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.

Hold is an innovative mobile app that helps students focus in school by rewarding those who spend time away from their smartphones. The idea is simple: Start Hold, collect points for not using your phone and trade them for rewards. We are a small team - all hands on deck. We kind of love it. Everyone has a role, but we help out wherever we can. After all, we have the same mission:  We want to make it fun and rewarding to put away your phone

At Aiba.ai, we provide an advanced AI-powered platform designed to elevate player safety by moderating in-game chat in real time. As the gaming industry expands globally, the need for a scalable solution to combat harmful behaviors is critical. Our platform safeguards communities against online threats such as bullying, grooming, racism, radicalization, and other harmful content. Our AI technology, developed in collaboration with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), combines machine learning algorithms and behavioral biometrics to ensure fast detection of harmful behavior. We analyze player interactions in real time, identifying threats as they occur, even when players use slang, dialects, or emojis. Aiba.ai efficiently manages large volumes of player reports, helping developers prioritize critical issues while reducing the burden on moderation teams. This saves time and resources, ensuring swift resolution of urgent matters and improving player experience. Our platform ensures compliance with key regulatory frameworks, including COPPA and the DSA, protecting players while keeping your game in line with evolving regulations. Our solution also leverages behavioral biometrics to track patterns of behavior, identifying repeat offenders and reducing harmful interactions over time. Aiba.ai is scalable, supporting both indie games and large multiplayer platforms. Our APIs are customizable and easy to integrate into existing systems, allowing you to tailor moderation based on your needs. Additionally, our platform supports multiple languages, making it ideal for global games with diverse player bases. We provide real-time moderation across languages, ensuring all players are protected, regardless of location or language. By offering advanced moderation and behavior detection, Aiba.ai helps developers create safer, more enjoyable player experiences. We reduce the burden on moderation teams, ensure regulatory compliance, and improve the health of gaming communities. Our commitment is to provide a robust, scalable solution that protects your players and helps foster a positive gaming environment.

At Bliksund, we dedicate ourselves to creating mission-critical systems that help emergency and healthcare professionals focus on what really matters – saving lives. Our goal is to create innovative, user-friendly solutions that support emergency workers in both daily operations and during crisis situations. Bliksund is a leading software company providing digital tools for emergency services globally. We are a diverse team spread across different locations, cultures and languages. What we all have in common is a dedication to developing cutting-edge digital tools to make work easier, safer and more efficient for our customers. We are a global scale-up built on a Nordic easy-to-work-with culture.

Overview We are committed to developing and distributing user-friendly and intelligent software assisting ship owners, cargo owners, and operators optimize and manage their portfolio of commercial decisions. Norway is a small country but has a good functioning maritime cluster consisting of companies providing different services to the global marine industry. This makes Norway an excellent place for maritime R&D projects. Our Purpose We started Maritime Optima because we wanted to assist people working in the maritime industry in unlocking their digital potential. We believe useful and user-friendly software should be made available to everyone working in the marine sector. We want to show that people working in teams, collaborating, exchanging data and knowledge, create higher profits because they attract talent and make better decisions, and working in a team is also more fun. Our Ambition We are building affordable, intuitive, and useful software where you can decide with whom you want to share your data. Maritime Optima aims to help you or your team to be more productive, reduce stress, improve the quality of your decisions, and have more fun. We also believe Maritime Optima can assist you in unlocking your digital potential.

Globus.ai is cloud based, human centric software that enables staffing agencies and recruiters to place more candidates – faster. Much faster. From requests to search, matching and booking – the whole process can take seconds. Even with high volume job requirements. Our customers typically improve their results (net fee income) with 40%. Globus.ai has developed a unique and intelligent software that enables staffing agencies and recruiters to find and place people with relevant skills and competencies– perfectly matching the needs of their clients. Thanks to human centric artificial intelligence, even the incoming orders are handled automatically, but still in a personal way. Then - the placing of competencies and interests with matching roles, is done within minutes. Due to machine learning, this intelligent process will speed up over time, and replace hours and minutes with seconds. Globus.ai can both speed up and transform you as a professional - and boost your recruiting business.

