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Top 50 Marketplace Startup Investors in Norway in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Marketplace startups based in Norway. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Marketplace companies from Norway. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Marketplace Startup Investors in Norway in December 2024

Investor	Marketplace Norway investments
Innovation Norway	9
Skyfall Ventures	6
Investinor	5
Bring Ventures	4
Schibsted Growth	4
DNB	4
Luminar Ventures	3
Idekapital	3
Alliance VC	3
Ferd	2
LocalGlobe	2
Visionaries Club	2
Dawn Capital	2
Sequoia Capital	2
CoFounder	2
Oleg Tikhturov	2
BAUER Group	1
Calvin Ayre	1
Christian Rokseth	1
WiSEED	1
Shine Capital	1
Momentum	1
IKM Invest	1
Trond Riiber Knudsen	1
Day One Ventures	1
TeleVenture Management	1
Lugard Road Capital	1
Akershus Energi	1
Spintop Ventures	1
Maki.vc	1
2M2D	1
Antler	1
Tharald Nustad	1
Aqua Spark	1
OBOS Forsikring	1
Arkwright X	1
MP Pensjon	1
Unbounded Capital	1
Schibsted	1
Jan Grønbech	1
Hawk Infinity	1
Persimmon Hill	1
Odd Reidar Øie	1
FJ Labs	1
Gnist Capital	1
Equinor Ventures	1
Skanska	1
Algård Holding	1
Alexander Hars	1
Andreas Randel	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.
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!

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.

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

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.

Investing in great digital companies!

Investment focus

Internet, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden, Norway, France

Portfolio highlights

Bookis — Bookis is the Next-Generation Online Bookstore with Direct Author Compensation, making the sharing of stories and knowledge playfully easy - from all bookshelves, for everyone. We leverage community, technology and innovative distribution to enable radically easier peer-to-peer bookselling, with fair author compensation models. Building theworld's largest network of authors fighting for a more fair book industry worldwide.
Dintero — Dintero is a Norwegian startup delivering payment, checkout, crm & loyalty solutions.
Campanyon — Campanyon is a provider of an outdoor accommodation booking platform intended for people to find and book their next outdoor adventure by connecting campers with hosts.

DNB is a financial services group that offers financial services through mobile, online banking, bank offices, and international offices. The Group provides a full range of financial services, including loans, savings, advisory services, insurance, and pension products for retail and corporate customers. The company’s personal banking products andservices include savings and investment products.DNB offers its products and services to various sectors, including financial institutions, energy, manufacturing, healthcare, packaging, and forest products, shipping, offshore, and logistics, seafood, and telecom, media, and technology. They also distribute its products and services through its branches, in-store postal and banking outlets, and post office counters.DNB was founded in 1822 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.

Investment focus

Energy, Banking, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Post-IPO Debt
Norway, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Edify Energy — Edify Energy is a renewable energy company that specializes in solar project structuring, investments, and financing services.
Ocean GeoLoop — Ocean GeoLoop captures and stores or utilizes CO2 naturally. With no use of chemicals, toxins or other harmful consumables.
Scandi Standard — Welcome to Scandi Standard. We want to inspire you to choose chicken: a good, healthy choice, which is ideal for today’s consumers. We sell the finest Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish chicken under the Kronfågel, Danpo, Den stolte Hane and Naapurin Maalaiskana brands. We are the leading chicken producer in the Nordic region, serving thedomestic and export markets.In June 2013, we created the Nordic region's market-leading chickenbased product group when Scandi Standard was established. The Company was created by gathering the largest poultry operations in the region into one collective group. At present, the Group has an annual turnover of approximately SEK 5.2 billion and almost 1,700 employees.

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.
Greenely — Greenely is the electricity company that optimizes your electricity use using smart technology in an app. We help you take control of your consumption.
Deckmatch — Tooling to drink from the firehose of data, that is your top of funnel (TOFU)

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.

