VENTURE FACTORYVenture Factory was founded in the fall of 2012 in Oslo, Norway with a straightforward goal: turning ideas into business. Our core competence is e-commerce, technology, and performance marketing. We use our skills to start new companies together with strategic partners, other entrepreneurs, or within our own organization. Since then we’ve involved ourselves in a range of ideas. Some have blossomed and turned into prosperous businesses, while others have been challenging and ultimately put to rest. We believe our understanding of technology and online marketing combined with a unique domain insight is the recipe for success and therefore we partner up with entrepreneurs or larger corporations to pursue new business opportunities. Our portfolio consists of a mix of businesses. Some are consultancies where external clients benefit from our competence and others are tech or e-commerce ventures that we have started alone or together with partners. Do you have a great idea you want to discuss with us? Please email us at contact@venturefactory.noVenture Factory offices are located centrally in Oslo and our development team is located in Odesa, Ukraine. We are always on the lookout for great talent both in Odessa and Oslo, so email us at contact@venturefactory.no if you think you are a good match.

We are on a mission to empower every company, including board members, investors and shareholders, to unlock their full digitization potential. By combining the thought-leaders of the legal industry in the Nordics with business people with proven track-record from creating high-value SaaS-platforms, and by fuelling that powerful combination with the very best of developers, we are destined to make a brutal impact on the way companies do business. We are growing fast in Norway, and planning to expand to Sweden and Denmark. There are a lot of good things about working here, but by far the greatest benefit is the team. Our current team has 12 members split across marketing, sales and development. We are a truly autonomous team, most of us are quite senior, and at dCompany you get access to learn from some of the best in our domain who are working in Norway. We are a group of motivated, mission-driven people who love learning from each other. We work from great new offices in the centre of Oslo, and working here you have free access to lunch and exercise at the office gym. We also have good insurance schemes, as well as a pension. As a small team we work in a startup culture with a flat hierarchy, where all ideas are welcome, and we appreciate when you come with ideas and input for how we can add more value to our customers and improve our product.

At Speiz we are driving the future of Commercial Real Estate Space Leasing. By aggregating and consolidating data, we provide our customers with complete market overview and digital tools to make data-driven decisions in market that is extremely fragmented and dominated by dinosaur-companies relying on manual processes. We believe the future of commercial real estate is digital and we believe Warehouse and Logistics Space will become the most important segment in of the industry - the one segment that is key in enabling ever-growing online sales and the rise of consumer-centric businesses delivering more and more products and services at the consumers doorstep. This is why we are on a mission to create the world's first data-driven leasing platform for Warehouse & Logistics space.

Frivind AS er et selskap med mange store nasjonale kunder, men vi ser fremdeles på oss selv om et gründerselskap, hvor innovativ tankegang, nysgjerrighet og problemløsning er i hovedfokus. Vi er et spennende selskap med få ansatte, men med våre smarte datamodeller er vi en seriøst aktør i vårt marked. Frivind AS utarbeider prognoser på hvordan alt fra værforhold, Covid-19, cruiseanløp og fotballkamper på stadion påvirker forbrukeratferd. Våre datamodeller finner dype sammenhenger i milliarder av data, for å beregne hvilke varer en kunde vil kjøpe eller en butikk vil selge.

Drowzee's mission is to empower humans with the ability of falling asleep on command, using innovative neurotechnology. We develop sleep solutions to ensure that everyone gets the rest they need to live life at the fullest. Our first product, the Pendulum, is a brain-training device that helps people suffering from insomnia improve their sleep health with personalized brain training programs. The Pendulum enables users to reach and strengthen their mental state of drowsiness using neurofeedback training.

FotMob gives you all the scores, stats, and storylines to keep you up to speed with the world of soccer. News and notifications make it easy to follow your favorite teams. Live match updates make sure you never miss a moment. FotMob is constantly among top 10 in the worlds largest football countries and has been featured as an App of the Day in US AppStore. We are looking for a new teammate to help us to keep delivering the world-class application for our 15 millions of users!

