VENTURE FACTORYVenture Factory was founded in the fall of 2012 in Oslo, Norway with a straightforward goal: turning ideas into business. Our core competence is e-commerce, technology, and performance marketing. We use our skills to start new companies together with strategic partners, other entrepreneurs, or within our own organization. Since then we’ve involved ourselves in a range of ideas. Some have blossomed and turned into prosperous businesses, while others have been challenging and ultimately put to rest. We believe our understanding of technology and online marketing combined with a unique domain insight is the recipe for success and therefore we partner up with entrepreneurs or larger corporations to pursue new business opportunities. Our portfolio consists of a mix of businesses. Some are consultancies where external clients benefit from our competence and others are tech or e-commerce ventures that we have started alone or together with partners. Do you have a great idea you want to discuss with us? Please email us at contact@venturefactory.noVenture Factory offices are located centrally in Oslo and our development team is located in Odesa, Ukraine. We are always on the lookout for great talent both in Odessa and Oslo, so email us at contact@venturefactory.no if you think you are a good match.

We believe in the power of peopleWe have gathered Norway´s most influential people in social media under one roof. Our mission is to deliver authentic and meaningful relationships between consumers, influencers and marketers. Independent of representing specific influencers we adjust conceptual frames, activations and influencers based on your brand’s unique needs. Over the years we have created UI Market, a platform enabling us to create and analyze your campaigns in an efficient and cost effective manner. We have experience in working towards a great spectra of industries and assist with everything from comprehensive concepts and long term influencer strategies to single ad hoc activations.

Cloud Insurance is a seamless and user-friendly SaaS solution made by insurance experts for insurance companies, MGAs, agents, and brokers since 2016. Founded by ambitious minds. While studying together, our founders observed various complications in the insurance industry. Being two ambitious and tech-savvy students, they decided to help and challenged the status quo. After many sleepless nights, they launched the first version of a SaaS product to serve our first client. Partner – not a vendor. Our international team consists of techies, ex-consultants, and heavy hitters from the finance and insurance industries. We know everything about your daily operations, and we're determined to make them more productive and cost-efficient. We aren't a vendor but a partner who works to help you act faster and innovate easier. And we have lots of templates in place so that the process will take weeks, not years or months. Customer-first company. We're finalists of many insurtech competitions, but this is not as important as the great feedback we get from our clients. Thanks to our platform, on average, we see up to a 50% decrease in time-to-market and a 40% increase in revenue. While many of our competitors are just announcing innovative features, our clients have been using them for a while.

We help rental services get ready for the future The development is clear – We need to make better use of our resources. We need a more circular economy where products are reused by more people and have a longer lifetime. In this picture, renting and subscription of products and services plays an important role. Sharefox has developed a technology platform that enables new models for both startups and established businesses. We are a passionate and highly skilled team of about 12 persons in Oslo, and 10 developers working remotely. In March 2022 we secured 23 million NOK in funding, and will use this money to scale the company further, including going internationally. You can currently find us at Vollebekk Fabrikker in Oslo, but will move to an other place in Oslo in the autumn of 2022.

Easee was created by three entrepreneurs in January 2018, with a vision of shaping the future of electricity. Easee develops and manufactures in Norway and we are passionate about developing products that our customers fall in love with. We have started by developing the world’s smartest charging robot for electric cars. A solution and an ecosystem that will give our customers a seamless experience. Shaping the power grid of the future is not something we can do alone, and collaboration is key. We therefore understand the importance of building relationships and establishing partners to join us on our journey.

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.

A growing number of natural disasters led to a 2000% increase in climate insurance claims since the 1970s, reaching $630b worldwide in the 2010s. Continued acceleration will lead climate insurance systems to collapse unless prevention is implemented.  Mitigrate is a InsurTech SaaS startup generating fully automated analyses leading to prioritised preventive measures for reducing climate damages on real estate, starting with flooding. Thanks to high-resolution satellite images, our map-based AI models, and optimization algorithms predict how 50+ climate-positive prevention measures can be implemented to reduce risk. Business value stems from reducing risks on individual assets and prioritizing preventive measures within large portfolios of commercial & residential real estate. Since 01/01/23, the EU Taxonomy has made prevention mandatory for insurers throughout Europe. 

