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.

Dutycast - Google for Trade Compliance and Intelligence Trade is the engine for growth and central to ending poverty (SDG17.11). It is one the top 5 concern for businesses to navigate the complex and constantly changing in regulations, customs, taxes and tariff. Dutycast provides one-stop-shop digital, self-service tools for trade compliance and advisory using AI/ML. We target e-commerce industry $604bn, helping e-commerce companies to increase international sale with price transparency for consumers. Our mission is enable growth for all, supporting UN' sustainable development goal 17.11.

Wavefoil er en maritim startup med mål om å redusere drivstofforbruk og CO2-utslipp fra internasjonal skipsfart. Vårt patenterte løsning er allerede installert på tre fartøy med svært gode tilbakemeldinger. Reisen har vært et eventyr så langt, men det stopper ikke her. Er du interessert i å være med på reisen? Ta kontakt! Wavefoil leverer inntrekkbare baugfoiler for redusert drivstofforbruk og økt komfort i bølger. Selskapet baserer seg på forskning fra NTNU, og har i perioden 2016-2020 tatt konseptet inntrekkbare baugfoiler fra en idé til et kommersielt produkt. I september 2019 ble det første skipet med løsningen sjøsatt. Etter mer enn ett år i drift og til sammen tre leveranser, har selskapet nå fått demonstrert drivstoffbesparelse, bevegelsesdemping og driftssikkerhet i fullskala. Selskapet skal de neste årene vokse fra å være en start-up til å bli en industriell leverandør. Til det trengs det dyktige folk. Til tross for suksessen hittil, har selskapet kun en håndfull ansatte i dag. Nye ansatte vil derfor få føle på både friheten og ansvarsfølelsen med å jobbe i en liten bedrift. Wavefoil har et verdisyn som kommer den ansatte til gode. Vi mener at en bærekraftig bedrift bygges gjennom å ta vare på menneskene. Vi tilbyr spennende jobber til en konkurransedyktig lønn og med konkurransedyktige betingelser.

Evoy is an ambitious company with expansive growth. Our vision is to eliminate emissions from boats around the world and to make a vital contribution to the biggest challenge of our time, the climate crisis. Our core values are genuine, Innovative, Sustainable and Fun. Evoy develops and sells world-leading powerful electric propulsion systems for boats in the professional and leisure boat segment. We are building an organization and product portfolio that is making the transition from being regional to international. Our employees will experience the joy of building something relevant, unique, and electrifying. Our head office in Florø is situated in the innovations cluster Peak Florø. Peak Florø houses several companies that are investing heavily in the blue environmental shift and Evoy will contribute further to developing this environment. Florø is known for its idyllic location and proximity to fjords, mountains, and the sea. The beautiful archipelago is perfect to explore with Evoy's all-electric high-speed boat, Evoy1. We have good travel connections to Oslo and Bergen (Air and highspeed boat terminals). With Evoy, YOU can personally make a real difference in the fight to save our climate.

We founded Metaito in February 2019, after spending more than four years at NTNU. The initial idea was sparked in 2014 when we discovered the challenge of organizing our resources as students. Since then, we have gone through several iterations of prototypes. We created a platform for organizing and sharing tools, links and documents on the Internet - Factsplat. As of Q3 2024, we have several paying customers, investors, raised amount of 5 467 041 NOK, almost 6,000 users of the platform, contracts with various non-governmental organizations, 19 sports teams on board as our partners, a solid team, and a working product. Factsplat has evolved into a platform designed to help users manage their digital lives efficiently. Our mission is to give individuals and organizations control over their online resources, ensuring they are organized, accessible, and shareable, thereby reducing distractions and improving focus. We want to create a distraction free environment where you can organize the internet in a way that makes sense to you, while utilizing the strengths of the community. We want to give you focus and collaboration, without compromise.

Iconfirm is a comprensive platform that bridges the gap between privacy, IT security and operations. Re-use of structured data for multiple purposes and perspectives help break administrative silos and cut ad-hoc reporting - within the organization and across the value chain. Iconfirms innovative solution was recognized in Gartners Market guide to Subject Rights Request Automation already in february 2020. The platform facilitates the distribution of responsibility to line management whilst central management retain an overview. Thus, resolving tasks where the knowledge is. Organizations pursue innovation and digitalization to grow value. Privacy is essential to ensure that the gains are sustainable. Failing to meet the requirements may ban processing, disqualify business, ruin reputation and be fined. Hence, privacy is a business risk, not a compliance risk. Iconfirm help organizations meet the burden of proof with less efforts. Open APIs enable sharing and syncronization of data and to embedd privacy governance and reporting as part of operations. Key functionality include Privacy management, Vendor management, Consent management, Subject Rights requests management, Risk management, Incident management, Reporting and dashboards. Iconfirm has a unique offering that also includes a special module for data processors. The platform also offers the opportunity to create closed networks for sharing of templates as well as data collaboration. We also provide a citizen centric approach to privacy. Build trust and manage the relationships with data subjects through the privacy portal. 

