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.

At Minuendo we are passionate about sound and the sense of hearing. We are equally concerned about the state of hearing for both consumers as well as professionals, ranging from musicians to workers in the construction industry. Minuendo was founded in 2018 by a team with extensive experience in acoustics, hearing protection, and product development. Our mission is to deliver category-defining hearing protection products that users will truly enjoy wearing and that will provide real protection.  Shortly after starting the company, we raised a total of EUR 2.5 million from investors such as Construct Venture and EU grants to accelerate our development. Minuendo is a fast-growing start-up based in Oslo. The founders have a track record of start-ups and product development. We have raised NOK 25 million since we started the company in the fall of 2018. We have offices in the loft at Pakkhuset close to Stortinget.  We are just about to launch our first product internationally and we need your help to make sure we succeed with product marketing and reaching users online that we otherwise would not have sold to through traditional channels. What we have made is a new high-end prosumer earplug that reduces noise and protects your hearing, while maintaining high fidelity of ambient sounds, such as music from your own instrument or at concerts. The technology and product are unique, and so must our digital marketing.

DigiUnity helps you train, network, communicate, collaborate, innovate, and more high margin and highly scalable SaaS company experiencing strong tractionCapital raised to date: 24 MNOK Total revenues to date: 4.5 MNOKRevenue 2019, YTD: NOK 800K (+100% growth)Recurring revenue level: NOK 50K/ month (MRR = +50% growth YTD)Non-recurring revenue level: 50-100K / month technology leading platform: Market verified, ready to scale sales team in place: 19 FTE´sActive Customers: 5 key customers Sales Pipeline: 20 new customers in the pipelineDistributors: 3 distribution/ resellers*Approx. and ballpark numbers. Learn more about us at www.digiunity.comIf any interest in DigiUnity, please contact Christian Teigland (CEO) at christian@digiunity.com or mobile at +47 950 61 5 61.

New technologies, new regulations, and new players are forever changing the way consumers AND businesses think about payments. At EedenBull we want to drive change and leverage the vast untapped opportunities that emerge from it. We are all about payments and to us, customer centricity is key. Our mission is to challenge the existing, aggressively look for weaknesses, seek to improve, and change the way people and businesses pay and get paid – anytime, anywhere.

Investant specializes in the development of software solutions related to algorithmic trading. ​We offer 2 services: IT Consultancy: We can develop bespoke trading solutions suited to your specific needs Software Infrastructure: Leverage our in-house developed infrastructure Trading is hard and requires top-notch technology and brains. As we put years into developing self-learning algorithms we leverage every piece of information we can get our hands on and improve day by day. Our technological head-start is and will be a crucial factor in this strongly growing market.

Norwegian, fast-forward moving company set out to save the world by producing highly nutritious bio-mass from microalgae in nature’s own way. Using what others view as waste we copy nature´s own way in an industrial way to create valuable products that could turn into whatever your heart desires - cosmetics, animal feed, nutraceuticals, and food supplements as well as bioplastic and biofuel!

The problem:The easiest pollution to clean up, is what's on the surface. Lost fishing gear is hidden on the bottom. It doesn't only cause pollution, but also torture and death of enormous amounts of animals. About 10% of the total amount of seafood harvested are wasted to ghost fishing. Hundreds of thousands of crab- and lobster traps are lost every years. In the Florida Keys alone an estimated 100 000 traps are lost every yearCaptured animals starve to death, and become bait for others to follow. Lost traps thus become endless killing machines at a severe societal and environmental cost. Over time traps also start dissolving, releasing microplastics into the ocean, working its way into the food chain and polluting our seafood. The solution:ResqUnit is a device that's mounted on top of a trap or a pot. If the trap is left under water for a longer period of time, ResqUnit activates and floats to the surface. Thus enabling you to retrieve it.We are hoping to raise awareness so that anyone who sees the unique floating device, will either pull up the equipment or report it's location. That way everybody can do their part keeping the oceans cleaner and stop the unnecessary killing of sea life.

Gruten is an Oslo-based company that creates new value and meaning from coffee waste. We use coffee grounds in the production of soap and body scrub, and run an educational program with lectures, courses, and workshops to create awareness and knowledge about coffee grounds as a valuable resource.  We have a small production/workshop/outlet at Torshov, and sell our products on our own webshop + in ca 35 stores around Oslo and the rest of Norway. At the moment we are working hard to set up a site for mushroom production, growing oyster mushrooms on coffee grounds. When we get a go-ahead for this we will be in demand for funding to set up the production site (we will be growing in used cooling containers, so-called reefers) and need people to work on the site.