The Digital Gardener is a planning tool and gardening community for small-scale vegetable producers and home gardeners. We help growers plan what to grow, as well as when, where and how to grow it, so that they can focus on making their plants thrive. The demand for locally produced, sustainable food is increasing. Despite this, small-scale vegetable producers struggle to make an income. Predictable supply is essential to make efficient use of available market channels for direct to consumer sales, and a good plan is a key prerequisite to achieve this. The Digital Gardener aims to help small scale producers achieve the needed predictability by making it easy to create and maintain a good plan, and by helping them keep on top of work to be done throughout the growing season. The interest in gardening and homesteading has also surged during the corona crisis. Unfortunately, many aspiring home gardeners lack the needed growing competence to succeed with their gardening projects. Ambitious homesteaders face similar challenges as professional growers, as they need a good plan to ensure that they can harvest fresh produce for their family throughout the season. The Digital Gardener aims to help all growers succeed with their gardening projects, and will enable them to share information and experience to help and inspire others to succeed as well. The Digital Gardener is a software company. Our goal is to build software that contributes to an increase in the amount of food that is grown locally, as well as increased biodiversity in green spaces and home gardens. We partner with other organisations, people and companies that provide competence, heirloom seeds, tools and methods that can help us achieve this goal.

Our product is very simple: If you sign up, we’ll make sure you get money back if the price drops after your purchase. Through this, we’re aiming to create the shopping companion you never knew you needed. Our vision is to create shopping with peace of mind - imagine a purchase where you never have to worry about overpaying, missing a sale, or getting caught out by the fine print. That’s the future we’re creating. Our office is located in Copenhagen FinTech Lab, one of Europe's leading FinTech Hubs, and we have secured over 1M Euro in funding from Vækstfonden venture, Spring capital, Strawberry capital, and Tinius Trust.

A Warsaw-based software consulting studio. We are a team of experts with 10 years of experience in implementing complex mobile and web solutions. We build projects using Flutter and JAMstack technologies. We help startups and scale-ups in designing, prototyping and implementing great applications. We support our clients on every stage of the project cycle, starting from technology consulting, through rapid prototyping, to deployment. We offer services related to: - technological advisory, incl. feasibility studies, software audits, prototyping - software development, incl. custom project development and team augmentation - UX/UI design, incl. wireframes, user flows, interface design We believe that direct communication and in-depth needs analysis are strong foundations of each successful project. We use collaboration tools such as Slack, Trello and Jira for more effective communication and the results of our work are presented on regular biweekly live demo video calls. Our experience: - mobile wallets - loyalty programs - payments integration Google Pay/Apple Pay/MasterPass/PayPal - mobile applications using NFC/BLE/QR - healthtech applications designed to collect and process biometric data We are ready to become your technology partner and to build a long-lasting business relationship. Contact us here or at hello@allbright.io

Kubert is a proptech startup targeting companies and private individuals in solving a common problem: Storage. Most companies and people have little room for storage and at the same time property prices are increasing. Kubert has put together a smart integrated offering using technology at the heart in which storage, transport and carrying is conducted by Kubert, and the items tagged and accounted for in your app. This is the perfect service for smaller companies in urban areas where the cost of space and time is high.

BRIM offers next generation ships for silent, sustainable tourism and eco friendly adventures.   Brim means ‘breaking wave’ in Old Norse. We provide wave breaking, silent and sustainable ocean excursions in Northern Norway on board the silent electric ship Brim Explorer. Brim Explorer sails in complete silence and emission-free with batteries powered by clean local hydropower. By respecting nature, she allows us to get a little bit closer, and we use an underwater drone and hydrophone to capture wildlife both above and below the surface. Brim Explorer is designed especially for sightseeing in Arctic waters. Three decks and two indoor salons offer panoramic views and comfortable seating for over 100 passengers. An onboard restaurant serves local dishes and drinks.   We’re a travel company with a passion for the ocean. The epic, rugged and awe-inspiring Arctic coast deserves to be experienced from a silent, clean and comfortable ship. We started our journey in 2017 with a clear vision to change the way we experience the ocean. With our wave-breaking technology, clean Nordic design and focus on sustainable travel, we want to bring you closer to the ocean. With a great idea and dedicated partners, we set out to build a ship unlike any the world has seen. In March 2017, Agnes and Espen quit their jobs, teamed up with designer Einar Hareide, the small and daring Norwegian ship yard Maritime Partner, and a team of suppliers to build a unique platform for ocean exploration. With support from the environmental organization Bellona, Brim Explorer has combined innovative climate technology and knowledge from the tourism industry to create a travel experience truly unique and sustainable.   Giving back 1% Our passion for the ocean and the environment is the backbone of our operation. As well as providing sustainable travel, we aim to give 1% of our profits to ocean conservation efforts, starting 2019.

