Socius is a design driven technology company developing next generation ad tools. Founded in Berlin in the fall of 2013 the international team works with top tier brands and publishers in US and Europe and is venture backed by Axel Springer, Google and 500 Startups. Our first product is Socius Native – a smart banner ad builder that removes production costs and generates 10-100x higher engagement by turning influencer content and a brand’s social feeds into next gen ads on publishers’ web pages

NewSchool develops innovative digital tools for collaboration and project based learning by combining agile working methods, psychology, games and mobile media.The tools draw on a set of successful business practices  - the kanban boards for Lean Management, adapted to education purposes, in real-time. By focusing on the organization of the process, not its content, it helps develop self-regulation and collaborative skills for 21st century learners. We are an education technology start-up, with extensive change management experience, unique insights in workforce trends and technology, and pedagogy at its core. All team members have solid international experience from fields like mobile technology, business development and technology management, international education, instructional design, and learning sciences research.The team consists of Fredrik Harloff, Chief Executive Officer, and Mihaela Tabacaru , Community Manager, both co-founders of NewSchool, working full time. The third co-founder, Stian Hofslett Thowsen, works full time as a teacher and part of management team at Langaugen secondary school in Bergen, Norway. Besides the three co-founders, NewSchool relies on an interdisciplinary board of administration with senior level execs: Anne Posner, Bjarne Solhaug, and Paal Kaperdal, all with broad experience, covering international business development expertise, publishing house and human resources expertise, and digital transformation expertise. Frequent contributor and education research expert is Marina Hirnstein, PhD in cognitive psychology, expert in learning analytics .We have offices in Bergen and Oslo,  members of two incubators: Nyskapningsparken in Bergen (http://www.nyskapingsparken.no/) and SoCentral in Oslo, Nordic Center for Social Innovation (www.socentral.no). With an international mindset from day 1, we have been testing our product in classrooms across Europe, from Norway to Denmark, Portugal and Romania, to USA. Our extensive education network made it also possible to plan pilots in emerging countries like India and Iraq.

Db Equipment AS (DouchebagsTM / DbTM / douchebags.com) is a Scandinavian company that has established itself as a globally recognized brand within the travel gear industry. Since its launch in January 2012, the company has built a worldwide distribution network, both online and offline. The company is an agile start-up in all aspects of operation and is driven by a young tight-knit core team of passionate and ambitious creators.

Waybiller provides digital waybill solutions for logistics companies, making freight truly paperless. The software allows companies to switch from paper waybills to e-waybills, which results in lower costs and greater transparency. Founded in 2017, Waybiller was a brainchild of a team of developers and business consultants at Thorgate. After creating three very successful waybill softwares for the forestry industry, Waybiller was created as a spin-off to make the logistics industry paperless!

Creator Makerspace is an open prototyping space. We offer offices, meeting rooms, as well as all kinds of equipments and workshops: wood, metal, electronic, laser cutter, scanners, 3D printers, and a variety of other tools. Today more than 650 specialists are connected to Creator Makerspace, just after three years in business. We are located at Tvedtsenteret in the heart of Forus, Stavanger. Our main goal is to help individuals and companies get their ideas off the paper!

SHAKORI WPS plans to become local and international individuals' and companies' preferred PERSONAL purchasing partner! Weather you're a small interior shop who needs quotation on Spanish marble, you're a Port operator in East Africa who needs second hand maritime equipment, or a contractor in the GCC who needs luxury interior works done - we're at your PERSONAL service! We also take great pride helping Norwegian and European companies enter emerging markets. Send us your RFQ or RFI today!

Aega ASA is a solar utility company that acquires and operates solar power plants. The company currently owns a portfolio of seven individual solar parks in the Umbria, Lazio, Abruzzo, Emilia-Romagna and Lombardia regions in Italy with a combined production capacity of 7MWp, and an initial annual electricity production of approximately 10GWh depending on the annual solar irradiation.  The company focuses on acquisitions of smaller existing solar parks (below 5MWp capacity), following strict investment criteria.  The company targets to reach a total production capacity of 20MW within 2017 by taking advantage of the current attractive market for secondary solar parks meeting the strict investment criteria.

