Oslo Business Region is the official business development agency of Oslo municipality (Oslo kommune). The organization supports and builds the startup and innovation ecosystem through city marketing, investment and talent attraction. Oslo Business Region knows Oslo and the startup and innovation ecosystem. We provide insight and access to local and international business networks through digital platforms, events and support services. Our ambition is to create and scale more high-growth companies in the region, leading to new jobs and sustainable solutions that solve global challenges. We develop and build international awareness of Oslo as an attractive and sustainable destination for business, investment and talent.

1. Short description RoboConnect is developing an independent, AI-supported platform that helps industrial companies turn tacit and fragmented process knowledge into a clear, decision-relevant automation case — before supplier dialogue begins. 2. The problem Many industrial companies know they need to automate, but struggle to define what should be automated, what is causing the problem and whether the process is ready for investment. The people closest to production often understand the process well, but this knowledge may be spread across operators, engineers and management, poorly documented or mixed with assumptions and missing data. The customer may therefore approach the market with an unclear problem description and incomplete information. System integrators then have to reconstruct the customer’s process understanding and collect missing data before a meaningful solution dialogue can begin. This creates uncertainty, longer clarification phases, weak or difficult-to-compare proposals and projects that stall early. The core problem is not a lack of technology or suppliers. It is that the knowledge needed to make a good early automation decision is often tacit, fragmented and difficult to transfer. 3. The solution RoboConnect starts by understanding the customer’s process, challenges and actual needs. The RoboConnect AI Advisor conducts a guided professional conversation that helps the company describe how production works today, what it wants to improve, which constraints matter and what information is still missing. The AI Advisor brings together information from different parts of the organisation, separates facts from assumptions and uncertainty, identifies knowledge gaps and risks, and turns unclear issues into practical next actions. The result is a shared and structured automation basis that can be developed into a supplier-ready project brief. Relevant projects can then be connected with suitable system integrators, technology suppliers and R&D environments. This gives the customer greater decision confidence and solution providers a better starting point. RoboConnect is not building a generic chatbot. The platform combines a domain-specific workflow, structured project data and knowledge from industrial cases, expert interviews and feedback from customers and automation partners. Over time, this strengthens clarification, project maturation and matching. The first focused area is welding automation and high-mix, low-volume manufacturing. The longer-term ambition is to expand across other automation categories and build a Nordic platform for early-stage automation clarification and matching. 4. Business model and commercial opportunity RoboConnect creates value on both sides of the market. Industrial companies receive a clearer and safer starting point, while automation partners gain access to better-qualified customer opportunities. The current model is based mainly on supplier-side revenue through fees for qualified matches and successful projects. Future revenue streams may include paid AI-assisted readiness reports, supplier subscriptions, premium access and category-specific products. The model is now being validated through pilots and early customer projects. Norway is the validation market, with Sweden as the first intended scale-up market. 5. Why I started RoboConnect The motivation came from repeated conversations with industrial companies, automation experts and system integrators. I saw that many projects became uncertain long before technology was selected. Companies needed a more independent and structured way to understand their own situation before entering a supplier-led process. With a background in research, data analysis and complex problem structuring, combined with further training in programming, databases and AI, I founded RoboConnect to bridge the gap between industrial process knowledge and automation delivery.

Mia Health is on a mission to enable people live healthy lives, by giving unique personalised insights and research-based lifestyle advice, combined with an engaging community for motivation, inspiration and support. Starting with an inspiring physical activity score, we are expanding to more holistic health in the future. At Mia Health we build products where we can change lives and impact public health care costs. Our core is our digital twin – data analysis based on world-leading research. These analysis can help people live longer (8 years) and healthier (quality of life). BUT! If we cannot wrap this knowledge into an attractive application that users understand, trust, and want to use – then we have nothing! UX is a key focus area for Mia Health.

Working Group Two enables product development and differentiation for telecom operators. It does this with public APIs and an app ecosystem on its cloud-native core network. It also collaborates with companies such as AWS, Atos and CCA to offer operators a simplified, end-to-end mobile network solution. If you love product development, green field projects, cloud computing, edge and Open RAN technologies, Working Group Two is for you!

