We’re building Teston, a tool that will take all the hassle out of user testing. Our dream is a world with only user-friendly products, where technology truly serves people of all ages and backgrounds. Where technology supports us in our daily life instead of causing frustration and confusion. In addition to having a strong user- and customer-focus, we also care about creating a great work culture and environment for our team. We’re currently a small (but growing!) start-up, meaning that every single person helps shape the way we work, how we interact with each other, and the way we build products.

The agonizing 15 bilion problem of sealice infection have troubled the aquaculture industry for decades. We want to provide a solution to tackle the sea lice problem from its very beginning.Blue Lice wants to switch focus from treatment to prevention!By catching sealice before the fish gets infected we reduce selice before it becomes a problem. Our product will make healthier more sustainable seafarming.Blue Lice have found a way to attract, capture and contain sealice before infecting the fish.

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.

We're an web/app agency creating brilliant digital solutions with our customers, not for them. We believe in human-centric co-creation. The end-user is the ultimate authority on his own needs.   We're based in Tunis, Berlin and Oslo with flexible collaboration models, including full-time employees, talent headhunters, freelance developers & designers and Eric the nomadic CEO.   We have clients in all sectors, from Norway's largest humanitarian organization NRC, to bad-ass skincare brand BAD NORWEGIAN.

Ope™ is modular furniture designed for reuse and sustainability. Like with LEGO, you can build and rebuild variations in infinite from the same basic components — making redecorating cost and waste-free. Our solutions transform open-plan offices into good working environments through variety and flexibility. Each cube can be opened or closed. Giving you endless possibilities to customize solutions for different rooms and employees. Wool cushions act as sound absorbers and bring color to the interior. With Ope, you get a Kinder-egg; storage, shielding, and sound dampening. You get a room divider without closing off the light - and which is open enough so that it inspires interaction. You can also create a room within the room and make social spaces. The click patent in the connectors is the key that enables you to easily assemble the modules so that you can customize solutions to get the best working environment for your office and employees - and you can rebuild and expand with just a few clicks. Ope™ was designed by Lars Urheim and Eirik Høvik Helgesen and has an elegant Scandinavian design that lets in light from all sides and gives it a soft and modern look. Influenced by the modern Scandinavian lifestyle, Ope™ set out to create a timeless furniture system to meet demands for sustainability, flexibility, and individuality. Ope™ challenges the idea that furniture must be a static object and is unique in the sense that the form and function are decided by the user. Ope makes it easy to make a sustainable choice. Please contact us to find out how Ope can improve your working environment.

Simplified Business Administration BizBot helps entrepreneurs and investors get an overview of shares and convertible notes, enabling effective management on an easy to use and connected platform. Our goal is to simplify business administration by making all companies 100% digital. Then you can administrate your company from anywhere.

BUILDING HAPPY SOFTWARE MOTHERSHIPS The truth is out – in the future every company will be a software company. Meet Witted Megacorp. The enterprise that exists to be the universal change. With Witted’s help companies are reborn — as software motherships. Those ships will eventually sail independently. Instead of mere consultancy or individual projects or talents, we will enable our clients to own their internal software capability. The ethos of internal experimentation and development makes business soar. With a beyond normative spirit, radiating warm light. Witted is way more than one way of creating the best work-life for senior IT professionals. We win the competition for talent because one size does not fit all. Because of that we have built our business to encompass several different working models. All geared to be the best option for people who have sailed the treacherous seas of the IT industry long enough to demand more from their employer. We change the world, one happy software mothership at a time. Let’s take the trip together. We are your friend, the one mad enough to transform your game.

We’re building a Nordic marketplace for building and renovation, where home owners and real estate developers meet quality assured contractors and architects. Our goal is to streamline the pre-construction process by providing our customers with a simple and highly effective tool for finding the right company. We believe in data based decision making, meaning that the smartest way to find the right contractor or architect for a given project is by real time analysis of large amounts of data. Combining this with an industry leading quality assurance methodology makes Byggstart the go-to marketplace to help people build and renovate fearlessly. Want to more? Check out www.byggstart.no / www.byggstart.se or get in touch!

MiniMeis is a new Norwegian-made, patented product that gives your child the best view from your shoulders. It is ergonomically designed and collapsible. You carry the child in a comfortable and ergonomically correct way as the weight of the child is placed on top of your shoulders, distributing the weight evenly through your body. Unlike traditional carrying devices where you carry the child on your back, pulling you back.This enables you to stand longer and walk longer without being tired, compared to just carrying the child on your shoulders or in a traditional carrying device.  ONE product that follows your child for many years. From 6 months your child sits firmly on your shoulders, strapped in with a 5 point seat belt.. Safe and sound! As the child grows there is no need to use the seat belts, and you change the seat cover to one without traps. The safety aspect is then through fastening the child with the leg straps.

Squarehead Technology provides advanced microphone array systems for audio capture and acoustical zoom. A microphone array  combines a large number of individual microphones to create a highly directional audio output.  The challenge of isolating and capturing desired sound in noisy environments is a well-known problem. Our products allow an operator to zoom in on a particular area and record sound in much the same way a camera zooms in a scene. This is achieved by using sophisticated digital signal processing of audio from several hundred microphones combined into a single system. All audio channels are high quality digital signals that can be recorded without any loss.

Surfact turns ocean waste into smart sensors that give cargo a voice - saving food, medicine, and money. Our mission is to prevent the $1 trillion waste crisis in food and pharmaceuticals. Built in Norway with military-grade durability and sensor accuracy, our Emma tracker alerts companies before shipments go bad so action can be taken in time. We’re already protecting global brands like McDonald’s — cutting spoilage, costs, and waste worldwide.

StudyBuddies is developing an AI-powered platform to help students form effective, diverse study groups. We solve the challenge of connecting students who struggle with collaboration or feel isolated, using AI to create personalized group matches and foster success throughout their studies. Research shows that a lack of social and academic connections leads to lower engagement and retention rates. We address student isolation and ineffective teamwork—problems that impact academic performance and overall well-being. These issues are prevalent, with studies showing that up to 40% of students feel disconnected during their education. Our focus is on empowering students with tailored study groups that drive learning outcomes and create lasting networks. StudyBuddies leverages AI algorithms to match students based on study preferences, goals, and academic strengths. Our platform includes tools to track progress, promote accountability, and provide real-time feedback. We ensure that all students, regardless of background, can find a supportive community and thrive academically. The idea for StudyBuddies came from my own experiences as a student. I’ve faced group assignments where I ended up without a group at all and failed, and I’ve seen others struggle and lose motivation because they felt lonely and unsupported. These experiences made it clear to me that there has to be a better way to create effective groups and academic communities. This became the driving force behind starting StudyBuddies.

Hera Solutions is an early-stage startup developing technology within the transportation and logistics sector. We are developing a robust and secure system for the electronic transmission of shipping information, through our first product Hera Road. We offer a driver application and administration panel to transport companies for a real-time overview of goods during transport, which simplifies communication, handling and documentation of tasks carried out. As a young company, flexibility is important to us, we always start with the end user, are adaptable, and deliver value immediately. We are an innovative company with big ambitions to scale internationally in a few years. By taking part in Hera Solutions, you will have the opportunity to take part in an incredibly demanding and exciting phase of the company's development.

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.

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.