Squarehead Technology provides advanced microphone array systems for audio capture and acoustical zoom. A microphone array  combines a large number of individual microphones to create a highly directional audio output.  The challenge of isolating and capturing desired sound in noisy environments is a well-known problem. Our products allow an operator to zoom in on a particular area and record sound in much the same way a camera zooms in a scene. This is achieved by using sophisticated digital signal processing of audio from several hundred microphones combined into a single system. All audio channels are high quality digital signals that can be recorded without any loss.

As a idea factory, incubator and investor, Askeladden & Co identifies opportunities, develop concepts and scale up companies. Our sweet-spot is in traditional industries that - until now - have seen limited consolidation, limited innovation, too high prices and a customer journey that has been standing still since the 90s.   Our investments and startup journeys so far:  Cutters | Adams Matkasse | Freska | Lotel | Lorry Restaurant | Wellbee

At Yobr, we see collaboration between students and companies as a way to bring fresh perspectives and the latest skills to real-world challenges. Companies gain flexible, efficient ways to complete meaningful projects that create real value while discovering new talent. For students, it’s an opportunity to apply their skills, learn, and grow in a professional setting. The problem is that most companies struggle to tap into this potential—they don’t have the time, resources, or know-how to make it work. Yobr is changing that. We’re building a platform that leverages AI to simplify project planning, efficiently match yobs with the right students from our talent base, and support execution with intuitive collaboration tools and tailored AI agents. Since starting in January we have done pilots with known brands like SalMar, SpareBank 1 and Norbit, gaining key insight on how students projects should be run. We've developed our technical solution since August, and are looking to launch a beta of our platform in January 2025. We just closed a Angel round and received Innovation Norway's phase 2 grant, targeting break-even and a seed round in Q2 2025. We are a solid team of builders and creators, 3 being full-time and 3 part-time, based in Oslo and Trondheim. Now we are looking to take this to the next level!

Pistachio is the first and only fully automated and personalized cybersecurity awareness training and attack simulation platform. Our platform sends attacks and training directly to employees’ inboxes, and adjusts to each user’s needs, all without an IT admin having to do a thing. We are also the first and only product in this space to offer an online signup.

How it Works Our Experts Help You Every Step of the Way to a Circular Economy Our experienced circular advisors help you easily transition into the circular economy. Looking at your organization's specific needs and requirements, they will help you set it up. Register What You Have A quick and easy way to map out what you already have and what can be reused. Loopfront's unique surveying tool allows you to take inventory of a lot more materials and products in a lot less time. Organize Your Products and Materials Save time and money by checking what you have before you acquire something new. Reserve the items you want to ensure they don't get allocated to another project or purpose. Loopfront's material overview gives you a full overview of all of your organization's furniture, interior and building material that can be reused. Access Important Product Information Check if the product or building material you need meets the requirements. Loopfront provides a "material passport" for every product. It includes specifications and documentation that makes it easy to know if it's suitable for your needs. Invite Other Contributors in Your Value Chain To make your projects run more efficiently, grant platform access to contractors, architects and other collaborators. Loopfront makes information sharing easier and faster by allowing you to share your information with who you want. Generate Reports to Show Financial and Environmental Savings Get automatically generated reports of your financial savings, reduction inCO2 emissions and waste. These can be used internally, for investors, for ESG reorting, to apply for green loans and more. Loopfront helps you derive statistics and reports showing savings from your operations Instantly Know Exactly How Much CO2 you save For every material and product added to the platform, you can see how much CO2 you've saved. This can help with certification requirements from BREEAM-NOR or the EU taxonomy. Loopfront's experts help you every step of the way towards your organization's circular goals.

GoBoat is an experience company, which offers unique social experiences on the water to both locals and tourists, through sustainable boat rental. It was founded in Copenhagen in February 2014 by Anders, Carl and Kasper – three young entrepreneurs. Today the company operates boat rentals all over the world.

