Top 50 Media (entertainment) VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Norway in September 2025

Investor	Media (entertainment) Norway investments
SINTEF Venture AS	6
SINTEF Venture AS	6
Skyfall Ventures	4
Skyfall Ventures	3
Investinor	3
SNÖ Ventures	3
Founders Fund	3
SNÖ Ventures	3
Founders Fund	3
Spintop Ventures	2
TQ Ventures	2
Sagene Tech Ventures	2
Dawn Capital	2
Talis Capital	2
Coatue	2
Sagene Tech Ventures	2
Spintop Ventures	2
Rogue Venture Partners	2
Investinor	2
TQ Ventures	2
Rogue Venture Partners	2
RunwayFBU	2
Coatue	2
RunwayFBU	2
Talis Capital	2
Dawn Capital	2
Ring Capital	1
Skagerak Capital	1
Alliance VC	1
Newmark Capital	1
ProVenture	1
Arri	1
Access Industries	1
The Nordic Web Ventures	1
Explore Equity	1
Avenir	1
Skagerak Capital	1
Sarsia Seed Management	1
Alliance VC	1
Stratel	1
Hasso Plattner Ventures	1
Herfo	1
Sarsia Seed Management	1
SEB Pension Fund	1
Explore Equity	1
Idekapital	1
Innovation Norway	1
Atari	1
Valinor AS	1
Promentum Equity Partners	1

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 delivers studio-grade spoken audio with next-gen wireless tools. Record anywhere, auto-enhance with AI, and edit in the cloud - trusted by storytellers
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.

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 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

Deckmatch — Tooling to drink from the firehose of data, that is your top of funnel (TOFU)
Take Take Take — 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.
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 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

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
Take Take Take — 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.
Nordic Air Defence — Nordic Air Defence builds cutting-edge solutions for modern aerial security. Made in Sweden.

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

Armada — The Armada Platform is a whole new way to succeed at the Edge with Starlink connectivity, mobile data centers & AI. Schedule a demo today.
Eight Sleep — Fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer with personalized cooling and heating for each side of the bed. The Pod reduces snoring, tracks your sleep, and works with any mattress. Try it risk-free for 30 nights.
Aven — Inventing new ways to save people money

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

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

Embedl AB — Efficient Deep Learning by Deep Learning model optimization
VISS.AI — Talk to your apps and automate tasks
Impulso — Seamless product tracking. We help brands, agencies and suppliers increase sell-through, reduce administration and create a more sustainable retail landscape.

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.

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

Doubleword — From research to reality
Inforcer — Standardize Microsoft 365 security policies across multiple tenants with ease using inforcer. Gain visibility, upsell security offerings, increase compliance and reduce risk. Book a demo now!
deepdots — Magic Feedback is an AI business creating a platform that compiles user reviews into one location and analyzes everything automatically using its own AI.

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, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lead — Lead Bank is a community-minded, independent commercial bank with a national client base recognized for its imaginative approach to community banking.
OpenEvidence — OpenEvidence uses artificial intelligence to aggregate, synthesize, and visualize clinical evidence in understandable, clinically-useful formats that can be used to make more evidenced-based decisions and improve patient outcomes.
Legion Security — Legion presents an AI SOC companion browser extension that enables scalable automation using in-house knowledge.

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

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.

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, Series A, Seed
Norway, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
Actithera — Actithera is a molecular radiotherapeutic company that develops radioligand therapies. It translates medicinal chemistry insights into new radioligand therapies (RLTs) and applies various molecular design strategies, including covalent targeting and an isotope-agnostic philosophy, to invent RLTs with significant differentiation and largertherapeutic windows.
Kongsberg Ferrotech — Kongsberg Ferrotech offers game-changing robotic services for inspection, repair, and maintenance (IRM) of underwater installations

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

Augmodo — Augmodo Spatial AI enables real-time tracking of products across all stores, enhancing inventory management and shopping experiences. It discovers information through augmented reality for enhanced experiences.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Muybridge — Reimagining cameras with weightless software-based viewpoint
Phantasma Labs — That Unlocks Hidden Capacity, Boosts EBITDA, and Delivers ROI in 6 Months
IPercept — At IPercept we provide AI-based, hardware-enabled software solutions and services that can best be described as the fitness tracker for complex industrial machines. At the push of a button, you can learn about a machines’ health, down to micrometer changes for each critical component. You can get insights into what maintenance activities you shouldapply and when. You can monitor how the machines are operated, how to optimize their utilization and much more. All of this is achieved through a plug-n-play installation - for old machines as well as new. All securely provided without requiring access to any machine controllers or IT-systems. These services reduce maintenance costs, downtime and increase productivity - a solid ROI for our customers. In 5 years, most complex industrial machinery sold in the world will be supported by our technology.