AUTOproff provides software-as-a-service solutions to the professional car market – making it seamless, secure, and more attractive to trade used cars. Our solutions are important enablers of the ongoing mobility transformation of the car industry, where most people in the future will no longer own a car, but instead lease, rent, share or hail cars. Mobility means significant growth in transaction volume as cars will be traded more often during their lifetime – thereby driving strong demand for our solutions. We are growing fast and serve more than 3,500 customers from across the whole value chain including OEMs, dealerships as well as rental-, leasing-, platform- and mobility companies. AUTOproff was founded in 2013, became market leader in Denmark in 2016, and has since expanded across Northern Europe. We employ 100 enthusiastic professionals across our offices in Copenhagen (DK), Vejle (DK), Hamburg (DE), Malmoe (SE), Zwolle (NL) and Poznan (PL). In 2020, we posted revenues of more than DKK 400 million and we have been profitable since our inception. AUTOproff is privately owned by Jesper Ratza, our CEO and founder, André Rogaczewski, CEO and co-founder of Netcompany, as well as other private investors.

Fronted helps companies recruit, employ, and pay global talent — fast, compliant, and without the usual hassle. Hiring internationally should open doors, not slow companies down. Yet most organisations face the same challenges when they expand across borders: roles stay open for months, local salary structures become unsustainable, compliance feels risky and unclear, and teams are assembled through a maze of vendors, tools, and handoffs. Recruiters focus on candidates. Employer-of-Record providers focus on compliance. Payroll vendors handle payments. Consultants offer advice. Each piece exists in isolation — and no one owns the full system. That’s because global hiring isn’t just a legal problem or a payroll problem. It’s a systems problem. Fronted was built to solve that. Fronted is the Global Talent OS — a single system companies use to build, employ, and run global teams. We bring together everything required to scale internationally into one clear, connected platform, backed by one partner. Our approach combines: Precision recruitment: We help companies hire the right people in the right markets, with a focus on long-term performance rather than short-term placement. Nordic-grade compliant workforce management: Employment structures designed to meet local regulations, reduce risk, and stay reliable as companies grow across borders. Payroll and benefits: Accurate, compliant payroll and locally appropriate benefits, handled in one system and aligned with each country’s requirements. Ongoing team stability: Support that goes beyond hiring to help teams stay engaged, productive, and sustainable over time. All of this is built with a Nordic mindset: clarity over complexity, trust over control, and responsible scaling over quick fixes. Fronted enables companies to move beyond borders without losing speed, control, or confidence — turning global hiring from a fragmented process into a system that simply works.

Kindly is one of Europe’s leading chatbot providers specializing in the development of artificial intelligence and automation solutions for customer service and communication. The company offers a platform that combines advanced machine learning techniques and natural language processing (NLP) to enhance the customer experience and improve the efficiency of customer service processes.

Succeeding with your company is not only about building a great product, but also about finding the right investors. This is what we want to help growth companies with - if we can match them with the right people, they can get the help and funding they need to ensure their success. As a company we are young and ambitious - a small team of startup founders, investors and technologists with big plans. We believe there’s a better way for companies and investors to meet and collaborate, and we are building a platform to enable this. We strive for an inclusive and collaborative culture that celebrates curiosity and new ideas. We love that we are a multidisciplinary bunch with different skills and experiences, and we really believe in giving everyone the freedom to contribute with what they’re great at.

FundingPartner is a leading Nordic crowdlending platform. By providing flexible and tailored debt financing solutions, we help small- and medium-sized companies grow by enabling them to hire more employees and realize their projects quicker. At the same time, the investors get their share of the growth through fixed interest payments. Since our inception we have provided over 500 companies with flexible debt financing solutions, by sourcing investments from our more than 22 000 Nordic investors. We issued our first loan in the autumn of 2018 and have today exceeded NOK 3 billion in loans, with an increasing lending volume every year. We are mainly owned by our founders and employees, but are also backed by our external owners Schibsted and DNB, as well as a bunch of Norway's most talented angel investors. At the moment, we are 30 ambitious and solution-oriented employees in the FundingPartner team, and have offices in Oslo and Stockholm. But we are growing quickly and continuously looking for new talent that want to join our young and high-paced organisation. By joining us you will get the opportunity to work alongside skilled colleagues with experience from leading investment banks and consultancies. We have a flat hierarchy and a nice working environment with free lunches at the office and many social actives, such as annual cabin trips and other trips abroad. Want to know more? Visit our website! 🇸🇪 https://fundingpartner.se/ 🇳🇴 https://fundingpartner.no/