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

Versiro — Versiro helps users make better and faster decisions in the European electricity markets. With an easy-to-use interface and tailored solutions for individual assets, Versiro helps its users to better navigate the uncertainty of the physical power system while staying in full control over their own value chain
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.

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.

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Clock Bio — Clock Bio operates as a biotech company, that develops novel regenerative medicines.
Keel — Keel is a London-based startup offering modern businesses a much-needed third choice between off-the-shelf and no-code tools. Keel has developed a powerful programmable operations platform which offers all the benefits of bespoke tooling without the need to build from scratch.Keel was founded in 2022 by Benoit Machefer, Tom Frew and Jon Bretman,who directly experienced the frustration of being underserved by off-the-shelf software when scaling the fastest growing online pharmacy in Europe to over $130m revenue. The company represents a compelling vision of a future without legacy ERP, where ops teams and engineers work more closely together building bespoke tools on the robust and secure Keel platform.
Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.

Visionaries Club is a leading European early stage VC backed by Europe's most successful digital founders and family business entrepreneurs. We strongly believe that leveraging our entrepreneurial investors' authentic knowledge and access is the best support we can provide to entrepreneurs in their Seed and Early Growth stage to help themtake their companies to the next level.Visionaries Club is divided into two funds:A € 150m seed stage fund leveraging its unicorn and digital founder LP base for very early and exclusive access to the most promising entrepreneurs across Europe.A €200m Early Growth fund leveraging especially the fund's industrial family business LP network is intended to support the most promising European B2B companies in their early growth stage from Series B onwards with global reach and scale.The firm was founded in 2019 by Robert Lacher and Sebastian Pollok and has offices in Berlin and London

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Apron — Sort, pay and reconcile your invoices in seconds.
11x — Onboard the AI workforce from the future and 11x your productivity today
Ameba — The AI-powered supply chain management tool that instantly upgrades your operations to be more efficient, agile and sustainable. The layer of intelligence that sits on top of your existing production workflows.

We are a family of investors, entrepreneurs, strategists and operational specialists, drawn together by our passion for helping B2B founders build category-defining companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Flatpay — Flatpay's fair, flat-rate pricing simplifies payments & cuts costs. Benefit from our comprehensive solution & superior customer service. Join us now!
Omi — Omi is where marketing teams generate and publish stunning product photos and videos. Generate eCommerce banners, Social Media visuals, Ads creatives, CRM bundles and Print materials.
Cover Genius — Cover Genius provides an insurance distribution platform designed to protect the customers of e-commerce companies. Its products feature integrated end-to-end insurance and warranty capabilities and offer dynamic product recommendations and pricing optimization, while also undertaking the payment of a customer's claim in real-time, enablingcustomers to access increased protection against any uncertainty.The company was founded in 2014.

We help the daring build legendary companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Roon — Your Trusted Guide for Health Conditions. Today we are focused on GBM, ALS, Dementia, and Fertility and Family Building.
Eon — Meet Eon, the next-generation cloud backup solution with the first-ever backup autopilot for cloud infrastructure. We empower organizations with cloud backup posture management (CBPM), making complex backups simple and turning them into valuable, easily accessible assets.
AMP — AMP Robotics creates a scalable robotic system that reduces the cost of recycling and enables smart recycling facilities. AMP Robotics' solution is a combination of computer vision and machine learning with robots that can identify and rapidly pick recyclable materials off a conveyor belt for market and recovery.AMP Robotics automates theidentification, sorting, and processing of material streams to extract value for material recovery facilities (MRFs) that process municipal solid waste, construction and demolition, e-waste, and auto-shredding. The company's engineering design reduces the cost of capital investment with modular implementation easily dropping into existing facility infrastructure without costly retrofits or interruption to operations.AMP Robotics was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Louisville, Colorado.

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.

