Top 10 Manufacturing Angel Investors in Norway in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Manufacturing startups based in Norway. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Manufacturing companies from Norway. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Manufacturing Angel Investors in Norway in January 2026

Investor	Manufacturing Norway investments
Trond Riiber Knudsen	3
Ivo Remmelg	1
Snorre Larsen	1
Helge Rasmussen	1
Erlend Reitan	1
Olav Bergheim	1
Per Lachenmeier	1
Olav Slupphaug	1
Kari Ollila	1
Gunnar Lovelace	1

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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.

Ivo Remmelg is a Venture Partner at Superhero Capital and the Founding Partner of NestCap.

Investment focus

Mobile, Sports, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Estonia, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Sportlyzer — Sportlyzer is a player development and team management software for youth and amateur sports clubs. The platform connects coaches, managers, players and parents.
Gearbox Biosciences — A biotechnology company that licenses novel antibiotic-free recombinant protein production technology in E. coli.
Nordic Automation Systems — Full vertical LPWAN solution provider with flexible in-house R&D and production to enable fast roll out to the market.

Snorre Larsen

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Industrial Automation, Machinery Manufacturing
Pre-Seed
Norway

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!

Helge Rasmussen is a managing director at HighComp.

Investment focus

Software, Marketing, Advertising
Angel, Post-IPO Equity
China, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Versor — Versor develops software necessary for true autonomous drone flight both indoors and outdoors, enabling complete automation of industrial drone operations. They believe this level of automation requires superior localization, which is particularly difficult to achieve indoors and in GPS-denied areas. By removing the need for pilots, entire fleetsof drones may be supervised remotely, enabling true scalability of drone operations across various applications.
Duodian Keji — Duodian Keji is a performance advertising marketing platform.

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 — Transform your business with EvoluteIQ's Agentic automation platform. EIQ is a scalable, secure, initiative, adaptive 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!

Olav Bergheim has over 30 years of experience in creating and managing life science companies. He is a founder of Sonendo, Inc., in addition to several other successful life science companies including Volcano Corporation, 3F Therapeutics (acquired by Medtronic), Glaukos Corporation, Lonestar Heart Inc., Prelude Corporation and Metronom Health,Inc. Mr. Bergheim is also the founder of Fjord Ventures LLC, a life science accelerator located in Laguna Hills, California, where Sonendo was created. Mr. Bergheim was the chairman of Vessix Vascular, Inc. (acquired by Boston Scientific). Prior to starting Fjord Ventures, he spent 10 years at Domain Associates as a company creator and general partner. Prior to Domain, Mr. Bergheim spent 18 years with Baxter Healthcare at US and international locations, where he held various leadership and operating roles. Mr. Bergheim was a Corporate VP of Baxter as well as President of Baxter Germany, President of Baxter’s Cardiovascular Group (now Edwards Life Sciences) and General Manager of the Nordic area.

Investment focus

Medical, Wellness, Health Care
Seed, Series D, Series E
Norway, United States

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!
Glaukos — Glaukos works relentlessly to create and deliver transformative therapies for patients struggling with glaucoma, corneal disorders, and retinal diseases.

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.