The main piece of equipment in the gym is the barbell. It is as simple in its form as it is timeless in its design. But when it comes to using the proper safety equipment that comes with the barbell, that’s when the flaws become visible. Today’s methods of securing weight plates to a barbell is done by using collars or clips, which often lead to a poor user experience, and they are often hard to put on and pull off, can easily break or slip during lifts, they are often hard to find and even disappears. The Olympic barbell has remained virtually the same for the last 93 years, and despite today’s standards, improvements can be made. In a seemingly ever-growing market, people’s expectations of safety, design, quality, and user-friendliness in products are on the rise. Gungnir of Norway is a Norwegian startup company that designs and manufactures high-quality gym equipment. The company’s first product is the Allrounder, a standard Olympic barbell with built-in collars for securing weight plates. The built-in collar system or “SlideLock” makes the lifting experience safer, faster, easier, and more reliable than the standard safety equipment in use today. Also, the SlideLock system can be applied to several other bar types like compact group training bars or loadable dumbbells. This solution has shown enormous potential in the fitness market, which we intend to continue to take advantage of. The SlideLock is the first of many solutions that we seek to create within the fitness equipment industry. We started as a company in 2018 in Oslo, Norway, with an idea for a better solution to a problem well known to many who use weightlifting equipment regularly. Gungnir’s vision is to become the new standard solution for securing weight plates worldwide. A game-changing solution to a century old problem.

IBEN is a Norwegian lifestyle fashion brand for women that wants to express their style and identity trough the way they dress. Established in 2014 IBEN represents the woman that cannot walk into a room without being noticed for her strong appearance. Her «tomboy» mentality, freed and laidback way of thinking is always the foundation for her choices and interactions. IBEN clothing is meant to supply self-made women the wardrobe they need to communicate their identity and way of life.

MeaWallet is the "one-stop shop"​ for mobile- and digital payments. Mea has built a Mobile Services Platform to enable HCE/Tokenization, Masterpass and converged wallets. Built to support both global and local payment schemes, the platform can enable any wallet application and wearable device for mobile and digital payments. MeaWallet solutions is active in 16 countries (November 2016), and fully certified for MasterCard Cloud-Based Payment Solutions, and support for Visa. MeaWallet is a part of the Seamless Group with 250 employees, and the company is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in Stockholm (SEAM).

Stargate Media is a leading interactive, multi-platform VR and 360-video content developer for desktop, YouTube, iOS, Android and virtual reality HMDs including: Google Cardboard, Samsung GearVR, Oculus Rift, and OSVR. We have our own cross-platform player, SDKs, and custom high-end hardware, enabling us to deliver and stream the highest quality experiences. We've collaborated with some of the world's top artists, directors, and producers to create award winning series, shorts, and apps. We are currently in beta with our cross-device curation, streaming, and distribution platform.

The Thorvald platforms represent a low-cost alternative to a wide variety of agricultural operations. All the Thorvald robots are built using the same components, but we customize each robot for your specific needs based on the innovative modular design. We can therefore deliver robots using standard parts but customized design to serve your needs. All our robots are built to operate in an outdoor environment. They are therefore IP67 classified at all the lower parts that may be submersed in water (wheels, lower gears, etc), and IP56 for the rest of the robot.

Inovatum Lifting As is a company that started 2013 on the demands from the market for cost saving and efficient products. It is a Sub company of Inovatum AS, which has developed turnkey prototypes for ROV tooling. People who has held positions like ROV Supervisor, ROV Manager and Operations Manager during the last 20 years in Racal, Thales, Fugro, DOF Subsea, Argus and Selantic AS, started Inovatum. We develop advanced ROV tooling. As for today, the operational company are Inovatum Lifting and the product focused at is the INOshackle™.

