ACT is your partner in sustainable shopping — a simple, intuitive and enjoyable tool which helps you direct your money where it matters to YOU. Make a list, optimize it and choose ethically and ecologically produced items. Once we create demand for sustainable products, the food production industry will have to follow. Check our open positions and join this epic project to mitigate global warming with the power of innovative technology and united global effort of the smart and caring consumer! ACT is a unique project that has brought together an amazing team of international talents scattered around the world and coming together by their thirst for innovation, and passion for addressing one of the biggest problems we face in today's society: how we consume and specifically how can we consume more sustainably?

Learn to work as a successful entrepreneur. Become a co-founder with our 4-week start up accelerator. Best of all, anyone can join.// Anyone can join // Become a co-owner // Co-found a company // Build your dream job //// To apply for our programs and to learn more -> https://www.x2labs.io/ocean-space-program/ Curious about how can we derive clean, renewable energy from the power of waves, currents or tides? - Or the future of transport at sea? - Or how to manage aquatic resources in ways that lead to more clean drinking water, increased food security, better crop irrigation? Want to explore ways we save our oceans from overfishing, climate change, acidification, and pollution? Or perhaps look at how our oceans can save us? The oceans of the world are vast and hold the last unexplored expands of our planet. The long Norwegian coast has shaped our culture and the prosperity of our society and it is the single largest natural resource we have to build our future on.– Such riches demand a strategy which emphasizes high, yet sustainable activity to continue value creation and employment growth. This while simultaneously taking advantage of the knowledge and know-how we as a nation have gained through different industries working in the ocean space. Industries like; oil & gas, shipping, fish-farming, traditional fishing, wind-power, other energy creation and in a longer perspective, even mineral mining on the bottom of the sea and more.  The common challenge all industries working in and with the ocean space share is that they need to develop world leading technology!  - This to continue growth while getting rid of pollution and keep the development sustainable for future generations.Norwegian industry has proven that they can deliver tomorrows solutions and utilize experience transfer from other industries working, both within and outside the ocean space.This is the framework for this X2 Lab´s 4th Program: “Ocean Space”. Are you ready to make a difference?

Shifter is an independent news site about Norwegian tech startups in the new economy. We cover big and small events in the startup industry while reporting on innovation in bigger companies. We focus on ideas, challenges, money, power, people and good stories from everywhere.

Vilect is an AI powered recruitment assistant that helps non-hr managers run high quality processes and hire the best candidates in record time. The assistant identifies the most relevant candidates and lets the hiring manager screen short-listed applicants with recorded video interviews integrated directly in the system.www.vilect.ai  We are Vilect and we are really trying to keep one of the biggest time thieves in the retail sector at bay -- hiring and more specifically, hiring the wrong people. What we are doing is creating a recruitment software with the store manager in mind and improve the workflow. How do they reach out to the applicants? How do they evaluate applicants? How do they choose the right applicant? We thus want to make a system created around this workflow. Through this, we hope to help them sort through hundreds of applications and narrow those down to a more manageable number.We are saving time on writing the application by introducing video interviews instead. The applicant can complete the video interview as part of the process and the store manager can review those videos at his convenience. We started testing our prototypes which had a video element in it, with great feedback. We were wondering if they could actually get a good impression of a person with short video answers and thus far, the store managers' feedback has been really great.

