Respire is a Norwegian venture studio focused on building companies within the energy transition and sustainability. We work hands-on from early problem exploration through company formation and early growth, typically partnering closely with founders as active co-builders. Our team brings experience from energy, industry, startups, and venture building, and we believe a systematic approach gives better odds in complex, capital-intensive domains. We build a small number of ventures at a time and take a long-term view. Respire contributes sector insight, structured venture development, access to relevant networks, and in-house capacity for early MVP development. We work with entrepreneurs who want real ownership and responsibility, and who are motivated by solving concrete problems in energy and green industry rather than chasing hype. We’re based at RE Gründerhus in Asker, a hub for sustainable innovation, and are now scaling the studio.

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.

We invest in our planet. Norselab is a leading Nordic impact investment platform based out of Oslo, Norway. With an uncompromising focus on creating a meaningful future for all, we invest in net-positive companies that accelerate the urgently needed change in global industries. Norselab currently manages four funds; three venture funds and one credit fund. The ambition is to expand rapidly across classes and investment phases thanks to its pioneering impact approach, first-rate investment teams, and institutional-grade governance rig. Norselab is backed by Capricorn Investment Group, one of the largest mission-aligned investment firms in the world. To learn more about Norselab, visit norselab.com or get in touch at hello@norselab.com. Are you looking for meaningful capital to fund your company? We're always curious to hear from ambitious companies with a meaningful core. Submit the form on this page to open a discussion with us: http://norselab.com/dealflow.

We are the tailoring revolution. Based on a profound value for money proposition, we are changing the menswear industry, taking the ancient craft of bespoke, from niche to norm with a modern approach. We want to make custom tailoring the industry standard, shifting the focus from the massive production of ill-fitting standardized garments, to a mass customization production similar to the shift seen in the automobile industry. We strive everyday to refine our products, our customer journey and to bring down leadtimes to make custom tailoring a no-brainer for your next wardrobe investment. Mond of Copenhagen was founded in 2011 by the two brothers Michael and Martin Birch Jacobsen with a vision to shift the industry from mass produced standard sizes, to custom garments, made from scratch to each individual customer. Through innovative technology, lean production methods and industry leading service, Mond quickly grew to become the biggest custom brand in Denmark. With 4 stores in Denmark, Norway and Germany, and a growing team of custom clothiers, Mond is creating a unique customer experience putting the customer front and center in the entire process. Join our team, and help us expand "The tailoring revolution"

Braive is on a mission to make it possible for anyone, anywhere to attain and maintain high mental wellbeing. Using modern technology Braive is improving access to mental healthcare services and helping people all over the world who suffer from mental health issues, such as depression, anxiety, and work-related stress. Our solutions are evidence-based, effective, scalable and user-friendly.

The Pitch SignLab helps families that need to learn sign language or sign-assisted communication to communicate The What Parents to children who are severely hard of hearing or deaf need to learn sign language to communicate. Today, only 1 in 4 parents to deaf children in high-income countries manage to learn sign language. In low-income countries, it is believed to be less than 1 in 10. Families with individuals that benefit from sign-assisted communication face the same challenge. These include the parents to children with Down Syndrome, severe autism or Cerebral palsy. The How An international learning platform for sign languages and sign-assisted communication. The SignLab learning platform is fully digital and can incorporate new languages within weeks. The user only needs access to a smartphone or a computer. The platform makes it fun and easy to learn through gamification and timed encouragement. To ensure that the user gets the most out of every learning session, our review functionality incorporates an AI that knows what signs you are about to forget. The AI then designs a learning session that is tailored to the individual user’s need. Our curriculum is designed in cooperation with sign language teachers in each language. The platform launched in open beta in Norway November 2018. Feedback from parents and sign language teachers gave it a NPS of +64. The platform saw exponential growth with an average growth rate of 276% each month for the first three months (Nov-Feb). This growth all came from word of mouth, $0 spent on marketing. The Why Today less than 10% of the 64 million parents to deaf and hard of hearing children know sign language due to the low availability of education centers. Exclusion from communication have a significant impact on everyday life, causing feelings of loneliness, isolation, and frustration. The inability to properly communicate have a significantly adverse effect on the academic performance of children. SignLab works towards a society where all families have access to teaching themself, their children and their community signs and sign language so that everyone can feel included.

We are the new stuff in business education. Hubro Education develop business simulations that give students training in applying their business skills. We make it easily understandable and fun! The Hubro Business Simulation is aimed at management accounting and business economics courses in higher and secondary education. The simulation is used at more than 50% of Norwegian universities, universities in Sweden, Denmark and Finland, and secondary schools in Norway, Sweden and England. We're passionate about education and technology, and use tech to lift the classroom experience to new hights. If you ever sat in class and thought that this place is ripe for innovation, then maybe you should join us? We're a diverse bunch of engineers and programmers, teachers and business graduates, marketers and entrepreneurs.

