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Radar · Artificial Intelligence in Norway

Best Artificial Intelligence Companies in Norway

The 51 best Artificial Intelligence companies in Norway in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Vespa.

51companies tracked
$166.3Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
19have raised
Sources & further reading
  • Avnet Empowers the Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem with its Partners
  • AI market leaders revealed by IDC
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE × NORWAY

Our analysis of 151 Artificial Intelligence companies

$81.0b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

151companies analysed
96%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
51unicorns
2021median founding year
119kcombined LinkedIn audience
49%of audience held by top 3
2companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Artificial Intelligence companies in Norway

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1Vespa
AI powered vector database platform
$31M33 mo agoSeries AFrode Lundgren
Chief Technology Officer / Founder
2017WordPressApple iCloud MailMySQL+22
2Tana
Platform offering enterprise operating system
$28M18 mo agoSeries AOlav Sindre Kriken
Founder & COO
2021SanityNode.jsRadix UI+18
3Spacemaker
Cloud and AI-enabled analysis and design software for construction sites
$25M85 mo agoAcquired2016
4Cradl Technologies
Provider of cloud and AI-based data extraction platform for enterprises
$22M58 mo agoSeries BStig Haugnaess
Co-Founder
2021Webflow EcommerceCart FunctionalityWebflow+19
5Semine
AI-driven accounting process automation for businesses
$12M48 mo agoAcquired2015HubSpot CMS HubEnvoyGSAP+141 partnership
6Iris.Ai
Developer of an AI platform for enterprise research and development
$9M26 mo agoSeries AJacobo Elosua
Co-Founder & CMO
2015SentryTypeScriptTailwind CSS+201 partnership
7Metric
Multi channel marketing app for SMBs
$8M17 mo agoSeries A2023SanityNode.jsRadix UI+16
8Mobai
Biometrics based secure authentication solutions provider
$7M29 mo agoSeedBrage Strand
CEO
2019WordPressMySQLPHP+263 patents
Anti-spoofing facial biometric detection and privacy-preserving encrypted probe‑reference matching
9Timely
Developer of an automatic time tracking and reporting software solution
$6M93 mo agoSeries A2013
10Volur
AI technology for data-driven cutting and processing for meat industry
$6M16 mo agoSeries AAdrian Diaz
Co-Founder & CTO
2019
11boost.ai
Developer of a conversational AI platform for regulated industries
$5M65 mo agoSeries ATommy Ellingsen
Co-Founder
2016ProcessWirePHPSalesforce+17
12Simplifai AI
Conversational AI and chatbot development solutions
$3M26 mo agoSeries ABard Myrstad
Co-Founder & CEO
2017WebflowMicrosoft ClarityLeadfeeder+191 launch
13Breyta
AI-powered platform offering qualitative data analysis
$2M52 mo agoSeedChris Moen
Co-Founder & CEO
2021WebflowPostHogGoogle Analytics+11
14Deckmatch
AI-powered pitch deck evaluation solution for startups
$1M20 mo agoSeedWalid Fayez Mustapha
Co-Founder
2023
15Altek
Provider of AI-powered assistants for streamlined hotel operations and guest experiences
$500K6 mo agoSeedKristoffer Pedersen
Co-Founder
2024WebflowGSAPSwiper+131 partnership · 1 expansion · 1 award
16Curipod
AI-based online learning community for students
$230K67 mo agoSeedJens Seip
CEO & Co-Founder
2020Node.jsNextAuth.jsAnt Design+16
17Spoor
Provider of cloud and AI-driven biodiversity monitoring solutions
$110K7 mo agoSeries ALorea Coronado-Garcia
Co-Founder & COO
2020SanityNode.jsRadix UI+204 patents
Automated computer‑vision based bird detection and species identification systems.
1 partnership · 1 award

