"Do (and speak) unto others as you would have them do unto you"

This solid piece of advice is very old. More people should take it.

Ludenso - Empowering learning with AR

Skooler (Viking Venture). DIVESTED 2022

Flowbox (Viking Venture)

Modulize - Revolutionizing Offsite Construction 

Viking Venture

Current Intelligent EV charge point management

We co-founded the company in 2001, and have backed them all the way to IPO in 2020, with a complete exit in November 2021. 

EcoOnline Global - DIVESTED 2021 IPO

Oivi Transforming the screening and management of diabetic eye disease

ClimatePoint offers businesses indirect CO2 emissions reduction, by investing in companies, technologies and solutions that have the greatest potential to solve emissions challenges in your value chain and industry.

At the core is a powerful analytical tool which will allow for direct impact measurement at the level of the investor.

ClimatePoint offers businesses indirect CO2 emissions reduction, by investing in companies, technologies and solutions that have the greatest potential to solve emissions challenges in your value chain and industry.


ClimatePoint; Impact Finance 2.0° 

Pangea Africa Accelerator

Humly (Viking Venture)

Tamigo (Viking Venture)

Sharefox - Turnkey software solution for rental services

Xeris - better decisions with structured product data (divested 2024 - FOLDED)

Katapult Accelerator

Alliance Venture investing in Nordic tech with global ambitions

Startup Wise Guys

Loopfront - Give materials in buildings and construction new life

Dele Healthtech Revolutionizing Healthcare and Fall Management

MyFoodOffice - Helping professional bakeries do better

Meshtech - Divested 2022

Learnlink - Learn to code learn to create

Feelingstream - Multilingual speech to text services 

Med Staffers appen kan du finne dagsvakter eller din neste heltids jobb innen hotell- og serveringsbransjen på en rask og enkel måte.

Det vi gjør annerledes er at vi tilbyr de høyeste lønningene i bransjen, samtidig som vi har lavest timepris for våre kunder i Skandinavia. 

Min. betalt for dagsvakter er 200 NOK/t.

Staffers - Your own common digital staffing pool

Skiwo - SOFTWARE FOR SKILLED WORKERS

Novelda - Ultra-Wideband Sensor

Oncoinvent - Innovations for better cancer care

Empower generates value out of plastic waste – enabling collectors, recyclers, brands and consumers to make a real impact on the environment.

Credits, tracking, product passport, blockchain, marketplace; all combined to stimulate the greatest user relevance and efficiency.

Empower generates value out of plastic waste – enabling collectors, recyclers, brands and consumers to make a real impact on the environment. 

Empower.eco worlds leading plastic recycling service

Fauna - Rewarding Sustainable Consumption 

ihopa - Sharing stuff with your neighbours

Laft.io - Property management, made smarter

Spond - Bringing joy to team sports and group activities 

Smartcylinders - Simplifying gas delivery services (divested 2024 - FOLDED)

Bio-Me microbiome-based Precision Medicine

Attensi (Viking Venture)

Asolvi (Viking Venture)

Looping - Eliminating single-use plastics

Intelecy - No-code Industrial AI

House of Control (Viking Venture, divested Nov 2022)

Coright clever Rights management for creative services

Grin - smart collection systems that enable circularity

Catenda - BIMsync; next gen BIM construction collaberation (Divested to GRO Ventures 2024)

Ducky - Climate Mitigation

Mercell - leading eProcurement (Viking Venture, DIVESTED IPO AUG 2022)

Ardoq platform to Navigate Digital Transformation

One of the worlds most unique hotels, located on top of the Bergen railroad, with spectacular views of unspoiled nature. Accessible only by train or feet. Home to explorers, socialites, and nature fans since Refreshed and renewed in 2021.

Since the opening in 1909 prominent regular guests include Sonja Henie, Ernest Shackleton, king Haakon, Fridtjof Nansen, Karen Blixen, The Prince of Wales, polar explorer and aviator Trygve Gran.

One of the worlds most unique hotels, located on top of the Bergen railroad, with spectacular views of unspoiled nature

Destination Finse 1222

Axeptia next level credit intelligence automation (exit Nov 2024, FOLDED)

TotalCtrl -Reducing food waste from smarter management

Drylab - Smarter and digital film production

Cultureengine aligning culture to strategy

Keystone Academic (Viking Venture)

Orgbrain - a place for placing the board work

Timelog (Viking Venture)

Aprila Bank - Simplifying banking for SMEs (Divested 2023)

Beefutures - a smarthome for bees

Cenos 3D electromagnetics simulation software 

StartupLab Founders Fund

It's been a bumpy road for many, the last two years. An increasing number of founders, teams, and backers are nearing, or have reached the end of the road. 

Common for many of them is that they experienced early validation, growing sales, follow-up funding to support growth, and then the wind shifted: sales slowed, working capital drained, and further funding came to an end.

We're sorry for the teams that put their hearts, savings and time in to creating businesses that could lead to making positive impact for people and the environment, only to have to fold while en route.

Realistically, we have to expect more to follow, while our hope is that we're wrong.

Fortunately, many of the ideas and concepts will have a second life, either as a result of experiences gained and re-used at new startups, or IP acquired by other companies.

Against this backdrop, we would like to encourage all relevant stakeholders and those concerned with job and value creation, and the future well being of generations to come, to provide further stimulus to startups. 

Portfolio update: End of runway for many. Better times ahead?

Catenda AS (“Catenda” or the “Company”), a leading provider of open ecosystem collaboration and data exchange software for construction and infrastructure projects, announced that it will partner with GRO to accelerate global commercial scaling and continue to drive a digital and sustainable transformation of the construction industry.

Catenda AS, a leading provider of open ecosystem collaboration and data exchange software for construction and infrastructure projects, announced today that it will partner with GRO to accelerate global commercial scaling and continue to drive a digital and sustainable transformation of the construction industry.

GRO is a leading Northern European private equity firm with an exclusive focus on high-quality B2B software companies with strong growth prospects. GRO serves as an active owner developing portfolio companies with a view to create long-term value. GRO has approximately EUR 1bn in AUM and is headquartered in Copenhagen with offices also in London and Oslo.

With this, Spring Capital (the majority external investor) and Strahl Impact Capital, divest their holdings.

GRO Capital acquires majority in Catenda

Looping announced today that they have secured MNOK 23 in a round led by Norselab.

Norselab, MP Pensjon, and Marius Maske AS are new investors.

 is a leading impact investor in the Nordics, backed by 

Looping raises MNOK 23, Norselab take lead 

Visma recently announced their investment in Ducky, driven by a motivation to offer existing and new customers a powerful climate analytics and sustainability tool to ease efforts to reach their goals.

Visma takes stake in Ducky; gearing up climate analytics offering

We invest for future generations. That to us means providing support to teams who can come up with solutions to create positive long term impact.

Picture:  Taken at the Hardangerjøkulen glacier; one of all too many glaciers shrinking due to global warming.