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.

Age Labs is a Norwegian molecular diagnostics company that discovers, develops and commercializes biomarkers for the early detection of age-related diseases. We offer a service for evaluating epigenetic drug effects for use in clinical trials. Our biomarker discovery pipeline includes a biological age predictor and a test predicting the severity of COVID-19 infection. To date, we have raised 30 MNOK in private and public funding, and became a Nordic Startup Awards finalist in 2020. We are supported by strong commercial and R&D partners, including Oslo University Hospital, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Merck Group and Fürst Medical Laboratory. Our mission is to develop novel precision biomarkers for the early detection of age related diseases to extend the human healthspan.

Workzilla is a service through an app that makes it easy to find cafes, bars, and restaurant that one can work at, the service guarantees that the customer will have an available electrical outlet, fast wifi, and a reserved spot when he/she arrives. Workzilla is perfect for those that appreciate dynamic soundings while working.A Workzilla day pass will give the customer the safety and frictionless experience of choosing a cafe/restaurant/bar as a productive work spot. We think our ideas can shape the future through hard work.“Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different… to think out of the box.” -Walter Isaacson

We’re Cxense. We revolutionize individual online customer experiences to increase your digital revenue. With our insight, we make experiences memorable, relevant, and engaging. We help businesses succeed in a digital world. Using audience data and advanced real-time analytics, we create hyper-relevant content recommendations (including video) and a personalized user experience that helps you increase your digital revenue and build a sustainable digital business model.  We work with brands such as Rakuten, Aeon, Wall Street Journal, Next.co.jp, South China Morning Post, Winnipeg Free Press, Grupo Clarin, NBC Universal, and many more.

Tikkio er en løsning for enkel, billig og trygg håndtering av små og store arrangement, inkludert kjøp og salg av billetter, mat, drikke og andre varer, samt organisering av ansatte og frivillige. Det er gratis å ta i bruk Tikkio både for arrangører og kunder. Arrangører betaler kun en avtalt provisjon (vanligvis 4%) på oppnådd omsetning.Tikkio.com eller mobilapp brukes av både arrangør og kunde. Det er ingen faste kostnader ved å bruke systemet og ingen oppstartskostnader. Systemet passer for alle som vil arrangere noe - store og små - og som arbeider med frivillighet - festivaler, idrettslag, musikkorps og turistforeninger.

We connect travelers with locals who guide, plan, and assist with every step of your journey. TLAMA is developing a two-sided travel marketplace to help independent travelers solve the problem of generic, AI-generated trip planning with real human expertise instead. Verified local guides — "lamas" — plan each trip upfront with mapped locations tailored to the traveler, then stay reachable via WhatsApp throughout the journey to answer questions, adjust plans, and share local knowledge no algorithm has. Lamas sell their availability and expertise, not billable hours, and keep 90% of every booking, with 9% funding platform operations and 1% going to 1% for the Planet — turning travel into a source of income for locals and a source of genuine connection for travelers.

Vi er et norsk agri-tech-selskap etablert som en joint venture-startup, eid av TINE SA, Felleskjøpet Agri og Gjensidige. Vi utvikler digitale løsninger og dataprodukter som bidrar til mer effektiv og bærekraftig matproduksjon, i samarbeid med bønder og aktører i landbruksnæringen. Med utgangspunkt i data gir vi bønder viktig innsikt til planlegging og forbedringer i sin gårdsproduksjon.

Asenti uses AI to review construction project documents and detect errors, inconsistencies, and missing information before they cause problems on site. By improving quality control early in the process, we help construction teams reduce costly mistakes, avoid rework, and improve coordination across disciplines.

Smart, personal, and free advisory service for small and medium-sized businesses seeking new offices. At Spacefinder, we know that finding the right office solution can be both time-consuming and challenging. An office is one of the biggest decisions and commitments a company makes, and a poor agreement can quickly end up costing more than you might think. Access to the entire market, personal guidance, and digital solutions, so that small and medium-sized businesses can focus on what they do best: creating value.

