RightHair is developing a global market and education platform for curly and afro-textured hair to help people and minority women solve the problems of lack of availability of products and services and women's challenges in being financially independent worldwide. Through RightHair we give women all over the world an opportunity to start their own businesses and be financially independent. We do this by creating a software platform to connect freelancers, retailers and hairdressers to their customers. And we top that off with a “skill share” community for education. People with curls and afro textured hair are excluded from offers and services in today's beauty industry. Also, financial abuse is one of the main reasons why women are unable to leave relationships, worldwide. These problems contribute to discrimination in society, that women with minority backgrounds end up outside society and this makes the poor poorer. Women of color are excluded from many of the existing offers worldwide. RightHair solves these problems by creating a market platform where all services and products meet. So that people with curly and afro textured hair always can find something in their area. We also solve women's job and financial challenges around the world by offering a platform on which they can sell their products and services. Here they also get the opportunity to take courses, learn how to start and build a business and collaborate with partners outside their network. RightHair was founded by Lalla Coulibaly and Olimata Jeng who both grew up in Norway with roots from Africa. Due to the lack of offers for themselves and their community, the ladies each started their own platforms. Over the past 5 years, Krølltopp.no and Norwegian Naturals have grown into Norway's largest platforms for curly and afro textured hair with a total of 12,000 monthly users. now the ladies have teamed up to start RightHair as the question they get the most on their platforms is “where can I get my hair cut” and “where can I find products?''. Both ladies want to put time and energy into something that can contribute to women's opportunities and living conditions. This desire comes from their own experience as minority women in Norway with African roots.

Spect8 is a norwegian tech startup with a mission to help sports organizations, pro-athletes and sponsors that don’t have enough time, capacity, or the necessary skills to reach their potential in growing fan engagement and commercial value. Due to the power of association among consumers, brands allocate an increasing amount of their advertising budgets towards sports teams and athletes. To measure the value of a sponsorship, sponsors rely on manual measurements and expensive consulting services. At the same time, athletes, clubs, and federations are left with few resources to decide what their commercial value is, and often forfeit revenue (and funding for their sport) by underselling their commercial value. To solve this problem, we have developed a tool called Foqus. Foqus is an easy-to-use machine learning tool created for sports teams and individual athletes to determine their commercial value for sponsorships, and for brands to manage and measure multiple agreements. We are currently working with Norsk Toppfotball, sports associations, clubs and and several brands, and are off to a good start to reach our goal of creating a new industry standard for how sponsorship value is created, measured, and driven. The existing team consists of three business developers with expertise in strategy, marketing, sponsorship, data and analysis. In addition, we have associated development teams with both front-end, back-end and database expertise. We have recently become a part of StartupLab's Accelerator program, are supported by Innovation Norway and have ambitions to scale our business both nationally and internationally in the coming years. We therefore wish to expand our team with a skilled developer who also wants to make a professional career as an entrepreneur. The CTO will have the overall responsibility for the further development and scaling of our core product, Foqus, as well as the development of new tools and concepts going forward.

Greenpool was established in 2020 and has since grown to become an important supplier of electric replacement cars for customers of insurance companies in Norway. We work with all the largest insurance companies in Norway. We believe that car sharing solutions should benefit everyone, and it should be both profitable and safe for everyone, who participate in sustainable mobility solutions.

Subjekt er Norges raskest voksende kulturavis. Vi skal være landets ledende kulturavis og din beste venn i spørsmål om god smak. Vi publiserer nyheter, debattstoff, anmeldelser, featureartikler, kritikk og underholdning av og for en ung voksen, urban og kulturinteressert målgruppe. Dekningsområdet er kunst, kultur og samfunn i hele Norge. Ansvarlig redaktør er Danby Choi, som i 2020 ble nominert til Årets nyskaper av Oslo redaktørforening. Mer info: https://subjekt.no/om-subjekt

Norway’s unique landscape necessitates one of the most extensive tunnel networks in the world. 1800 road and rail tunnels contribute to 9000km of tunnel in Norway. These are inspected manually by eye and on foot, a time-consuming and hazardous process producing only qualitative data on tunnel safety. To combat these issues, Techrail aims to provide an integrated solution that is safer for inspectors, that does not interfere with traffic, and more comprehensively evaluates the safety of tunnels. Our solution enables the measuring the change of a tunnel’s surface over time, which allows tunnel directors to predict maintenance needs and more accurately evaluate the state of their tunnels. A digital paper trail will also aid regulators in overseeing tunnel maintenance. Furthermore, our technology has a large number of secondary uses that provide value such as Building Information Modeling (BIM), tunnel construction, and crack detection.

