The main piece of equipment in the gym is the barbell. It is as simple in its form as it is timeless in its design. But when it comes to using the proper safety equipment that comes with the barbell, that’s when the flaws become visible. Today’s methods of securing weight plates to a barbell is done by using collars or clips, which often lead to a poor user experience, and they are often hard to put on and pull off, can easily break or slip during lifts, they are often hard to find and even disappears. The Olympic barbell has remained virtually the same for the last 93 years, and despite today’s standards, improvements can be made. In a seemingly ever-growing market, people’s expectations of safety, design, quality, and user-friendliness in products are on the rise. Gungnir of Norway is a Norwegian startup company that designs and manufactures high-quality gym equipment. The company’s first product is the Allrounder, a standard Olympic barbell with built-in collars for securing weight plates. The built-in collar system or “SlideLock” makes the lifting experience safer, faster, easier, and more reliable than the standard safety equipment in use today. Also, the SlideLock system can be applied to several other bar types like compact group training bars or loadable dumbbells. This solution has shown enormous potential in the fitness market, which we intend to continue to take advantage of. The SlideLock is the first of many solutions that we seek to create within the fitness equipment industry. We started as a company in 2018 in Oslo, Norway, with an idea for a better solution to a problem well known to many who use weightlifting equipment regularly. Gungnir’s vision is to become the new standard solution for securing weight plates worldwide. A game-changing solution to a century old problem.

The Problem Most workplaces struggle with high sick leave — and the root causes are rarely acute injuries or illness. They are lifestyle-driven issues: • fatigue and low energy • stress and mental strain • poor sleep • musculoskeletal pain • unhealthy habits • lack of support These problems build up over time, and employees try to handle them alone. But people don’t change their health on their own — and employers don’t have the tools or competency to help them. The result? High sick leave costs, reduced productivity, and employees who are stuck in patterns they can’t break. Why it matters Sick leave is one of the biggest hidden costs in business. A single employee on sick leave costs on average 65 200 kr per year — and 20% of employees account for 80% of the total. Most of these cases are preventable with the right support. At the same time, people want help: 85% prefer guidance from a qualified professional rather than trying to solve health challenges alone. ABEL’s Role ABEL solves this gap. We connect employees with qualified health coaches who follow them closely over time — mentally, physically, and socially. Through structured guidance and our digital platform, we help people make sustainable lifestyle changes that reduce sick leave and increase wellbeing. The impact: Employees get better health. Companies save money. Society reduces the burden of preventable illness.

Legala is a legal practice management software designed to streamline various aspects of law firm operations. It offers features such as matter management, time recording, document management, email management, automated forms, client accounting, billing, reporting, and support for remote working. These functionalities aim to enhance productivity and service quality within legal practices.

Overview We are committed to developing and distributing user-friendly and intelligent software assisting ship owners, cargo owners, and operators optimize and manage their portfolio of commercial decisions. Norway is a small country but has a good functioning maritime cluster consisting of companies providing different services to the global marine industry. This makes Norway an excellent place for maritime R&D projects. Our Purpose We started Maritime Optima because we wanted to assist people working in the maritime industry in unlocking their digital potential. We believe useful and user-friendly software should be made available to everyone working in the marine sector. We want to show that people working in teams, collaborating, exchanging data and knowledge, create higher profits because they attract talent and make better decisions, and working in a team is also more fun. Our Ambition We are building affordable, intuitive, and useful software where you can decide with whom you want to share your data. Maritime Optima aims to help you or your team to be more productive, reduce stress, improve the quality of your decisions, and have more fun. We also believe Maritime Optima can assist you in unlocking your digital potential.

In early 2021, we began exploring eye-tracking technology. We discovered its enormous potential when combined with in-game statistics and data analytics. The esports industry is becoming increasingly data-driven and professionalized. Teams are more focused on sustainable and healthy gaming routines. We can help them improve their skills and take care of eye health, sleep, and more.

‘Pick Your Pour’ is a unique digital menu - opening the world of taste in food and drink for everyone. Knowing how confusing a menu with lists of unknown ingredients and names can be, we aim to make it easier for guests to find something they like. ‘Pick Your Pour’ will customise a personal menu for every guest depending on what they’re looking for through a series of itemised questions. Saving both time and energy in this process will improve the customer experience in your restaurant or bar. We aspire to be a valued tool for both the service industry professionals and their guests. The founding idea was the wish to provide a possibility for curious customers to find new cocktails on their own, knowing they would enjoy the originality of their choice. Combining efficiency and customer interaction. We are currently developing a software program with the digital cocktail menu for restaurants and bars that want to increase their beverage sales and develop their in-house knowledge.