Zeproc (www.zeproc.com) is a data and AI-driven marketplace consolidating Non-strategic supply for industrial businesses on a single platform, starting with tail-end consumables. We envision building the procurement platform for industrial 4.0 businesses, lowering costs and the environmental impact of consumption by opening access to high-quality suppliers, managing cradle-to-gate carbon footprint, and tailor-fit procurement solutions.

Aker-owned industrial scale-up seeking to industrialize and digitize the operations and maintenance (O&M) in the energy sector. Out business model is based on being the orchestrator in the value chain and reduce sub-optimal decision making and value-leakage during the project phase. Føn has offices in Oslo, Stavanger, Sweden and Denmark and soon also UK.

Vandre is a young Norwegian tech company with the ambition to impact the environmental situation by making textile brands succeed in reducing their footprint by making clothes and garments live longer. The world’s garbage piles are growing. In 2021, 40.000 tons of used fashion clothes ended up in the Atacama desert in Chile as their final destination. This is just one example of how the textile industry is not even close to being sustainable. The sports and textile industries face strict requirements and a major upheaval, when the EU is planning to introduce sustainability reporting and requirements to offer consumers repair of products in 2025. Our platform connects brands in the industry with certified repair centres and facilitates a seamless user journey with logistics and payment options. The platform is also a sought-after tool at repair centres, as it helps to make their daily operations more efficient. We have currently launched in Norway, and plan to expand to the rest of the Nordics and beyond in the future. Our HQ is in a co-working space office in downtown Oslo – a two-minute walk from Nationaltheatret, where we share office with a small PE fund, and have lunch break together with. We also have employees in other cities working remotely. As a small team, some of us are quite often on the go and strive to stick to our digital workplace practices as much as possible. This enables the whole team to work quite flexibly when needed, together with some well-appreciated face time at the office as often as possible. Today the team is communicating openly using Slack and ClickUp to organise daily work and product development. There you will feel the motivating and active vibe from the other team members, our CEO Henriette, and our always-on-the-go working Chairman and brand relationship manager Simen. We are still a small team, but team spirit we have and everyone is highly motivated to make a difference in the world and help grow Vandre to reach it's full potential. Our culture is built on trust, freedom and humour. As most team members work from home most of the time, we always strive to be available during the working hours, and prioritise weekly meetings to stimulate the team spirit being a partly remote team. In addition we believe in a high level of freedom for each colleague to find their own optimal w/l balance. Prioritising a run before lunch or picking up kids in the afternoon is all up to the individual colleague. You know best what works for you. Finally our culture is also characterised by a high level of humour, with lots of laughs and a good vibe between team members. Our team today consists of passionate and skilled people representing deep industry knowledge and experience. We are constantly open-minded scouting for entrepreneurs with a varied skill sets with the proper drive to take us forward, together with a few dedicated roles (as below). We are looking for employees who always strive to develop themselves and our organisation. We expect you to be committed and eager and to have the ability to work in teams. The team is characterised by an entrepreneurial and innovative mindset. Working at Vandre you join our effort to create a better and more sustainable textile industry, you will be part a highly dedicated and ambitious team with great and talented colleagues who love their job, and last but not least you will have fun at work.

We predict the risk of forest fires in Mediterranean, sub-tropical and temperate forests using Geospatial data and AI. We aim to drive financial resources and data-driven decision-making into the forestland communities to mitigate the risk of wildfires and regenerate forests into resilient biodiverse carbon sinks.

BitPet is an AR multiplayer mobile game making physical activity fun and social. Each player has a pet whose health depends on the activity from their step counter, and players can meet each other's pets in multiplayer AR which is fun and social. The idea for the game is based on research by a professor of game technology and co-founder of Kahoot! The game is currently in early beta and will be launched commercially in 2023.