Blackbox is the gateway to a young and global audience. We act as a catalyst for brands to harness the commercial power of the volatile world of youth culture. Founded by a strong group of experienced veterans from the media, advertisement, gaming and startup industry, we are looking to combine the best from all worlds into a new take on how commercial success is achieved in a constantly changing digital landscape. Our focus lays on empowering brands by driving growth through innovating strategy, creative and performance for our international clients. We use smart, data driven full-service marketing combined with outstanding creative to find and accelerate growth.

Unseen Bio™ was founded in 2018 with a vision to increase awareness of the importance of gut health as a means of preventing disease. Our mission is to strengthen the microbiome in order to improve the biodiversity crisis in the gut. Based on a thorough analysis of the microbiome, we provide personal dietary recommendations aimed at increasing biodiversity and improving gut health for the individual. Based on the latest knowledge in the microbiome area and with a focus on preventive healthcare, we are constantly developing our digital platform for intestinal health Digital Gut™.

Unconditional love for craftsmanship Rebæl was created by two friends, who wanted to create breverages based only on high quality products and with unconditional love for craftsmanship. The idea started in 2018, where the two friends met in one of the finest Danish Michelin restaurants. With a common passion for Gastronomi they agreed to go against the expected and create Rebæl. Rebæl is a unique art poured into bottles and only created from the best fresh ingredients from nature. We stay away from additives and artificial aromas. Only pure, natural flavors are welcome.

NIRAS has built the most incredible space for green tech startups with 5000m2 of office space, storage and production facilities. NIRAS Green Tech Hub is for startups seeking an extraordinary office space with cool meeting rooms in a vibrant, green and colorful environment with great coffee in the café. Startups will also be able to rent large storage spaces, build MVPs and have actual production in the production hall. This is the place where startups, innovative ideas and green engineering specialists meet. By accessing not only the vibrating hub with peer entrepreneurs, but also the best engineers specialised in sustainability with in different industries such as food, beverage, building, energy, infrastructure etc. The co-development and collaboration between startups and NIRAS’ many experts will be the fast track to grow ideas and innovations. Currently 25 startups and scaleups saluting the green transition is reciting in the hub on a daily basis, but we are working with more than 100 startups on an annual basis through our different programs and activities.

Guarantees of Origin (GOs) are the most efficient ways to source renewable energy. However, the market can be volatile and opaque. Our aim is to simplify this complex market to make informed decisions. As the forefront company for Green Certificates market intelligence, Greenfact supports over 300 firms by providing price benchmarking, insights, and analytics for Green Certificates in the Nordics and Europe.

Crystallize was founded in 2017 based on two principles: Using Internet craftsmanship to design and engineer the best headless eCommerce service for building a business online. Utilizing the same principles of internet craftsmanship in every aspect when we build our own company and defining our own business model. Giving us an extreme focus on removing friction to free up resources and focus on what really matters; team, customers, product and growth. Creating even more value for our customers and partners. Exemplified by our simplified legal framework and the way we price our service with a free tier with generous quotas and no limit on features to how we build our globally distributed team and digital customer journey. We want to use these principles to build a movement based on Internet craftsmanship. With our approach, we want to support the craftswomen and craftsmen of the Internet to build: a tailored made customer experience with beautiful service design. Merging customer interaction, digital service and business. Service designers bliss. #CX (customer experience)Beautiful and efficient user interfaces #UX (user experience)Custom fit information architecture and content modelling to fit your business. Not one size fits all. A dream for information architects and content strategists. #IA (information architecture)Super fast and easy-to-use APIs and open-source starters for developer happiness. #DX (developer experience) Enable business owners to make better decisions based on insight and data. Design ♥️ engineering - in every aspect. Crystallize is a New Normal Group company that has been at the frontier of digital technology and business models for the last twenty years, we have learnt the lessons for what to do and more importantly; what not to do. What to leave out. Both in terms of product scope as well as for your own business model. The founding brothers Bård and Aleksander Farstad have taken earlier ventures to the global scale, serving some of the most demanding clients globally, like The Economist, Financial Times, KitchenAid and NASA, building global ecosystems of partners and developers across all continents. New Normal Group is a venture accelerator and investor, founded by Bård, Aleksander and their partners, with a mission to build exponential software companies that chase the new normal of their industry. Being extremely hands-on, strategically and systematically supporting founding teams while at the same time supporting them with funding and resources so they can focus on what matters the most; building a world-class team, creating products customers love and driving growth. As we ourselves also are entrepreneurs, Crystallize is a venture fully incubated by the New Normal Group in 2017. Now a fully independent company, where Bård spends all his time as CEO, Crystallize still enjoys being a New Normal Group company. With their support we can still focus on what matters most; building the ultimate headless commerce service that redefines how to build, grow and succeed with business online, while pushing the boundaries of internet craftsmanship.

