Oslo, Norway · Startup 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.
Oslo, Norway · Person 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.
Oslo, Norway · Person 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.
Oslo, Norway · Startup 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.
Oslo, Norway · Person 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.
Oslo, Norway · Person 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.
Oslo, Norway · Person 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.
Oslo, Norway · Venture Capital 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.
Oslo, Norway · Startup 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.
Oslo, Norway · Startup 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.
Oslo, Norway · Person 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.
Oslo, Norway · Startup Gelato is an Oslo-founded print-on-demand and production platform that connects e-commerce sellers, creators, and enterprises with a global network of over 130 print partners across 32 countries. The platform enables businesses to sell custom-printed products like t-shirts, wall art, mugs, and photo books that are produced locally near the end customer, reducing shipping times, costs, and carbon emissions. Gelato has raised over $200 million and serves millions of creators through integrations with Shopify, Etsy, and other e-commerce platforms. The company is a leading example of how distributed manufacturing networks can be orchestrated through software to create more sustainable and efficient supply chains.
Oslo, Norway · Startup Hyke is a Norwegian zero-emission electric ferry startup founded in 2018 by designer and entrepreneur Bård Eker as a spin-out from Eker Group. Its lightweight, fully electric ferries use up to 88% less energy than diesel equivalents and are designed for autonomous operation in urban and inland waterways. The F-15 shuttle completed a 14-month public transport trial in Fredrikstad carrying over 41,000 passengers between April 2024 and mid-2025. Hyke supplied river shuttles for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with backing from RIVE Private Investment, and former Norwegian Minister of Transport Ketil Solvik-Olsen joined as a key executive.
Oslo, Norway · Startup Hystar is an Oslo-based green hydrogen company founded in 2020 as a spin-off from SINTEF. The company manufactures PEM (proton exchange membrane) electrolysers with membranes 90% thinner than conventional alternatives, significantly cutting electricity consumption and the levelised cost of green hydrogen. Hystar raised $36 million in a Series C round in May 2025 co-led by Nysnø Climate Investments and Orlen VC, building on a $26 million Series B in 2023. The company also secured €26 million from the EU Innovation Fund in late 2024 to support construction of a 1.5 GW automated gigafactory in Høvik, Norway, targeting 4.5 GW capacity by 2031.
Oslo, Norway · Person Norwegian medical doctor, PhD, and Associate Professor in artificial intelligence at the University of Agder, and one of Norway's most prominent voices on AI in healthcare and society. Author of a book on AI in medicine, she is a confirmed speaker at the Y Oslo 2026 conference.
Oslo, Norway · Event Organisator javaBin is the Norwegian Java User Group (JUG), a non-profit, volunteer-driven community organization with approximately 3,000 members and branches across Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Stavanger, and several other Norwegian cities. Founded over 25 years ago, it organizes JavaZone — one of the world's largest community-driven Java conferences — held annually every September in Norway, attracting around 3,500 participants and 200 speakers. Beyond JavaZone, javaBin runs regular meetups, student events, and educational programs throughout the year.
Oslo, Norway · Event JavaZone 2026 is Norway's biggest community-driven Java conference, organised entirely by volunteers from javaBin (the Norwegian Java User Group) at Nova Spektrum in Lillestrom near Oslo on 2-3 September 2026. Around 3,600 attendees and roughly 200 speakers cover the JVM ecosystem, developer tooling and software craftsmanship. By design no speaker is paid and no talk can be bought onto the program, which is selected by an independent committee.
Oslo, Norway · Startup Kahoot! is an Oslo-based game-based learning platform that has transformed how educators, trainers, and corporate teams engage audiences through interactive quizzes, presentations, and knowledge checks. The platform has hosted billions of cumulative participants across 200+ countries and serves both the K-12 education market and enterprise training use cases. Kahoot! went public on the Oslo Stock Exchange and has acquired complementary edtech products including Clever and Motimate to expand its learning ecosystem. With its combination of consumer virality and enterprise adoption, Kahoot! is one of Norway's most recognizable global technology brands and a defining example of gamification applied to learning at massive scale.
