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StarCruiter International AS (Ltd.)

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.

Hold

Hold is an innovative mobile app that helps students focus in school by rewarding those who spend time away from their smartphones. The idea is simple: Start Hold, collect points for not using your phone and trade them for rewards. We are a small team - all hands on deck. We kind of love it. Everyone has a role, but we help out wherever we can. After all, we have the same mission:  We want to make it fun and rewarding to put away your phone

Smartwatt

Smartwatt er et software selskap som benytter AI og skyteknologi til å optimalisere styringen og senke energiforbruket i næringsbygg. Vår teknologi identifiserer hvor og hvordan næringsbygg kan optimalisere eksisterende installasjoner for å spare maksimalt med strøm. Smartwatts software benytter maskinlæringsalgoritmer, inneklimadata, værmelding og morgendagens strømpriser til å regne ut optimale driftsparametre for næringsbygg som utveksles automatisk med byggets eksisterende styringssystem. Løsningen installeres raskt i bygget og kundene våre opplever resultater på svært kort tid. Av de 70 bygg som allerede har tatt teknologien i bruk er effekten betydelig og har ført til en besparelse på opptil 30%. Vi er fortsatt i startfasen av vår reise, men har allerede etablert oss som en seriøs aktør og utfordrer i bransjen. Asko, Elkjøp, Elektroimportøren, BI og Møller Bil, er blant kundene som har tatt i bruk Smartwatt sine løsninger, og vi har store ambisjoner. Med sterke investorer i ryggen gjennom en nylig gjennomført finansieringsrunde, ledet av Hafslund Invest og DNV, er vi klare til å fortsette veksten og la flere bedrifter dra nytte av våres løsninger. Smartwatt sitt mål er å bli markedsledende i Norge samtidig som vi vil fortsette å skalere opp i Norden

Ope

Ope™ is modular furniture designed for reuse and sustainability. Like with LEGO, you can build and rebuild variations in infinite from the same basic components — making redecorating cost and waste-free. Our solutions transform open-plan offices into good working environments through variety and flexibility. Each cube can be opened or closed. Giving you endless possibilities to customize solutions for different rooms and employees. Wool cushions act as sound absorbers and bring color to the interior. With Ope, you get a Kinder-egg; storage, shielding, and sound dampening. You get a room divider without closing off the light - and which is open enough so that it inspires interaction. You can also create a room within the room and make social spaces. The click patent in the connectors is the key that enables you to easily assemble the modules so that you can customize solutions to get the best working environment for your office and employees - and you can rebuild and expand with just a few clicks. Ope™ was designed by Lars Urheim and Eirik Høvik Helgesen and has an elegant Scandinavian design that lets in light from all sides and gives it a soft and modern look. Influenced by the modern Scandinavian lifestyle, Ope™ set out to create a timeless furniture system to meet demands for sustainability, flexibility, and individuality. Ope™ challenges the idea that furniture must be a static object and is unique in the sense that the form and function are decided by the user. Ope makes it easy to make a sustainable choice. Please contact us to find out how Ope can improve your working environment.

Newsec Maps

Newsec Maps is developing a web-based SaaS platform to help the Nordic commercial real estate (CRE) industry turn data into opportunities. Digitalization is a new term in the CRE industry, even though it's one of the world's largest asset class. The fact that it's such a big industry with huge value being transacted and managed, makes information and the speed of information extremely valuable. But today, most companies are subscribing to multiple different public sources, agency brokers, manual processes and personal networks to receive information used in decision-making. Newsec Maps collects, merge and enrich data from legal, property and commercial sources and makes it accessible in a modern map-based user interface. The platform saves countless hours of manual labour and makes it easy for CRE companies to discover opportunities and manage assets. The CRE industry physically shapes the cities we live and breath in. It's a conservative industry, all though not resistant to change. The potential for more efficient urban development and infrastructure is huge and achievable through digitalizing the industry. Meaning we can help shape cities by making information available and developing solutions that provides insights hidden in the data. This is what motivated us to start this company and develop Newsec Maps. At the time of posting, we are a team of 6 in Oslo and 12 consultants located in Europe. We are now growing the Oslo team and are actively searching for talented and motivated members. All our employees receive the same benefits and here's some of them: – Fast-paced startup environment backed by Europe’s largest full-service property house – High-end office facilities in Central Business District, Oslo – Subsidized gourmet lunch programme in Restaurant Haakon – Access to gym with towel service and spa showers – Top notch health and travel insurance – Competitive pension plan – Flat company structure – freedom with responsibility – Young and vibrant culture

Shapemaker

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

HATO Medical Technologies

Haato is 'heart' in japanese and the heart is the focus of HATO Medical Technologies. HATO is a MedTech company specializing in heart monitoring and analysis. We have developed an innovative technology that assists healthcare professionals with increasing their qualifications in analyzing and interpreting electrocardiograms (ECG) through 3D visualizations of the heart and data-driven artificial intelligence. According to WHO, heart diseases are the largest killer in the world. Heart diseases and conditions are located and diagnosed with the use of ECG. This heart examination is practiced by General Practitioners, EMTs / Paramedics, Nurses, Doctors, and Cardiologists. Misinterpretation of ECG analysis leads to misdiagnosis, which might lead to fatal consequences for patients and the social economy. A British study estimates that up to 68,5% are misdiagnosed with heart failure. HATO's new digital solution analyzes heart diseases from ECGs using artificial intelligence and machine learning. The software solution increases the foundation of decisions of the healthcare professionals and combines 3D visualizations with our ML models for real-time animation of the patient's heart. All of this will assist healthcare professionals with localizing abnormalities and allow them to react faster at critical events. Innovative and easy. Long story short, the software platform will raise the bottom level of ECG interpretation and give all healthcare professionals a cardiologist by their hand.