We believe in a world where humans and robots collaborate. We simplify inspections by offering data as a service with fully automatic industrial drones, through our global reaching robotic ecosystem. We help different industries to automate inspections and collect the necessary data in a smarter and safer way, with our software platform for operating fleets of automatic drones, from anywhere in the world. join our the journey of our award winning software platform today!

There has been an explosion of complexity in IT Operations. With all this complexity, you need to understand where the issues could occur and what systems can be affected. This is exactly what AIMS solves. Build confidence in your IT Operations with AIMS, an automated monitoring solution powered by AI. Get early notifications with automated anomaly detection of the issues that can potentially bring down your business and understand which other systems could be impacted with automated service dependency discovery. AIMS auto-detects changes you deploy to applications and automatically includes them in your application monitoring scope. Gain agility, efficiency, and confidence to scale your IT Operations with AIMS in days, not months or years.

Nimber kobler de som trenger å sende noe fra et sted til et annet med de som skal den veien uansett. Enten du er på veien, tar toget eller på en annen måte har anledning til å ta noe med deg, kan du via mobilen enkelt finne ut om du kan tjene litt på turen ved å ta med deg noe på veien. Bruker du Nimber får du pålitelige og hyggelige folk som passer på tingene dine - helt frem.

WellGuard develop cost saving and groundbreaking technology for plug and abandonment of oil and gas wells By developing new technology, we seek to improve the plugging operations and reduce the overall costs with at least 50%. Our solutions combines the benefit of reduced cost and better safety. The company is located in beautiful Hardanger, Norway. The area is well known for its breathtaking nature, Trolltunga being the most famous. The industry in Hardanger is diverse and thriving.   The WellGuard team is hard working and creative, with background from the oil- and gas industry. Our goal and passion is to develop technology for P&A, which is both cost saving for the industry and safer for the environment.

Our cities are full of stores selling fashion and design, but 99, 9 % of them are offering mass-produced products. We want to change that. JF Curated is a global platform, curating a selection of global conscious designers. We want to show the world that fashion and sustainability is a match in heaven, not opposites.  La oss fortelle deg litt mer om bedriften. JF Curated har vært drevet av et lidenskapelig og ambisiøst team fra 2013. Ved å gjøre prosessen sakte har firmaet lagt et solid fundament og en sterk merkevare i et lite men sterkt voksende segment, den miljøinteresserte fashionistaen. Grunnlegger Marte Djupesland, medeier Iselin Schumba og Thomas Bergersen er de tre som i dag legger mest tid og krefter ned i den daglige driften, mens et kompetent styre og advisory board følger opp i bakhånd. JF Curated’s bidrag til en bedre verden er å involvere seg på et dypere plan. Å koble designere med et nytenkende og grønt mindset, ikke bare med kunder, men også seg imellom. Ved å lage gode verktøy og muligheter for samarbeid, styrkes ikke bare den bærekraftige moten, men også muligheten for å leve av dette for hver og en designer. Vi tar masseproduksjonen ut av moten og gir rom for kvalitet og talent. Gjennom bruk av teknologi og kommunikasjon skal vi nå skalere og skape et globalt engasjement for den bærekraftige uavhengige moten. Vår fysiske butikk i Prinsensgate er et viktig tilskudd til online universet, og å knytte de to, fysisk og digitalt, sammen, er viktig for oss.

The Innovation Effect (TIE) kobler studenter og bedrifter i innovative prosjekter. Studentene får praktisk og relevant erfaring innen sitt fagfelt med mandat til å utfordre bedriften og løse reelle problemstillinger, og bedriftene får levert nye løsninger og unge perspektiver fra et tverrfaglig, energisk og ressurssterkt studentteam.

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.

PAZZING's gaming platform empowers everyone from anywhere to create, share, and play their own augmented reality (AR) puzzle games (iOS) with their friends and family. Tell your stories, challenge your friends, and collaborate with all. Visit https://playpazzing.com to create and customize your own puzzle games.