The story of Lingu started in the non-profit organization KIA which works with integration and Norwegian language teaching. The founders Edward Milsom and Odd Bjerga worked in this organization and came into contact with skilled and resourceful people from many different countries. The idea of ​​Lingu arose in this context of migration and communication, and human talents. The website lingu.no was launched on 16 December 2008, and our first language course started on KIA's premises in January 2009, with course providers from KIA's network. Since its inception, the company has grown and become a leading player in the language market in Norway. Lingu is today an ed-tech company and course provider with course centers in several cities. The company's management consists of an innovative and curious crew with a long career in adult education and a heart for language, technology, and pedagogy. As a company, we want to offer engaging and digital solutions for our users, as well as facilitate personal development for the people we work with. By linking talent, technology, and pedagogy, we create products and services that enable communication and interaction across language barriers. Our products and services will expand the horizons for people, and create both new career opportunities and greater tolerance in a diverse world. Our vision is to help millions of learners master new languages ​​through local classrooms and online learning. Our mission is to merge technology and pedagogy, and give the teacher digital superpowers: Create language heroes who expand human horizons

Equality as a standard Our purpose is to make the world more equal through fair recruitment practice Testhub is a SaaS company that has developed a solution for automatic screening of job applications. Our software predicts future work performance and anonymizes applicants to minimize unconscious and conscious bias. With our solution, companies save significant time on screening while ensuring every applicant is treated fairly. We provide value to our clients through: - A user-friendly and efficient screening tool - Identification of top-performing applicants - Driving diversity: Equal opportunities for every applicant - Increased employee satisfaction - Higher talent retention rates

Flow Platform is a set of tools that provides a ready-to-use structure for defining, implementing, orchestrating, and managing product development. Unlike other management tools, we offer a definite way of working - step by step. Thanks to this approach, we enable the creation of a highly automated process open to improvement during subsequent iterations.

F3nice AS, founded in 2020, specializes in creating high-quality metal powder for additive manufacturing using recycled metal scrap. With a strong focus on sustainability, we are on a mission to revolutionize the additive manufacturing industry by providing a circular business model to our customers. F3nice’s efforts toward sustainability and challenging the status quo of additive manufacturing feedstock have been internationally recognized. The company has participated in multiple joint-industry projects, been part of paid pilot projects, and generated several commercial sales. We have received funds from both EU and Norwegian grants and are funded by international corporations and venture capital.

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/

EasyPark Group is a leading, fast growing parking tech company that helps drivers find and manage parking and charge their electrical vehicle. Our unique and cutting-edge technology also helps businesses, cities, parking operators and property owners with administration, planning, and data driven management across the globe. We make urban life easier, one parking spot at a time. EasyPark Group has a unique market coverage with presence in over 25 countries and more than 3,200 cities through our apps EasyPark, PARK NOW, Parkmobile, RingGo and Park-line. The markets we are active in include Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, the U.S, the U.K, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Lichtenstein, Iceland, Hungary, Australia and New Zealand. Together we are a diverse team of nearly 1000 employees across the globe who stay true to our values while making cities more liveable. You will find our HQ in Stockholm, Sweden.

Randi.ai offers an online service where filmmakers and other digital content creators can easily transcribe their video and audio automatically using AI. With a built-in video editor in the browser you can also edit the subtitles in real-time and download each transcript with the captions burnt into the video.

We are developing a platform to help owners of renewable power plants and their service providers gaining access to the right information at the right time, enabling the right decisions. In order to achieve this we deconstruct the hundreds of documents describing each plant into snippets of information in accordance with our domain-driven data model. In the next 7 years, the world needs to invest almost twice what has been invested into renewable energy generation in the last 20 years. At the same time subsidies are being rolled back, increasing the need to for ensuring that projected ROI is not compromised by underperformance of the investments (i.e. plants). We have lived the pain, and know that NOW is the time to transform the way commercial management of renewable energy plants is being done.

Stack by.me is a social media platform where users can invest together, making investments more engaging and available to non-professionals - especially women. Today, there is a substantial capital gap in Norway and globally. In Norway, the gap is as large as a Norwegian state budget. (which is huge!) - only 20% of the value of Oslo Børs is owned by women today - Women invest 63% less than men, on average - while we only make 11% less - At the same time, 86% of all min. pension receivers are women, so women should be investing more - not less! Why is that? Women tell us - they don´t feel like they have enough knowledge - they don´t know who to ask for help Through the Stack-app, we give them the network to learn from and discuss investments - in an easy and fun way.

