Matsmart Scandinavia AB is an online platform based in Skogås, Sweden, specializing in the sale of surplus food products. Founded in 2014 by Karl Andersson, Erik Södergren, and Ulf Skagerström, the company aims to combat food waste by offering groceries and personal care items that would otherwise be discarded due to reasons such as packaging changes or approaching expiry dates. Matsmart has expanded its operations to Norway and Finland, achieving significant growth, with recurring revenues reaching SEK 200 million. In 2017 alone, the company successfully saved 2,022 tonnes of food from being wasted, providing suppliers with an effective channel to sell surplus products at discounted prices while helping grocery stores minimize their food wastage.
Klarna Bank AB, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, specializes in providing payment and shopping solutions for consumers and merchants both online and in-store across several countries, including Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Norway. The company offers a variety of payment options, such as card payments, direct banking, and innovative solutions like "buy now, pay later," which allows consumers to finance purchases interest-free over installments. Klarna's services extend to merchants, providing technology, credit risk management, and customer administration solutions to enhance their eCommerce capabilities. As a regulated bank, Klarna is recognized for its flexible payment solutions that empower shoppers to choose how and when they pay, thereby improving the overall shopping experience.
Private Equity Round in 2020
Klarna Bank AB, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, specializes in providing payment and shopping solutions for consumers and merchants both online and in-store across several countries, including Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Norway. The company offers a variety of payment options, such as card payments, direct banking, and innovative solutions like "buy now, pay later," which allows consumers to finance purchases interest-free over installments. Klarna's services extend to merchants, providing technology, credit risk management, and customer administration solutions to enhance their eCommerce capabilities. As a regulated bank, Klarna is recognized for its flexible payment solutions that empower shoppers to choose how and when they pay, thereby improving the overall shopping experience.
Kahoot is a game-based learning platform founded in 2012 by a team of co-founders in Oslo, Norway. It enables individuals and organizations to easily create, share, and play engaging learning games and trivia quizzes across various subjects and languages. The platform is accessible on any device with an internet connection, allowing users to participate in games both in-person and virtually. Kahoot aims to enhance the learning experience by promoting social interaction and active participation, making it appealing to educators, students, and corporate entities alike. Its user-friendly features foster a dynamic and meaningful educational environment, catering to learners of all ages.
Kahoot is a game-based learning platform founded in 2012 by a team of co-founders in Oslo, Norway. It enables individuals and organizations to easily create, share, and play engaging learning games and trivia quizzes across various subjects and languages. The platform is accessible on any device with an internet connection, allowing users to participate in games both in-person and virtually. Kahoot aims to enhance the learning experience by promoting social interaction and active participation, making it appealing to educators, students, and corporate entities alike. Its user-friendly features foster a dynamic and meaningful educational environment, catering to learners of all ages.
Matsmart Scandinavia AB is an online platform based in Skogås, Sweden, specializing in the sale of surplus food products. Founded in 2014 by Karl Andersson, Erik Södergren, and Ulf Skagerström, the company aims to combat food waste by offering groceries and personal care items that would otherwise be discarded due to reasons such as packaging changes or approaching expiry dates. Matsmart has expanded its operations to Norway and Finland, achieving significant growth, with recurring revenues reaching SEK 200 million. In 2017 alone, the company successfully saved 2,022 tonnes of food from being wasted, providing suppliers with an effective channel to sell surplus products at discounted prices while helping grocery stores minimize their food wastage.
Spacemaker AI, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, specializes in software that analyzes data to optimize building site selection. The company's innovative AI technology generates and evaluates billions of site proposals, taking into account various factors such as zoning regulations, environmental conditions, and market preferences. This allows architects, real estate developers, and municipalities to identify the most advantageous building sites and access detailed insights into each option. Since becoming a subsidiary of Autodesk, Spacemaker AI continues to enhance its offerings, providing valuable tools that significantly improve decision-making in the real estate and construction sectors.
