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.

ScaleupXQ is a growth partner designed to help B2B companies accelerate their sales and scale their operations. We specialize in supporting businesses through critical phases of expansion — providing the strategy, tools, manpower and expertise needed to drive sustainable growth. Our mission is simple: to help ambitious companies build high-performing commercial organizations, enter new markets, and sell more, faster. We do this by combining growth strategy, revenue design, and hands-on execution across sales, marketing, and customer success. Whether you’re expanding into new markets, refining your sales model, or scaling your commercial engine, ScaleupXQ provides the guidance and operational muscle to make it happen. We act as an extension of your team — bringing deep expertise, data-driven insights, and a bias for action to every engagement. In short, ScaleupXQ helps B2B companies sell more and transform growth potential into commercial success — faster, smarter, and more predictably

Intellectual Labs is an AI Venture Studio located in Oslo, dedicated to creating, funding, and building deep tech start-ups with ambitious entrepreneurs. We combine expertise in AI, computer science, and applied sciences to bring ground-breaking ideas to life and into the world. Our unique playbook and friendly methodology ensures a high chance of creating a sustainable growth company with significant impact on Human Life. We believe in - and live by - collaboration and shared risks to unlock transformative potential to change the world. This model is designed to be capital-efficient, repeatable, and deeply collaborative, attracting exceptional scientists, entrepreneurs, and investors who want to build world-changing companies with real impact.

Advanced Precision Systems (APS) is a Norwegian defense-tech startup developing Fenix, a software module for aerial strike drones that enables in-motion release of low-cost, unguided munitions against ground targets. Unlike kamikaze systems, the aircraft returns for reuse, lowering per-strike cost and reducing dependence on strained supply chains.

Bio-Me Is Setting The Standard For Routine Microbiome Analysis Gut microbiome research has become essential to almost every medical research field. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have been crucial in enabling a breakthrough in our understanding of the significant role gut microbes play in health and disease. However, the field is now moving past the exploratory research phase and there is a need to translate microbiome research findings into actionable clinical solutions. Application of NGS for this purpose faces several challenges related to precision, turnaround time, cost per sample, and the need for complex bioinformatic pipelines. Our mission is to provide researchers and industry with a qPCR-based analysis service that delivers actionable microbiome results.

Apply to Antler Nordic to start your next company! As Europe's most active early-stage investor, we invest in the most driven founders working on groundbreaking ideas. No founder is too early for Antler. With a global platform and thriving community of 800+ portfolio companies, we support exceptional founders from day zero to greatness. Antler Nordic runs integrated offline/online residences in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

There are too few products repaired, and e.g. clothes therefore have a short lifespan and end up as waste before their time. Brands have a producer responsibility for the entire life cycle of the products they put on the market, and must contribute to the product's increased lifespan to avoid waste production. However, they do not have global scalable solutions for this, but have inefficient expensive and manual processes (difficult to communicate around) which make most employees avoid repairs, and would rather give a new product, or the money back. Whether they offer repair is challenging. There are no global solutions that collect repair data for learning and improving design. Consumers have, always!, 1 or more garments awaiting repair, but the service is not available in the correct format. Repairers have challenges in scaling, employing and growing their company into a modernized service offer and a more predictable and appealing "call to action". The problem is common because we have developed habits influenced by "Planned obsolescence". The problem we solve are solved firstly for brands and retailers. Consumers are asking for products with a longer lifespan, and the European Commission is doing the same. Branded goods will in the future HAVE to repair complaints if it is not cheaper to give a new one. In practice, consumers will expect repairs from responsible parties. The brands are global and do not have a system for complaints and repair management, which is easy to communicate internally and externally. Secondly, consumers have broken products, but poor access to certified repairers outside the city centres, and too little information and management of expectations. Local services that brands back, and transport solutions increase accessibility and use and extend the customer relationship with brand. For the repairers, digitization offers opportunities for scaling, interaction with more people in a more efficient way, learning, as well as the capacity to use digital customized products and better purchasing conditions. We develop an API, a plug and play solution for the landing pages of manufacturers, brands and retailers. It is a "white labelled" fully integrated saas API, similar to how brands have integrations for payment and logistics. Then all stakeholders have a common point, for inquiries about damaged products, and the API supports the producer responsibility scheme/compliance. All product-level data will be collected here for feedback and improvements in design as well as sustainability reporting. Complaints are handled automatically through a decision tree linked to regulations. It makes customer service more efficient. Different transport solutions/delivery addresses with different costs will be offered. Local repairers will be certified and, with a simple interface, will receive more assignments from more customers. They will have a structure behind them that can help professionalize the operation as well as respond to the EU's requirements for documentation. Consumers will get fixed prices, predictability in the service and the possibility of personalisation.

Kleda is a platform that allows users to share their personal styles and earn money from it. The platform allows users to create a profile to showcase and share pictures of their clothing style, as well as add links to where the clothing items were purchased. These links are then transformed into "deep links" that enable tracking of purchases made through a given user's clothing style. Users who share their styles on the platform will receive a commission of approximately 10-20% on sales made through these links. Kleda facilitates transactions between users and clothing stores, with the aim of making it easier for users to shop for clothes and get inspiration to create a good clothing style. Kleda solves several problems in the fashion industry. Consumers often experience friction when they have to visit multiple different stores or websites to find the clothes they want. Kleda provides a seamless and user-friendly experience by offering multiple stores on one platform. Additionally, Kleda provides publishers with a platform to build their own brand and earn money through collaborations with clothing stores. Kleda provides clothing stores with an easy way to sell products directly to consumers on a platform that already has a large and engaged user base, thereby increasing their visibility and revenue. Kleda has three different customer groups. The first group is shopping customers who use the Kleda app to find and purchase clothes from various stores on an easy and user-friendly platform. The second group is publishers who share their clothing styles and inspire other users. Kleda offers publishers the opportunity to build their personal brand and earn money by collaborating with Kleda's clothing store partners. The third group is clothing stores that want increased visibility and accessibility on a new platform. Kleda provides clothing stores with the opportunity to sell their products directly to customers and collaborate with Kleda to promote their products through campaigns and marketing. Overall, Kleda is solving the problem of the friction and inconvenience that consumers experience when shopping for clothes, while also providing opportunities for publishers and clothing stores to benefit from the platform.

