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Best Native AI Companies in Norway

The 52 best Native AI companies in Norway in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Vespa.

52companies tracked
$171.1Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
20have raised
Sources & further reading
  • benzinga.com
  • MnM industry experts
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · NATIVE AI × NORWAY

Our analysis of 150 Native AI companies

$80.7b in tracked funding; 94% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

150companies analysed
94%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
50unicorns
2022median founding year
120kcombined LinkedIn audience
48%of audience held by top 3
1companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Native AI companies in Norway

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundEmployeesFounderTech stackWeb popularityPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1Abdera
AI powered content moderation platform
———Jonas Myhre
Co-Founder
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2AKVANTI
Developer of cloud and AI-based cameras for migratory fish monitoring
——1—————
3Anzyz
Provider of a natural language processing engine for text analysis
——17Ole-Christoffer Granmo
Co-founder
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4ChatAgentLab
Developer of a no-code platform for custom AI agent deployment
———Andreas Torgersen
Founder
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5ChatFlow
Provider of AI chatbot builder using website content as knowledge base
———Helge Sverre
Founder & Owner
Cart FunctionalityPHPLaravel+10Top 50M——
6Databutton
Developer of low-code platform designed to execute high-impact projects by designing, navigating, and…
——9—————
7Ekvi
Operator of the AI-driven health platform intended to build a holistic and personal health profile.
——5—————
8Factiverse
AI powered platform offering automated detection of misinformation and disinformation
——9Maria Amelie
Co-Founder & CEO
WebflowPlausiblecore-js+13Top 10M——

Top 12 Native AI 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 — 4.3% 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 — 8.9% 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 — 17.6% 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
Series A · Oslo, Oslo · founded 2016 · 9 employees
$4.8Mraised
▾

Developer of a no-code AI platform for industrial process optimization. The platform empowers engineers and operators to optimize efficiency and improve quality. It integrates with existing industrial systems, enabling rapid onboarding and scalable deployment. The platform facilitates real-time predictions and automated process adjustments.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 2.8% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2023Series A$3.5M
  • Apr 2020Grant (prize money)$54.3K
  • Dec 2019Grant (prize money)$54.7K
  • Jan 2018Seed$1.3M
Founders & team
Bertil HelsethFounder and CTO
Investors
Europa, Investinor, StartupLab, Innovasjon Norge, Skagerak Maturo, EIC Fund
Tech stack
WixReactGoogle CloudSectigoHstsGoogle Cloud Cdn
#12
Acquired · Oslo, Oslo · founded 2015 · 39 employees
$11.8Mraised
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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 — 5.6% 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

Funding & investor landscape

$171.1Mtotal disclosed funding
19companies funded
41disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
StartupLab4 rounds
Alliance Venture3 rounds
Europa3 rounds
Antler2 rounds
EIC Fund2 rounds
Farmhouse Capital2 rounds
Farvatn Venture2 rounds
Finstart2 rounds
H4XLabs2 rounds
Idekapital2 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, 40,441 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Native AI 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 Native AI companies are there in Norway?
Radar tracks 52 indexable Native AI companies headquartered in Norway that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Native AI companies in Norway?
The Native AI companies in Norway on this list have raised a combined $171.1M in disclosed equity funding across 19 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Native AI company in Norway?
Vespa is the highest-funded Native AI company in Norway, with $31M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Native AI companies in Norway are funded?
19 of the 52 Native AI companies in Norway on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Native AI unicorns are there in Norway?
None of the Native AI companies in Norway on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Norway Native AI companies?
The most active investors in Norway Native AI companies on this list include StartupLab, Alliance Venture, Europa, Antler, EIC Fund.
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