Ence

Scroll all the way down to see open positions! Ence is a Norwegian marketplace gathering sustainable brands in one place. Together we offer a wide range of everyday products, produced consciously. We work to gather as socially and environmentally sustainable producers as possible in one place, with the aim of making the path to ethical choices shorter for Norwegian consumers. The company was founded June 2020 after the founder's own personal experiences with trying to find ethical and sustainable brands to shop from, but feeling like it was such a time-consuming process. People who want to make good, conscious choices when shopping, should not have to spend hours surfing from one web shop to another to find products they need and background check them. This pushed the founder to create a marketplace, strictly for ethical and the most environmental friendly brands. This would spare the customer of time; by collecting all the products they need in one place, and doing the background checking for them, and knowledge; by introducing them to brands they may not have heard of before, and provide them with information about sustainability that the dishonest brands do not want to provide for them. Today, Ence works together with partnering brands to encourage and educate business leaders who take the responsibility of being more sustainable, so that these types of businesses together can evolve and take up a bigger market share together. By connecting these business leaders together, Ence aims to create a hub for sustainable brands to facilitate their growth. Ence consists of a team of 9 dedicated employees, volunteering for a cause they find important.

Doughnut

Doughnut is a community platform and tool belt for Freelancers, with one main goal in mind, to help freelancers make more money, maintain their income more consistently and meet other freelancers in their field that they can turn to for help. The most valuable tool I have ever come across has that one person you can contact at 10 pm on a Tuesday evening when you’re stuck on a problem - why not have thousands? What’s included? Community platform. How about a squad, a tribe and a community of operators? All looking out for you. Like it or not, in that line of work, you're mostly alone. What if that could be a thing of the past? I'm building a digital co-working and collaboration space for those that choose the freelance life. Sell your skills. Airbnb, but for freelancers. Build your portfolio, show off your skills and let people book you by the hour, day, week or month. Sell short-term, fixed-term, long, long term—consistency and repeat custom in mind. We handle the invoices, contracts and comms. You bring the skills. Trends and analysis Are you worried about missing the next big thing? We’ll get ahead of it for you with frequent market analysis to make sure you are always ahead of the game. We will also determine what other freelancers in your space are charging so you can submit an offer without FOMO. Next steps Head to our website using the link below and sign up using the form on the homepage to reserve your spot in the community. https://www.doughnut.no

Wizkids AS

Vi eksperter på å utvikle plattformer, systemintegrasjon, språk- og taleteknologi. Derfor prøver vi kontinuerlig å utvikle den mest avanserte og brukervennlige programvaren som vi gjør tilgjengelig på alle plattformer, og derfor bruker mer enn 1 mill. elever og lærere nå våre løsninger. Teamet vårt består av 50 dedikerte entusiaster som jobber hardt for å skape den beste læringsplattformen for elever, lærere og administrativt ansatte. Vi har kontorer i Danmark, Sverige, Norge og England.

Cimon Medical

Continuous blood flow monitoring for early detection and diagnosisCimon Medical is based on groundbreaking, patented technology originating from the internationally renowned ultrasound environment at NTNU and St. Olavs Hospital. Our vision is to develop products for a wide range of clinical applications related to continuous monitoring of blood flow within: newborn intensive care, peripheral arterial decease and sepsis diagnosis.

Bærum International Hub

The preferred INTERNATIONAL STARTUP INCUBATOR in Bærum area. We are a  community organization in Høvik. Bærum International Hub has coworking spaces, a place to house your business and professional growth. Sister entity from Oslo International Hub.Besides having super meeting room prices to our members, Bærum International Hub we also havediscounts on various services related to administration of a businesss.

Prisjakt

Prisjakt er Norges ledende pris –og produktsammenligningstjeneste. Vi hjelper deg med å finne rett produkt fra rett butikk til rett pris.

VEPAK

Vepak was founded with the mission to automate and remove the bottle neck in the production of firewood in bags, and to ensure that the professional producers of logs could be located not only in low-salary countries with long transport distances, but as close to the end users as possible.

Den Lille Juicefabrikken

Produsent av plantebasert, Rå mat og drikke laget for hånd. Vi brenner for naturlige og økologiske ingredienser uten tilsatt sukker og gluten. Upasteurisert juice laget av rå og ekte varer både økologiske og naturlige ingredienser. Første og eneste Debio/øko godkjenning i Norge av denne typen juiceproduksjon. Gro Furset startet den lille juicefabrikken januar 2015. Hun er utdannet sykepleier og ernæringsterapeut. Kombinasjonen skulle vise seg å være vellykket da hun prøvde ut juicene på klienter da hun hadde ernærings klinikk og disse ble merkbart friskere.Derav slagordet: Bedre helse til folket!