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

Investor	Media (entertainment) Norway investments
SINTEF Venture AS	6
SINTEF Venture AS	6
Skyfall Ventures	4
SNÖ Ventures	3
Investinor	3
Founders Fund	3
Investinor	3
Skyfall Ventures	3
Founders Fund	3
SNÖ Ventures	3
Talis Capital	2
Spintop Ventures	2
Johan Brand	2
Johan Brand	2
Dawn Capital	2
RunwayFBU	2
Sagene Tech Ventures	2
TQ Ventures	2
Rogue Venture Partners	2
Coatue	2
Sagene Tech Ventures	2
Dawn Capital	2
Coatue	2
Spintop Ventures	2
Rogue Venture Partners	2
RunwayFBU	2
TQ Ventures	2
Talis Capital	2
Skagerak Capital	1
Maturo Kapital	1
EQT Ventures	1
Tvenge og Adolfsen	1
Skagerak Maturo	1
Socii Capital	1
Aleksander Leonard Larsen	1
Access Industries	1
Wiski Capital	1
Atari	1
Julius Genachowski	1
BTV Invest	1
Dynamic Funds	1
Soo Boon Koh	1
Michael Morhaime	1
Connect Ventures	1
Aleksander Leonard Larsen	1
Tikehau Capital	1
Alliance VC	1
Bogomil Balkansky	1
ProVenture	1
Valinor AS	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!

We commercialize technology created by SINTEF's research environments

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.

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

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

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

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

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
Tribune Therapeutics — Tribune Therapeutics is a preclinical biopharmaceutical company building a promising pipeline of novel medicines to treat patients with a wide range of fibrotic diseases.

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.

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

Stord — Stord offers fulfillment, warehousing, and transportation for DTC and B2B, plus the integrated software you need to provide your end consumers with the best pre-purchase and post-delivery consumer experience. No matter your product, Stord is ready to power your commerce.
NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
Persona — Online ID verification service to help any business, from any industry, collect, verify, and manage user identities throughout a customer lifecycle.

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

MusicInfra — Helping creators and copyright owners getting paid faster and more accurately than ever
Economic Mind — Economic Mind provides a bottom-up digital twin of the global economy. Access insights for over 100.000 markets, 10 million companies, 250 countries and 1000+ industries using the Economic Mind Strategy Portal.
Nordic Air Defence — Nordic Air Defence builds cutting-edge solutions for modern aerial security. Made in Sweden.

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.

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, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Sweden, Finland, Norway

Portfolio highlights

ReCarber — Commercializing carbon removal projects. ReCarber matches emitters with off-takers, orchestrates financing, and commercially develops BECCS / bio-CCS projects.
Seven Stars — De perfecte match in IT. Die maken wij. Als IT-flex regisseur en specialist in IT-bemiddeling verbinden we professionals met de beste IT-opdrachten. Snel, soepel en zonder gedoe. We make IT spark.
Seven Stars — Seven Stars is a startup for creating captivating mobile games with a talented, diverse team.

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!

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!

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.
Doubleword — From research to reality
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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Wisdom AI — WisdomAI is a data analytics platform that enables enterprise users to ask natural-language questions and receive answers from both structured and unstructured data sources—even when the data is messy or incomplete. It allows business leaders to quickly drill into insights, replacing the need for time-consuming analyst reports with real-time,accurate responses. The platform avoids hallucinations by using generative AI only to generate queries, not the answers themselves. Early adopters include companies across sectors like oil and gas, who use WisdomAI to query data from documents, telemetry, and databases.
Miter — Miter's software streamlines HR, finance, and compliance for the construction industry.
Persona — Online ID verification service to help any business, from any industry, collect, verify, and manage user identities throughout a customer lifecycle.

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.

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.

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.

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.
Plenful — Plenful increases efficiency, ROI, and data accuracy around manual, administrative healthcare operational workflows.
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.

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Maturo Kapital is a venture capital company that invests in companies within the energy and environmental sectors.