I am an active Angel Investor in pre-seed and seed startups, having invested in 80+ startups. I invest in ambitious founders building scalable products for large markets and support founders with advice, strategic network of investors. Currently Founding Partner at TrueSight Ventures, Venture Capital firm investing in European early-stage startups.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Norway, Germany

Portfolio highlights

MEplace — MEplace creates a new approach to children’s wellbeing and preschool education. MEplace was founded in 2019 and was headquartered in England, UK.
Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
Kota — Instant access to leading insurance and retirement providers globally, with flexible contributions, automated accounting and a delightfully simple employee app.

The BAUER Group is an international construction and machinery manufacturing concern with more than 110 subsidiaries in some 70 countries providing services, machinery and products for ground and groundwater. The operations are divided into three segments: Construction, Equipment and Resources.

Investment focus

Fashion, Lifestyle, Service Industry
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Cutters — Cutters offers effective and quality sure haircuts for ladies and gentlemen. It is a new and unique drop-in concept based on three factors: efficiency, quality, and price. Efficiency is that haircut only takes fifteen minutes, quality in that they have some of the best hairdressers, and a fixed price of haircuts for 299 euros. The company do notoffer services such as hair washing, head massage, and dyeing or striping of hair, but focuses on what they do.Cutters is a Norway-based company that was founded in 2015.

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

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.

Wiseed is a crowdfunding platform that enables its users to invest in SMEs and enterprises. The platform offers investments for startups, real-estate firms, social innovation and renewable energy projects, and agriculture firms. It was founded in 2008 by Nicolas Seres and Thomas Merquiol and is based in Toulouse.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Equity Crowdfunding
France

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.
Vaxinano — Vaxinano is a biotechnology company specialized in preclinical and pharmaceutical development of human and veterinary vaccines and drug delivery systems. Vaxinano was created in 2016, building on 25 years of research and clinical trials on vaccines and the patented technology of Pr Didier Betbeder.
BiPER Therapeutics — BiPER Therapeutics : First-In-Class Therapeutics to Treat Cancer. Biotech company founded in 2021 to develop and commercialize novel therapeutics.

Shine is a venture capital firm that partners with relentless, creative, convincing entrepreneurs from the earliest stages of company building.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

10Beauty — The only 5-step manicure machine in the world.
iVerify — IVerify is a mobile threat hunting company that provides mobile security solutions for individuals who want to know they can trust their devices with their most sensitive information without sacrificing privacy.
Mother Games — MOTHER Games is an art and media company that creates transformative experiences through play, blending creativity and innovation to craft unique and engaging interactive experiences.

Momentum Partners clear ambition is to build the leading consulting environment in Western Norway within our service. They create value and growth for their clients through a wide range of services with an operational approach to strategy development and profitability improvement.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, AgTech
Seed, Funding Round
Norway, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Glint Solar — Enabling developers to identify and analyze the best solar sites
Amina Charging — Amina Charging develops high-quality and easy-to-use chargers for the mass market.
Remora Robotics — Remora Robotics is a Norwegian technology firm that specializes on aquaculture robotics.

IKM Invest is a private investment company that invests in real estate and private companies. Their focus is on identifying real estate projects and companies with significant potential and actively contributing capital and expertise to further develop them.

Investment focus

Electronics, Security, GreenTech
Seed, Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Futurehome — Futurehome is a smart home and security solutions company helping apartment buildings and private homes digitalise and smarten up their homes to be safer, more energy efficient and building management. Futurehome currently has over 7000 multi dwelling units for smart fire solutions and water leakage to elderly apartments buildings. For newapartment buildings the back log is over 5000 units in the years to come. These customers are on a monthly service providing recurring revenue for the company. Futurehome also sells smart home solutions to private households, with over 20 000 homes today. The company partners and cooperates with energy companies to help the consumers save energy and have complete control of their homes. Partners can use the Futurehome Playgrounds to integrate to our smart home platform for boilers, heat pumps, energy banks and more.
Amina Charging — Amina Charging develops high-quality and easy-to-use chargers for the mass market.

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 — Ciloo is an operator of a global on-demand platform intended to provide e-commerce software for branded products and corporate gifts.
Starflow — Starflow goal is to create a scalable energy system that helps people achieve energy independence.

