Norway startup ecosystem
Norway's startup ecosystem leverages the country's expertise in energy, maritime, and aquaculture to build globally relevant cleantech and ocean-tech ventures. Oslo's growing tech community benefits from sovereign wealth fund-adjacent capital, strong public-sector digital infrastructure, and a culture of sustainability that aligns with global investment trends. The directory currently lists 83 organisations across 10 cities.
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Aize
Aize is an Oslo-based industrial software company founded in 2020 as a spin-off from the Aker Group, drawing on 30 years of industrial software heritage. Its platform creates digital twins of heavy assets — integrating 2D, 3D and 4D data — for engineering, operations, maintenance and project execution in the energy and infrastructure sectors. Aize has a strategic partnership with Aker BP to provide a single source of truth for offshore assets and is deployed on some of Norway's largest oil and gas developments. The company operates globally with around 197 employees across six continents.
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Aksel Lund Svindal
Retired Norwegian Olympic and World champion alpine ski racer who has built a second career as an entrepreneur and investor backing sport, technology, and consumer ventures. He speaks on performance, resilience, and building businesses, and is a confirmed speaker at the Techpoint Conference 2026 in Kristiansand.
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Anders Opedal
Anders Opedal is President and CEO of Equinor, Norway's state-controlled energy company with operations in over 30 countries and one of the world's largest offshore oil and gas producers. He assumed the CEO role in November 2020, overseeing Equinor's strategy to expand into offshore wind, solar, and hydrogen alongside its legacy hydrocarbon business. Equinor is the main partner of the Scale-Ups venue at ONS 2026, supporting energy startups and scale-ups at the Stavanger event.
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Angela Duckworth
American psychologist, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and bestselling author of 'Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance'. She co-founded the non-profit Character Lab and is a leading researcher on grit and self-control, and is a confirmed main-stage speaker at the Oslo Business Forum 2026.
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Annie Atkins
Welsh graphic designer specialising in film and renowned for creating the props and graphic design for movies such as Wes Anderson's 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'. Author of 'Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps', she is a confirmed speaker at the Y Oslo 2026 conference.
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Ardoq
Ardoq is an Oslo-based cloud-native Enterprise Architecture SaaS platform founded in 2013. It helps large organisations map, analyse and manage their technology portfolios, enabling data-driven digital transformation decisions. Clients include Carlsberg, Condé Nast and the US Federal Communications Commission. The company raised $125 million in a Series D round led by EQT Growth in March 2022, bringing total funding to $159 million at a $300 million valuation. In 2025 it launched an AI governance module to help enterprises oversee AI adoption risk, and appointed a new Chief Revenue Officer to accelerate North American expansion.
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Arild Kristensen
Arild Kristensen holds dual senior roles as COO of Norway Health Tech and Director of Health at Validé, placing him at the center of health innovation facilitation and ecosystem management in Norway. He is a key moderator and organizer for the Healthtech Festival series, the flagship event connecting healthcare providers, technology companies, and decision-makers across the Norwegian health sector. His work spans health cluster strategy, innovation facilitation, and bridging the gap between public healthcare institutions and private technology companies.
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Arne Kittler
German product leadership expert, co-founder of Hey Clarity, and curator of the Product at Heart conference, with a long career building and coaching product teams. A well-known figure in the European product management community, he is a confirmed speaker at the Y Oslo 2026 conference.
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Attensi
Attensi is an Oslo-headquartered gamified training platform used by organizations in more than 150 countries to train employees on skills such as sales performance, onboarding, leadership development, and compliance. Its product suite includes Attensi AI and Attensi RealTalk for conversational practice, alongside tools like Attensi Impact, Fast, Engage, Manager, Insights, and Creator, serving customers including Starbucks, London Business School, Hiscox, and Circle K. Co-founded and led by CEO Trond Aas, the company also has offices in London, Boston, Cologne, and Gothenburg.
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AutoStore
AutoStore is a Norwegian robotics and warehouse automation company that invented the cube storage system, a high-density automated storage and retrieval technology used by major retailers, logistics providers, and manufacturers worldwide. The system uses robots moving on a grid to retrieve bins from a densely packed cube, dramatically increasing warehouse storage capacity while reducing the physical footprint required. AutoStore went public on the Oslo Stock Exchange in 2021 and serves over 1,250 installations across 50+ countries. The company is one of Norway's most valuable technology exports and a global leader in warehouse robotics innovation.