Apiir is a software company that is solving issues in the bicycle industry by providing innovative solutions for bike fitting and selection. Using new image analysis technology, we have developed a bike fitting solution that is easy and effective for bike retailers to use in-store. Our solution helps cyclists get a perfect fit by analyzing their body measurements and bike geometry. Additionally, we have created an API that allows third-party apps to integrate our bike size solution into their platforms. Our mission is to make bike fitting and selection more accessible, efficient, and enjoyable for everyone in the cycling industry.

BitPet is an AR multiplayer mobile game making physical activity fun and social. Each player has a pet whose health depends on the activity from their step counter, and players can meet each other's pets in multiplayer AR which is fun and social. The idea for the game is based on research by a professor of game technology and co-founder of Kahoot! The game is currently in early beta and will be launched commercially in 2023.

In VISCAN, we provide 3D capture services and use multiple software to create interactive and immersive Digital Twins of the buildings. We help property owners and managers to make their communication and operational processes more efficient, more effective, and more sustainable. Our services can help businesses to optimize costs and carbon footprint, as well as improve onboarding, planning, marketing, and maintenance activities. We believe that by 2025 property presentations with only steel photography will be as popular as CDs today, and virtual reality devices will be as common as smartphones now. We are part of that shift, and we want to help in property digitalization not only in Norway but also in other Scandinavian countries. Metaverse needs digital assets and we help in creating them. Join us!

How it Works Our Experts Help You Every Step of the Way to a Circular Economy Our experienced circular advisors help you easily transition into the circular economy. Looking at your organization's specific needs and requirements, they will help you set it up. Register What You Have A quick and easy way to map out what you already have and what can be reused. Loopfront's unique surveying tool allows you to take inventory of a lot more materials and products in a lot less time. Organize Your Products and Materials Save time and money by checking what you have before you acquire something new. Reserve the items you want to ensure they don't get allocated to another project or purpose. Loopfront's material overview gives you a full overview of all of your organization's furniture, interior and building material that can be reused. Access Important Product Information Check if the product or building material you need meets the requirements. Loopfront provides a "material passport" for every product. It includes specifications and documentation that makes it easy to know if it's suitable for your needs. Invite Other Contributors in Your Value Chain To make your projects run more efficiently, grant platform access to contractors, architects and other collaborators. Loopfront makes information sharing easier and faster by allowing you to share your information with who you want. Generate Reports to Show Financial and Environmental Savings Get automatically generated reports of your financial savings, reduction inCO2 emissions and waste. These can be used internally, for investors, for ESG reorting, to apply for green loans and more. Loopfront helps you derive statistics and reports showing savings from your operations Instantly Know Exactly How Much CO2 you save For every material and product added to the platform, you can see how much CO2 you've saved. This can help with certification requirements from BREEAM-NOR or the EU taxonomy. Loopfront's experts help you every step of the way towards your organization's circular goals.

SMOC.AI The Conversational Commerce platform that rewards all sales, loyalty and referral interactions of your business.Supercharging marketing and sales with proactive SMOC Campaigns, that reward great conversations.SMOC campaigns are a pre-programmed chat flows that are taught to mimic the way your best employees communicate with your leads, customers and ambassadors. Conversations like these can be placed in your app and/or website where they can welcome and guide your visitors, like digital butlers. With these you engage people to learn even more about your company and offerings, at the same time as you gain valuable insights from how they interact with them. Learn more about the different SMOC Campaigns HERE.SMOC CAMPAIGNS REWARD ATTENTION®

Cycl works to solve plastic pollution by using available technology in a sensible way. Our vision is to give value to every single plastic and minimize plastic waste by 100% in all countries we operate in. Cycl is a mobile app that can tell our users about nearby recycling stations, when their bottle is recycled we make sure that they get rewarded for their work.

Apotek 1 er Norges største apotekkjede og vi er i stadig vekst. Hos oss jobber ca. 3500 dedikerte medarbeidere, og vi er også landets største farmasøytiske arbeidsgiver. Vi har en stolt kultur med klare ambisjoner om alltid å leve opp til vårt slagord 'Vår kunnskap - din trygghet' i våre kundemøter. Kompetanse og kvalitet er kjernen for vår virksomhet, og derfor er faglig og personlig videreutvikling av våre medarbeidere helt sentralt i kjeden. I Apotek 1 er vi opptatt av å etterleve våre verdier som er: pålitelig, frisk, engasjert og nær. Vi bestreber at dette skal prege alle ansatte, alle beslutninger, alle handlinger og alle mål i selskapet. Apotek 1 Gruppen AS er eiet av den tyske Phoenix-gruppen. Servicekontor og distribusjonsenhet ligger på Lørenskog i Akershus. Vi er landets største leverandør av legemidler pakket i multidose, samt legemidler og tjenester til kommunehelsetjenesten, blant annet legemiddelgjennomganger.