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.

BrightAnalytics is the most intuitive, reliable and fast platform for consolidated reporting of financial and operational data. With BrightAnalytics you always have clear and accurate management reports at your fingertips, from the entire organization - cross divisions, cross operations and cross entities. Set up and connected in no time and familiar from day one, BrightAnalytics automates complex consolidated reporting and provides you with a most user-friendly interface to give full transparency to management, stakeholders and even the entire organization in real-time. Have a look at our career opportunities via https://www.brightanalytics.eu/careers/

Smart retailers have strong webshops and lots of tools and data to drive traffic and conversion. But most of their business is still conducted through their physical locations. Using our tools, the physical shops are able to communicate and adjust their customer experience to the individual. Using the existing payment cards and terminals, we recognize the customer and capture all relevant data as is the norm online. This unique information is used to design a better shopping experience in the physical space. Our customers are the well-known retail brands you know from shopping malls across Northern Europe and the malls themselves. Norway and the Nordics already lead the world in electronic payments and the use of mobile and SMS to enhance sales. Now, we are pushing this further by combining access to the existing infrastructure surrounding shopping and a digital mindset to build closer relationships between retailers, shopping venues and their customers. One example of a customer using our on-site technologies to build loyalty and traffic can be seen here: https://youtu.be/c0qcv7CtIZE

Coworking and innovation space in Tromsø with a natural flow of people, ideas and knowledge! We provide desks in open spaces and cubicles for more established entrepreneurs. We have full time, part time and lounge memberships available. Join our community and draw inspiration from the dynamic group of people and business around you. Come join our events, workshops and inspirational meetups. You can also rent our meeting rooms and event spaces for your own events.

Nordic Data Resources is a leading provider of online consumer data in the Nordics. Utilizing massive public, proletarian offline data and sophisticated geo-targeting Nordic Data Resources exclusively offer online targeting based on Mosaic, the world-leading consumer classification. Our data also include actual purchase data – like car ownership. This enable Nordic Data Resources to offer more than 500 online audiences in the Nordics. Nordic Data Resources provide safe, reliable and scalable online targeting opportunities throughout the marketing funnel and across all relevant devices and channels. The data are accessible on all major DSP platforms including Adform. The targeting data is used by six global agency groups and 85 different media agencies across Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. Our data set offer full reach, online audiences based on ground data matched with cookies, programmatically provided for effective use through the marketing funnel. We connect advertisers online marketing activities with CRM databases and make it available for multi channel distribution at reasonable price to capture and maximize unrealized audience value.

iNANOD AS is a nanotechnology based anticancer drug developing company operating from Oslo Cancer Cluster Incubator established in 2016.  The objective is to increase efficacy of cancer drugs and to reduce unintended side-effects for cancer patients and maximize their longevity. We have a strong group of people to deliver on the promise which comprises of our collaborators, scientific advisors and business advisors.   Our aim is to become a pharmaceutical company for anti cancer nanomedicines.  We will take a comprehensive approach, using collaborative research from many small projects and existing literature and infrastructure. Our team consisting of experts within nanotechnology, biology, chemistry, pharmacy and medicine. Our partnerships with research institutions, makes us well suited for developing and commercialising this technology. As the focus is on improved delivery, the technology can greatly improve safety and efficacy of existing cancer drugs. Moreover, the costly development of new drugs will not be necessary. Monetisation and exit will therefore be available in an earlier phase than normal within pharmaceutical development, through selling IPR to established pharmaceutical companies after clinical phase IIa. The Norwegian Research Council has granted our pre-project application in NANO 2021 call and research has started in August 2017. Innovasjon Norge has also supported us with mentoring hours. We are a member of Oslo Cancer Cluster now.

We are a family business located on the island of Gossen in Northwestern Norway. Our goal is to reinvigorate Norway’s centuries old production of sea salt.We are a Norwegian producer of all natural sea salts. Our clean mineral-rich sea and dedication to quality gives our salt its great character, taste and personality. Our Flake Salt HAVSNØ [Snow of the SEA] is available in stores in Norway, Germany and USA and can be tasted in some of the worlds best restaurants.

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.