Oslo, Norway · Person General Manager of Microsoft Norway, leading the technology company's commercial, cloud, and artificial-intelligence business in the Norwegian market. A seasoned technology executive focused on digital transformation and responsible AI adoption, she is a confirmed speaker at the Techpoint Conference 2026 in Kristiansand.
Oslo, Norway · Person Managing Director of Digital Norway (Digitalt Norge), a national non-profit initiative that helps Norwegian businesses, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, accelerate digital transformation and adopt data-driven technologies and artificial intelligence. She is a confirmed speaker at the Techpoint Conference 2026 in Kristiansand.
Oslo, Norway · Person British designer, creative director, and photographer who founded Kus—Studio, with a career spanning web and brand design for technology companies. Known for his distinctive visual style and large following in the design community, he is a confirmed speaker at the Y Oslo 2026 conference.
Oslo, Norway · Event NDC Oslo is one of Europe's largest independent software developer conferences, organised by NDC Conferences at Oslo Spektrum from 14–18 September 2026. The 2026 edition features around 154 speakers across 165 sessions plus 16 hands-on workshops, covering .NET, cloud, AI, security, and software craftsmanship.
Oslo, Norway · Event Organisator Oslo-based design and technology consultancy that created and hosts Y Oslo, a conference for people building valuable products and services for real people. The event covers design, UX, technology, content, product, and business development through talks, discussions, and workshops, and has run since 2019.
Oslo, Norway · Startup No Isolation is a Norwegian scale-up founded in 2015 that develops telepresence robots to combat social isolation. Its flagship product, the AV1 robot, serves as a physical avatar in classrooms for children with long-term illness or special education needs, keeping them connected to school and peers when they cannot attend. The company now serves over 900 customers across 19 countries with more than 3,000 AV1 units deployed in around 2,500 schools, supporting over 10,000 children. No Isolation won the 2025 EURORDIS Company Award for Health Technology.
Oslo, Norway · Event Flagship gathering of the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium at the National Museum in Oslo, summarising Norway's leading AI research, innovation, and education initiatives.
Oslo, Norway · Event Organisator Norway Health Tech is Norway's largest and leading health technology cluster, bringing together more than 350 member organizations including companies, investors, healthcare providers, municipalities, and research institutions. Founded to drive growth in the health industry and accelerate innovation, the organization operates offices in Oslo, Bergen, and Stavanger. It organizes the annual Healthtech Festival series held across Norway and runs major public-private partnership initiatives such as Health2B at Oslo Science Park and the Nordic Health Connect project. The cluster also leads efforts in health technology for defence and emergency preparedness.
Oslo, Norway · Startup Oda is an Oslo-based online grocery delivery company that has built one of Europe's most efficient automated grocery fulfillment operations. Originally launched as Kolonial.no, the company rebranded to Oda and developed proprietary warehouse automation technology that enables it to pick and deliver grocery orders at significantly lower cost than traditional supermarkets. Oda expanded into Finland and Germany and has raised over $400 million from investors including SoftBank. The company represents Norway's most ambitious attempt at reimagining grocery retail through technology and logistics innovation, offering a compelling alternative to the dark-store model pursued by rapid delivery startups.
Oslo, Norway · Person Austrian typography consultant and designer who runs 'Pimp my Type', a platform teaching designers and product teams how to use type effectively in user interfaces and brands. A popular educator on font selection and UI typography, he is a confirmed speaker at the Y Oslo 2026 conference.
Oslo, Norway · Event Organisator Norwegian organizer of the Oslo Business Forum, founded by Christoffer Omberg and Marius Roed Wang to empower leaders to change the world. The annual conference brings roughly 3,000 leaders, a majority of them C-level, to Lillestrom for keynotes from globally recognized authors, executives, and thinkers on leadership and innovation.
Oslo, Norway · Event Norway's largest innovation festival spanning a full week with 100+ events across Oslo, organized by Innovation Norway and the City of Oslo. Covers cleantech, ocean tech, healthtech, and fintech with 10,000+ participants. Most events are free or low-cost, making it highly accessible.