The whole world is striving with textile waste! Most circular economy-based action plans are mostly based on recycling and sorting and not repairing, re-making, re-using and sharing. How can we combine sustainability, circular economy and women empowering in one practical local and global plan? In today textile market, clothing and textile sales rises while clothing usage has steadily declined! While the cost of repair service is high, the number of service providers is also very limited and considering all thrift solutions, the majority of secondhand materials are still going to Lindfield while it can be used as material. And as the last leg of this international picture, today's available solutions are mostly based on recruiting service providers instead of giving them the opportunity to be the owner of their business which make the sustainability of those models strictly dependent on the those business owners instead of relying on the owners of the practical knowledge and craft. Repasdo is a marketplace for unique, creative services of textile and relevant secondhand materials. It’s home to people providing special, extraordinary services and products, from repaired pieces to handcrafted and vintage treasures. While today’s main trend is into secondhand shopping online solutions, Repasdo focus is to provide possibility to create ‘added value’ instead of pure thrift store business model. By providing business and market opportunity (online store + learning, low cost material & equipment) to potential service providers, secondhand textile can be repaired or be used as raw material for new product (in as many different ways as service providers can manage to come up with). Repasdo Platform (as the first in its market) is to provide a platform for creating jobs, micro and small businesses (own by service providers) while providing practical learning and access to different type of secondhand textile as material and online stores as places for those businesses to thrive. We are three co-founders with background in strategic business and organizational development, application and software development, and fashion design and learning. In addition two of us have long years of experience in humanitarian aid organizations and woman empowering programs. We have strong believe in sustainability and circularity not in relation with of product and service, but as the sole practical concept and business model

Findable - Enabling a fully digital real estate and construction industry. More than 80% of the information in the real estate and construction industry is still on paper. Due to documentation requirements for reuse of building materials this is one of the major bottlenecks for increased circular economy in the industry responsible for 40 % of waste, emissions and resource use. This is also a major limitation when it comes to increasing digitisation, operational efficiency and collaboration in the industry. At Findable we are creating the world's leading building and construction document data platform. Enabling instant access to your data, and integrated with the tools our customers love. We use AI for automatic document sorting and handling, and according to our customers "Findable is solving the world's most boring problem". We work with some of the leading real estate companies in the nordics and through our plattform we are able to help our customers achieve: - Document management, ensuring quality and safety - Digital Facility Management, saving time and money - Smart maintenance planning - Due diligence in real estate transactions - Reuse of materials and building elements - Climate footprint analysis Join us in our mission to help the industry into the digital age, turning documents into data and insights. Enabling a more efficient and circular industry! 🚀♻️

Haato is 'heart' in japanese and the heart is the focus of HATO Medical Technologies. HATO is a MedTech company specializing in heart monitoring and analysis. We have developed an innovative technology that assists healthcare professionals with increasing their qualifications in analyzing and interpreting electrocardiograms (ECG) through 3D visualizations of the heart and data-driven artificial intelligence. According to WHO, heart diseases are the largest killer in the world. Heart diseases and conditions are located and diagnosed with the use of ECG. This heart examination is practiced by General Practitioners, EMTs / Paramedics, Nurses, Doctors, and Cardiologists. Misinterpretation of ECG analysis leads to misdiagnosis, which might lead to fatal consequences for patients and the social economy. A British study estimates that up to 68,5% are misdiagnosed with heart failure. HATO's new digital solution analyzes heart diseases from ECGs using artificial intelligence and machine learning. The software solution increases the foundation of decisions of the healthcare professionals and combines 3D visualizations with our ML models for real-time animation of the patient's heart. All of this will assist healthcare professionals with localizing abnormalities and allow them to react faster at critical events. Innovative and easy. Long story short, the software platform will raise the bottom level of ECG interpretation and give all healthcare professionals a cardiologist by their hand.

Åpenhet is a Norwegian GovTech company based in Oslo and Paris. We specialize in good governance & data driven policy making. We provide services to public administrations and organisations across Europe. Our primary goal is to foster international cooperation through knowledge and data sharing. We are growing our team.

MAK is a social impact start-up organization working to build capacity and facilitate knowledge exchange between young professionals from diverse backgrounds. MAK consists of Scandinavia’s largest community of talented and diverse individuals, with 600+ members from over 35 countries. In the field of innovation and entrepreneurship, MAK works to become Norway’s most robust platform for diverse innovation and entrepreneurship.

