# Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Norway in June 2026

## Trond Riiber Knudsen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Trond Riiber Knudsen is a Founder of TRK GROUP.

## Chris Murphy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Chris Murphy is a Venture Partner at MS&AD Ventures. He previously cofounded SaaStock and was an early Web Summit employee.

## Johan Brand
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, EdTech, CleanTech

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).

## Magnus Carlsen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Sports, Soccer, Software

Magnus Carlsen is the Co-founder of Freestyle Chess.

## Jon Oyvind Eriksen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Trondheim, Sor-Trondelag, Norway
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Security, Internet of Things

Jon Oyvind Eriksen - CEO and founder @ Aidiom

## Anne Worsoe
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Financial Services

I work with early-stage technology startups and founders with ambitions to solve global challenges. I'm co-founder and partner at Farmhouse, investing primarily in Norwegian startups, and a venture partner at Antler, a global early-stage VC. Previously, I held the position as Portfolio Manager and Partner at B&B while the company scaledfrom 16 to 60+ people in three countries. I initiated and co-founded the co-working space Nordic Innovation House in Silicon Valley, explored new business opportunities in the renewables industry and I was the first CEO of the Norwegian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association. I have experience as a co-founder, angel investor, member of the Board of Directors for startups and VCs, focusing on early-stage ventures, growth, and internationalization. I'm passionate about helping startups scale their impact, and especially empowering female co-founders and angel investors.

## Petter Stordalen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Focus: Apps, Energy, Customer Service

Petter Stordalen

## Tharald Nustad
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Farming, Communities, Information Technology

Tharald Nustad is the Founder and Owner of Nordic Impact, Founder and Owner of Katapult, and Co-Founder of Katapult Ocean. He is a former Chairman of the Board of Mallin AS. He attended Pacific Lutheran University.

## Elizabeth Yin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Elizabeth Yin is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Hustle Fund. Elizabeth previously worked at 500 Startups as a Partner. Elizabeth Yin attended the Stanford University.

## Kris Riise
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, B2B, SaaS

Kris is a high school dropout and self taught builder who brings ideas to life and newness to the world.He has a relentless focus on empowering people to spend time on what really matters. Kris is highly optimistic, has a strong bias toward action, and rigorously works for the future to be better than the past.Today, Kris is Founder CEO ofUnloc. Their mission is to digitize keys and make life easier for everyone with a front door.Kris never quits once his mind is set on solving a problem.Web: unloc.ai

## John Komkov
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Enterprise Software

John Komkov is the Managing Partner at Fathom Capital, an early-stage VC firm focusing on enterprise applications and IT infrastructure.
John joined Austin Ventures in 2010 and focuses on early-stage investing. Prior to joining Austin Ventures, John was an Analyst in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley, where he advised onmergers, acquisitions, financings, and other strategic advisory assignments for corporate clients across sectors, including semiconductors, software, Internet, communications equipment, and digital media. Prior to Morgan Stanley, John held research positions at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and the Office of the Governor, State of Texas.John received a BA from Stanford University.

## Thomas Falck
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, E-Learning

Thomas Falck

## Christian Rokseth
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Electronics, Machine Learning

Christian Rokseth is dedicated and focused towards developing new and innovative communication solutions for enterprises. Since Christian Rokseth is started my career in 1999 Christian Rokseth have managed a series of advanced projects within the IT and Telecom industry. These projects have brought me significant knowledge about all the requiredsteps and processes involved in order to bring state of the art electronics and software products to the market. In 2014 Christian Rokseth is managed the development and market introduction of the world's first intrinsically safe smartphone. The product was developed from scratch by a team of 8 engineers. Likely the smallest team ever to develop a smartphone.

## Fredrik Thomassen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Marketing

Fredrik Thomassen is the CEO and Founder at SuperSide Oslo.

## Nicolaj Nielsen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Nicolaj nielsen is an investor at IDUN audio. attended INSEAD MBA, General Management.

## Jason Lemkin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Marketing

Jason M. Lemkin runs SaaStr, the world's largest community for B2B/SaaS founders, and is the managing director of SaaStr Fund, a $90m venture capital firm focused on early-stage enterprise investments.Prior to that, Lemkin was the vice president of and the president of Lemkin has studied at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley.

## Ben Lang
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Ben Lang is the Head of Community at Notion. Ben Lang attended Ramaz School.

## Kea Zhang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Software

Kea Zhang

## Andreas Klinger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Hello, my name is Andreas Klinger.I am leading the eng team @ On Deck (beondeck.com). Previously I led things related to eng, product & remote @ producthunt.com, angel.co and coinlist.co. If you want to reach me please use twitter @andreasklinger

## Jeff Morris Jr.
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Productivity Tools

Jeff Morris Jr. is the Founder & Managing Partner at Chapter One.

## Sean Percival
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Sean Percival is the Chief Marketing Officer of Iterate Norway.