Top 12 Artificial Intelligence companies in Norway

#1
Series A · Oslo, Oslo · founded 2021 · 10 employees
$28.5Mraised

Platform offering enterprise operating system. It enables teams to organize and plan their work, tasks, meeting, and keep track of the information. The OS supports roadmap planning, user research, issue tracking, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 3.9% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 2 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2025Series A$14M
  • May 2024Series A$14.5M
  • Nov 2022Seed
Founders & team
Olav Sindre KrikenFounder & COOTarjei Munthe VassbotnCEO/Founder
Investors
Everywhere, La Famiglia, Alliance Venture, Sondo Capital, Northzone, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Tech stack
AmplitudeCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsFirebaseGoogle Analytics
#2
Seed · Oslo, Oslo · founded 2024
$500Kraised

Provider of AI-powered assistants for streamlined hotel operations and guest experiences. The platform offers solutions for email management, booking processes, and digital concierge services. It integrates with existing systems to automate tasks and improve staff efficiency. The AI assistants are customizable and support multiple languages for international guests.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 734 LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 partnerships · 1 awards · 1 expansions (incl. ESS Group) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2026Seed$500K
Founders & team
Kristoffer PedersenCo-FounderJon HoplandCo-Founder
Investors
StartupLab
Tech stack
BunnyCdnjsCloudflareGoogle Font ApiGoogle Hosted LibrariesGoogle Workspace
#3
Series A · Oslo, Oslo · founded 2019 · 7 employees
$5.9Mraised

AI technology for data-driven cutting and processing for meat industry. The solutions include customer data, data cleaning, optimal solutions, and more.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2025Series A$4M
  • Apr 2024Seed$2.9M
  • Oct 2022Seed$3M
Founders & team
Adrian DiazCo-Founder & CTODavid MorianoCo-FounderAnna TurvollCEO
Investors
Serra Ventures, York IE, Idekapital, Fusion Fund, Saria, Scribble Ventures
#4
Series A · Oslo, Oslo · founded 2023 · 6 employees
$8.4Mraised

Multi channel marketing app for SMBs. It provides an AI based platform that supports the delivery of campaigns across a variety of interactive channels, including inbound and outbound, digital and non-digital campaign intelligence within a single platform.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2025Series A$8.4M
Investors
MP Pensjon, Kvantia, Altitude Capital, Homekey
#5
Series A · Oslo, Oslo · founded 2020 · 4 employees
$110Kraised

Provider of cloud and AI-driven biodiversity monitoring solutions. It has developed AI-powered software for bird monitoring on wind farms. It uses machine vision for monitoring, managing, and reporting environmental impacts.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 4.4% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships · 1 awards (incl. RWE) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2025Series A$9.3M
  • May 2024Series A$4M
  • Jun 2022Seed
  • 2021Seed
Founders & team
Lorea Coronado-GarciaCo-Founder & COOAsk HelsethCo-Founder & CEOHelge ReikeråsCo-founder & CTO
Investors
Firda, Wiski Capital, Antler, Orsted, Norrsken Evolve, Superorganism
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsFathomGoogle WorkspaceHsts
#6
Series A · Haslum, Viken · founded 2015 · 23 employees
$8.7Mraised

Developer of an AI platform for enterprise research and development. The platform facilitates the connection, orchestration, evaluation, and deployment of agentic RAG AI workflows. It offers tools for building, managing, and monitoring AI systems. The platform supports data ingestion, custom evaluation frameworks, and performance monitoring. It also provides training for managing agents and crafting prompts.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 11k LinkedIn followers — 9.0% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. Amazon Web Services (AWS)) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • May 2024Series A$8.3M
  • Jan 2023Series A$12.9M
  • Jan 2023Grant (prize money)$2.6M
  • Nov 2018Grant (prize money)$56.9K
Founders & team
Jacobo ElosuaCo-Founder & CMO
Investors
Europa, Founders Factory, Silverline Capital, EIC Fund, 500 Nordics, Singularity University
Tech stack
Amazon ElbAmazon SesAmazon Web ServicesAngularAws Certificate ManagerCloudflare
#7
Series A · Trondheim, Trondelag · founded 2017
$31Mraised

