Silicon Valhalla is a Nordic tech intelligence hub that maps startups, founders, investors, and market signals across the Nordic region, with a particular emphasis on AI, SaaS, and frontier innovation. It exists to make the “Silicon Valhalla” ecosystem - Nordic tech’s answer to Silicon Valley - more visible, navigable, and investable for founders, operators, and capital. The platform combines a curated startup directory, an events calendar, and ecosystem insights into a single, neutral entry point for Nordic tech. Startups and scaleups get structured profiles highlighting what they do, where they are based, which sector they play in, and how to reach them, while investors and partners can quickly scan emerging companies across AI, climate, fintech, deep tech, and more. A continuously updated view of companies and activity aims to surface momentum early, so users can spot new categories, breakout teams, and upcoming fundraising stories before they hit the mainstream. Silicon Valhalla is designed to be independent and ecosystem-first rather than a job board or paywalled database. The service is currently free to use, making discovery accessible while opening the door for future premium offerings such as featured profiles, highlighted events, and deeper signal products for investors and corporates. In short, Silicon Valhalla is building the default map and narrative for Nordic tech: a living overview of the startups, talent, and ideas turning the region into one of the most dynamic innovation hubs in Europe.

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.

Our mission is to enable all children and young people to join organized youth activities, regardless of finances or background. We believe it’s a problem for everyone when some children and young people are left out. Vinclude helps by creating digital solutions and connecting partners who want to support sport teams with income to sports clubs that need funding. Our goal is to create win-win situations, where sports teams can focus on sports, and partners get more value from their financial support. The solutions are developed together with selected partners and their invited sport teams.

ABchar is developing a new type of pyrolysis reactor, affordable heating and the possibility of small-scale biochar production, adapted to agriculture.. This will help achieve the goal of a 40% reduction in emissions from the agricultural sector. What is pyrolysis? Simply put, this is the heating of an organic material without access to oxygen. This leads to a series of reactions that ultimately result in 3 main products; biochar, oil and gas. We want to utilize the biochar in this process. The oil and gas will be burned and the heat from this will be used to dry grain, heat barns, greenhouses, residential buildings and other things that need heat on a farm. Why pyrolysis and biochar? Plants absorb CO2 from the air around us through photosynthesis. They are actually extremely good at this too. The residual product is mainly oxygen and the plant material. The great thing about pyrolysis is that we are able to separate water, oxygen and hydrogen from the plant material and we are left with more or less pure carbon 80% +. This is carbon from the air! If we take this coal and spread it on our agricultural land, it will be stored there for up to 1000 years and perhaps longer. In some cases, the soil will become more fertile and less vulnerable to periods of too much or too little water.

We help brands navigate spoken media. Every day we capture and analyze thousands of podcasts, TikTok videos, YouTube videos, and news feeds to find the conversations that really matter for your business. We find insights that are impossible to find with traditional media monitoring and insights tools.

We help businesses add human faces to real-time AI chatbots, assistants and agents. Our customers typically build AI tutors, AI receptionists, AI coaches, AI mock interviews, AI employee onboarding, you get the picture! Try talking to a human avatar here: https://www.simli.com/demo Our Docs: https://docs.simli.com/introduction Discord: https://discord.com/invite/yQx49zNF4d

NordicHQ is a professional network for international SME's and entrepreneurs setting up a business in the Netherlands, Scandinavia and the rest of Northern Europe. We help you start up or expand your business internationally with the assistance of excellent, entrepreneurial and responsive professionals across legal, tax, business, finance, IT, and numerous other fields.

Retrade is a leading online marketplace for used industrial equipment and machinery. Our platform connects buyers and sellers across various industries, facilitating the efficient and secure trade of pre-owned machinery. With a global presence and a diverse range of listings, Retrade plays an decisive role to extend the lifetime of thousands of machines every year. We help establishing a more responsible and sustainable ownership of machinery, and make sure machines from Nordic companies gets a second life somewhere relevant across the world.

