The main piece of equipment in the gym is the barbell. It is as simple in its form as it is timeless in its design. But when it comes to using the proper safety equipment that comes with the barbell, that’s when the flaws become visible. Today’s methods of securing weight plates to a barbell is done by using collars or clips, which often lead to a poor user experience, and they are often hard to put on and pull off, can easily break or slip during lifts, they are often hard to find and even disappears. The Olympic barbell has remained virtually the same for the last 93 years, and despite today’s standards, improvements can be made. In a seemingly ever-growing market, people’s expectations of safety, design, quality, and user-friendliness in products are on the rise. Gungnir of Norway is a Norwegian startup company that designs and manufactures high-quality gym equipment. The company’s first product is the Allrounder, a standard Olympic barbell with built-in collars for securing weight plates. The built-in collar system or “SlideLock” makes the lifting experience safer, faster, easier, and more reliable than the standard safety equipment in use today. Also, the SlideLock system can be applied to several other bar types like compact group training bars or loadable dumbbells. This solution has shown enormous potential in the fitness market, which we intend to continue to take advantage of. The SlideLock is the first of many solutions that we seek to create within the fitness equipment industry. We started as a company in 2018 in Oslo, Norway, with an idea for a better solution to a problem well known to many who use weightlifting equipment regularly. Gungnir’s vision is to become the new standard solution for securing weight plates worldwide. A game-changing solution to a century old problem.

GoBoat is an experience company, which offers unique social experiences on the water to both locals and tourists, through sustainable boat rental. It was founded in Copenhagen in February 2014 by Anders, Carl and Kasper – three young entrepreneurs. Today the company operates boat rentals all over the world.

Improve Performance International AS is a Norwegian software and consulting company that has spent more than 30 years helping organizations improve leadership, sales performance, employee development, recruitment, and organizational growth. The Problem We Solve Most organizations invest significant resources in strategy development, training programs, leadership development, recruitment, and change initiatives. However, many struggle with one critical challenge: They cannot consistently turn plans into measurable and documented results. Common challenges include: Leadership training that inspires but does not create lasting behavioral change. Sales training where participants return to old habits after the course. Lack of visibility into whether employees are improving their skills and performance. Difficulty measuring the return on investment (ROI) of training and development initiatives. Recruitment processes that focus on CVs and interviews rather than documented competencies and development potential. Managers lacking tools to systematically follow up goals, activities, and progress. Our Solution We have developed two complementary platforms: 1. Improve Performance & Training System (IPTS) A cloud-based performance management and training platform that helps organizations: Assess current competencies and performance. Define strengths, weaknesses, goals, and KPIs. Create personalized development plans. Deliver structured training and coaching programs. Track activities, milestones, and progress. Measure and document improvement over time. Our methodology is built around the PROVE Framework: Plan → Run → Optimize → Validate → Expand This ensures that development initiatives move beyond training events and become measurable improvement processes. 2. Improve Job Portal (IJP) An AI-powered recruitment and talent platform designed to help employers, recruiters, consultants, and candidates connect more effectively. The platform combines: AI-enhanced candidate profiles Assessment and benchmarking tools Talent communities Employer branding Structured candidate databases AI-supported recruitment workflows This enables organizations to make better hiring decisions while helping candidates showcase their competencies, experience, and growth potential. Why We Are Different Unlike traditional training providers, HR systems, ATS platforms, or consulting firms, we combine: Performance Management Training & Coaching Assessment & Benchmarking Recruitment & Talent Development AI-driven insights and automation into one integrated ecosystem. The platform has been developed and refined through real-world projects involving: More than 500 organizations Over 2,000 leaders More than 8,000 sales professionals Thousands of documented development activities and milestone measurements Our Vision Our vision is to become a global platform for measurable human and organizational development, helping companies improve performance, recruit smarter, and document the impact of their investments in people. We believe that growth should not be based on assumptions. It should be measured, validated, and continuously improved.

At Mesh Community we work with the objective to boost the startup ecosystem in the Nordics, in order to help startups grow faster and smarter. Our winning aspiration is to be the solution and go-to place for 4 critical startup challenges: Space, Network, Talent and Funding. We strive to inspire and empower entrepreneurs in our communities by offering the best startup hubs and the most valuable network, while working to modernise the entire startup sector. We currently focus on the Nordics (Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland) and work with both physical and digital channels. One of our main efforts is to create innovation hubs that combine startup offices, co-working spaces, meeting places and events to stimulate networking opportunities for our startups, members and other visitors. In addition we run The Hub, the leading startup recruitment platform in the Nordics, working to connect Startups with talent and investors. Mesh was founded in 2012 as the first co-working space in Oslo ever. Since our launch we have been creating positive noise to push the startup scene forward, and to modernise its dynamics. Today, we have four Hubs in the hearts of three key Nordic cities; Mesh Nationaltheatret and Mesh Youngstorget in Oslo, DIGS in Trondheim, and Matrikel 1 in Copenhagen, and we plan to open more hubs and expand to new cities in the coming years. Being a part of Mesh makes you a part of a community and network with over 3,800 members and 100,000 users annually. Our curated community and offerings cater to innovators and creatives in all stages of the entrepreneurial journey, from early-stage startups to international success stories such as PortalOne, Kahoot, reMarkable, Marketer and Databutton. By working at Mesh you become an integral part of our community. In other words, if you are interested in the startup ecosystem in the Nordics, this is the place to be. The total Mesh team is currently around 60 employees across our different hubs, with people from many different backgrounds and nationalities. We are a dedicated and diverse team, with a big entrepreneurial spirit, working at an ambitious company in high growth. We have a strong company culture and live our values of startup passion, high ambition, freedom under responsibility, and excellence. We celebrate and promote this through the way we work with a flat hierarchy, great responsibility, high autonomy and independence, as well as having a lot of fun at work! Joining Mesh will instantly bring you to a team with plenty of social and networking events, Friday beers and other team activities. So if you want to be part of a fast-growing startup ecosystem player, working to make a real difference for startups in the Nordics apply for one of our open positions!