Oss er en digital tjeneste som gir deg tilgang og eierskap til informasjonen som sendes fra den nye strømmåleren i sikringsskapet ditt. Oss har utviklet en ny teknologi som gjør at informasjonen fra den nye, automatiske strømmåleren din blir gjort tilgjengelig for deg på en enkel måte. Oss-brikken hjelper deg med å hente ut informasjon fra strømmåleren, og Oss-appen oversetter og tolker denne informasjonen for deg. Vi gjør det enkelt for deg å følge med på hvor mye strøm du har brukt tidligere, og hvor mye strøm du bruker akkurat nå, uansett om du sjekker appen hjemme i Drammen eller borte i Dublin. Sånn a propos Drammen: Både hardware og software utvikles og produseres her i Norge.   Oss er et nyoppstartet tek-selskap som har som mål å forenkle og trygge hverdagen din. Vi ønsker å gi deg tilgang og eierskap til informasjon som etterhvert blir tilgjengelig med de nye strømmålerne. Vi vil utvikle tjenester, sammen med testbrukerne våre, som gir deg trygghet og oversikt i hverdagen. Vi har fundert over hvor mye tid vi selv bruker på unødvendige bekymringer om hjemmet. Vi tror mange bruker mye tid på det. Det ønsker vi å løse med Oss-brikken. Det er jo så unødvendig! Det er jo så mye finere å bruke tiden på andre ting enn bekymringer. Og hverandre. Hos Oss lover vi trygghet for ditt privatliv og dine data først og fremst. Vi kommer aldri til å selge disse videre eller bruke de til noe som du ikke helt bevisst sier ja til (selvfølgelig!). Oss er finansiert gjennom Enovas AMS-prosjekt hvor man skal finne ut om tilgang på informasjon om strømbruken i hjemmet kan bidra til at vi alle bruker mindre strøm.

The Pitch SignLab helps families that need to learn sign language or sign-assisted communication to communicate The What Parents to children who are severely hard of hearing or deaf need to learn sign language to communicate. Today, only 1 in 4 parents to deaf children in high-income countries manage to learn sign language. In low-income countries, it is believed to be less than 1 in 10. Families with individuals that benefit from sign-assisted communication face the same challenge. These include the parents to children with Down Syndrome, severe autism or Cerebral palsy. The How An international learning platform for sign languages and sign-assisted communication. The SignLab learning platform is fully digital and can incorporate new languages within weeks. The user only needs access to a smartphone or a computer. The platform makes it fun and easy to learn through gamification and timed encouragement. To ensure that the user gets the most out of every learning session, our review functionality incorporates an AI that knows what signs you are about to forget. The AI then designs a learning session that is tailored to the individual user’s need. Our curriculum is designed in cooperation with sign language teachers in each language. The platform launched in open beta in Norway November 2018. Feedback from parents and sign language teachers gave it a NPS of +64. The platform saw exponential growth with an average growth rate of 276% each month for the first three months (Nov-Feb). This growth all came from word of mouth, $0 spent on marketing. The Why Today less than 10% of the 64 million parents to deaf and hard of hearing children know sign language due to the low availability of education centers. Exclusion from communication have a significant impact on everyday life, causing feelings of loneliness, isolation, and frustration. The inability to properly communicate have a significantly adverse effect on the academic performance of children. SignLab works towards a society where all families have access to teaching themself, their children and their community signs and sign language so that everyone can feel included.

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!