Day One Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs customer-obsessed companies and spearheads their communications. This enables the Day One team to become actively involved in its portfolio companies and plays a real, tangible role in helping them grow. The firm invests across industries from pre-seed to seed - and occasionally series A, andinvests between $100k and $5 million.Day One Ventures was founded by Masha Drokova, who is an angel investor, entrepreneur, communications executive, and Forbes 30 Under 30 Honoree.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Artisan AI — Artisan is on a mission to build the first generation of AI employees, called Artisans, who can automate specific roles & workflows.
Abel Police — Abel Police liberates patrol from paperwork so they can focus on making cities safer.
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE

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.

Lugard Road Capital is a venture capital firm that invests primarily in the Internet, software, consumer, and technology sectors. Lugard Road Capital is affiliated with U.S. hedge fund Luxor Capital Group.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, SaaS, Logistics
Series B, Series C, Funding Round
Norway, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Ageras — Ageras redefines administration for small businesses by integrating banking, accounting, and tax filing in a single platform.
Quince — Quince brings luxury products like Mongolian Cashmere, Italian Leather, Turkish Cotton and Washable Silk to everyone at radically low prices. Shop premium essentials with no middleman.
Superside — We are an always-on design company. Get a team of dedicated designers, speedy turnarounds, magical creative collaboration tech and the top 1% of global talent.

Akershus Energi is a power company producing hydroelectric power and electrical equipment. The company also focuses on efficient and renewable energy production, active power trading and profitable investments, development of hydropower, wind power and district heating, and data center and infrastructure. It sells the power generated and trades inthe financial market, as well as distributes hot water for heating and hot tap water purposes.Akershus Energi was established in 1922 and is based in Rånåsfoss, Norway.

Investment focus

Solar, Energy, CleanTech
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Otovo — To homeowners, Otovo is the easiest way to get solar panels on the roof. We are a marketplace organizing a network of hundreds of local, high quality energy installers that we have vetted thoroughly. We use our proprietary technology to analyse the potential of any home and advise precisely about the ideal project. Founded in Oslo in 2016, ourteam consists of engineers, programmers and technical consultants located in Oslo, Stockholm, Paris, Madrid, Warsaw and Milan. In France, we are known as “In Sun We Trust”, the result of the merger with the French solar energy startup.We have sold and completed thousands of solar energy projects across Europe and aim to become the continent’s no.1 residential solar energy company. Otovo is financially solid, being backed by some of Scandinavia’s major investment entities, notably Axel Johnson of Sweden, Norway’s municipal pension fund (KLP), and Nysnø, the Norwegian green sovereign investment fund.

Founded in 2009, Spintop Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by a network of successful tech entrepreneurs who have invested in Spintop alongside institutional investors, family offices and some of the most experienced private investors in early stage growth companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Sweden, Finland, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Cambri — Cambri is concept testing software that helps global brands accelerate their innovation process.
Zymego — Zymego develops solutions that relieve healthcare workers of administrative work while improving patient access to healthcare.
Tings — Tings is a mobile app that helps people to organize and retain, and sell non-required recyclable and used merchandise.

Maki.vc is an early-stage venture capital firm partnering with deep tech & brand-driven startups obsessed with challenging category norms.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
Volare — Refining food industry side streams into sustainable protein, oil and fertilizers.
Distance Technologies — Distance Technologies seeks to develop glasses-free XR applications

We invest in the unknown. In solutions yet to be built. By ambitious founders on a mission.

Investment focus

Credit, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Angel
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Payr — Payr is an award-winning financial tech company & our mission is simple: to improve peoples financial lives We help our users live more fulfilling lives and create product experiences that people love using science, psychology and technology Our mobile banking app gives users control and financial wellness. Our marketplace reinvents theirrelationship with products, then pair them with better-suited service providers.
Diwala — Issue certificates and credentials to your trainees, that can be verified online in seconds

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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.

