In the European Union alone, more than 1.5 million paint buckets are discarded daily, constituting a disposal of 340 tons of single-use plastic that is incinerated each day. Starting from early 2023 (2025 in Denmark and Slovenia), manufacturers are obligated to cover the disposal costs of their packaging based on sustainability criteria. In Denmark, this translates to an estimated 15% fee on paint buckets. Furthermore, the conventional round shape of packaging has proven suboptimal for logistics and transportation. Beyond its environmental impact, the traditional paint bucket poses challenges for professional painters. These challenges encompass ergonomic issues during handling, such as the strain of lifting two buckets simultaneously, which exceeds recommended weight limits according to the Working Environment Authority. Painters also find themselves in awkward positions when pouring paint into a roller bucket for wall application. The demanding physical nature of the painting profession in Denmark results in accelerated fatigue and early retirement for painters. Additionally, issues like lid leakage due to dried paint and the use of fragile, porous plastic contribute to unexpected spills, particularly during abrupt vehicle stops. Our innovative solution involves a cardboard box housing two patent-pending plastic bags, each containing 5 liters of paint. This packaging not only enhances the workflow for professional painters but also reduces costs and lowers carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions by approximately 65% per unit. The box's design facilitates easy and ergonomic transportation, allowing for a 45% increase in units per pallet. The box is opened, and one of the bags is inserted into a standard roller bucket used by painters. The bag effortlessly opens and seamlessly fits into the roller bucket, wrapping around the edges, and enabling the painter to begin work promptly. This functionality is made possible through an innovative patented design and specific plastic welding techniques.

Visendi, founded in 2023 and based in Stockholm, is a pioneering AI lab dedicated to integrating generative AI into traditional industries. We specialize in customizing and orchestrating generative AI models to create powerful, industry-specific applications. Our expertise spans product development, e-mobility/sustainable energy, and manufacturing, where we help companies harness the transformative potential of AI. By combining our research with hands-on project implementation, we enable our partners to innovate and grow sustainably. Our employees have the flexibility to work in various capacities: on-site with clients on customer projects, conducting AI research in our lab, or a combination of both. This dynamic work environment allows our team to bridge the gap between theory and practice, driving impactful and lasting results.

Household targeting & measurement for the post-cookie world. Digiseg maps digital advertising to household characteristics. Our cookie and tracking free technology can be used across all devices, media types and operating systems – including iOS - to target advertising and measure audiences for both campaigns and websites.

At Hups, we're dedicated to enhancing organizational efficiency through innovative technology solutions. We're on a mission to create self-improving organizations through our transformation programs which we host on our platform. Our end goal is to equip every company with the tools and capabilities they need to take control of their own transformation helping every employee adopt a mindset of continuous improvement.

Vandre is a young Norwegian tech company with the ambition to impact the environmental situation by making textile brands succeed in reducing their footprint by making clothes and garments live longer. The world’s garbage piles are growing. In 2021, 40.000 tons of used fashion clothes ended up in the Atacama desert in Chile as their final destination. This is just one example of how the textile industry is not even close to being sustainable. The sports and textile industries face strict requirements and a major upheaval, when the EU is planning to introduce sustainability reporting and requirements to offer consumers repair of products in 2025. Our platform connects brands in the industry with certified repair centres and facilitates a seamless user journey with logistics and payment options. The platform is also a sought-after tool at repair centres, as it helps to make their daily operations more efficient. We have currently launched in Norway, and plan to expand to the rest of the Nordics and beyond in the future. Our HQ is in a co-working space office in downtown Oslo – a two-minute walk from Nationaltheatret, where we share office with a small PE fund, and have lunch break together with. We also have employees in other cities working remotely. As a small team, some of us are quite often on the go and strive to stick to our digital workplace practices as much as possible. This enables the whole team to work quite flexibly when needed, together with some well-appreciated face time at the office as often as possible. Today the team is communicating openly using Slack and ClickUp to organise daily work and product development. There you will feel the motivating and active vibe from the other team members, our CEO Henriette, and our always-on-the-go working Chairman and brand relationship manager Simen. We are still a small team, but team spirit we have and everyone is highly motivated to make a difference in the world and help grow Vandre to reach it's full potential. Our culture is built on trust, freedom and humour. As most team members work from home most of the time, we always strive to be available during the working hours, and prioritise weekly meetings to stimulate the team spirit being a partly remote team. In addition we believe in a high level of freedom for each colleague to find their own optimal w/l balance. Prioritising a run before lunch or picking up kids in the afternoon is all up to the individual colleague. You know best what works for you. Finally our culture is also characterised by a high level of humour, with lots of laughs and a good vibe between team members. Our team today consists of passionate and skilled people representing deep industry knowledge and experience. We are constantly open-minded scouting for entrepreneurs with a varied skill sets with the proper drive to take us forward, together with a few dedicated roles (as below). We are looking for employees who always strive to develop themselves and our organisation. We expect you to be committed and eager and to have the ability to work in teams. The team is characterised by an entrepreneurial and innovative mindset. Working at Vandre you join our effort to create a better and more sustainable textile industry, you will be part a highly dedicated and ambitious team with great and talented colleagues who love their job, and last but not least you will have fun at work.