Bridge Technologies creates advanced systems for ensuring high-quality, profitable digital media service delivery in broadcast, cable, satellite, OTT and telecoms applications. Providing a sophisticated platform for converging digital media services, the company’s award-winning products and solutions include analysis, measurement, and monitoring systems, intelligent redundancy switching, and comprehensive analytics solutions for TV-Everywhere providers. Compatible with all major industrial standards, ruggedised for reliability in challenging environments, and built for low-energy operation, Bridge Technologies systems bring greater efficiency to digital media businesses by making it simpler to manage complexity.

The Hive Initiative is creating tools to help companies integrate adaptation and mitigation efforts within their organisation through design-thinking workshops and implementation frameworks. As our planet warms and ecosystems continue to change, businesses will be increasingly required to make meaningful- and reportable- changes. As most people do not have a background in environmental science, it can be challenging to understand the full picture and how roles can be adapted. And while sustainability courses and seminars convey knowledge, it remains challenging to keep the energy high, the culture empowered, and the knowledge put into practice. The Hive Initiative’s Mini Climate Summit makes it easy to address these challenges. It brings employees together in real time to learn science-based facts and then gives them a forum to collaborate on solutions. With ideas captured and implemented, KPIs are met, ESG requirements are fulfilled and culture is strengthened. The result: more minds that help make company sustainability more active, enabled and empowered, which in turn makes society more educated and resilient. We are a group of people with high levels of climate anxiety- but also high levels of optimism. We want to use our skills in design and communication to make it easier for everyone to stay educated, hopeful and empowered, which will make it much easier for all of us to adapt to our changing world. As the founder, I wanted to work on solutions every day, and did so while having a day job. After 4 years, myself and my collaborators have built up a good product prototype, solid relationships with other climate orgs, and solid vision of what we hope to achieve. So it was the right time to focus on this fully. I really do believe that all of us want a world that is fair for everyone and is in harmony nature. We just have to figure out how to get there.

Quantfolio is a Bergen based Fintech company delivering “AI-in-a-box” components for banks & wealth managers with a digitial presence. Through open API´s and machine learning algorithms we empower banks and WM’s with our AI investment components to provide their customers with anything from automated low cost savings portfolios to sophisticated investment strategies normally reserved for HNW individuals. Our team consist of passionate and highly skilled individuals, ranging from serial entrepreneurs, traders, quants and developers with PhDs within machine learning. Quantfolio is partly owned by Skandiabanken, Norway’s largest challenger bank, also our first customer launching Q3/Q4 2017.Our HQ is based in Bergen with a quant team based in San Diego.

CYBERSECURITY FOR INDUSTRIAL NETWORKS AND CONTROL SYSTEMS Secure-NOK® is a technology company providing cybersecurity solutions for monitoring industrial networks (OT), and for detecting vulnerable areas. The company has vast experience and recognized technology, and has participated in several research projects with outstanding results. The technology (SNOK) can detect any abnormal event in a network and prevent important infrastructure from experiencing downtime due to malicious attack. Today, most industries are digitized, and thus more exposed to attacks from the outside. With technology from Secure-NOK, such attacks will be detected early, and thus avoid damage and downtime. Secure-NOK has developed patented sensors which are installed in a OT network, and which capture and report any abnormal traffic. The company has sensors for both networks, end-stations and PLC systems.

We are disrupting heavy construction. They build roads and infrastructure for billions of NOK/USD/EUR. But paper and old-school applications are still the things when it comes to data collection and reporting. We have cracked some of the code and have landed contracts with some of the biggest construction companies in the world. Are you the kind of person that would like to join a startup in the beginning? Take charge of your field, and help us become the global leader that we have the potential to be. All that stands between us and international success is us - and you. Can we execute well enough? We have a base product. The market has already accepted us. Do you want to join the core team? Reach out to us! We are especially on the lookout for the following areas. But please reach out if you think you have anything of value to us! - UX / front-end (future stack is react-based, you will help us mold it) - Native gurus (iOS/Android)

A specialist travel company focusing on tours and voyages to the Nordic & Arctic regions, Scandinavia, Greenland, Iceland, Russia, Mongolia and the Baltics, with offices in Norway and Australia. 50 Degrees North is a niche, independently owned, specialist travel company that aims to give you a little more than just a holiday. We specialise regionally, as we believe it is not possible to be good at everything. We also focus on offering the most enriching style of travel. Not necessarily cheap, but rewarding, full of real-life experiences and with incredible value for money. If you are just as excited about Nordic and Arctic travel as we are, join our fast-growing international team here in Norway!

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.