TIND is a Norwegian scaleup with roots from CERN and NTNU, headquartered in Oslo. The company has developed a Digital Archive software platform, delivered through a SaaS model to universities and research institutions worldwide. Most of TIND's customers are located in the United States and include renowned institutions such as UC Berkeley, Duke University, and the United Nations. Today, TIND has a team of 20 employees and offices in Oslo and the U.S. The company is backed by Equip Capital, experiencing strong growth (around 30% per year) and has ambitious plans to scale further internationally.

Qpaws is a cutting-edge digital platform transforming how dog owners manage and enhance their pets' well-being. Our startup is solving several critical challenges dog owners face, especially in today's fast-paced world where dogs often struggle with insufficient exercise, poor nutrition, and irregular health monitoring. The problem is more urgent than ever, with studies indicating that over 70% of dogs are overweight, leading to a wide range of health issues that affect their quality of life. Qpaws started by focusing on the highly demanding dog sport of mushing, where monitoring dogs' activity and health is crucial. However, we quickly realized that the problems we were solving for mushers—like optimizing training, tracking feeding, and improving overall dog care—are problems all dog owners face. Whether it's the daily walker, the outdoor enthusiast, or the professional trainer, every dog owner wants to provide the best for their furry companions. This realization led us to expand the app's features to appeal to all dog owners, creating a more inclusive platform that anyone can use, regardless of their activity level or how many dogs they care for. We solve a wide range of dog care challenges through smart, intuitive technology. At its core, Qpaws tracks activity, ensuring that dogs get enough exercise to maintain a healthy lifestyle. But it doesn't stop there. We also provide tools for health monitoring—keeping track of vaccinations, vet visits, and other medical needs. On top of that, the app offers personalized nutrition advice, guiding owners on the best diet for their dog based on breed, age, and activity levels. One of the unique aspects of Qpaws is its open approach to hardware integration. Most dog tech platforms are closed ecosystems, requiring expensive, specialized devices that limit their accessibility. Qpaws flips the script by being hardware-agnostic. You can use it with any wearable you choose, or none at all, making it an affordable and scalable solution that meets the needs of dog owners around the world. This accessibility, combined with the app's social networking features, allows dog owners to connect with a global community, sharing tips, experiences, and inspiration, making dog care more enjoyable and rewarding. As the global pet tech industry booms, Qpaws is perfectly positioned to grow rapidly. We already have a solid user base of over 14,000 active members and 32,000 dogs tracked on the platform. But this is just the beginning. Our goal is to transition from a niche product for extreme sports enthusiasts to a widely used app for all dog owners. With 350 million dog owners worldwide, the total addressable market is vast. We're gearing up for international expansion, with a particular focus on the UK and US markets, where pet ownership and interest for pet care are at all-time highs. In summary, Qpaws is not just an app for tracking your dog's walks—it's a comprehensive tool designed to improve every aspect of dog care. From exercise and nutrition to health monitoring and community engagement, Qpaws addresses the key challenges dog owners face today and provides innovative solutions to ensure their dogs live longer, healthier, and happier lives. With our vision, technology, and market potential, Qpaws is poised to lead the digital transformation in the pet care industry globally. Are you a developer and want to be part of our exciting journey, get in touch at sigmund@qpaws.com Your passion for dogs is optional—your passion for building world-class software is what truly matters.

We aim to simplify how employees and key resources can gain ownership and take part of the value created within a company. All companies are different. And the incentive scheme for one company might not suit the next. An incentive program should not be “just a document” signed by an employee and stored in a drawer. A successful incentive program is built around its ability to generate the feeling of ownership and motivation, and its ability to align the interests of the employees with those of the owners. Through our software and expertise we assist management, founders and companies to achieve their optimal incentive scheme. We believe in ownership and its inherent motivational effect, and wish to enable more companies with powerful tools in order to achieve this.

At Appfarm, our mission is to enable anyone to build exceptional digital solutions as fast and hassle-free as possible. We have commercialized a unique cloud-based development platform where you create, launch and manage business software 10x faster than previously possible, without using a single line of code. With drag & drop components and one-click deploy in the cloud, creating powerful digital experiences for web, tablet and mobile devices has never been easier. We are a diverse and multidisciplinary team of around 50 employees with a passion for no-code and changing the nature of digital transformation, but we're growing quickly. Our offices are located at Rebel, a center for tech in Oslo, with a great employee restaurant. Working at Appfarm comes with the following four things: 💟 A healthy and happy work environment where everyone is respected, welcomed and included. We encourage knowledge sharing between departments, and have monthly events where we get the possibility to learn from and praise each others work. 🚀 Career development. We do everything we can to ensure the happiness and professional growth of our employees. We are still a small company that is quickly developing, meaning that there is a lot of room for you to shape your own career by taking on responsibilities in areas that you are interested in. 🎉 A lot of social events where we get to do fun things together! We have four major annual events (summer party, christmas table, cabin trip, and trip abroad), but we also do smaller things in between. ↔️ Flexibility. We believe that our employees know best when and in what surroundings they are most productive, and trust that the work get done without micromanaging your schedule. We are also firm believers in putting family before work when needed, and generally avoid scheduling meetings outside our core business hours.

