Can engineering simulations be fun? And blazing fast? We think so: take ASHES for a spin, and you'll be up to speed in < 5 min*. We love to hear your feedback. We are developing ASHES - AeroServoHydroElasticSimulation. ASHES is a design and analysis software for onshore and offshore wind turbines or aeroelastic analysis for short. We hold the following to be true: 1. User experience (UX) is as important as getting the numbers right. Even for engineers. 2. Cloud computing will make aeroelastic simulation 100X (or so) faster and cheaper at the same time. It also offers virtually unlimited flexibility as any engineer has thousands of machines at her disposal. We are interested in presenting and discussing our software with prospective industrial and academic partners. *Not included the time it takes to read the license agreement.

A global movement to make it fun & easy to break the ice between people to find true love, friendships, and social activities with an optimal mix of high-tech & high-touch organized as a Master Franchise. The top management team at Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA bought the idea in 2006 as a social benefit. Love & Friendship locally & globally - health & peace! Personal matchmaking, online dating, friendships, mingling! Improving relationship health! Looking for: mentor(s), companies to co-create (pilot project), team members, business partners, investors, etc. Storytelling frame (the truth): Svalbard: Here you can still risk meeting polar bears in the streets. Every semester the university (UNIS) has an icebreaker party! Since 2004 I have tested out different ideas and found them possible to succeed. For more information read this paper: ALYTUS COLLEGE, ISSN 2029-9311, October 30, 2013: 50 % of the world population lives in big cities worldwide - how will this affect our social relationships -- and how to improve these? 50 % of the world population lives in big cities worldwide --and this will increase (globalis.no) - how will this affect our social relationships, and how to improve these? Several statistics underline the challenges of the modern world: 50 % or more are single. 50 % are cheating. 50 % or more break up or divorce. 25 % on sick leave as a result of a relationship breakup. Low libido is now a public health problem. 48 % have only one friend, but not a reliable one in a crisis. 50 % of the population wants more friends. We become more sick from our private lives than our work lives (Modesta Olsen, 2007), and the modern family is the most common family structure (Almendingen, 2010). Which social structures can survive the strain of losing the qualities of faithfulness, honesty, and decency? Cynicism becomes our defense. Depression and feelings of emptiness are the prices we pay. Giving hugs, care, and trust to others not only bring greater happiness - it can also lead to better business. Icebreakercard.com is a new world movement to solve these social challenges. It fights for its vision: Love and friendship locally and globally! Our big goal is to improve your life quality. As social entrepreneurs, we are called the fourth sector which cooperates with the other three: private, public, and civic (Ellis, 2006) with an optimal mix of high tech & high touch! In this paper, I will present my research findings in the Western world (mainly Norway and USA) and my part of the solution as a social entrepreneur of Icebreakercard.com. A social entrepreneur has been described as our time's hero and heroines. We create solutions where none of the sectors have succeeded well enough. Bad relationships lead to health problems in the population across age and gender. Mental health conditions are now the key concern in all of the OECD countries. The employer and the community take the economic bill when the employee is on sick leave. The disease is a private matter, but absence is not. Links: http://alytauskolegija.lt/Dokumentai/2013/38_Soreide.pdf http://www.slideshare.net/AnneSreide/ib-fb-2012 https://independent.academia.edu/AnneS%C3%B8reide https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_G._S%C3%B8reide

Resoptima is a young technology company, experiencing rapid growth. We develop innovative software solutions, helping upstream oil and gas companies improve efficiency, understand risk and make better investment decisions. We operate in an international environment and have customers in all major regions. We have successful software solutions, clearly differentiated from alternative solutions. We have a proven track record of innovation, and several promising ideas in the pipeline. We have great offices, centrally located in Oslo.

