Bile duct cancer is an aggressive form of cancer with an extremely poor overall five-year survival rate of just 2-5 %. Classified as an orphan disease, annual incidence in Europe and the United States of 15-22,000 patients, and a significantly higher incidence in Asia, makes it a major player and the deadliest of the gastrointestinal cancers. Only a small number of patients are eligible for a complete surgical resection by local resection or liver transplantation, and more than 50% of these relapse. The vast majority are treated by gemcitabine-based palliative chemotherapy with a life expectancy of 11 months, and five-year survival rate of zero %. Thus, there is an urgent and unmet medical need to develop new and better treatment strategies for these patients. The innovations developed by Seald are a result of adopting a multidisciplinary approach to the diagnosis and treatment of bile duct cancer, based on extensive drug sensitivity assays on living cancer cells, molecular biomarkers, DNA sequencing, extensive bioinformatics analyses and zebrafish models. Sealds’s holistic approach is unique with possible modes of action that can be used on other solid cancers. Our technology includes drug repurposing and innovation on new medical substances, diagnostics and methodology. The stipulated pharma market globally is USD 2.1-4.2 billion, in addition to the markets for diagnostics and platform technology

Spect8 is a norwegian tech startup with a mission to help sports organizations, pro-athletes and sponsors that don’t have enough time, capacity, or the necessary skills to reach their potential in growing fan engagement and commercial value. Due to the power of association among consumers, brands allocate an increasing amount of their advertising budgets towards sports teams and athletes. To measure the value of a sponsorship, sponsors rely on manual measurements and expensive consulting services. At the same time, athletes, clubs, and federations are left with few resources to decide what their commercial value is, and often forfeit revenue (and funding for their sport) by underselling their commercial value. To solve this problem, we have developed a tool called Foqus. Foqus is an easy-to-use machine learning tool created for sports teams and individual athletes to determine their commercial value for sponsorships, and for brands to manage and measure multiple agreements. We are currently working with Norsk Toppfotball, sports associations, clubs and and several brands, and are off to a good start to reach our goal of creating a new industry standard for how sponsorship value is created, measured, and driven. The existing team consists of three business developers with expertise in strategy, marketing, sponsorship, data and analysis. In addition, we have associated development teams with both front-end, back-end and database expertise. We have recently become a part of StartupLab's Accelerator program, are supported by Innovation Norway and have ambitions to scale our business both nationally and internationally in the coming years. We therefore wish to expand our team with a skilled developer who also wants to make a professional career as an entrepreneur. The CTO will have the overall responsibility for the further development and scaling of our core product, Foqus, as well as the development of new tools and concepts going forward.

Entrepedia AS is a "not for profit" company, set up as a subsidiary for the investment company Firda. Best practices, documents, templates, etc. from the portfolio companies will be made available for everyone through the soon to be released Entrepedia platform. Our purpose is to support founders and company builders to set up a good company from the start and further provide advice through the journey, and so increase the chances of new Norwegian successes and industry. Entrepedia's mission is to make the Nordics more innovative, starting with Norway. We are a small team consisting of: Oliver Halvorsrød, CEO  of Entrepedia and former Digital lead for ABB Norway, representing ABB Technology Ventures in NorwayGeir Førre, serial entrepreneur and Managing Partner in Firda – Founder of EntrepediaMagnus Nordseth, investment professional and Partner in Firda - active contributor to Entrepedia.A growing base of key players in the community that want to contributeYou?

