We make smart collection systems for the circular economy. Helping companies get their circular products back from consumers. So that the products can be reused, refurbished or recycled. Think reverse vending machines for bottles and cans- but for other products, and with a twist of cutting edge technology and beautiful design. We’re an early phase start-up based in Oslo, collaborating with some of the largest companies in the world, helping them transition from linear to circular. We are located at StartupLab at Oslo Science Park, the epicentre of Norway’s tech start-up scene. As part of the GRIN team, you will be given the opportunity to shape and scale a company, as well as innovating, developing, and growing new global business models necessary for a sustainable future.

Manolin is a software company focusing on digital health management to accelerate resource sharing between salmon farms. We are a software and data analytics company helping global aquaculture scale sustainably. 🌊 Our ocean faces many challenges, but it holds even more potential for positive impact. Our goal is to help build a more sustainable future food system together with aquaculture farmers.

Preventing One Million Falls Before 2024 Dele Health Tech is redefining how the market conceptualizes and achieves fall prevention by offering a data fusion platform that functions as middleware between hardware and data stream partners. Our mission: To save lives through fall prevention, and prevent one million falls by 2024.

Oiiku was founded in 2012 as a joint venture for Onkel Estrup AS and Kodemaker Systemutvikling AS. Bjørnar Stray Berentsen is a well-known figure in the corporate event business in Norway. He has many years of experience containing handling all parts of events, including managing them, the use of software to get things together, and doing the dirty work on the floor. As of 2012, Bjørnar had made a quite remarkable list of high-profile customers on his own and his self-made software. Based on his experience he saw the great possibilities in creating a new tailor-made suite of integrated software applications for events. Kodemaker is a well-known consultancy company in Oslo with 25 skilled employees. They are self-owned and have a set of system developers with a quality that is probably unmatched in the Oslo area. Onkel Estrup and Kodemaker started talks in 2012 about doing a joint venture to make a company with superior software for the event business. It has been a long process making sure that the combination of Bjørnars know-how about the most known and unknown issues at events was taken care of, and at the same time making sure that Kodemaker could contribute with their skills to make it a very flexible, scalable solution ready to be 'the event system' for the future. The company today is owned 50/50 by Onkel Estrup AS and Net Professionals AS. Net Professionals are mainly owned by stockholders and employees at Kodemaker. Oiiku AS is today in a situation with 2 employees working with events and Bjørnar working as CTO and some hands-on at events as well. We have a running business and are ready to scale up. We are looking for investors and a new CEO to bring the business to a totally new level. The worldwide market is HUGE and so far we have not seen better software solutions in the market. Our current plan is to grow a steady business in Oslo with employees to handle our large corporate customers, but the real big opportunities lie within making self-served Saas software for the worldwide market.

CYBERSECURITY FOR INDUSTRIAL NETWORKS AND CONTROL SYSTEMS Secure-NOK® is a technology company providing cybersecurity solutions for monitoring industrial networks (OT), and for detecting vulnerable areas. The company has vast experience and recognized technology, and has participated in several research projects with outstanding results. The technology (SNOK) can detect any abnormal event in a network and prevent important infrastructure from experiencing downtime due to malicious attack. Today, most industries are digitized, and thus more exposed to attacks from the outside. With technology from Secure-NOK, such attacks will be detected early, and thus avoid damage and downtime. Secure-NOK has developed patented sensors which are installed in a OT network, and which capture and report any abnormal traffic. The company has sensors for both networks, end-stations and PLC systems.

Aviant performs medical deliveries between hospitals by leveraging drone technology. Today, district hospitals can only analyze simple blood tests themself. The rest have to be transported to test centers, often located at the larger hospitals. Current ground-based transportation logistics between hospitals is unorganized, inefficient, and costly. This new way of transportation will increase the frequency and flexibility of test delivery, as drones can be deployed on an as-needed basis, which will drastically improve the diagnosis process in districts. An analysis posten IEEE showed how drone transportation of biological samples could save the Danish authorities 300 MNOK/year. This commercial potential has been confirmed by our contact with health regions. We currently have three paying contracts: one with St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim and two in Sweden. Besides our three commercial contracts, we have gotten requests from seven potential customers. To keep up with the demand from the market and take care of our current customers, we need to expand the team.

We made Vev for the next generation of creatives. From our own experiences as developers, designers, digital producers, content writers, and so much more, we were constantly faced with the brick wall that is web production. Large bespoke builds were costly and labor-intensive, and CMS templates made our stories feel flat and uninteresting. We built Vev with this simple principle: Take what's in your imagination and put it on the page. We are excited to bring creative power back to teams and we can't wait to check out what you all create.