Private Equity Round in 2019
Klarna Bank AB, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, specializes in providing payment and shopping solutions for consumers and merchants both online and in-store across several countries, including Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Norway. The company offers a variety of payment options, such as card payments, direct banking, and innovative solutions like "buy now, pay later," which allows consumers to finance purchases interest-free over installments. Klarna's services extend to merchants, providing technology, credit risk management, and customer administration solutions to enhance their eCommerce capabilities. As a regulated bank, Klarna is recognized for its flexible payment solutions that empower shoppers to choose how and when they pay, thereby improving the overall shopping experience.
Kahoot is a game-based learning platform founded in 2012 by a team of co-founders in Oslo, Norway. It enables individuals and organizations to easily create, share, and play engaging learning games and trivia quizzes across various subjects and languages. The platform is accessible on any device with an internet connection, allowing users to participate in games both in-person and virtually. Kahoot aims to enhance the learning experience by promoting social interaction and active participation, making it appealing to educators, students, and corporate entities alike. Its user-friendly features foster a dynamic and meaningful educational environment, catering to learners of all ages.
Kahoot is a game-based learning platform founded in 2012 by a team of co-founders in Oslo, Norway. It enables individuals and organizations to easily create, share, and play engaging learning games and trivia quizzes across various subjects and languages. The platform is accessible on any device with an internet connection, allowing users to participate in games both in-person and virtually. Kahoot aims to enhance the learning experience by promoting social interaction and active participation, making it appealing to educators, students, and corporate entities alike. Its user-friendly features foster a dynamic and meaningful educational environment, catering to learners of all ages.
Matsmart Scandinavia AB is an online platform based in Skogås, Sweden, specializing in the sale of surplus food products. Founded in 2014 by Karl Andersson, Erik Södergren, and Ulf Skagerström, the company aims to combat food waste by offering groceries and personal care items that would otherwise be discarded due to reasons such as packaging changes or approaching expiry dates. Matsmart has expanded its operations to Norway and Finland, achieving significant growth, with recurring revenues reaching SEK 200 million. In 2017 alone, the company successfully saved 2,022 tonnes of food from being wasted, providing suppliers with an effective channel to sell surplus products at discounted prices while helping grocery stores minimize their food wastage.
Kahoot is a game-based learning platform founded in 2012 by a team of co-founders in Oslo, Norway. It enables individuals and organizations to easily create, share, and play engaging learning games and trivia quizzes across various subjects and languages. The platform is accessible on any device with an internet connection, allowing users to participate in games both in-person and virtually. Kahoot aims to enhance the learning experience by promoting social interaction and active participation, making it appealing to educators, students, and corporate entities alike. Its user-friendly features foster a dynamic and meaningful educational environment, catering to learners of all ages.
Matsmart Scandinavia AB is an online platform based in Skogås, Sweden, specializing in the sale of surplus food products. Founded in 2014 by Karl Andersson, Erik Södergren, and Ulf Skagerström, the company aims to combat food waste by offering groceries and personal care items that would otherwise be discarded due to reasons such as packaging changes or approaching expiry dates. Matsmart has expanded its operations to Norway and Finland, achieving significant growth, with recurring revenues reaching SEK 200 million. In 2017 alone, the company successfully saved 2,022 tonnes of food from being wasted, providing suppliers with an effective channel to sell surplus products at discounted prices while helping grocery stores minimize their food wastage.
Fuse specializes in mobile app development and full stack development, providing a comprehensive suite of services that includes advisory and concept development. Founded by experienced professionals in mobile graphics, the company aims to enhance the app and user experience creation process for both designers and developers. Fuse offers a cutting-edge user experience tool suite designed to bridge the gap between prototyping and actual development, facilitating a more seamless transition from initial design concepts to functional applications.
