The innovation ecosystem plays a crucial role in the success of startups, but these ecosystems are facing operational and strategic obstacles that limit their potential. The operational difficulties include an inability to effectively support startups leading to high failure rates, low engagement from startups, and resource-intensive reporting processes. On the strategic front, innovation ecosystems face intense competition and struggle to scale their efforts and establish sustainable business models, which often rely heavily on government funding. These challenges impact a wide range of players in the ecosystem, including incubators, accelerators, universities, and enterprise innovation departments. Addressing these challenges can lead to a thriving startup ecosystem, boosting economic growth and driving progress. By investing in the solution of these significant problems, the innovation ecosystem has the potential to unleash its full potential and drive positive change.

We are a startup passionate about facilitating great, beneficial relationships between companies and their leads. With support from notable investors and sizable clients, we aim at providing the foremost platform for attracting and engaging leads. We believe in authentic journeys - and inviting your customers to be a part of yours.

Enterprise businesses are investing more in B2B eCommerce solutions than smaller businesses, but Storeshop have set to changed this by innovating eCommerce solutions to be more intuitive and less IT heavy for ease-of-use and implementation. Big companies are investing in expensive E-Commerce solutions to provide structure and automation to their company. This has not been available for small and medium businesses, which has led to a underdeveloped industry managing sales through excel sheets, email and phone. This is time consuming, stressful and does not participate in increased sales. Storeshop delivers a B2B eCommerce platform which integrates with all the biggest economy and ERP platforms in Norway. The systems lets customers shop for products fast and easy, with automized orders that earlier came through mail and by phone. This saves the whole-sellers a lot of time and increase sales by using some of the same methods as we use in B2C. The system supports advanced discount structures, packaging formats, B2C and a lot more.

Dynaspace provides insights for a greater impact on global seafood production. Our accurate data and updated information make it easier for the entire aquaculture value chain to become efficient, fact-oriented and sustainable. The aquaculture industry is a rapidly growing food source and livelihood for billions of people across the globe. It’s a fragmented market with low transparency and monitoring is complex as aquaculture production covers vast areas, making it a struggle to have updated and validated information. Our international and dynamic team solves the global data gathering challenges using satellite observations to deliver a cloud-based platform with real-time market insights and forecasts. By using space technology, we empower suppliers, farmers, processors, traders and governments, to make timely and data-driven decisions to improve efficiency, increase profits, monitor environmental resources, and enhance transparency & traceability within the industry.

Sevendof is building the drone infrastructure of the future. We seek to make drones available as a service to help solve problems such as inspection, mapping, and search and rescue. To accomplish this, we're building a network of stations housing long-range drones capable of carrying out missions automatically, without humans in the field. With Sevendof's drone infrastructure, different users will be able to use the same drones to solve different use-cases, which will allow us to improve the availability and reduce operational costs for each user. Our mission is to make drones a safe and positive tool to help solve important problems in a scalable manner.

Anycareer is a data-powered career platform with courses, mentors, guides and automated recruitment to top employers. We close the gap between universities and employers by collecting data on candidates, helping them find their path towards reaching their full potential, then matching them with the right employers. Our combination of data science and behavioural science allows for more efficient, cheaper and less biased recruitment. Read more on anycareer.com.

MER is a Norwegian music company and artist representative. Our vision is to become the industry’s best in developing, facilitating and managing all aspects of our clients’ careers. The company has expertise and relevant experience in providing services such as management, booking, promotion and label functions.

Spleis er folkefinansiering på norsk. På bare ett år har folk samlet inn over 60 millioner kroner gjennom 200 000 innbetalinger til 4 000 vellykkede spleiser. Vi hjelper folk med å samle inn penger slik at de kan realisere prosjekter - og drømmer. Gjennom det endrer vi også måten penger samles inn på i Norge i dag. En fintech startup som står på skuldrene til SpareBank 1-alliansen. Musklene til et finanskonsern. Hastigheten til en startup. Nå vokser vi - og trenger mer folk!

Gelato aims to disrupt this model by providing customers with a portal through which they can manage these print jobs centrally, but print and distribute locally. We don’t do any printing ourselves – we’re a facilitator – but at the same time, we’re already saving our customers millions in efficiencies and making a major contribution to their own need to reduce overall carbon footprint. We believe that "collaborative consumption" can be the positive consequence of a "sharing economy". We believe in sharing fixed assets – in our case sharing of print machines. And in allowing excess capacity to be intelligently allocated. Sharing permits owners of fixed assets to monetize the underutilized assets. It offers environmentally friendly local delivery.

bbhugme is a Norwegian company that has achieved great international success with the multifunctional pregnancy and nursing pillow. bbhugme is a progressive company in growth with a goal to continue to create functional and innovative products for mothers and babies - always with a focus on design and quality. The head office is located in downtown Oslo and the brand has retailers throughout Scandinavia and UK. The products are sold globally through own webshop.

Capeesh is combining machine intelligence with gamification in order to provide relevant language learning for non-native speakers who work in domain-specific industries.Capeesh aims to change how employers onboard and train new hires. It is all about providing the right language learning exercise in the right industry-related context, driving towards authentic use in an authentic context. This experience transfers employees work-related capacity. In Capeesh we embrace diversity and creativity! With offices based in some of the most innovative hubs in Norway, we care about flexible work environments and new approaches. Follow your enthusiasm and challenge everything!The team consists of experienced game developers, full-stack engineers, experts in natural language processing and experienced business developers. As a part of the team, we also have two language researchers with expertise in phonetics and linguistics, which will help us validate the effect of what we are creating.

Founded in 2015, by oil and software industry veterans Oliasoft provides modern software for the oil and gas industry. Our web-based products bring a fresh perspective to well planning, casing and other drilling engineering processes.We are proud to introduce Wellplan™, a cutting edge cloud-based web application with a highly usable interface offering easy access to tools employing algorithms and calculations based on the latest industry research.

Futurehome develops smart home solutions and connects the “Do-It-For-Me” smart home customers with professional partners, using online tools to reduce the price by up to 80% compared to similar solutions. Offering an online builder wizard for customers and tools and automation services for installers and partners, we have a solid platform to bring the smart home to the mass market. Futurehome is a Norwegian tech-startup, founded in Stavanger, 2013. Since then, the smart home company has grown considerably and now employs 17 people, built a state-of-the-art product, and teamed up with powerful investors. Today, with partners such as Nordan, Gilje, ID-Lock and Zaptec, Futurehome proudly supplies one of the most user friendly smart home systems on the market.

Fanbooster offers a complete solution for your Facebook presence. We offer a number of do-it-yourself services like Fanbooster Creator, Monitor, Post Management, and iFrapp. We also custom build Facebook apps, and consult our clients on Facebook ads, pages and strategy. Fanbooster is a result of the merger between Fanbooster and Fennek & Friends. Our clients include Aston Villa, Moods of Norway, Feyenoord Rotterdam and Norwegian Airlines.

reGenics is a marine biotech company that leverage the science of unfertilized salmon roe to combat a global health problem: wound healing, diabetic ulcers and psoriasis. The company was one of the very few that was given the seal of excellence from EU, which makes it highly valued by associated and potential partners. One of them being a global well-known wound healing company , which also makes the case for possible exit opportunities in this intriguing investment case.