Xeneta (Norway Startup of the Year 2016) is one of the most promising tech companies coming out of the Nordics. We are changing the business of the $200Bn container-shipping industry. We have become the world's leading information platform for ocean freight pricing intelligence. With our international background from logistics, technology and business we have managed to develop a turnkey solution addressing the challenges traditionally related to trade in the containerized shipping industry. We come from all walks of life and from all corners of the globe. With over 16 different nationalities, there really isn't a dull moment in a typical working day. Our colorful personalities makes for rather interesting and healthy discussions on the most mundane topics, but it's what keeps it fun. With our headquarters in beautiful and charming Oslo, Norway our team of dedicated and extremely intelligent human beings is what makes Xeneta tick. We have a passion for software technology and global trade, but most of all, a desire to change the business of global logistics once and for all.

At Whereby we are building the easiest video meeting tool available on the web. Millions of people all around the world use Whereby every week to connect, communicate and collaborate, both privately and as part of their daily work. If you want to be part of our journey in making Whereby even more user friendly, making it a more powerful and productive tool, and ensuring that it has the best scalability and stability in the business – we have a desk for you!  Our staff is our most valuable resource. We're a diverse, international, friendly, creative, professional, remote, happy, social, and a productive bunch of people. Positivity is infectious! We spend so much time at work so we might as well choose to enjoy it! Since we have a remote culture, we believe it's important to get together for social activities both over video and in-person. We consider every employment to be an investment in a long-term relationship. Our ability to attract and invest in talented people, and to make them key ambassadors for the company culture and concept - already takes place at the recruitment process.

We work continuously to inspire, motivate  and engage people to work together for more diversity in business.    We aim to close the gender gap. SHE Community strives to make businesses better and by better we mean more diverse. Through events, conferences, study programs, and as a consulting partner to businesses we aim to motivate for diversity and inspire for equality – for all people. SHE community consists of people who believe that diversity drives profitability and progress, and who works directly towards closing the gender gap. We recently launched She Index that measures gender equality in business. She Community was founded in 2014, by two enthusiastic women, who wanted to do more for the current and coming generations. The first step? Focusing on the current situation and inspire more women to become leaders and entrepreneurs. 

Innofactor is the leading driver of the modern digital organization in the Nordic Countries for its over 1,000 customers in the commercial, public, and third sectors. Innofactor has the widest solution offering and leading know-how in the Microsoft ecosystem in the Nordics. Innofactor has over 500 enthusiastic and motivated top specialists in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. The Innofactor Plc share is listed in the technology section of the main list of NASDAQ Helsinki Oy.

From weeks of back and forth to a single meeting, with all your floor plans concluded on the spot in a collaborative way. At laiout we automate the generation of architectural floor plans. With a team of physicists, programmers and architects we are pioneering in one of the largest yet most heavily underdigitized industries in the world, being real-estate. We have the backing of some of Europe's strongest investors and are piloting with the largest real-estate players in the field. Come join us on this incredibly exciting adventure !

Business Angels Norway is the only umbrella assocation for regional or industry-specific angel groups in Norway. We are a co-founder of NordicBAN, the Nordic-Baltic assocation for business angels. We have ca 10 angel groups all over Norway, with >500 business angels total. We are an interest assocation, working for the interests of angel groups and business angels in general. We are part of several international initiatives and projects, incl the Nordic Angel Program where we need YOU!

Picterus is an app under development designed to monitor jaundice in newborns. Untreated jaundice in newborns is responsible for more than 100,000 deaths and a substantial number of permanent brain damages each year. More than three quarters of these deaths occur in the poorest regions of the world, in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia. Cheap treatment is available through e.g. sunlight, but the diagnostic devices in use today cost around 10,000 dollars, making them practically unavailable in low-resource settings.

Vepak was founded with the mission to automate and remove the bottle neck in the production of firewood in bags, and to ensure that the professional producers of logs could be located not only in low-salary countries with long transport distances, but as close to the end users as possible.

Tibber is the digital butler that becomes your energy company and advisor. It learns how to save energy and lets you control your home from your mobile.

MemoScale specialize at developing erasure coding and data protection solutions for data storage. The team consists of six people with long experience in software and hardware optimizations as well as erasure coding technology. The company has solutions for multiple application areas which are based on proprietary code and IP.

Tikkio er en løsning for enkel, billig og trygg håndtering av små og store arrangement, inkludert kjøp og salg av billetter, mat, drikke og andre varer, samt organisering av ansatte og frivillige. Det er gratis å ta i bruk Tikkio både for arrangører og kunder. Arrangører betaler kun en avtalt provisjon (vanligvis 4%) på oppnådd omsetning.Tikkio.com eller mobilapp brukes av både arrangør og kunde. Det er ingen faste kostnader ved å bruke systemet og ingen oppstartskostnader. Systemet passer for alle som vil arrangere noe - store og små - og som arbeider med frivillighet - festivaler, idrettslag, musikkorps og turistforeninger.

Ripple Aerospace is a Norwegian aerospace company developing the oceanic Sea Serpent launch system. Leveraging Norway's long history of seafaring, shipbuilding, and maritime technology, we are developing a rocket class capable of being built, launched and recovered on the sea. Given the inefficiency of the space economy and launch service industry, our goal is to bring to market a mobile, reusable and scalable launch system capable of delivering medium, heavy and super heavy payloads into space. With industrial and commercialization partners from across Norway and abroad, the oceanic Sea Serpent launch system aims to be the preferred method of cargo transportation into space, providing the global economy a low-cost and accessible launch system.

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.

Listfully is a platform where you can make lists of anything you'd like to receive as gift, and share them with family and friends. List anything- whether found at a physical location or online. Combine items from large retailers with things found at a small local business or a non-physical gift like an experience or donation.   We hope to help people "give and get better" by increasing consciousness and reducing waste. And also, we think gifts can be a hassle and this just made sense.