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.

WeWantToKnow is a French-Norwegian company that focuses on Game-Based Learning. Its first product is the math game "DragonBox" and it has more games in the planning stages. The company was founded by financial analyst turned math teacher Jean-Baptiste Huyhn, the leading French game developer Patrick Marchal, and former Opera Software executives Rolf Assev and Christen Krogh. WeWantToKnow aims to make learning fun, easy and addictive. DragonBox does away with tedious equations and math quizzes, replacing them instead with a simple game involving cards and a magical box. The game evolves as kids master the skills and concepts presented. After one hour of playing DragonBox, twelve-year olds can tackle equations their parents struggle to solve. DragonBox was pre-launched in Norway to let schools, kids and parents test the game. Almost immediately, it rocketed to the top of the charts, becoming the most purchased app in the Apple App Store in Norway-- displacing other, more traditional games - check it out at - www.dragonbox.com

EventEye creates easy to use event apps focussed on organizing and saving time for meetings and event professionals in their otherwise busy schedules. Suddenly it is fun to go to an event with live polling, Q&A and all the event information at your fingertips.  In a short period of time EventEye has grown from a small startup in Norway to become one of the world players in the event technology industry, classified as the most user-friendly solution out there.  Eventeye is an innovative event app company that really focuses on crafting a great user-experience, for both participants and organizers. On one hand, Eventeye wants to make it easy for participants navigate through conferences or a professional events they attend and on the other, it ensures that the solution is effective for organizers to help them save time.

Lawbotics is Norway’s leading legal tech company and represents a greenfield opportunity for ambitious and talented people who want to be part of moving the legal industry forward. By using next-generation technology we aim to bring the legal profession into our century. Joining Lawbotics means that you will be taking part in our journey to create unique products on our platform, as well as shaping the development of our company and culture. Check out Lexolve.com/careers for more.  We are a team full of innovative and outside the box thinkers challenging the way things are done in the legal market.  Lawbotics is one of the first legal tech companies in Norway, and we are a greenfield opportunity looking for ambitious and talented people to join our team.  We can offer you an international working environment filled with smart and ambitious colleagues. We know that diverse teams are strong teams, so we welcome those from different backgrounds and experiences. At Lawbotics we believe you should be able to bring your “whole self” to the office and we nurture a culture of acceptance and respect. We’re ambitious and work hard, but it doesn’t mean we don’t have fun at the office. Being part of Lawbotics means you’ll be part of a nimble and fun team trying to get the lawyers into our century and you share our passion for changing the status quo. We hope you’ll join us in the process of creating a unique platform to make legal document work easier for businesses and the people who work in them.Do you share our passion? We are currently looking for talented and motivated people to join our team, check out our open positions and reach out!

Bsure is a fast-growing Norwegian SaaS company that helps organisations gain control of their users, access and license costs in the Microsoft ecosystem. Today, many companies lack visibility of the totality of all their users. Who are they, who has access to what, which accounts are still active, and what they are actually paying for, this is creating unnecessary costs and security risks. Bsure solves this by providing a modern platform that brings all this data together, visualises risks and cost drivers, and gives actionable recommendations that make it easy to clean up, optimise and stay secure. The result is better security, lower costs and full visibility. We’re backed by international investors, we’re growing quickly, and we’re building a product with global potential. Joining Bsure means having real influence, real responsibility and the chance to help shape a company on its way to international success.

--Improving resilience against a changing climate-- Haawal Engineering focuses on creating practical solutions to address the challenges of a changing climate. Our main innovation is a user-friendly, portable flood barrier designed to protect communities from flooding. Developed and patented by our team, this effective solution has already been adopted in Norway, Germany, and Spain. As we continue to grow and adapt, Haawal Engineering remains dedicated to finding accessible and inventive ways to help communities face the realities of climate change.

Gture is an organization with a local and global network of software development partners, service designers within fields such as UX-/UI-/Interaction design and Web/ Mobile/App development. We drive entrepreneurial processes from idea to results through agile project management, cross functional team management leveraging local project management with global software delivery capabilities.

Livid Jeans is a small manufacturing company from Norway, created from a simple love & passion for superior quality and true craftsmanship. Dedicated to honor old traditions in making jeans, and inspired by a time when superior quality, supporting local trade and taking care of own garments mattered.Since its establishment in 2010, Livid Jeans remains today the only apparel manufacturing company left in Norway, driven not from an economic point of view, but with a purpose. A purpose driven towards upholding old trade and conventional craft in a country where a once blooming textile industry is gone, and the fine craft with it. While continuously growing we strive to follow core values and to always create as unique and authentic products as we possibly can. And while doing so, sustain our responsibility against the competitive force of poor products being made unsustainably.Livid Jeans’ product portfolio today consists of two different production lines. One collection handmade the old fashioned way locally right here in Trondheim, Norway. And one ready-to-wear collection line made in Barcelos, Portugal. Both lines offering superior quality garments with equal purpose.

After working together since 2012 in game development company Henchman & Goon, we launched Goontech in January 2015. Our background in game development has given us a ton of knowledge and a special mindset that we apply to our projects. We continue to look to the game industry for inspiration, techniques and technology, and bring this with us into other industries. Our vision is “Visualizing Great Ideas”, no matter what industry or format, and our mission is to make smarter and more user-friendly visualization solutions. Goontech is located in Bergen, Norway, in short distance from a growing entrepreneurial environment, and some of the biggest players in the oil and gas industry. We also have a small office in Oslo, Norway.

