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.

Testflow is a Norwegian SaaS platform that makes it fast and easy for companies to test products and services with real users through access to over 120,000 test participants. Our customers include some of Norway's largest companies such as Skatteetaten, DNB, Vipps, VY, and Norsk Helsenett. We have facilitated over 12,000 user tests through our platform, making it faster and easier for companies to gather valuable user insights.

Norwegian Government Security and Service Organisation (G.S.S.O) is a Norwegian Government Agency located in the centre of Oslo. It has approximately 750 employees and an annual budget of 624 million Norwegian kroner. G.S.S.O reports to the Ministry of Government Administration and Reform. The main purpose of G.S.S.O is to provide synergy for the ministries with cost-effective and reliable shared services. These include cleaning, security, switchboard and postal services, as well as running computer systems and handling government publications. One department of G.S.S.O works solely with government procurements, and G.S.S.O also has a department that offers accounting services. Some of the tasks of the agency are carried out by private contractors. G.S.S.O is responsible for optimizing and developing its own and others'​ services. As such, the Ministry of Government Administration and Reform utilizes G.S.S.O as a means of improving the way the national government works. Norwegian Government Security and Service Organisation was established in 1979. In the early years, its main objective was to provide centralized services for the ministries. Throughout the 1990s, G.S.S.O has been used extensively as a tool for the Ministry of Government Administration and Reform to reach its goals.

Orca is a quickly growing marine-tech scaleup. Based in Oslo, Berlin, and Madrid. Orca delivers navigation for the modern boater. Tesla changed the way we view in-car navigation and infotainment. Orca is doing the same for boats – from software to hardware and marine mapping. Learn more at getorca.com/careers/

Vainu is building a Sales Intelligence platform that helps salespeople and marketers move forward. Powered by technology to collect, read and understand all company information ever written, Vainu makes these real-time company insights easily consumable directly in its customers' existing business systems. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, the company launched in 2013 and is now at €15 million in annual revenue with a team of 150, spread across Europe. Over 2,000 sales and marketing teams globally use Vainu’s data to personalize customer interactions at scale—ultimately leading to more sales.

Vår beiteteknologi skal bidra til at mer av verdens arealressurser kan utnyttes til bærekraftig matproduksjon.En stor andel beitedyr lever mesteparten av livet innendørs og spiser mye kraftfor. Målsettingen til Nofence er å få beitedyra ut på beite, på en trygg og god måte, slik at de kan ha det godt og selv finne den maten de er skapt for å spise.Vi vil at beitedyr skal få muligheten til å ta i bruk sitt naturlige miljø. Det er god dyrevelferd og det vil frigjøre store arealer som kan brukes til å dyrke menneskemat i stedet for soya i kraftforproduksjon.Vår teknologi gir dyra denne muligheten.

We develop a software product for energy companies and wind developers to guide the end-of-life phase of wind farms. Our mission is to accelerate wind energy renewal and ensure no components end up in landfill. ReWind began as an internal project in DNV, but has since spun out into an independent, fast-growing company since launching our product.

Youth on Demand is an on-demand task platform that connects busy families and elderly who want help with everyday tasks, with youth (13-25) in need of work experience. We are working with two of the biggest megatrends globally: 1. Unemployment amongst youth 2. The elderly wave & growing demand for help with everyday tasks Our mission is to become the largest employer of youth in Norway, and to make a big social impact on the issues raised as a result of the aging wave. We started by building an app for the B2C plattform, and will also soon launch B2B products for businesses in need of: - Short-term tasks (similar to our B2C on-demand plattform) - Recruiting talented youth longer-term - Gift cards for employees on the B2C plattform All of these services are automated with our AI-powered technology.

Today, legal services are provided on the premises of the legal industry. We believe in making legal services available to everyone. We do this by automating legal processes by connecting law with design and technology. So that more people are able to be their own lawyers. We are testing our solutions in the Norwegian market at the moment, but all services are built to scale internationally. Stay tuned to receive more info when the legal products built to provide access to justice is ready to launch.

