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Craft Games is a game development company in Trondheim, primarily founded in 2020. The focus is on online multiplayer browser games (HTML5/Canvas) and mobile games. After years of experience in the field, I am seeking to grow the company by hiring talent. Creating games that are played by millions of people is an amazing experience, and very rewarding.

At Kyoto we work to decarbonise industrial energy consumption by increasing the share of renewable energy sources used to generate industrial process heat. Kyoto Group AS was founded in 2018, and consists of 9 skilled full time employees, plus a handful of great helpers. Our largest investors are solid and forward leaning industry leaders in the green energy transition: Hydro Energi Invest AS, Kongsberg Innovasjon AS, and Valinor AS.

Aega ASA is a solar utility company that acquires and operates solar power plants. The company currently owns a portfolio of seven individual solar parks in the Umbria, Lazio, Abruzzo, Emilia-Romagna and Lombardia regions in Italy with a combined production capacity of 7MWp, and an initial annual electricity production of approximately 10GWh depending on the annual solar irradiation.  The company focuses on acquisitions of smaller existing solar parks (below 5MWp capacity), following strict investment criteria.  The company targets to reach a total production capacity of 20MW within 2017 by taking advantage of the current attractive market for secondary solar parks meeting the strict investment criteria.

Brandpad is where brands live and prosper. We provide a cloud-based platform, crafted by designers for designers, making it easy to deliver professional, functional, and beautiful brand guidelines. Our vision is to revolutionize the usage of visual identities.

Pixotope® is the world’s leading mixed reality solution for media production. Pixotope® allows media producers and content creators to produce new and exciting mixed reality content for television, online streaming, and film. Our product and services have been used in some of the largest live productions made in the last few years, such as Super Bowl, League of Legends Championship broadcasts, Eurovision, and The Weather Channels mixed reality experiences. A selection of these productions can be viewed on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Pixotope We are a global company with headquarters in Oslo and branch office in Cologne, Germany.

Zivid is the world’s most accurate real-time 3D color camera. Zivid, with its unique specifications, can be the eyes of your robot, ensure more robust performance and enable automation of tasks that were previously difficult or impossible to automate.

Play or mute any instrument whilst watching the video. Adjust volumes and pan each layer as you wish. Curious about that bass line? Strip down everything else. Feel like singing along? Switch to lyrics-mode. Want to learn how to play? Check out the chords &the sheet music. Or just sit back and create your own real-time remix. Plus there’s a special story section within each Oiid to discover more fascinating details about the artist, song & recording. We hope you’ll enjoy oiid as much as we do and that you will help us create a new dimension to music.

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.

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.

The EU AI Act creates new obligations and requirements across the AI value chain. The problem for companies impacted by his new regulatory change is understanding the impact on their processes. From third party integrations into AI systems to AI model monitoring and compliance checks, InfAI’s platform clarifies what companies have to do about the EU AI Act then gives them the tool do it.

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 .

**Fra befaring til kalkyle — på halve tiden** Wenn Property er en befaringsapp for håndverkere. Appen kombinerer 3D-skanning (LiDAR), AI-genererte rapporter og enkel deling — og brukes allerede av over 100 bedrifter i Norge. Vi digitaliserer befaringer for byggmestere, rørleggere, elektrikere og andre håndverkere, slik at de sparer tid og leverer mer profesjonelt. Med vår app kan du skanne rom innendørs med LiDAR, hente arealer og mål utendørs via adresseoppslag, og generere strukturerte befaringsrapporter med AI — alt fra én og samme plattform. Grunnlagt i 2023 i Stavanger. Vi har nettopp sikret ny finansiering og er klare for å skalere salget.

We test and build innovative consumer services and apps. Backed by the distribution and financial muscles of Norway's largest newspaper VG, while free of corporate policies and bureaucracy, we are able to take ideas from concept to reality in record time. Among our most recent innovations are the charging app Elton, the wishlist service Ønsk and the streaming service TV Guide. Now we are looking for talented people that can help us uncover the next killer app.

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.