CYBERSECURITY FOR INDUSTRIAL NETWORKS AND CONTROL SYSTEMS Secure-NOK® is a technology company providing cybersecurity solutions for monitoring industrial networks (OT), and for detecting vulnerable areas. The company has vast experience and recognized technology, and has participated in several research projects with outstanding results. The technology (SNOK) can detect any abnormal event in a network and prevent important infrastructure from experiencing downtime due to malicious attack. Today, most industries are digitized, and thus more exposed to attacks from the outside. With technology from Secure-NOK, such attacks will be detected early, and thus avoid damage and downtime. Secure-NOK has developed patented sensors which are installed in a OT network, and which capture and report any abnormal traffic. The company has sensors for both networks, end-stations and PLC systems.

Do you want to create simplified and interactive learning experiences? Join us, on our mission here at W3schools. We believe that learning web development should be easy and available for everyone - everywhere! W3schools is an educational website that teaches coding for free and is a global leading web development platform. We have 65 million monthly visits and 2.75 billion yearly page views. Visit us: www.w3schools.com

AUTOproff provides software-as-a-service solutions to the professional car market – making it seamless, secure, and more attractive to trade used cars. Our solutions are important enablers of the ongoing mobility transformation of the car industry, where most people in the future will no longer own a car, but instead lease, rent, share or hail cars. Mobility means significant growth in transaction volume as cars will be traded more often during their lifetime – thereby driving strong demand for our solutions. We are growing fast and serve more than 3,500 customers from across the whole value chain including OEMs, dealerships as well as rental-, leasing-, platform- and mobility companies. AUTOproff was founded in 2013, became market leader in Denmark in 2016, and has since expanded across Northern Europe. We employ 100 enthusiastic professionals across our offices in Copenhagen (DK), Vejle (DK), Hamburg (DE), Malmoe (SE), Zwolle (NL) and Poznan (PL). In 2020, we posted revenues of more than DKK 400 million and we have been profitable since our inception. AUTOproff is privately owned by Jesper Ratza, our CEO and founder, André Rogaczewski, CEO and co-founder of Netcompany, as well as other private investors.

Dintero is a tech-first company that offers a one-stop payment solution for the Nordic market. We focus on simplifying the payment journey and have created one integration to support multiple payment methods like Visa, Mastercard, Vipps, Swish, MobilePay and Walley BNPL (soon Klarna, Apple Pay and Google Pay). Our unique solution Split Payment helps Platform and Marketplaces to connect with multiple sellers to their platform, and Dintero can split one payment to multiple parties. Dintero handles the KYB/KYC and AML. We have API-first approach when we build our microservices. Dintero handles over 60 million API requests a month. Dintero was started by experienced tech-entrepreneurs with a background from NTNU and over 10 years of experience. The founders have previously built dSAFE, which was acquired by Bambora. We launched in Sweden in 2021, but our main market is in Norway, and our customers include webshops, restaurants and physical stores. Some of our investors are Schibsted Ventures, Bring Ventures and CoFounder. We have grown substantially in recent years, but are still a small and agile team of 19 people in Oslo, with the passion for making payment as simple as possible. Our team consists of highly skilled people with long track records in the payment industry. Together, we aim to challenge the market through quick development, advanced features, and a relentless focus on the customer. Our values are based on helpfulness, honesty, agility and curiosity. We also have a strong sense of pride in the product we're building. All our tech is completely in English, and we promote an open and diverse workplace, and welcome all genders and nationalities. We like to be social colleagues and spend time together with kick-off dinners, 4 parties a year, and more cake than what might be healthy.

The FotoWare Group FotoWare is a Norwegian software company that enables businesses and organizations with complex workflow needs efficiently store, manage, distribute, and re-use digital files. With more than 25 years of experience, FotoWare is a world-leading provider of Digital Asset Management (DAM) and content management solutions with more than 1,400 customers in 40 countries around the world. FotoWare has employees of more than 23 nationalities and has a strong presence in Europe, the US, and Australia. With international customers and a fast-paced work environment comes a demand for business conduct, compliance, and responsible behavior, and we're proud of our efforts to ensure a high level of diversity, equality, and sustainability within our organization. FotoWare has built one of the most efficient and productive solutions found on the market today for finding, processing, and sharing videos, photos, graphics, audio, presentations, and documents. The solution is praised among users for the user experience and functionality, and the modular system is very cost-efficient for both small and large companies and is available as-a-Service, for private-cloud, hybrid, or on-premise deployments. FotoWare is a software company based in Oslo, Norway, with employees from all over the world, and a global partner network. Established in 1994 as a result of the growing demand to handle large volumes of digital photos and videos, the company has since then provided 2000+ companies with enterprise-class Digital Asset Management solutions.

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.