Matsmart Scandinavia AB is an online platform based in Skogås, Sweden, specializing in the sale of surplus food products. Founded in 2014 by Karl Andersson, Erik Södergren, and Ulf Skagerström, the company aims to combat food waste by offering groceries and personal care items that would otherwise be discarded due to reasons such as packaging changes or approaching expiry dates. Matsmart has expanded its operations to Norway and Finland, achieving significant growth, with recurring revenues reaching SEK 200 million. In 2017 alone, the company successfully saved 2,022 tonnes of food from being wasted, providing suppliers with an effective channel to sell surplus products at discounted prices while helping grocery stores minimize their food wastage.
Kahoot is a game-based learning platform founded in 2012 by a team of co-founders in Oslo, Norway. It enables individuals and organizations to easily create, share, and play engaging learning games and trivia quizzes across various subjects and languages. The platform is accessible on any device with an internet connection, allowing users to participate in games both in-person and virtually. Kahoot aims to enhance the learning experience by promoting social interaction and active participation, making it appealing to educators, students, and corporate entities alike. Its user-friendly features foster a dynamic and meaningful educational environment, catering to learners of all ages.
Matsmart Scandinavia AB is an online platform based in Skogås, Sweden, specializing in the sale of surplus food products. Founded in 2014 by Karl Andersson, Erik Södergren, and Ulf Skagerström, the company aims to combat food waste by offering groceries and personal care items that would otherwise be discarded due to reasons such as packaging changes or approaching expiry dates. Matsmart has expanded its operations to Norway and Finland, achieving significant growth, with recurring revenues reaching SEK 200 million. In 2017 alone, the company successfully saved 2,022 tonnes of food from being wasted, providing suppliers with an effective channel to sell surplus products at discounted prices while helping grocery stores minimize their food wastage.
Klarna Bank AB, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, specializes in providing payment and shopping solutions for consumers and merchants both online and in-store across several countries, including Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Norway. The company offers a variety of payment options, such as card payments, direct banking, and innovative solutions like "buy now, pay later," which allows consumers to finance purchases interest-free over installments. Klarna's services extend to merchants, providing technology, credit risk management, and customer administration solutions to enhance their eCommerce capabilities. As a regulated bank, Klarna is recognized for its flexible payment solutions that empower shoppers to choose how and when they pay, thereby improving the overall shopping experience.
Fuse specializes in mobile app development and full stack development, providing a comprehensive suite of services that includes advisory and concept development. Founded by experienced professionals in mobile graphics, the company aims to enhance the app and user experience creation process for both designers and developers. Fuse offers a cutting-edge user experience tool suite designed to bridge the gap between prototyping and actual development, facilitating a more seamless transition from initial design concepts to functional applications.
Fuse specializes in mobile app development and full stack development, providing a comprehensive suite of services that includes advisory and concept development. Founded by experienced professionals in mobile graphics, the company aims to enhance the app and user experience creation process for both designers and developers. Fuse offers a cutting-edge user experience tool suite designed to bridge the gap between prototyping and actual development, facilitating a more seamless transition from initial design concepts to functional applications.
mCASH is a Norwegian startup that offers a mobile payment service designed to facilitate instant transactions between banks, merchants, and consumers. By establishing a new infrastructure, mCASH enhances revenue opportunities for banks and provides merchants with multi-channel sales capabilities and valuable data services. The platform aims to create a seamless payment experience, making it easier for consumers to engage in mobile transactions while supporting merchants in optimizing their sales processes.
Auka AS operates a platform that enables financial institutions to launch their own mobile payments service to merchants and consumers. The company was formerly known as mCASH Norge AS. Auka AS was founded in 2010 and is based in Oslo, Norway. As of October 15, 2015, Auka AS operates as a subsidiary of DNB ASA
Soundrop is a social music application that enables users to listen, vote, and interact about songs with their friends. It allows Spotify users to create listening rooms with their existing Spotify playlists. They can also share these listening rooms with their friends, and let their friends help curate the rooms by adding songs or voting up tracks. Everyone can chat about the music as they listen. Additionally, Soundrop has many public rooms dedicated to various music genres such Dubstep, Indie Rock, and Hip hop. Users can chat, add new tracks and vote up tracks they want to listen to next. Soundrop was founded by Inge Andrè Sandvik, Johann Prieur, Ali Sabil, and Ole Andrè Vadla Ravnås in 2011. It launched as a social jukebox app inside Spotify’s App Finder in November 2011.
