Balder is a Norwegian tech startup founded in 2025. We're on a mission to turn every container into a source of insight, providing real-time monitoring for more efficient global operations. We deliver an end-to-end solution for container asset-tracking, consisting of hardware, firmware, infrastructure and consumer applications that are designed and developed in-house.

Seidr builds software that turns months of manual site selection and early-phase engineering work into hours of automated analysis, for developers of energy-intensive industrial projects: Power-to-X, data centers, and other power-hungry industries across Europe. Today, finding and qualifying a site for one of these projects takes 6-18 months and can cost millions, because the work is done manually, spreadsheet by spreadsheet, consultant by consultant, one candidate site at a time. Critical blockers, such as insufficient grid capacity or zoning conflicts, often surface only after months of work, when changing course is expensive. Seidr automates this. Our platform screens candidate sites in parallel against dozens of criteria, including grid capacity, current and future zoning, and environmental risk, and returns a ranked, decision-ready shortlist in hours instead of months. The underlying logic is built on real industrial project experience, not generic AI. We already have a signed, paying pilot customer and a growing pipeline of Power-to-X and data center developers across the Nordics and Germany. Backed by a venture studio, we are now looking for a CEO to take Seidr from pilot to scale, and to grow the platform from site selection into the full early-phase planning stack for energy-intensive projects.

Cloudgeni is an AI infrastructure company building autonomous agents for real production environments. We help companies automate complex operational and technical workflows across cloud infrastructure, software products and internal systems. Founded in Oslo, Cloudgeni has raised $1M in pre-seed funding and works with companies including Posten, Hydro and Havila. We are also the team behind OpenGeni, our open-source infrastructure for building and deploying production-grade AI agents. Our focus is simple: move AI from demos into production, where it can safely take action, integrate with existing systems and deliver measurable business value.

At Tise, we’re on a mission to inspire people to make more sustainable choices in their everyday lives – in a simple and fun way. Our platform is designed to make it easy, enjoyable, and inspiring to buy and sell secondhand. With over 4 million users and a passionate community of Tise’ers across the Nordics, we’ve experienced strong growth in recent years! 🌱

Signalforge is an AI-powered intelligence platform designed to map, track, and interpret the Nordic and European technology landscape. By converting fragmented market data into structured signals and emerging patterns, Signalforge helps investors, operators, founders, and analysts understand what is happening before it becomes consensus. The Nordic tech ecosystem generates thousands of signals daily. Most are noise. Some matter. Traditional approaches fail at scale. Press releases arrive too late. Databases lack context. News sites optimize for engagement, not insight. Signalforge exists to solve a specific problem: surface what matters before it becomes consensus. We do this through systematic data aggregation, pattern recognition, and machine-generated insight extraction. No editorial bias. No funding announcement republishing. No vanity metrics.

Rubus delivers a collaboration platform for real estate projects, gathering all project participants - developer, general contractor, subcontractors and home buyers - in one place, with all communication, documentation and tasks centralized. We do all development inhouse and have customers in Norway, Sweden and Germany. We’re guided by three core values: *One Team* – we trust each other, speak openly, and have each other’s back *Playful* – we allow ourselves to have fun, we are lively and we have a playful attitude *Gutsy* – we try things, learn fast, and speak up when it matters Rubus has been used in over 700 projects and can refer to - 40.000 homes on the platform - 2000 company profiles - 1.3 million messages sent in the platform - Almost 500.000 documents uploaded - More than NOK 1 billion in options and upgrades done by home buyers

