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.

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.

We in Tidbit are building systems for the restaurant industry. We think that the restaurants are too traditional when it comes to innovation. We want to revolutionize the way people are eating and staying at a restaurant.Together with one of the best designers in the world, Eker Design, we are designing an interactive table solution for high end restaurants.You are welcome to hear more about our project!

Using carbon footprint data, we are building products to help companies track and mitigate their carbon footprint. Our current product is a web application which enables companies in the food industry to calculate and label the carbon footprint of their food, set reduction goals and follow their progress through monthly climate reports.

BoldBooks is a tech company disrupting the book industry. In traditional publishing the author lose his/her IP, control and is left with only 10-15 % of the revenue. BoldBooks has a new business model that is more fair to the content/value creators in this industry. With a two-sided digital platform we connects authors directly with freelancers/services, skipping the publishing house and empowering the authors. We have over 3000 users in Norway and Germany.

EcoFarm is a new way of indoor planting with unique Norwegian technologies providing us with fresh and healthy vegetables, barriers and herbs, all important nutritions that we lack buying from food chains. Being the owner of EcoFarm, we become a part of a human society protecting our planet from ever-growing food demands and helping to stop deforestation caused by increasing agricultural industry. EcoFarm is designed for all of us. It’s time to reconnect with our most valuable life source. We are the team of enthusiastic people with more than 10 years background experience in mechanical and electronic engineering. We are trying to convince people to grow their own food indoor rather than buying it. With current technologies we implement in our EcoFarm it is possible!

Northern Playground has developed Zipwear, a completely new way of dressing for active outdoor people. Currently located at MESH, a co-working-space.Zipwear is all about one thing: Personal Climate ControlWhen you’re out in nature, exterior conditions shift, and so does your own level of activity. With Zipwear you can ventilate specific parts of your body to control your temperature - in a matter of seconds.Want to know more? http://www.northernplayground.no/the-story/ Northern Playground is a norwegian company that sell and develop clothing for active people. The company was founded with a philosophy that established truths can, and should, be challenged, and the result is that an assortment of our innovations are on the global market as we speak.We are growing fast, and need dedicated employees that have a desire to be on board for the journey. You will be part of a small and passionate team with huge ambitions and an appetite for fun and play in the most beautiful playground on the planet.

We are making a real change!TotalCtrl is one of the most inspiring food waste changemakers and a top GLOBAL digital retail innovation company. TotalCtrl has developed software allowing retailers to better manage their inventory, thereby reducing food waste, cutting costs and allowing smarter decision-making. Our  analytics-based dashboard leverages the value of food expiration data, retailers can make improvements to their food waste, marketing and bottom line.

We are creating a marketplace for small businesses in Norway to offer their products to a broader market and to get insights from analytics about their sales, marketing and presentation. Our customers are based in Norway and enjoy using online shopping as their main channel for buying the products they love. We are working to help our customers find the products they want at a trustworthy, user-friendly place where they can enjoy the user experience while shopping.

657 Oslo is Norway’s largest coworking space for creative industries. At 657 Oslo we believe that collaboration is the new competition. We accelerate passionate people and ignite great ideas. 657 Oslo offers an ambitious community and an inspiring place to work for freelancers, entrepreneurs, small businesses and startups. At the moment, we are home to 225+ talented individuals representing more than 110 exciting companies spread across 2 buildings and 11 floors at Fredensborgveien 24. We tailor memberships according to the needs of every individual. We have offices in different sizes, and you can rent a desk in our open spaces. We offer full-time desks, flexible desks, and 657 Buddy memberships. As a member of 657 Oslo, you will have access to a unique network of coworkers, clients, suppliers, advisors and investors.Coworkers can book everything from mentoring to maker space, and as a member you will be invited to a wide range of events. We also know how to have fun. We collaborate with other coworking spaces throughout Norway, and as one of our members, you can make use of these spaces when travelling.

NewSchool develops innovative digital tools for collaboration and project based learning by combining agile working methods, psychology, games and mobile media.The tools draw on a set of successful business practices  - the kanban boards for Lean Management, adapted to education purposes, in real-time. By focusing on the organization of the process, not its content, it helps develop self-regulation and collaborative skills for 21st century learners. We are an education technology start-up, with extensive change management experience, unique insights in workforce trends and technology, and pedagogy at its core. All team members have solid international experience from fields like mobile technology, business development and technology management, international education, instructional design, and learning sciences research.The team consists of Fredrik Harloff, Chief Executive Officer, and Mihaela Tabacaru , Community Manager, both co-founders of NewSchool, working full time. The third co-founder, Stian Hofslett Thowsen, works full time as a teacher and part of management team at Langaugen secondary school in Bergen, Norway. Besides the three co-founders, NewSchool relies on an interdisciplinary board of administration with senior level execs: Anne Posner, Bjarne Solhaug, and Paal Kaperdal, all with broad experience, covering international business development expertise, publishing house and human resources expertise, and digital transformation expertise. Frequent contributor and education research expert is Marina Hirnstein, PhD in cognitive psychology, expert in learning analytics .We have offices in Bergen and Oslo,  members of two incubators: Nyskapningsparken in Bergen (http://www.nyskapingsparken.no/) and SoCentral in Oslo, Nordic Center for Social Innovation (www.socentral.no). With an international mindset from day 1, we have been testing our product in classrooms across Europe, from Norway to Denmark, Portugal and Romania, to USA. Our extensive education network made it also possible to plan pilots in emerging countries like India and Iraq.

AssiTech designs physical aids for people with mobility challenges, to help overcome daily obstacles in an active manner. Our first product is the unique AssiStep, a stair assistant which gives support for climbing stairs in a controlled manner. This promotes activity, mastery and independence of our users, at the same time as it is considerable cheaper than alternative solutions for the stairs. The AssiStep currently sells in Norway and Sweden.

WeWantToKnow is a French-Norwegian company that focuses on Game-Based Learning. Its first product is the math game "DragonBox" and it has more games in the planning stages. The company was founded by financial analyst turned math teacher Jean-Baptiste Huyhn, the leading French game developer Patrick Marchal, and former Opera Software executives Rolf Assev and Christen Krogh. WeWantToKnow aims to make learning fun, easy and addictive. DragonBox does away with tedious equations and math quizzes, replacing them instead with a simple game involving cards and a magical box. The game evolves as kids master the skills and concepts presented. After one hour of playing DragonBox, twelve-year olds can tackle equations their parents struggle to solve. DragonBox was pre-launched in Norway to let schools, kids and parents test the game. Almost immediately, it rocketed to the top of the charts, becoming the most purchased app in the Apple App Store in Norway-- displacing other, more traditional games - check it out at - www.dragonbox.com

At Sustie, we are on a mission to help fashion brands take climate action at scale. We are building the Impact OS for fashion brands to measure, reduce, and compensate for their carbon footprint. We’ve developed a fully automated carbon accounting platform for navigating and empowering your business on a journey towards Taking climate action and building a path to net-zero emissions.

We are building Generative AI for patents. The cost to create patents can range anywhere from $15,000 - $50,000+ just for the legal fees (not including the government filing fees). Many inventions by independent inventors, startups, and companies are not patented because the fees are too high. This also has a negative funding impact on deep tech research because investors and companies sometimes shy away from funding products that aren't protected. Our product helps lower the bar for patenting innovation and research.