RESPINOR is a privately-owned medical device company, founded in Oslo, 2015. We have developed an objective measure of breathing for critically ill patients within intensive care. The technology provides precise, continuous and real-time information of diaphragm function, our main breathing muscle, to increase the quality of care and reducing costs. RESPINOR’s technology is the winner of Horizon 2020 both in phase I and II. We are addressing an unmet medical need because every breath counts.

New drugs for treating diseases of Down syndrome. More than 1% of the global GDP is spent on nursing demented people, and the number requiring nursing will triple within 2050. The disease is progressive, leading to death. There is no current cure available, only symptomatic treatments. Individuals born with Down syndrome have a more than 10x risk of developing dementia as well as a host of other diseases including diabetes. Our drug target, DYRK1A is an enzyme found on chromosome 21, and is considered a key factor determining developmental and medical challenges faced by individuals with Down. The enzyme interacts with multiple biological mechanisms involved in Alzheimer’s and autoimmune diseases. Advanced drug designUsing advanced drug design technologies, we have designed a potent DYRK1A inhibitor drug, PST-900. A use and substance of matter patent have been applied for. The company is currently working on chemical Lead Optimisation with 8 full-time medicinal chemists contracted.Financing and milestonesThe Company raised NOK 5 million in 2015 and 8.8 MNOK in 2016/2017, matching non-dilutive research (BIA) and business grants (Innovation Norway). We demonstrated Proof of Principle in a model system for Alzheimer’s disease in 2Q2016. We have also demonstrated that our drug is capable of reversing diabetes in an animal model. Together with clinical and regulatory advisors, we have identified an important unmet need for a drug to treat newly diagnosed diabetes. We will use this indication to quickly progress to market and from there develop analogous drug molecules in Alzheimer’s disease, focused especially in Down syndrome. Funding soughtThe current funding round will raise 15+ MNOK to fund the progression to the final Development Candidate during 2018. Following this, further funding will be sought to perform toxicology/safety and Phase 1 clinical studies. A highly experienced teamThe team behind Pharmasum Therapeutics have broad, international pharmaceutical and biotechnology experience, and is supported by an excellent group of advisors. Anders Fugelli, Ph.D., CEO. John Sigurd Svendsen, Ph.D., CSO. Pauline Stewart-Long, Ph.D. Project Management. Henning Mork, CFO. Board of Directors: Andrew Parsons, PhD. Øystein Soug, MSc. Mark Treherne, PhD, John Sigurd Svendsen, PhD.

Norwegian Oil & Gas Company was founded in 2016. Nor Oil Tools provide innovative tools to both simplify operations and cut costs without changing your whole process. Allowing you to cut your pipes, reduce your costs and improve your HSE. The Nor Tubular Cutter (NTC 325-10S) is the first tool to be released by Noroiltools and was launched in late 2017.

Our mission is to create a thriving and evolving community of startups and creatives.DIGS is an innovation platform located in Trondheim, built on exchanges between members and partners who unite entrepreneurs, ‘makers’, and ‘doers’ from varied sectors. DIGS supports startup activities by providing an office environment and space for public activities, stimulating a culture of collaboration, sustainability, and mutual innovation through shared knowledge and experience. We participate in entrepreneurship networks across Norway, Europe, and internationally and aim to strengthen ties, stimulate the local community, and boost business development in and around the region of Trondheim. The idea of creating DIGS started with three enthusiastic people who wanted to make space for innovation in Trondheim. They started working on the idea in 2011 and acquired the space we are currently located in in the summer of 2013. The word DIGS means workplace and living space.

We design and create software solutions for an increasingly complex world! --- We are a growing team of thinkers, designers and developers who are passionate about technology and driven by the need for positive change in the world. --- Technologies: Python, GO, C, C++, Javascript, Java, Linux, Embedded, Docker, K8S, Cloud, ArangoDB, Neo4j, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, S3, Svelte, React, Node, Git, Gitlab CI, ML, kvm, nginx, lighttpd, Cryptography, ...

VENTURE FACTORYVenture Factory was founded in the fall of 2012 in Oslo, Norway with a straightforward goal: turning ideas into business. Our core competence is e-commerce, technology, and performance marketing. We use our skills to start new companies together with strategic partners, other entrepreneurs, or within our own organization. Since then we’ve involved ourselves in a range of ideas. Some have blossomed and turned into prosperous businesses, while others have been challenging and ultimately put to rest. We believe our understanding of technology and online marketing combined with a unique domain insight is the recipe for success and therefore we partner up with entrepreneurs or larger corporations to pursue new business opportunities. Our portfolio consists of a mix of businesses. Some are consultancies where external clients benefit from our competence and others are tech or e-commerce ventures that we have started alone or together with partners. Do you have a great idea you want to discuss with us? Please email us at contact@venturefactory.noVenture Factory offices are located centrally in Oslo and our development team is located in Odesa, Ukraine. We are always on the lookout for great talent both in Odessa and Oslo, so email us at contact@venturefactory.no if you think you are a good match.