Investment focus

Content, Software, Open Source
Series A, Series B
Norway

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

EQT Ventures is a European VC fund with just over €2.3 billion in total capital raised. EQT Ventures I launched in May 2016, with commitments totaling €566 million and a simple mission - to be the kind of VC the team would have liked to have had on their own startup journeys. Recognizing that building and growing a company takes more than justcapital, the EQT Ventures team provides founders with support and advice throughout different stages of growth. EQT Ventures doesn't focus on particular markets or industries, but on bold and ambitious founders who have the grit and determination to build global success stories. EQT Ventures II launched in November 2019, with commitments totaling €660 million. EQT Ventures III launched in 2022, with commitments totaling €1.1 billion, making it the biggest European Venture Capital fund committed to early-stage tech startups. The EQT Ventures team is based across six offices in London, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Paris, and San Francisco, taking a locals-with-locals approach and supporting founders on the ground. Motherbrain, EQT Ventures' in-house-developed artificial intelligence (AI) platform, ensures the team has a data-driven approach and has driven more than $100 million in portfolio company investments.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
Sweden, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Parloa — Transform your customer service with our customized, enterprise-ready contact center AI platform across all channels.
Insempra — Origin.Bio creates synthetic microorganisms that can make many of the same ingredients as traditional chemical industrialization processes today, but with significantly fewer energy requirements and waste produced while eradicating the need for petrochemicals.The company drives the convergence of engineering with biology, using DNA as theprogramming language. Rather than editing genetic material only in or out of DNA, engineers can hack entirely new organisms that have never existed — all powered by computing, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine-learning while leveraging millions of years of evolution. Operating at an atomic level, the company farms organisms with microscopic precision and integrates them into existing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) manufacturing processes. This asset-light approach enables Origin.Bio to generate sustainable materials at speed in a cost-effective way, without compromising on performance.
Natural Cycles — Natural Cycles birth control is 93% effective with typical use and 98% effective with perfect use. Learn more about hormone-free birth control today.

Tvenge og Adolfsen

Investment focus

Music
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Nomono — The Next Generation Audio company.

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

We partner with bold and mission-driven entrepreneurs to build next generation digital infrastructure companies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Standard Metrics — Standard Metrics is a dual-sided portfolio management and investor relations solution for venture capital firms and startups.
Lunar — Get a free account and card - just like 650,000 others. Spend smart. Achieve financial peace of mind. Sign up in minutes.
PortalOne — PortalOne is a hybrid games company, delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.

Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.

Investment focus

Gaming, Digital Entertainment, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Norway, Singapore, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
Pixels — Pixels is a play-to-earn MMO game built around the NFT assets you already own. Build your NFT a home in the metaverse and get farming.
Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.

Access Industries is a private holding company and global investment firm based in New York. Founded by Len Blavatnik, Access identifies companies with strong business models and management teams, and optimizes their value through financial backing and expertise.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Biotechnology
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

SirenOpt — SirenOpt platforms provide non-destructive, real-time, inline and off-line materials characterization and classification solutions for manufacturers
Spotter — Spotter empowers top YouTube Creators to accelerate their business by giving them the capital, tools, knowledge, and community they need to succeed.
Treeline Biosciences — Treeline Biosciences is a biotech company building transformative precision medicines for patients with cancer and other serious conditions. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Stamford, CT.

Venture capital firm focused on tech startups.

Investment focus

Software, AgTech, Energy
Seed, Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Evyon — Eyvon is an electrical company that provides EV battery solutions to accelerate into a fully renewable future for everyone. The company's proprietary hardware and Battery Cloud ecosystem enable the conversion of EV batteries into high-quality, affordable, and plug-and-play battery energy storage systems.Eyvon's mission is to convertbattery waste into high-quality battery systems by repurposing discarded EV batteries. By leveraging a standardized and data-driven value chain, their ambition is to provide solutions at less than half the price of new ones.It was founded in 2020 and is based in Oslo, Norway.
Waved — We are changing the way people think of guest experience with technology that senses and elevates the ambience.
Glint Solar — Enabling developers to identify and analyze the best solar sites

Discover classic consoles and cartridges, modern titles and never-before-seen art and gameplay from Atari.

Investment focus

Video Games, Apps, Gaming
Seed, Post-IPO Equity
Norway, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Playmaji — Playmaji, Inc. is a California-based specialty developer, producer, and manufacturer of next-generation video game related products for new and retro game consoles. The company was founded by video game development veterans Bryan Bernal and Eric Christensen. The Playmaji team at large has a diverse background and has shipped products such as AAAvideo games like Ratchet & Clank and Titanfall. We’ve also shipped digital storefronts like the Google Chrome Store, consumer electronics like the Vizio M-Series TVs, and TV boxes like the Roku 2, 3, and 4k.
PortalOne — PortalOne is a hybrid games company, delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.
Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Garden — Garden helps lawyers and companies automate invention harvesting, generate novel patents, and analyze infringements in a couple clicks.
Overlap — Overlap uses AI to help you extract the best moments from video content.
Mast Reforestation — No-cost reforestation for post-wildfire burned acreage for landowners and foresters, funded by carbon removal credits.