Grentech Innovators AS is dedicated to: Give Waste a value. We are developing new waste management solution by using biotechnology for convertion of organic waste like food waste, into protein and organic fertilizer. The traditional waste management solutions like landfill, composting, biogas production or incineration are all leading to green house gas emission and the economic value of the end product is low or negative. The greenhouse gas Methane is a 72 times more potent greenhouse gas than carbondioxide, and organic waste on landfills are responsible for 11 % of Methane emission. The global aquaculture industry is a great source for healthy food and has been in strong annual growth for decades, but in order to continue growing it is crucial to find new sources for feed,in particular protein and omega-3 oils. The supply of traditional feed sources like fish meal and soy are limited, and there are environmental conserns to increase soy production. In Greentech Innovators we are now investing in a pilot plant for fermentation of food waste into Single cell protein and organic fertilizer in Bergen. We have a dedicated team, and the second largest waste management company in Norway,BIR ,as partner. We are now searching for investors to finalize the pilot palnt and scale up the production. If you are looking for investment in a company that strive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase production of food for the growing population Greentech Innovators is a good choice.

Healthy EATS is a healthy fast food start-up. Using innovative technology, the company will make healthy eating easier and more available for the Norwegian population. Their unique concept is built on efficiency, quality, and sustainability. The dishes are produced in cooperation with award-winning chefs and are sold to the customers through unmanned pick-up stations. While there are a lot of different providers of fast-food in Norway, finding a healthy fast-food alternative is harder than one should think. Especially if you are interested in a healthy, fast and affordable meal, the alternatives are few, and you will often end up having to choose two of the three criterias (e.g. fast and affordable, but unhealthy). Healthy EATS is going to change the perception that healthy food cannot be both affordable and fast, by changing the way the food is distributed to the consumer - cutting all waiting time. This will be done by replacing the traditional fast-food restaurants with our high-tech, unmanned pick-up points. These pick-up points will be available all around the city and allow the customer to access the food instantly, paying through our mobile app or by credit card.

EMerald Geomodelling is a spin-off from the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI). Though we are a young company founded in 2019, our business is built on a decade of research and development at NGI. We are creating a tool that revolutionizes the way we build roads, railways, tunnels, and other types of infrastructure towards a more sustainable use of resources. By using AI to detect patterns and manage uncertainties, we provide critical insights early on in large building projects that help our clients make better decisions. Why do we do this? Worldwide, building infrastructure costs billions of dollars. Too often, actual costs go way over budget. These extra billions spent are a huge burden on society. Our mission is to lessen that burden. By helping our clients build roads, railways, and tunnels with fewer costly interventions, we help free up funds for other worthy social and environmental goals.

CoHub - a social and innovative entrepreneurial environment in Grimstad. We are a coworking community in Grimstad, CoHub offers office spaces for startups and entrepreneurs,  ranging from your own office to a more open flexible workplace in our coworking community. CoHub is working to collect the startups, network, activities, and expertise within innovation and entrepreneurship in Grimstad - and working with other coworking spaces in the region.

Glocal View is an IT software company from Norway, established with a vision to help companies succeed with Sourcing initiatives. Our aim is to provide vendor independent advisory and delivery services within sourcing (where sourcing could be both local or global) to our customers. Glocal View has prior experience in various consulting to sourcing and development assignments, hence our customers also get benefits of domain expertise and process understanding.

CVGURU er et hurtigvoksende selskap som skreddersyr CVer, søknader og LinkedIn-profiler for nordmenn. Selskapet ble lansert sommeren 2016, og har opplevd nærmest eventyrlig vekst. Fremtidsutsiktene ser svært lovende ut, og vi søker dermed (alltid) flere kloke, sultne hoder til å bli en del av eventyret. Besøk nettsiden vår: www.cvguru.no for ytterligere info, og gi lyd fra deg om du tror du har noe å tilføye!

Diffia is a Norwegian health tech company that creates innovative solutions to help doctors and nurses improve patient care and safety. We are working towards introducing a lightweight application to give clinicians access to the patient data they need, when they need it. A mobile-first product made with the user in mind, integrated into clinical workflow, to help healthcare professionals provide more targeted care - reacting proactively rather than reactively to clinical developments.

Wiral is empowering the new generation of filmmakers, by providing better ways of content creation. With Wiral LITE, we introduce the worlds first affordable and easy to use cable cam, a camera accessory that will enable new film angles in places even drones can’t go. Wiral LITE was launched with 1 000 000USD in funding on Kickstarter in 4 weeks, pre-sold over 5000 units to 80 different countries, started production in China and the products will be seen in the customers hands in July.

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.