There are over 120 millions Chinese with diagnose Diabetes and another 100 millions with various types of cardio vascular diseases. China ranks highest with new cancer incidence in the world. India, Brazil, USA, Germany and the middle East countries all top the diabetes statistics. Life-style diseases are causing heavy burden on the health budget in the developed countries and the emerging economies. A business idea rooted in the genius interests of helping people occurred. Lion Healthcare believes that Europe and Norway have valuable experiences and innovations that can help tackle the challenges. One of the important resources in this battle is natural synergetic health products with marine ingredients and proven health functions. Norway as a large fishery nation has long experience in developing marine resources and possesses high technology in inventing and manufacturing high quality, clean health products with marine and other nutrients. Norway can take a unique position in this global trend. Lion Healthcare Europe was born on the inspiration of improving the quality of life of the people through providing innovative and documented functional health products with high quality marine ingredients from the cold and clean Norwegian sea and the beautiful spectacular Nordic natures.

Saga is a legal innovation company redefining the future of legal work. Saga elevates quality and efficiency while safeguarding legal rigor, privacy, and transparency, enabling lawyers to transform their workflows with responsible technology. Built on the belief that innovation should serve people, Saga empowers legal professionals to focus on what matters the most: people, ethics, and meaningful impact. Saga is the market leader in the Netherlands and Norway and is trusted by leading law firms, tax firms, ALSPs, and legal departments from more than 20 countries.

Tind Studio is an AI consultancy that helps Nordic businesses turn AI from hype into working solutions, through hands-on advisory, custom implementations, and team enablement. Most companies know AI will reshape their business but don't know where to start. Tools are everywhere, vendors overpromise, and internal teams lack the time and expertise to separate signal from noise. The result: stalled pilots, wasted spend, and missed competitive advantage. We work side-by-side with leadership and operational teams to identify high-value AI use cases, build custom solutions (agents, automations, internal tools, AI-powered workflows), and train teams to actually use them. Pragmatic, fast, and focused on real business outcomes, not demos. The Why Founder Joakim saw too many companies burning budget on AI projects that never shipped or never got adopted. Tind exists to close that gap, turning AI from a boardroom topic into measurable results in the day-to-day work.

Matezy is a co-living platform that solves three problems every person in shared housing faces — but that no single product currently addresses together. Finding a compatible roommate today means scrolling through Facebook groups, TikTok and Finn.no ads with no personality filtering and no verification. The result is conflict and instability. Once you move in, managing shared finances is equally broken. Rent splits and shared bills are tracked across WhatsApp messages and Excel sheets. Money disappears and people argue. On top of that, rental contracts and deposits are handled without proper tools. Matezy solves all three in one app. Users find compatible roommates through a personality-based matching system — think Tinder for co-living. Once matched, they manage shared expenses and communication through a built-in household dashboard. Rent payments, digital contracts, and deposit handling are managed directly in the app. There are approximately 600,000 people living in shared housing in Norway alone, and hundreds of millions worldwide. No product currently owns this space.

1. CryptoSuvereign Norge AS is developing a regulated digital investment platform that makes it easier for people and small businesses to access the crypto market safely. We simplify exposure to digital assets through one transparent, Norwegian-based solution that combines technology, trust, and compliance. Our approach is based on proprietary mechanisms for value stability and portfolio management, details are confidential and shared only under NDA. 2. The crypto market is growing fast, but most people find it too complex, risky, and unregulated to invest in. Today, over 90 % of private investors who enter the crypto market either lose money or never diversify beyond one or two coins. Small businesses and startups also struggle to gain secure, compliant exposure to the sector. We are addressing this gap by building a bridge between traditional finance and the blockchain economy, giving users a safe, regulated entry point into digital assets. 3. The technical framework and operating model behind our solution are proprietary and can only be shared under a signed confidentiality agreement (NDA). The idea started with frustration seeing how ordinary people wanted to invest in crypto, but were pushed away by technical barriers, high volatility, and lack of trust. Our motivation is to create something that gives everyone a fair, transparent, and professional way to invest in this new economy without needing to be an expert or take unnecessary risk. We believe Norway and Europe need their own secure framework for digital asset management, and we want to be the ones who build it first. Because the concept combines regulated finance with blockchain innovation, we require all external collaborators to sign an NDA before receiving detailed project information.