BusinessClass.com is a sophisticated travel tech startup. Our vision is to become the global leader in premium travel by offering the best travel search, the best travel offers, as well as world-class reviews and other inspirational content. BusinessClass.com is targeting the more quality-minded travellers who want the best travel products at the best possible prices. BusinessClass.com is suitable for both corporate & leisure travel, offering top-quality airline tickets and accommodation. The team and advisers at BusinessClass.com have extensive travel tech industry knowledge. Founder Jason Eckhoff was EY Entrepreneur Of The Year in 2013 when his first online travel company had beaten 28.000 growth companies over a 4-year period. BusinessClass.com is (other than the founder/CEO) backed by a former C-level manager of a major airline and a co-founder of a unicorn (a company valued at more than 1 USD billion). We are currently considering raising additional risk capital for further developing BusinessClass.com and creating the world's best search engine for premium travel!

Myroomstore introduces digital room service and travel retail to all travelers. Our partners are hotels and accomodation services, where we create a unique platform allowing all arriving guests to pre-order products before departure and collect package on arrival day at end destination. Myroomstore handles all operations from marketing, purchasing, packing and delivering each individual package. We want to shape the future of travel retail and help our partners' service and efficiency.

Oiiku was founded in 2012 as a joint venture for Onkel Estrup AS and Kodemaker Systemutvikling AS. Bjørnar Stray Berentsen is a well-known figure in the corporate event business in Norway. He has many years of experience containing handling all parts of events, including managing them, the use of software to get things together, and doing the dirty work on the floor. As of 2012, Bjørnar had made a quite remarkable list of high-profile customers on his own and his self-made software. Based on his experience he saw the great possibilities in creating a new tailor-made suite of integrated software applications for events. Kodemaker is a well-known consultancy company in Oslo with 25 skilled employees. They are self-owned and have a set of system developers with a quality that is probably unmatched in the Oslo area. Onkel Estrup and Kodemaker started talks in 2012 about doing a joint venture to make a company with superior software for the event business. It has been a long process making sure that the combination of Bjørnars know-how about the most known and unknown issues at events was taken care of, and at the same time making sure that Kodemaker could contribute with their skills to make it a very flexible, scalable solution ready to be 'the event system' for the future. The company today is owned 50/50 by Onkel Estrup AS and Net Professionals AS. Net Professionals are mainly owned by stockholders and employees at Kodemaker. Oiiku AS is today in a situation with 2 employees working with events and Bjørnar working as CTO and some hands-on at events as well. We have a running business and are ready to scale up. We are looking for investors and a new CEO to bring the business to a totally new level. The worldwide market is HUGE and so far we have not seen better software solutions in the market. Our current plan is to grow a steady business in Oslo with employees to handle our large corporate customers, but the real big opportunities lie within making self-served Saas software for the worldwide market.

Zirius Kompetanse is a two-year-old company that delivers all training for the users of Zirius ERP.  We specialize in e-learning, but also hold courses at different locations in Norway on the system Zirius, accounting, VAT rules, and changes. As Zirius expands, so do we, so now we also will cover payroll-system, and HR and will make a training program for new hires, etc. We use Moodle as our LMS (Learning Management System), and use a local provider in Lillehammer, who is the only Norwegian Moodle partner.   We also make promo-videoes for Zirius, our customers, and other companies. Zirius Kompetanse started with Sissel Rogne as Manager, and a board consisting of the owners, which is Zirius and a few of the sales offices. I have hired one person for Project Management and video production. I have a vision of doing social entrepreneurship and have a good dialog with NAV. The person I hired came through a training program in NAV and ended up getting a work contract. We have built a good course portfolio, and are ready to start a more active sales process, which we need more marketing funds to do, and we need to upgrade our LMS, make integrations with other sites, and hire one more person to work with course development.

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Five seasoned experts with over 175 years of experience in the oil & gas industry have developed a new patent pending disruptive revolutionary technology.   Water is separated in a horizontal well bore close to the reservoir and thereafter re-injected via a lateral well as pressure support to increase oil recovery. The Fluidsep DPP combines production and injection in one well with no spill to the surface, all excess water and sand is re-injected and never sees the surfaceThe technology enables  35% extra oil production and at the same time results in significantly reduced CO2/barrel of Oil. More than a 30% reduction compared with conventional production. An example of simulations shows extra income of > 1 Billion NOK per well. Fluidsep DPP has achieved TRL 2 - and requires 2 years of qualifications and pilot testing to be ready for the market, TRL 7. Strong interest in the market about our technology. Currently inviting investors and Seed capital funds to participate in the joint development of building a new international downhole service provider based in the Bergen region.

ICT is a Norwegian technology development company that holds patents designed to bring new opportunities to the cryogenic liquids storage and transportation sectors via unique containers. The design targets the market for both large- and small-scale cryogenic applications. ICT’s solution is modular and suited for onshore as well as maritime use. The development of hydrogen infrastructure is slow and holding back widespread adoption. Transportation of large volumes is one of the major challenges that IC Technologies is determined to solve. Another challenge is the storage of liquid hydrogen. Current storage solutions resemble enlarged thermos flasks, and the hydrogen inside gradually evaporates over time. Our vision is a decarbonized world with green hydrogen as a major energy carrier.