# CoFounder

> CoFounder is a VC fund in Trondheim backing Industrial and Manufacturing. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Trondheim, Norway
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cofounder-as/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/CofounderNorway
- Website: https://www.cofounder.no/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CoFounderNorway/

CoFounder is a management and investment company for technology companies with great growth potential. They are experienced entrepreneurs and business developers who provide management resources and early-stage capital. They work with spin-offs from both research and industrial environments, as well as standalone entrepreneurial companies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $956k–$2.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Industrial | 2 | 20% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 20% |
| SaaS | 1 | 10% |
| Drones | 1 | 10% |
| Sensor | 1 | 10% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 50% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 30% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rune Bjerke | Partner and co-founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rune-bjerke-65cd |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Receipts | Receipts is a single set of APIs that connects cashier systems and banks, allowing for digital receipts, card identification, and retail value-added services. | $1.8M | Seed | Feb 03, 2025 |  |
| Aviant | Aviant delivers an end-to-end drone service for the transport of cargo. | $2.3M | Seed | Nov 17, 2022 |  |
| AlumatIQ | AlumatIQ specializes in industrial robotics, automation, and digitalization in the aluminum industry. Their first product is robotic automation of the anode change process, with high accuracy, consistency, and speed. Improves health and safety conditions for operators in pot rooms and reduces emissions of HF and greenhouse gases. | $2.6M |  | Jul 06, 2022 |  |
| Nicoustic | Nicoustic developed accurate, non-intrusive technology for separator-level measurement based on Guided Ultrasonic Waves. Their technique uses guided ultrasonic waves to measure the amounts of solids and liquids using sensors. It is being developed to measure the interface layers between emulsion and foam.Nicoustic's prototype is the outcomeof 20 years of study at the German Fraunhofer IKTS and a response to a challenge put forth by Equinor, the largest energy company in Norway. |  |  | Jun 21, 2022 |  |
| Nicoustic | Nicoustic developed accurate, non-intrusive technology for separator-level measurement based on Guided Ultrasonic Waves. Their technique uses guided ultrasonic waves to measure the amounts of solids and liquids using sensors. It is being developed to measure the interface layers between emulsion and foam.Nicoustic's prototype is the outcomeof 20 years of study at the German Fraunhofer IKTS and a response to a challenge put forth by Equinor, the largest energy company in Norway. |  | Seed | Jun 21, 2022 |  |
| Pascal Technologies | Pascal Technologies develops energy efficiency air-technology, accelerating shift to zero emission boats and ships | $3.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 22, 2022 |  |
| Cimon Medical | Cimon Medical is the owner of a unique proprietary technology for continuous monitoring of blood-flow using non-invasive Doppler ultrasound. The core of the innovation is a coin-sized ultrasound probe constructed as a single element transducer with an unfocused beam that can measure blood circulation continuously by illuminating a 1×4 cm cylindricarea of the tissue and capture all blood flow signals in this volume simultaneously. From clinical research using this equipment, it has become clear that relative measures of blood volume flow within a region can be obtained with much simpler equipment than an absolute measure but be just as valuable. This circumvents the problem that has stumped previous attempts at continuous blood flow monitoring: attempting to establish an absolute measure in a single blood vessel. This means that there is no need for expensive transducers, complex processing systems, or skilled operators. | $5.6M | Series A | Dec 11, 2020 |  |
| Dintero | Dintero is a fintech startup delivering payment, checkout, CRM, and loyalty solutions. The startup's checkout solution offers popular payment methods like Vipps, Swish, invoice, financing, and card payments. It has built its solution for split payment, so that the payments can be split regardless of the payment method. Dintero's aim isfor an online store to be able to choose exactly the payment methods the store itself wants. | $955.9K | Seed | Jan 31, 2020 |  |
| Indusenz | Indusenz develops and delivers wireless real time sensors and data solutions for monitoring and prediction. Certified for explosion, hazardous environments and industrial applications. |  |  | Jun 02, 2019 |  |
| CrayoNano | Founded in 2012, CrayoNano develops and manufactures nanomaterials-based semiconductor components using proprietary technologies. We are committed to enabling solutions for more sustainable and healthier lives for everyone. Headquartered in Trondheim, Norway, CrayoNano’s innovative semiconductor components advance global solutions in health andsafety, water purification, consumer and industrial applications, and more. CrayoNano is registered on Euronext OTC in Norway under the ticker “CNANO”. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2012 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does CoFounder invest in?

CoFounder invests primarily in Industrial, Manufacturing and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Norway. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is CoFounder's check size?

CoFounder typically joins rounds of $956k–$2.3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds CoFounder participates in.

### How do I contact CoFounder?

Public channels for CoFounder include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at CoFounder?

The team at CoFounder includes Rune Bjerke (Partner and co-founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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