RegnskapGPT is an intelligent accounting assistant designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). By combining real-time data, advanced analytics, and automated actions, it saves time, reduces errors, and delivers actionable insights – without adding to the administrative burden. Our mission is to radically improve the efficiency of accounting for SMBs, with the Nordics as the initial launch market. RegnskapGPT integrates seamlessly with existing accounting systems through APIs, enabling automated data retrieval, analysis, and execution of tasks. With a simple and intuitive interface, it empowers businesses with smarter insights and more efficient financial workflows.

Morescope is a sustainability intelligence platform that helps companies turn complex climate data into actionable insights. We solve the problem many organizations face today: they want to reduce their environmental impact, but lack the tools, data, and clarity to make informed decisions. Traditional carbon accounting is often manual, fragmented, and backward-looking — making it hard to integrate sustainability into everyday operations and strategy. Morescope addresses this by offering a platform that automates emissions data collection, ensures compliance with regulations, and provides intuitive dashboards for tracking progress. Our goal is to empower companies to understand their footprint in real-time and take measurable steps toward reducing it — not just for reporting, but for real change. We believe the path to a sustainable future starts with better insight, and we’re here to make that insight accessible, reliable, and actionable for everyone.

At Bliksund, we dedicate ourselves to creating mission-critical systems that help emergency and healthcare professionals focus on what really matters – saving lives. Our goal is to create innovative, user-friendly solutions that support emergency workers in both daily operations and during crisis situations. Bliksund is a leading software company providing digital tools for emergency services globally. We are a diverse team spread across different locations, cultures and languages. What we all have in common is a dedication to developing cutting-edge digital tools to make work easier, safer and more efficient for our customers. We are a global scale-up built on a Nordic easy-to-work-with culture.

AirDodge is a Norwegian company with an HQ in Oslo, Norway. We are building an automated air traffic management system(termed as U-Space software) to enable scalable drone operations. Our target end customers will be drone operators. U-Space solves the problem for all drone operators by making it much easier to obtain permissions. It enables large scale Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations whereof today this is too costly for most companies. It also makes it safer for manned aviation such as emergency helicopters that will have full visibility of ongoing drone flights in the area they are approaching. Other drone operators such as police, search and rescue will be able to quickly deploy drones opposed to wait for helicopters to arrive. They may also mandate quick clearing of drones from any given area in case such operations must take place. Our solution is to build our own software platform and provide flight services according to the EASA framework recently published. These services will be legally required and the 4 primary services are defined by: 1) Drone Identification: This service will be focused on providing information on all the live drone traffic in U-Space to all participants (operators in the air). 2) Live Air Traffic Identification: This service will be focused on providing information on all the live manned air traffic in U-Space. All manned air traffic has to make themselves electronically visible if flying in U-Space. If a manned aircraft flies too close to a drone, then the drone pilot/operator will receive a warning message. 3) Geo-Zones: These are the core geographical definitions of airspaces on map where drone operators can see where they can or cannot fly. Examples of restricted airspaces include airports, military bases, prisons, bird sanctuaries, obstacles etc. Having an extensive dataset which displays all the possible flight restriction/warning zones is significantly important to drone operators as it ensures compliance and more efficient flight planning. 4) Flight Authorization: This gives drone operators the ability to ensure their flight path does not intersect/conflict with any other operators conducting drone flights in the same airspace. The flight authorization will require drone pilots to submit their flight path in 4 dimensions which include 3D trajectory and time. Flight authorization will also allow drone pilots to communicate with Air Traffic control to request a drone flight in restricted airspace. The response times for both types of requests will be instant. AirDodge was originally founded by Umar in 2022 in Sweden. A year later he moved the company to Norway where he met Serhii in 2024 and then they built the company together. Umar, as the founder of Skyqraft—a company specializing in drone-based powerline inspection—gained firsthand experience with the challenges of commercial drone flying while leading its operations. His deep industry knowledge, combined with Serhii’s technological expertise, laid the foundation for AirDodge. Together, they are building innovative solutions to streamline drone operations, making them safer, more efficient, and seamlessly integrated into regulatory frameworks. We are backed by Antler, Nordic Makers and also received grant funding from Innovation Norway.