Top 50 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in Norway in February 2025

Investor	Media (entertainment) Norway investments
SINTEF Venture AS	6
SINTEF Venture AS	6
Skyfall Ventures	4
Skyfall Ventures	4
Investinor	3
SNÖ Ventures	3
Founders Fund	3
Founders Fund	3
SNÖ Ventures	3
RunwayFBU	3
Investinor	3
Johan Brand	2
Sagene Tech Ventures	2
Spintop Ventures	2
TQ Ventures	2
Talis Capital	2
Dawn Capital	2
Talis Capital	2
Coatue	2
Dawn Capital	2
Spintop Ventures	2
RunwayFBU	2
Sagene Tech Ventures	2
TQ Ventures	2
Rogue Venture Partners	2
Coatue	2
Rogue Venture Partners	2
Johan Brand	2
Marc Merrill	1
Innovation Norway	1
BTV Invest	1
RAA Ventures	1
Schibsted	1
Explore Equity	1
Christian Jantzen	1
Sarsia Seed Management	1
Kevin Lin	1
Signia Venture Partners	1
Kevin Lin	1
Julius Genachowski	1
Skagerak Capital	1
Johann Koss	1
Ring Capital	1
Cato Sælid	1
NaHCO3	1
Alliance VC	1
Skagerak Maturo	1
Hasso Plattner Ventures	1
Johann Koss	1
Innosight Ventures	1

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 — Introducing Nomono Sound Capsule
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.
KIT-AR — Reduce time and costs spent fixing errors on your manufacturing shopfloor with quality assurance and augmented reality- Click in to find how!

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.

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

Sloyd — 3D modeling has never been easier. Select a generator, tweak it, done. Generate with realtime in the Sloyd Webapp or SDK.
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.
Cardboard — Cardboard's strive is to make SaaS subscription management smarter and more efficient for enterprises.

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

SNÖ is an early stage venture capital firm that empowers Nordic technology entrepreneurs and startups. They founders are builders and entrepreneurs themselves, with unique digital expertise, and are extremely passionate about the various aspects that make a startup succeed.SNÖ is based in Oslo, Norway. It was founded by Magne Uppman and TeodorBjerrang in 2015.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Norway, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Breyta — Gather all your qualitative data and our AI assistant transcribes, analyses and delivers you accurate product insights and patterns at scale in seconds.
Fantasy Chess — Fantasy Chess is a platform that allows users to pick teams of real-world chess players, track their performance in tournaments, and receive points based on their achievement.
Ignite — A powerful & easy spend management tool to accelerate your procurement success by bringing clarity, clean data & sophisticated analytics to your fingertips

Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Hgen — Hgen provides affordable green hydrogen for deep decarbonization.
Helius — Solana RPCs, APIs, webhooks and infrastructure to build and ship crypto apps, fast. Get started for free in 1 click.
Impulse Space — Economical and nimble last-mile space payload delivery

Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
Network Bio — Network Bio is a clinical and molecular data library enabling precision medicine approaches for common human diseases. Its platform delivers a centralized repository for clinical and molecular data that allows researchers to identify patterns and correlations that can be used to develop new treatments and diagnostic tools.
Biosphere — Biosphere engages in manufacturing commercial-scale fermentation products and robotic greenhouses.

SNÖ is an early stage venture capital firm that empowers Nordic technology entrepreneurs and startups. They founders are builders and entrepreneurs themselves, with unique digital expertise, and are extremely passionate about the various aspects that make a startup succeed.SNÖ is based in Oslo, Norway. It was founded by Magne Uppman and TeodorBjerrang in 2015.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Norway, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Fantasy Chess — Fantasy Chess is a platform that allows users to pick teams of real-world chess players, track their performance in tournaments, and receive points based on their achievement.
Ignite — A powerful & easy spend management tool to accelerate your procurement success by bringing clarity, clean data & sophisticated analytics to your fingertips
Nordic Air Defence — Nordic Air Defence maintains democratic values, which are essential to both societal stability and human advancement in a world that is changing quickly.

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.

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 on our mission to revolutionize the treatment of inflammatory and fibrotic diseases. With a robust pipeline, seasoned leadership, and strategic alliances, help us reshape the treatment landscape for the better.
Ignite — A powerful & easy spend management tool to accelerate your procurement success by bringing clarity, clean data & sophisticated analytics to your fingertips

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!

