foods, Infinited Fiber Company, and Dispelix. Cornerstone investors are VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and European Investment Fund (EIF), backed by Finnish private and institutional investors.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Sweden, Norway

Portfolio highlights

NADMED — The standard of NAD measuring
Betolar — Betolar is a new materials startup specialized in new geopolymer-based carbon-neutral construction materials for the construction industry and circular economy.
Avenue Biosciences — From biotechnology tools to therapy discovery and development: Our platform enhances production yield and the quality of your end product.

A cross-border cryptoasset investment firm. Global from day one.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Commonware — Commonware is a startup that supplies developers with a "anti-framework" — effectively all of the building pieces for developing a blockchain — in order to go beyond the era of standardized, general-purpose software kits.
Fantasy — Fantasy is a decentralized card game where users can engage in card trading and fantasy betting
Avalanche — Avalanche is the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, as measured by time-to-finality, and has the most validators securing its activity of any proof-of-stake protocol.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nivoda — Nivoda provides jewellery businesses with a simple solution to strengthen profits, increase efficiency and accelerate growth with its B2B diamond marketplace. Designed to save you time and money whilst giving you access to the world’s diamond supply at the best prices with zero inventory risk, Nivoda is trusted by thousands of retailers all overthe globe.
Flower — We enable the energy system of tomorrow by combining pioneering technology with flexible assets, allowing clean energy to power society
AirForestry — AirForestry thins forests in a completely new way, namely from the air. #Re-inventing Forestry

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.

An early stage VC fund that invests in software-driven technology companies built by ambitious entrepreneurs.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Video Streaming
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Norway, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

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

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

We are a leading early-stage investment platform. We are at the center of a global ecosystem that attracts and fuels the technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Sloyd — 3D modeling has never been easier. Select a generator, tweak it, done. Generate with realtime in the Sloyd Webapp or SDK.
Legion Health — Legion Health is building the infrastructure for health care organizations to scale their virtual mental health offerings.
ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression

Innovasjon Norge - vi gir lokale ideer globale muligheter

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Seed, Funding Round
Norway, Romania, United States

Portfolio highlights

Leasi — Leasi delivers a forward-thinking rental and resource management system for companies that engage in internal or external distribution of machinery. This is achieved through an ecosystem that emphasizes the excessive use of data and datasharing, with a focus on user experience. Our goal is to create a simpler, more streamlined, and more efficientworkday for industry players by leveraging the power of data and collaboration within the ecosystem to ultimately reduce emissions, increase efficiency and enhance profitability.
Plaace — Proptech company creating vibrant streets and cities by helping property owners choose and connect with the right concepts, at the right place, using the right data.
Carbon Centrum — Measure, Act & Get Rewarded!

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 — Beefutures combines biotechnology and data science and develops beekeeping tools. Our approach is to improve bee health and safety first and further optimise beekeeping operations and economics with digital tools.
Wanda — Wanda.space is a technology and logistics start-up delivering space as a service.

fresh.fund is an Israeli pre-seed venture capital fund investing in early-stage startups across segments and verticals.We're built to partner with early-stage founders from day one, often as the company's first institutional investors. Our model is refreshingly simple: up to $300,000 in pre-seed funding within <4 weeks and follow-oncapital as necessary.Check out our portfolio here >> https://www.fresh.fund/portfolio. It's never too early to have a conversation about your startup.

Investment focus

Health Care, FinTech, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Israel, United States, Norway

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enso — enso offers AI-powered bot bundles to automate your marketing strategy. Perfect for small business owners, our bots handle social media, SEO, lead generation & much more. Start with a 7 days free trial or talk with one of our marketing experts today.
Carbon Blue — Carbon Blue is developing an 'ocean-capture' scalable method for removing CO2 from the atmosphere. The company was founded by Iddo Tsur and Dan Deviri.
Guardoc Health — Streamlining clinical compliance with AI-driven accuracy in charting to meet regulations, enhance patient care, and optimize revenue management.

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.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Industrial, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Norway

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

An investment firm.

Investment focus

Sensor, GreenTech, Smart Home
Series A
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Novelda — NOVELDA is a privately held, R&D driven, semiconductor company, based in Norway and specializing in nanoscale wireless low-power ultra wideband (UWB) technology for high resolution impulse radar.NOVELDA offers the world’s most accurate and reliable sensor solution for Human Presence Detection (HPD). Our patented ultra wideband short-rangeimpulse radar sensors, no bigger than the tip of your finger, enable new levels of user experience and security for consumer electronics and significant energy savings within building automation.

Autodesk is a global leader in design and make technology, with expertise across architecture, engineering, construction, design, manufacturing, and entertainment.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Seed
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sloyd — 3D modeling has never been easier. Select a generator, tweak it, done. Generate with realtime in the Sloyd Webapp or SDK.
Transcend Software — Transcend's cloud-based SaaS platform enables your engineers to generate high quality water facility designs in 8 hours or less.
Arcturus — Make video come alive.

