The average consumer is believed to buy 60% more pieces of clothing than they did 15 years ago. The more we buy, the less we're wearing our clothes, leading to increased fashion waste. reWear it is a mobile app for fashion rental and sharing. Through our platform, women who love fashion and want to reduce consumption can rent clothes from peers and brands, and list their wardrobes to lend, swap and resell.

We back bold entrepreneurs in their earliest stages and help shape the foundation of their aspirations. We classify investments into three categories; BUILD, SCALE, and FOMO. Building cases are companies that are so early that the company might not even be registered with the authorities yet. It’s merely an idea that we need to shape together, right from the beginning. Here we put in lots of hours and enough capital to build a minimum viable product and test the product on the market. If successful, we move to a scale-up phase investing more money and/or raise capital from external investors. SCALE cases are more developed. The first team is there, and they are close to a product-market fit. We help build the foundation with capital, advisory and agreed-upon milestones within, e.g., legal work, growth hacking, or strategy. Finally, yes, we do also invest in FOMO cases with only capital…

Caleta is an independent research and development company founded in 2017. We conduct research and promote concrete solutions for more inclusive and responsible finance at the global level. Our mission is to empower people by enabling access to financial services. We collaborate with all the stakeholders of the cross-border payments industry to reach this goal, as part of the global efforts towards reaching the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Nordic-China Startup Forum is a non-profit NGO registered in Sweden that arranges recurring events in local startup communities alongside corporate and government partners. NCSF is operated by students and young professionals from the Nordics and China and has chapters in ten cities: Stockholm, Uppsala, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Shenzhen-HK, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing.

The Why is a no-profit organisation that initiates, produces and distributes documentaries on pressing social and environmental issues. It promotes human rights, democracy, gender equality and justice by providing the world with thought-provoking and investigative documentary films. It fights for freedom of media and free access to realible information for all and collaborates with public broadcasters, NGOs and educational institutions across all continents. The Why contributes to the UN SDGs by educating for sustainability and supporting free media.

Health Capacity is a start-up located in Helsingborg, Sweden. We are the company behind the service, POOW The Food Hero. The Problem: 50% of all children between the ages 2-5 will experience problems with foods during their childhood. Cirka 25% of these children will get the diagnose selective eating disorder. This results in a stressful mealtime situation for the whole family all the way from cooking the food to eating it. Another problem related to this is the pressure and demand on parents to cook healthy and variated food for their children. This is a very energy and time-demanding process and if it isn't taken seriously it can potentially affect the health of the whole family for a considerable future. The Solution: POOW The Food Hero is an application for smartphones and tablets, the application is via gamification helping children to eat more and better food while the children at the same time is learning about nutrition. The application is also providing families with healthy and easy-to-cook recipes that will activate the whole family. The result is a peaceful and interactive mealtime situation for all family members as the children will eat the food since they are aware of what they eat. The parents can also relax knowing that the food on the table is healthy and nutritious both for them and their children. We also want to mention that POOW is very effective for children with ADHD and autism who are struggling with a selective eating disorder.

Beetroot Academy is a Swedish IT school that provides intensive practical education to train valuable skills for the 21st century. Today we operate 16 academies in Ukraine and have educated over 2400 people as per 2019. Now we are expanding outside of Ukraine with the first location being Sweden in 2020.

Ampersand Associates is an Edtech and professional services start-up, that exists to help our clients master innovation and transformation. We offer education, digital learning products and consulting to our clients, which are typically top performers within their fields, or open course providers to the public. To provide the necessary mastery of transformation, we have have specialised in three interconnected areas: Innovation Management, Design & Development, and Change & Facilitation. At the centre of this effort, is our constantly evolving digital learning products, including interactive 3D/2D interactive films, XR experiences, games, podcasts and many other products - always with a sharp eye on digital pedagogy and engaging storytelling.

TAG Sensors utvikler og produserer kombinerte NFC-/RFID-tags for kontinuerlig overvåkning av kjølekjede for varer fra produsent til sluttbruker. Gjennom vår løsning får kundene kontroll på at temperaturfølsomme varer som fisk, frossen mat og farmasiprodukter har vært innenfor temperaturgrensene fra produksjon til forbruk.

DCR Solutions is revolutionizing the Business Process Management/Modeling market with a scientifically founded ground-breaking new approach to process digitalization and process mining that provides efficiencies, quality and guarantees compliance. How? By providing a cloud-based SaaS solution for heavily regulated fields such as the public sector, healthcare, and finance. By fully digitizing and continuously improving complex real-life processes. Our solution is code-free, end-user-friendly, and boosts the value of existing systems. Unlike the risk, cost, and realization time that normally comes with new technology.

We create spaces for neighbours to collaborate and thrive. The value of a good neighbour is immense but people feel awkward making these connections. Boappa is a communication platform for housing cooperatives and home-owners associations that encourage neighbours to collaboration, the sharing economy and a positive community.

Creator Makerspace is an open prototyping space. We offer offices, meeting rooms, as well as all kinds of equipments and workshops: wood, metal, electronic, laser cutter, scanners, 3D printers, and a variety of other tools. Today more than 650 specialists are connected to Creator Makerspace, just after three years in business. We are located at Tvedtsenteret in the heart of Forus, Stavanger. Our main goal is to help individuals and companies get their ideas off the paper!

Creative Breaks fires up creativity and courage within the workplace.  We help people to flourish by using the best creative tools and methods available.

nLink was founded in 2012 with the purpose of revolutionising the construction industry. We are an enthusiastic and innovative group including cybernetics, programmers, business developers and commercial heads. We are growing rapidly and need more driven people to reach the goal of revolutionising the construction industry.

Transparently NorwegianWe carefully select guaranteed Norwegian products, ship them via our own "digital highway of trust" to ourselves (in China) and sell them directly to end-users in the world (starting with China) through our own e-Commerce platform (and soon in our own retail stores). We are in business, we control the whole value chain, we do it differently and our concept can't be copied by big American tech or food companies. We also represent business opportunities for other companies.  Xuechun Zhang. Educated in economics and finance, 13 years’ employment at China Construction Bank. Founded several companies in China and operated them for six years before selling them and moving to Norway in 2011. Worked as yoga instructor while studying at BI Norwegian Business School Stavanger. For the past four years has developed large networks in Shanghai focused on the seafood industry as well as media, logistics, distribution, customs, banking and restaurants. Xuechun (or Tara amongst friends) runs our operation in China.Espen Strand Pedersen. Idea maker and concept developer of several retail stores, photography studios and other projects. Educated in photography and worked as professional photographer for more than 20 years. Experience in planning, start-up and daily operations of retail and studio businesses. In 1997 started Stavanger's first artisanal coffee shop, which remains in operation. Espen is now the CEO of Norway in a Box. Espen Strand Henriksen. Concept developer who likes to set things in motion, build networks, collaborate and see the world from multiple perspectives. Educated at BI Norwegian Business School and in the Royal Norwegian Navy. Twenty years’ experience in marketing, advertising, media, sales, management and product and concept development in Oslo and Stavanger, 14 of them working for the world’s first digital cinema company (CAPA), and was also a key person in developing the unique and award winning mobility concept (HjemJobbHjem/HomeWorkHome). Espen is in charge of stakeholders at Norway in a Box.