The main piece of equipment in the gym is the barbell. It is as simple in its form as it is timeless in its design. But when it comes to using the proper safety equipment that comes with the barbell, that’s when the flaws become visible. Today’s methods of securing weight plates to a barbell is done by using collars or clips, which often lead to a poor user experience, and they are often hard to put on and pull off, can easily break or slip during lifts, they are often hard to find and even disappears. The Olympic barbell has remained virtually the same for the last 93 years, and despite today’s standards, improvements can be made. In a seemingly ever-growing market, people’s expectations of safety, design, quality, and user-friendliness in products are on the rise. Gungnir of Norway is a Norwegian startup company that designs and manufactures high-quality gym equipment. The company’s first product is the Allrounder, a standard Olympic barbell with built-in collars for securing weight plates. The built-in collar system or “SlideLock” makes the lifting experience safer, faster, easier, and more reliable than the standard safety equipment in use today. Also, the SlideLock system can be applied to several other bar types like compact group training bars or loadable dumbbells. This solution has shown enormous potential in the fitness market, which we intend to continue to take advantage of. The SlideLock is the first of many solutions that we seek to create within the fitness equipment industry. We started as a company in 2018 in Oslo, Norway, with an idea for a better solution to a problem well known to many who use weightlifting equipment regularly. Gungnir’s vision is to become the new standard solution for securing weight plates worldwide. A game-changing solution to a century old problem.

We’re Les Deux, a premium menswear brand that pairs preppy classics with streetwear based out of our world-class HQ in Copenhagen.   At our foundation are three ideas: we always strive for more and are driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, we make clothing for a community where everyone is welcome, and we improve lives by making a difference to that community. We’ve got an ambitious goal of becoming the world’s most impactful lifestyle brand. It’s a big dream, but just because something is difficult doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to do it anyway. We believe that through hard work, passion, and dedication, anything is possible.

Where change comes to work! Part innovation lab, part business incubator, and part membership community: Impact Hub Bergen provides a collaborative work, meeting and learning space for people who seek to create positive impact. We believe in the power of innovation through collaboration. Our members come from a variety of backgrounds but are united in their quest to create sustainable solutions for the biggest issues of our time.

Congrid is a digital solution for construction management and was founded in 2013 in Helsinki, Finland. Our headquarters is located in Helsinki but we also have offices in Turku (Finland) and Stockholm (Sweden). We have a staff of 25 employees. Our mission is to improve construction site productivity with modern technology. Take your documentation management to a whole new level.

The growing VOI Technology team is in the process of making the dreaded morning commute to work exponentially more enjoyable. In due time, we will have a network of electrically-powered scooters throughout densely populated urban centers. Users will access these vehicles via a phone application and ride to wherever they need to be, leaving the scooter for the next user.

IBEN is a Norwegian lifestyle fashion brand for women that wants to express their style and identity trough the way they dress. Established in 2014 IBEN represents the woman that cannot walk into a room without being noticed for her strong appearance. Her «tomboy» mentality, freed and laidback way of thinking is always the foundation for her choices and interactions. IBEN clothing is meant to supply self-made women the wardrobe they need to communicate their identity and way of life.

Mingl is a cloud-based SaaS solution for contact management, helping people make more meaningful connections. Mingl removes the friction in contact information exchange and gives a better overview of your personal and professional networks. Mingl is currently crafting sophisticated, yet simple and easy to use solutions for the business segment, with a basic private version. Our modern and sexy stack is built by a passionate and driven team out of Oslo and Palo Alto. Team Mingl is passionate about human interactions and relationships, and we believe strongly in the value of personal and professional contact networks. Our values include openness, smart work, personal and professional development, and collaboration. Diversity builds better teams, and we are looking for new perspectives to craft better ideas <3

B’ZEOS develops novel, flexible, and home-compostable films based on seaweed extracts which can replace conventional and bio-based single-use plastic films in food-contact applications. B’ZEOS’ solution will contribute to reduce the use of non- or hardly recyclable plastic materials for single-use food packaging, thus reducing CO2 emissions. We are a team of 8 people with complementary backgrounds. One engineer in environment, two material scientists, one graphic designer, one supply chain analyst, one quality engineer advisor, one PR and marketing advisor and one CFO advisor.   Each of us are concerned by environmental issues and wanted to contribute to make a change.   We have joined this project because we are all fed up with:    - Contamination of world's drinking water with plastic fibres   - Seeing marine animals dying because of our plastic trash   - Increase of plastic packaging around fresh aliments   - Increase in plastic debris along the coast   - Both burning plastic and sending plastic to landfills   - Finding plastic while making with our kids sand castles   - Contamination with the chemicals in plastic. These chemicals are said to cause obesity, on-set puberty, and even cancer.   - Direct contamination of our kids by chewing various objects in plastic.   - Being exposed to plastic every single day and not having the chance to choose an alternative   We, at B’ZEOS and as consumers, believe in a sustainable alternative to current plastic and we have been working on the elaboration of a sustainable alternative without forcing the consumer to change dramatically his habits.

Livid Jeans is a small manufacturing company from Norway, created from a simple love & passion for superior quality and true craftsmanship. Dedicated to honor old traditions in making jeans, and inspired by a time when superior quality, supporting local trade and taking care of own garments mattered.Since its establishment in 2010, Livid Jeans remains today the only apparel manufacturing company left in Norway, driven not from an economic point of view, but with a purpose. A purpose driven towards upholding old trade and conventional craft in a country where a once blooming textile industry is gone, and the fine craft with it. While continuously growing we strive to follow core values and to always create as unique and authentic products as we possibly can. And while doing so, sustain our responsibility against the competitive force of poor products being made unsustainably.Livid Jeans’ product portfolio today consists of two different production lines. One collection handmade the old fashioned way locally right here in Trondheim, Norway. And one ready-to-wear collection line made in Barcelos, Portugal. Both lines offering superior quality garments with equal purpose.