Famme is one of the Nordic's fastest growing clothing brands, we have an extreme focus on technology and automation. We have an automated robot warehouse in Oslo together with our office. We use Python for web apps, scripts and more, for almost everything else we use Airtable as our go to no-code system.

Timma is an ambitious Finnish start-up that offers a smart solution to an everyday challenge. With our service people can easily find hair, beauty and massage services in their area fast and at a fair price. Timma also offers entrepreneurs a digital booking and cashier system, that enables them to fill their empty time slots with new customers. Our vision is to lead the way as the most innovative company within the salon industry. We are growing steadily and looking for new talents to join us!

At Sensio, we’re on a mission to accelerate the digital transformation of care. With roots in the Nordic start-up scene, we’ve grown into a fast-scaling caretech company backed by Nordic Capital, with more than 230 colleagues across Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the UK – and now expanding into Germany. Our technology is already installed in thousands of care homes and hospitals, helping staff prevent falls, save lives, and free up time for what really matters: people. We build everything from advanced safety sensors and cloud platforms to apps and data tools – all developed in-house by our 80+ product and tech specialists. What makes Sensio unique? - Impact with scale – our solutions improve everyday life for tens of thousands of residents and caregivers, and we’re just getting started. - A true growth journey – from Nordic frontrunner to European scale-up, we’re building the leading caretech platform of tomorrow. - Innovation at heart – our R&D teams shape the future of care technology with cutting-edge hardware, AI, and software. - People-first culture – we believe the best products come from teams that feel at home, have freedom to experiment, and share knowledge across borders. If you want to be part of a meaningful growth story – where tech meets one of society’s biggest challenges – join us. Let’s create more time for care.

Do you want to create simplified and interactive learning experiences? Join us, on our mission here at W3schools. We believe that learning web development should be easy and available for everyone - everywhere! W3schools is an educational website that teaches coding for free and is a global leading web development platform. We have 65 million monthly visits and 2.75 billion yearly page views. Visit us: www.w3schools.com

At Aiba.ai, we provide an advanced AI-powered platform designed to elevate player safety by moderating in-game chat in real time. As the gaming industry expands globally, the need for a scalable solution to combat harmful behaviors is critical. Our platform safeguards communities against online threats such as bullying, grooming, racism, radicalization, and other harmful content. Our AI technology, developed in collaboration with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), combines machine learning algorithms and behavioral biometrics to ensure fast detection of harmful behavior. We analyze player interactions in real time, identifying threats as they occur, even when players use slang, dialects, or emojis. Aiba.ai efficiently manages large volumes of player reports, helping developers prioritize critical issues while reducing the burden on moderation teams. This saves time and resources, ensuring swift resolution of urgent matters and improving player experience. Our platform ensures compliance with key regulatory frameworks, including COPPA and the DSA, protecting players while keeping your game in line with evolving regulations. Our solution also leverages behavioral biometrics to track patterns of behavior, identifying repeat offenders and reducing harmful interactions over time. Aiba.ai is scalable, supporting both indie games and large multiplayer platforms. Our APIs are customizable and easy to integrate into existing systems, allowing you to tailor moderation based on your needs. Additionally, our platform supports multiple languages, making it ideal for global games with diverse player bases. We provide real-time moderation across languages, ensuring all players are protected, regardless of location or language. By offering advanced moderation and behavior detection, Aiba.ai helps developers create safer, more enjoyable player experiences. We reduce the burden on moderation teams, ensure regulatory compliance, and improve the health of gaming communities. Our commitment is to provide a robust, scalable solution that protects your players and helps foster a positive gaming environment.

We are developing a platform to help owners of renewable power plants and their service providers gaining access to the right information at the right time, enabling the right decisions. In order to achieve this we deconstruct the hundreds of documents describing each plant into snippets of information in accordance with our domain-driven data model. In the next 7 years, the world needs to invest almost twice what has been invested into renewable energy generation in the last 20 years. At the same time subsidies are being rolled back, increasing the need to for ensuring that projected ROI is not compromised by underperformance of the investments (i.e. plants). We have lived the pain, and know that NOW is the time to transform the way commercial management of renewable energy plants is being done.

