We believe the key to solving the world's two billion waste problem is to motivate people and companies to reduce waste and benefit from the circular economy. We do this by integrating data from all types of digital hardware to understand where waste comes from, and we use this data to reward sustainable behaviour. Our company was born in the waste industry and designed to change it. During the past year, we've launched a new brand, started building an insane team, won the Proptech Award 2021, and gone from 1 to 10 customers. All regulatory winds blow our way and we're ready to conquer the world.

The story of Lingu started in the non-profit organization KIA which works with integration and Norwegian language teaching. The founders Edward Milsom and Odd Bjerga worked in this organization and came into contact with skilled and resourceful people from many different countries. The idea of ​​Lingu arose in this context of migration and communication, and human talents. The website lingu.no was launched on 16 December 2008, and our first language course started on KIA's premises in January 2009, with course providers from KIA's network. Since its inception, the company has grown and become a leading player in the language market in Norway. Lingu is today an ed-tech company and course provider with course centers in several cities. The company's management consists of an innovative and curious crew with a long career in adult education and a heart for language, technology, and pedagogy. As a company, we want to offer engaging and digital solutions for our users, as well as facilitate personal development for the people we work with. By linking talent, technology, and pedagogy, we create products and services that enable communication and interaction across language barriers. Our products and services will expand the horizons for people, and create both new career opportunities and greater tolerance in a diverse world. Our vision is to help millions of learners master new languages ​​through local classrooms and online learning. Our mission is to merge technology and pedagogy, and give the teacher digital superpowers: Create language heroes who expand human horizons

Crystallize was founded in 2017 based on two principles: Using Internet craftsmanship to design and engineer the best headless eCommerce service for building a business online. Utilizing the same principles of internet craftsmanship in every aspect when we build our own company and defining our own business model. Giving us an extreme focus on removing friction to free up resources and focus on what really matters; team, customers, product and growth. Creating even more value for our customers and partners. Exemplified by our simplified legal framework and the way we price our service with a free tier with generous quotas and no limit on features to how we build our globally distributed team and digital customer journey. We want to use these principles to build a movement based on Internet craftsmanship. With our approach, we want to support the craftswomen and craftsmen of the Internet to build: a tailored made customer experience with beautiful service design. Merging customer interaction, digital service and business. Service designers bliss. #CX (customer experience)Beautiful and efficient user interfaces #UX (user experience)Custom fit information architecture and content modelling to fit your business. Not one size fits all. A dream for information architects and content strategists. #IA (information architecture)Super fast and easy-to-use APIs and open-source starters for developer happiness. #DX (developer experience) Enable business owners to make better decisions based on insight and data. Design ♥️ engineering - in every aspect. Crystallize is a New Normal Group company that has been at the frontier of digital technology and business models for the last twenty years, we have learnt the lessons for what to do and more importantly; what not to do. What to leave out. Both in terms of product scope as well as for your own business model. The founding brothers Bård and Aleksander Farstad have taken earlier ventures to the global scale, serving some of the most demanding clients globally, like The Economist, Financial Times, KitchenAid and NASA, building global ecosystems of partners and developers across all continents. New Normal Group is a venture accelerator and investor, founded by Bård, Aleksander and their partners, with a mission to build exponential software companies that chase the new normal of their industry. Being extremely hands-on, strategically and systematically supporting founding teams while at the same time supporting them with funding and resources so they can focus on what matters the most; building a world-class team, creating products customers love and driving growth. As we ourselves also are entrepreneurs, Crystallize is a venture fully incubated by the New Normal Group in 2017. Now a fully independent company, where Bård spends all his time as CEO, Crystallize still enjoys being a New Normal Group company. With their support we can still focus on what matters most; building the ultimate headless commerce service that redefines how to build, grow and succeed with business online, while pushing the boundaries of internet craftsmanship.

Etain is a software company founded by lawyers, technologists, finance experts, and industry leaders determined to enable better collaboration and automation of legal and business processes within all aspects of the corporate world. Our first software products are already in use in large legal projects handled by the most prestigious law firms in Scandinavia.

At Aivero we strive to bring AI to industrial robotics. We are a young and dynamic startup with offices in Norway and Denmark Aivero is a Scandinavian startup founded in 2017 with a mission to democratize automation by simplifying robotic control to the point where anyone can deploy and operate them. No more code, programming, or complex path planning—vision-guided robotics automates this too.

Iterate is an ecosystem for digital innovation, and we like to describe ourselves as a company that builds companies. We contribute from A-Z when building, starting with creating concepts based on key insights to launching and improving products whilst living in the marketplace. We find the right team and work toward the company culture that enables us to deliver value to our customers quickly. The key to achieving this is reinvesting all our profits in the ideas of our employees, or selected entrepreneurs. Five years into this strategy, we own shares in fifteen ventures; all of which are showing promising results. Our 70 designers, developers, and product managers just moved into new locations in the center of Oslo. 
Close collaboration with our customers is key to our success. They provide domain know-how, and we provide tools, strategies, and experts. Together we uncover the best way that connects your strategy and idea with the market needs. Our goal is to achieve minimum risk and give our customers the best possible starting point for scaling, on their own, or in continued collaboration.