Our mission is to solve easy EV charging across the Nordics. One app to find the best route, charging stops based on your preferences, charge at any operator, and get smart suggestions based on your behaviour. We seek to be at the forefront of EV technology. At the charger, in the car, and at home. Join us in becoming the #1 EV app!

InfoTiles’ innovative digital analytics platform spans the water value chain, simplifying and automating the tedious steps of consolidating data and applying real-time analytics and machine learning for water management. InfoTiles provides software that combines and enriches data from different silos - including legacy water utility systems. When enhanced with public data, utility companies discover new insights and make sustainable decisions based on facts, leading to sustainable water use in communities. Ageing infrastructure, inadequate investment, and a changing climate are all contributing to unsustainable water use and supplies globally. Data can help address these challenges in a connected and coherent way that is fit for purpose for decisions makers. For more information, visit https://www.infotiles.no/

Material Mapper’s vision is to create a market of scale for secondary building materials by mapping them in Europe and leading the transition towards a closed-loop circular construction and demolition industry. The European construction industry is urgently lacking clear, centralized access to information about secondary building materials available in their area, due to the fragmentation and inconsistency with which these public data are captured and stored. This makes building planning with quality secondary building materials time and cost-intensive for stakeholders, in turn making it difficult to comply with the EU’s Waste Directive of 70% recycled/re-used building materials. Our young, multi-award-winning company is planning to launch a project over 24 months to build a breakthrough innovation for the whole of Europe using artificial intelligence and machine learning that will extract, read, evaluate, and forecast quantities of secondary building materials for the user, making future planning for property developers seamless through our platform. We are confident that our product is unique and that we have no direct competition. By combining our deep technology, partnership development, and B2B sales expertise, we are already working closely with major industry actors to harness insights and their existing networks for our customer base.

Hva er Crescat?Crescat er systemet som hjelper deg med planlegging og gjennomføring av arrangementer. Samarbeid enkelt med alle, i ett og samme system. Crescat er utviklet i tett samarbeid med kulturbransjen. Våre kunder er arrangører, eventbyrå, scener og kulturhus. Vi jobber for å gjøre kundens hverdag enklere. Hvem er vi?Crescat er gründerbedrift i vekst, med utspring i Bergen. Vi holder til midt i Bergen sentrum i topp moderne lokaler. Crescat-teamet består idag av et knippe inspirerte og hardtarbeidende mennesker. Vi har et ungt og dynamisk miljø, og vi har et sterkt fokus på at alle skal trives og ha det gøy på jobb.

Approximately 50% of Norwegians sell their car to a car dealer. With Nettbils managed marketplace car sellers get offers from 850+ dealers and sell their cars without after-sale risk in less than a workday. - 23% MoM growth since the last investment round in April 2018. - Great customer ratings and case studies from car sellers and car dealerships - First mover advantage in the Norwegian market and currently 1% market share - Easily scalable with NAF and Viking as partners - Own unique custom made tech-platform - With partnership, Nettbil can establish the product in Finland and Denmark

People find going to the optician frustrating and it is something they tend to delay as long as possible. Pain points include complicated, non-transparent pricing, lack of understanding about lenses and the options available, and insecurity when choosing glasses. Our mission is to remove these pain points and provide a more relevant modern alternative to the traditional optician. Our vertical concept allows us to offer high-quality designer eyewear at affordable prices - enabling people to build a collection of eyewear to meet the needs of their individual lifestyles. We are currently generating 14 million Nok in sales per year through our 5 Kaibosh stores (Oslo, Bergen, Copenhagen, Frederiksberg & Aarhus), e-commerce operation, and wholesale distribution channels.

Ava was acquired by Motorola Solutions in 2022 and is now part of its portfolio. Ava is a global technology company with offices in the UK, Norway, and the USA. We exist because we believe that we can create a better, smarter way to deliver security. We help organizations see, understand, and act on their surroundings to protect their people, business, and reputation in real time.