AirDodge is a Norwegian company with an HQ in Oslo, Norway. We are building an automated air traffic management system(termed as U-Space software) to enable scalable drone operations. Our target end customers will be drone operators. U-Space solves the problem for all drone operators by making it much easier to obtain permissions. It enables large scale Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations whereof today this is too costly for most companies. It also makes it safer for manned aviation such as emergency helicopters that will have full visibility of ongoing drone flights in the area they are approaching. Other drone operators such as police, search and rescue will be able to quickly deploy drones opposed to wait for helicopters to arrive. They may also mandate quick clearing of drones from any given area in case such operations must take place. Our solution is to build our own software platform and provide flight services according to the EASA framework recently published. These services will be legally required and the 4 primary services are defined by: 1) Drone Identification: This service will be focused on providing information on all the live drone traffic in U-Space to all participants (operators in the air). 2) Live Air Traffic Identification: This service will be focused on providing information on all the live manned air traffic in U-Space. All manned air traffic has to make themselves electronically visible if flying in U-Space. If a manned aircraft flies too close to a drone, then the drone pilot/operator will receive a warning message. 3) Geo-Zones: These are the core geographical definitions of airspaces on map where drone operators can see where they can or cannot fly. Examples of restricted airspaces include airports, military bases, prisons, bird sanctuaries, obstacles etc. Having an extensive dataset which displays all the possible flight restriction/warning zones is significantly important to drone operators as it ensures compliance and more efficient flight planning. 4) Flight Authorization: This gives drone operators the ability to ensure their flight path does not intersect/conflict with any other operators conducting drone flights in the same airspace. The flight authorization will require drone pilots to submit their flight path in 4 dimensions which include 3D trajectory and time. Flight authorization will also allow drone pilots to communicate with Air Traffic control to request a drone flight in restricted airspace. The response times for both types of requests will be instant. AirDodge was originally founded by Umar in 2022 in Sweden. A year later he moved the company to Norway where he met Serhii in 2024 and then they built the company together. Umar, as the founder of Skyqraft—a company specializing in drone-based powerline inspection—gained firsthand experience with the challenges of commercial drone flying while leading its operations. His deep industry knowledge, combined with Serhii’s technological expertise, laid the foundation for AirDodge. Together, they are building innovative solutions to streamline drone operations, making them safer, more efficient, and seamlessly integrated into regulatory frameworks. We are backed by Antler, Nordic Makers and also received grant funding from Innovation Norway.

50% of the population will encounter mental illness, but 65% leave treatment without results. We're here to change that. Mindcare develops Konfidens – the worlds first holistic mental healthcare platform designed to improve the effectiveness of psychological treatment. Our SaaS platform for psychologists combines the basic tools needed to administer a private practice, with novel research-based treatment instruments. Right now we are working on a module for psychometric symptom analysis based on clinical research, an algorithm matching patient and therapist based on empirical treatment data and a suite of tools to aid the therapists professional development. We are an ambitious team of psychology specialists, business developers and an advisory board with industry specialists. You can take a look at our team here: https://www.konfidens.no/team. Mindcare is backed by Innovation Norway, Aleap and several private investors. We are now hiring our first team members. We're looking for two talented developers to join our company as co-founders and help build the organization and product. Is this you or someone you know? Get in touch!

Arundo is a software company based in Oslo, Norway; Houston, TX; and Palo Alto, CA, with presence in 6 locations in Europe and the Americas. Our software enables advanced analytics, machine learning, and IoT applications for more efficient, safer, and more effective physical systems in heavy industries such as energy, chemicals, and shipping. Founded in 2015, Arundo currently consists of around 50 software engineers, data scientists, designers, and industrial domain experts. Our team members are passionate about being part of a company that can solve tough problems and create innovative solutions. We believe in a fun environment, where our people can be fearless and feel empowered to always do the right thing. Arundites come from many different backgrounds including academia, industry, and even a submarine! We look for smart, creative thinkers with a player-coach mindset who can wear multiple hats and contribute to the company`s exciting future! And finally; we are 18 different nationalities and speak 19 different languages.