Cognite has a unique starting point and great of momentum on its side. The idea behind Cognite came when I was working on a digitalization project with the industrial conglomerate AKER ASA.  In less than 15 years there will be over 50 billion physical assets and machines connected to the Internet, and over seven billion Internet consumers. The exponential growth of data resulting from the increase in Internet users, combined with machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) will challenge the status quo of across all industries. We believe that data handling will become a competitive advantage for industrial companies across a range of sectors. Unlocking its tremendous capabilities should not just be for an elite group of companies. Cognite makes this technology available to our customers. Furthermore we think that the most successful companies will create alliances to leverage the numerous and complex data sources. We aim to deliver breakthrough customer benefits facilitating productivity-related savings, improved operations, increased safety, and new revenue opportunities. Our initial focus is to aggregate and process data from industrial sensors and corresponding applications combining it with 3D-models to see how these sensors are related to the physical world. This enables our customers and partners to create advanced visualizations and machine learning applications for optimization and automation. Please contact us if you're interested in learning more.

Arctic Coliving is a coworking lodge and adventure club with first location in the mountains of Voss, Norway! 🇳🇴 Set above the majestic fjords of western Norway, Arctic Coliving Voss blends mountain lodge living with a practical, community-first basecamp for adventure sports. The original lodge was built in 1939 by students from 20 nations and offers both private and shared rooms, a sauna, shared kitchen, heated pool, and cafe with a real pizza oven, as well as on-site coffee roasting and gear storage. A new coworking space is in the works for when we open the doors this spring. We have our own train stop between Bergen and Oslo, making it ideal for digital nomads, remote teams, and adventure-seekers to conveniently work and play in the epic mountains of Norway. Our Lofoten lodge is opening September, 2026 in Henningsvær! 🏔️

Intellectual Labs is an AI Venture Studio located in Oslo, dedicated to creating, funding, and building deep tech start-ups with ambitious entrepreneurs. We combine expertise in AI, computer science, and applied sciences to bring ground-breaking ideas to life and into the world. Our unique playbook and friendly methodology ensures a high chance of creating a sustainable growth company with significant impact on Human Life. We believe in - and live by - collaboration and shared risks to unlock transformative potential to change the world. This model is designed to be capital-efficient, repeatable, and deeply collaborative, attracting exceptional scientists, entrepreneurs, and investors who want to build world-changing companies with real impact.

Lyfta is building the operating system for strength training. Today, millions of people go to the gym without a clear plan, without tracking properly, and without understanding whether they’re actually progressing. Most tools in the space optimize for engagement, not outcomes. We think that’s the wrong approach. Strength training is one of the highest-leverage activities for long-term health, but only if it’s structured, consistent, and measurable. That’s what we’re building, a system that helps people train with clarity, track real progress, and improve over time. Lyfta is already used by over a million people globally, with strong growth month over month. We’re still early, but the ambition is clear: build the product people rely on to get stronger, not just another app they use occasionally.

Retrade is a leading online marketplace for used industrial equipment and machinery. Our platform connects buyers and sellers across various industries, facilitating the efficient and secure trade of pre-owned machinery. With a global presence and a diverse range of listings, Retrade plays an decisive role to extend the lifetime of thousands of machines every year. We help establishing a more responsible and sustainable ownership of machinery, and make sure machines from Nordic companies gets a second life somewhere relevant across the world.

Our mission is to solve easy EV charging across the Nordics. One app to find the best route, charging stops based on your preferences, charge at any operator, and get smart suggestions based on your behaviour. We seek to be at the forefront of EV technology. At the charger, in the car, and at home. Join us in becoming the #1 EV app!

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.

