Shifter is an independent news site about Norwegian tech startups in the new economy. We cover big and small events in the startup industry while reporting on innovation in bigger companies. We focus on ideas, challenges, money, power, people and good stories from everywhere.

Moder is the future of resort and hotel management, custom-built for experience-driven hospitality. Our platform lets hospitality businesses run rooms, activities, rentals, dining, and experiences in one place. No more juggling ten systems while whispering “why me” into a coffee mug. Built in Finland and developed hand in hand with pioneering resorts across the Nordics, Moder is growing fast. Our customers serve both leisure and business travelers, and we work closely with them to understand what actually moves the industry forward. Hint: less admin, more hospitality. We’re a focused, remote-first early scaleup with big ambitions and zero unnecessary meetings. If you want to build meaningful tech for an industry that’s finally getting the tools it deserves and appreciate the occasional terrible hospitality pun, you’ll fit right in.

All your contracts - from all departments - in one place. Control your contracts with confidence & ease Everything you need to manage, track, and finalise contracts — all in one clear, actionable space. As your budgets get squeezed even tighter, every decision counts! Having a clear overview of your contracts means seeing all available opportunities at the right time—ASAP!

About Game Analytics GameAnalytics is a leading analytics tool for anyone building a mobile game. Our platform helps everyone in the industry, from indie developers, to growing games studios, to global publishers. Our network includes more than 100k games, which are played by north of 2 billion people each month. That’s more than ⅓ of the world’s mobile gamers. What’s our mission? To help game developers make the right decisions based on data. And by joining our team, you’ll be working on new and innovative products to help tens of thousands of people in the industry do just that.

HEKA VR is a medical software platform that enables Avatar-Therapy, a form of psychotherapy, to be conducted in a Virtual Reality or in a Telehealth setting. VR-based Avatar Therapy combines psychology and VR technology to provide transformative interventions for mental health disorders. Grounded in research, this therapy utilises virtual reality and avatars to create immersive experiences. Through the concept of embodiment, individuals psychologically connect with their avatars, leading to significant changes in thoughts and behaviours. In schizophrenia, Avatar Therapy helps patients gain control over auditory hallucinations, but Avatar Therapy holds promise for improving mental health outcomes among patients with Eating Disorders, PTSD, Bipolar disorder, Borderline disorder, Major Depressive Disorder and many more. Heka VR was born through a public-private partnership and research project called The Challenge Trial - initiated in 2019, funded by the Danish Innovation Fund and with the final research results published in The Lancet Psychiatry in July 2025. The results show that VR based Avatar-Therapy is a an effective new treatment method for 7/10 patients with treatment resistant Schizophrenia. Currently Heka VR is involved in 10+ clinical trials and studies around the world, from North America to APAC. Our mission is to scale Avatar-Therapy globally and bring clinically proven treatment methods to the patients that need it the most! Apart from the Danish Innovation Fund, we are funded by Bio Innovation Institute, EIT Health and Danish Life Science Cluster - Erhvervsfyrtårn. As a company we're a small multinational team with a can-do attitude and a big passion for what we do! We push ourselves to be better and do better, celebrate our wins and learn from our mistakes - for each other, our partners and our patients. Learn more about us and our platform, visit our Linkedin page (website is under re-construction)! https://www.linkedin.com/company/hekavr

VXA is an AI driven marketing tech startup in stealth mode. Join Us as an AI Engineer – Specializing in Visual/Generative AI We’re a Stockholm-based startup on a mission to change how marketing and AI work together. We’re building a next-generation creative tool powered by generative AI. We believe that AI is unlocking entirely new ways to express ideas—and we’re just getting started. Let’s build the future of marketing together. Ready to join?

Meela personalizes mental health care for women by matching them to their best fit therapist. Based on research, Meela has developed the world's most comprehensive matching algorithm taking into account clinical metrics and patient and therapist data. Meela is a platform with over 250 licensed psychologists and psychotherapists, and over 170 individuals in therapy through us. One of our most important KPIs for us is therapy drop-out, because today 50% of people starting therapy drop out before session 3, mainly because of a poor therapist-patient match. Meela's drop-out rate, thanks to our matching technique, is today as low as 2.2%. Meaning, people not only start therapy but the finish is also. Meaning, they get help for their mental illnesses. Meela is a consumer-facing product, and we want to get away from the feeling of "sickness" of therapy. Therapy is not about being sick, it's a tool for personal development: both for healing and thriving. Meela is a female-founded company, co-founded by the British Tiffany Boswell and the Swedish-Greek-Finnish Natali Suo. Meela is an intersection between tech, psychology and business. We have been granted innovation grants and taken in investment from some heavy weighters within the European health tech scene, with the vision to be the biggest player within female mental health care.