The Premier Trusted Advisor to the Global Cybersecurity Industry and Only Investment Bank Exclusively Focused on Cybersecurity.

Investment focus

AgTech, Agriculture, Internet of Things
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Nofence — Nofence is a system virtual fencing for grazing animals. Virtual fencing of livestock has been a concept long discussed in academia. The Norwegian ag-tech startup Nofence has since 2011 developed and patented a solution for virtual fencing that has proven to work. The customers say that this will become a real gamechanger for livestock managementsince pastures can easily be defined by a few clicks on a tablet/smartphone. The herd is then safely fenced in and can be monitored. The system will send notifications if something happens. From the global food security perspective, this solution will make it much easier to utilize the uncultivated land for varied and healthy pasture, and make it possible to produce more food on cultivated land.
Photoncycle — Photoncycle aims to change the way electricity is generated, stored, consumed and paid for. Our mission is to deploy space-effective, autonomous energy systems powered by the sun, enabled by innovative technology, affordable for many.
Amina Charging — Amina Charging develops high-quality and easy-to-use chargers for the mass market.

Eviny Ventures is the venture fund of the Eviny Group, which invests in start-up and growth companies that think new and have the potential to play a key role in the renewable society of the future.

Investment focus

PaaS, SaaS, Software
Funding Round, Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Appfarm — Quickest way to develop apps
Photoncycle — Photoncycle aims to change the way electricity is generated, stored, consumed and paid for. Our mission is to deploy space-effective, autonomous energy systems powered by the sun, enabled by innovative technology, affordable for many.
Amina Charging — Amina Charging develops high-quality and easy-to-use chargers for the mass market.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bislab — Bislab is an entity that provides credit assessments to individuals and businesses for banking, finance, insurance, and debt collection.
Atlas — Build interactive web maps with Atlas. The new standard for GIS software. Simple and powerful. Step into Atlas to explore, analyze and share geospatial data.
Starflow — Starflow goal is to create a scalable energy system that helps people achieve energy independence.

Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossoverstrategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Cresta — Self-service, live coaching, and post call insights. AI that uncovers expertise so teams can make every customer conversation count.
Kong — Kong powers APIs and microservices with the world's most popular open source API gateway and industry-leading service connectivity platform. Kong is funded by leading VC firms, including Index Ventures, a16z, CRV, GGV, Tiger Global, Stanford University, Jeff Bezos, and Eric Schmidt.
Checkmate — Integrate over 100 ordering platforms directly to your restaurant POS system and manage all your ordering platform menus in one place.

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

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Internet
Seed
Norway, United States

Portfolio highlights

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

Propagator Ventures is an early-stage deep tech VC with strong ties to science

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, AgTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Norway, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Saga Robotics — Saga Robotics revolutionizes the agricultural sector by developing autonomous robots capable of performing a wide variety of agricultural operations at a lower price and with higher quality than conventional systems.Saga Robotics aims to be the main provider of agricultural robots. Saga Robotics' short-term goal is to be the first providerof agricultural robots that represent a true added value to the farmer, meaning that they solve a specific task either cheaper or better than conventional systems. Saga Robotics' long-term goal is to be a provider of complete autonomous robotic systems capable of performing all agricultural operations at a lower price and higher quality.Saga Robotics' business philosophy is to develop technological advances for sustainable and profitable food production.
Universal Quantum — Universal Quantum is building quantum computers to tackle real-world problems that would take today’s fastest supercomputers billions of years to solve.
Genesis Therapeutics — Their academia-leading research was the initial component of our expanding portfolio of AI technologies. They are combining novel deep neural networks, biophysical simulation, and massively scalable computing infrastructure to achieve industry-leading performance in a molecular generation and property prediction.The company was founded in 2019and based in South San Francisco, California.

Grieg Kapital is an investment company creating sustainable businesses. Do you have an investment opportunity for us that fits our strategy?

Investment focus

Robotics, Manufacturing, Semiconductor
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Remora Robotics — Remora Robotics is a Norwegian technology firm that specializes on aquaculture robotics.

A16Z GAMES is the speedrun in early-stage accelerator for startups at the intersection of Tech x Games.

Investment focus

Software, Business Development
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

nunu.ai — nunu.ai is the frontier of artificial intelligence in gaming by creating the first multi-modal AI agents designed to test and play any game.
Runware — The most affordable and flexible image generation API. Easily deploy blazing-fast AI features in any app. Start today and create 10,000+ images for free.
Clout Kitchen — Combining fandom and emerging technology, Clout Kitchen builds generational digital products with supercharged distribution. We help creators become icons that last.

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 — Elevate your watch portfolio with precise market data, low-fee trading, and guaranteed authenticity.
Syndicate — Infrastructure for powerful web3 products at scale

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