Payr is the next generation payment platform empowering consumers to pay invoices in flexible and smart ways. Our customers can pay any invoice using their bank account, debit or credit card, or digital wallets, saving them time and money. Payr also improves invoice payments by providing truly independent price and quality comparison, enabling simple and fast switching to providers that offer greater value to our customers.Our first product launched Q3 2017 and can be found in App Store We have an experienced team of 11 people, with backgrounds from others startups and from leading Tech, UX, and advertising consultancy companies such as Making Waves and Dinamo, as well as a strong board of directors with backgrounds from Fintech, legal and IT at Nordea, Mastercard, Selmer Law, mCash and Itera.Even if we have an experienced team, we want everyone to be able to learn new things, so you get a lot of responsibility but also a lot of opportunities for improving and learning at Payr. We have international ambition, expanding to the Nordics next year. So you could say we have a pretty aggressive growth strategy as well. This makes most days hectic, but fun.We have 5 exits from other startups in our management team, so many of us have experience with doing this from before. Therefore, we try not to spend energy on stuff we know is going to be a waste of time. You could say we aim to have a professional way of running things, with systems to help everything run smoothly. Although we have high expectations for each other and our product, we also have a quite friendly environment, including a snoring office dog.

Proptly was founded in 2021 by Kristoffer Gjerde, Gunnar Windsand Sem, and Thomas Kristiansen, with a bold vision to transform the often-overlooked, yet critical, part of the climate tech ecosystem: installations. What started as a casual conversation over Christmas drinks about the headaches of managing contractors, quickly turned into a mission to streamline the installation process for climate tech solutions across Europe. We recognized that while there’s no shortage of companies innovating in the climate tech space—producing world-class EV chargers, heat pumps, and solar panels—the bottleneck often lies in getting these technologies deployed quickly and efficiently. That’s where Proptly comes in. We’ve built a B2B marketplace that connects climate tech companies with a network of skilled, vetted installers, making sure that cutting-edge green technologies reach consumers without the typical delays and frustrations. Think of it like Uber for installations: companies get real-time data on installer performance, response times, and customer satisfaction, allowing them to scale their operations with ease. Revolutionizing the Installation Process Our platform tackles a glaring inefficiency in the market—the installation bottleneck—by ensuring that the best installers, backed by proven performance metrics, are always available to deploy climate tech solutions. For climate tech companies, we’re solving a massive headache: ensuring their innovations get installed, not just built. For contractors, we’re providing consistent job opportunities, helping them grow their businesses in a fast-expanding green economy. With $4 million in seed funding, high-profile partnerships including Easee, Sungrow, and Coop, and a stellar team of industry veterans from companies like Kahoot, Oda, McKinsey, EY, Tesla, and Easee, we’re setting the standard for how climate tech installations should be done. Our Vision Proptly aims to become the leading B2B marketplace for order-to-installation processes across Europe and beyond. With climate tech adoption on the rise, we aim to play a crucial role in accelerating the deployment of these technologies, helping the world transition to a greener future more efficiently. We’re not just about getting the job done; we’re about getting it done right—with transparency, speed, and customer satisfaction at the heart of everything we do.

Randi.ai offers an online service where filmmakers and other digital content creators can easily transcribe their video and audio automatically using AI. With a built-in video editor in the browser you can also edit the subtitles in real-time and download each transcript with the captions burnt into the video.

We make fisheries much more efficient at filling their quotas, by using big (open) data, modern web technology and machine learning; resulting in less diesel, time at sea, fish poaching/bicatch and seabed contact. It started with gathering a crew of hackers and engineers for NORA's FishAI competition the summer 2022, which we won, then we set up the company to revolutionise fishery for the better. Today we are working close with our paying customers, to become a must-have tool on any vessel!

