The Hive Initiative is creating tools to help companies integrate adaptation and mitigation efforts within their organisation through design-thinking workshops and implementation frameworks. As our planet warms and ecosystems continue to change, businesses will be increasingly required to make meaningful- and reportable- changes. As most people do not have a background in environmental science, it can be challenging to understand the full picture and how roles can be adapted. And while sustainability courses and seminars convey knowledge, it remains challenging to keep the energy high, the culture empowered, and the knowledge put into practice. The Hive Initiative’s Mini Climate Summit makes it easy to address these challenges. It brings employees together in real time to learn science-based facts and then gives them a forum to collaborate on solutions. With ideas captured and implemented, KPIs are met, ESG requirements are fulfilled and culture is strengthened. The result: more minds that help make company sustainability more active, enabled and empowered, which in turn makes society more educated and resilient. We are a group of people with high levels of climate anxiety- but also high levels of optimism. We want to use our skills in design and communication to make it easier for everyone to stay educated, hopeful and empowered, which will make it much easier for all of us to adapt to our changing world. As the founder, I wanted to work on solutions every day, and did so while having a day job. After 4 years, myself and my collaborators have built up a good product prototype, solid relationships with other climate orgs, and solid vision of what we hope to achieve. So it was the right time to focus on this fully. I really do believe that all of us want a world that is fair for everyone and is in harmony nature. We just have to figure out how to get there.

AirDodge is a Norwegian company with an HQ in Oslo, Norway. We are building an automated air traffic management system(termed as U-Space software) to enable scalable drone operations. Our target end customers will be drone operators. U-Space solves the problem for all drone operators by making it much easier to obtain permissions. It enables large scale Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations whereof today this is too costly for most companies. It also makes it safer for manned aviation such as emergency helicopters that will have full visibility of ongoing drone flights in the area they are approaching. Other drone operators such as police, search and rescue will be able to quickly deploy drones opposed to wait for helicopters to arrive. They may also mandate quick clearing of drones from any given area in case such operations must take place. Our solution is to build our own software platform and provide flight services according to the EASA framework recently published. These services will be legally required and the 4 primary services are defined by: 1) Drone Identification: This service will be focused on providing information on all the live drone traffic in U-Space to all participants (operators in the air). 2) Live Air Traffic Identification: This service will be focused on providing information on all the live manned air traffic in U-Space. All manned air traffic has to make themselves electronically visible if flying in U-Space. If a manned aircraft flies too close to a drone, then the drone pilot/operator will receive a warning message. 3) Geo-Zones: These are the core geographical definitions of airspaces on map where drone operators can see where they can or cannot fly. Examples of restricted airspaces include airports, military bases, prisons, bird sanctuaries, obstacles etc. Having an extensive dataset which displays all the possible flight restriction/warning zones is significantly important to drone operators as it ensures compliance and more efficient flight planning. 4) Flight Authorization: This gives drone operators the ability to ensure their flight path does not intersect/conflict with any other operators conducting drone flights in the same airspace. The flight authorization will require drone pilots to submit their flight path in 4 dimensions which include 3D trajectory and time. Flight authorization will also allow drone pilots to communicate with Air Traffic control to request a drone flight in restricted airspace. The response times for both types of requests will be instant. AirDodge was originally founded by Umar in 2022 in Sweden. A year later he moved the company to Norway where he met Serhii in 2024 and then they built the company together. Umar, as the founder of Skyqraft—a company specializing in drone-based powerline inspection—gained firsthand experience with the challenges of commercial drone flying while leading its operations. His deep industry knowledge, combined with Serhii’s technological expertise, laid the foundation for AirDodge. Together, they are building innovative solutions to streamline drone operations, making them safer, more efficient, and seamlessly integrated into regulatory frameworks. We are backed by Antler, Nordic Makers and also received grant funding from Innovation Norway.

Market Shriek enables companies to foster deeper connections with their customers by providing tailored, relevant information. Our AI-powered platform, Intelligent, combines our knowledge about the financial markets with your analyses, reports, and more to generate personalized newsletters for your investor clients.

The Trailguide app is a digital guide to outdoor activities - providing services both for private users and commercial businesses. With acccess to the software-solutions, businesses can create their own digital activity maps, and also choose between a variety of functionalities to optimize their guest experience, searching for activities. Trailguide is easy to use and provides immediate accessibility for the visitor - without registration and login, making it easy to find the most awesome trails for mountain biking around the world and around the corner.

Consigli AS develops "self-designing engineers" who will disrupt the way we plan and design the buildings and infrastructure of future society. To achieve this, we develop a SaaS platform/application using different aspects of AI (Artificial Intelligence) like machine learning, mathematical optimization, and NLP. The service platform is developed in close cooperation with large, established real estate companies that provide data and insights.

Helly Hansen is a leader in technical sailing and performance ski apparel, as well as premium workwear. Founded in Norway in 1877, Helly Hansen strives to develop professional-grade gear that helps people stay and feel alive. Trusted by over 60,000 professionals worldwide, the company has developed a long list of first-to-market innovations, including the first supple waterproof fabrics over 140 years ago. Other breakthroughs include the first fleece fabrics, the first technical base layers made with Lifa® Technology, and the award-winning and patented H2Flow™ temperature regulating system and Lifaloft™ insulation by Primaloft®.