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.

Dynamic Funds was established as a small investment club in Montreal in 1957. Since then, They have evolved to become one of Canada's most recognized asset management firms. They offer a comprehensive range of products and services, spanning every major sector, geographic region and investment discipline. Their financial solutions includeopen and closed-end investment funds, fee-based, tax-advantaged and customized high-net-worth programs.

Investment focus

Retail, Content, Shopping
Series B, Series A
Canada, Norway

Portfolio highlights

SHOP.CA — SHOP.CA is the first multi-merchant marketplace built for Canadians, and managed by Canadians.In June of 2012 the site launched and now has millions of products, across 28 categories, and includes over 5000 brands.SHOP.CA provides Canadians with the brands, products and services they need and want from trusted retailers, manufacturers andservice providers, all through one universal shopping cart and one account. Through a cloud based Marketplace-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform, SHOP.CA makes it easy for approved partners to list, price and sell their products and services they have online and/or offline to Canadians, through a single destination.By integrating social elements into the eCommerce platform and user experience, SHOP.CA engages and rewards Canadians for every purchase and for social activities that lead to purchases.
eZ Systems — Ibexa DXP helps brands to reach their true potential by transforming their complexity into competitive advantage thanks to engaging digital experiences

Soo Boon has over 30 years of global experience in finance and venture capital investing and brings this valuable expertise to each and every investment. She founded iGlobe Partners in 1999, in which the funds sponsor is the Economic Development Board (EDB) of Singapore, the pre-eminent statutory board responsible for enhancing Singapore'sglobal economic and business position. iGlobe Partners also started iGlobe Treasury Fund (NZ$31 million fund) in 2003 as a joint venture with the New Zealand Government.From 1988 to 1999, Soo Boon held executive management positions with Vertex Management Inc., (Vertex), the venture capital arm of Singapore Technologies, managing three funds during her tenure. She established the US operation of Vertex and headed the Silicon Valley office for 9 years, where she was instrumental in the early days of technology transfer for over 100 engineers in Silicon Valley for Chartered Semiconductor and Chartered Microwave. Soo Boon then started Vertex's European operations (headquartered in London, United Kingdom) and ran its European investment operation. As a result of her expertise, she guided numerous successful investments to IPOs, such as Lattice Semiconductor, Creative Technologies, and Activcard SA.Before Vertex, Soo Boon also held various senior management positions in the Treasury and Credit departments in her 12 years of work in the Development Bank of Singapore. Her time there also equipped her with in-depth knowledge of the finance aspect of the venture capital industry. She also headed the International Departments, Credit Division with responsibility for its eight overseas offices and Syndication Department for the Asia-Pacific region.Soo Boon earned her degree in 1973 from King's College, University of London with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics (First Class Honors). She attended the INSEAD Advanced Management program in 1998.Currently, she serves on the boards of directors of several private companies, including Fortemedia (Nanjing), Telenav Inc., and u-blox AG (SWX:UBXN). Since 2003, she serves on the Investment Committee of iGlobe Treasury Fund, a supported by the New Zealand Government. She is also one of the founding members of the Monte Jade (Singapore Chapter) and an EXCO member of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, Cloud Computing
Series A, Seed, Series B
Singapore, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Movi — Movi is building a new canvas for creation and ownership of web 3.0 visual content.
Luxola — Luxola was launched in Singapore in 2011 and has quickly grown into the destination for beauty in Southeast Asia; carrying over 4000 products and serving customers across the region including Australia, India and the UAE. Easily accessible. Luxola is committed to providing you with outstanding customer service and bringing you the best brandsfrom around the world, under one platform. All of our products are 100% authentic. We carry over 250 brands, of which over 65 brands across multiple markets are exclusive to Luxola.Education empowers our customers. With each product, Luxola provides ‘how-to’ advice and a review platform, giving you the power to hear from others with similar skin tones and types.Staying relevant is at the core of everything we do. In addition to providing a platform to purchase all your beauty favourites when you want, every week we pen LX Edit, our digital lifestyle magazine, offering inspiration and the latest insight into makeup, skincare, hair and celebrity fashion.
QuizUp — Plain Vanilla is an Icelandic Game Studio based in Reykjavik Iceland and in San Francisco. It develops a real-time multiplayer quiz platform for mobile devices.

Mike Morhaime is the president and a co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, creators of World of Warcraft. In 2008, Morhaime was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame.