Nabostylisten is a platform offering beauty services performed at the comfort of your home, office, friends place, nursing home, ANYWHERE. We give buyers a chance to get beauty services performed wherever they are located. We help beauty stylists create a living out of their dreams and to be their own boss by giving them a platform to showcase their work, get bookings and a dashboard with all necessary tools. The way people use beauty services today is unnecessary complicated. There is a million different choices and they are all on different platforms, lacking a uniformed list of information. Beauty services are performed in salons- as they have been for the last 100 years. In recent years more and more stylists have transferred their businesses to Instagram where they can showcase pictures of their work and get in touch with potential clients, doing their bookingsystem via direct messages. This has resulted in a huge and unstructured beauty service market, confusing for both buyers and sellers. Making it difficult for buyers to get an overview of the offers and for stylists to be visible for customers, as well as a lacking booking system. On top of this buyers still have to travel to the salons and set all of their responsibilities aside to get a service performed in a salon. This problem affects men and women, in all ages and lifestyles all over the world. Especially in Norway with our remote landscape, hectic lifestyles and beauty needs always developing. Nabostylistens solution to the mentioned problems above is a one-stop-hub for buying and selling beauty services. Giving a full and uniformed overview of stylists and their services within your area with prices, pictures, duration, descriptions, bio of stylist, timeslots available and a booking flow. Customers can choose to get the service done at their location to fit beauty needs into their hectic everyday life. Stylists will only need nabostylisten for all of their duties, booking overview, chat, services and profile, income section, working schedule and a platform to showcase their business. Nabostylisten is founded by Tomas Erdis, a well known and sought after makeup artist with over 13 years of experience. Tomas is one of Norways absolute best and most booked stylists. He has worked with brands, celebrities, other profiles and regular customers. He noticed that normal people did not know if they were allowed to book him for his services, or how to do it. He has been delivering services at location all of his career and noticed that for other stylists this was not the regular way to work. He was able to meet his clients needs by travelling to them, and in doing so he became very popular. 
Tomas knows what it’s like to be on your own, trying to get a name for yourself in the business. He wants to help other stylists so that they do not have to go through the same challenges as he did. He also wants buyers to be able to express their beauty needs and for everyone, no matter who you are to get beauty services that suit you!

Noddi is a disruptor within automotive maintenance and enables convenient & cost efficient home-delivered car maintenance though modern UX and logistics technology. Our focus on awesome booking experiences, and logistics automation enable us to deliver car maintenance services such as wheel change and car detailing directly to your home at the same prices you have to pay in a traditional garage.

Norway's first VR experience center with latest technologies and exclusive games. Award-winning concept with TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence. The center is located in Oslo center and offers events for up to 50 people. Our packages include access to lounge zone with PlayStation and party rooms. Immersive and unique experiences for private and corporate clients.

The FotoWare Group FotoWare is a Norwegian software company that enables businesses and organizations with complex workflow needs efficiently store, manage, distribute, and re-use digital files. With more than 25 years of experience, FotoWare is a world-leading provider of Digital Asset Management (DAM) and content management solutions with more than 1,400 customers in 40 countries around the world. FotoWare has employees of more than 23 nationalities and has a strong presence in Europe, the US, and Australia. With international customers and a fast-paced work environment comes a demand for business conduct, compliance, and responsible behavior, and we're proud of our efforts to ensure a high level of diversity, equality, and sustainability within our organization. FotoWare has built one of the most efficient and productive solutions found on the market today for finding, processing, and sharing videos, photos, graphics, audio, presentations, and documents. The solution is praised among users for the user experience and functionality, and the modular system is very cost-efficient for both small and large companies and is available as-a-Service, for private-cloud, hybrid, or on-premise deployments. FotoWare is a software company based in Oslo, Norway, with employees from all over the world, and a global partner network. Established in 1994 as a result of the growing demand to handle large volumes of digital photos and videos, the company has since then provided 2000+ companies with enterprise-class Digital Asset Management solutions.

Infraspace is a new cloud-based platform for early-stage infrastructure planning and design. Save time. Lower costs. Reduce environmental impact. We focus on the early stage planning and design of the projects. That's when changes have the biggest impact on costs, quality, and sustainability. Infraspace is a new platform to empower teams to make better decisions based on data and analyses. ✅Optimization algorithms ✅Cost and CO2 estimates ✅Environmental analyses