RightHair is developing a global market and education platform for curly and afro-textured hair to help people and minority women solve the problems of lack of availability of products and services and women's challenges in being financially independent worldwide. Through RightHair we give women all over the world an opportunity to start their own businesses and be financially independent. We do this by creating a software platform to connect freelancers, retailers and hairdressers to their customers. And we top that off with a “skill share” community for education. People with curls and afro textured hair are excluded from offers and services in today's beauty industry. Also, financial abuse is one of the main reasons why women are unable to leave relationships, worldwide. These problems contribute to discrimination in society, that women with minority backgrounds end up outside society and this makes the poor poorer. Women of color are excluded from many of the existing offers worldwide. RightHair solves these problems by creating a market platform where all services and products meet. So that people with curly and afro textured hair always can find something in their area. We also solve women's job and financial challenges around the world by offering a platform on which they can sell their products and services. Here they also get the opportunity to take courses, learn how to start and build a business and collaborate with partners outside their network. RightHair was founded by Lalla Coulibaly and Olimata Jeng who both grew up in Norway with roots from Africa. Due to the lack of offers for themselves and their community, the ladies each started their own platforms. Over the past 5 years, Krølltopp.no and Norwegian Naturals have grown into Norway's largest platforms for curly and afro textured hair with a total of 12,000 monthly users. now the ladies have teamed up to start RightHair as the question they get the most on their platforms is “where can I get my hair cut” and “where can I find products?''. Both ladies want to put time and energy into something that can contribute to women's opportunities and living conditions. This desire comes from their own experience as minority women in Norway with African roots.

Every year 282 million metric tonnes of plastic waste is produced worldwide, yet only 15% of this is recycled. This needs to change. AION’s purpose is to industrially scale a circular plastic economy. We make circularity happen at an industrial scale by working with our customers to identify opportunities to shift from linear to circular and grow their degree of circularity within plastic. Together with our partners we orchestrate a tailored, traceable and circular value chain for specific use cases. Our team of material, regulatory, logistics and business development experts work with companies to make sure the products and processes fit their existing operations, meet quality requirements and importantly have a tangible impact towards reducing their use of virgin plastic, reducing their CO2 footprint, and avoiding a generation of plastic waste.

Charge is a startup incubator for immigrants who are passionate about growing their idea into a successful business. We believe that immigrants have knowledge, skills, perspectives and motivations that can contribute to generating value and job creation, and we aim to be a platform that channels their untapped potential and unique ideas when they come to Norway. By creating success stories, we will bring forward important values that break down prejudice, build respect and share ideas of a better future.

Subscription distribution system enabling individual websites to join forces under same solution and receive their pro-rata share of revenue – sort of “Spotify for websites”. This democratizes earning potential and give alternative to advertising-based business model. Site also aggregate and classify each article based on location, language, and type of content, enabling personal filters.

We produce new unique generation of bread without any use of grains. We have developed a unique technology to process flaxseeds (new superfood) in a way that we can produce a healthy bread out of them without the use of any allergens. This bread is naturally GLUTEN FREE, HIGH IN FIBER, LOWCARB, HIGH IN OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS AND A GOOD SOURCE OF HIGH-QUALITY PROTEIN. Our bread is suitable for everyone with FOOD ALLERGIES: specifically also gluten, milk, soy, nuts and eggs. Furthermore our bread is suitable for people with such medical conditions or predispositions as: Diabetes, Cancer, Cardiovascular and Digestive diseases. Our bread is also very energy-dense and does not affect blood sugar levels - this means that by eating our bread, one will stay satited and energized much longer as opposed to standard bread. This is mainly due to low starch, and high fiber and omega-3 fat, content. This advantage alone can help to increase work-productivity. Food allergy is an increasing disease. It is generally accepted that food allergy affects approximately 2.5% of the global population - this represents roughly 160 Million people! (World Allergy Organization)

Leadsurf er et enkelt og brukervennlig CRM og salgsverktøy for virksomheter som jobber både B2B og B2C. Få bedre oversikt over kunder, prestasjoner, prosesser og tilgang på blant annet listegenerering som gir deg mulighet til å nå ut til absolutt alle registrerte foretak i hele Norge, bare ved et par klikk.

We offer a unique opportunity to rent an electric bike via an app. The bike is designed to be safe, simple and efficient for all users. With our system we can control where the bikes must be parked, so that it does not hinder pedestrians or riders. This is called HUB/geo fence, which is both flexible and tidy. We are the first in the market with this idea for electric bike rentals run by local founders from Oslo. Our goal is to create a web of transport connected to all districts in Oslo. This is something we can achieve, because we already have good relations with the urban environment agency, as well as a couple of districts that are interested in this transport opportunity .