Bsure is a fast-growing Norwegian SaaS company that helps organisations gain control of their users, access and license costs in the Microsoft ecosystem. Today, many companies lack visibility of the totality of all their users. Who are they, who has access to what, which accounts are still active, and what they are actually paying for, this is creating unnecessary costs and security risks. Bsure solves this by providing a modern platform that brings all this data together, visualises risks and cost drivers, and gives actionable recommendations that make it easy to clean up, optimise and stay secure. The result is better security, lower costs and full visibility. We’re backed by international investors, we’re growing quickly, and we’re building a product with global potential. Joining Bsure means having real influence, real responsibility and the chance to help shape a company on its way to international success.

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.

Monetor is an automated currency department for corporate market. The market segment is hugely under-serviced and Monetor will offer the similar services that a large corporate enjoys to small and medium sized companies.Non-transparent pricing and partially complex solutions of foreign exchange products coupled with marginal resources and competence are challenging factors for the SME market, when doing cross border business. Our offering is to gather and analyse vendor invoices, historical transactional information, FX rate feeds thereby providing the user with real-time Monitoring of currency exposure on an invoice by invoice basis. This information will be used to determine the to the customer cost regarding currency exposure and cross border payments. Monetor will execute spot payments and hedge future credits/debits, within the parameters of the firms’ pre-set policy or strategy for managing foreign exchange risk.  Our aim is to reduce the costs to the business and eliminate currency risk.

Gelato aims to disrupt this model by providing customers with a portal through which they can manage these print jobs centrally, but print and distribute locally. We don’t do any printing ourselves – we’re a facilitator – but at the same time, we’re already saving our customers millions in efficiencies and making a major contribution to their own need to reduce overall carbon footprint. We believe that "collaborative consumption" can be the positive consequence of a "sharing economy". We believe in sharing fixed assets – in our case sharing of print machines. And in allowing excess capacity to be intelligently allocated. Sharing permits owners of fixed assets to monetize the underutilized assets. It offers environmentally friendly local delivery.

Vidd Medical is an on-premise AI platform that automates clinical documentation to give healthcare professionals back time and focus. Our solution transcribes consultations in real time, structures notes (journalføring, epikriser og ukeoppsummeringer) and integrates directly with existing EHR workflows — all processed locally inside the customer’s IT perimeter so no sensitive patient data is shared with cloud or third parties. We solve two urgent problems: the heavy administrative burden that steals clinicians’ time and the privacy/regulatory risks of sending health data off-site. By delivering ambient transcription, smart dictation and text-to-text features inside the hospital or clinic firewall, Vidd reduces after-hours documentation, lowers double-entry and helps institutions meet GDPR and medical device (MDR/CE) requirements. Built in collaboration with healthcare professionals, Vidd is designed to slot seamlessly into established routines and EHR systems, offering a scalable, local alternative to cloud-based AI that preserves control over patient data while improving documentation quality and clinical workflow.

We are a Stealth AI startup that is revolutionizing cloud infrastructure management with our AI-driven solution. Backed by a strong team with deep expertise in both commercial business development and software development, DevSecOps, and AI, we aim to define a new category in the tech space. Our innovative platform automates cloud infrastructure setup, security compliance, and intelligent monitoring, delivering 10x speed at 1/10th the cost.

Riddlebit Software is a game development company located in Trondheim, founded in late 2017. We aim to create fun and engaging game experiences while also developing cutting edge game technology. Riddlebit is currently a team of eight working on our first project called Setback; a multiplayer FPS that provides a new take on the shooter genre.

Fishency Innovation can give access to the entire salmon industry to affordable equipment to count automatically sea lice in the cage. Monitoring sea lice is the key to controlling them, it is access to good decision support for optimized treatments and to a reliable tool to measure the efficiency of preventive measures and existing treatments. Today, sea lice are counted manually over 20 fish, every week, in each cage. It is labor-demanding, and the collected data are not reliable. Sustainability starts with good data.

iDROP a/s is a company providing a disruptive method and proprietary equipment for efficient and accurate installation of sensors on or on the seafloor. The system comprises a self-navigating drone - Oceanid™, that purely based on gravity, and ballast shift, will self-propel itself autonomously from a drop location on the surface to a pre-plot location on the seabed. Complementary to the drop-node an automatic handling system is provided for unmanned deployment in an over-the-side basket, and subsequent recovery of nodes from the surface and safely onboard for storage. The complete system is containerized based on ISO shipment standards, and hence flexible and scalable in terms of storage, transport, and operation. The Oceanid development project is soft-funded by EU, Eureka, and the Norwegian Research Council, with complementary industry support from several European Energy Majors.

Hubro Education turns every student into a CEO in our online business simulation games. Practice is crucial to develop a deep understanding of any discipline, and Hubro’s business simulations offer an effective, engaging and innovative way to do just that in business education. We work with universities and business schools in more than 40 countries around the world. The company has a diverse team and will grow to 12 team members in early 2024. Our HQ is in Oslo at Rebel, Universitetsgata 2. As of June 2023, Hubro is wholly owned by Sage, a leading independent academic publisher with offices in Los Angeles, London, Washington DC, Singapore, New Delhi, and Melbourne. Read about the acquisition here: https://www.shifter.no/nyheter/et-av-verdens-storste-forlag-kjoper-norsk-edtech-startup/279172

Bakken & Bæck is a digital studio that transforms big ideas into great products and ventures. We help big companies act like small startups, and provide the expertise startups need to launch and scale their business. We also create ventures on our own. We create new products and services from the ground up, or improve existing products. As a team we contribute with everything from product design, prototyping and branding to development and advanced machine learning.