Bloc started in 2005 as one of the most successful online social communities in Norway. We knew at a early stage how to make the web easy to use for normal people. We saw companies create publishing platforms which organizations and companies used as their webspace. The problem was that these websites are very static and most companies do not even have the faintest idea about how to log in to change simple things like their own phone-number. They have to call an IT consultant and pay them a lot of money to have them change it for them.

BRATHWAIT is the world’s only transparent watchmaker promising elegantly designed, premium timepieces for men and women, without the luxury markup. BRATHWAIT eliminates industry shortcuts and cheap solutions with its focus on quality manufacturing and honest pricing.We are looking to grow our organisation in Norway because our funder lives here although our main market are in the US and Asia.

eSmart Systems has developed a scalable software platform that can process, analyze and visualize large amounts of data in real time. The platform enables the future of the digital energy industry and smart cities. The company was established in 2012 and many of its key resources has more than 20 years experience of establishing and leading IT and energy-related companies in and around the energy markets in Norway, Europe and the United States.

Dyrket is spearheading a transformative movement to overhaul traditional food systems, driven by the conviction that the stories behind each producer are as invaluable as the food they provide. Emphasizing the importance of fair compensation, Dyrket champions the belief that every producer deserves a higher reward for their offerings. Since its inception in 2016, Dyrket has been dedicated to addressing the complexities of market and distribution challenges through its innovative software. This commitment has streamlined every step of the supply chain, ensuring a smooth and efficient experience for both producers and customers alike. With a team of 12 devoted colleagues, Dyrket continuously explores more effective solutions to enhance food distribution. Operating out of a 1600 sqm warehouse, the company is in a prime position to regularly implement cutting-edge technology, furthering its mission to revolutionize the way we think about food, from farm to table.

DogBuddy is Europe's leading and largest online community of dog lovers. We help to connect dog owners with local and reliable dog sitters, providing a comfortable and caring home from home for your pooch while you're away. DogBuddy has now grown to be Europe’s leading online dog sitting and home dog boarding community, offering one of the first “airbnb style services” for dogs in the UK, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden and Norway.

Pangea Accelerator is an investment and competence development platform that connects talented and impact-driven start-ups with international angel investors and African diaspora investors. We won the Nordic Impact Award 2018 at Copenhagen Fintech & partner with UN-habitat, Microsoft and many more.We provide three months milestone based accelerator program focusing on validation & scalability. We also provide investor training programs in Oslo and StockholmWe are based in Oslo and Nairobi :)

Our mission is to create a contraceptive technology that renders hormonal birth control obsolete. We are addressing the millions of women that are demanding non-hormonal products with fewer side-effects to manage their fertility. Today, nearly 60 years after the first oral contraceptive pill was sold, most prescription birth control methods are variations on the same synthetic hormones. In collaboration with the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, we have developed a technology that reinforces the natural barrier properties of cervical mucus. The principle of the technology is to use topically-applied biopolymers to make cervical mucus impenetrable to sperm cells throughout the menstrual cycle. Our approach enables a potentially groundbreaking product that protects within a minute and for extended periods without the systemic side-effects known from hormonal contraceptives. In 2019 we raised $1.8M for pre-clinical development. Today we are incubated at the BioInnovation Institute, conveniently located in central Copenhagen, with access to state-of-the-art labs.

Ment Markers is a healthtech and longevity platform that helps people understand their health, make better decisions, and take preventive action. Today, millions of people collect health data from wearables, apps, and medical tests, but most don't know how to turn that information into meaningful action. Ment Markers solves this by transforming complex health data into simple, personalized guidance. The platform combines a premium app, a personal AI health assistant, wearable data, blood tests, and healthcare partnerships to create a complete health profile. Users receive clear recommendations and actionable next steps based on their unique health data and goals. Our mission is to make preventive healthcare more accessible by helping people build healthier habits, improve their quality of life, and live longer, healthier lives.

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.

Cendo is a leading Danish AI voice company helping businesses in Denmark and Norway automate customer conversations with AI voice agents. We build voice AI for customer support, booking, and lead qualification, enabling companies to handle large call volumes with better availability and efficiency. Cendo was selected for the Innofounder programme by the Danish Innovation Fund.

Ode is building the world’s simplest solution for therapeutic music. We combine a smart speaker with a single-knob interface and AI-driven curation to reduce anxiety, agitation, and depression in people living with dementia. Founded after CEO Guttorm saw music’s impact through his grandmother’s dementia, Ode exists to remove the time, technology, and cost barriers that keep personalised music out of everyday care. Today, getting it right typically means specialist mapping, hours of playlist work, and daily device hassle, which caregivers and families can’t sustain. Ode makes it practical: curate in minutes, then play instantly with one knob—so the right music is there when it’s needed, without adding workload.

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

Silicon Valhalla is a Nordic tech intelligence hub that maps startups, founders, investors, and market signals across the Nordic region, with a particular emphasis on AI, SaaS, and frontier innovation. It exists to make the “Silicon Valhalla” ecosystem - Nordic tech’s answer to Silicon Valley - more visible, navigable, and investable for founders, operators, and capital. The platform combines a curated startup directory, an events calendar, and ecosystem insights into a single, neutral entry point for Nordic tech. Startups and scaleups get structured profiles highlighting what they do, where they are based, which sector they play in, and how to reach them, while investors and partners can quickly scan emerging companies across AI, climate, fintech, deep tech, and more. A continuously updated view of companies and activity aims to surface momentum early, so users can spot new categories, breakout teams, and upcoming fundraising stories before they hit the mainstream. Silicon Valhalla is designed to be independent and ecosystem-first rather than a job board or paywalled database. The service is currently free to use, making discovery accessible while opening the door for future premium offerings such as featured profiles, highlighted events, and deeper signal products for investors and corporates. In short, Silicon Valhalla is building the default map and narrative for Nordic tech: a living overview of the startups, talent, and ideas turning the region into one of the most dynamic innovation hubs in Europe.

Gennem platformene MineTilbud, Dayli og Publisher understøttes formidling af tilbud, inspiration og produkter på tværs af digitale kanaler og fysiske butikker. Løsningerne giver lokale butikker, kæder og brands, store som små, mulighed for at være synlige og relevante gennem hele kunderejsen, fra den første inspiration til det endelige køb. For forbrugerne skabes et enkelt, visuelt overblik over relevante tilbud, inspiration og aktuelle produkter i medieplatformene MineTilbud og Dayli. For virksomhederne giver Publisher platformen fuld kontrol over indhold, visning og timing – og ikke mindst lavere adgangsbarrierer og større gennemsigtighed i forhold til digital annoncering.

We are developing a system intended to replace fixed interfaces with software that adapts in real time. Current products still depend on predefined UI paths that fail when underlying models behave in new ways. This gap limits how far teams can push advanced automation. The platform is being designed as a runtime that can generate interface elements dynamically. It aims to let products reorganize themselves around model output and user context without manual UI wiring. The goal is to enable applications that won’t rely on static interaction surfaces once the system is fully realized.