Startup Migrants is a company based in Berlin and Oslo. We help cities to boost job creation. We are passionate about collecting and analyzing data that can help cities to solve their challenges. Our data is collected from 15 countries, 45 cities and over 200 in depth interviews with policy makers, entrepreneurs, NGOs and migrant founders. We also have created Startup Preschool, a 3-day crash course in entrepreneurship with and for young multicultural talents. We have so far done 84 Preschools and planning to many more in Norway, Germany, Austria and the UK and other countries. Our more than 1000 participants are now part of an acive alumni group and go on applying to accelerators and starting companies.

Favuseal is a Norwegian technology company that has developed an ultra-thin passive fire protection technology. The proprietary technology is the foundation for derived products in the form of easy-to-use wrap-on solutions in order to provide unprecedented level of fire protection to safeguard human lives and commercial assets. The Favuseal technology was included into NORSOK in 2019, and is now getting attention on a global scale from Tier 1 asset owners. The core of the business is revolving around the ultra-thin TOTAL DESIGN INTEGRITY concepts "Powered by Favuseal" that has been developed for cables and pipework. An impressive Intellectual Property Rights database is supporting the commercial initiatives, and several Tier 1 partnerships are about to be signed. The IPR will provide ongoing inherent protection to licences and partners tapping into the value proposition of Favuseal. The company aims for the vision of "Introducing extreme ultra-thin passive fire protection Everywhere!". The company is currently in ramp-up state, and will invest into digital initiatives and human resources going forward. The company is currently experiencing a drive into use of the technology within green tech such as wind mills and hydrogen, and will actively continue to pursue such leads going forward. The company has developed 3 different platforms in 3 different segments where each platform can cater for ANY fire scenario attributable to the specific segment. No other company has the tech to do the same. The company will actively pursue value-added stakeholders going forward that can help to contribute to realising the potential of the various segments.

Onboard Norway bistår bedrifter og organisasjoner som flytter utenlandske spesialister til Norge. Vi bistår med alt det praktiske man må tenke på når man flytter til et nytt land; immigrasjonspapirer, registrering hos politi og skattemyndigheter, finner bolig, ordner med bankkonto osv. Vi jobber med spennende bedrifter og organisajsjoner som ansetter veldig interessante folk fra hele verden. Det gjør at vi i det daglige har med masse fantastiske folk å gjøre. Målet er å gjøre prosessen med flytting til Norge så smooth som mulig slik at disse spesialistene kan flytte hit uten bekymringer - fokusert på sin nye jobb og sitt nye liv i Norge fra dag én! Selv om konseptet ble startet opp allerede i 2009 har Onboard Norway gått inn i en ny fase som Startup med satsning innen flere nye service-områder og nye geografiske områder. Vi driver fleksibelt og er i en typisk "Start-up: Scale-up" fase.

Workability is a web-based enterprise application empowering leaders to take responsibility for employees workplace welfare and employee follow-up, and allowing employees to be at work as much as their health allows. Sick-leave and workplace welfare is a problem escalating globally. As mental illness and complex health problems rise, new workplace challenges are created. Employers need new tools and practices to help deal with this adequately. Norway has the highest sick leave in the OECD, costing the state and employers over 50 billion kroner each year. 70% of sick leave is avoidable (NAV) and could be prevented through better employee follow-up and workplace facilitation. By solving structural barriers that exist today we help employers co-ordinate efforts with doctors, NAV and other stakeholders to keep people at work and prevent unnecessary sick-leave. Our tools help leaders follow-up their teams, create an open dialogue and an inclusive approach to workplace welfare and how they organise work, key factors in preventing sickness and workplace absence.

We help: 🚀 Entrepreneurs build the foundation for a profitable scalable business and raise money from investors 🦄 We invest in B2B Post Revenue Nordic companies 💌 We continuously share knowledge via our channels and newsletter to empower the startup community. And we do much more. We are always on the move. We are a team of angel investors and startup advisors here to support entrepreneurs, CEOs and leaders reach new heights.