Aviant performs medical deliveries between hospitals by leveraging drone technology. Today, district hospitals can only analyze simple blood tests themself. The rest have to be transported to test centers, often located at the larger hospitals. Current ground-based transportation logistics between hospitals is unorganized, inefficient, and costly. This new way of transportation will increase the frequency and flexibility of test delivery, as drones can be deployed on an as-needed basis, which will drastically improve the diagnosis process in districts. An analysis posten IEEE showed how drone transportation of biological samples could save the Danish authorities 300 MNOK/year. This commercial potential has been confirmed by our contact with health regions. We currently have three paying contracts: one with St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim and two in Sweden. Besides our three commercial contracts, we have gotten requests from seven potential customers. To keep up with the demand from the market and take care of our current customers, we need to expand the team.

Diwala is a Norwegian-based company that is focused on building opportunities for youth, addressing the global issue of identity theft and certification fraud. Today, displaced individuals and people in emerging markets are challenged by high costs and slow manual processes to verify the authenticity of their skills, identity and credentials. As a result, these individuals have to deal with tedious and out-dated credentialing processes, and are in some cases forced to repeat years of education. This leads to both loss of productivity and inflated unemployment. Imagine that you had to flee your own home because of war. Like Aıscha Najjar, a Syrian doctor turned refugee immigrated to the United States to pursue her dream of work & a safe home. Yet, due to loss of information, she was forced to repeat medical school in the United States. If she had a verifiable skill identity, she might have had the privilege of practicing medicine without any questions. Aıscha`s story amongst others epitomizes the challenge Diwala is addressing. To tackle this challenge, Diwala has created a platform that enables schools and NGOs to issue skill-based identities, backed by blockchain technology. A skill-ID is a digitally verified record of a person’s educational and work history. Diwala is building an ecosystem of trust, by enabling educational institutions and organizations to safely and digitally issue and verify credentials. This will, in turn, save all parties time, money and build a bridge for global work opportunities for untapped talent. Complementing the platform, Diwala has built an app that allows students to easily receive, store and share credentials of both soft and hard skills. By utilizing a decentralized identity management tool, Diwala’s application will also give people ownership of their data information. Diwala is currently executing pilots regularly, to optimize the features and security of the platform in both Kenya and Uganda. Working with their implementation partner Clarke University in Kampala, Diwala recently issued the first set of skill-identities to both students and administrators. These are the first ever digitally verified certificates backed by decentralized identity and blockchain in Africa

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?

At Kongsberg Digital, our mission is to transform the world’s most complex and asset-intensive industries through world-leading, AI-powered digital twin technology. As a pioneer in industrial digitalization, we provide a comprehensive suite of software solutions that empower organizations to manage the full lifecycle of their assets—more efficiently, safely, and sustainably than ever before. The industry is on the cusp of a digital revolution—and we’re leading the charge. From early adoption of AI to building trusted partnerships with some of the world’s largest industrial players, we are redefining how work gets done. With domain expertise baked into every line of code and a high-calibre team united by a clear mission, we’re not just keeping pace with change—we’re setting the standard. As we expand rapidly across the Middle East and Africa, deepen our end-to-end offerings, and push the boundaries of AI, now is the perfect time to join a company that’s growing fast, thinking bold, and delivering real impact.

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.

Business Angels Norway is the only umbrella assocation for regional or industry-specific angel groups in Norway. We are a co-founder of NordicBAN, the Nordic-Baltic assocation for business angels. We have ca 10 angel groups all over Norway, with >500 business angels total. We are an interest assocation, working for the interests of angel groups and business angels in general. We are part of several international initiatives and projects, incl the Nordic Angel Program where we need YOU!

Playpulse is an in-home fitness company that provides entertainment-based workouts on custom exercise equipment for the whole family. The company’s flagship product is a wireless stationary bike with integrated game controllers that blends multi-player games into a seamless and immersive workout that you’ll actually look forward to. Based on scientific evidence and testing with thousands of players, users get a complete workout without even realizing it because they’re having so much fun!

IZX is a platform for integrating LLMs into business applications, enabling natural language understanding and automation. Our product streamlines the creation, inference, and scaling of enterprise foundational models (that can also be hosted on-premise or in private cloud) that interact with external LLMs, APIs, and data sources. Our team includes the top 1% of AI/ML engineers in Europe. Join our team!

We Are Learning is building the next-generation AI-powered course authoring tool — so learning teams can easily create scenario-based, interactive training with 3D Characters and gamified experiences. Born in Norway in 2023 and founded by serial entrepreneurs Rolf Risnes and Lars-Petter W. Kjos (ex-Motimate, acquired by Kahoot! in 2021), we’re a team of learning designers, 3D artists, game devs, and AI engineers bringing our vision to life — fast. If you’re passionate about changing how the world learns, we’d love to hear from you.

Ava was acquired by Motorola Solutions in 2022 and is now part of its portfolio. Ava is a global technology company with offices in the UK, Norway, and the USA. We exist because we believe that we can create a better, smarter way to deliver security. We help organizations see, understand, and act on their surroundings to protect their people, business, and reputation in real time.

OK, Self-Storage Group consists of the brand's City Self-Storage and OK Minilager. We have more than 60 locations in Scandinavia. We aspire to be the leading company in tech in our industry. We have just closed funding from several investors, and we have an ambitious growth plan for the years to come.

Kavall is your on-demand local supermarket, delivering groceries to your door in 10 minutes. We do this through our own dark stores and with the help of our employed Riders on e-bikes. By offering groceries at the moment you need them, Kavall is redefining an industry that has remained untouched over the last decades. Launched in March 2021, we are a vibrant team of visionaries that is growing day by day. By joining us, you’ll enter a high-paced, developing an environment where your work instantly makes an impact on someone’s life. Join the ride!

Greenphones provides an end to end solution for to extend the lifetime of mobile phones and tablets. Through the provision of a simple user friendly interface allowing private individuals to trade-in their used phones where the value can either be used for the purchase of an upgraded phone or paid out in cash. We saw a clear need in the market to help the consumer and at the same time reduce the number of new mobiles being introduced into the market. As such for each and every new mobile 'not sold' sold in the market, we reduce the CO2 footprint by approximately 55kg. We estimate that we can extend the lifetime of any mobile between 250% and 300% Inspiration for your startup description There are other firms selling used mobile/tablets, but very few that offer the level of service trade-in value. The founders who previously worked with used IT equipment saw that the used mobile market was also in need of a solution. Greenphones has a number of strategies to expand beyond the core business to enhance the circular economy and is constantly in search of ways to support climate initiatives.

At Fornix, we aim to improve the quality of mental health across the globe by making treatments safer, controllable, more efficient, and widely available to everyone. Utilizing the strengths of XR technology we develop these tools together with mental health experts and hospitals/polyclinics. We consist of a strong and diverse team made up of engineers, psychologists, designers, animators, and more. If you are interested in learning more you can visit our site at: https://fornixvr.com Or reach out to us directly via: hello@fornixvr.com