Evvent is developing a digital platform to revolutionize event planning and organization for Muslim communities worldwide. Our goal is to provide a one-stop-shop for event organizers, connecting them with Muslim vendors and suppliers who offer products and services that meet their unique needs. Our secret sauce lies in our commitment to inclusivity and diversity, and our passion for empowering the Muslim voice. Evvent is solving the problem of a fragmented and underserved event planning market for Muslim communities. Muslim event organizers often struggle to find vendors and suppliers who understand their cultural and religious needs, resulting in a subpar event experience. This problem is widespread, affecting Muslim communities globally, and has gone unaddressed for far too long. Our platform offers a comprehensive solution that connects event organizers with Muslim vendors and suppliers who specialize in catering to their unique needs. From halal catering and decor to entertainment and photography, our vendors are carefully curated to ensure they offer the highest quality products and services. By providing a one-stop-shop, we are streamlining the event planning process for our customers and empowering Muslim entrepreneurs. Our team is building a digital platform that will serve as the go-to resource for Muslim event organizers worldwide. Our platform will feature a user-friendly interface that allows customers to easily search for vendors and services, book and pay for services, and manage all aspects of their event planning process. Our platform will also offer educational resources and support to Muslim entrepreneurs, helping them to grow and scale their businesses. We are leveraging the latest technology and digital marketing strategies to reach our target audience and make our platform accessible to Muslim communities worldwide. We are also building strategic partnerships with key organizations and influencers within the Muslim community to help us spread the word about our platform and reach as many customers as possible. Our team is deeply passionate about empowering the Muslim community and addressing the unique challenges that Muslim event organizers face. We became aware of the problem we are solving through our personal experiences and those of our friends and family members. We saw a clear need for a platform that could provide a comprehensive solution to the fragmented event planning market for Muslim communities. We are motivated by our desire to make a positive impact on the Muslim community and to empower Muslim entrepreneurs. We believe that our platform will not only streamline the event planning process for our customers but also create opportunities for Muslim vendors and suppliers to grow and scale their businesses. We are committed to building a platform that reflects the values of our community, including inclusivity, diversity, and excellence, and we are excited to continue working towards our vision of revolutionizing the event planning industry for Muslim communities worldwide.

BUILDING HAPPY SOFTWARE MOTHERSHIPS The truth is out – in the future every company will be a software company. Meet Witted Megacorp. The enterprise that exists to be the universal change. With Witted’s help companies are reborn — as software motherships. Those ships will eventually sail independently. Instead of mere consultancy or individual projects or talents, we will enable our clients to own their internal software capability. The ethos of internal experimentation and development makes business soar. With a beyond normative spirit, radiating warm light. Witted is way more than one way of creating the best work-life for senior IT professionals. We win the competition for talent because one size does not fit all. Because of that we have built our business to encompass several different working models. All geared to be the best option for people who have sailed the treacherous seas of the IT industry long enough to demand more from their employer. We change the world, one happy software mothership at a time. Let’s take the trip together. We are your friend, the one mad enough to transform your game.

Based in Stavanger, Norway, Desert Control is a clean tech company that specializes in turning deserts to green land using our patented Liquid NanoClay. Through a patented mixing process, LNC combines clay and water and is then spread onto sandy soil.

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.

ScaleupXQ is a growth partner designed to help B2B companies accelerate their sales and scale their operations. We specialize in supporting businesses through critical phases of expansion — providing the strategy, tools, manpower and expertise needed to drive sustainable growth. Our mission is simple: to help ambitious companies build high-performing commercial organizations, enter new markets, and sell more, faster. We do this by combining growth strategy, revenue design, and hands-on execution across sales, marketing, and customer success. Whether you’re expanding into new markets, refining your sales model, or scaling your commercial engine, ScaleupXQ provides the guidance and operational muscle to make it happen. We act as an extension of your team — bringing deep expertise, data-driven insights, and a bias for action to every engagement. In short, ScaleupXQ helps B2B companies sell more and transform growth potential into commercial success — faster, smarter, and more predictably

