Top 10 Sports Startup Investors in Norway in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Sports startups based in Norway. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Norway. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Sports Startup Investors in Norway in January 2026

Investor	Sports Norway investments
Draper B1	3
MP Pensjon	2
BAGi	2
Magnus Carlsen	2
The Crowd Angel	2
ESADE BAN	1
Innovation Norway	1
Investinor	1
Butterfly Ventures	1
Norselab	1

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

8Layers — 8Layers offers Cloud Identity Threat Detection and Response with real-time CITDR, UEBA, and automated solutions to reduce costs and SIEM load.
Kuikads — Kuikads enables businesses to create and distribute personalized marketing videos via API using user data across messaging.
Vixiees — Empower your sales team with our B2C sales software and optimize your call centers and contact centers with Vixiees. Automate business processes, centralize contact channels, and maximize your team's efficiency. Integration with your favorite CRMs.

MP Pensjon er pensjonskasse for TINE SA og norske datterselskaper. God og langsiktig forvaltning sikrer din pensjon.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Norway, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Flocean — Flocean delivers sustainable subsea desalination, providing industrial-scale freshwater as global water demand outpaces supply by 2030.
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.
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.

BAGi is the first business angels network created for invest on Startups with direct impact on Girona's region.

Investment focus

Internet, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Spain, Norway, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Aniling — Aniling developing its worldwide patent of the second generation genomic analysis and epigenomic.
Petoons Studio — Petoons Studio is a developer of transmedia projects startup.
The Smart Lollipop — The Smart Lollipop is a non-intrusive medical device in the shape of a lollipop with the goal to detect diseases with a single saliva sample.

Magnus Carlsen is the Co-founder of Freestyle Chess.

Investment focus

Sports, Software, Computer Vision
Seed, Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

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.

The Crowd Angel is a premium equity crowdfunding platform that enables its users to invest from 3.000€ in a selection of the best Spanish startups. A hybrid between crowdfunding and venture capital, it takes an active part on the board of the companies invested. The platform opens the business angel model to people wanting to enter the startupecosystem.We have co-invested together with some of top Spanish VCs (Inveready, Keyword VC, Antai Venture Builder, Media Digital Ventures, Bankinter, etc). We are backed by Inveready and Keyword VC.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Equity Crowdfunding
Spain, Norway

Portfolio highlights

VOLAVA — Volava is a fitness platform that brings the energy and benefits of studio-style workouts to the convenience and comfort of home. It is a connected, technology-enabled fitness boutique. It also makes fitness entertaining, approachable, effective, and convenient, while fostering social connections and building a community around wellness. Volavawas founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.
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Kymatio — Support your people. Protect the company. New approach to Employee Cybersecurity Management: Kymatio identifies, analyzes, assesses, and provides the means to treat the cyber risk of human origin. Visibility: allows companies to know the cyber risk they are facing, how it's distributed, and having metrics about the evolution along time.Efficiency: provides personalized and targeted plans, that can help to use technological tools where and how they are really needed. IT Risk Management + Neuroscience People: they are not agents that produce incidents, but valuable assets that manage information. They have vulnerabilities and are exposed to threats.Risks can be identified, measured and mitigated.

ESADE BAN is a Barcelona-based business angel network that works to advance entrepreneurship and investments in Spain.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Spain, Chile, Norway

Portfolio highlights

YPLASMA — YPlasma, an INTA spin-off, develops plasma actuators for ionic flow control, enabling advancements in Energy and Electronics.
RobinGood — Robingood is the first food brand from social companies. Robingood distributes high quality, natural, nearby foods, in whose elaboration process, groups with a risk of social exclusion always participate. With the brand, Robingood intends to sensitize society about responsible and social consumption, making social foods closer and more recognizableto the consumer.
Pack2Earth — Pack2Earth, S.L. is a company that specializes in developing new, sustainable materials for the food sector and other industries.

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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.
Avisomo — Avisomo is an AgriTech startup that develops vertical farming plant factory solutions. Avisomo's solutions use AI and robots to automate plant growth with a cost-cutting formula that makes vertical farming more profitable than ever. Avisomo offers everything required to start a plant factory, including know-how and guidance on how totransition from startup to stable production.
Aurora Analytica — Founded in February 2023 and incorporated in January 2024, Aurora Analytica is a pioneering health technology company dedicated to optimizing the clinical trial lifecycle and accelerating the development of new treatment options. Our AI-powered platform provides strategic insights, site intelligence, and data-driven tools that enable biotech andpharmaceutical companies to design faster, smarter trials. A single platform that brings together essential assessments, the Aurora Suite™ consists of eleven interconnected modules that function collaboratively within a comprehensive analytics environment. Built on over 30 years of industry expertise, Aurora Analytica bridges the gap between innovation and execution—reducing costs, improving accuracy, and ultimately helping bring better therapies to patients, faster.

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

Butterfly Ventures is a seed-stage focused VC in the Nordics, investing in deep tech, hardware, and hardware interfacing software. The company prefers to get involved with companies early on; 80% of Butterfly Ventures portfolio companies don't have any revenue at the time of their entry. Butterfly Ventures was founded in 2012 and ever sincethen it has been one of the most active early stage VCs in the region. The company has offices in Oulu, Helsinki and Stockholm.