TracID was founded in 2005 with the initiative of utilizing RFID technology within the oil and gas industry to successfully track the lifecycle of drill pipe for operators on the Norweigan Continental Shelf. Since commercialization in 2010, this tag has been installed and successfully deployed in over 40,000 drill string components. In March 2016 TracID was acquired by NOV Tuboscope. This technology combined with Tuboscope’s comprehensive package of products and services maximizes useful asset life and reduces total cost of ownership.
Widespace AB operates Summit, a digital programmatic ad platform and marketplace to deliver branding campaigns on mobile. The company offers inventory marketplace, formats and ad-serving, data marketplace, and reporting solutions. It offers a range of services to media buyers and publishers in relation to their purchases and sales of advertising inventory. Widespace AB was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with additional offices in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Copenhagen, Denmark; Helsinki, Finland; London, United Kingdom; Milan, Italy; Warsaw, Poland; Oslo, Norway; Paris, France; and Stockholm, Sweden. As of July 18, 2018, Widespace AB operates as a subsidiary of Sellbranch AB.
Soundrop is a social music application that enables users to listen, vote, and interact about songs with their friends. It allows Spotify users to create listening rooms with their existing Spotify playlists. They can also share these listening rooms with their friends, and let their friends help curate the rooms by adding songs or voting up tracks. Everyone can chat about the music as they listen. Additionally, Soundrop has many public rooms dedicated to various music genres such Dubstep, Indie Rock, and Hip hop. Users can chat, add new tracks and vote up tracks they want to listen to next. Soundrop was founded by Inge Andrè Sandvik, Johann Prieur, Ali Sabil, and Ole Andrè Vadla Ravnås in 2011. It launched as a social jukebox app inside Spotify’s App Finder in November 2011.
Energy Micro is a global provider of energy friendly microcontrollers and RF transceivers based on the ARM Cortex processor cores. Consuming a quarter of the energy of competing products, the company's ultra low power EFM32 Gecko MCUs and EFR4 Draco radios target energy sensitive applications, including smart metering, building automation, security systems and portable heath and fitness equipment. The products are supported by Energy Micro's Simplicity Studio, an easy-to-use software console helping to reduce embedded system development times. Energy Micro's mission is to develop, market and sell the world's most energy friendly microcontrollers and radios, based on modern and powerful microprocessor architectures. The company is founded by experienced semiconductor professionals with previous experience from successful semiconductor companies.
Innotech Solar delivers high quality solar modules with the best value for money. In an innovative laser-based process, Innotech Solar maximizes electricity production by optimizing various types of solar cells. ITS strives to make use of 100% of the raw materials for energy generation. Our modules combine environmental friendliness, durability, and an outstanding price-performance-ratio. Innotech Solar was established in 2008 as a spin-off from REC (Renewable Energy Corporation ASA). 5 years later the company has 120 employees and has established an international presence with factories in Germany, Sweden and Hong Kong, sales offices in Munich, Shanghai and California, and headquarter in Narvik, Norway.
Innotech Solar delivers high quality solar modules with the best value for money. In an innovative laser-based process, Innotech Solar maximizes electricity production by optimizing various types of solar cells. ITS strives to make use of 100% of the raw materials for energy generation. Our modules combine environmental friendliness, durability, and an outstanding price-performance-ratio. Innotech Solar was established in 2008 as a spin-off from REC (Renewable Energy Corporation ASA). 5 years later the company has 120 employees and has established an international presence with factories in Germany, Sweden and Hong Kong, sales offices in Munich, Shanghai and California, and headquarter in Narvik, Norway.