New drugs for treating diseases of Down syndrome. More than 1% of the global GDP is spent on nursing demented people, and the number requiring nursing will triple within 2050. The disease is progressive, leading to death. There is no current cure available, only symptomatic treatments. Individuals born with Down syndrome have a more than 10x risk of developing dementia as well as a host of other diseases including diabetes. Our drug target, DYRK1A is an enzyme found on chromosome 21, and is considered a key factor determining developmental and medical challenges faced by individuals with Down. The enzyme interacts with multiple biological mechanisms involved in Alzheimer’s and autoimmune diseases. Advanced drug designUsing advanced drug design technologies, we have designed a potent DYRK1A inhibitor drug, PST-900. A use and substance of matter patent have been applied for. The company is currently working on chemical Lead Optimisation with 8 full-time medicinal chemists contracted.Financing and milestonesThe Company raised NOK 5 million in 2015 and 8.8 MNOK in 2016/2017, matching non-dilutive research (BIA) and business grants (Innovation Norway). We demonstrated Proof of Principle in a model system for Alzheimer’s disease in 2Q2016. We have also demonstrated that our drug is capable of reversing diabetes in an animal model. Together with clinical and regulatory advisors, we have identified an important unmet need for a drug to treat newly diagnosed diabetes. We will use this indication to quickly progress to market and from there develop analogous drug molecules in Alzheimer’s disease, focused especially in Down syndrome. Funding soughtThe current funding round will raise 15+ MNOK to fund the progression to the final Development Candidate during 2018. Following this, further funding will be sought to perform toxicology/safety and Phase 1 clinical studies. A highly experienced teamThe team behind Pharmasum Therapeutics have broad, international pharmaceutical and biotechnology experience, and is supported by an excellent group of advisors. Anders Fugelli, Ph.D., CEO. John Sigurd Svendsen, Ph.D., CSO. Pauline Stewart-Long, Ph.D. Project Management. Henning Mork, CFO. Board of Directors: Andrew Parsons, PhD. Øystein Soug, MSc. Mark Treherne, PhD, John Sigurd Svendsen, PhD.

BusinessClass.com is a sophisticated travel tech startup. Our vision is to become the global leader in premium travel by offering the best travel search, the best travel offers, as well as world-class reviews and other inspirational content. BusinessClass.com is targeting the more quality-minded travellers who want the best travel products at the best possible prices. BusinessClass.com is suitable for both corporate & leisure travel, offering top-quality airline tickets and accommodation. The team and advisers at BusinessClass.com have extensive travel tech industry knowledge. Founder Jason Eckhoff was EY Entrepreneur Of The Year in 2013 when his first online travel company had beaten 28.000 growth companies over a 4-year period. BusinessClass.com is (other than the founder/CEO) backed by a former C-level manager of a major airline and a co-founder of a unicorn (a company valued at more than 1 USD billion). We are currently considering raising additional risk capital for further developing BusinessClass.com and creating the world's best search engine for premium travel!

Ecomerden is a complete producer of semi-closed cage systems for Aquaculture founded in 2012. With over 25 years of experience in delivering technology in the aquaculture industry, we started developing Ecomerden, a European patented semi-closed system for the lice-free production of fish. By 2015 the first cage was installed in Solund. Sogn & Fjordane. Here we have produced lice-free post-smolt of Atlantic salmon (90 grams-1kg) for 2 years with groundbreaking results. Using Ecomerden as a combination in the production line of the fish not only prevents lice pressure but also makes a more robust smolt ready for the open cages. With the results so far showing that the technology and biology are working, the company is now ready for commercialization.

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!

Lawo Lab is a startup company based out of a small town in the south of Norway with an international aim. Started by 4 main founders in 2018, our goal is to innovate and improve solutions for our clients. With a wide base of experience from several types of industries we offer a new look at old problems. Core business is software development and hardware prototyping with the capability to initiate projects from start to finish in house.

‘Pick Your Pour’ is a unique digital menu - opening the world of taste in food and drink for everyone. Knowing how confusing a menu with lists of unknown ingredients and names can be, we aim to make it easier for guests to find something they like. ‘Pick Your Pour’ will customise a personal menu for every guest depending on what they’re looking for through a series of itemised questions. Saving both time and energy in this process will improve the customer experience in your restaurant or bar. We aspire to be a valued tool for both the service industry professionals and their guests. The founding idea was the wish to provide a possibility for curious customers to find new cocktails on their own, knowing they would enjoy the originality of their choice. Combining efficiency and customer interaction. We are currently developing a software program with the digital cocktail menu for restaurants and bars that want to increase their beverage sales and develop their in-house knowledge.

With our sharing-economy concept Leid, we are on a mission to change consumption one rental at a time. Our goal is to make equipment rental the obvious choice for all your home projects. We have made sure that the customer can book what they need and be able to pick up instantly. They get the perfect “equipment” for the job without having to pay a fortune for those 30 seconds they needed it. Instead of the glue gun ending up forgotten at the bottom of the drawer. We make sure that it gets a lifetime of usage.

Building the new standard for measuring programming skills, to give every developer who loves to write great code a seat at the table. We offer a platform of skill analysis where developers can validate coding skills in a relevant and realistic manner, with access to tools needed and with objective scores.

At Fintech Innovation, we are building revolutionary systems for the global financial and bank sector. We specialize in the supply of mobile first financial products, biometrics and blockchain technology. With a modern and uniquely simple approach to our development, we strive to offer the most cost effective solutions for the market.