Diwala is a Norwegian-based company that is focused on building opportunities for youth, addressing the global issue of identity theft and certification fraud. Today, displaced individuals and people in emerging markets are challenged by high costs and slow manual processes to verify the authenticity of their skills, identity and credentials. As a result, these individuals have to deal with tedious and out-dated credentialing processes, and are in some cases forced to repeat years of education. This leads to both loss of productivity and inflated unemployment. Imagine that you had to flee your own home because of war. Like Aıscha Najjar, a Syrian doctor turned refugee immigrated to the United States to pursue her dream of work & a safe home. Yet, due to loss of information, she was forced to repeat medical school in the United States. If she had a verifiable skill identity, she might have had the privilege of practicing medicine without any questions. Aıscha`s story amongst others epitomizes the challenge Diwala is addressing. To tackle this challenge, Diwala has created a platform that enables schools and NGOs to issue skill-based identities, backed by blockchain technology. A skill-ID is a digitally verified record of a person’s educational and work history. Diwala is building an ecosystem of trust, by enabling educational institutions and organizations to safely and digitally issue and verify credentials. This will, in turn, save all parties time, money and build a bridge for global work opportunities for untapped talent. Complementing the platform, Diwala has built an app that allows students to easily receive, store and share credentials of both soft and hard skills. By utilizing a decentralized identity management tool, Diwala’s application will also give people ownership of their data information. Diwala is currently executing pilots regularly, to optimize the features and security of the platform in both Kenya and Uganda. Working with their implementation partner Clarke University in Kampala, Diwala recently issued the first set of skill-identities to both students and administrators. These are the first ever digitally verified certificates backed by decentralized identity and blockchain in Africa

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Skoog uses technology to democratize access to carbon markets, enabling every farmer to receive financial incentives to maximize the sustainability in their farms. We are solving the problems of deforestation, land degradation and unsustainable agriculture practices: the combined potential to capture GHG and avoid emissions from agriculture, forestry and other land use is 14.5 GtCO2eq/y, which is higher than the potential in the energy transition.

BrightArch is an enterprise software company that specializes in helping organizations going through transformational changes (for example, post-merger integration, restructuring, etc). Our first product is OrgWeaver; a set of tools and processes to efficiently design an organization, solicit employee preferences, and make informed staffing decisions. Our goal is to give people the flexibility to use their talents. The team we want to build is one where people realize what their talents are and what they are most interested in, and where they get the room to use those and create a better effect for the whole team. We start with individuals and connect them to the greater goal of the team around you. Our most exciting days are when big potential customers call us telling us they have found out about us and are interested in our solution! Recently, Facebook called us and asked us about our solution and what makes our work very exciting is a combination of both – something new and unexpected – as well as something planned and team oriented finally coming together.

Our team is dedicated to develop and manufacture innovative products for the coffee industry, increasing quality in the cup and efficiency in the workflow. ROEST’s current portfolio includes two models of an AI powered hybrid coffee roaster designed for quality control. ROEST Sample Roaster has received several industry awards and even helped coffee enthusiasts to succeed in the World Coffee Championships. In 2023 we will launch a new production roaster for small to medium-sized roasteries. Since 2018 we have sold over 1000 roasters to more than 80 countries around the world. What started as a master thesis has turned into a fast-growing, open-minded company with an international team dedicated to improving coffee. ROEST AS became the national gaselle winner for 2022. https://www.dn.no/gaselle Our product can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/VDi4KYr3pYw Our story can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/xMdB0wTXoR8

TIND is a Norwegian scaleup with roots from CERN and NTNU, headquartered in Oslo. The company has developed a Digital Archive software platform, delivered through a SaaS model to universities and research institutions worldwide. Most of TIND's customers are located in the United States and include renowned institutions such as UC Berkeley, Duke University, and the United Nations. Today, TIND has a team of 20 employees and offices in Oslo and the U.S. The company is backed by Equip Capital, experiencing strong growth (around 30% per year) and has ambitious plans to scale further internationally.

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

Litech, founded in 2021, is an Oslo-based startup specializing in developing sensor systems to detect and remove hazardous objects, such as flammable batteries and gas bottles, to prevent fires and explosions at waste facilities. Our vision is to create sustainable and safe waste management by eliminating the harmful impact of incorrectly sorted hazardous materials. We are currently running pilots with two major players in the waste management industry. We collaborate with partners in the waste industry and R&D and are part of the vibrant Startuplab ecosystem, benefiting from its extensive network and resources.

We are streamlining the process of tax free shopping for travellers, maximizing value and efficiency for both travellers and retailers alike. With our fully digitized end-to-end solution, retailers can facilitate, and travellers can claim VAT refunds at the touch of a button on their mobile device. Our team consists of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, experienced leaders and talented people. Come join us!