Sagene Tech Venture is a pre-seed venture fund in Oslo. We invest in B2B SaaS companies based in Norway.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise, Publishing
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Vev — Vev is the only all-in-one design platform for professionals to create and launch unique web experiences with complete creative and technical freedom.
Brandpad — Brandpad is a platform helping companies efficiently manage their brand portfolios.

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.

Led by Schuster Tanger, Andrew Marks, and Scooter Braun, TQ Ventures is a leading venture capital firm based in New York City and Los Angeles.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Lawhive — LawHive provides local UK solicitors for half the cost of a law firm. Connect with licensed solicitors online. Use any computer or smartphone.
Verax AI — Seeks to be the leading provider of enterprise-grade trust solutions for Generative AI, enabling companies worldwide to build or adopt any Generative AI agent with confidence
Lumina — Lumina is the world's first delightful ERP, empowering small businesses scale and thrive.

We back founders who see the future differently.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Acin — Acin delivers at speed by combining unique industry data, AI and high touch expertise. The trusted partner, built by the industry, for the industry
Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
Rubi Laboratories — Rubi Laboratories turns carbon emissions into carbon-negative textiles for the fashion industry, with a proprietary synthetic biology technology.

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 back founders who see the future differently.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Acin — Acin delivers at speed by combining unique industry data, AI and high touch expertise. The trusted partner, built by the industry, for the industry
Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
Rubi Laboratories — Rubi Laboratories turns carbon emissions into carbon-negative textiles for the fashion industry, with a proprietary synthetic biology technology.

Coatue is a lifecycle investment platform focused on turning big ideas in world-shaping technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cohesity — Eliminate mass data fragmentation with Cohesity's next-gen data management. Begin with backup, gain instant recovery. Learn more today.
DayOne — DayOne is a data center pioneer that creates and manages next-generation digital infrastructure for industry leaders who want dependable, cost-effective, and rapidly scalable solutions.
Albert Invent — 1000’s of scientists, technicians, and engineers across 30+ countries rely on Albert’s end-to-end Cloud Platform to accelerate the innovation of new materials. With Albert, R&D organizations get the data insights and tools needed to increase speed to market, automate regulatory compliance, and heighten the impact of new products.Built fromthe ground up for the chemical and material science industry, the Albert Platform connects R&D processes and creates a single data source of truth across the R&D organization. Augmented with AI, machine learning and a comprehensive materials database, key platform functionality includes inventory, worksheets, workflows, tasks, and more. www.albertinvent.com

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

Kraaft — Kraaft.co is an instant messenger app dedicated to site monitoring for VRD public works trades: roads and various networks. Paris, Île-de-France in 2019.
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.

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

Zymego — Zymego develops solutions that relieve healthcare workers of administrative work while improving patient access to healthcare.
Elastisys — Succeed with your cloud native journey as an organization developing and operating software critical to our society. NIS2, ISO-27001, GDPR.
Tings — Tings is a mobile app that helps people to organize and retain, and sell non-required recyclable and used merchandise.

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

OTee — OTee's Industrial Automation platform makes it possible to create and manage industrial-grade virtual control systems, based on open standards and architecture!
Fortifai — Increase efficiency and oversight on Environmental, Social, & Governance (ESG) topics - reduce implementation costs by up to 80%, and get set up in 30-60 days.
Cardboard — Cardboard's strive is to make SaaS subscription management smarter and more efficient for enterprises.

Sagene Tech Venture is a pre-seed venture fund in Oslo. We invest in B2B SaaS companies based in Norway.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise, Publishing
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Vev — Vev is the only all-in-one design platform for professionals to create and launch unique web experiences with complete creative and technical freedom.
Brandpad — Brandpad is a platform helping companies efficiently manage their brand portfolios.