IGDB stands for Internet Game Database and consists of 2 primary parts, an online platform consisting of a website and 3 mobile apps that provide game consumers with structured and up to date information about games and the gaming world. The second part is our API that provides everything from small hobby projects all the way up to some of the largest companies in the gaming industry with the data they need to realize their projects and ambitions.

Norkon is a fast-growing Norwegian technology company specializing in products for the media industry. With our financial market solution Pulse, award-winning gamification platform Fantasy Funds, and our own AI-powered user personalization tool Beakon, we drive user engagement for our customers globally, including Roularta (BE), The Telegraph (UK), Dagens Næringsliv (NOR), Dagbladet Børsen (DK), Handelsblatt (DE) and many more - catering to millions of users every day. Since our inception, we have developed a deep understanding of real-time data and user attraction, engagement, and retention.

Nosto was born out of one idea: that every shopping experience can, and should, be personal. With the help of powerful machine learning and a team of commerce experts around the world, we use shopper behavioral data to create digital commerce experiences that create customers for life. Today, Nosto is the fastest growing Commerce Experience platform in the world. We’re expanding at an amazing rate and looking for exceptional people to join our journey.

Punch is a fintech startup developing next-generation payment infrastructure. At Punch, we are fueled by the fundamental belief that increased trust and financial freedom create opportunities and financial inclusion that liberates people to live life to its fullest. By bridging the gap between traditional banking and decentralized finance, we bring the next generation of decentralized payment infrastructure based on blockchain payment rails and distributed ledger technology, to the masses. Allowing money to move effortlessly between people, companies, and nations, all over the world, in any way they choose, without the boundaries of intermediaries and legacy technology. All while gaining transparency, traceability, and accountability. And this, we believe, will empower people and entrepreneurs to join and thrive in the global economy and contribute to democratizing society, reducing poverty, and creating a sustainable global economy. Our fintech platform brings together everything needed for companies to issue Central Bank Digital Currency along with the infrastructure and building blocks to design and implement blockchain-powered payments in any solution. The platform can power anything from SaaS and Marketplace payments to CPQ and CRM-powered payments, automated micropayments, decentralized escrow payments, and everything in between. All transactions are made via our blockchain payment rails which make them instant, and cross-border payments are made directly between sender-receiver without any routing, hence reducing time, cost, and risk.

We create a future where the entire water infrastructure can be monitored in real-time using a network of distributed wireless sensors. Dryp is a range of solutions that enable proactive and holistic decision-making for water infrastructure. Dryp builds data bridges across both physical and adminstrative boarders. We are uniquely co-owned by a major danish utility - along with private companies and investors. We are spearheading a data, iot and machine-learning revolution.

Oschlo er senior produktledere med skaleringserfaring og en passion for kunstig intelligens, effektivisering og gode produkter. I Oschlo bruker vi kunstig intelligens til å løse konkrete problemer og skape varig effekt. Vi forstår samspillet mellom forretning, mennesker og teknologi, og hjelper deg med produktledelse og skalering når det betyr mest. Vi har bygget startups og scaleups, og ledet teams og endringsreiser i større organisasjoner. Vi jobber tett på og tar ansvar for fremdrift sammen med deg og ditt team.

We're empowering educators with total control in their hands and we’re helping the world to teach. We do this by revolutionising how schools and nurseries find the best educators. We do this by empowering educators with full-career control. And we do this because we must. Because by 2030, up to 69 million classrooms and nurseries won’t have a teacher. But with a push of a button, supply educators can find, choose, and book every job that fits them. With a push of a button, schools and nurseries can instantly and easily find educators. With a push of a button, we simplify, modernise, and improve education for everyone everywhere. And with a push of a button, we can help those 69 million classrooms and nurseries learn another day. In 2015, Kristoffer and Gustav, our Head of Product and CEO co-founded Humly in Gothenburg, Sweden. But before the C-Suite, they were college students and supply teachers, dealing with the same problems many face with agencies: the last-minute work calls, the calls that don’t come, the lack of power or say in your career, and so much more. So they built a home where educators are as important as the job itself. They built Humly, so educators can have the power to choose when, where, and how much they work – simply and easily, without hassle. They built Humly so every eligible educator can find the classroom and nursery that’s right for them.

Digital Partners er et digitalt hus med kompetencer inden for strategi, udvikling, indhold og eksekvering. Som trusted partner gør vi os hver dag umage for at vise, hvordan effektive digitale løsninger, et solidt kendskab til digital markedsføring og stærke kreative kræfter giver virksomheder et forspring, når de skal nå deres kunder.