## Christian Hager
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, B2B, SaaS

Christian Hager - Co-Founder @ Hjemmelegene

## David Hauser
- Type: Angel
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

David Hauser is co-founder of Grasshopper. A passionate technologist, he is one of the youngest co-founders to have lead a company to the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in U.S. He was also co-founder of Return Path, an e-mail performance management company, and founder of WebAds360, an ad-serving technology provider forsmall and mid-sized businesses. David has been featured on CNN, named one of Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40,” and has been featured in the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal and many other publications.

## Josh Hannah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oakland, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Josh Hannah

## Murshid M. Ali
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, CleanTech

Dr. Murshid M. Ali is the Co-Founder at Skyfri, and a serial entrepreneur. He holds a Phd in Economics from the University of Stavanger, and a masters degree in International Business from Grenoble Ecole de Management.

## Andreas Helbig
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology

Andreas is Investment Manager at Project A, a Berlin-based Venture Capital fund. In addition to financial investments out of the €140M fund, Project A provides operational support for its portfolio companies through more than 100 hands-on experts and is therefore called the “operational VC”. Andreas studied Industrial Engineering in Germany and theUS and has worked at an InsurTech startup prior to joining Project A. At Project A, he’s responsible for dealflow.

## Dekel Valtzer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports, Software, Computer Vision

Dekel Valtzer is the Co-Founder & CEO of Avo. He previously worked at monday.com (formerly dapulse) as a COO & Finance. Dekel Valtzer attended Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

## Geir Olsen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Software, Cyber Security, Financial Services

Technology, FinTech, Financial Services, Venture Capital Investor

## Erlend Prestgard
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Wind Energy, Machine Learning

Erlend Prestgard

## Helge Bharat Johnsen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Generative AI, Sales Automation

Helge Bharat Johnsen

## Jonas Rinde
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Video Games, 3D Technology

Jonas Rinde

## Luis Cuende
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Computer, Ethereum

Luis Cuende is the Co-founder and President of CitizenX. He previously worked at Aragon One as a CEO.

## Jason Choi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Computer, Ethereum, Software

Jason Choi

## Regan Bozman
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services

Regan Bozman is a Director Of Business Operations at CoinList.

## Ryan Sean Adams
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance

Ryan Sean Adams

## Rich Waldron
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Collaboration

Rich Waldron is the CEO and co-founder of Tray.io.

## Hiten Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Hiten Shah is based out of Redwood City, California and is the Co-Founder of Product Habits. Hiten previously worked at KISSmetrics as a Board Member. Hiten Shah attended the University of California Berkeley.

## Jake Brukhman
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Internet

Jake Brukhman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at CoinFund.

## Eytan Elbaz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Software, SaaS

Eytan Elbaz is the Co-Founder of Afterparty. He previously worked at Social Native as a Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer. Eytan Elbaz attended the University of California, Los Angeles.

## Matt Robinson
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Matt Robinson is the CEO and a co-founder at Nested, a property technology company. Prior to this, he founded GoCardless in 2010 and remains on the board of the recurring payment company.

## Birger Bache-Mathiesen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Generative AI, Sales Automation

Birger Bache-Mathiesen

## Martin Henk
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Martin Henk is the Co-founder of Pipedrive.

## Andrew Lundsten
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami Beach, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Finance

Andrew Lundsten is the Chief Operating Officer of Feather. Prior to that, he served Stripe and PwC.

## Lars Helledal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Generative AI, Sales Automation

Lars Helledal

## Matt Cohler
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Internet, Enterprise Software, Software

Matt Cohler is a General Partner at At Benchmark, Matt has partnered with entrepreneurs from across the social, mobile, and cloud industries from around the globe suchas Instagram, Dropbox, Quora, Asana, Domo, Edmodo, Baixing, CouchSurfing, Peixe Urbano, ResearchGate, 1stdibs, and Zendesk.Prior to joining Benchmark he served as the VP of Product Management at Previously Matt was Vice President and General Manager at Matt also has been a consultant in 

## Yasmin Namini
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: CMS, Content, Digital Media

Yasmin Namini

## Nikolai Heum
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Real Time

Nikolai Heum is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Enode.

## Johann Koss
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: CMS, Content, Digital Media

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

## Harald Norvik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Water, Computer

Harald Norvik currently serves as Chairman of Aschehoug ASA and as Vice Chairperson of Petroleum Geo-Services ASA. He is also on the board of Deep Ocean Group and Umoe ASA.He was Chairman and a partner at Econ Management AS from 2002 to 2008 and was a strategic advisor there from 2008 to 2010. He served as Chairman of the Board of Telenor ASAfrom 2007 to 2012, and as Chairman, President & CEO of Statoil from 1988 to 1999.

## Mathias Haddal Hovet
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Food and Beverage

Mathias Haddal Hovet is a co founder at Wanda.

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