From the center in the Norwegian maritime cluster, Seastate 7 has the advantage of being close to our customers, collaborating partners and day-to-day users in our quest to innovate the ultimate system solution to relevant difficulties in the industry. The ocean made us who we are, and we make systems to handle it. We know the ocean, and we use our knowledge to protect it. Seastate 7 creates values for our customers in form of increased safety, sustainability and savings in operation. Smart Aqua We work with the industry, for the industry towards the future. Seastate 7 has made a new solution for the aqua industry to cope with many of the issues that they are facing at present time. We are harvesting the ideas and solutions that is already in use, making new products and improving and implementing them in a new way and a total package that is leaning towards the future. Let's call it Aqua 4.0. For the years to come!

Meetio is a software company based in Malmö, Sweden. We provide solutions for undisturbed, efficient meetings and better utilization of room resources. Thousands of companies around the world use a meeting room manager from Meetio on a daily basis.  Our most prominent product is Meetio Room. Meetio Room is an extension of your current scheduling environment (i.e. G Suite or Exchange).

Evaxion is a Danish biotech company listed on the US NASDAQ. Evaxion has been operating at the intersection of AI and medicine since 2008 with the mission to solve some of the world’s most significant challenges to human health. We are pioneers in the field of AI-Immunology, developing technical platforms for the discovery and development of novel immunotherapies. At Evaxion you will be working in an inspiring, creative, and fast-moving environment that cultivates a collaborative and innovative spirit. Evaxion offers the opportunity to play an instrumental role in the development of the company and its cancer immunotherapies and have a real impact on the life of others.

As a idea factory, incubator and investor, Askeladden & Co identifies opportunities, develop concepts and scale up companies. Our sweet-spot is in traditional industries that - until now - have seen limited consolidation, limited innovation, too high prices and a customer journey that has been standing still since the 90s.   Our investments and startup journeys so far:  Cutters | Adams Matkasse | Freska | Lotel | Lorry Restaurant | Wellbee

AnankeLabs is developing KAIROS Substrate, a real-time deterministic safety engine, to help organizations operating AI, cybersecurity, and autonomous systems solve structural exposure to novel, zero-day threats with a proactive physics engine that mathematically calculates exact breaking points before execution. We are tackling the fundamental failure of reactive, probabilistic defenses. Today, AI, cybersecurity, and robotics rely on known historical data—like threat signatures or mapped environments—to predict safety. This creates a permanent, widespread synchronization lag across modern infrastructure, leaving systems structurally exposed to novel, zero-day catastrophes and unpredictable "distribution shifts." This problem deeply affects operators across multiple high-stakes domains: AI Safety: Operators rely on post-generation statistical classifiers, forcing them to anticipate every adversarial path. This leaves systems highly exposed between vulnerability discovery and classifier updates. Cybersecurity: Current defenses depend on pattern-matching that requires a known signature. This creates a dangerous reality where defenders are forced to absorb the initial zero-day breach just to extract the signature needed to stop future attacks. Robotics: Systems use neural policies optimized for statistical averages. When encountering novel environments, they lack a physical safety substrate, resulting in hardware executing a "software hallucination at full mechanical torque" and causing kinetic collisions. AnankeLabs is creating an entirely new category of safety by shifting away from guessing if an action is safe based on past data, and moving toward a deterministic engine built on first principles. We built KAIROS Substrate, a real-time safety physics engine that acts as an automatic brake. Instead of relying on pattern-matching, it evaluates actions before execution, instantly detecting and blocking structurally unsound actions across AI, cyber, and robotics by calculating exact mathematical breaking points. Crucially, we made auditability a structural property of the engine itself. Because KAIROS is perfectly deterministic (identical inputs produce identical outputs at ε=10⁻⁶), it automatically generates an immutable, byte-identically replayable trace of every gate decision as a side effect. This eliminates subjective incident reporting and natively satisfies strict regulatory regimes like the EU AI Act, Machinery Regulation 2023/1230, DORA, and NIS2. The spark that fired our mission was the realization that relying on statistics to secure critical infrastructure is a dead-end. Watching security teams permanently synchronize their defenses to yesterday's attack surface highlighted an unacceptable structural flaw in modern technology. We saw the same unacceptable risks in autonomous systems, where a simple distribution shift could cause heavy machinery to hallucinate and collide with its environment. We realized that true safety couldn't be bolted on as an afterthought or solved with better guesswork; it had to be deterministic and mathematical. We set out to build AnankeLabs because organizations deserve a proactive safeguard that prevents failures from unseen threats from the ground up, rather than just mitigating the damage after the fact.

