The innovation ecosystem plays a crucial role in the success of startups, but these ecosystems are facing operational and strategic obstacles that limit their potential. The operational difficulties include an inability to effectively support startups leading to high failure rates, low engagement from startups, and resource-intensive reporting processes. On the strategic front, innovation ecosystems face intense competition and struggle to scale their efforts and establish sustainable business models, which often rely heavily on government funding. These challenges impact a wide range of players in the ecosystem, including incubators, accelerators, universities, and enterprise innovation departments. Addressing these challenges can lead to a thriving startup ecosystem, boosting economic growth and driving progress. By investing in the solution of these significant problems, the innovation ecosystem has the potential to unleash its full potential and drive positive change.

Fraxx Interactive AS er en norsk edtech startup etablert i 2019. Bedriften har i 2020 lansert direct-to-consumer plattformen Fraxx.no - et videobasert digitalt kursunivers som gjør det mulig å lære fra de mest anerkjente ekspertene innen underholdning, livsstil og sport i Norge og på sikt i resten av Skandinavia. I november 2020 lanserte de sine første kurs med noen av de beste innen sine felt: Bent Stiansen, Anders Aukland, Halvor Bakke og Fæbrik-gjengen. Fraxx ønsker å gi tilgang til kunnskapen disse ekspertene har gjennom en læringsplattform som gir engasjerende og underholdende innhold av høy kvalitet – og som er lette å lære fra. Målet til Fraxx er å gi flere mennesker tilgang og fleksibiliteten til å lære akkurat hvor og når det passer dem. I en hektisk hverdag blir det enda viktigere å ta vare på og utvikle egne interesser, og dette ønsker Fraxx å bidra med.

Vi i Peach Group standardiserer og kvalitetssikrer salgsselskap i hele Norden, vår kjernekompetanse er å mekle mellom parter i næringslivet slik at samarbeid og innovasjon når nye høyder. Peach Group innehar et fullverdig akademi, drifter et innovasjonssenter samt bemannings- og rekrutteringsselskapet Peach People.

At Counting Hero we develop cutting edge machine vision systems, capable of recognizing and classifying items and events in videos and images. Counting Hero AS was established in September 2019 and is currently running development projects. We have our first pilots in deployment. Organization count 3 persons. One on full time and two on part time. For 2020 we will grow the organization and to complete first investment round. We are currently funded by sales, innovation norway support, project grant from the norwegian research council and sweat equity from owners. Counting Hero is located with offices in Bergen, Norway. Working for Counting Hero gives you the opportunity to stay in the forefront of available technologies.

WAID helps humanitarian aid organizations deploy aid workers. WAID provides a two-sided marketplace between aid organizations and aid workers. The organizations struggle to deploy enough workers for big projects. The workers want to contribute more than they currently are. WAID marketplace will automatically match organizations with relevant and available personnel for their projects, facilitating volunteer exchange between organizations. This gives the volunteers the opportunity to contribute more frequently to varied projects. For the organizations, this means rapid matchmaking, increased capacity, and savings on recruitment and training costs.

OsloWay is local company providing guided tours and experiences in Oslo. We focus on immersive and authentic experiences that reflect Oslo's history, culture, identity and lifestyle. Or as we like to say: We are here to share both our knowledge about the city and the real Oslo way of life! What is more, all tours and experiences are created with regards to having minimal impact on our environment. Besides using green transport such as e-scooters, kick bikes, public transport and our own feet, we co-operate with the best small local businesses and enthusiasts.

Kobler is a trusted B2B company located in Oslo, Norway. Our expertise is online text processing, and we have powered the search engine for the Norwegian Parliament for many years. Since 2012 we have focused on the adtech industry. Here at Kobler we believe that the widespread harvesting of personal data going on today is one of the largest risks to society and that people should be allowed to go about their day online without fear of every action they take being tracked. We are providing both publishers and advertisers an alternative that does not use personal data at all.

Snowroller utvikler og selger bærekraftig og Instagram-vennlig skitøy til Generasjon Z (individer født mellom 1995 og 2010) gjennom egen nettbutikk. Siden lanseringen i 2017 har Snowroller doblet omsetningen årlig og solgt over 2500 skidresser til kunder verden over. I dag er vi tre ansatte i selskapet, hvorav to jobber fulltid på kontor i Oslo. Vi har et høyt fokus på innovasjon, forretningsutvikling og bærekraft innad i teamet, blant annet gjennom å stadig tenke nytt og inkludere kundene våre i alle faser av produktutviklingsprosessen.

Moods represents people who pave their own path, just like we have done over the last decade.We create moods and stories that inspire people to dare to do more. Gathering inspiration from creative environments when we design our clothes, we have worked side-by-side with some of the world’s top artists, dancers, painters and videographers, merging the discipline of fashion with art. We brought these people in-house under the name of Moods Collective, and gave them the freedom to create Moods.

Our mission is to push your company into the spotlight, and we do this by focussing on branding, sales and product placement through husfoto, Studio Desimal and Designgruppen.husfoto is in real estate photography, offering a fair payment policy to freelance photographers.Studio Desimal is a photography studio for product photography and image editing.Designgruppen is a creative design and marketing agency delivering communication strategies, branding solutions and web development services.

CoHub - a social and innovative entrepreneurial environment in Grimstad. We are a coworking community in Grimstad, CoHub offers office spaces for startups and entrepreneurs,  ranging from your own office to a more open flexible workplace in our coworking community. CoHub is working to collect the startups, network, activities, and expertise within innovation and entrepreneurship in Grimstad - and working with other coworking spaces in the region.

Aladdin Services is a new Norwegian-based innovative logistics company with online services in Norway, which runs a network of contractors who provide services locally with their high standards of quality and reliability with our App, Website and Business Platform that provide services. We have professional competence in providing services to both the private and public sectors.

PERX er et lånebasert folkefinansieringsselskap rettet mot primært usikrede privatlån. Vi fasiliterer plattformen hvor låntaker møter långiver trykt og sikkert. PERX er en fordel for låntakere med lavere renter, og for långivere med høyere avkastning.PERX gjør det sikkert for alle å investere i lån, og bruker blant annet cutting edge teknologi for å sikre riktig avkastning målt mot risiko.PERX sin plattform bygger på trygg og velprøvd teknologi fra kjente leverandører.  The founders of PERX has comprehensive long time knowledge from both technical, economical, marketing and financial field within Norway and Northern Europe.We want to democratice finance and take responsibility to lower today's interest levels to its half.PERX are the people, for the people from the people.

Behind Bars is an Oslo based design agency with a clear focus in delivering tailor made bar solutions that inspire bartenders and enhance business performance. As the founder Alex Ruas describes it as follows; I wanted to create an innovative design process for better bar solutions, taking into account the flow of creativity of the bartender, the financial focus of the owner and the service towards the guests.

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.