Quantfolio is a Bergen based Fintech company delivering “AI-in-a-box” components for banks & wealth managers with a digitial presence. Through open API´s and machine learning algorithms we empower banks and WM’s with our AI investment components to provide their customers with anything from automated low cost savings portfolios to sophisticated investment strategies normally reserved for HNW individuals. Our team consist of passionate and highly skilled individuals, ranging from serial entrepreneurs, traders, quants and developers with PhDs within machine learning. Quantfolio is partly owned by Skandiabanken, Norway’s largest challenger bank, also our first customer launching Q3/Q4 2017.Our HQ is based in Bergen with a quant team based in San Diego.

In early 2021, we began exploring eye-tracking technology. We discovered its enormous potential when combined with in-game statistics and data analytics. The esports industry is becoming increasingly data-driven and professionalized. Teams are more focused on sustainable and healthy gaming routines. We can help them improve their skills and take care of eye health, sleep, and more.

Pexip enables enterprises and organizations of any size to deploy and use video-based communication and collaboration. The Company’s portfolio of products ranges from self-hosted software to cloud service video solutions. Pexip provides seamless collaboration between previously incompatible video and audio technologies such as professional video conferencing systems, Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts Meet, and WebRTC. Pexip’s software-based meeting platform can also be used as a foundation for service provider offerings. Pexip has HQ in Oslo, Norway, main offices in London, UK, New York and Reston, US, and Sydney, Australia, as well as sales offices across the globe. For more information, visit www.pexip.com, or follow @PexipInc on Twitter.

Korall Engineering AS is a design engineering firm part of StartupLab Bergen, a member of the GCE Ocean Technology Cluster, which employs the latest high-end design optimization technologies, our team develops automates product design workflows to reduce engineering and lead times and redesigns existing industrial products. Through the use of Artificial Intelligence, we help reduce material waste and production costs, increase efficiency, and lessen environmental impact. We help the reduction of carbon emissions, avoiding the transportation of parts demanded. Korall Engineering operates in various industries: oil & gas, maritime, automotive, and medical. Its team specializes in industrial design optimization for both additive and traditional manufacturing and uses machine learning design-to-manufacturing tools like Generative Design, mathematical finite element methods like Topology Optimization, and implicit modeling lattice-structure solutions for 3D-printing, both for metal and composite materials. Korall Engineering is betting on the future: smart design, additive manufacturing, and automated workflows are just a few of the many examples of how it is possible to disrupt the industry for the better, bring innovation, create value for our society at large, and tangibly take a step forward in preserving our environment. For more information visit https://korall.io/

Our ambition is to accelerate the grid-scale energy storage revolution. Geniess provides software to help battery storage system developers identify the right customers, right-size battery storage installations, and optimize the overall business case & system configuration. This means their battery storage clients such as solar plants, electric ferries, and zero-emission construction sites can make battery decisions easier, faster and more profitable - meaning more positive investment decisions and tangible bottom-line impact.

We're at a critical juncture as the combined effects of climate change and urbanization are impacting communities worldwide, with a higher frequency and intensity. At 7Analytics, we are on a mission to revolutionize physical climate risk insight with state-of-the-art technology, specializing in flood forecasting and analytics. We use hydrology, geology, and data science to develop high-precision risk models that help everyone from asset owners to insurers to plan for imminent and future impacts of climate change. Join our passionate team as we are scaling from the Nordics and into the global scene.