Led by Schuster Tanger, Andrew Marks, and Scooter Braun, TQ Ventures is a leading venture capital firm based in New York City and Los Angeles.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

RLcore — At RL Core Technologies, we want a better future for everyone. We have a long history of solving hard problems with AI. Now we are using that expertise to solve the first of many difficult problems--improving industrial control problems to increase efficiency, reduces cost, lowering energy usage,
Plenful — Plenful increases efficiency, ROI, and data accuracy around manual, administrative healthcare operational workflows.
TILT — TILT app allow users to discover small brands, buy through videos, livestreams, and eard rewards.

Rogue Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in startups. It seeks to invest in new and growing businesses in Oregon and the PNW.Rogue invests in entrepreneurs that reject the status quo, and who are driven by market traction. Rogue values ingenuity, insight and intelligence and accelerates entrepreneurialsuccess with resources, values and vision. Rogue is committed to increasing Oregon's entrepreneurial footprint through committed, sustainable investment in new businesses and growing enterprises.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Joy — Joy is the creator of the first Smart Photo Album that allows you to curate and share your favorite photos with friends and family. Designed to live on your coffee table and sit comfortably in your lap, the Joy Album makes your most cherished moments instantly viewable in gorgeous layouts, finally modernizing the lost art of creating a physicalphoto album.The Joy team hails from Apple and Sonos and is building a premium all-in-one hardware and software photo solution for families to share memories with loved ones near and far.The company was founded in February 2016 and is backed by top investors including Obvious Ventures, David B. Heller, Maywic and The Chernin Group.Joy is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit http://www.joy.co.
Restaurent — Restaurent is a food and events service provider firm. They provide services for art galleries, bars, botanical gardens, cafes, and college universities. They offer products that are available for shopping online.
Seven Starling — Seven Starling offers comprehensive online care for postpartum mental health. Take the free assessment to get started.

Coatue is a lifecycle investment platform focused on turning big ideas in world-shaping technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Raycast — A collection of powerful productivity tools all within an extendable launcher.
Supabase — The Open Source Alternative to Firebase.
Sila — Innovative materials by Sila Nanotechnologies for fast EV charging & longer journeys. Market-proven solutions driving industry transformation & clean energy adoption.

Rogue Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in startups. It seeks to invest in new and growing businesses in Oregon and the PNW.Rogue invests in entrepreneurs that reject the status quo, and who are driven by market traction. Rogue values ingenuity, insight and intelligence and accelerates entrepreneurialsuccess with resources, values and vision. Rogue is committed to increasing Oregon's entrepreneurial footprint through committed, sustainable investment in new businesses and growing enterprises.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Joy — Joy is the creator of the first Smart Photo Album that allows you to curate and share your favorite photos with friends and family. Designed to live on your coffee table and sit comfortably in your lap, the Joy Album makes your most cherished moments instantly viewable in gorgeous layouts, finally modernizing the lost art of creating a physicalphoto album.The Joy team hails from Apple and Sonos and is building a premium all-in-one hardware and software photo solution for families to share memories with loved ones near and far.The company was founded in February 2016 and is backed by top investors including Obvious Ventures, David B. Heller, Maywic and The Chernin Group.Joy is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit http://www.joy.co.
Seven Starling — Seven Starling offers comprehensive online care for postpartum mental health. Take the free assessment to get started.
Light Frame — Light Frame is a Swiss American financial technology company building advanced technologies for private banks, wealth management firms, and banks offering investment and wealth services. The company was founded in January 2024 by Schuyler Weiss, Mathieu Clement, Philippe Kernevez, and Gregory Bataille, and it maintains offices in Providence, RI andLausanne, VD. Light Frame completed its Pre-seed round of financing in April 2024, with ATX Venture Partners and New Stack Ventures co-leading the round. Other investors include Rogue Venture Partners, Halfcourt Ventures, Studio Alpha, and Underdog Labs.

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!