We test and build innovative consumer services and apps. Backed by the distribution and financial muscles of Norway's largest newspaper VG, while free of corporate policies and bureaucracy, we are able to take ideas from concept to reality in record time. Among our most recent innovations are the charging app Elton, the wishlist service Ønsk and the streaming service TV Guide. Now we are looking for talented people that can help us uncover the next killer app.

Empowering construction projects ​to make a sustainable impact​, with human centric technology. Building sustainable is difficult. Today, building sustainable involves unstructured, unscalable and time-consuming processes. Drowned in paperwork and documentation, experts waste time on mundane and frustrating tasks instead of exploiting their expertise. Kvist makes the first complete digital system for sustainability reporting for construction projects. By delivering a cloud-based software that makes it really easy for projects to collect, validate and analyse environmental data, we remove friction in the unstructured processes that occur when choosing to build sustainable. Lower costs​. Lower risks​. Greener cities​. With big names among our customers and backed by investors like Alliance Venture, Arkwright X, DNB and Startuplab, we are well on our way to grow full speed. We are a relatively young team of currently 14 people, spread across expertise areas with a mix of engineering, developers, customer success and business development, some coming directly from university and others with a background in the industry. We have a very nice office at a co-working space in the very centre of Oslo, surrounded by both small startups and some established companies, and there is great and low-priced canteen, where we have lunch. We have access to many meeting rooms and facilities when you need silence, but also a great young and dynamic environment, where things are happening all the time. Our culture is fully flexible, meaning that everyone is allowed to work from home when needed, but as a small team we also enjoy working together, and most of us prefer to come to the office. We are a very social team, which easily comes when being small, and we do a lot of activities together like team dinners, Friday bars etc., but it is also fully accepted to skip and go home, when parts of the team decide to go for Karaoke at 1am. We have room for every kind of person, so you decide what you want to join.

At Kit Buildings, we provide a comprehensive range of prefabricated high tensile buildings, both temporary and permanent structures designed for our diverse customer base in various sectors. Projects we have worked on in the past include semi-permanent and permanent aviation hangars, environmental shelters, marine shelters, military shelters, recycling shelters, storage shelters and sports shelters. Kit Buildings Canada is a reputable business specializing in the supply and construction of high-quality kit buildings across Canada. With a focus on providing durable and versatile structures, Kit Buildings Canada caters to a wide range of industries and purposes, including commercial, agricultural, industrial, and residential applications. The business takes pride in offering customizable kit buildings that are tailored to meet the specific needs and preferences of their clients. Whether it's a steel building, agricultural structure, storage facility, or workshop, Kit Buildings Canada ensures that each project is executed with precision and attention to detail.

Screening platform for pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals using stem cell-based 3D models of the human brain. BrainZell develops a new technology of cell-based models of the human brain and connects it with digital services for customers into a scalable platform. Our mini-brain organoid technology allows industries to enter a new testing era due to its low cost, flexibility, and resemblance to a real human brain. We serve customers who require large-scale, fidelity to human organs and flexible testing conditions.

Airshells is the leading Scandinavian provider of protective bags to secure our customers' luggage during flights. Each year we help more than 30,000 travellers protect their strollers, expensive bikes, wheelchairs, golf equipment, skis, etc. during our customers' vacations and transportation. Airshells can be rented at more than 30 airports throughout Scandinavia. Airshells is a part of Sealand Capital

1: Short description (the pitch) Yuta AI is developing a platform to help DevOps teams to solve toolchain complexity, remove mundane tasks, work efficiently with the conversational and generative power of AI. 2: The What: What are you solving + more in depth details Several studies show that an average DevOps team spends 20% of the time in unproductive tasks (searching for information, mundane or repetitive tasks, troubleshooting human errors etc). The plethora of automation tools used to solve some of these problems, has introduced a side effect of toolchain complexity. A typical DevOps engineers works with 5 to 6 tools, languages & frameworks. This increases the barrier to entry, creates silos and a steep learning curve. 3. The How: Describe how your startup is solving this DevOps engineers can work productively and efficiently using Yuta's AI enabled DevOps platform. Using Yuta AI, engineers can easily retrieve information from knowledge systems within the company. Using conversational AI, several typical DevOps workflows can be triggered, removing the need to manually perform operational tasks. 4: The Why: What motivated you to get started As a DevOps professional over the last 8 years, I have toiled hard with many DevOps tools. While the tools have improved the productivity of DevOps engineers, the complexity keeps increasing with the addition of every new tool, workflows spanning across multiple process & tools & methods decrease the stability, and make DevOps a silo function in the organisation. With the power of conversation & generative AI, DevOps workflows can be simplified, lowering the barrier to entry, and empowering the engineers to focus on high value tasks.