ChapDrive is a venture technology company located in Trondheim, Norway. ChapDrive offers a gearless technology for wind turbines based on a patented high efficiency hydraulic drivetrain with high-voltage synchronous generator. ChapDrive’s solution has no mechanical gearbox, no frequency converter, no transformer and no permanent magnets. Benefits are lower top weight, fewer critical components and improved reliability leading to reduced capital expenditure and operating expense and thus reduced cost of energy. ChapDrive has installed, optimized and operated two wind turbines with hydraulic transmission to verify the business potential of the concept. With a strong management team and a staff of 20 competent and dedicated employees ChapDrive is now entering the stage of the commercialization where it is ready to invite partners to finalize development of commercial products and offer the wind industry a unique solution to existing challenges. ChapDrive has its headquarter and workshop in Trondheim, Norway, a test site at Valsnes close to Trondheim, a subsidiary in Silkeborg, Denmark and a representation in Hong Kong, China.
T-VIPS AS, a technology company, provides products and solutions for video over Internet protocol (IP) transport markets. It specializes in providing video transport solutions of live broadcast signals. The company offers video gateway suite of products, which include video gateways, processing and multiplexing processors, monitoring and switching switches, and IPTV FEC inserters, as well as monitors. It also provides management solution for remote monitoring and control through a Web based graphical user interface for management of contribution and distribution over IP networks. In addition, the company offers solutions for contribution, terrestrial networks, mobile TV, IPTV, and monitoring applications. Further, it provides support, technical training, technical analysis and designs, network planning, service implementation strategies, and integration services. The company offers products for various applications, such as broadcast contribution, studio-to-studio media exchange, primary distribution from TV play-out to transmitter, in-house signal distribution and routing, post-production, sports and other live event coverage, regional adaptation of transport streams, DTT adaptation systems, and general video transport. T-VIPS AS was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway with a subsidiary in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Colibria provides scalable, solutions for mobile instant messaging, real-time social networking and value-added content services. Colibria ensures interoperability between devices, platforms and operators. Colibria's Instant Messaging and Presence (IMPS and SIP/IMS) offering is the product and service trial standard for interoperability testing, helping drive standards across the world. Colibria's current customers include Operators and Service Providers worldwide seeking to maximize the benefits of MIM, including Telefonica, TMN Portugal, Telia Sonera and Maxis. Colibria's many partners are also at the forefront of MIM technologies, including Acision, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson and Motorola.
T-VIPS AS, a technology company, provides products and solutions for video over Internet protocol (IP) transport markets. It specializes in providing video transport solutions of live broadcast signals. The company offers video gateway suite of products, which include video gateways, processing and multiplexing processors, monitoring and switching switches, and IPTV FEC inserters, as well as monitors. It also provides management solution for remote monitoring and control through a Web based graphical user interface for management of contribution and distribution over IP networks. In addition, the company offers solutions for contribution, terrestrial networks, mobile TV, IPTV, and monitoring applications. Further, it provides support, technical training, technical analysis and designs, network planning, service implementation strategies, and integration services. The company offers products for various applications, such as broadcast contribution, studio-to-studio media exchange, primary distribution from TV play-out to transmitter, in-house signal distribution and routing, post-production, sports and other live event coverage, regional adaptation of transport streams, DTT adaptation systems, and general video transport. T-VIPS AS was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway with a subsidiary in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Funcom SE develops and publishes multi player online, online role playing, and related games for PCs and consoles worldwide. It operates through PC, Console, and Other segments. The company offers approximately 30 game titles across various genres and gaming platforms, as well as console games, such as PS4, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch. It also provides game development services to third parties. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Badhoevedorp, the Netherlands. As of March 25, 2020, Funcom SE operates as a subsidiary of Tencent Cloud Europe B.V.
NextGenTel offers mobile and broadband services, including internet, VoIP and IPTV, to businesses and consumers. The company has a nationwide IP-based broadband network and is the second largest supplier of broadband services in Norway.