Workability is a web-based enterprise application empowering leaders to take responsibility for employees workplace welfare and employee follow-up, and allowing employees to be at work as much as their health allows. Sick-leave and workplace welfare is a problem escalating globally. As mental illness and complex health problems rise, new workplace challenges are created. Employers need new tools and practices to help deal with this adequately. Norway has the highest sick leave in the OECD, costing the state and employers over 50 billion kroner each year. 70% of sick leave is avoidable (NAV) and could be prevented through better employee follow-up and workplace facilitation. By solving structural barriers that exist today we help employers co-ordinate efforts with doctors, NAV and other stakeholders to keep people at work and prevent unnecessary sick-leave. Our tools help leaders follow-up their teams, create an open dialogue and an inclusive approach to workplace welfare and how they organise work, key factors in preventing sickness and workplace absence.

We help: 🚀 Entrepreneurs build the foundation for a profitable scalable business and raise money from investors 🦄 We invest in B2B Post Revenue Nordic companies 💌 We continuously share knowledge via our channels and newsletter to empower the startup community. And we do much more. We are always on the move. We are a team of angel investors and startup advisors here to support entrepreneurs, CEOs and leaders reach new heights.

Jordisk ("Earthly" in Norwegian) is a start-up based in Norway that is developing a unique distribution platform for sustainable packaging to help businesses which need single-use food packaging to become environmentally friendly by embracing products which are recyclable, compostable and/or biodegradable. We are also a part of the accelerator Fauna: https://www.faunaeksperimentet.no/ There is an immediate need to replace traditional single use packaging that is normally based on fossil based plastics with more sustainable alternatives that already exist in the market. Food packaging is becoming a growing global concern, because of the large amount of waste it generates and the chemicals it contains that can be detrimental to our health. In 2014, out of the 258 million tons of municipal solid waste generated in the US, more than 63 percent was of packaging materials (for food and other purposes) and, overall, only 35 percent (89 million tons) was recycled or composted. What happens to the remaining 65 percent? We all know that landfills are frequently used and that a lot of waste is just burned which leaves a huge carbon footprint. The end of life alternative for food packaging can be significantly improved by using alternative eco-friendly materials that already exist and can be implemented in a circular model. The aim of our distribution platform is to be the natural marketplace for sellers of sustainable food packaging where they can showcase their products to potential buyers who need one time packaging. Moreover, ideal sellers would genuinely care about the environment and have a circular model in order to reduce the carbon footprint as much as possible. A typical customer would be a restaurant that offers takeaway. The food packaging industry operates in a very traditional way with one-to-one contracts and is mature enough for a disruption. With our platform, we can be the link and matchmaker between the supplier and customer. Our goal is to raise awareness in the industry and among consumers, so they can know about sustainable food packaging alternatives such as products that are made of bagasse, bamboo, mycelium, leaves, bio-laminat and plant-based plastic such as PLA. The timing is ideal, as we are currently seeing drastic changes in jurisdiction and lawmaking in Europe, single-use plastic cutlery, cotton buds, straws and stirrers will be banned by 2021 and the EU's Green Deal Strategy is to find sustainable alternatives to replace traditional fossil based plastic. We are currently doing market research in Norway in order to source and partner with producers that could be interested in our platform. The feedback we are getting so far are positive, as most new producers would like further traction in order to get much needed market share. We are actively looking for another person with the technical know-how that wants to join the team to develop this platform with us. Even though we live in an era of Instagram and Facebook where spreading awareness in a particular topic is easier than before, environmental pollution is still one of the most concerning issues in today’s world. We, as consumers, are either too busy to care about packaging, or there aren’t many sustainable options to choose from when buying a product. One of the founders, Rezowan, has a background from the travel industry, and has from many of his previous travels seen the growing amount of plastic going astray, both on land and at sea. In many Asian countries, he has seen that there are no good waste solutions that contribute to, for example, plastic being recycled in a circular way. Over the last 2-3 years, new technology has been developed that makes it easier to choose sustainable and environmentally friendly alternatives, and the main goal is to promote environmentally friendly alternatives to fossil plastics so that society can become more aware of this.

Kundo tilbyr et helhetssystem for digital kundeservice, og utvikler løsninger for håndtering av mail, chat, FAQ, kunnskapsbank og sosiale medier. Kundo samler henvendelser fra de ulike kanalene i ett og samme system for oversikt og kontroll. I tillegg til opplæring i produktene våre, tilbyr vi kurs innenfor etterspurte områder som vi vet er sentrale for å skape en moderne og vellykket kundeservice i digitale kanaler.