Buildright is developing an AI intelligence layer for construction projects to help contractors and project teams solve invisible risk — by turning the data already generated on every project into actionable insights before problems become costs. The problem hiding in plain sight Construction is broken. 85% of large projects finish over budget. Rework accounts for 9% of total project cost. Delays cost $280bn annually in North America alone. The signals that predict these outcomes already exist — in meeting notes, deviation logs, change orders, and task lists. But no one sees them in time to act. Risk only becomes visible after it has already cost you. This affects every contractor, project manager, site foreman, and HSE officer on every project — in an industry that represents trillions in global economic activity. From raw data to the right decision Buildright connects the data already generated on construction projects and surfaces the right insight to the right person — at every level of the organisation. Project directors get cross-project risk visibility to see which projects need attention before they escalate. PMs, HSE managers, and quality leads get role-specific dashboards with the decisions they need to make, surfaced daily. Site crews get targeted microlearning triggered automatically when a risk pattern is detected — before the next shift starts. But we go beyond insights. Buildright also automates the everyday tasks that consume project teams — generating alerts when something needs attention, and producing artifacts like meeting packs, reports, and change-order traces automatically. The result is not just better visibility, but a meaningfully more efficient project team. We're live in production with AF Gruppen and Betonmast, two of Norway's largest contractors. 100,000+ deviations, tasks, and meeting notes analysed — with a confirmed 10x ROI from our pilots. The urge to solve a global problem Lars Gaustad spent years at the top of the construction industry — and watched the same story play out over and over. Projects bleeding money. Deadlines slipping. And when it was over, everyone moved on. No real post-mortem. No learning. Just the next project, making the same mistakes. The industry wasn't short of ambition. It wasn't short of software. It was drowning in data it couldn't use. As CEO of Saint-Gobain Construction Products in Norway, Lars saw that the real problem wasn't digitalization — it was that decades of hard-won project knowledge was locked away, invisible, unreachable to the people who needed it most. Every project started from scratch. Every mistake was someone else's first time. That's not a technology problem. It's a fundamental failure to learn. And it's costing the industry hundreds of billions every year. That's why we build the construction industry's intelligence layer.

AuroraDelta is a Finland–Bangladesh innovation platform that builds multiple impact‑driven projects under one umbrella – from waste management and circular economy to smart ports, logistics, renewable energy, technology and skills development. Our goal is to connect Finnish expertise and financing with Bangladeshi growth sectors, creating commercially viable solutions that also deliver strong social and environmental impact. At this stage AuroraDelta is a pre‑startup initiative led by a Bangladeshi founder living in Finland, with experience in grassroots entrepreneurship, cross‑border business, and community leadership. We already have a portfolio of 6–7 project concepts, where waste management is only the first pilot, alongside ideas in port development, shipping, textiles, tech, renewable energy and financial inclusion. We are now looking for a mission‑aligned co‑founder who can help shape AuroraDelta into a real company: validating which projects to prioritize, building partnerships in Finland and Bangladesh, and preparing for funding. A strong fit could bring skills in business development, fundraising, impact investing, operations, or sector expertise (waste/circular economy, logistics, ports and shipping, energy, or digital platforms). You should be comfortable working in a very early‑stage, high‑uncertainty environment, co‑creating the vision, and taking ownership of pilots and investor outreach.

Blazar Capital is a Copenhagen-based venture studio that builds and invests in digitally-native consumer brands. Founded in 2017, Blazar provides its 20+ portfolio companies — including Nordgreen, Moonboon, and Scandinavian Biolabs — with shared infrastructure across tech, paid media, and operations to help founders scale fast.

