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.

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.

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.

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.

Nexro is an early phase startup with the mission of empowering the music industry. We are developing our predictive AI analytics to give the music professionals true insights from music trends. We gather data from streaming platforms, social media, radio stations and music consumption to deliver real-time trends predictions so that labels, publishers, marketing, promotion and other music industry professionals can take their operations to the next level.

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?

Whether it's for work or relaxation - we sit a lot during the day!The background for Rodeo chair was a desire to reverse the negative trend in children's physical development. The chair will would provide a better basis for strengthening muscles. Studies conducted by Norwegian Directorate of Health, shows that a teenage boy sits quietly for 69 hours a week, or 70% of the day.  The Rodeo chair is designed by professionals. The aim is to prevent strain and pain, and to improve global spinal health!

Introduction to SurplusMap SurplusMap is on a mission to revolutionize the way we develop and optimize EV charging infrastructure. By leveraging advanced geospatial tools and machine learning models, we empower energy companies, local utilities, and charge point operators to make informed decisions about site selection and utilization prediction. This ensures the efficient and effective deployment of charging stations, addressing a critical need in the rapidly growing electric vehicle market. Our secret advantage is our ability to draw on Norway's leadership in EV infrastructure, combined with our collaborations with top-tier partners like Google and Bentley Systems, to deliver cutting-edge solutions. The challenge we face is significant: the current pace of infrastructure development is insufficient to meet the future demands of the booming EV market. The market is highly fragmented, causing inconvenience for EV users and difficulties for energy companies and local utilities trying to optimize their investments. For instance, the EU mandates the installation of 6,000 new charging points per week by 2030, a target that is far from being met with the current rate of deployment. This gap presents a substantial opportunity for innovative solutions like SurplusMap to make a real difference. At SurplusMap, we focus on ensuring our customers invest wisely. Our sophisticated, map-based software integrates geospatial data and machine learning algorithms to pinpoint optimal sites for new charging stations. This means our clients can invest in the right locations, install the ideal number of chargers, and maintain high utilization rates over time. By doing so, we help them maximize their investments and build a robust EV infrastructure network that meets the demands of the future. We are driven by a vision of cleaner, more sustainable cities. Electric vehicles are crucial in reducing air pollution and creating healthier urban environments. However, the key to this transition lies in the efficient deployment of charging infrastructure that provides greater flexibility to the energy grid, allowing for more renewable energy sources to be integrated. At SurplusMap, we are passionate about facilitating this energy transition. By optimizing EV charging infrastructure, we help accelerate the shift to cleaner energy, positively impacting both the environment and the communities we live in. Join us in our mission to create a greener, more sustainable future through innovative technology and strategic planning. Together, we can drive the change needed to make our cities cleaner and our energy systems more resilient.

Jottacloud is a Norwegian cloud storage service for both private use and businesses. The service lets you securely copy, synchronize, save and share files from all of your devices. These files will be safely stored on environmentally friendly servers in Norway or in countries with equivalent or even more rigorous privacy laws. Firms based in the US might be forced to hand over their stored information to the authorities. No one will get access to the data stored with us. Jotta is the name of the company behind the service. Founded in 2008, today we are located in central Oslo and consist of twelve employees. The name “Jotta” is based on the “Yottabyte” which is one trillion Terabytes. The “cloud” is the term used to denote storing and sharing files on the internet.

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.

Maintenance in the property management world is still pretty analogue. Soundsensing aims to change that. At Soundsensing, we are building a platform for providing intelligence and insights to customers in the property management market, through sensors and machine learning. We gather data from any source: our own sensors developed in-house, existing sensors, and other data streams, before we turn the data into actionable insights through condition monitoring and predictive maintenance. We are developing technologies using machine learning, IoT and cloud computing. These are not buzzwords to us, and we need people capable of- and interested in building good solutions for these technologies. We are dedicated to solving hard problems - and we are growing rapidly.

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.

Empire AI is a company founded by workspace consultants with over a decade of experience in developing office buildings. Through our work, we noticed that the office planning process is characterized by gut-feelings, guesswork and outdated benchmarks. This results in suboptimal office space that has massive amounts of unused space - an average of 80-90% of chairs and 50-60% of rooms remain empty during work hours in a typical office building today. Simultaneously, employees are complaining they do not have the necessary rooms and support their work. To address this issue, we created Empire AI. Empire's software is designed to transform the way you plan and manage your office space, making office buildings more space efficient, sustainable, and people-centric. Our machine learning models can predict how your office space will be used, allowing you to make informed decisions before you even begin building. With our software, you'll be able to identify which rooms and areas will be most useful and which will be less so, ensuring optimal utilization of your space. It can be used for building specifications, scenario planning, monitoring and improving existing office space and to predict utilization before building the space. Our recommendations are based on years of research and data, so our customers can be confident that they're making the right choices.

Easee was created by three entrepreneurs in January 2018, with a vision of shaping the future of electricity. Easee develops and manufactures in Norway and we are passionate about developing products that our customers fall in love with. We have started by developing the world’s smartest charging robot for electric cars. A solution and an ecosystem that will give our customers a seamless experience. Shaping the power grid of the future is not something we can do alone, and collaboration is key. We therefore understand the importance of building relationships and establishing partners to join us on our journey.