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Wonderloop is video-identity of people with goal of a new way of distributing wealth in the world. For users it´s social video-profiles of people. Wonderloop is a tool, more than a social network in itself. We want to drive traffic to social networks based on new connections made. It's the step before social networking. It's the step before everything. With Wonderloop, we wish to change the culture of human identity and with that change the way we connect and give - directly to people.

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.

Kanna is a research and development company that applies technology to sustainability problems. At Kanna, we go beyond highlighting environmental challenges — we craft tangible solutions, empowering and educating individuals to make a direct impact on the environment that is directly impacting them. Our proprietary application harnesses machine learning and advanced mathematical modeling to empower users to upcycle their garments, fostering a sustainable future for fashion.

IZX is a platform for integrating LLMs into business applications, enabling natural language understanding and automation. Our product streamlines the creation, inference, and scaling of enterprise foundational models (that can also be hosted on-premise or in private cloud) that interact with external LLMs, APIs, and data sources. Our team includes the top 1% of AI/ML engineers in Europe. Join our team!

THE URGENT ISSUE IN TODAY'S JOB MARKET IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES: ✪ Traditional recruitment prioritizes CV algorithms and keywords over human potential, by an astonishing 90%. When ATS/AI control who gets seen, we lose the most important factor: the human behind the CV. This creates not just unemployment, but social exclusion - when people can't find work, they lose connection to society and experience profound isolation. ✪ Todays recruitment methods are narrowly fixated purely on qualifications and historical experience, relying heavily on algorithms to sift through CVs. This approach overlooks the unique talents and motivations of individuals, drivingforces, personality and thus missing out on valuable opportunities for growth and success. ✪ THE RESULT: People are often using ChatGPT or Copilot to write their applications + HR are using AI to read them = nobody is getting hired. ✪ Sweden struggles with high youth unemployment and urban-rural divides. Refugee integration remains uneven, and platform work is eroding traditional protections. Union influence is waning, especially in tech and service sectors. ✪ Denmark’s famed flexicurity model is under pressure. Women are overrepresented in part-time roles, and older workers exit early. Gig work is expanding faster than regulation, challenging collective bargaining norms. ✪ Finland faces persistent long-term unemployment and mental health-related exclusion. Industrial restructuring is shifting jobs to tech hubs, leaving peripheral regions behind. Labor mobility remains low despite retraining efforts. In conclusion; the Nordic countries face mounting labor market exclusion despite strong welfare models. Norway leads with 700,000 adults outside the labor force, driven by regional stagnation, immigrant underemployment, and early retirement. The green and digital transitions are creating jobs—but not where displaced workers live. THE PERFECT STORM FOR US! TURNING THE RECRUITMENT MARKET UPSIDE-DOWN «From employer initiated to 100% talent focused.» Our Solution: Talentity.ai = AI meets empathy! Nordic's first community for job seekers, where talent takes center stage. Meeting the talents, rather than relying on historical data on a piece of paper. Creating an empathic AI, that combines human expertise with technology, supporting decision making and not taking over the entire process.

At SOREN we believe that full decarbonisation is possible with Green Hydrogen along with electrification, energy efficiency and renewables. We have built a robust digital planning tool to fast-forward Green Hydrogen projects and accelerate the transition to net zero. We are an Oslo-based startup with a diverse team spread across Oslo, Barcelona & Mallorca.