AI powered vector database platform. It supports vector search, lexical search, and search in unstructured datasets. It provides a converstaion AI to store, and search vector and text data in real time. It provides an artificial intelligence technology based text search engine that supports text search and approximate search to assist users in planned decision making.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 4.1% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2023Series A$31M
Founders & team
Frode LundgrenChief Technology Officer / FounderKim JohansenCo-Founder & COOKim Omar JohansenCo-Founder & COO
Investors
Blossom Capital
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailBootstrapCdnjs
#8
Seed · Oslo, Oslo · founded 2023
$1.1Mraised

AI-powered pitch deck evaluation solution for startups. Streamlines the evaluation process for VCs by automating deck analysis. Aims to transform opportunity hunting by unlocking opportunities with contextual AI matching.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2024Seed$3.1M
  • Aug 2023Seed$1.1M
Founders & team
Walid Fayez MustaphaCo-FounderLeopold GasteenCo-Founder
Investors
Alliance Venture, Luminar Ventures, First Degree, Skyfall Ventures
#9
Seed · Norway · founded 2019 · 1 employees
$6.8Mraised

Mobai is a biometrics-based secure authentication solutions provider. The product offered by the company is a facial recognition system. The features of the product include user data protection, secure data transfer, identity theft prevention, iris recognition, data security, and privacy, liveliness detection, detection of imposter attacks, continuous authentication, etc.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Junior Mobile Developer (iOS/ Android/ React Native), Backend/ Full Stack Developer
Activity: 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2024Seed$2.8M
  • Jan 2024Grant (prize money)$389.2K
  • Dec 2021Grant (prize money)$3.2M
  • Sep 2020Grant (prize money)$388.8K
Founders & team
Brage StrandCEO
Investors
Europa, Norwegian Research Council, TD Veen
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareGsapHstsHttp/3Jquery
#10
Series A · Oslo · founded 2017 · 37 employees
$3.3Mraised

Conversational AI and chatbot development solutions. It provides conversational AI solutions that enables businesses to automate responses and processes for managing customer requests. The platform includes a dashboard to track and monitor the conversations.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 21k LinkedIn followers — 17.8% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 2 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • May 2024Series A$2.8M
  • Mar 2020Seed$578.2K
Founders & team
Bard MyrstadCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Idekapital
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookiebotCore-JsFacebook PixelGoogle Analytics
#11
Acquired · Oslo, Oslo · founded 2015 · 39 employees
$11.8Mraised

AI-driven accounting process automation for businesses. It allows businesses to automate the accounting processes and financial data through data-driven insights. It can be integrated with the existing accounting system to perform document management and invoice handling processes. It also provides insights on invoice overview, cost analysis, supplier & cost development, and the status of an invoice inflow.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 7k LinkedIn followers — 5.7% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. Semine) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2022Series B$3M
  • Jun 2020Series A$1.5M
  • Aug 2018Series A$7.3M
Investors
Kistefos
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsGoogle AnalyticsGsapHsts
#12
Series B · Oslo · founded 2021 · 8 employees
$22Mraised

Provider of cloud and AI-based data extraction platform for enterprises. It enables users to build, scale, and deploy data extraction APIs for documents. Its offering includes invoice OCR, receipt OCR, document, and ID card OCR extractors. It also offers AI models, training tools, and integration tools.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 142 LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2021Series B$22M
Founders & team
Stig HaugnaessCo-Founder
Investors
OMERS, Finstart, StartupLab
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesFramer SitesGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiGoogle Workspace

Funding & investor landscape

$166.3Mtotal disclosed funding
18companies funded
37disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Alliance Venture3 rounds
StartupLab3 rounds
Antler2 rounds
Europa2 rounds
Farmhouse Capital2 rounds
Farvatn Venture2 rounds
Finstart2 rounds
H4XLabs2 rounds
Idekapital2 rounds
Northzone2 rounds