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.

Ring Capital is an international investment ecosystem dedicated to impact investing. Its mission is to actively direct capital towards vital solutions tackling major social and environmental challenges, and purposefully help entrepreneurs and companies grow by fostering both impact and business performance.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
France, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Edumapper — Edumapper is an educational platform providing tools to optimize learning experiences.
Moea — MOEA recrute ! Consultez toutes nos offres d'emploi (CDI, CDD) ainsi que toutes nos offres de stage et postulez en ligne.
SPRiNG Collective — SPRiNG is a consumer goods company that offers clean and efficient laundry and cleaning products, delivered in a 100% plastic-free box and directly in the mailbox. The company is headquartered in Paris, Ile-de-France, France by Philippe Cantet, Laure Favre, and Ben Guerville in 2017.

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Deckmatch — Tooling to drink from the firehose of data, that is your top of funnel (TOFU)
Tana — Stay on top of everything - without the busywork. An AI-native workspace that gives you an unfair advantage.
Lightbringer — Experience the future of patent services with Lightbringer. Our AI-driven platform accelerates your patent process, ensuring efficiency and expertise from world-class patent attorneys.

"Because important ideas need support and resources"

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.

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.

The portfolio of ARRI lighting products includes LED lighting, Daylight, Tungsten, ballasts, professional lighting accessories and much more.

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, Video Games
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

PortalOne — PortalOne is a hybrid games company, delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.

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.

The Nordic Web Ventures is an Angel Fund run by Neil S W Murray, backed by 50+ community builders, entrepreneurs and investors passionate about supporting early-stage Nordic startups.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Steep — Business intelligence for modern companies. Steep lets anyone on your team stay on top of your data.
All Gravy — Butter gives you happier employees, by reducing their financial stress and giving them an understanding of their salary and financial situation
Valuebeat — Grow your culture. Backed by data. Platypus is the HR and recruitment tool that measures cultural drivers of people across the organization to help you qualify decisions on hiring and managing your culture.

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.

A future-focused growth equity firm backing category-defining companies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Series A, Series C, Series B
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

Inspiren — Inspiren uses machine learning and industrial design to help nurses keep track. Inspiren provides data about what actually goes on in hospital rooms. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Rosebud — Rosebud's therapist-backed platform combines AI with interactive journaling, habit-building, and emotional support. See significant improvements in just 7 days.
Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.

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

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, Finance, Therapeutics
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Norway

Portfolio highlights

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 — BrainImage is the provider of SonoClear® - an acoustic coupling fluid for enhanced ultrasound imaging. This technology removes surgically induced image artefacts providing basis for enhanced clinical decision support.
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 30%.

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.

Stratel AS is a family owned Norwegian investment and development company, founded in 1976 by Reidar Lorentzen. Stratel invests in entrepreneurs and companies with high ambitions, positive impact and a promising value potential. We invest in both startups, ventures and mature businesses. Their investment philosophy is for Fun, Sense and Profit.

Investment focus

Software, Robotics, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Norway, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Oivi — Smart and automated eye screening, anywhere.
Aivero — The Easiest Path from Camera to Machine Learning. Aivero provides an intuitive platform for real-time video streaming across multiple cameras, enabling effortless data capture from both 2D and 3D sensors
HotelOnline — The Game-Changer Boosted 80% of Our Bookings As newcomers to the hospitality industry, partnering with HotelOnline has been a game-changer for us. They manage all of our bookings, with 80% coming through their efficient Channel Manager. The support from their Revenue Manager has been invaluable, making our journey much smoother. Thank you, HotelOnline, for your

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.

Herfo was founded in 2005 by Folke Hermansen.

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

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 helps utilities optimize the power grid with state-of-the-art sensors and software, enabling real-time capacity management and situational awareness for a more efficient and reliable energy system.

SEB Pension Fund

Investment focus

Printing, Logistics, E-Commerce
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Gelato — Create and sell custom products online. With local production in 32 countries, easy integration, and 24/7 customer support, Gelato is an all-in-one platform.

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.

We manage two investment funds with more than 1 bn NOK under management. We invest in high-growth software and technology companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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!

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

Investment focus

Video Games, Gaming, Apps
Seed, Corporate Round, Post-IPO Equity
Norway, Hong Kong, United States

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

We are building outstanding technology businesses and investments. We back ambitious entrepreneurs in making real and lasting impact with their business ideas. We invest in companies with strong value propositions, significant market potential, and passionate entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Big Data
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Movi — Movi is building a new canvas for creation and ownership of web 3.0 visual content.