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.

Æra is built from the ground up as an independent Norwegian innovation studio with strong integrity and the goal of being the best in the world by being the best for the world. Our team will always be 50/50 business school and design school, and our portfolio will always be balanced with our own initiatives – walking the talk.  For us, innovation means creating the future.

Material Mapper’s vision is to create a market of scale for secondary building materials by mapping them in Europe and leading the transition towards a closed-loop circular construction and demolition industry. The European construction industry is urgently lacking clear, centralized access to information about secondary building materials available in their area, due to the fragmentation and inconsistency with which these public data are captured and stored. This makes building planning with quality secondary building materials time and cost-intensive for stakeholders, in turn making it difficult to comply with the EU’s Waste Directive of 70% recycled/re-used building materials. Our young, multi-award-winning company is planning to launch a project over 24 months to build a breakthrough innovation for the whole of Europe using artificial intelligence and machine learning that will extract, read, evaluate, and forecast quantities of secondary building materials for the user, making future planning for property developers seamless through our platform. We are confident that our product is unique and that we have no direct competition. By combining our deep technology, partnership development, and B2B sales expertise, we are already working closely with major industry actors to harness insights and their existing networks for our customer base.

Coming from all over the world, our IKEA co-workers share a special set of values and a vision to enable people to live a better, more sustainable everyday life. They come together within diverse, inclusive, open IKEA work environments, where each of them offers something unique. WHY YOU WILL LOVE US From the deep forests in Sweden, we have spread our culture and values around the world. At the heart of our offer are our beautiful home-furnishing products and solutions, made with care for our planet, reaching millions of customers. At the heart of our business, are our wonderful co-workers representing diversity in all dimen­sions and passion for life at home. We all contribute with our uniqueness and we want to grow and develop together. Our vision, “to create a better everyday life for many people” inspires and guides us in everything we do. This is IKEA. WHAT WE ALL HAVE IN COMMON Living our values Being your unique self, while respecting and including others A passion for home furnishingPerforming & delivering while learning & developing Having fun!

Octo Ventures, based in Oslo, Norway, is an incubator that initiates, invests in, and develops companies together with external co-founders. Based on investment criteria that have proved to deliver superior returns, we have developed a proprietary algorithm that generates high-potential ideas. Our methodology combines best practices within innovation, product development, and business design to accelerate the process from concept development to MVP and commercial launch.

Keenious - The new way of researching online Students and researchers all over the world spend a large part of their day searching for academic articles online, which requires experience and knowledge of how to access and handle complex academic search engines. Keenious is an online research tool solving this problem by finding relevant research to what you are working on, automatically. It achieves this by analyzing your document’s text with advanced machine learning and then displaying a list of highly relevant research articles right next to your document. Fits your workflow seamlessly and integrates into your workflow by analyzing your text live adding a brand-new dimension to your writing process, as well as enabling new and intuitive ways of finding relevant information. Because Keenious can find connections that you were not aware of, it further aids you in generating novel thoughts and ideas on how to take your research forward. Keenious has been designed from the start to be extremely easy to use for everyone no matter their academic level and is already successfully helping many students and researchers around the world. Try it for free! Keenious is available for free now for a limited time at [keenious.com](http://keenious.com) where you easily can add it to Microsoft Word and Google Docs. Download now to be one of the first to take advantage of this new way of researching online!

We are developing a new environmentally friendly technology to replace the existing high energy time-consuming procedure in the greenhouses, to help the farmers grow plants faster with better quality and less consumption of energy. Our treatment can be used to control plant size, quality, and speed of growth, and also to preserve plants for a long period.

Vi er en objektivt og uavhengig avtalemegler. Mange bedrifter betaler unødvendig mye på for eksempel forsikring, telefoni, pensjon og posttjenester og andre innkjøp. Det er et bakteppe at det er mange aktører, med mye støyende reklame, liten skrift og skjulte vilkår. Ansatte i Skifta har over 20 års erfaring med forhandlinger, avtaler og markedsføring. Vi tar smerten ut av reforhandling av avtaler og gir bedriftsnorge bedre råd.

The Electrical Vehicle market in Norway is exploding and more than every 2nd car sold is now electric. With this also the accessories market is exploding. Besen Group AS is a "spinoff" from Grønne Mil AS which created the market standard for sales of electric vehicle accessories to consumers in Norway already in 2015. While Grønne Mil AS is a B2C business offering a wide scope of products, Besen Group AS is a local agent and distributor of the largest cables and charging station producer in China, Besen International Group AS. The aim is to cover the entire value chain with both Besen Group AS in Norway and Grønne Mil AS. Besen Group International in China is transferring customers for local handling and development.