Noon Invest is an investment platform helping savers and investors make smart decisions while reducing time, effort and uncertainty. While bank interest Is near zero, people are struggling to get a decent return on their savings. When trying to invest, you face a world of 122.000 mutual funds and 7.000 index funds. How should you navigate? Who should you trust? By building a Robo Advisory service, we help people help themselves to a smart and professional investment portfolio. By answering a few simple questions, our algorithm will match each client with a suitable investment portfolio. Our experienced investment team will look after and manage the portfolio as time goes by. Professional investment services have increasingly been reserved for the wealthy few. The remaining population have been left with standardized expensive products and/or questionable “advisors” (salespeople). Technology is now making it possible to offer sophisticated and professional investment management to ordinary investors.

Dynaspace provides insights for a greater impact on global seafood production. Our accurate data and updated information make it easier for the entire aquaculture value chain to become efficient, fact-oriented and sustainable. The aquaculture industry is a rapidly growing food source and livelihood for billions of people across the globe. It’s a fragmented market with low transparency and monitoring is complex as aquaculture production covers vast areas, making it a struggle to have updated and validated information. Our international and dynamic team solves the global data gathering challenges using satellite observations to deliver a cloud-based platform with real-time market insights and forecasts. By using space technology, we empower suppliers, farmers, processors, traders and governments, to make timely and data-driven decisions to improve efficiency, increase profits, monitor environmental resources, and enhance transparency & traceability within the industry.

Rundera is the booking platform that enables you to run the world. We're gathering the best small travel agencies for the ultimate running experiences around the world. A marketplace where you can book a trip to to run in the alps for five day, trail running on Madeira, or what about a trip through small villages in the Atlas mountains? Running is what we start with but we will expand quickly to also cover triathlon, swimming, hiking and cycling. Our goal is to become the leading platform for active adventurers. We got 8 travel agencies waiting to get started with our beta version. Our partners are from different destinations in Europe and North America and this is also where we will focus our marketing efforts. So even though we're a start up from Oslo we have global ambitions from day one. We believe we have a very exciting journey ahead of us. The adventure travel industry is growing rapidly, more and more people go abroad to run or attend other races. The time is now, the idea is simple, but solid, what we need now is the right team to succeed.

SurplusHub.com - the world's premier marketplace for selling and buying surplus oil, gas and shipping equipment. The oil and gas industry is global, extensive and a mass consumer of equipment and materials. SurplusHub.com offers a more convenient way of trading surplus, saving time, money and reducing environmental impacts. The oil and gas industry is fast moving, procurement-intensive and resource demanding. Oil field operators, service industry majors and third party suppliers are under constant pressure to have updated and specialized parts in hand, replacement readily available and at the same time balance logistics, lead times and regulations. As a result budgets are often massive to ensure quick deliveries, and environmental aspects down prioritized. SurplusHub.com is a brand new take on how equipment and materials can be indexed, accessed, sold, bought and reused on a global scale. The result are lower cost, more efficient sourcing procedures, shorter lead times and significantly reduced environmental impacts. Too often industry surplus is perfectly fine, sometimes even brand new second hand, and with varying needs across the globe, one company's scrapping candidate might be golden for someone else. SurplusHub.com offer an online solution that enables buyers and sellers to discover, connect, trade and ship all over the world, from anywhere to anywhere. The online portal, which pre-launched 2 year ago, has been custom built from the ground up to be tailored and adapted to actual industry needs and modes of operation: The item categories adhere to internationally recognized classifications and descriptions, users can easily put items up for sale on the go using the mobile app, and any documentation can be uploaded alongside each item, and the trade dialogues are logged and carried out directly between registered sellers and buyers, ensuring transparency, efficiency and amicability.

Kubert is a proptech startup targeting companies and private individuals in solving a common problem: Storage. Most companies and people have little room for storage and at the same time property prices are increasing. Kubert has put together a smart integrated offering using technology at the heart in which storage, transport and carrying is conducted by Kubert, and the items tagged and accounted for in your app. This is the perfect service for smaller companies in urban areas where the cost of space and time is high.

RAGE for Climate allows everyone to fight climate change with direct and measurable impact. We focus on enabling businesses and individuals to make a real and traceable change in reducing air pollution by supporting renewable energy projects. This ensures there’s no greenwashing and no contributing to projects that have already been established and provide no additional impact with your money. With RAGE, you get real-time data on your contribution showing your environmental impact and how you're making a real difference on climate change. 100% climate impact 100% guarantee of where your money is going and 100% no bullshit. #realimpact #nobullshit #rageforclimate