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Bergen Tech Fest 2026
Western Norway's annual technology conference in Bergen with a strong ocean-tech and energy-tech focus reflecting the region's maritime and energy industry base. Features startup pitches, hackathons, and corporate-innovation tracks. 1,000+ attendees. Tickets from NOK 500.
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boost.ai
boost.ai is an enterprise conversational AI platform founded in 2016, headquartered in Sandnes with offices in Oslo, Copenhagen, London and Los Angeles. The company's virtual agents consistently achieve resolution rates above 90%, automating thousands of customer interactions daily for banks, telcos and insurers across the Nordics and beyond. Backed by Nordic Capital private equity, boost.ai is recognised as a Leader in Gartner's 2025 Magic Quadrant for Conversational AI Platforms. Its upgraded voice offering, launched in late 2025, extends the platform into next-generation enterprise voice automation.
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CHOOOSE
CHOOOSE is a Norwegian climate-technology company that builds a software platform for the aviation and freight industries to plan, procure, manage and report on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) programs at scale. The platform is built in collaboration with industry partners and aims to give companies an end-to-end system for scaling lower-carbon fuel initiatives.
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Christina Wodtke
American author, lecturer at Stanford University, and expert on goal-setting and high-performing teams, best known for her book 'Radical Focus' on objectives and key results (OKRs). A veteran product and design leader, she is a confirmed speaker at the Y Oslo 2026 conference.
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Cloudberry Ventures
Cloudberry Ventures is a Nordic venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology and deep tech startups across the Scandinavian region, with a focus on backing founders building companies in software, hardware, and emerging technologies. The firm has a particular focus on the Norwegian and broader Nordic startup ecosystems and maintains an investment team managing funds for institutional and corporate limited partners. Cloudberry Ventures participates in the NORDEEP Nordic Deep Tech Business Summit as an investor.
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Cognite
Cognite is an industrial software company focused on turning fragmented operational data into usable, contextualized infrastructure for heavy industry. Its flagship platform, Cognite Data Fusion, connects information from sensors, historians, engineering systems, and industrial applications so operators can build a unified view of assets such as factories, power systems, and offshore installations. That is important because many large industrial businesses still run on disconnected legacy systems that make analytics, automation, and AI deployment slow and expensive. Cognite's value is not simply storing more data in the cloud, but making industrial data understandable enough to support digital twins, predictive maintenance, operational optimization, and safer decision-making. In the European ecosystem, Cognite represents the software layer of industrial modernization, sitting close to sectors like energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure rather than office-centric SaaS. It is therefore a strong complement to climate and industrial hardware companies already in the directory. For founders and investors, Cognite is a useful example of how enterprise software can scale by solving deep system-integration problems in high-stakes physical industries.
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Dune
Dune (formerly Dune Analytics) is an Oslo-founded open blockchain data analytics platform that makes on-chain data from over 60 networks queryable, shareable and collaborative. Founded in 2018 by Fredrik Haga and Mats Olsen — both former Schibsted engineers — the platform is widely used by DeFi protocols, traders and institutional researchers to build and remix on-chain dashboards. Dune raised $69.4 million in a Series B led by Coatue in February 2022, reaching a $1 billion unicorn valuation. As of early 2026, the company employs 143 people.
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Ebi Atawodi
Product leader and Director of Product at Google working on YouTube, with prior senior product roles including at Netflix and Uber. A respected voice on product management, leadership, and building for global users, she is a confirmed speaker at the Y Oslo 2026 conference.
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Eelume
Eelume is a Trondheim-based deep-tech company spun off from NTNU and SINTEF that develops snake-like autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for subsea inspection, maintenance and repair. Its flexible, modular robots can be permanently stationed at seabed docking facilities at depths up to 500 metres, performing tasks without surface support vessels. In July 2025 the company launched its M-Series AUVs for deep-sea operations, and in September 2025 Equinor acquired the Eelume S vehicle following successful field demonstrations. Eelume also formed a strategic partnership with Maritime Robotics in October 2025 to advance ocean exploration.
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Erlend Solem
Erlend Solem is the CEO (Daglig Leder) of Trondheim Tech Port, the organization that positions Trondheim as Norway's technology capital. He leads a cluster of over 100 member companies and institutions spanning ocean technology, healthcare, energy, and digitalization, and is an active speaker and moderator at Trondheim Tech Port innovation events. Solem represents the organization's mission to increase Norway's innovation power through cross-sector collaboration between industry, academia, and the public sector.