Turbulent Flux develops a new flow simulator technology with innovative choices to support Oil&Gas field personnel in their daily asset operations. We have since our start-up in 2016 been joined by others with key experience and networks in flow simulator development, petroleum engineering, asset management, cloud computing, data analysis, machine learning, and venture development. The ongoing digitalization in the Oil & Gas industry is accompanied with a smaller workforce that take on larger workloads. New demand is set to expert systems that support field personnel in their daily production decisions. The fluid flow in wells and pipelines is key information for any producing asset. The fluid flow can be modelled and key data can be immediately transmitted to the user with physical based simulator solutions that use real time data from sensors and equipment. Today, these simulator solutions are of limited use by the industry as the technology has performance issues in real time environment and is expensive to install and maintain. Users are looking for a new innovative solution that can support their increased daily workload and be easily maintained by themselves.

AppsCo enables users to securely manage access to their company’s applications while presenting easier visibility on company audits and reports. With a faster, more efficient process, new employees are instantly granted access rights to all areas of the business that their employers feel they require. AppsCo allows for new employees to be securely set up while maximizing efficiency and productivity. AppsCo supports seamless directory integration with Google Suite and Microsoft Office 365. Your employees can access all of their company apps and services through AppsCo with the same credentials they use to access Google Suite or Microsoft Office 365. Integration helps you instantly import and sync all users and groups and grant them access to all company applications.

BRATHWAIT is the world’s only transparent watchmaker promising elegantly designed, premium timepieces for men and women, without the luxury markup. BRATHWAIT eliminates industry shortcuts and cheap solutions with its focus on quality manufacturing and honest pricing.We are looking to grow our organisation in Norway because our funder lives here although our main market are in the US and Asia.

Pixotope® is the world’s leading mixed reality solution for media production. Pixotope® allows media producers and content creators to produce new and exciting mixed reality content for television, online streaming, and film. Our product and services have been used in some of the largest live productions made in the last few years, such as Super Bowl, League of Legends Championship broadcasts, Eurovision, and The Weather Channels mixed reality experiences. A selection of these productions can be viewed on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Pixotope We are a global company with headquarters in Oslo and branch office in Cologne, Germany.

GoDigitalChina is based in Oslo with teams in China. Our purpose is to help Nordic companies expand their business by becoming visible, accessible and available in the booming Chinese online marketplace. We offer a one-stop solution to Chinese digital marketing setups and operation. With our unique knowledge of culture and abundant international business experiences, we can successfully introduce Nordic products and services to the hundreds of millions of connected consumers in China.

Ripple Aerospace is a Norwegian aerospace company developing the oceanic Sea Serpent launch system. Leveraging Norway's long history of seafaring, shipbuilding, and maritime technology, we are developing a rocket class capable of being built, launched and recovered on the sea. Given the inefficiency of the space economy and launch service industry, our goal is to bring to market a mobile, reusable and scalable launch system capable of delivering medium, heavy and super heavy payloads into space. With industrial and commercialization partners from across Norway and abroad, the oceanic Sea Serpent launch system aims to be the preferred method of cargo transportation into space, providing the global economy a low-cost and accessible launch system.

Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. We host monthly events in more than 500 cities and 125 countries featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share personal stories and lessons learned on the road to building great companies. Startup Grind is powered by Google for Startups. 500 Cities | 125 Countries | 2,000,000 Entrepreneurs

TUNCO is a new type of healthy of fast casual restaurant created on the foundation of caring - about people, food, health and the environment. Our vision is to make healthy food available to everyone with minimal environmental footprint by providing tasty and affordable meals, source healthy and sustainable ingredients, educate and inform and give food to those in need. Every time you buy a meal at TUNCO one meal is given away to people in need. Meal for meal. We started TUNCO because we care. About people. About food. About health. About the environment. Our dream is to make the food industry more sustainable, give food to those in need and make people healthier and happier. Values We want to inspire change by taking action and have fun doing it! Vision Make healthy food available to everyone with minimal environmental footprint. Mission Provide tasty and affordable meals; source healthy and sustainable ingredients, educate and inform and give food to those in need. Taken from our Personell Handbook, this is one of our core values. TUNCO MEANS FUN For us, having fun means trying to see the fun and meaning in the work we are doing every day. It means being playful whenever possible. It means being friendly. It means doing things making you and the people around you smile. It means laughter. It means doing fun things outside work. Together. Having fun serves as an engine of motivation. People love having fun. That what fun means. That is why we think having fun as a core value is the smartest thing ever.