An AI-powered platform to identify and connect organizations to life science opinion leaders. This kind of service has been used by Investment Firms and Management Consultancies on a daily basis for over a decade, but unless you’re a consultant or have worked at an investment firm you are probably unfamiliar with expert consultations, and the enormous value it brings. Our vision is to take the somewhat opaque ‘Expert Network’-service to a broader market, specifically the life science industry, to realize massive value and make knowledge extraction by expert consultations a no-brainer as part of a growth strategy.

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!

✨AINO - A conversational AI tool for victims of domestic violence✨ To support our mission towards equality, We Encourage builds a conversational Artificial Intelligence tool AINO for providing psycho-social support and guidance to women victims of intimate partner violence, gender-based violence, and promoting sexual and reproductive health. Violence against women – particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence – is a major public health problem and a violation of women’s human rights. Global estimates published by WHO indicate that about 1 in 3 (35%) of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. The AI tool is expected to act as a reliable source of information for women on their rights and where to seek different levels of support. The tool will be providing step by step recommendations to victims and act as a helping friend. This intervention is expected to address a chronic development issue and to have a cross-cutting impact on SDG 3 (ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages) and SDG 5 ( Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls). Furthermore, the AI tool could also help in building a network for anonymous peer to peer support networks among users who are experiencing similar incidents. The tool is build in collaboration with violence survivors, professionals, and collaborating NGOs. ✨We Encourage CSR - YOUR PARTNER IN BUILDING THE BEST SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM ✨ Half of a company’s reputation is based on the public’s feelings about what the company is doing to support the community. Therefore, having a well-established CSR program is essential for businesses that want to improve their branding to stakeholders and customers. We Encourage is here to help you build the best CSR program.

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.

ProgressData.io helps companies measure their paygap, diversity and get practical research based improvement suggestions.  Companies wanting to measure their paygap, diversity often find that it is more expensive and time consuming than anticipated. Collection of relevant data can take weeks depending on the size of the company. Companies rarely have in-house staff with experience in measuring diversity, so even if the data is available it can be difficult to analyse and apply methodology based in research. Progressdata provides a dashboard and a reports, measuring improvement over time.

We believe in making a positive impact. We believe in technology as the key driver to solve the challenges in the ocean. We believe in the untapped potential of our oceans. We believe in the untapped talent of the world. We are Katapult Ocean and we help build and scale profitable businesses with a positive impact on the ocean.

In 2029 Norrøna will be 100 years old. By then, the outdoor industry will have changed completely. Hopefully, the outdoors have not.Norrøna Q is newly established spin-off from Norrøna with a team of skilled and ambitious technologists and designers. We are creating innovative and sustainable change through new customer journeys and business models for the Norrøna Group and the future outdoor industry.  We're a company of passionate, fun-loving, outdoorsy people with an international flavor covering five different nationalities so far. Our team's competencies cover business development, software architecture and development, analytics and big data and industrial design, and we're always open for a coffee to talk to more passionate and skilled people to join our team.

SunSense UV trackers are designed with different wearing/mounting solutions that provides excellent ergonomics and great flexibility for how it is carried on the body or attached to clothing and sports gear. Various activities can lead to uneven sun exposure of the body and the sensor can therefore be attached where you are most vulnerable. Advanced algorithms mimic the human skin’s response curve to varying UV intensity for state of the art accuracy. SunSense technology puts you in control of your sun exposure in a reliable and easy way It measures how much sun exposure you’re getting, regardless of the season, cloud cover, altitude, ozone holes, time or geographic location, and will not be tricked by a cooling breeze or reflections from the snow or water. Intelligent power saving features minimise power consumption, shuts the device off automatically after use, and allows it to hibernate till next summer with virtually no battery drain. A simple tap to the casing will wake it up again.

Impact Mapper is an online software tool for donors and nonprofit organizations to keep all their social change data, surveys and stories in one place. We make data analysis and visualization efficient so you can more clearly communicate your impact and invest your time and money in what counts: seeding social transformation around the world.

Funzi is an award-winning mobile learning service on a mission to give everyone access to quality learning.   Funzi is designed mobile-first and works on all connected devices, even lower-end feature phones. Funzi has had over 6 million all-time learners.   Funzi has won many prizes since 2014 including the GESS Award for Best Free ICT / App Product in 2017.

Fra fiber til ferdig vare.VARP & VEFT er en moderne ullvarebedrift tuftet på tradisjonsrikt håndverk og nøye utvalgte materialer. Vi kjøper råull fra dyktige sauebønder og jobber tett på råvaren fra valg av fiber til ferdig produkt.Norge har 12 nasjonale saueraser, 6 av dem er truet og flere regnes som sårbare. Mangfoldet disse rasene utgjør gir seg utslag i ulike ullkvaliteter. Dette er et mangfold som hittil har vært lite utnyttet. Industrien krever ensartet og hvit ull i store kvanta, mens gamle raser gjerne har todelt fell med bunnull og dekkhår i ulike lengder og i naturlige fargenyanser. Tilgangen på ull fra bevaringsverdige saueraser er begrenset. VARP & VEFT er en norsk tekstilbedrift, etablert i 2013. Vi tilvirker ulltekstiler basert på spesialplukket ull fra gamle norske og bevaringsverdige saueraser. Tekstilene designes og tilvirkes i Norge ved bruk av tradisjonelt håndverk og moderne produksjonsteknikker under merkevarenavnet Norway Cloth™. Vår første kolleksjon, denne basert på Grå Trøndersau, lanseres på utstillingen 100% Norway under London Design Festival 19-27 september 2015.Som første naturfiber i verden er norsk ull er miljøsertifisert med Svanemerket og er dermed dokumentert en av verdens mest miljøvennlige tekstilfibre. Dette er en "cradle to cradle" sertifisering som setter norsk ull i særstilling internasjonalt, i tillegg til egenskaper som overlegen glans, spenst og slitestyrke. Ullfiberen isolerer og genererer varme når den blir våt. Den er antibakteriell, vann- og flekkavvisende, regulerer luftfuktigheten og bidrar til et sunt inneklima. I motsetning til bomull og syntetfibre er ull naturlig flammehemmende uten tilsetning av kjemikalier.Det er stor samfunnsøkonomisk verdi i å bevare våre gamle raser sett ift mangfold i landbruket og styrking av norsk tekstilindustri. Per i dag blir mye god ull hevet sammen med den dårlige og oppnår derfor lave priser når den så selges på det globale råvaremarkedet.

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.

Leapcraft orchestrates healthy and efficient buildings. We work with international clients from the public and private sector to deliver actionable insights into the climate in and around their buildings to help them optimize for energy savings and better productivity. We are thought leaders in IoT-sensors and data infrastructure for environmental monitoring.

NØIE is set out to help people. Our mission is to improve the quality of life for each individual with skin issues. We do so with a unique feedback-driven data model that is able to match individuals with a personalised and scientifically-backed solution customised on their skin’s needs. NØIE is backed by top investors, such as LEO Pharma, PreSeed Ventures, Seed Capital, Inventure, Talis Capital, Thomas Ryge Mikkelsen, and other fantastic business angels.

Robin ägs av Eniro, Nordens största söktjänst, och är en helt ny "team as a service"-plattform. Vi hjälper även företagare över hela Norden att växa sina affärer med digitala marknadsföringstjänster och smarta verktyg! Vi är på en spännande tillväxtresa och söker nu riktigt duktiga och motiverade människor för att bygga Nordens nästa supertjänst!