Oslo, Norway · Startup reMarkable is a Norwegian technology company based in Oslo that develops digital paper tablets designed to replicate the feel of writing on paper while reducing digital distraction. It was founded in 2013 by Magnus Haug Wanberg, who conceived the idea while studying at Harvard after finding it hard to focus on a laptop. Its first device, the reMarkable 1, began shipping in 2017, followed by the reMarkable 2 (2020) and the Paper Pro (2024). The company sells e-paper writing devices alongside a Connect subscription service offering features such as cloud storage and handwriting conversion. By May 2022 reMarkable reported it had sold over 1 million devices and reached a $1 billion valuation.
Oslo, Norway · Accelerator StartupLab is Norway's largest technology incubator and most active early-stage investor, founded in 2012 at the Oslo Science Park in partnership with the University of Oslo. It operates six industry-specific programs including a dedicated Energy and Climate track, has supported over 450 tech startups, and has invested in more than 130 companies. Notable alumni include reMarkable, Kahoot, No Isolation, and Huddly. At ONS 2026 in Stavanger, StartupLab chairs the Scale-Ups committee, curating the dedicated exhibition and pitching venue in Hall 4 for energy startups and scale-ups at the Seed-to-Series-B stage.
Oslo, Norway · Person Norwegian entrepreneur, CEO and co-founder of Xplora Technologies, a company that makes smartwatches and connected devices for children. He founded the company after temporarily losing sight of his son, and is a confirmed speaker at the Y Oslo 2026 conference.
Oslo, Norway · Startup Strise is an Oslo-based technology company that builds an AI-powered platform automating anti-money-laundering (AML) and know-your-customer/know-your-business (KYC/KYB) compliance work for banks, fintechs and other financial institutions. Its product automates onboarding, ongoing due diligence, ownership and beneficial-owner mapping, screening, risk scoring, and alert and case triage, built on a proprietary graph that links entities, directors, ownership structures and sanctions exposure into a continuously updated data graph. Founded by Marit Rødevand, Sigve Søråsen and Patrick Skjennum, it maintains an office in London alongside its Oslo headquarters, with reported partners including PwC Norway.
Oslo, Norway · Person Sveinung Tornås is the CEO of Norway Health Tech, Norway's largest health technology cluster uniting over 350 organizations spanning companies, investors, healthcare providers, municipalities, and research institutions. Under his leadership, the organization drives health innovation through flagship events like the Healthtech Festival series and major public-private partnerships including Health2B at Oslo Science Park. He serves as a keynote speaker at the Healthtech Festival 2026 Stavanger edition, where the theme centers on connecting ecosystem stakeholders and transforming healthcare.
Oslo, Norway · Event Norway's premier business transformation conference focused on sustainability, circular economy, and climate tech. Held in Oslo and organized with support from the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO). Attracts 1,500+ executives, founders, and investors working on green transition. Tickets from EUR 300-600.
Oslo, Norway · Person Managing Partner and head of the consulting firm McKinsey & Company in Norway, advising leading Norwegian and Nordic organisations on strategy, technology, and transformation. He focuses on how businesses capture value from artificial intelligence and digital change, and is a confirmed speaker at the Techpoint Conference 2026 in Kristiansand.
Oslo, Norway · Venture Capital Verdane's Oslo office is the firm's original headquarters, anchoring its Nordic growth equity practice. From Oslo, Verdane sources and supports portfolio companies across Norway's technology and sustainability ecosystem, covering digital transformation, e-commerce infrastructure, and energy transition. The firm's Norwegian roots give it deep access to the region's founder network and LP base.
Oslo, Norway · Startup Whereby is an Oslo-based video communication platform founded in 2013 (originally as appear.in inside Telenor). It offers browser-based video meetings requiring no downloads or guest logins, and a developer-facing Whereby Embedded API for adding video calling to third-party products. GDPR-compliant and ISO 27001 certified, the platform supports healthcare, telehealth and education use cases. The company raised $12 million in Series A funding from Point Nine and SaaStr in 2021 and saw a 450% user surge during the pandemic, with adoption across 150 countries.
Oslo, Norway · Event Two-day conference at Chateau Neuf in Oslo for everyone building great products and services for real people, created and hosted by the design consultancy Netlife. The programme spans design, UX, technology, content, product, project management, and business development through talks, discussions, and workshops on how design and technology can improve the world.