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?

Leieting is Norway's largest peer-to-peer rental marketplace. Users across the whole country rent each others cars, motorcycles, camera equipment and hiking gear. All transactions are secured by the platform and insurance is provided with our partner If Insurance for up to 1 MNOK. The company has already raised EUR 380K with more than 50 investors from our usersbase.

Xeneta (Norway Startup of the Year 2016) is one of the most promising tech companies coming out of the Nordics. We are changing the business of the $200Bn container-shipping industry. We have become the world's leading information platform for ocean freight pricing intelligence. With our international background from logistics, technology and business we have managed to develop a turnkey solution addressing the challenges traditionally related to trade in the containerized shipping industry. We come from all walks of life and from all corners of the globe. With over 16 different nationalities, there really isn't a dull moment in a typical working day. Our colorful personalities makes for rather interesting and healthy discussions on the most mundane topics, but it's what keeps it fun. With our headquarters in beautiful and charming Oslo, Norway our team of dedicated and extremely intelligent human beings is what makes Xeneta tick. We have a passion for software technology and global trade, but most of all, a desire to change the business of global logistics once and for all.

Varig helps owners, managers, and tenants of commercial real estate make their buildings sustainable and meet new green regulations. We offer a SaaS software, which measures, improves and reports on sustainability using innovative features. Our goal is to reduce the environmental impact of buildings and involve all stakeholders in the green transition. We believe that every building can be sustainable and are already expanding across 11 markets in Europe. Join us if you are passionate about proptech, innovation and sustainability. TECH STACK Our tech stack consists of React and Typescript for frontend development, Java and Kotlin for backend development, and MongoDB for database management. We use Python for data analysis and have the option to utilize GCP and Google Collab for cloud computing

Creator Makerspace is an open prototyping space. We offer offices, meeting rooms, as well as all kinds of equipments and workshops: wood, metal, electronic, laser cutter, scanners, 3D printers, and a variety of other tools. Today more than 650 specialists are connected to Creator Makerspace, just after three years in business. We are located at Tvedtsenteret in the heart of Forus, Stavanger. Our main goal is to help individuals and companies get their ideas off the paper!

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.

LIVE WITH PEOPLE THAT INSPIRE YOU! Coliving help young professionals live with purpose and share their passion. Find coliving-communities anywhere in the world. Being an entrepreneur can be lonely. Because of that, we started a website to list all Coliving-spaces around the world, where like-minded people can Live, work & play.  Coliving & coworking.

At Tidypay, we are on a mission to be the undisputed choice of Payments for Point of Sale (POS) vendors in Europe. We are building the future of card payments with Android based payment terminals and SoftPOS. With Tidypay’s unique payment solution our customers can easily bolt-on payments to their POS offer. The result is a game changer for the merchant: All-in-one terminals with POS and payments software. One provider, one device and all the benefits: reduced costs, increased efficiency and convenience.

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.

Orgbrain is a next generation portal that is tailor-made for manage digital board meetings and general assembly. The portal gives you everything you need to organize a meeting like meeting planing, video conferencing, shareholder book, digital voting, document storage, distribution of minutes for consultation and signing of minutes with BankID. The system provides proposals for both annual plan, agenda and minutes. Orgbrain also contains a digital board school where users can complete an authorization course in board administration with exams and diplomas. #orgbrain #styreskolen #styret #styrearbeid #styreleder #dagligleder #styreportal #styreplattform #ledelse #digitalisering #maskinlæring "kunstigintelligens #innovasjon

OptoScale supplies fish farmers with precise and relevant data empowering them to make decision that improve productivity, sustainability, and animal welfare. Our data informs fish farmers about how their production is going, by accurately measuring the size of fish, growth, welfare status, and parasite counting. Our head office is in Trondheim, Norway, and we deliver to our great customers around the world. We are continuously interested in hiring great people across most of our functions: HW development, AI/ML, electronics, sales and customer success.

The future of the internet is 3D, and people will increasingly create and express themselves in 3D. Sloyd is using automation to make the creation of 3D faster and more accessible and to make 3D rendering more efficient. We are building a simple-to-use WebApp to quickly generate 3D assets and a software development kit for performance-efficient runtime creation in video games and virtual worlds. Sloyd combines procedural generation techniques, machine learning, and a commitment to real-time optimization to provide the best 3D automation tools. Sloyd is a remote-first company and employees can work from home, a shared-space hub, or from the main office in Oslo. We don’t care where you come from, we only care about your passion and creativity.

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

Avidly is a fully integrated MarTech service provider covering every aspect of the customer experience. We´re 3 x Global HubSpot Partner of the Year and as an Elite HubSpot Solutions Partner, we share the tool with our customers to consistently help them grow their businesses. We are a one-stop-shop for digital marketing and sales. We help companies grow by providing them technical and creative solutions that makes a difference. Together with our clients we always strive to find new ways to growth.