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.

We make smart collection systems for the circular economy. Helping companies get their circular products back from consumers. So that the products can be reused, refurbished or recycled. Think reverse vending machines for bottles and cans- but for other products, and with a twist of cutting edge technology and beautiful design. We’re an early phase start-up based in Oslo, collaborating with some of the largest companies in the world, helping them transition from linear to circular. We are located at StartupLab at Oslo Science Park, the epicentre of Norway’s tech start-up scene. As part of the GRIN team, you will be given the opportunity to shape and scale a company, as well as innovating, developing, and growing new global business models necessary for a sustainable future.

Quantfolio is a Bergen based Fintech company delivering “AI-in-a-box” components for banks & wealth managers with a digitial presence. Through open API´s and machine learning algorithms we empower banks and WM’s with our AI investment components to provide their customers with anything from automated low cost savings portfolios to sophisticated investment strategies normally reserved for HNW individuals. Our team consist of passionate and highly skilled individuals, ranging from serial entrepreneurs, traders, quants and developers with PhDs within machine learning. Quantfolio is partly owned by Skandiabanken, Norway’s largest challenger bank, also our first customer launching Q3/Q4 2017.Our HQ is based in Bergen with a quant team based in San Diego.

The Farm Society™ is a brand child of Plant Tech AS, born and bred in Trondheim. We deliver freshly harvested greens, herbs and gourmet mushrooms to restaurants, hotels, cantines and catering. Plant Tech explores and develops solutions for urban agriculture and indoor factory farming. We produce climate-friendly leafy vegetables and greens that are delivered at peak within hours after harvesting.

The future of the internet is 3D, and people will increasingly create and express themselves in 3D. Sloyd is using automation to make the creation of 3D faster and more accessible and to make 3D rendering more efficient. We are building a simple-to-use WebApp to quickly generate 3D assets and a software development kit for performance-efficient runtime creation in video games and virtual worlds. Sloyd combines procedural generation techniques, machine learning, and a commitment to real-time optimization to provide the best 3D automation tools. Sloyd is a remote-first company and employees can work from home, a shared-space hub, or from the main office in Oslo. We don’t care where you come from, we only care about your passion and creativity.

Ecomerden is a complete producer of semi-closed cage systems for Aquaculture founded in 2012. With over 25 years of experience in delivering technology in the aquaculture industry, we started developing Ecomerden, a European patented semi-closed system for the lice-free production of fish. By 2015 the first cage was installed in Solund. Sogn & Fjordane. Here we have produced lice-free post-smolt of Atlantic salmon (90 grams-1kg) for 2 years with groundbreaking results. Using Ecomerden as a combination in the production line of the fish not only prevents lice pressure but also makes a more robust smolt ready for the open cages. With the results so far showing that the technology and biology are working, the company is now ready for commercialization.

Think Outside is now Mitta AS, a subsidiary fully owned by Mitta Oy. Mitta will be offering geodata monitoring and measurement services to the Norwegian market, bridging the growth of the Finnish and Swedish Mitta companies to new Norwegian customers. For us at Mitta, accurate and reliable positioning is extremely important, as it is a basic prerequisite for spatial information. High-quality input data means cost-effectiveness in design, construction and monitoring, regardless of the customer's industry. Mitta is the market leader as a producer and processor of terrain information in the infrastructure sector in Finland and Sweden. Our customers operate in the construction value chain from design to production.

Bookd AS ble etablert i 2021 og jobber med å forenkle bookingprosesser i underholdningsbransjen. Vårt fokus er å tilby underholdning på en enkel og intuitiv måte til bedrifts- og privatarrangementer. Vi har utviklet en app (iOS) hvor man kan finne og booke underholdning på en enkel måte. Vi tilbyr artister, DJs, komikere, foredragsholdere, dansere, kokker og annen underholdning som passer til ulike typer arrangementer. I 2022 er målet å etablere seg i Norge før vi skal skalere videre til nye markeder.Vi har en stor profilbase, samt gode og etablerte partnerskap med flere av Norges største eventbyråer og bedrifter.

The Norwegian fashion brand BRGN was founded in 2015 by Ros-Mari Tobiassen Gaundal and Karine Trellevik Lunde. Their mission is to offer great alternatives to the traditional all-weather jacket, through high-quality garments and shoes that can be worn on any occasion and in any kind of weather. Their technical and waterproof products, designed for a functional and urban lifestyle, are now sold by over a hundred retailers in Norway, Germany, France, and the UK in addition to their two concept stores in Oslo and Bergen. BRGN set a new turnover record in 2021, at 25.8 MNOK. Up from 16. MNOK in 2020.