657 Oslo is Norway’s largest coworking space for creative industries. At 657 Oslo we believe that collaboration is the new competition. We accelerate passionate people and ignite great ideas. 657 Oslo offers an ambitious community and an inspiring place to work for freelancers, entrepreneurs, small businesses and startups. At the moment, we are home to 225+ talented individuals representing more than 110 exciting companies spread across 2 buildings and 11 floors at Fredensborgveien 24. We tailor memberships according to the needs of every individual. We have offices in different sizes, and you can rent a desk in our open spaces. We offer full-time desks, flexible desks, and 657 Buddy memberships. As a member of 657 Oslo, you will have access to a unique network of coworkers, clients, suppliers, advisors and investors.Coworkers can book everything from mentoring to maker space, and as a member you will be invited to a wide range of events. We also know how to have fun. We collaborate with other coworking spaces throughout Norway, and as one of our members, you can make use of these spaces when travelling.

inzpire.me is on a mission to humanize advertising through user-generated content marketing. With the rise of ad blockers, brands are looking for a better way to connect with their audience. Powered by data-driven tools, the platform matches brands with social media content creators to create genuine collaborations and inspiring stories worldwide.

We work continuously to inspire, motivate  and engage people to work together for more diversity in business.    We aim to close the gender gap. SHE Community strives to make businesses better and by better we mean more diverse. Through events, conferences, study programs, and as a consulting partner to businesses we aim to motivate for diversity and inspire for equality – for all people. SHE community consists of people who believe that diversity drives profitability and progress, and who works directly towards closing the gender gap. We recently launched She Index that measures gender equality in business. She Community was founded in 2014, by two enthusiastic women, who wanted to do more for the current and coming generations. The first step? Focusing on the current situation and inspire more women to become leaders and entrepreneurs. 

The whole world is striving with textile waste! Most circular economy-based action plans are mostly based on recycling and sorting and not repairing, re-making, re-using and sharing. How can we combine sustainability, circular economy and women empowering in one practical local and global plan? In today textile market, clothing and textile sales rises while clothing usage has steadily declined! While the cost of repair service is high, the number of service providers is also very limited and considering all thrift solutions, the majority of secondhand materials are still going to Lindfield while it can be used as material. And as the last leg of this international picture, today's available solutions are mostly based on recruiting service providers instead of giving them the opportunity to be the owner of their business which make the sustainability of those models strictly dependent on the those business owners instead of relying on the owners of the practical knowledge and craft. Repasdo is a marketplace for unique, creative services of textile and relevant secondhand materials. It’s home to people providing special, extraordinary services and products, from repaired pieces to handcrafted and vintage treasures. While today’s main trend is into secondhand shopping online solutions, Repasdo focus is to provide possibility to create ‘added value’ instead of pure thrift store business model. By providing business and market opportunity (online store + learning, low cost material & equipment) to potential service providers, secondhand textile can be repaired or be used as raw material for new product (in as many different ways as service providers can manage to come up with). Repasdo Platform (as the first in its market) is to provide a platform for creating jobs, micro and small businesses (own by service providers) while providing practical learning and access to different type of secondhand textile as material and online stores as places for those businesses to thrive. We are three co-founders with background in strategic business and organizational development, application and software development, and fashion design and learning. In addition two of us have long years of experience in humanitarian aid organizations and woman empowering programs. We have strong believe in sustainability and circularity not in relation with of product and service, but as the sole practical concept and business model

Craft Games is a game development company in Trondheim, primarily founded in 2020. The focus is on online multiplayer browser games (HTML5/Canvas) and mobile games. After years of experience in the field, I am seeking to grow the company by hiring talent. Creating games that are played by millions of people is an amazing experience, and very rewarding.

MazeMap is a global provider of indoor map and navigation services. We are a 4-year- old start-up from NTNU with offices in Trondheim, Palo Alto, Melbourne, London and Odessa, and we already work with customers on all continents. Our goal is making indoor maps as ubiquitous as outdoors maps. The only way to achieve this is through automation, and we aim to be the first provider fully automating the process of creating indoor maps. As of today, our machine learning fueled service helps our users close to 300 000 times per month across 13 countries.

EquaFish is a company developing the only complete decision-making tool for fish farm operation. The AquaCulture industry is facing mass mortality and decreased yields as a result of knowledge and data being fragmented througout the farm. One facility usually have 10-15 different systems, Excell sheets and notes where only 10-15% of the functionality is actually used. EquaFish streamlines, process and visualize the data so that every employee, no matter role, understand the plan, status and future of the production. This $140B problem is faced by salmon farmers, telapia, halibut, shellfish and char farmers all alike. The tech is the same, even though the species is not. EquaFish has a SaaS solution bringing all growth, water quality, mortality and feed data into one, exploiting mathematical and statistical data processing to find causes and effects, which the fish farmer can act upon. The result is higher yield with reduced risks in the production, increased effiency, knowledge sharing and learning with the employees. Finally fish produced in more stable environments with less risk of death and non-friendly conditions. EquaFish was startet on the belief that one of the biggest industries deserve the newest and best tools. The time of post-it notes, Excell and systems from the 90s died 15years ago and the AquaCulture industry didnt get the memo. So if you want to create real change for a sustainable, profitable and animal friendly industry, EquaFish is the place that gets that done.

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.