Modern, nobel-prize winning research shows that hardly any traditional investment funds are adding any value beyond what fully automated strategies can do. NorQuant's mission is to help private and professional investors achieve higher returns at lower costs through a scientific, rules-based, 100% transparent approach. We feel we are off to a good start: - We are helping our first pilot customer, one of Norway's largest family offices, implement factor-based analysis - We have been selected as one of ten fintech-startups for TheFactory.no Fall18 program, out of more than 200 applications

At Vitaloop, we are working on giving you clean water everywhere. We make it whole again, removing substances and pollution left by our actions. In a rapidly changing world, Vitaloop will be insurance, proven access to the one thing no one can exist without – clean, fresh, and healthy water. Our go-to-market product is called VITALOOP ORIGIN and is a ground-breaking, patented, high-tech water cleaning bottle that can remove almost everything harmful, manufactured and caused by climate change. It's your own mobile water filtration station using the revolutionary nanomaterial Graphene. It runs by a powerful pump and a rechargeable battery that will clean 450 ml of water in 60 seconds. Vitaloop Origin provides true independence wherever and whenever. VITALOOP- Water restored.

Nordea er en av Nordens største totalbanker Nordens største bank gjennomfører et helt unikt startup-stunt. Se ledige stillinger for mer informasjon. Med mer enn 10 millioner kunder og 30.000 medarbeidere er vi en av de ti største totalbankene i Europa. Vi har en omfattende kompetanse på et vidt spekter av produkter, tjenester og løsninger innenfor bank, kapitalforvaltning og forsikring. Nordea er en av få europeiske banker med AA-rating.

BAD NORWEGIAN is a natural skincare brand from Norway, founded by a former NATO soldier, to offer men simple products and routines. We combine the values associated with Norway: integrity, honesty, and quality- with a rogue, confident undertone. Our skincare, beard and shave products are all cruelty-free and vegan, with an instant effect. BAD NORWEGIAN is a direct-to-consumer company with a strong foothold in the travel retail market in Norway. Selling at Heinemann, BEAST, Marionnaud and Cult Beauty.

We deliver production and distribution tools for content in the story format, allowing customers to leverage the format on their own platforms or web pages. Adding stories to your webpage, listing or email is often a lot easier than people think. Most of our users are able to embed stories by simply copying and pasting a snippet.

Spect8 is a norwegian tech startup with a mission to help sports organizations, pro-athletes and sponsors that don’t have enough time, capacity, or the necessary skills to reach their potential in growing fan engagement and commercial value. Due to the power of association among consumers, brands allocate an increasing amount of their advertising budgets towards sports teams and athletes. To measure the value of a sponsorship, sponsors rely on manual measurements and expensive consulting services. At the same time, athletes, clubs, and federations are left with few resources to decide what their commercial value is, and often forfeit revenue (and funding for their sport) by underselling their commercial value. To solve this problem, we have developed a tool called Foqus. Foqus is an easy-to-use machine learning tool created for sports teams and individual athletes to determine their commercial value for sponsorships, and for brands to manage and measure multiple agreements. We are currently working with Norsk Toppfotball, sports associations, clubs and and several brands, and are off to a good start to reach our goal of creating a new industry standard for how sponsorship value is created, measured, and driven. The existing team consists of three business developers with expertise in strategy, marketing, sponsorship, data and analysis. In addition, we have associated development teams with both front-end, back-end and database expertise. We have recently become a part of StartupLab's Accelerator program, are supported by Innovation Norway and have ambitions to scale our business both nationally and internationally in the coming years. We therefore wish to expand our team with a skilled developer who also wants to make a professional career as an entrepreneur. The CTO will have the overall responsibility for the further development and scaling of our core product, Foqus, as well as the development of new tools and concepts going forward.

CURRENT was founded with a vision to make owning and managing EV chargers easy and accessible. Since 2013, we have been working to solve the challenges related to charging infrastructure by bringing together the tools and expertise needed to manage and operate charging points in one place. Today, we have helped over 150,000 users with more than 20,000 charging points across seven different countries.