Investment focus

Gaming, SaaS, Video
Seed, Series B
United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Maestro Interactive Inc — Maestro provides a white-label platform for enterprise live streamers to own, engage, and monetize their audiences. We focus on engagement tools that drive actions at key moments while capturing user data to be used in analytics and marketing campaigns. Customers include Microsoft, PlayStation, E3, ESL, Capcom, WB Games, ELEAGUE, and more.
Artifact — Artifact helps capture important memories with ease by creating personal podcasts with the people of customers choice.
PortalOne — PortalOne is a hybrid games company, delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.

We've been investing in pre-seed and seed stage product companies since 2012, from our home in London.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Faks — Faks is an app development company. The company's application allows users to send faster requests, track the status of the requests, and settle any complaints, enabling the pharmacists to maintain a secure relationship with supplier laboratories.
Cino — Cino automatically deducts everyone's share from their bank accounts. Create groups with whom you want to share bills, set your ratio split & stop fronting costs!
Plain. — Plain, a new startup that wants to reinvent support tools. While the customer support space is a competitive industry with big tech companies like Intercom and Zendesk, Plain believes it has a different approach as it focuses on API integrations to make your company’s product and your support platform work hand in hand.

Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.

Investment focus

Gaming, Digital Entertainment, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Norway, Singapore, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
Pixels — Pixels is a play-to-earn MMO game built around the NFT assets you already own. Build your NFT a home in the metaverse and get farming.
Sequence — Horizon is building a New Dimension where Internet economies are fun, accessible, and for the benefit of all participants. We have two amazing products to make this real:Sequence, which consists of i) a friendly crypto, NFT + Web3 smart wallet, and ii) a seamless developer platform for Ethereum, NFTs, Web3, DeFi and Dapps. Sequence makes it easyfor users to access and for developers to build the next generation of Internet economies and experiences.Skyweaver, a digital trading card game—powered by Sequence + blockchain—where players actually own the game items they win and purchase. For the first time, gamers can easily and securely sell and trade their items.

Tikehau Capital is a global asset management and investment company. The company specializes in various asset classes, including private equity, real estate, private debt, and liquid strategies. It manages investment funds and provides financial services to a wide range of clients, including institutional investors, corporations, and privateindividuals. Tikehau Capital has grown to become a significant player in the European alternative asset management industry.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
Debt Financing, Private Equity, Funding Round
France, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Eclairion — Eclairion is a data computing center that provides high-performance computing infrastructure and AI co-location hosting of compute clusters within container modules.
FTAPI Software — FTAPI Software was founded in autumn 2010 and has since been active in the market. Its innovative transfer and storage technology sets new standards in effectiveness and security for business file exchange and access. The great potential of the idea was confirmed by many experts from the first minute. The founding team was one of the best in theMunich Business Plan Competition MBPW in 2010 and received wide support from the Strascheg Centre for Entrepreneurship (SCE) at Munich University of Applied Sciences. Furthermore, FTAPI has been supported by various national and EU programs.
Loft Orbital — Loft Orbital builds software and hardware products to fly and operate any payload on a standard satellite bus. See how we're making space simple.

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

Ciloo — Ciloo is an operator of a global on-demand platform intended to provide e-commerce software for branded products and corporate gifts.
Versiro — Versiro is a real-time, multi-market decision support platform for electrical power assets.
Steep — Business intelligence for modern companies. Steep lets anyone on your team stay on top of your data.

Bogomil Balkansky is a Partner at Sequoia Capital. He started his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Bogomil holds a bachelor of arts in Mathematics from Cornell University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Cortex — Cortex makes it easy for engineering organizations to gain visibility into their services and deliver high quality software.
Stoke — Fiverr Enterprise is a SaaS platform which helps companies source, onboard, manage, and pay your freelance talent legally and compliantly.
Promethium — Promethium is an augmented data management provider with the first AI-powered solution that combines natural language processing (NLP) with automated data prep to deliver true self-service analytics. Users simply ask a question in natural language, and Promethium locates the data, demonstrates how it should be assembled, automatically generates theSQL statement to get the right data, and executes the query across multiple repositories.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Aivero — All-in-one platform for 2D & 3D camera fleet management. Visual data for AI models that help you automate computer vision tasks with precision.
Heaten — HeatBooster - Patented high-temperature heat pump technology reducing the reliance on fossil fuels by creating reusable energy.
1X — At Halodi Robotics we are passionate about robots. Our mission is to bring capable humanoid robots to everyone. We develop safe, capable and affordable robots that help human beings live better lives!