Marc Merrill Co-founded of Riot Games, Inc. in 2006 and serves as its President. Marc Merrill served as Chief Marketing Officer of Riot Games, Inc. He was corporate marketing executive in the exciting world of Business-to-Business media at Advanstar Communications. He has marketing, leadership, and elite gaming skills including Schedule Mastery +9.He held roles in finance with Merrill Lynch and US Bancorp.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Video Games
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Israel, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
OpenBCI — OpenBCI is a low-cost, programmable, open-source EEG platform that gives anybody with computer access to their brain waves. Their vision is to realize the potential of the open-source movement to accelerate innovation in brain science through collaborative hardware and software development. Behind the many lines of code and circuit diagrams,OpenBCI has a growing community of scientists, engineers, designers, makers, and a whole bunch of other people who are interested in furthering our understanding of the brain. We feel that the biggest challenges in understanding what makes us who we are cannot be solved by a company, an institution, or even an entire field of science. Rather, we believe these discoveries will be made through an open forum of shared knowledge and concerted effort by people from many different disciplines. Today, the leading brain-computer interface (BCI) companies distribute fixed devices with limited or closed access to the algorithms that translate raw EEG signals to meaningful data. These devices are powerful and effective for application development but not ideal for R&D requiring adjustable hardware setups and direct control over the signal processing techniques. OpenBCI is fully accessible and powered by an open-source community of hardware and software builders, making it easy for creators of any skill level and ideal for researchers who haven’t yet settled on the perfect system design. The OpenBCI platform is intended to serve as a malleable starting point in the rapidly growing field of brain-computer interfacing.
Fast Break Labs — Fast Break Labs is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that's building the future of sports gaming and entertainment.

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!

BTV Invest is a venture capital company that manages about NOK 330 million in direct investments. They invest in companies with growth potential with different risk profiles. They offer capital, competence, and access to a large network.

Investment focus

Apps, Content, Shipping
Series A, Series B
Norway, United States

Portfolio highlights

eZ Systems — Ibexa DXP helps brands to reach their true potential by transforming their complexity into competitive advantage thanks to engaging digital experiences
CloudTrucks — CloudTrucks is a new way to manage your trucking business. Maximize revenue and minimize headaches with technology-driven products that give you everything you need to make the most of your trucking business.

RAA Ventures is a venture capital company, making angel investments & providing startup capital for extraordinary investment opportunities.

Investment focus

B2B, Apps, Sports
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Socius — Next generation ad tools for digital marketers.
DoubleUp — DoubleUp offers exclusive online sports contests that pay cash prizes. While traditional daily fantasy sites focus on salary cap games that can take hours to play, DoubleUp offers simple, fun contests that take less than 30 seconds to enter and win. With free entries for all contests, it's a great way for casual fans to get moreinvolved in the sports they love watching.
Cheeze, Inc — A Photography focused NFT Media and Entertainment company

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 — Introducing Nomono Sound Capsule
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.

Explore Equity is a continuation of expertise developed over 80+ collective years spent driving transformative growth in companies across the Nordics.

Investment focus

Advice, Public Relations, Communications Infrastructure
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Paritee — Through industry insight, international network, and active ownership we aim to add value and help realize the inherent potential of the agencies we partner with.

Danish angel investor, based in London.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Denmark, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Medusa — The most popular ecommerce project on GitHub. Medusa provides the world's most flexible commerce platform for developers to handle specialized commerce cases.
Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.

Sarsia Seed AS is a Norwegian Seed Capital Fund which invests in Norwegian early phase technology companies within the energy/cleantech and biotechnology/life science sectors.The fund has a total capital of 333.5 million NOK (approx, 40 mEUR/50 mUSD) and is managed by Sarsia Seed Management AS. The management company advises theFund board regarding investment decisions. The Fundâ€:tm:s duration is expected to be 12 (+3) years.The Management Teamâ€:tm:s strength lay in its competence, experience and extensive national and international network of industrial players and co-investors. The Teamâ€:tm:s collective experience comprises an optimal balance between operations, business and specialised technology know-how, applied research, and entrepreneurship; elements which are actively used both in the vetting and follow-up of investments.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Pharmaceutical
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Norway

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BerGenBio — BerGenBio is a clinical stage oncology biotech company, which is engaged in developing therapeutics against novel drug targets that drive aggressive cancers. Its drug candidate bemcentinib (BGB324) is in clinical development as a novel treatment for a variety of cancers.
Sonoclear AS — At SonoClear, we are dedicated to improving the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound to give neurosurgeons the clarity needed to make critical decisions in the resection of tumours.
Heimdall Power — Heimdall Power offers a rapid transition to fully digitized electric grid assets. Our technology increases on average the capacity of the grid by 40%.

Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

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Nest Wallet — A Wallet Built for Traders
Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps

When we started Signia, we wanted to build a firm that reflected the type of investors we would have wanted to work with in our entrepreneurial careers.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, China, Canada

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Tatem — We believe that entrepreneurs can do more, faster, without getting stuck in the weeds of daily operational tasks. We know, because we’ve been there. Our platform helps founders focus on their business, while we take care of their paperwork.
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Fortem Technologies — Airspace Awareness Safety & Security

Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
Nest Wallet — A Wallet Engineered for Traders
Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps

Julius Genachowski is a Managing Director at The Carlyle Group, which he joined in 2014. He served as Chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission from 2009 to 2013. He held senior executive positions for about eight years at IAC, which owned and operated Internet and media companies including Expedia, Ticketmaster, and USA Network.Also prior to the FCC, he was engaged with several public and private companies in the technology, media, and telecommunications sector as a board member, investor, or advisor. He is a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute, and has taught a joint class at Harvard Business and Law Schools.Earlier in his career, he was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, and worked in Congress for the Select Committee on the Iran-Contra Affair and for then-Representative Charles Schumer. He is currently a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. Mr. Genachowski currently serves as a director of Mastercard, Inc.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Legal Tech
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Norway

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Responsiv — Legal AI to find answers yourself. Legal Research. Clauses. Policies. Templates. Save your outside counsel budget for when you need it.
Trustible — Document, manage, and report on your AI Governance strategy to build trust and reduce risk. https://www.trustible.ai/
Garden — Garden helps lawyers and companies automate invention harvesting, generate novel patents, and analyze infringements in a couple clicks.

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

CMS, SaaS, Publishing
Seed
Norway

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Labrador CMS — Labrador CMS specializes in the content management system solution and SaaS services to publishers.
Ignite — A powerful & easy spend management tool to accelerate your procurement success by bringing clarity, clean data & sophisticated analytics to your fingertips

Johann Koss is the Founder of Right To Play. He attended the Rotman School of Management.

Investment focus

CMS, Content, Digital Media
Seed
Norway

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Factiverse — We leverage cutting-edge machine learning and instantly deliver insights on text that reveal nuanced intangibles, such as point of view, risk, bias, dispute and falseness. We assist you to verify any content, written by humans or AI. Available as an API, plugin or desktop solution.

Ring Capital is an investment ecosystem that combines business performance with sustainability by pulling in responsibly minded entrepreneurs and empowering them to thrive.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Social Media
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
France, Spain, Canada

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Ava — Free transcription for Zoom and in-person meetings. Ava accurately captions in a click any in-person or online meeting, using AI & professionals. Enter 24/7 communication access for the Deaf & hard-of-hearing.
Yespark — Trouvez le meilleur parking dans votre ville et abonnez-vous en quelques clics avec Yespark.
each One — each One delivers turnkey recruitment and training solutions dedicated to refugees and newcomers that make inclusion an incredible experience for businesses and their employees. They are reinventing inclusion by connecting companies and talents in new ways. The HR solutions reveal the full potential of multiculturalism and enable companies andtheir teams to fully benefit from it.

Cato Saelid is an Oslo and Monaco based angel investor, originally from Oslo, Norway.

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, Finance
Seed, Series B
Norway, United Kingdom

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Seedcamp — Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.
PortalOne — PortalOne is a hybrid games company, delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.
Secret Cinema —

Helping people rise to their potential.

Investment focus

Gaming, Biotechnology, Education
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada, Israel

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OpenBCI — OpenBCI is a low-cost, programmable, open-source EEG platform that gives anybody with computer access to their brain waves. Their vision is to realize the potential of the open-source movement to accelerate innovation in brain science through collaborative hardware and software development. Behind the many lines of code and circuit diagrams,OpenBCI has a growing community of scientists, engineers, designers, makers, and a whole bunch of other people who are interested in furthering our understanding of the brain. We feel that the biggest challenges in understanding what makes us who we are cannot be solved by a company, an institution, or even an entire field of science. Rather, we believe these discoveries will be made through an open forum of shared knowledge and concerted effort by people from many different disciplines. Today, the leading brain-computer interface (BCI) companies distribute fixed devices with limited or closed access to the algorithms that translate raw EEG signals to meaningful data. These devices are powerful and effective for application development but not ideal for R&D requiring adjustable hardware setups and direct control over the signal processing techniques. OpenBCI is fully accessible and powered by an open-source community of hardware and software builders, making it easy for creators of any skill level and ideal for researchers who haven’t yet settled on the perfect system design. The OpenBCI platform is intended to serve as a malleable starting point in the rapidly growing field of brain-computer interfacing.
Inworld AI — AI for Metaverse
Arcturus — Experience sports like never before.