Jordisk ("Earthly" in Norwegian) is a start-up based in Norway that is developing a unique distribution platform for sustainable packaging to help businesses which need single-use food packaging to become environmentally friendly by embracing products which are recyclable, compostable and/or biodegradable. We are also a part of the accelerator Fauna: https://www.faunaeksperimentet.no/ There is an immediate need to replace traditional single use packaging that is normally based on fossil based plastics with more sustainable alternatives that already exist in the market. Food packaging is becoming a growing global concern, because of the large amount of waste it generates and the chemicals it contains that can be detrimental to our health. In 2014, out of the 258 million tons of municipal solid waste generated in the US, more than 63 percent was of packaging materials (for food and other purposes) and, overall, only 35 percent (89 million tons) was recycled or composted. What happens to the remaining 65 percent? We all know that landfills are frequently used and that a lot of waste is just burned which leaves a huge carbon footprint. The end of life alternative for food packaging can be significantly improved by using alternative eco-friendly materials that already exist and can be implemented in a circular model. The aim of our distribution platform is to be the natural marketplace for sellers of sustainable food packaging where they can showcase their products to potential buyers who need one time packaging. Moreover, ideal sellers would genuinely care about the environment and have a circular model in order to reduce the carbon footprint as much as possible. A typical customer would be a restaurant that offers takeaway. The food packaging industry operates in a very traditional way with one-to-one contracts and is mature enough for a disruption. With our platform, we can be the link and matchmaker between the supplier and customer. Our goal is to raise awareness in the industry and among consumers, so they can know about sustainable food packaging alternatives such as products that are made of bagasse, bamboo, mycelium, leaves, bio-laminat and plant-based plastic such as PLA. The timing is ideal, as we are currently seeing drastic changes in jurisdiction and lawmaking in Europe, single-use plastic cutlery, cotton buds, straws and stirrers will be banned by 2021 and the EU's Green Deal Strategy is to find sustainable alternatives to replace traditional fossil based plastic. We are currently doing market research in Norway in order to source and partner with producers that could be interested in our platform. The feedback we are getting so far are positive, as most new producers would like further traction in order to get much needed market share. We are actively looking for another person with the technical know-how that wants to join the team to develop this platform with us. Even though we live in an era of Instagram and Facebook where spreading awareness in a particular topic is easier than before, environmental pollution is still one of the most concerning issues in today’s world. We, as consumers, are either too busy to care about packaging, or there aren’t many sustainable options to choose from when buying a product. One of the founders, Rezowan, has a background from the travel industry, and has from many of his previous travels seen the growing amount of plastic going astray, both on land and at sea. In many Asian countries, he has seen that there are no good waste solutions that contribute to, for example, plastic being recycled in a circular way. Over the last 2-3 years, new technology has been developed that makes it easier to choose sustainable and environmentally friendly alternatives, and the main goal is to promote environmentally friendly alternatives to fossil plastics so that society can become more aware of this.

RAGE for Climate allows everyone to fight climate change with direct and measurable impact. We focus on enabling businesses and individuals to make a real and traceable change in reducing air pollution by supporting renewable energy projects. This ensures there’s no greenwashing and no contributing to projects that have already been established and provide no additional impact with your money. With RAGE, you get real-time data on your contribution showing your environmental impact and how you're making a real difference on climate change. 100% climate impact 100% guarantee of where your money is going and 100% no bullshit. #realimpact #nobullshit #rageforclimate

Hark Technologies is working towards a future where people don't have to worry about their electricity consumption. We have developed a custom device for gathering data from smart electricity meters, and on top of this data we are building services for reducing power peaks in the electricity grid. This is useful for both end users and grid owners. We believe in a smart future without vendor lock-in, so we are integrating existing products into our platform.

Spotly is a proptech/ retailtech platform for short-term showroom spaces. Spots. We´re founded in Copenhagen but currently operating both in Denmark & Norway. On Spotly you can share or rent down to 1m2 for 1 day. Through our community of hosts, brands & creatives, we offer unique flexible showrooms to showcase your space or your brand in a new way. It's co-sharing, co-branding & co-creation. Join us in making the city more inclusive and sustainable!

Lifeness is an innovative health-tech company that is passionate about helping people live their healthiest lives. Our main focus is on physical, mental, and emotional well-being. We are dedicated to promoting Lifeness through an innovative digital platform that connects health professionals with patients, providing them with comprehensive and personalized digital treatment. We also offer fully digital therapeutics, also known as digital treatment. By leveraging Artificial Intelligence in various ways, we stay at the forefront of innovation. Our ultimate goal is to have a positive impact on global health, with a particular emphasis on addressing obesity, a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Our team members are located in different countries, but we share a common purpose - to improve the health and well-being of individuals worldwide. Together, we are fully committed to enhancing Lifeness for people everywhere.

Innovayt is an innovation consultancy. We specialise in helping companies obtain funding for their projects through high quality grant applications. Innovayt’s mission is to help clients create value through innovation. We combine a solid business and technology foundation with superior knowledge of national and international grant funding instruments. This allows us to make a positive difference on projects - from ideation and concept to funding and implementation – and to ensure that our client’s ideas are implemented to their full potential. Innovayt’s consulting philosophy is based on independence, competent advice, and an open approach to innovation.

King Design is an Oslo based firm specialized in brand identity, naming and visual communication. We’re passionate about good design and committed to creating solutions that enable our clients to succeed.We have a holistic approach to our clients’ needs, and we offer a wide range of services such as logo and visual identity, website design and screen-based solutions, environments & expo design. We’re small and happy. King Design is run by two dedicated partners, Michael and Morten. We ensure a personal touch and an effective communication, no matter how small or complex the project. We’ve created visual communication and names for numerous start-ups as well as for established businesses, helping our clients achieve necessary recognition within and beyond their specific marketplace.

Qondor is a cloud based Meeting and Event Management enterprise platform.   Qondor offers software solutions to meeting planners & event planners for Project Management, eProposals, online attendee registration forms, onsite check-in, mobile schedules, payments and business analytics.   Qondor is used by small agencies to large global enterprise agencies.