# Trond Riiber Knudsen

> Trond Riiber Knudsen is a seed investor in Oslo backing Software, SaaS and Machine Learning. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Oslo, Norway
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trond-riiber-knudsen-3968135/
- Website: http://www.trkgroup.no/about.html

Trond Riiber Knudsen is a Founder of TRK GROUP.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $320k–$3.5M |
| Angel | $300k–$933k |
| Pre-Seed | $672k–$1.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 53% |
| SaaS | 3 | 16% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 16% |
| Analytics | 2 | 11% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 37% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 32% |
| Angel | 3 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 5% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Norway | 12 | 63% |
| United States | 3 | 16% |
| Kenya | 1 | 5% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 5% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Soolv | AI that turns messy application documents into structured data to instantly score candidates and reveal early patterns of success | $1M | Pre-Seed | Dec 12, 2025 |  |
| 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. | $3M | Seed | Nov 25, 2025 |  |
| Starflow | Starflow goal is to create a scalable energy system that helps people achieve energy independence. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Oct 23, 2024 |  |
| Ei Solutions | Ei Solutions revolutionize the management of sustainability risks for real estate companies. | $1.3M | Seed | Sep 20, 2024 |  |
| Ciloo | Ciloo is an operator of a global on-demand platform intended to provide e-commerce software for branded products and corporate gifts. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 15, 2024 |  |
| OTee | OTee specializes in the development of industrial automation software, offering a comprehensive solution for the setup, testing, and safe operation of operational facilities in real time. The company's platform is designed to provide automation engineers with a secure, scalable, and user-friendly environment. By utilizing OTee's software,businesses can streamline their operations, allowing them to concentrate on their core tasks while enhancing the performance of their facilities. | $1.4M | Seed | Feb 05, 2024 |  |
| OTee | OTee specializes in the development of industrial automation software, offering a comprehensive solution for the setup, testing, and safe operation of operational facilities in real time. The company's platform is designed to provide automation engineers with a secure, scalable, and user-friendly environment. By utilizing OTee's software,businesses can streamline their operations, allowing them to concentrate on their core tasks while enhancing the performance of their facilities. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Feb 05, 2024 |  |
| Uncover | Uncover is a beauty company that provides skincare products for consumers. The company's mission is to inspire, support, educate, and empower women to take control of health and well-being and become the most trusted skin-care brand. Uncover was founded in 2020 and is based in Kenya. | $1M | Seed | Dec 01, 2022 |  |
| laiout | laiout is a multi-player design tool that adapts to the moving parts of the architecture and construction industry and generates efficiencies throughout the process. Speed up your floor plan design - we generate floor plans in miliseconds all while adhering to architectural and regulatory constraints. With support from some of world'sstrongest Proptech VCs and our strong industry partnerships we are helping to optimize this tedious architectural design phase saving up to 20 weeks of time while providing more and better solutions. | $857K | Pre-Seed | Jan 14, 2022 |  |
| Pratexo | Pratexo is an intelligent edge-computing and distributed cloud platform for Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, and Industry 4.0 applications. | $3.5M | Seed | Jun 30, 2021 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Trond Riiber Knudsen invest in?

Trond Riiber Knudsen invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Norway. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Trond Riiber Knudsen's check size?

Trond Riiber Knudsen typically joins rounds of $320k–$3.5M at Seed, $300k–$933k at Angel and $672k–$1.8M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Trond Riiber Knudsen participates in.

### When did Trond Riiber Knudsen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Trond Riiber Knudsen closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 19 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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