Age Labs is a Norwegian molecular diagnostics company that discovers, develops and commercializes biomarkers for the early detection of age-related diseases. We offer a service for evaluating epigenetic drug effects for use in clinical trials. Our biomarker discovery pipeline includes a biological age predictor and a test predicting the severity of COVID-19 infection. To date, we have raised 30 MNOK in private and public funding, and became a Nordic Startup Awards finalist in 2020. We are supported by strong commercial and R&D partners, including Oslo University Hospital, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Merck Group and Fürst Medical Laboratory. Our mission is to develop novel precision biomarkers for the early detection of age related diseases to extend the human healthspan.

The Human Touch Robotics (thtRobotics) is an innovative start-up that enables food tech companies and online groceries to automate and scale via robotics. We provide a full robotic cell (picker) for automating food packing processes serving emerging food tech companies. Our core innovation is adaptive robotic hand i.e. robotic gripper that enables robots to have near human grasping capabilities, adaptively grip and manipulate with wide variety of objects (specially soft objects like fruit and vegetables). With our tech robots can grip even the softest items such as raspberries, please have a look at our demo: https://youtu.be/OQKKLbFxMLI. This enables us to apply robots in the most challenging applications and areas, never thought possible. Our vision is to employ robots and free humanity. We believe that when robots work smarter, people live better. Founded by a group of enthusiast friends who are passionate about solving problems, robotics, tech and entrepreneurship, we wanted to give something different to the world. thtRobotics offers now adaptive robotic cell that can solve various problems in food industry in more easier and affordable way. Explore our website and get a glimpse of a world that can be made possible very soon.

Unruly gets videos seen, shared and loved across the open web for brands that want to move people, not just reach people.By bringing emotional intelligence to digital advertising, we help 91% of Ad Age 100 brands inform and inspire 1.44bn people around the world, using polite outstream formats on sites that people love. UnrulyX, the viewable video SSP, creates better ad experiences for consumers, improved brand outcomes for advertisers and increased revenues for top-flight publishers.Emotion matters in marketing. Emotion creates values and sets preferences. Inspires action. Drives sales. Unruly has a decade's data of consumer responses to video and uses that to hone content, model audiences and deploy ad dollars in ways that heighten emotional response and maximise brand impact.

Intellectual Labs is an AI Venture Studio located in Oslo, dedicated to creating, funding, and building deep tech start-ups with ambitious entrepreneurs. We combine expertise in AI, computer science, and applied sciences to bring ground-breaking ideas to life and into the world. Our unique playbook and friendly methodology ensures a high chance of creating a sustainable growth company with significant impact on Human Life. We believe in - and live by - collaboration and shared risks to unlock transformative potential to change the world. This model is designed to be capital-efficient, repeatable, and deeply collaborative, attracting exceptional scientists, entrepreneurs, and investors who want to build world-changing companies with real impact.

Vi samler Norges skarpeste IT-juniorer på én plass, for å levere syke teknologiske løsninger innen AI, Data Science og systemutvikling til våre kunder. Vi har tro på at kompetanse måles på hva du får til, ikke hvor mange års erfaring du har, så hos oss er de fleste konsulentene fremdeles studenter som jobber deltid. Kunder som Hydro, Helsedir og Digdir hyrer ikke oss fordi det er "modig" eller "spennende" å bruke ungt talent, men fordi det er megalønnsomt.

Cobrief er et AI-drevet anbudsverktøy for deg som vil bruke mindre tid på å besvare offentlige anbud. Med vårt AI-anbudverktøy kan du finne, vurdere og skrive anbud på en måte du kanskje ikke trodde var mulig. Finner anbud Cobrief finner offentlige anbud som passer selskapet ditt og varsler deg via e-post eller Slack. Vurderer på sekunder AI skanner gjennom anbudet og gir deg beslutningsgrunnlaget strukturert på én side. Skriv anbud med AI Cobrief AI hjelper deg å besvare anbudet, med ditt innhold og dine egne ord.