Notable founders

Olav Sindre Kriken
Founder & COO · Tana
Tarjei Munthe Vassbotn
CEO/Founder · Tana
Kristoffer Pedersen
Co-Founder · Altek
Jon Hopland
Co-Founder · Altek
Adrian Diaz
Co-Founder & CTO · Volur
David Moriano
Co-Founder · Volur
Lorea Coronado-Garcia
Co-Founder & COO · Spoor
Ask Helseth
Co-Founder & CEO · Spoor
Jacobo Elosua
Co-Founder & CMO · Iris.Ai
Frode Lundgren
Chief Technology Officer / Founder · Vespa
Kim Johansen
Co-Founder & COO · Vespa
Walid Fayez Mustapha
Co-Founder · Deckmatch
Prism market signals · Norway · country-scoped Prism corpus, 78,059 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Artificial Intelligence coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Norway

How research on Artificial Intelligence is moving in Norway

A read on the academic research around Artificial Intelligence — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 112 Norway-affiliated papers.

top research entities
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology22
  • University of Oslo9
  • University of Bergen8
  • FORCE Technology8
  • Oslo University Hospital6
leading researchers
Lee Sharks · Johannes Sigil · Rex Fraction · Alexander Selvikvåg Lundervold · Arvid Lundervold · Trygve Solstad · Christensen Ole · Fernandez Jesus
Breakthroughs35 · 31%
▲ 0%→35% share
0 median citations91% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (0%→35% of field), led by Robustness (evolution).
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Robustness (evolution)5
  • Benchmark (surveying)4
  • Semantics (computer science)3
  • Leverage (statistics)3
  • Architecture3
Newly emergingRobustness (evolution) 0→5
Landmark VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics · 10,653 cites
Advancements30 · 27%
▲ 0%→25% share
0 median citations87% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are rising (0%→25% of field), led by Feature (linguistics).
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Feature (linguistics)4
  • Workflow4
  • Key (lock)3
  • Segmentation3
  • Context (archaeology)2
Landmark Grad-CAM++: Generalized Gradient-Based Visual Explanations for Deep Convolutional Networks · 2,887 cites
Concerns16 · 14%
▲ 0%→11% share
0 median citations69% since 2021mostly reviews
Concerns are rising (0%→11% of field), led by Quality (philosophy).
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Quality (philosophy)3
  • Perspective (graphical)2
  • Visibility2
  • Context (archaeology)2
  • Breast cancer2
Landmark The Precision-Recall Plot Is More Informative than the ROC Plot When Evaluating Binary Classifiers on Imbalanced Dataset · 4,310 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Norway

Where artificial intelligence is researched across Norway

Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.

Oslo25 · +0.35
Opportunity · Artificial neural network
Trondheim23 · +0.33
Opportunity · Set (abstract data type)
Bergen15 · +0.36
Opportunity · Architecture
Tromsø5 · +0.16
Opportunity · Breast cancer
Kristiansand5 · +0.76
Opportunity · Variance (accounting)

Common questions

How many Artificial Intelligence companies are there in Norway?
Radar tracks 51 indexable Artificial Intelligence companies headquartered in Norway that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Artificial Intelligence companies in Norway?
The Artificial Intelligence companies in Norway on this list have raised a combined $166.3M in disclosed equity funding across 18 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Artificial Intelligence company in Norway?
Vespa is the highest-funded Artificial Intelligence company in Norway, with $31M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Artificial Intelligence companies in Norway are funded?
18 of the 51 Artificial Intelligence companies in Norway on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Artificial Intelligence unicorns are there in Norway?
None of the Artificial Intelligence companies in Norway on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Norway Artificial Intelligence companies?
The most active investors in Norway Artificial Intelligence companies on this list include Alliance Venture, StartupLab, Antler, Europa, Farmhouse Capital.
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