Similarly to how cars replaced horse carriages, a new era of influencer marketing is approaching. Influencer marketing has become a jungle to navigate. Colab enters the market with polarity and new ways of doing things, aiming to re-invent, simplify & streamlining the influencer marketing process by offering a more effective product to brands with a cooler interface. Colab is helping brands facilitate, manage and scale their influencer campaigns, whether they have experience within the field or not. The industry has moved towards limited transparency and unfair pricing, with the general perception being that the more followers, the better the candidate for a campaign. However, the inverse relationship between follower volume and engagement rate makes this notion untrue. By harnessing the power of nano and micro-influencers, we're proving that relation matters more than size regarding impact. We are building our value proposition on this: By activating 10-20 micro-influencers instead of one macro influencer. This way, brands can have a more cost-effective campaign and deliver a higher ROI. Micro-influencers tend to have a more niche audience which can be highly targeted and more likely to convert to customers. This will reduce the risk of fall-throughs and ultimately have greater reach, effect, and overall return. We handle the influencer volume through our platform. The content creators follow brands they like, which is how we pick the relevant content creators for a particular campaign. No need to reach out to multiple influencers that don't like your brand in the first place. The relevant content creators get picked, can access the brief, order products, track packages, upload content for approval and chat with us through our Colab app. In other words, we have compressed the process to its core, turned the table, so the content creators pick the brand, and assembled all necessary steps and communication in one place. One of the most crucial factors in our approach is the community we build and nurture. We are very selective regarding brands we collaborate with and content creators. Hence, insofar as possible, we prioritise working with authentic brands and mainly content creators with some edge in a niche market, making them valuable to the brands wanting exposure to their particular niche. Colab began because we all saw how the influencer marketing industry was speeding out of control with the perception that the greater the reach, the better the candidate, at the expense of prices going through the roof, despite a lack of transparency and all campaign-associated data showing how well the campaign performed. In combination with the fact that trust tends to be more prevalent among nano and micro-influencers and their audience, mainly driven by their ability to create content that is perceived as more authentic and relatable, which can lead to greater credibility among their followers, additionally, making their engagement rates higher than Macro-influencers. Colab autogenerates a digestible data report on campaign performance comprised of every content creator participating in the campaign, which gives an overview of the content, the reach, impression rate and many more metrics. In Colab, it is, therefore, not crucial whether you have 2.000 followers or 200.000 followers as long as you are authentic and make an effort in what you are creating and posting regardless of what it is.

Drifti is a b2b saas that aims to give back control to the people who work at all levels in the construction industry. Drifti does this by centralizing all administration to one place and by working for you, not by you. That means more productivity in all parts of the value chain. Drifti is growing quickly in Norway where we now work mainly with plumbers and other craftspeople. We are looking to grow our service and team in Oslo, Norway.

We enable the green shift to happen in new markets! TioTech is a Norwegian producer of titania (TiO2) nanomaterials and a developer of titania-based technology. We know how to optimise the production process and properties of titania nanoparticles. After successfully developing and commercialising a series of photocatalytic surface treatment products (www.joma-int.com), we are directing our R&D efforts towards a new area; the use of titania as anode-material in Lithium-ion batteries (LIB). A battery with our material on the anode will charge faster, last longer, be safer and tolerate temperature variation better than conventional batteries which have graphite on the anode, and outcompete LTO-batteries on capacity. The development work takes place in our in-house laboratory in Bergen, where our dedicated team (Hjørdis, Marthe, Rob, Anders) play around with titania, giving life to innovative solutions.

UNISOT is a young Norwegian start-up company and is the first global Blockchain solution based on tight integration with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, such as SAP and other major ERP and SCM systems. Its permissionless manner will allow unprecedented abilities for secure information exchange and secure information storage to companies and/or organizations all over the world. For the first time and with the help of the open, public blockchain, UNISOT can now offer access to a reliable and secure “Universal Source of Truth” that all parties can use to handle the challenges in today’s supply chain environment, such as increased globalization, faster pace of change, global traceability, information shortage, and settlement costs, to name a few. UNISOT is leveraging the very well-established ERP Business Processes with the trust, security, immutability, and tokenization that the Open Public Permissionless Blockchain technology provides.