A fast- growing company! foodora is a subsidiary of Delivery Hero, one of the world’s largest food-ordering networks, and the HQ is located in Berlin. foodora was established in Norway in 2015 and has grown rapidly since then. Today, we deliver food from over 3000 restaurants in Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger, and 19 other cities. In 2018 the platform launched extended areas around the cities where the restaurants deliver the food themselves, and in 2020 we introduced fast delivery from shops on our platform, and became Norway’s first provider within Q-commerce. In 2021 we also started a new grocery concept called foodora market.

BAD NORWEGIAN is a natural skincare brand from Norway, founded by a former NATO soldier, to offer men simple products and routines. We combine the values associated with Norway: integrity, honesty, and quality- with a rogue, confident undertone. Our skincare, beard and shave products are all cruelty-free and vegan, with an instant effect. BAD NORWEGIAN is a direct-to-consumer company with a strong foothold in the travel retail market in Norway. Selling at Heinemann, BEAST, Marionnaud and Cult Beauty.

We are a start-up in Stavanger, Norway. Our goal is to find your - and everyone else's - bike. Bike theft is a growing problem. It is a problem that has to be solved. To solve this problem, a great product is needed. The product needs to be a tracking device that actually works. And we think we're on to something. It's smart, safe, efficient and simple: It's BikeFinder.To get BikeFinder to the market we need exceptional people to develop our current prototype. That's why we're always looking for talent who would like to join in on the adventure! For more details about what BikeFinder is, head over to our website at bikefinder.no or contact us directly.

Settle Group (formerly Auka) is a Norwegian fintech company enabling banks to launch their own mobile payments service to fight the competition from third-party providers, startups and other banks. In 2016 we were awarded the fastest-growing fintech company in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) by Deloitte. Settle Group has built a white-label financial services platform featuring real-time payments, complex clearing and settlements, card processing and more. Auka is the first regulated financial services company to run fully in the cloud. We first launched our technology to the Norwegian market in 2014 under the brand mCASH. In 2015 we sold the mCASH-operation to SpareBank 1 focusing on global sales of our white-label financial services platform. We’re always on the lookout for skilled personnel sharing our vision to become the backbone of modern banking.

CodePole is a software development company based in Stockholm and Warsaw. With a shared passion for IT, we focus on providing our clients with top-tier engineers, so that they can accomplish their targets whilst enjoying a high-quality and efficient development process. We help our clients to set up their very own nearshore development center with engineers 100% dedicated to their specific project. The teams are hired by us and work from our offices, but are considered as employees of our clients. In other words, a turn-key solution for expanding your IT-team.

Trailhub er Danmarks førende Call Tracking-platform, der er skræddersyet til online marketing bureauer og specialister. Ved at sammenkæde virksomhedernes markedsføringskampagner med deres indgående opkald hjælper vi nogle af Danmarks dygtigste markedsføringsspecialister med at skabe bedre resultater og ultimativt få mere ud af deres markedsføringsbudget.

Connecting Grounds is a food start-up based in Aarhus that up-cycles spent coffee grounds (a.k.a. coffee waste) into a food ingredient for B2B snack and confectionary companies and restaurants. Why do we do it? 1. Environment Spent coffee grounds are often treated as waste. Think about how many cups of coffee you or the people around you drink per day. All the coffee waste from drinking coffee adds to the Greenhouse Gas Emissions. 2. Nutritional Value When we brew our cup of coffee, we are only taking advantage of 1% of coffee's nutrients. 99% of these nutrients stay in the spent coffee grounds. These nutrients include caffeine, dietary fibre, proteins and valuable minerals. What we do is change the narrative behind hidden food waste by starting with coffee by-products. By up-cycling such a product, we evert emissions, take advantage of our resources and raise awareness on the importance of up-cycling. Rethinking food is what we do, and we will not stop with coffee by-products. We will continue to search for resources/ingredients that have the potential of being reintroduced in the food stream, again.

På(fyll) is a home refill service that delivers everyday home goods in containers you can use again and again. It was founded by Orkla Home and Personal Care, Æra and Bakken & Bæck. We enable the guilt-free consumption of any home and personal care product, free from single-use plastics – a problem that today dumps at least 1 garbage truck’s worth of plastic waste into the ocean every minute of every day. We worked with award winning international design studio Form Us With Love to design beautiful, refillable containers that can be re-used over and over again for years to come. We deliver and pick up these containers right at your doorstep to make shopping more convenient, affordable and sustainable. Today we are live across Norway, selling known and beloved brands like home cleaning brands like Jif, Zalo, Omo and Klar. We will soon expand to more of the brands and products you love. Our vision is to make zero-waste living easy and accessible for every individual in the Nordics within the next five years. Our mission is to bring you whatever you need in packaging as valuable as what's inside.

Bobu is a subscription based children's book club delivering personalized boxes with curated books. Our goal is to make children's books and good reading experiences more accessible, and will remove the hassle of choosing between the many thousands of titles across unmanageable age groups and businesses. Furthermore we want to help promote the joy of reading, and have a vision to create happy and imaginative children who, through books, get a language and an opportunity to put their feelings into words.