At Corafone, we are building cutting-edge agents AI across voice and text to transform how the financial industry connects with customers. Our mission is to solve persistent challenges and automate millions of customer contact points across a highly complex industry. Our main market is the US, and so are our investors. You will be part of an international, and growth oriented company that moves at the speed of lightning.

Hackers and their targeted malware have become an increasing threat to the mobile revolution. And with the explosive growth of the mobile channel and user demand for anytime/anywhere access to mobile services, app providers are stretching the boundaries of security.Promon is the world leading provider of RASP Security for mobile apps. Promon’s patented deep protection technology Promon SHIELD™, has protected applications used by millions since 2009.

Coright tilbyr en løsning skreddersydd for en global medieindustri og er støttet av flere renommerte investorer og Innovasjon Norge. Tjenesten er et kontraktshåndteringssystem som hjelper kjøpere og selgere av medieinnhold (som foto, film, illustrasjoner) å holde oversikt over komplekse lisenserings- og rettighetsavtaler. Dagens manuelle praksiser og systemer gjør at de kreatives rettigheter misbrukes og at merkevarer utsettes for stor finansiell- og branding compliance risiko. Dette er et globalt problem hvor det ikke eksisterer gode løsninger.

Every month, drones injure or kill more than 5,000 Ukrainians. Munin exists to stop that. We build point-defense systems against unmanned threats. Our first product is a hand-launched micro-missile designed to intercept small drones at close range. It is small enough to carry three in a vest and cheap enough for mass deployment. This will be the smallest and most cost-effective guided missile ever fielded. Our aim is to change the battlefield in Ukraine through very high-volume production, then deliver proven systems to NATO.

Building the new standard for measuring programming skills, to give every developer who loves to write great code a seat at the table. We offer a platform of skill analysis where developers can validate coding skills in a relevant and realistic manner, with access to tools needed and with objective scores.

Our mission is to help architects bring their vision to life. We’re building a web-based application for architects that speed up their design workflows and makes high-quality visualization accessible to a wider audience. We have experienced rapid growth in recent months and we are hiring to further scale the company. We have customers in over 120 different countries, including leading offices such as Nordic, Leo A Daly, and S+A, who collectively have generated over 6 million visualizations on our platform since the company was established in 2023.

Built in Norway by journalists and developers who understand what deadline-driven publishing actually demands, Labrador CMS has grown into one of the fastest-growing publishing platforms in the world. Today, 10,000 journalists produce content for 400 online newspapers across 21 countries on Labrador — and the platform serves the 4 billion monthly page views their audiences generate. Over the past year, some of Europe's largest media groups have made Labrador their platform of choice. We're also seeing strong momentum in the US and Asia. Our customers range from major national newspapers and large regional publishing groups to magazines and niche digital outlets. Labrador is known for being highly flexible, genuinely easy to use, and for shipping market-leading AI features that help editorial teams work faster and smarter. We believe the future of publishing is one where AI agents work alongside journalists — and we're building for that future now. When employees tell what they like most about working for Labrador CMS, they speak about how inspiring it is to see their work be used in production for thousands of users and read by millions of people. They also talk about our culture for collaboration. We work hard and we acheive results, and we help each other to reach our potential.

Mia Health is on a mission to enable people live healthy lives, by giving unique personalised insights and research-based lifestyle advice, combined with an engaging community for motivation, inspiration and support. Starting with an inspiring physical activity score, we are expanding to more holistic health in the future. At Mia Health we build products where we can change lives and impact public health care costs. Our core is our digital twin – data analysis based on world-leading research. These analysis can help people live longer (8 years) and healthier (quality of life). BUT! If we cannot wrap this knowledge into an attractive application that users understand, trust, and want to use – then we have nothing! UX is a key focus area for Mia Health.

Two is a b2b payments company. In short, we build the infrastructure that allows sellers to offer net terms, credit account and instalments to their business customers. We are headquartered in Oslo but operate across the Nordics, UK, the Netherlands and the US. We have 70 employees in total, of which about 20 are based in Oslo.

We are professional Nordic recruitment specialists focused on connecting candidates from Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark with jobs all over the world. Nordic Jobs Worldwide is a fresh company hungry to become the largest Recruitment agency in the Nordic region that specialize in finding talent with specific Nordic languages. Nordic Jobs Worldwide with over 30 years of recruitment experience between all its partners  we offer valuable recruitment services to many businesses worldwide.

Retailhub is a fast-growing SaaS company, uniquely positioned in the ongoing digital transformation of physical retail storesOur SaaS eCommerce platform increases physical store revenues by 10-20% with substantially lower costs than alternatives Deliver better converting, Point Of Sales integrated webshops specialized for physical stores. Unique technology that drastically reduces the time and effort needed to maintain a store’s webshop. Enrichment of product data to amplify Google Shopping performance, outperforming most agencies in our niches. Access to other proprietary marketing channels that further boost store returns.After a successful funding in November 2022 we are rigging for accelerated growth and European expansion. Retailhub is a Norwegian startup with a team of six persons in Norway and India.