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

Aqua-Spark is an investment fund with a focus on sustainable aquaculture businesses around the world. The small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) they invest in are working toward the production of safe, accessible aquatic life, such as fish, shellfish and plants, in ways that do not harm their oceans. Their investors value the fact that each investmentaims to create triple impact—specifically, each investment is chosen for its potential to generate significant financial returns while also activating positive environmental and social outcomes.Aqua-Spark believes that committing to a long-term vision is the way to realize effective and lasting impact results. When it comes to investments, they do not seek quick exits; instead, they look for entrepreneurs who strive to build and scale toward the future, who see their business as major economic opportunities that can also help solve looming environmental and food security challenges over the long-term. As an essential of each investee, Aqua-Spark seeks sustainability.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Seafood, Aquaculture
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, Norway, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Tepbac — Less work for farmer, more fish for people.
Enifer — Enifer Bio is an expert at squeezing every last drop of value from biorefining operations. The solution is built on decades of Finnish expertise to allow the production of valuable protein-rich feed from streams previously considered worthless. The company has developed a new, sustainable production process for high-quality fish feed raw material.The company's method enables the efficient production of a single cell protein from fish by-products as a raw material for fish feed. The protein can replace soy, which is commonly used in fish feed and whose cultivation poses ecological challenges, such as deforestation in South America.
Wanda Fish Technologies — Wanda Fish is an innovative FoodTech company with a platform that produces a wide variety of delicious fish fillets using sustainable cell-cultivation practices.

OBOS Forsikring is provides residential insurance services.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Otovo — To homeowners, Otovo is the easiest way to get solar panels on the roof. We are a marketplace organizing a network of hundreds of local, high quality energy installers that we have vetted thoroughly. We use our proprietary technology to analyse the potential of any home and advise precisely about the ideal project. Founded in Oslo in 2016, ourteam consists of engineers, programmers and technical consultants located in Oslo, Stockholm, Paris, Madrid, Warsaw and Milan. In France, we are known as “In Sun We Trust”, the result of the merger with the French solar energy startup.We have sold and completed thousands of solar energy projects across Europe and aim to become the continent’s no.1 residential solar energy company. Otovo is financially solid, being backed by some of Scandinavia’s major investment entities, notably Axel Johnson of Sweden, Norway’s municipal pension fund (KLP), and Nysnø, the Norwegian green sovereign investment fund.
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.
Wanda — Wanda.space is a technology and logistics start-up delivering space as a service.

Arkwright X is the place for aspiring startups to innovate and develop. We accelerate your journey to success through a pre-seed capital injection, top quality working environment, strategy sparring & advice, and access to Arkwright's extensive network.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Vind AI — Experience the future of wind project planning with Vind AI. Design with real-time data, advanced optimization, and seamless collaboration.
Tings — Tings is a mobile app that helps people to organize and retain, and sell non-required recyclable and used merchandise.
Ignite — A powerful & easy spend management tool to accelerate your procurement success by bringing clarity, clean data & sophisticated analytics to your fingertips

MP Pensjon is a privately owned investment manager.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, AgTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
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.
Pistachio — Pistachio is a fully automated cybersecurity awareness training and attack simulation platform.
Ignite — A powerful & easy spend management tool to accelerate your procurement success by bringing clarity, clean data & sophisticated analytics to your fingertips

Unbounded Capital is a blockchain investment firm built by technical founders that understand the entrepreneurial journey; former poker pros that know how to analyze risk; and investors that understand that early-stage investing is not a passive activity.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, China, Japan

Portfolio highlights

RF Labs — Track analytics, automate live streams, improve business operations. RF Poker is reinventing the way live poker is played and experienced.
Reactiv — Reactiv is an AI-powered mobile app platform to help you sell more and increase retention, without the headache of managing another channel
Cork Protocol — Cork provides a decentralized finance (DeFi) technology that enables collateralized swaps against any pegged asset.

