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The Healthtech Accelerator That Teaches Startups to Survive the Public Sector
DigitalWell Ventures built an accelerator around the awkward bit of health innovation: getting a promising product through procurement, regulation and the raised eyebrows of real buyers.
The ocean has plenty of ideas. TOOL wants them to meet.
It began on an old Oslo ferry. Today, The Ocean Opportunity Lab connects ocean and clean-energy innovators with the people, practical resources and visibility that a promising idea cannot supply itself.
TheFactory wants to get your startup into the right room
The Oslo accelerator pairs founders with customers, mentors and early capital. Its next test: bringing that formula to defence and security, where a good pitch is only the beginning.
boost.ai
It's not about what AI can do. It's about what you can rely on AI to do.
sensiBel
sensiBel is a Norwegian semiconductor company that makes optical MEMS microphones - tiny chip-scale devices that use a laser and photodetector to sense a diaphragm's motion instead of the electrical (capacitive) method used in almost every microphone for the past century. Its flagship SBM100B is billed as the world's first production optical MEMS microphone, delivering studio-grade specs (80 dBA SNR, 146 dB acoustic overload point, 132 dB dynamic range) in a package small enough for earbuds, laptops and microphone arrays. Spun out of Norwegian research institute SINTEF in 2017, sensiBel sells to audio, consumer-electronics and pro-audio manufacturers and counts Sennheiser among its investors.
Huddly
Huddly is an Oslo-based company that builds AI-powered conference cameras for hybrid meeting rooms. By running computer-vision neural networks directly on the camera (edge AI), Huddly devices automatically frame speakers, switch angles like a TV director, and improve over time through software updates. Its products work with Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet, and range from the single wide-angle IQ to the L1 and S1 and the multi-camera Huddly Crew system marketed as the world's first AI director. Founded in 2013, Huddly listed on Euronext Growth Oslo in December 2023.
Calluna Pharma
Calluna Pharma is an Oslo-based clinical-stage biotech building first-in-class antibodies that switch off the upstream signals driving inflammation and fibrosis. Formed in 2024 from the merger of Oxitope Pharma and Arxx Therapeutics and backed by a EUR 75 million Series A, the company targets damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) such as S100A4 to halt diseases like idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at their root rather than managing symptoms.
SafetyWing
SafetyWing builds a global social safety net for remote workers, digital nomads, and distributed teams - subscription health and travel insurance that works across borders, plus benefits infrastructure for remote-first companies.