We are a family business located on the island of Gossen in Northwestern Norway. Our goal is to reinvigorate Norway’s centuries old production of sea salt.We are a Norwegian producer of all natural sea salts. Our clean mineral-rich sea and dedication to quality gives our salt its great character, taste and personality. Our Flake Salt HAVSNØ [Snow of the SEA] is available in stores in Norway, Germany and USA and can be tasted in some of the worlds best restaurants.

Zivid is the world’s most accurate real-time 3D color camera. Zivid, with its unique specifications, can be the eyes of your robot, ensure more robust performance and enable automation of tasks that were previously difficult or impossible to automate.

ExecuteAI is building a unified AI‑native ecosystem designed to make advanced automation, agent development, and AI‑driven operations accessible to every company—regardless of size, technical maturity, or industry. We believe AI should not be limited to large enterprises with dedicated engineering teams. Instead, it should be a practical, reliable, and affordable tool that any organization can deploy to improve productivity, decision‑making, and customer experience. Our mission is to democratize AI by providing a complete operating system for automation: from outreach and CRM orchestration to agent development, workflow execution, and talent collaboration. At the core of our platform is the ExecuteAI Hub, a login‑based workspace where companies and AI developers meet, collaborate, and deliver real solutions. The Hub functions as a marketplace, a project management environment, and a delivery engine in one. Companies can post AI projects, describe their needs, and connect with qualified AI developers who specialize in automation, agent design, data workflows, and integration engineering. Developers gain a structured environment to showcase their skills, build a portfolio, and deliver high‑quality AI solutions with clear expectations, transparent communication, and standardized processes. We are solving a fundamental problem in the AI industry: fragmentation. Today, companies must navigate a confusing landscape of tools, models, consultants, and platforms. There is no single place where they can reliably define a problem, find the right expertise, and receive a complete, production‑ready AI solution. ExecuteAI eliminates this friction by offering an end‑to‑end ecosystem that covers the entire lifecycle—from idea to deployed agent. Our platform includes tools for outreach automation, CRM orchestration, agent execution, workflow design, and continuous improvement. Everything is built with a strong focus on Nordic values: transparency, trust, quality, and responsible AI governance. For companies, ExecuteAI provides clarity and structure. Instead of hiring expensive consultants or experimenting with disconnected tools, they gain access to a curated talent pool and a standardized delivery framework. For developers, we offer a place to work on meaningful AI projects, collaborate with clients, and build long‑term relationships. For both sides, the Hub ensures that AI development becomes predictable, repeatable, and scalable. ExecuteAI is headquartered in Copenhagen and built on the belief that the future of work will be shaped by human‑AI collaboration. Our goal is to empower organizations to operate faster, smarter, and more efficiently by integrating AI into their daily workflows. Whether a company needs a custom agent, a full automation pipeline, or ongoing AI operations, ExecuteAI provides the tools, talent, and infrastructure to make it happen.

EquaFish is a company developing the only complete decision-making tool for fish farm operation. The AquaCulture industry is facing mass mortality and decreased yields as a result of knowledge and data being fragmented througout the farm. One facility usually have 10-15 different systems, Excell sheets and notes where only 10-15% of the functionality is actually used. EquaFish streamlines, process and visualize the data so that every employee, no matter role, understand the plan, status and future of the production. This $140B problem is faced by salmon farmers, telapia, halibut, shellfish and char farmers all alike. The tech is the same, even though the species is not. EquaFish has a SaaS solution bringing all growth, water quality, mortality and feed data into one, exploiting mathematical and statistical data processing to find causes and effects, which the fish farmer can act upon. The result is higher yield with reduced risks in the production, increased effiency, knowledge sharing and learning with the employees. Finally fish produced in more stable environments with less risk of death and non-friendly conditions. EquaFish was startet on the belief that one of the biggest industries deserve the newest and best tools. The time of post-it notes, Excell and systems from the 90s died 15years ago and the AquaCulture industry didnt get the memo. So if you want to create real change for a sustainable, profitable and animal friendly industry, EquaFish is the place that gets that done.

Swöm is a Nordic safety tech startup addressing drowning, one of the leading causes of death. Through the use of sensor and wearable airbag technology we have developed smart swimwear which automatically inflates in a potential drowning situation. Our initial product focus on children with plans for further expansion into the active water lifestyle segments (surfers, swimmers, kayakers etc) through licensing of our technology to leading brands across the globe. We have over a 3 year R&D period developed a unique and patent pending wearable safety hardware platform and are now in the process of starting commercialisation as well as developing version two which includes the introduction of space tech to add a tracking and alarm feature to the product. Our funding comes from both investors as well as grants. We were born in the incubation program at the VC Antler and have received grants for instance from the European Space Agency and the Danish Innovation fund. Our headquarters are based at the DTU campus in Kongens Lyngby.

Aavuus is a space-tech startup building a global network of ground-based laser stations to detect and track space debris with unmatched precision. Our mission is to ensure the safety and sustainability of Earth’s orbit by providing satellite operators, Space Situational Awareness (SSA) companies, and defense organizations with accurate, timely, and affordable debris tracking data. Space has become crowded. Over 10,000 active satellites and more than hundred million debris objects currently orbit Earth, and the number of satellites is expected to grow tenfold by 2030. Even a fragment as small as one centimeter can destroy a satellite upon impact. Yet, current tracking systems are struggling to keep pace. This gap threatens not only the safety of critical assets in orbit but also the future of the global space economy, which depends on the long-term sustainability of orbital operations.