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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Exabel
Exabel is a financial technology company, based in Oslo, New York, and London, that operates an alternative data platform for investment managers. It integrates more than 75 alternative datasets with fundamental KPIs from providers such as FactSet and Visible Alpha, letting portfolio managers, data scientists, and data strategists discover, evaluate, and analyze data to generate investable insights. Clients cited on its site include hedge funds, pension funds, and global asset owners managing hundreds of billions of dollars in assets.
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Future Week 2026
Media City Bergen's annual innovation week, anchored by the mcb tech conference for C-level and tech leaders, with workshops and open sessions. Relevant for media-tech and AI founders in western Norway.
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Gary Hamel
American management expert, London Business School visiting professor, and one of the world's most influential business thinkers. Co-author of 'Humanocracy' and 'Competing for the Future', he challenges leaders to reinvent management and organisations, and is a confirmed main-stage speaker at the Oslo Business Forum 2026.
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Gelato
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.
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Huddly
Huddly is an Oslo-based hardware company, founded in 2013, that designs AI-powered video conferencing cameras and meeting room systems, including the Huddly C1 and multi-camera Crew system with built-in audio. Its on-device AI adapts the video and audio experience so remote participants are better seen and heard in hybrid meetings on platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet. The company has a global presence across the US, EMEA, and APAC with worldwide distribution.
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Hyke
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.
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Hystar
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.
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Ishita Barua
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.
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javaBin
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.
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JavaZone 2026
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.
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Jesper Brodin
Swedish business leader and the former CEO and President of Ingka Group, the largest IKEA retailer, where he championed sustainability and value-based leadership. A globally respected voice on purpose-driven business, he is a confirmed main-stage speaker at the Oslo Business Forum 2026.
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Jonas Kjellberg
Swedish entrepreneur, investor, and educator best known as one of the co-creators of Skype, the internet telephony service later acquired by eBay and Microsoft. He is a serial founder and keynote speaker on disruptive innovation and 'zero to one' value creation, and is a confirmed speaker at the Techpoint Conference 2026 in Kristiansand.
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Kahoot!
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.
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Kongsberg Agenda 2026
An annual technology festival that takes over central Kongsberg with hundreds of free debates, exhibitions, and talks on technology and value creation, spanning space and defence tech.
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Kristine Dahl Steidel
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.
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Liv Dingsør
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.
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Marc Blanchon
Head of Physical AI at the global technology and consulting firm Capgemini, working on the intersection of artificial intelligence, robotics, and the physical world. He researches and applies embodied and physical AI to industrial use cases, and is a confirmed speaker at the Techpoint Conference 2026 in Kristiansand.
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Mike Kus
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.
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NDC Oslo 2026
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.
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NDC TechTown 2026
NDC's software conference focused on embedded and systems programming at Magazinet Kongsberg — a specialist technical conference for engineers building real-world embedded products.