EquaFish is a company developing the only complete decision-making tool for fish farm operation. The AquaCulture industry is facing mass mortality and decreased yields as a result of knowledge and data being fragmented througout the farm. One facility usually have 10-15 different systems, Excell sheets and notes where only 10-15% of the functionality is actually used. EquaFish streamlines, process and visualize the data so that every employee, no matter role, understand the plan, status and future of the production. This $140B problem is faced by salmon farmers, telapia, halibut, shellfish and char farmers all alike. The tech is the same, even though the species is not. EquaFish has a SaaS solution bringing all growth, water quality, mortality and feed data into one, exploiting mathematical and statistical data processing to find causes and effects, which the fish farmer can act upon. The result is higher yield with reduced risks in the production, increased effiency, knowledge sharing and learning with the employees. Finally fish produced in more stable environments with less risk of death and non-friendly conditions. EquaFish was startet on the belief that one of the biggest industries deserve the newest and best tools. The time of post-it notes, Excell and systems from the 90s died 15years ago and the AquaCulture industry didnt get the memo. So if you want to create real change for a sustainable, profitable and animal friendly industry, EquaFish is the place that gets that done.

AddMeetings is an AI-powered meeting qualification platform for B2B professionals. It is the first place where they can say, “Find my time on AddMeetings,” knowing every meeting request comes with a pitch-first approach and a paywall, ensuring relevance, intent, and zero spam. Only high-quality conversations make it through. Decision makers are overwhelmed by a flood of cold, irrelevant, low-quality outreach and meeting requests every day. With the rise of automation, inboxes are full of noise, making it harder to spot valuable opportunities. AddMeetings solves this by filtering and qualifying inbound meeting requests so buyers only see the ones worth their time. The explosion of AI-powered sales tools has made outbound outreach faster—but not smarter. B2B professionals are overwhelmed with irrelevant messages, low-quality pitches, and wasted time. Yet, there's no platform built for the recipient. AddMeetings is solving this at the perfect moment. We're flipping the script with an AI-powered meeting qualification platform designed for decision makers. As outbound automation floods inboxes, professionals now need a smart gatekeeper. With AddMeetings, they can simply say, “Find my time on AddMeetings,” and trust that every request has passed through a pitch-first, pay-to-pitch filter, stopping spam at the source and surfacing only valuable conversations. The shift is clear: from volume to value, from sender-first to recipient-first. AddMeetings is leading that shift.

Cobrief er et AI-drevet anbudsverktøy for deg som vil bruke mindre tid på å besvare offentlige anbud. Med vårt AI-anbudverktøy kan du finne, vurdere og skrive anbud på en måte du kanskje ikke trodde var mulig. Finner anbud Cobrief finner offentlige anbud som passer selskapet ditt og varsler deg via e-post eller Slack. Vurderer på sekunder AI skanner gjennom anbudet og gir deg beslutningsgrunnlaget strukturert på én side. Skriv anbud med AI Cobrief AI hjelper deg å besvare anbudet, med ditt innhold og dine egne ord.

Fidenz Technologies is a leading software product development company specializing in SaaS solutions. With over 14 years of experience, our development center in Colombo, Sri Lanka, has successfully partnered with clients across the Nordics, North America, Australia, and Singapore to build high-impact SaaS solutions.

Empowering construction projects ​to make a sustainable impact​, with human centric technology. Building sustainable is difficult. Today, building sustainable involves unstructured, unscalable and time-consuming processes. Drowned in paperwork and documentation, experts waste time on mundane and frustrating tasks instead of exploiting their expertise. Kvist makes the first complete digital system for sustainability reporting for construction projects. By delivering a cloud-based software that makes it really easy for projects to collect, validate and analyse environmental data, we remove friction in the unstructured processes that occur when choosing to build sustainable. Lower costs​. Lower risks​. Greener cities​. With big names among our customers and backed by investors like Alliance Venture, Arkwright X, DNB and Startuplab, we are well on our way to grow full speed. We are a relatively young team of currently 14 people, spread across expertise areas with a mix of engineering, developers, customer success and business development, some coming directly from university and others with a background in the industry. We have a very nice office at a co-working space in the very centre of Oslo, surrounded by both small startups and some established companies, and there is great and low-priced canteen, where we have lunch. We have access to many meeting rooms and facilities when you need silence, but also a great young and dynamic environment, where things are happening all the time. Our culture is fully flexible, meaning that everyone is allowed to work from home when needed, but as a small team we also enjoy working together, and most of us prefer to come to the office. We are a very social team, which easily comes when being small, and we do a lot of activities together like team dinners, Friday bars etc., but it is also fully accepted to skip and go home, when parts of the team decide to go for Karaoke at 1am. We have room for every kind of person, so you decide what you want to join.

Heime jobber med å skape gode nabolag i hele Norge. Vi leverer en plattform som reduserer terskelen for kommunikasjon i sameier og borettslag. I løsningen kan man reservere deletjenester, delta på sosiale aktiviteter, lese styredokumenter og bruke beboeravtaler. Heime brukes fra Kristiansand i sør til Tromsø i nord. Vi har per i dag flere tusen boliger på kundelisten vår. Og vokser eksponensielt.