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

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Deckmatch — Tooling to drink from the firehose of data, that is your top of funnel (TOFU)
Tana — Tana is a software development company that reinvents how humans, teams, and computers work together. Tana was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
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.

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

Hasso Plattner Ventures invests in fast-growing, information technology-driven companies in Europe and the USA on behalf of Prof. Dr. h.c. Hasso Plattner, co-founder and chairman of software giant SAP. The support we offer reaches beyond financial commitments. Our multifaceted work includes acting globally as a strategic partner for our informationtechnology growth companies. In Germany, our commitment has taken also the form of a seed program for information technology startups coming out of the Hasso Plattner Institute.After retiring from the operative business of SAP in 2003, Hasso Plattner was appointed Chairman of the company’s Supervisory Board. He has devoted his time to the promotion of science, innovation and entrepreneurship ever since.To further these goals, Hasso Plattner founded Hasso Plattner Ventures on July 1st, 2005 in Potsdam, Germany. Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa launched as an affiliate in 2008, operating from Cape Town, South Africa.Hasso Plattner Ventures manages four funds. HP Ventures I started in 2005, focusing on early stage software companies in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In 2008, HP Ventures II and HP Ventures Africa launched, looking for investment opportunities in startup- and expansion-stage companies across the USA, Europe, Israel and South Africa.As of 2015, HP Ventures III, a €150 million fund, focuses on fast-growing enterprise and infrastructure software companies mainly in Germany and the Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Artory — Artory connects the art market with the digital-first, financial ecosystem. Combining our leading technology, art expertise, digital certification, and tokenization, Artory secures on the blockchain verified artwork information from expert partners.
Likeminded — Likeminded developed a digital platform for mental health that gives people fast, low-threshold access to psychological support.
Robin.io — Automate deployment of complex 5G & enterprise apps to improve productivity and reduce cost with cloud native Kubernetes storage on the Robin platform.

Johann Koss is the Founder of Right To Play. He attended the Rotman School of Management.

Investment focus

CMS, Content, Digital Media
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Factiverse — We leverage cutting-edge machine learning and instantly deliver insights on text that reveal nuanced intangibles, such as point of view, risk, bias, dispute and falseness. We assist you to verify any content, written by humans or AI. Available as an API, plugin or desktop solution.

Innosight Ventures leverages more than 20 years of applied research by innovation thought leaders like Clayton Christensen and field work by the Innosight Consulting Team. We have distilled that work into a set of proprietary tools and work practices that allow us to quickly screen opportunities and work side-by-side with entrepreneurs to helpthem build great companies. We invest only in Singapore-based early-stage startup companies that have high potential for disrupting existing markets and creating new ones.Generally speaking, we ask 5 questions about any potential investment:Is there an important problem that customers can't address because existing solutions are expensive or inconvenient?.Is there a disruptive way to solve the problem by being simpler, more convenient, or more affordable?.Is there a plausible hypothesis about an economically attractive, scalable business model?..Does the team have the 'right stuff' to manage the process of emergent learning?.Can early profitability be a choice?.Our usual investment quantum is up to half a million Singapore dollars in each company. However, if the answer to all the above questions is positive and the team is going to need more that , we are open to co-investing with other venture capital firms and/or angels. In the past, we have lead investment rounds where some of the companies have raised in the range of SGD 1 – 2 million.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Social CRM
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Anchanto — Anchanto is a global B2B SaaS company enabling warehouse management, omni-channel retail management; offers inventory management system, order management system and product information management
Capital Match — Get a business loan in as short as 48 hours at lower interest rates than banks. Apply now or talk to us about peer-to-peer lending.
HyperSpace — We invent, build, and operate next-gen attractions connected to digital lifestyles.