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SignLab

The Pitch SignLab helps families that need to learn sign language or sign-assisted communication to communicate The What Parents to children who are severely hard of hearing or deaf need to learn sign language to communicate. Today, only 1 in 4 parents to deaf children in high-income countries manage to learn sign language. In low-income countries, it is believed to be less than 1 in 10. Families with individuals that benefit from sign-assisted communication face the same challenge. These include the parents to children with Down Syndrome, severe autism or Cerebral palsy. The How An international learning platform for sign languages and sign-assisted communication. The SignLab learning platform is fully digital and can incorporate new languages within weeks. The user only needs access to a smartphone or a computer. The platform makes it fun and easy to learn through gamification and timed encouragement. To ensure that the user gets the most out of every learning session, our review functionality incorporates an AI that knows what signs you are about to forget. The AI then designs a learning session that is tailored to the individual user’s need. Our curriculum is designed in cooperation with sign language teachers in each language. The platform launched in open beta in Norway November 2018. Feedback from parents and sign language teachers gave it a NPS of +64. The platform saw exponential growth with an average growth rate of 276% each month for the first three months (Nov-Feb). This growth all came from word of mouth, $0 spent on marketing. The Why Today less than 10% of the 64 million parents to deaf and hard of hearing children know sign language due to the low availability of education centers. Exclusion from communication have a significant impact on everyday life, causing feelings of loneliness, isolation, and frustration. The inability to properly communicate have a significantly adverse effect on the academic performance of children. SignLab works towards a society where all families have access to teaching themself, their children and their community signs and sign language so that everyone can feel included.

Strategy Tools

STRATEGY TOOLS Strategy Tools is busy building the Modern Strategist Platform. We run a global strategy platform with users in 100+ countries. Our customers are accelerators, strategy directors, top management, business schools, innovation clusters and more. We already have customers in 60+ countries and we love what we do.  We are based in Stavanger,  but happily work remotely and travel globally. You  can too, if you join us, work from anywhere. Seriously. We look forward to connecting with you.

Nordic Impact

Nordic impact is the investment arm of the EXP Group, focusing on impact investments and social entrepreneurship. The main activity is investing in early stage impact tech startups, and we also support projects that further impact investing and social entrepreneurship.  Nordic Impact are part of the Katapult World, a network creating a positive impact on our future society. We invest, support and teach early stage impact tech startups or projects that strive to solve the world’s most pressing problems through the use of exponential technologies and artificial intelligence.

Iconfirm AS

Iconfirm is a comprensive platform that bridges the gap between privacy, IT security and operations. Re-use of structured data for multiple purposes and perspectives help break administrative silos and cut ad-hoc reporting - within the organization and across the value chain. Iconfirms innovative solution was recognized in Gartners Market guide to Subject Rights Request Automation already in february 2020. The platform facilitates the distribution of responsibility to line management whilst central management retain an overview. Thus, resolving tasks where the knowledge is. Organizations pursue innovation and digitalization to grow value. Privacy is essential to ensure that the gains are sustainable. Failing to meet the requirements may ban processing, disqualify business, ruin reputation and be fined. Hence, privacy is a business risk, not a compliance risk. Iconfirm help organizations meet the burden of proof with less efforts. Open APIs enable sharing and syncronization of data and to embedd privacy governance and reporting as part of operations. Key functionality include Privacy management, Vendor management, Consent management, Subject Rights requests management, Risk management, Incident management, Reporting and dashboards. Iconfirm has a unique offering that also includes a special module for data processors. The platform also offers the opportunity to create closed networks for sharing of templates as well as data collaboration. We also provide a citizen centric approach to privacy. Build trust and manage the relationships with data subjects through the privacy portal. 

Rain Games

Rain Games AS is a Norwegian independent video game developer forged from a cooperative community of local artists and programmers. Our team is diverse in both talents and interests, but we share a common goal: To create games that are fun and challenging. In 2013 we released Teslagrad, is a 2D puzzle platformer that has sold over 1.6 million copies worldwide. Our most recent title is World to the West, an action-adventure game that takes place in the same world as Teslagrad, with four all-new characters thrust into a mysterious quest.

YAY Images

We're different. We want to change how people use stock images. We are a small group of passionate people who are on a mission to simplify and improve the way we all use stock images online ..and offline. We provide premium stock images, vectors and illustrations for download and streaming.

Blueye Robotics

Born and developed in Norway, famous for its rough coastline and world-leading subsea expertise, Blueye will provide the world’s finest underwater drone for ocean exploration. It provides you with unprecedented access to the hidden world below the surface.Blueye Pioneer is developed and tested in rough Nordic conditions. With years of experience from working with the ocean, we know how to make the tools you need to tackle challenging currents and high seas.

Cake it easy

Cake it easy is changing the cake business. We have built a powerful platform connecting local bakers and customers. We have so far recruited more than 400 local bakeries in Norway and Sweden and we have started to grow into other countries. We create value by uniting local vendors, simplifying the sales process and optimizing the distribution.

Bsure

Bsure is a fast-growing Norwegian SaaS company that helps organisations gain control of their users, access and license costs in the Microsoft ecosystem. Today, many companies lack visibility of the totality of all their users. Who are they, who has access to what, which accounts are still active, and what they are actually paying for, this is creating unnecessary costs and security risks. Bsure solves this by providing a modern platform that brings all this data together, visualises risks and cost drivers, and gives actionable recommendations that make it easy to clean up, optimise and stay secure. The result is better security, lower costs and full visibility. We’re backed by international investors, we’re growing quickly, and we’re building a product with global potential. Joining Bsure means having real influence, real responsibility and the chance to help shape a company on its way to international success.

Empower

We were founded in February 2018 with the idea that giving plastic a value, we could get it removed from nature. A bit like the bottle deposit system, but for all kinds of plastic! We have gained amazing traction since we started, from being featured in Forbes and The Independent and invited to a panel at the first OECD forum on Blockchain to winning awards and being the only Nordic initiative among the 25 development projects/ SDG solutions selected to be showcased at Expo 2021 Dubai’s Global Best Practice Programme. We have done cleanups and pilots in more than 15 countries, proving that this really does work! Now we are building a global plastic waste ecosystem to incentivize cleanup and track where the plastic ends - most of it ideally back to reuse! The next step is to bring our vision to more places and create a truly innovative system than can help solve some of the big problems with plastic waste (of which there are more than you might imagine).

ShareLab

ShareLab incubator is about to be established at Oslo Science Park in Oslo. This role as ShareLab Incubator Manager is a unique and highly rewarding opportunity to join a newly established laboratory based life science incubator, where the goal is to build a new generation of biotech startups in Norway. You will be joining a small team responsible for growing the ShareLab incubator into one of the leading life science incubation communities in the country.

Staffer.ai

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 .

Productivo

Turning trends into profit - The platform helping consumer goods companies commercialize trends. We are pioneers in Data Technology, Trends, and AI for the consumer goods industry. We are looking for the best people to join our team and be part of building the future. Great culture, great people, and an impactful company. Want to join an exciting and growing company with global ambitions? Want to be part of building the future? Get in contact with us Visit our website: https://productivo.ai/ Follow our LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/productivo-ai/

Bliksund

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.

Empire AI

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.