Based in Norway, Recharge Health is a team of innovators dedicated to unlocking the full potential of the human body. Through collaboration with doctors and researchers worldwide, we've created FlexBeam, a revolutionary recovery device utilizing targeted infrared light therapy. Our mission is to bring the power of infrared light therapy into every home. More on FlexBeam: FlexBeam is the most powerful infrared therapy device of its kind. This non-pharmaceutical, non-invasive solution is already making a significant impact on the lives of many. With over 40,000 satisfied customers worldwide and endorsements from notable, global athletes, this wearable recovery device is changing the game of athletic recovery and health optimization. Developed with NASA-inspired technology, FlexBeam uses infrared light therapy to deliver powerful wavelengths of red (610-650nm) and near-infrared (800-850nm) light at up to 110mW/cm2, and a total optical power output of 5.5W. This powerful and targeted light stimulates your cells to produce more energy – so you can repair muscle, relieve pain, and recover faster. Learn more about our company here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEv3BimOCS8

Karman Connect helps ambitious companies drive scalable, performance-based customer acquisition within a growing number of sectors such as finance, insurance, internet providers and local business’. Reach further. Faster. Karman Connect is a data-driven Lead generation partner. We use AI and advanced algorithms to analyze and segment anonymized search and channel data from millions of high-intent consumers. Our state-of-the-art algorithms connect the dots and present these high-intent users with the service options that best match their needs. Our proven model ensures high-quality leads and sustainable, performance-based growth for partners across a growing portfolio of sectors

Velocity Insights is building a new class of analytical production systems that generate decision intelligence from a fully traceable evidence base. Most commonly used GenAI approaches generate narratives first and attempt to justify them during the text generation process — often resulting in outputs that are incomplete, difficult to verify, and not fully traceable to underlying evidence. Velocity Insights takes a different approach, structuring the evidence first and deriving every insight from it. This enables organizations to produce analytical outputs that are fully traceable, inspectable, and auditable — transforming how conclusions are validated in high-stakes decision environments. Designed for capital allocation and strategic decision-making, Velocity Insights enables enterprises across finance, life sciences, and technology to generate high-speed decision intelligence without sacrificing traceability or control. By combining data structuring, workflow design, and AI, the system establishes a new standard: analytical outputs that are fully verifiable, transparent, and trusted.

AITSU is a startup that commercialises ultrasound guided intralymphatic Immunotherapy as a disruptive treatment for grass pollen allergy. To improve the quality of the injections, we want to build software that can identify lymph nodes and the needle in real time and guide the needle to the optimal site for the intralymphatic injection of medicine.

Lyfta is building the operating system for strength training. Today, millions of people go to the gym without a clear plan, without tracking properly, and without understanding whether they’re actually progressing. Most tools in the space optimize for engagement, not outcomes. We think that’s the wrong approach. Strength training is one of the highest-leverage activities for long-term health, but only if it’s structured, consistent, and measurable. That’s what we’re building, a system that helps people train with clarity, track real progress, and improve over time. Lyfta is already used by over a million people globally, with strong growth month over month. We’re still early, but the ambition is clear: build the product people rely on to get stronger, not just another app they use occasionally.

Carbon Footprint Tool for the Construction Industry Making accurate emission understanding accessible to all, empowering even non-experts to confidently own carbon reduction decisions from early-stage to project completion. On a mission to accelerate sustainable construction the story Founded in 2021, Reduzer was started with a mission to accelerate sustainable construction and help the industry make better decisions - earlier in the project. We truly believe that good, sustainable choices can be made across all phases of a project, but the earlier the better. Based on research from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Reduzer is now an emerging software for carbon calculations across the construction industry and is trusted by more than 70 customers across the Nordics. The software is used widely in many construction projects, spanning from developer and architects to consultants and contractors. In 2025, Reduzer secured a financing round led by Momentum Partners, Futurum Ventures and Construct Venture - with the aim to continue developing the platform and enable more sustainable construction. We are a team of 15 dedicated people with a passion for sustainability and for making it accessible to everyone through smart software solutions. Our headquarters are located in Oslo.

Today Swedish households has lost 10 million SEK on failed handyman services. This happens 365 days a year. Where 8% of all reports to the Swedish Consumer Agency concern contractor services - clear evidence of a market in crisis. By combining AI, customer obsession and extreme intensity Ampy is not only becoming one of the fastest growing service groups in the Nordics, but also saving an industry that has been in decline for the past 30 years. Our solution is to build the largest electrician group in the nordics while being manically focused on our customer in each detail. We're currently a team of A-players in 4 countries and are growing for every week.