A global family of digital consumer brands leading the way across media, online marketplaces and technology ventures.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Apps, Music
Seed, Series A, Series C
Norway, Sweden

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.
Tings — Tings is a mobile app that helps people to organize and retain, and sell non-required recyclable and used merchandise.
Ingrid — Ingrid was founded with a mission to create delivery experiences that fit people's lives by letting e-commerce businesses deliver sustainable growth and giving shoppers the power to personalize delivery and returns. The result is a better overall customer experience and greater efficiency for both the retailer and the delivery carrier.

Jan Grønbech

Investment focus

Travel, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

ordr.no — Ordr allows guests to order and pay for food without using cards, payment machines or apps.
Campanyon — Campanyon is a provider of an outdoor accommodation booking platform intended for people to find and book their next outdoor adventure by connecting campers with hosts.

Tech, Health tech and Seafood

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Web Hosting
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Servebolt — Servebolt is next-level, high-performance managed hosting with a strong focus on scalability and security. Don't settle for slow loading speeds - migrate to Servebolt for free and experience the difference.

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.

Odd Reidar Øie

Investment focus

Travel, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Campanyon — Campanyon is a provider of an outdoor accommodation booking platform intended for people to find and book their next outdoor adventure by connecting campers with hosts.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Leland — Leland is a marketplace that connects ambitious people with world-class coaches who can help them reach their career and educational goals via 1:1 coaching and small group classes.
Playgama — Playgama is a fast-growing distributor of HTML5 games, connecting developers to an audience of 220 million monthly active players. We simplify game distribution and monetization, allowing developers to focus on creating exceptional games while we handle the rest. With open-source SDK, games distributed thought Playgama can reach players acrossleading high-traffic platforms, ensuring global exposure—from Europe to Asia and USA.
JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.

Enhver ide starter med en gnist.

Investment focus

SaaS, Rental, Software
Pre-Seed
Norway

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.

Equinor Ventures invests in and supports innovative companies to shape the future of energy.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Oil and Gas
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

44.01 — We offer a permanent CO2 storage solution using the natural power of mineralisation
Captura — Captura mission is globally scalable carbon capture to support a sustainable future for the climate.
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.

Using knowledge & foresight to shape the way we live, work and connect. Skanska is one of the largest construction and development companies in the world.

Investment focus

SaaS, Rental, Software
Pre-Seed
Norway

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.

Algard Holding is a Norwegian real estate firm.

Investment focus

Security, GreenTech, Lifestyle
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Futurehome — Futurehome is a smart home and security solutions company helping apartment buildings and private homes digitalise and smarten up their homes to be safer, more energy efficient and building management. Futurehome currently has over 7000 multi dwelling units for smart fire solutions and water leakage to elderly apartments buildings. For newapartment buildings the back log is over 5000 units in the years to come. These customers are on a monthly service providing recurring revenue for the company. Futurehome also sells smart home solutions to private households, with over 20 000 homes today. The company partners and cooperates with energy companies to help the consumers save energy and have complete control of their homes. Partners can use the Futurehome Playgrounds to integrate to our smart home platform for boilers, heat pumps, energy banks and more.

Alexander Hars - Board member @ Zalster

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Sweden, Norway, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bookis — Bookis is the Next-Generation Online Bookstore with Direct Author Compensation, making the sharing of stories and knowledge playfully easy - from all bookshelves, for everyone. We leverage community, technology and innovative distribution to enable radically easier peer-to-peer bookselling, with fair author compensation models. Building theworld's largest network of authors fighting for a more fair book industry worldwide.
Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
Brink Commerce — Brink Commerce offers leading eCommerce solutions. Boost growth, perfect customer experiences, and unlock agility with our Composable Commerce API.

Andreas Randel

Investment focus

Apps, Fashion, Shopping
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Villoid — Villoid is an online retailer that enables its users to purchase fashion products.The retailer provides its users with a mobile application that enables its users to search for and purchase the fashion items of their choice. Furthermore, the application enables designers to join their community to create fashion items that can be sold toothers.Villoid was launched in 2015 and is based in Ohio.

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