Nordic Data Resources is a leading provider of online consumer data in the Nordics. Utilizing massive public, proletarian offline data and sophisticated geo-targeting Nordic Data Resources exclusively offer online targeting based on Mosaic, the world-leading consumer classification. Our data also include actual purchase data – like car ownership. This enable Nordic Data Resources to offer more than 500 online audiences in the Nordics. Nordic Data Resources provide safe, reliable and scalable online targeting opportunities throughout the marketing funnel and across all relevant devices and channels. The data are accessible on all major DSP platforms including Adform. The targeting data is used by six global agency groups and 85 different media agencies across Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. Our data set offer full reach, online audiences based on ground data matched with cookies, programmatically provided for effective use through the marketing funnel. We connect advertisers online marketing activities with CRM databases and make it available for multi channel distribution at reasonable price to capture and maximize unrealized audience value.

Gture is an organization with a local and global network of software development partners, service designers within fields such as UX-/UI-/Interaction design and Web/ Mobile/App development. We drive entrepreneurial processes from idea to results through agile project management, cross functional team management leveraging local project management with global software delivery capabilities.

Atelier is a digital platform that lets you discover and buy art directly from professional and emerging artists. Our goal is to make art more accessible and contribute to a richer art market and better economic conditions for the artists.Since launch in April 2018 nearly 300 of the most exciting and promising artists from Oslo and Bergen have created profiles and uploaded over 1000 artworks.View their art by downloading the iOS app:appsto.re/no/vuVTib or visit atelier.as

We are a provider of expertise, capital and network for entrepreneurs and startups. We also assist our portfolio companies to recruit talent.Since 1994 we have been active in the creation of new businesses. We evaluate over 500 entrepreneurs yearly. Many of these go through our courses, counseling or a stay in our incubator. We have actively invested seed capital in over 70 startups, and we are currently a shareholder in 30 of them.

Silicon Valhalla is a Nordic tech intelligence hub that maps startups, founders, investors, and market signals across the Nordic region, with a particular emphasis on AI, SaaS, and frontier innovation. It exists to make the “Silicon Valhalla” ecosystem - Nordic tech’s answer to Silicon Valley - more visible, navigable, and investable for founders, operators, and capital. The platform combines a curated startup directory, an events calendar, and ecosystem insights into a single, neutral entry point for Nordic tech. Startups and scaleups get structured profiles highlighting what they do, where they are based, which sector they play in, and how to reach them, while investors and partners can quickly scan emerging companies across AI, climate, fintech, deep tech, and more. A continuously updated view of companies and activity aims to surface momentum early, so users can spot new categories, breakout teams, and upcoming fundraising stories before they hit the mainstream. Silicon Valhalla is designed to be independent and ecosystem-first rather than a job board or paywalled database. The service is currently free to use, making discovery accessible while opening the door for future premium offerings such as featured profiles, highlighted events, and deeper signal products for investors and corporates. In short, Silicon Valhalla is building the default map and narrative for Nordic tech: a living overview of the startups, talent, and ideas turning the region into one of the most dynamic innovation hubs in Europe.

The Problem Most workplaces struggle with high sick leave — and the root causes are rarely acute injuries or illness. They are lifestyle-driven issues: • fatigue and low energy • stress and mental strain • poor sleep • musculoskeletal pain • unhealthy habits • lack of support These problems build up over time, and employees try to handle them alone. But people don’t change their health on their own — and employers don’t have the tools or competency to help them. The result? High sick leave costs, reduced productivity, and employees who are stuck in patterns they can’t break. Why it matters Sick leave is one of the biggest hidden costs in business. A single employee on sick leave costs on average 65 200 kr per year — and 20% of employees account for 80% of the total. Most of these cases are preventable with the right support. At the same time, people want help: 85% prefer guidance from a qualified professional rather than trying to solve health challenges alone. ABEL’s Role ABEL solves this gap. We connect employees with qualified health coaches who follow them closely over time — mentally, physically, and socially. Through structured guidance and our digital platform, we help people make sustainable lifestyle changes that reduce sick leave and increase wellbeing. The impact: Employees get better health. Companies save money. Society reduces the burden of preventable illness.