Empowering construction projects ​to make a sustainable impact​, with human centric technology. Building sustainable is difficult. Today, building sustainable involves unstructured, unscalable and time-consuming processes. Drowned in paperwork and documentation, experts waste time on mundane and frustrating tasks instead of exploiting their expertise. Kvist makes the first complete digital system for sustainability reporting for construction projects. By delivering a cloud-based software that makes it really easy for projects to collect, validate and analyse environmental data, we remove friction in the unstructured processes that occur when choosing to build sustainable. Lower costs​. Lower risks​. Greener cities​. With big names among our customers and backed by investors like Alliance Venture, Arkwright X, DNB and Startuplab, we are well on our way to grow full speed. We are a relatively young team of currently 14 people, spread across expertise areas with a mix of engineering, developers, customer success and business development, some coming directly from university and others with a background in the industry. We have a very nice office at a co-working space in the very centre of Oslo, surrounded by both small startups and some established companies, and there is great and low-priced canteen, where we have lunch. We have access to many meeting rooms and facilities when you need silence, but also a great young and dynamic environment, where things are happening all the time. Our culture is fully flexible, meaning that everyone is allowed to work from home when needed, but as a small team we also enjoy working together, and most of us prefer to come to the office. We are a very social team, which easily comes when being small, and we do a lot of activities together like team dinners, Friday bars etc., but it is also fully accepted to skip and go home, when parts of the team decide to go for Karaoke at 1am. We have room for every kind of person, so you decide what you want to join.

Shortcut is a leading mobile innovation company. Spread cross Oslo, Bergen and Copenhagen. We are a collection of 80 + Developers, Designers, Architects and Project Managers. Together with our customers, we have succeeded in building digital tools used by millions every day. Our company culture is characterised by idealism, integrity, curiosity, and togetherness, fortified by a playful sense of humour and our love of technology. We employ people from all over the world who deliver outstanding technical and design solutions across all platforms, developing applications for iOS, Android, Cloud + Windows.

What we doOur mission is to empower people to follow their dreams and pave their own path.With a long and colorful background, we have been painting big city streets pink with a Norwegian touch since 2003. However, the time has now come to move out from Grandma's house in Stryn and into the city of Oslo, and to start the writing of - a new chapter in the Moods story.

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.

Guarantees of Origin (GOs) are the most efficient ways to source renewable energy. However, the market can be volatile and opaque. Our aim is to simplify this complex market to make informed decisions. As the forefront company for Green Certificates market intelligence, Greenfact supports over 300 firms by providing price benchmarking, insights, and analytics for Green Certificates in the Nordics and Europe.

Vi i Procano leverer IT-tjenester og -support til hundrevis av små og mellomstore bedrifter over hele Norden. Filosofien vår er like enkel som den er klar: Vi skal gjøre kundenes forhold til IT så ukomplisert og lite bekymringsfullt som mulig – på en sikker og kostnadseffektiv måte. Vi mener nemlig at IT ikke bør være noe som tapper bedriften din for tid, penger og energi. Det skal ganske enkelt bare fungere – hver eneste dag.

3D Estate is a 3D design agency based in Oslo. We offer photo-realistic 3D rendering, animation and VR experience. We work with some of the greatest architects and developers in Norway. We’re now also open to the U.S. market. Our in-house 3D designers provide our clients with high-end visualizations.

At Kørt, we believe the items you buy and wear should serve you with style and functionality, without any compromise. Our signature pieces, the Kymera, and the Kassowari are many bags in one, designed to transform as occasions arise, to suit the moments and flow of your workday or overseas travels, and to transition with you as you move through all stages of your life. The promise of intelligent design, beauty, and simplicity is woven into each and every one of our products, along with the quality and trust of being individually handcrafted in Norway. About Kørt Kørt is a female owned and founded. The name Kørt is my (Courtney - owner, and founder) nickname after a mispronunciation occurred in the job I was transferred to Norway to do, at DNV. I've been leather crafting for 9 years now. I owned a small leather goods business in Australia which broke even and was gaining consistent orders before I had to choose to either continue or relocate to Norway with my day job. I am building Kørt because, in my corporate career, I was traveling internationally regularly but could never find the bag that did all the functions I needed. Travel size laptop bag, great for in the board room and customer meetings, easy to take around while exploring the city I was in, and could also take me to a bar or black tie event, and then become a backpack to take on the plane when I was flying home the next day. In all my travels I didn't find anything, so I created it myself. I am building my company right from the start. I am fully focused on the entire supply chain of my materials and manufacturing. Refer to my "sustainability" page for more.