OKTO is a gamification of outdoor cycling. OKTO gives you the fun of friendly competition, you compete with riders on your own level - both locally and all over the world. By completing quests, journeys, and achievements you gain OKTO points, fun rewards, titles, and more to help you reach the next level.

Material Mapper’s vision is to create a market of scale for secondary building materials by mapping them in Europe and leading the transition towards a closed-loop circular construction and demolition industry. The European construction industry is urgently lacking clear, centralized access to information about secondary building materials available in their area, due to the fragmentation and inconsistency with which these public data are captured and stored. This makes building planning with quality secondary building materials time and cost-intensive for stakeholders, in turn making it difficult to comply with the EU’s Waste Directive of 70% recycled/re-used building materials. Our young, multi-award-winning company is planning to launch a project over 24 months to build a breakthrough innovation for the whole of Europe using artificial intelligence and machine learning that will extract, read, evaluate, and forecast quantities of secondary building materials for the user, making future planning for property developers seamless through our platform. We are confident that our product is unique and that we have no direct competition. By combining our deep technology, partnership development, and B2B sales expertise, we are already working closely with major industry actors to harness insights and their existing networks for our customer base.

Klarna offer smoooth payments to 130.000 webshops and retailers across the globe. The company has 2500 employees spread over our 14 markets. Klarna Checkout is the main product, which offers merchants 1 integration, 1 agreement, 1 settlement for handling payments online and in stores. Klarna Norway AS has 15 (and increasing) employees who work at the 26th floor at Posthuset in Oslo.

Modern, nobel-prize winning research shows that hardly any traditional investment funds are adding any value beyond what fully automated strategies can do. NorQuant's mission is to help private and professional investors achieve higher returns at lower costs through a scientific, rules-based, 100% transparent approach. We feel we are off to a good start: - We are helping our first pilot customer, one of Norway's largest family offices, implement factor-based analysis - We have been selected as one of ten fintech-startups for TheFactory.no Fall18 program, out of more than 200 applications

HTTECH's mission is to support heavy industries on the way to sustainable development. HTTECH's vision: Contribute to solving environmental challenges for the established industry in a cost-efficient manner and produce nano-based materials for the future to transform waste into high-value products with high-demand. Build sustainable business in the space of circular economyHTTECH is a company with a solid competence in the field of high-temperature technologiesExpertise: R&D projects in the fields of Hydrogen and Solar Energetics, Energy Savings, Oil&Gas Industry, Computer ModelingMetallurgy & Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and International Business Development Industrial expertise

At Vitaloop, we are working on giving you clean water everywhere. We make it whole again, removing substances and pollution left by our actions. In a rapidly changing world, Vitaloop will be insurance, proven access to the one thing no one can exist without – clean, fresh, and healthy water. Our go-to-market product is called VITALOOP ORIGIN and is a ground-breaking, patented, high-tech water cleaning bottle that can remove almost everything harmful, manufactured and caused by climate change. It's your own mobile water filtration station using the revolutionary nanomaterial Graphene. It runs by a powerful pump and a rechargeable battery that will clean 450 ml of water in 60 seconds. Vitaloop Origin provides true independence wherever and whenever. VITALOOP- Water restored.

BusinessClass.com is a sophisticated travel tech startup. Our vision is to become the global leader in premium travel by offering the best travel search, the best travel offers, as well as world-class reviews and other inspirational content. BusinessClass.com is targeting the more quality-minded travellers who want the best travel products at the best possible prices. BusinessClass.com is suitable for both corporate & leisure travel, offering top-quality airline tickets and accommodation. The team and advisers at BusinessClass.com have extensive travel tech industry knowledge. Founder Jason Eckhoff was EY Entrepreneur Of The Year in 2013 when his first online travel company had beaten 28.000 growth companies over a 4-year period. BusinessClass.com is (other than the founder/CEO) backed by a former C-level manager of a major airline and a co-founder of a unicorn (a company valued at more than 1 USD billion). We are currently considering raising additional risk capital for further developing BusinessClass.com and creating the world's best search engine for premium travel!

Antibiotic resistance and bacterial infections are a large threat to modern healthcare. The Norwegian company SoftOx Solutions has developed a patented technology with the potential of becoming a game changer in fighting infections. To achieve this SoftOx has a highly competent organization and established a long-term relationship with leading scientists from the University of Copenhagen and Excite International, Canada. SoftOx wound cleansing solution shall become the first antiseptic with solid clinical evidence of infection removal in chronic wounds, giving us a unique market position in a 90 billion NOK wound care market.

We are disrupting heavy construction. They build roads and infrastructure for billions of NOK/USD/EUR. But paper and old-school applications are still the things when it comes to data collection and reporting. We have cracked some of the code and have landed contracts with some of the biggest construction companies in the world. Are you the kind of person that would like to join a startup in the beginning? Take charge of your field, and help us become the global leader that we have the potential to be. All that stands between us and international success is us - and you. Can we execute well enough? We have a base product. The market has already accepted us. Do you want to join the core team? Reach out to us! We are especially on the lookout for the following areas. But please reach out if you think you have anything of value to us! - UX / front-end (future stack is react-based, you will help us mold it) - Native gurus (iOS/Android)