Staffer.ai — Fully Automated Hiring for Modern Teams Staffer.ai is a fully automated hiring platform built to serve lean, fast-moving companies that want to attract, assess, and hire top talent without the usual bottlenecks of traditional recruiting. Designed for startups and SMBs, Staffer eliminates the manual busywork of sourcing, screening, and coordination—so teams can focus on selecting the best candidates, not chasing them. What Staffer Does Staffer.ai combines deep recruiting expertise with advanced AI to automate 80% of the hiring process: • Sourcing: AI scouts and engages high-quality passive candidates who aren’t actively applying. • Outreach: Automated outreach and job distribution to maximize visibility—no manual posting. • Screening: Built-in assessments for both hard and soft skills, tailored to the role. • Scheduling: Integrated calendar and video tools handle all interview logistics. • Candidate Experience: A self-service portal keeps applicants informed and engaged. • Workflows: A centralized dashboard offers full transparency into the hiring funnel. • Branding: Instantly create branded, high-converting career pages. • Reference Checks: Automated reference collection—structured and time-saving. Why It Matters Hiring is often the most important—and most painful—part of scaling a company. Most small teams don’t have time to run structured, high-quality processes. Staffer fixes that: • No recruiter? No problem—Staffer handles the heavy lifting. • Slow hiring cycles? Reduce time-to-hire with fewer manual steps. • Poor candidate quality? Tap into passive talent you’d never reach with job ads. • Disorganized process? Streamlined workflows and full pipeline visibility. • Candidates ghosting? Keep them informed via automated updates and a dedicated portal. Built for Teams Without Time Staffer.ai is designed for founders, department leads, and talent teams who are hiring on top of everything else: 1. Startup Founders (10–100 people) • Pain: Hiring falls on the founders, but time is scarce. • Solution: Staffer runs a full process behind the scenes—sourcing, screening, and scheduling—so founders can move fast without drowning in admin. 2. Department Heads (Eng, Design, Sales) • Pain: No hiring expertise, unclear where to start, and overwhelmed by conflicting responsibilities. • Solution: Staffer gives them a plug-and-play hiring system—templates, assessments, workflows—that’s easy to manage and easy to trust. 3. People & Talent Leaders (50–300 people) • Pain: Coordinating hiring across departments with no unified tools. • Solution: Staffer standardizes hiring across teams, provides full visibility, and empowers managers with self-serve tools. Core Features • AI-Powered Passive Talent Search Go beyond job boards—Staffer identifies and engages top-tier passive candidates competitors miss . • Automated Sourcing & Outreach Roles are posted, distributed, and followed up on automatically—no chasing . • Integrated Assessments Screen objectively for skills that matter with structured, AI-generated evaluations . • Candidate Self-Service Portal Improves candidate experience with no added work for your team . • Calendar & Interview Automation Syncs interviews with internal calendars and handles reminders, links, and conflicts . • Instant Career Page Builder Publish an on-brand, high-converting careers page in minutes . • Reference Check Automation Structured reference requests sent and collected automatically—no phone calls needed . • Customizable Hiring Pipelines Stay on top of every candidate with a transparent, centralized workflow . Powered by Real Expertise Staffer was created by operators with deep backgrounds in recruiting, product, and AI—using state-of-the-art models (like Claude 4.0) and proprietary automation to deliver enterprise-grade results, in a self-serve, plug-and-play format .

Startup accelerator, investor, and ecosystem builder based in Trondheim, Norway! See more on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/6am-accelerator Accelerator: We host a 6-month accelerator program for pre-seed tech startups focused on business development, such as fundraising, sales, marketing, and legal. 35+ startups have attended since 2021. Investments: We facilitate a pre-seed investment fund called Gnist Capital, where we invest up to 1 MNOK. Ecosystem building: StartupTRD is a project aiming to increase the attractiveness of the Trondheim startup scene, including regular events, co-working, corporate innovation, and more. Check out startuptrd.no.

We help businesses add human faces to real-time AI chatbots, assistants and agents. Our customers typically build AI tutors, AI receptionists, AI coaches, AI mock interviews, AI employee onboarding, you get the picture! Try talking to a human avatar here: https://www.simli.com/demo Our Docs: https://docs.simli.com/introduction Discord: https://discord.com/invite/yQx49zNF4d

Empire AI is a company founded by workspace consultants with over a decade of experience in developing office buildings. Through our work, we noticed that the office planning process is characterized by gut-feelings, guesswork and outdated benchmarks. This results in suboptimal office space that has massive amounts of unused space - an average of 80-90% of chairs and 50-60% of rooms remain empty during work hours in a typical office building today. Simultaneously, employees are complaining they do not have the necessary rooms and support their work. To address this issue, we created Empire AI. Empire's software is designed to transform the way you plan and manage your office space, making office buildings more space efficient, sustainable, and people-centric. Our machine learning models can predict how your office space will be used, allowing you to make informed decisions before you even begin building. With our software, you'll be able to identify which rooms and areas will be most useful and which will be less so, ensuring optimal utilization of your space. It can be used for building specifications, scenario planning, monitoring and improving existing office space and to predict utilization before building the space. Our recommendations are based on years of research and data, so our customers can be confident that they're making the right choices.