Ignite Procurement is one of the fastest growing Norwegian SaaS start-ups, founded in 2016 by ex-consultants from BCG, Sigbjørn Nome and BørgeLangedal. Ignite Procurement has developed a digital solution for strategic procurement and is on a mission to make strategic procurement easy and B2B market efficient and transparent. Our product has already been recognized as the customer leader by SpendMatters, while the company itself as the most promising and hottest start-ups by Norwegian Media in Finansavisen ( https://vext.finansavisen.no/) and Shifter. We are working with complex challenges and our next priority is to build the leading global solution for sustainable strategic procurement and make it easy for our customers to find, select and buy sustainable products/services from sustainable companies. For this, we need sharp innovative minds who are passionate about tech and sustainability Curious to know more on working in the product organization of Ignite? Grab a virtual coffee with one of us! : grabacoffee.io/ignite ☕️ See all our job openings here: igniteprocurement.bamboohr.com/jobs/ See more info about us in a short video: bit.ly/IgnitePvid

Insj is a student organization startup that consults and coach student with entrepreneurial ideas. We have experienced coaches that guide students with an idea through the process of making a business, NGO or organization. In short: - we coach students with ideas. - we create technical and inspirational events to teach and inspire entrepreneurship. - we connect students, investors, and business. - We give practical work experience in a learn by doing environment for our student associates.

Norway Health Tech is a health cluster with huge international ambitions. With over 200 member from different areas of the Norwegian health sector the vision is to be world's hot spot for health innovation. Our mission is to develop and industrialize world class health technology products and services that enables sustainable and high quality treatment and care, and Norwegian Medtech industry growth.

After more than 8 years of research and development, aiming to replicate the human eye lens, poLight is in the final stage of introducing products to the market with a technology taking astonishing images with instant focus. We are developing a tuneable lens technology that will enable next generation auto focus capability camera module for the mobile phone industry. Our first product, the TLens Silver is now ready for market introduction and we are preparing the organisation accordingly for the upcoming challenges.

SportAI is a Norwegian-founded B2B sports technology company dedicated to enhancing sports coaching and analysis using AI. With expertise in computer vision and machine learning, SportAI brings objectivity to sports technique and tactical analysis, offering instant data-driven insights to training facilities, streaming platforms, retailers and equipment brands around the world. The company was founded in late 2023 by Norwegian tech and software industry experts Lauren Pedersen (CEO), Felipe Longé (CTO), Andreas Thome (Board Chairman), Espen Agdestein (Board member), and Trond Kittelsen (Head of Commercial). SportAI employs a team of ten people and has raised $5.7M to date.

Fortifai simplifies compliance by turning complex regulatory requirements into structured, actionable data. Founded in Oslo and backed by leading VCs, Fortifai combines deep domain expertise with modern data infrastructure to transform compliance from a reactive reporting burden into a proactive, continuous process.

Traditional headhunting sucks, so we reinvented it — for startups this time! Elevate your hiring game with a dedicated Scout equipped with access to The Hub’s extensive talent network of 650,000 startup-ready professionals. We’ll have qualified & interested candidates booked on your calendar in no time. Only pay if you hire.

Fresh out of Norway in 2017, Neonomics arose as a direct response to the impending challenges facing the banking industry during its radical transition into the era of PSD2 and open banking. Neonomics – literally meaning “New Economy”, is a direct pointer to what we aim to achieve. As of today, we are a growing team of 100+ people from 25+ different nationalities based across various locations around Europe, with our headquarters based in Oslo. We are committed to facilitating the next generation of payments and financial services across Europe via one unified API. Our technology creates a seamless experience for businesses and end-users, by providing user-friendly, secure, and cost-effective payments. Neonomics AS is a privately held company registered in Norway, licensed as a PI, PISP, and AISP with the Norwegian FSA, and passported throughout the EU. Our tech stack was built and managed by a passionate tribe of doers who are committed to giving the power of financial services back to consumers.

nLink AS is developing mobile robotic systems for the construction industry. Our mobile drill robot is the first mobile drilling robot of its kind! We will revolutionize the way this heavy manual work is done today. Imagine drilling the hundreds of thousands of holes needed in the ceiling of a large shopping mall.nLink focuses on reducing overhead work, by assisting workers with automatic measuring and drilling from a distance. Health and safety is our number one priority.

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.

Impact Mapper is an online software tool for donors and nonprofit organizations to keep all their social change data, surveys and stories in one place. We make data analysis and visualization efficient so you can more clearly communicate your impact and invest your time and money in what counts: seeding social transformation around the world.

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.