New drugs for treating diseases of Down syndrome. More than 1% of the global GDP is spent on nursing demented people, and the number requiring nursing will triple within 2050. The disease is progressive, leading to death. There is no current cure available, only symptomatic treatments. Individuals born with Down syndrome have a more than 10x risk of developing dementia as well as a host of other diseases including diabetes. Our drug target, DYRK1A is an enzyme found on chromosome 21, and is considered a key factor determining developmental and medical challenges faced by individuals with Down. The enzyme interacts with multiple biological mechanisms involved in Alzheimer’s and autoimmune diseases. Advanced drug designUsing advanced drug design technologies, we have designed a potent DYRK1A inhibitor drug, PST-900. A use and substance of matter patent have been applied for. The company is currently working on chemical Lead Optimisation with 8 full-time medicinal chemists contracted.Financing and milestonesThe Company raised NOK 5 million in 2015 and 8.8 MNOK in 2016/2017, matching non-dilutive research (BIA) and business grants (Innovation Norway). We demonstrated Proof of Principle in a model system for Alzheimer’s disease in 2Q2016. We have also demonstrated that our drug is capable of reversing diabetes in an animal model. Together with clinical and regulatory advisors, we have identified an important unmet need for a drug to treat newly diagnosed diabetes. We will use this indication to quickly progress to market and from there develop analogous drug molecules in Alzheimer’s disease, focused especially in Down syndrome. Funding soughtThe current funding round will raise 15+ MNOK to fund the progression to the final Development Candidate during 2018. Following this, further funding will be sought to perform toxicology/safety and Phase 1 clinical studies. A highly experienced teamThe team behind Pharmasum Therapeutics have broad, international pharmaceutical and biotechnology experience, and is supported by an excellent group of advisors. Anders Fugelli, Ph.D., CEO. John Sigurd Svendsen, Ph.D., CSO. Pauline Stewart-Long, Ph.D. Project Management. Henning Mork, CFO. Board of Directors: Andrew Parsons, PhD. Øystein Soug, MSc. Mark Treherne, PhD, John Sigurd Svendsen, PhD.

AnsuR solves globally applicable challenges related to photo and video communication in mobile radio and satellite networks. Visual data constitutes over 70% of all Internet traffic, and as sensor resolution increases, the need for communication bandwidth increases correspondingly. The AnsuR software system RAIDO can reduce the bandwidth requirements by 99% via unique solutions to the fundamental challenges. Advanced Computer vision solutions with deep learning at being developed. RAIDO is also a Big Data communication solution, suitable for large sensor populations and the Internet of Things (IoT). RAIDO is certified for use in mobile satellite systems, where the challenges are particularly challenging, but everyone has also experienced bad mobile cell phone coverage. AnsuR makes critical information available to remote users. In drones and autonomous aerial vehicles and surface vessels, the ability to communicate camera content independently of the terrestrial infrastructure is key. RAIDO can also solve problems with large emails and documents due to images and graphics and provide Super-light Interactive Documents, showing the ability to transform how we communicate visual data. AnsuR has based its first years since the start of operations in 2006 on research and innovation, has currently sold the key products to representative customers for list price, and is ready to ramp up activities, marketing, and sales efforts. Both technology and market are proven. AnsuR has about 15 employees in hi-tech software engineering, located in Oslo and Barcelona. The company is currently self-funded and has not yet taken any investments. The shareholders are basically the founders and the employees.

We’re building Teston, a tool that will take all the hassle out of user testing. Our dream is a world with only user-friendly products, where technology truly serves people of all ages and backgrounds. Where technology supports us in our daily life instead of causing frustration and confusion. In addition to having a strong user- and customer-focus, we also care about creating a great work culture and environment for our team. We’re currently a small (but growing!) start-up, meaning that every single person helps shape the way we work, how we interact with each other, and the way we build products.

Agens has an award-winning team in the field of concept work, design and mobile development. We work hard to make sure your brand comes alive in the right digital channels – wrapped in a refreshing, world-class user experience.    At Agens, we have conceptualized, designed and developed some of the biggest mobile software projects in Scandinavia ever since Steve Jobs pulled the iPhone out of his turtleneck.

GitHub made it easy for the world to build software together. SomebodyMakeIt does the same for physical products. SomebodyMakeIt is infrastructure for distributed production and licensing. We are rebuilding how physical products get made, and sold. Right now, getting something made means email threads, spreadsheets, a sourcing agent who knows a guy, and a ten thousand unit bet placed a year before anybody knows whether it sells. Software got world class infrastructure for building together two decades ago. Nothing you can hold ever did. So we're building it. A brand, a studio or an inventor publishes what they want made: what, where, and at what royalty. Our AI structures it into a real project in minutes and returns a ranked shortlist of producers matched on capability, capacity and delivery record rather than on who they happen to know. The licence, the brand rules, the approved files, the partners, the work and the money all live in one system, and everybody on the product line is paid from the same sale. What works travels: the same design and the same rules open the next product line, the next market and the next producer, close to the people who buy it. What it is like here. Two founders out of Norway. Tonje came from film and entertainment and has spent ten years building tech companies. Weronika trained as an architect, works as a full stack engineer and was at Spacemaker before Autodesk bought it. We are AI native by default, we ship in days rather than quarters, and everything we build is set up once and made to repeat.

Moonbase is a fast-growing software delivery platform and Merchant of Record designed exclusively for developers selling plugins and software. We handle payments, licensing, affiliate programs, and VAT compliance, allowing our clients to focus on building great products. With a usage-based model, we're already profitable and growing rapidly.