Approximately 50% of Norwegians sell their car to a car dealer. With Nettbils managed marketplace car sellers get offers from 850+ dealers and sell their cars without after-sale risk in less than a workday. - 23% MoM growth since the last investment round in April 2018. - Great customer ratings and case studies from car sellers and car dealerships - First mover advantage in the Norwegian market and currently 1% market share - Easily scalable with NAF and Viking as partners - Own unique custom made tech-platform - With partnership, Nettbil can establish the product in Finland and Denmark

UpNorth Ventures was formed in 2017 by a team of experienced entrepreneurs/executives with broad business, financial, tech and entrepreneurial backgrounds. The team is supported by a network of tech resources and other. We are growing, and currently looking for new partners and employees. We believe in building companies from scratch with a bootstrap mentality that makes them profitable early on. Are you an entrepreneur, investor or just curious, then let us know at hello@upnorth.vc

Quantfolio is a Bergen based Fintech company delivering “AI-in-a-box” components for banks & wealth managers with a digitial presence. Through open API´s and machine learning algorithms we empower banks and WM’s with our AI investment components to provide their customers with anything from automated low cost savings portfolios to sophisticated investment strategies normally reserved for HNW individuals. Our team consist of passionate and highly skilled individuals, ranging from serial entrepreneurs, traders, quants and developers with PhDs within machine learning. Quantfolio is partly owned by Skandiabanken, Norway’s largest challenger bank, also our first customer launching Q3/Q4 2017.Our HQ is based in Bergen with a quant team based in San Diego.

Zelo redefines how companies communicate internally. Streamline your internal communications by optimizing your reach. Compose, send, and track company updates across email, SMS, Teams & Slack in minutes. Use the Preferred Communication Channels Create great messages and distribute them across the channels your audience is most receptive to including email, SMS, Slack, MS Teams, and more.

WAKT er et oppstartsselskap basert i Drammen. Våre kompetanseområder ligger innenfor: Robotic Process Automation Development,Data EngineeringMachine LearningQuantitative financial Engineering and Analysis.Application Development Vi streber etter å ta i bruk moderne teknologi for å levere resultatene vi eller våre kunder er ute etter.

New drugs for treating diseases of Down syndrome. More than 1% of the global GDP is spent on nursing demented people, and the number requiring nursing will triple within 2050. The disease is progressive, leading to death. There is no current cure available, only symptomatic treatments. Individuals born with Down syndrome have a more than 10x risk of developing dementia as well as a host of other diseases including diabetes. Our drug target, DYRK1A is an enzyme found on chromosome 21, and is considered a key factor determining developmental and medical challenges faced by individuals with Down. The enzyme interacts with multiple biological mechanisms involved in Alzheimer’s and autoimmune diseases. Advanced drug designUsing advanced drug design technologies, we have designed a potent DYRK1A inhibitor drug, PST-900. A use and substance of matter patent have been applied for. The company is currently working on chemical Lead Optimisation with 8 full-time medicinal chemists contracted.Financing and milestonesThe Company raised NOK 5 million in 2015 and 8.8 MNOK in 2016/2017, matching non-dilutive research (BIA) and business grants (Innovation Norway). We demonstrated Proof of Principle in a model system for Alzheimer’s disease in 2Q2016. We have also demonstrated that our drug is capable of reversing diabetes in an animal model. Together with clinical and regulatory advisors, we have identified an important unmet need for a drug to treat newly diagnosed diabetes. We will use this indication to quickly progress to market and from there develop analogous drug molecules in Alzheimer’s disease, focused especially in Down syndrome. Funding soughtThe current funding round will raise 15+ MNOK to fund the progression to the final Development Candidate during 2018. Following this, further funding will be sought to perform toxicology/safety and Phase 1 clinical studies. A highly experienced teamThe team behind Pharmasum Therapeutics have broad, international pharmaceutical and biotechnology experience, and is supported by an excellent group of advisors. Anders Fugelli, Ph.D., CEO. John Sigurd Svendsen, Ph.D., CSO. Pauline Stewart-Long, Ph.D. Project Management. Henning Mork, CFO. Board of Directors: Andrew Parsons, PhD. Øystein Soug, MSc. Mark Treherne, PhD, John Sigurd Svendsen, PhD.