Dogu is a software company founded in 2011 by students from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) who decided to take the road less traveled and build their own company. Dogu is an acronym for Data og Utvikling which in Norwegian means Data and Development. Since 2012, we achieved more than 185% year-on-year revenue growth. Today, Dogu has a team of 21 brave nerds working from 5 offices to build and operate amazing products: SalesScreen and LiveScreen.http://www.dogu.io/ Dogu is one of Norway’s fastest growing startups… but more important than the growth is the sense of family we’ve created.Dogu is a software company founded in 2011 by students from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology who decided to take the road less traveled and build their own company.Since 2012, we achieved more than 185% year-on-year revenue growth. Today, Dogu has a team of 19 brave nerds working from 5 offices to build and operate amazing products: SalesScreen and LiveScreen.The name Dogu is an acronym for Data og Utvikling which in Norwegian means Data and Development. We would have trademarked it, but Dogu happens to also be a Japanese mythical figurine dating back to over 10 000 years ago.So, what sets us apart and what makes us special?Aside from our finesse at the most important of startup sports, such as foosball, pingpong and beer pong, we do a LOT of activities together. We have a monthly budget for team building, which can be used for anything from Friday lunches at a restaurant to GoKarts and Lazer Tag to buying a new BBQ grill or Playstation 4 to play. But it’s not the STUFF that’s important, it’s the PEOPLE. Every day, we talk about the importance of building great culture. We invest in our people, in a BIG way!Professional development and growth is hugely important to us and we place a premium on face-to-face time and team building activities. We serve as groomsmen in each other’s weddings, we enjoy hanging out together on the weekends, and we plan each other’s bachelor parties. As cliche’ as it may sound, we really are best friends… and at the end of the day, that commitment that we have to each other pours out in our passion for building great products.We have a very horizontal leadership structure and do things not because we have to but because we want to. This company is 100% employee owned and we all care about the growth and success because we are invested in it… I’m not talking financially, I’m talking emotionally. We care about what we do and while one of our product mottos is “Never stop at “good enough” when you can be GREAT!”, we strive to go beyond great. We want to be known as entrepreneurs who dream big, plan well and dare to do the impossible.In addition to what sets us apart as people, there are some unique traits that set us apart as a company:1. We are bootstrappedDogu has never received outside funding. This has taught us a great deal about the need of creating great products that people are willing to pay money for, being cost-savings minded and adopting an agile approach to all aspects of our business.2. We are employee-ownedDogu is 100% owned by 12 of its employees keeping shareholders’ and employees’ interests completely aligned.3. We are profitableSince 2012, the company has been been profitable every single year.4. We are growingSince 2012, Dogu has grown its revenues by over 185% year-over-year.5. We are idea-drivenTop-to-bottom decision making is not our strongest suit. We always encourage everyone to come up with, debate and implement new ideas.6. We are distributedBack in the day, Dogu was located in one office in Trondheim. Our team is now distributed across Norway (Trondheim, Oslo, Bergen), USA (San Diego), France (Bayeux) and Holland (Amsterdam).7. We are flexibleWhile sitting together is necessary sometimes, we do not believe that you need to sit in an office from 9 to 17 to do your best work. We empower our team to work from where they want and on a flexible time schedule. All one needs is a laptop and a good internet connection.8. We are geared upAs true digital craftsmen, we want nothing but the best tools to do our work. We use the best tools available, such as Slack, Zoom, Office 365, Dropbox, Pipedrive, Trello, Github and of course, SalesScreen.9. We are brave nerdsWe love technology and are never scared to push the boundaries of what is possible. Our team may not be the largest but our developers are surely amongst the brightest.10. We are business mindedTechnology is only useful when it helps individuals and organizations achieve what was previously not possible. We strive everyday to understand our customers and find ways to help drive their business to become more profitable.11. We are agileWe are a small team and we cherish this. It has forced us to be agile in everything we do, to iterate quickly through possible solutions and to continuously bring improvements to our products and to our organization.12. We are independentWe are a small company with big responsibilities and we flourish with team work. But we are also good at taking ownership to get things done when we see something that needs to be improved.13. We are trustworthyIn the course of a few years, we have gone from being a 3 man unknown consultancy company to becoming a company with Products trusted by some of the most renowned companies in the Nordics: Nordea, Gjensidige, Subaru, Schibsted, Privatmegleren, Visma.14. We are familyWe see the Dogu team as a tightly knitted family who shares memories together and will keepon writing great stories. That also means that we try to include our better halves for social events.15. We are DoguIn December 2015, Dogu’s employees wrote and collectively approved the following internal vision: Dogu shall strive to be excellent and offer the best working environment possible while creating great stories for generations to come.

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