Zeabuz is a spin-off from the leading research community on autonomous vessels at NTNU in Trondheim. Our autonomy technology is field-proven for shortcuts across urban waterways, and we are now searching for long-term investors while preparing for market launch. Water used to be the main infrastructure for most cities in the world. While roads are filling up everywhere, much of the urban waters are have become highly underutilized. At Zeabuz we want to reverse this trend by introducing a technology platform that makes local waterborne transport an economically viable and sustainable option. Our mobility system, which comprises a combination of a network of small vessels, electric drive, and autonomous operation, is a truly scalable solution fit for many of the world’s urban areas. Enabling increased flow by utilizing available waterways will allow more people to travel by foot and bike and hence will reduce the need for road traffic and in the end reduce emissions of climate gasses. Another perspective is that dynamic utilization of waterways will reduce the need for new inflexible infrastructures such as roads and bridges, which saves both money, emissions from concrete production, and local footprint. The Zeabuz urban mobility system will be a compelling and attractive mobility solution for cities globally. Rough estimates have shown that there is a market for approx. 4000 Zeabuz-like ferries in the EU alone. Zeabuz aims to take a major share of this emerging market. The company is founded on the idea that passenger transport across urban waters is a highly suitable starting point for commercializing autonomous mobility. In this segment, risks are mitigated by low speeds and high physical margins which also allow us to focus on solving only a few problems at a time while still earning positive returns from the start. As the Zeabuz technology platform matures in this first segment, we will explore its scaling potential across several dimensions. This means we could branch out and adapt to new opportunities and market demand based on our solid foundation in autonomy, assurance, and mobility solutions. Our autonomy platform can be utilized to deliver Autonomy-as-a-Service which enables entries into new markets, new use cases, and an expansion to more complex operational domains. Zeabuz is now preparing for launching a commercial pilot in a Scandinavian city in 2022. Much of the financial structure required is already in place and will be triggered by the entry of a Lead Investor

Sine Delta is re-shaping the wind industry and revolutionising the world of power generation. We are on a mission to “make the most innovative tech” to solve energy problems. Sine Delta is developing for the market: A ground-breaking patented renewable energy turbine that works in all 360 degrees whilst storing energy for on demand use, using a combination of skilled engineering, industrial design and biomimetics to deliver a fascinating and unique design. The company headquarters is located in Stavanger, Norway.

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.

Flexistore is a Norwegian tech startup which offers the first fully digital self storage solution in the region. Our customers can easily book their storage unit in our app and get immediate access with digital keys to our modern facilities in Oslo city centre. Through continuously updating our functions with innovative technology, we encourage more sharing, recycling and reuse of the things you do not use every day.

Fixrate is a marketplace for large bank deposits. Our vision is to give banks and investors easier access to better terms. Our company was established in Steinkjer, Norway, in desember 2016. Our service was launched in oktober 2017. Currently eight people work in our company, and we have offices in Steinkjer, Trondheim and Oslo.Already over 7 bn NOK has been matches through our service, and we expect further growth in the coming months and years. We are a bunch working together towards a common goal - to make life easy for our customers! In our office you will find dedicated people who are self-driven and motivated, and who work in teams. Our team members are mainly experienced grown-up people.

Auk is a company making an automated system making it easy for everyone to grow their own vegetables, herbs and chili indoors; in the kitchen or in a living room. Our goal is to help reduce food waste,  reduce the carbon footprint of food production, and give people access to healthier, fresher and better tasting greens.

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!

Drowzee's mission is to empower humans with the ability of falling asleep on command, using innovative neurotechnology. We develop sleep solutions to ensure that everyone gets the rest they need to live life at the fullest. Our first product, the Pendulum, is a brain-training device that helps people suffering from insomnia improve their sleep health with personalized brain training programs. The Pendulum enables users to reach and strengthen their mental state of drowsiness using neurofeedback training.