Clean Sea Solutions AS is a Norwegian Ocean Tech company that develop innovative solutions to prevent and reduce plastic waste in the sea. Our products are designed to collect plastic waste in and below the water surface in lakes, water channels, rivers and river mouths, harbors, marinas, and other close coastal areas. This year, and in collaboration with the City of Oslo, Clean Sea Solutions (CSS) is launching the CSS Aqua-Drone, an all-electric, autonomous floating waste-collecting aqua-drone in the Port of Oslo. Using a combination of computer vision and remote sensing based on ultrasound or 3D laser scanning (LIDAR) technologies. The robot gathers trash and stores it on board, disposes it at a dedicated docking station, and recharges for the next mission. Our solutions are advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals with technologies that reducing plastic pollution, contributing to the sustainability of the ocean, and improve the quality and sustainability of water resources by addressing the impact of plastic waste inflow.

Find your friends and familyWith Buddy, you can track your kids and share locations with family and friends anytime, anywhere. Parents can keep track of their children's whereabouts and couples may know that their loved ones arrived safely at their destination. Friends can find each other and even managers can find and keep track of employees in the field.

Shifter is an independent news site about Norwegian tech startups in the new economy. We cover big and small events in the startup industry while reporting on innovation in bigger companies. We focus on ideas, challenges, money, power, people and good stories from everywhere.

Welcome to Outtt.The best app to discover the outdoors like a local. Outtt is a product based on local knowledge. We pride ourselves on delivering quality content and authentic experiences all done with the most integrity. Find local adventures & read up on all you need to know including distance, duration, difficulty, amenities & insider tips. We want to transform the way we as individuals access the outdoor industry. We believe that the current system is quite chaotic. There is no platform that makes it easy to communicate local knowledge about the outdoors, so we decided to build that ecosystem.

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.

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. 

We find & match undervalued developers with modern companies. Recently, we've helped Mohammad land his first IT job at a 752k NOK salary. We delivered a top performer to TGN Energy in 2 days. We also helped Innovation Norway hire securely at scale with 49 job sim reports. All of this was made possible by deep IT job simulations; many times richer than traditional assessments.

FJONG is transforming the world’s second most polluting, $1.7-trillion global fashion industry by introducing a convenient way to rent and share clothes. We reinvent the way people consume, by providing clothing rentals from a limitless, virtual closet. Our goal is to be our customers’ digital stylist, matching them with personalized outfits that make it easy to save both money and the environment, without compromising style.  The FJONG team is ambitious, hardworking, creative and highly collaborative. We celebrate our diverse backgrounds from many different countries and industries.

Working Group Two enables product development and differentiation for telecom operators. It does this with public APIs and an app ecosystem on its cloud-native core network. It also collaborates with companies such as AWS, Atos and CCA to offer operators a simplified, end-to-end mobile network solution. If you love product development, green field projects, cloud computing, edge and Open RAN technologies, Working Group Two is for you!

Share Control AS offers SharePoint add-ons for Microsoft 365. Our tools include contract management, accounting according to IFRS 16 and financial leasing as well as a board portal in SharePoint. These tools ensure compliance with all the requirements of IFRS 16 and that you get a full overview of all your contracts. With tools that talk to each other across programs and devices, companies with Microsoft 365 are better equipped for our new digital everyday life, without compromising IT security. All products work as SharePoint add-ons for Microsoft 365 and are extremely affordable and useful for your business. The systems use their standard Microsoft 365 login to access Site Control pages (Sites), which provide unique accessibility and the ability to access and organize documents in any business. Share Control products for Microsoft 365 create a secure and structured workplace for the company, the accountants, the board, the contract manager, the HR and chief of staff, the project employees and others. The solutions are applicable to companies of all sizes. Quality assurance of our solutions is done in collaboration with law and audit firms. In 2023, Share Control also launched solutions for the Norwegian Transparency Act. ShareControl Transparency is built on the Power Platform and ensures efficient handling of the legislation. Correct use of modern productivity in Microsoft 365 facilitates smart, secure and efficient interaction in small, medium and large companies. Explore the possibilities with ShareControl today!

Spare is a SaaS platform that enables anyone, anywhere to launch a smart transportation service. Our mission is to empower cities to transform how their communities move with accessible, sustainable transportation networks, starting with on-demand microtransit! We believe in creating a space for everyone to share their ideas, empowering creativity and continuous learning. We're still at the beginning of our story, and every team member has a key role in shaping the upcoming chapters and Spare's direction. You will be able to influence your career progression and generate a lasting impact by making headway on the cause for shared mobility.

SOMESimplify is an AI social media tool for restaurants, cafés and bars. The owner takes a photo or a video on their phone, the app writes the caption in the venue's own voice, and the owner says yes before anything goes out. Posts are published to Instagram, Facebook and Google Business Profile, and video goes out as an Instagram Reel. Reviews from Google and Facebook, comments and messages land in one inbox with a reply already written. On the Pro plan, a guest who writes in German or Spanish gets a reply in their own language, and the owner reads a translation. "Plan the week" suggests drafts for the open days in the calendar. The problem: owners of small venues spend their evenings writing captions and replies instead of being with their guests. Agencies are too expensive, and generic tools are not made for hospitality. SOMESimplify keeps the venue's own photos and voice, and does the writing. Built for single venues, chains and marketing agencies with hospitality clients. Made in Kristiansand, Norway. Try it free for 14 days, no card.

InterviewCopilot is a privacy-first desktop app that helps candidates answer live interview questions with clarity and confidence. It detects each question in under a second and streams résumé- and job-description-aware guidance into a private overlay that stays outside screen shares. The app works alongside Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Webex without joining the call as a bot. Candidates use InterviewCopilot for behavioral, technical, coding, case, and system-design interviews. Live transcription preserves conversation context, screen analysis turns coding tasks and diagrams into focused guidance, and structured answer building adapts responses to STAR, technical trade-offs, or case frameworks. InterviewCopilot runs on macOS and Windows and offers unlimited use through a monthly or annual subscription.

Tind Studio is an AI consultancy that helps Nordic businesses turn AI from hype into working solutions, through hands-on advisory, custom implementations, and team enablement. Most companies know AI will reshape their business but don't know where to start. Tools are everywhere, vendors overpromise, and internal teams lack the time and expertise to separate signal from noise. The result: stalled pilots, wasted spend, and missed competitive advantage. We work side-by-side with leadership and operational teams to identify high-value AI use cases, build custom solutions (agents, automations, internal tools, AI-powered workflows), and train teams to actually use them. Pragmatic, fast, and focused on real business outcomes, not demos. The Why Founder Joakim saw too many companies burning budget on AI projects that never shipped or never got adopted. Tind exists to close that gap, turning AI from a boardroom topic into measurable results in the day-to-day work.

Signalforge is an AI-powered intelligence platform designed to map, track, and interpret the Nordic and European technology landscape. By converting fragmented market data into structured signals and emerging patterns, Signalforge helps investors, operators, founders, and analysts understand what is happening before it becomes consensus. The Nordic tech ecosystem generates thousands of signals daily. Most are noise. Some matter. Traditional approaches fail at scale. Press releases arrive too late. Databases lack context. News sites optimize for engagement, not insight. Signalforge exists to solve a specific problem: surface what matters before it becomes consensus. We do this through systematic data aggregation, pattern recognition, and machine-generated insight extraction. No editorial bias. No funding announcement republishing. No vanity metrics.