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.

We are building an ecosystem around employee perks and benefits. For employees we have a solution to access all information on their mobiles. For employers our webapp automates a lot of what is done manually today and save time. For providers we make it easy to reach a company's employees and segment the market. In addition we provide consulting services for SMEs and growth companies.

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.

inzpire.me is on a mission to humanize advertising through user-generated content marketing. With the rise of ad blockers, brands are looking for a better way to connect with their audience. Powered by data-driven tools, the platform matches brands with social media content creators to create genuine collaborations and inspiring stories worldwide.

Fixing and repairing of consumer goods are declining, and have been for many years. It can seem cheaper and more convenient to buy a new product and throw away the broken one. At the same time, repair shops need more customers. We will create a digital booking system to make repairing easier and convenient. Consumers can choose their preferred repair shop and order repairs directly from their couch and have it sent and delivered. At the same time, we help repairers reach new customers online and a CRM system optimised and co-created with repairers. Our mission is to build a culture for repair and inspire people to take care of what they already have. Our main SDG is number 12 - Responsible consumption and production. Increased volume of repair will lead to lower consumption and inspire consumers to buy less and better products. This is a big goal for Fikse and with our digital system, we know that it will lead to more reuse. In addition, Fikse is also contributing to goals 8, 11, 13 and 17. We care about the environment and will always work for these goals. In other words: We make repairs easy and convenient. Problem Today, repair and maintenance of consumer goods are a real hassle. It can seem cheaper and more convenient to buy a new product and throw away the broken one. In addition, repair shops need more customers and better margins. They also lack a customized system for managing orders and communicating with customers. Retail businesses have a hard time creating a solution for handling warranty and refund. Research shows that the inconvenience of repair is just as high an obstacle as the price. On the other side, repairers struggle to get customers. They do not have the time, money or resources to be active on social media or promote on digital platforms. They are also lacking a good system for managing orders and communicating with customers. Solution We help repair businesses and retail owners reach out to customers and respond to the emerging market for repairs and circularity. We are in the process of creating a digital booking system to make repairing easy, fast and convenient for all segments above. And we know that this sustainable concept is a service they actually want. At Høyer Paleet in Oslo, you can see for yourself. Together with the high-end retailer, we launched our MVP here in mid may. And what a response. We have over 800 bookings as of september 20, as well as the retail itself. This winter, we will start developing a fully digital version. This way, you can choose your preferred repair shop and order repairs directly from your couch and have it sent and delivered. At the same time, we help repairers reach new customers online by creating a CRM system optimized and co-created with repairers. We can manage all cases of repairs connected to warranty and refund for businesses to ensure the consumer a sustainable practice on all levels. Our dedicated team is ready to help you take care of what you have - so that your stuff can live longer and you can continue living your life.

We are on the mission to reinvent civil engineering for a sustainable future. We are building a one-stop shop for the design and engineering of structural assets. We are leveraging AI, cloud technologies, parametric modelling, geotechnologies, structural engineering, remote sensing (wind and terrain data) and big data to reduce the cost and time of structural design and analysis. We strive to optimize engineering structures to reduce carbon footprint and have identified strong reduction potentials. Our ambition is to build a B2B SaaS product house for structural engineering within several industries such as telecom, wind, solar and power. Our founding team possesses world-leading expertise within the telecommunication industry, therefore we are starting off by targeting this field. We believe that we have identified a niche with a truly global potential. We have launched the first version of our software that we have sold and delivered to customers represented by Europe’s largest telecommunication provider (Vantage Towers) as well as completed an integration with one of the largest asset management platforms (Atrebo). We have attracted international VC investors, established a strong advisory board, and are now looking for team members! Check out: shapemaker.io

A bold leadership development program designed to empower and support the next generation of conscious leaders, ready to take on the challenges of tomorrow. We believe in leadership as a tool for creating a positive impact - both in your personal life and in the world. As we are faced with increasingly complex global and local challenges, we encourage you to take an active part in shaping the future. This program will help you map and define your personal path and drive. We will come together and learn how to thrive in chaos, change and complexity.

The Nordic-China Startup Forum is a non-profit NGO registered in Sweden that arranges recurring events in local startup communities alongside corporate and government partners. NCSF is operated by students and young professionals from the Nordics and China and has chapters in ten cities: Stockholm, Uppsala, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Shenzhen-HK, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing.

Educas helps high school and university students learn how to learn. Our digital platform Superlæring gives students the insights and tools they need, and is used by students and teachers alike. Our content is based on scientific research from areas such as psychology and cognitive neuroscience, and is validated by learning experts.

Digital Workforce is a trusted advisor and a globally leading independent provider of services in intelligent automation on an industrial scale. We automate and maintain your business processes freeing up the time of your employees for more purposeful work. Today, over 150 large global customers use Digital Workforce’s services to transform their businesses with intelligent automation. Among our clients there are the largest financial institutions, such as banks and insurance companies, as well as production and logistics companies, SSCs, government institutions and hospitals. Founded in 2015, Digital Workforce employs currently over 240 IA specialists in the US, the UK, Poland, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.

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.

Mendo is a technology business that creates simple-to-use, web-based systems that facilitate facts-based decision-making. In August 2015, Mendo launched RetailPlanet in Norway as a digital toolbox for place management. The system collects and analyses retail turnover data for a given geographical area and provides its 3500+ users with event benefit analysis, standard reporting and a weekly sales index.

SunSense UV trackers are designed with different wearing/mounting solutions that provides excellent ergonomics and great flexibility for how it is carried on the body or attached to clothing and sports gear. Various activities can lead to uneven sun exposure of the body and the sensor can therefore be attached where you are most vulnerable. Advanced algorithms mimic the human skin’s response curve to varying UV intensity for state of the art accuracy. SunSense technology puts you in control of your sun exposure in a reliable and easy way It measures how much sun exposure you’re getting, regardless of the season, cloud cover, altitude, ozone holes, time or geographic location, and will not be tricked by a cooling breeze or reflections from the snow or water. Intelligent power saving features minimise power consumption, shuts the device off automatically after use, and allows it to hibernate till next summer with virtually no battery drain. A simple tap to the casing will wake it up again.

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.