Oslo Business Region is the official business development agency of Oslo municipality (Oslo kommune). The organization supports and builds the startup and innovation ecosystem through city marketing, investment and talent attraction. Oslo Business Region knows Oslo and the startup and innovation ecosystem. We provide insight and access to local and international business networks through digital platforms, events and support services. Our ambition is to create and scale more high-growth companies in the region, leading to new jobs and sustainable solutions that solve global challenges. We develop and build international awareness of Oslo as an attractive and sustainable destination for business, investment and talent.

We exist to strengthen defence, protect nations, and deter conflict in an era defined by unmanned warfare. Our mission is to multiply operational capabilities, accelerate the transition to robotic warfare, and give NATO and our allies a decisive advantage in the new era of unmanned operations. We overcome the limits of current systems with collaborative swarm autonomy, enabling unmanned systems to act as one. Our software lets drones collaborate, adapt, and execute missions as a team, allowing a single operator to control an army of robots, accelerate decisions, and multiply combat effectiveness.

From weeks of back and forth to a single meeting, with all your floor plans concluded on the spot in a collaborative way. At laiout we automate the generation of architectural floor plans. With a team of physicists, programmers and architects we are pioneering in one of the largest yet most heavily underdigitized industries in the world, being real-estate. We have the backing of some of Europe's strongest investors and are piloting with the largest real-estate players in the field. Come join us on this incredibly exciting adventure !

Tapad is home to the team that cracked the code on cross-device marketing technology. Our groundbreaking, proprietary tech assimilates billions of data points to find the human relationship between smartphones, desktops, laptops, tablets, connected TVs and game consoles. With 91.2% data accuracy confirmed by Nielsen, Tapad offers the largest in-market opportunity for marketers and technologies to address the ever-evolving reality of media consumption across devices.

Overview We are committed to developing and distributing user-friendly and intelligent software assisting ship owners, cargo owners, and operators optimize and manage their portfolio of commercial decisions. Norway is a small country but has a good functioning maritime cluster consisting of companies providing different services to the global marine industry. This makes Norway an excellent place for maritime R&D projects. Our Purpose We started Maritime Optima because we wanted to assist people working in the maritime industry in unlocking their digital potential. We believe useful and user-friendly software should be made available to everyone working in the marine sector. We want to show that people working in teams, collaborating, exchanging data and knowledge, create higher profits because they attract talent and make better decisions, and working in a team is also more fun. Our Ambition We are building affordable, intuitive, and useful software where you can decide with whom you want to share your data. Maritime Optima aims to help you or your team to be more productive, reduce stress, improve the quality of your decisions, and have more fun. We also believe Maritime Optima can assist you in unlocking your digital potential.

Xait is a company with an award-winning document automation solution and they are at the forefront of digitalization. Xait is an international software technology company with headquarters in Stavanger, Norway as well as operations in Texas, US. The company’s main product is XaitPorter – a document collaboration and production solution for producing complex documents such as tenders, proposals, and reports. This benchmark solution is used by major corporations around the world. Xait is growing as a company with an amazing solution that every company needs. They have strong owners and a great work environment where they love to laugh. Xait is located across the road from Sola Golfklubb in a new building with modern facilities.

VIBBIO is the online video maker for workplace communication. We enable fast-paced teams to create communication their employees will love, and achieve their internal communication & engagement goals with video creation made simple. With VIBBIO businesses can trust their employees to stay on-brand at all times, while easily adding video to their communication skillset with no experience needed. We believe that the future of comms is video created by everyone.

Respire is a Norwegian venture studio focused on building companies within the energy transition and sustainability. We work hands-on from early problem exploration through company formation and early growth, typically partnering closely with founders as active co-builders. Our team brings experience from energy, industry, startups, and venture building, and we believe a systematic approach gives better odds in complex, capital-intensive domains. We build a small number of ventures at a time and take a long-term view. Respire contributes sector insight, structured venture development, access to relevant networks, and in-house capacity for early MVP development. We work with entrepreneurs who want real ownership and responsibility, and who are motivated by solving concrete problems in energy and green industry rather than chasing hype. We’re based at RE Gründerhus in Asker, a hub for sustainable innovation, and are now scaling the studio.

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

Hubro Education turns every student into a CEO in our online business simulation games. Practice is crucial to develop a deep understanding of any discipline, and Hubro’s business simulations offer an effective, engaging and innovative way to do just that in business education. We work with universities and business schools in more than 40 countries around the world. The company has a diverse team and will grow to 12 team members in early 2024. Our HQ is in Oslo at Rebel, Universitetsgata 2. As of June 2023, Hubro is wholly owned by Sage, a leading independent academic publisher with offices in Los Angeles, London, Washington DC, Singapore, New Delhi, and Melbourne. Read about the acquisition here: https://www.shifter.no/nyheter/et-av-verdens-storste-forlag-kjoper-norsk-edtech-startup/279172

Bazaar is an interactive marketplace where people can buy and sell social media advertising through our platform. It allows influencers to get in direct contact with potential customers, negotiate prices and monetize their social media page by selling advertisements they feel comfortable with, allowing them to either accept or reject an advertising offer.

Working Group Two enables product development and differentiation for telecom operators. It does this with public APIs and an app ecosystem on its cloud-native core network. It also collaborates with companies such as AWS, Atos and CCA to offer operators a simplified, end-to-end mobile network solution. If you love product development, green field projects, cloud computing, edge and Open RAN technologies, Working Group Two is for you!

Breach stands at the forefront of innovation, driving research and development in the realms of VR, AR, MR, and XR, with a firm commitment to shaping and propelling the future of immersive technologies. Our headquarters are strategically nestled in the heart of downtown Trondheim, positioning us at the epicenter of a thriving Norwegian entrepreneurial ecosystem. Here, we're surrounded by a vibrant community of skilled software and hardware developers, fostering an environment ripe for collaboration and innovation. Meet the minds behind Breach: Sindre Grønvoll, our Head of Art, brings a wealth of experience garnered over a decade in the gaming industry. Having lent his talents to notable companies like DICE, Criterion, Zynga, and The Chinese Room, Sindre's insights into game design are invaluable. He also shares his knowledge through occasional lectures on the subject. Martin Sivertsen, our Head of Experience and Product, embodies technical leadership honed by a remarkable journey spanning more than 25 years. His diverse background as a programmer, designer, journalist, and producer within VR, web, and online media in Norway enriches our team's capabilities. At the helm is Marius Thorvaldsen, our CEO. Marius boasts a proven track record in establishing and managing startups across various industries. Notably, he was the spearhead of Work-Work, a gamified co-working space, and has been serving as a digital educational technology advisor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. Together, we invite you to be a part of our transformative journey, as we collectively sculpt the landscape of immersive technology. Join us in building better realities!

Avidly is a fully integrated MarTech service provider covering every aspect of the customer experience. We´re 3 x Global HubSpot Partner of the Year and as an Elite HubSpot Solutions Partner, we share the tool with our customers to consistently help them grow their businesses. We are a one-stop-shop for digital marketing and sales. We help companies grow by providing them technical and creative solutions that makes a difference. Together with our clients we always strive to find new ways to growth.

FundingPartner is a leading Nordic crowdlending platform. By providing flexible and tailored debt financing solutions, we help small- and medium-sized companies grow by enabling them to hire more employees and realize their projects quicker. At the same time, the investors get their share of the growth through fixed interest payments. Since our inception we have provided over 500 companies with flexible debt financing solutions, by sourcing investments from our more than 22 000 Nordic investors. We issued our first loan in the autumn of 2018 and have today exceeded NOK 3 billion in loans, with an increasing lending volume every year. We are mainly owned by our founders and employees, but are also backed by our external owners Schibsted and DNB, as well as a bunch of Norway's most talented angel investors. At the moment, we are 30 ambitious and solution-oriented employees in the FundingPartner team, and have offices in Oslo and Stockholm. But we are growing quickly and continuously looking for new talent that want to join our young and high-paced organisation. By joining us you will get the opportunity to work alongside skilled colleagues with experience from leading investment banks and consultancies. We have a flat hierarchy and a nice working environment with free lunches at the office and many social actives, such as annual cabin trips and other trips abroad. Want to know more? Visit our website! 🇸🇪 https://fundingpartner.se/ 🇳🇴 https://fundingpartner.no/