Best Security & Surveillance Technology Companies in Norway
The 41 best Security & Surveillance Technology companies in Norway in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: IDEX.
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$4.8b in tracked funding; 91% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Security & Surveillance Technology companies in Norway
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IDEX Developer of biometric authentication cards for access and payment security | $140M | 8 mo ago | Public | Stan Swearingen CEO | 1996 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+23 | — | — |
| 2 | Novelda Provider of sensors to detect human presence | $84M | 56 mo ago | Series D | Eirik Naess Ulseth Co-Founder | 2004 | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | 127 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 3 | Tive Provider of real-time shipment tracking solutions for various industries | $79M | 8 mo ago | Series C | Krenar Komoni CEO | 2012 | WebflowSentryAtlassian Statuspage+37 | — | — |
| 4 | Sonitor Technologies Provider of ultrasound-based real time locating systems (RTLS) | $51M | 117 mo ago | Series B | — | 1997 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+12 | 284 patents Acoustic and RF indoor/vehicular positioning systems with smartphone detection | — |
| 5 | Zwipe A platform offering fingerprint-based biometric authentication solutions | $26M | 57 mo ago | Public | — | 2009 | Webflowcore-jsjQuery+11 | 252 patents Mobile biometric enrollment and secure smartcard manufacturing for authentication devices | — |
| 6 | NEXT Biometrics Provider of fingerprint-based solutions for biometric systems | $16M | 34 mo ago | Public | — | 2000 | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | 107 patents Integrated oxide-semiconductor fingerprint sensors on displays and multi‑segment biometric sensing | — |
| 7 | Strise Tech Provider of AI-powered automation solutions for anti-money laundering and know-your-business | $16M | 35 mo ago | Series A | Patrick Skjennum Co-founder & CTO | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Mobai Biometrics based secure authentication solutions provider | $7M | 30 mo ago | Seed | Brage Strand CEO | 2019 | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | 3 patents Facial anti‑spoofing detection and privacy‑preserving encrypted biometric similarity matching | — |
| 9 | Defigo Provider of an IoT-enabled access control system for commercial buildings | $4M | 55 mo ago | Seed | Joachim Stray Co-Founder & Group CEO | 2014 | WebflowVimeoTypekit+22 | — | — |
| 10 | Pone Biometrics Offering biometrics solutions | $3M | 25 mo ago | Series A | — | 2017 | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+37 | — | 1 partnership |
| 11 | Parqio Provider of cloud-based garage door access control systems | $1M | 55 mo ago | Seed | Ketil Hoigaard CEO & Co-founder Parqio | 2020 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowcore-js+21 | — | 1 partnership |
| 12 | Diwala Provider of data security solutions | $200K | 98 mo ago | Seed | Snorre Lothar von Gohren Edwin Co-Founder & CTO | 2017 | WebflowIntercomSendgrid+10 | — | — |
| 13 | BankID Digital credentials for identification. | $193K | 41 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2014 | SanityNode.jsReact+15 | — | — |
| 14 | Memkite On-Device image recognition based search for iOS | $100K | 146 mo ago | Deadpooled | Amund Tveit Founder | 2013 | — | 2 patents Brain‑computer interface enabling real‑time neural search of information | — |
Top 12 Security & Surveillance Technology companies in Norway
#1
Public · Fornebu, Viken · founded 1996 · 93 employees$139.9Mraised▾
Developer of biometric authentication cards for access and payment security. These cards offer fingerprint authentication for physical entry, digital login, and payments. The cards are designed to integrate with existing identity platforms and payment systems. They provide security against phishing, AI-driven attacks, and unauthorized access.
- Dec 2025Post IPO$2.2M
- Jul 2025Post IPO$2.9M
- Sep 2024Post IPO$6.6M
- Nov 2023Post IPO$3.2M
#2
Series C · Mo i Rana, Nordland · founded 2012 · 11 employees$79Mraised▾
Provider of real-time shipment tracking solutions for various industries. The company offers hardware and software designed to monitor the location and condition of goods during transit. Its platform provides alerts for temperature, shock, and route deviations. The company’s services include shipment monitoring and support to help ensure on-time and in-full deliveries.
- Dec 2025Series C$20M
- Dec 2024Series C$40M
- Apr 2022Series B$54M
- Feb 2021Grant (prize money)$1.3M
#3
Public · Oslo, Oslo · founded 2000 · 27 employees$15.8Mraised▾
Provider of fingerprint-based solutions for biometric systems. It provides users with a company produces active thermal sensing technology. Its product portfolio includes fingerprint sensor modules, fingerprint readers, aadhar products, and software kits. It can be used in smart card, government ID, access control, and notebook. It provides fingerprint sensor technology for authentication in the smart card, government ID, access control, and notebook markets.
- Nov 2023Post IPO$5.5M
- Feb 2021Post IPO$10.5M
- May 2020Post IPO$5.1M
- Jan 2019Post IPO$18.4M
#4
Series D · Oslo, Oslo · founded 2004 · 73 employees$83.6Mraised▾
Provider of sensors to detect human presence. The company offers a presence sensor to detect human presence through any material to enable auto-wake mode. It also offers an impulse radar transceiver System on Chip (SoC) sensors for human presence detection in indoor applications. It can be used in consumer electronics for user detection and smart buildings for automation detection.
- Dec 2021Series D$44.7M
- Feb 2021Series C$11.9M
- Feb 2019Series C$15M
- Nov 2016Series B$12M
#5
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.
- Feb 2024Seed$2.8M
- Jan 2024Grant (prize money)$389.2K
- Dec 2021Grant (prize money)$3.2M
- Sep 2020Grant (prize money)$388.8K
#6
Series A · Oslo, Oslo · founded 2016 · 15 employees$15.6Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered automation solutions for anti-money laundering and know-your-business. It offers tools for UBO discovery, KYB/KYC onboarding, global business data screening, and perpetual monitoring. The company provides an API for AML automation and client-facing form design. It serves industries including banking, payment services, insurance, legal, audit, and asset management.
- Sep 2023Series A$10.8M
- Nov 2022Series A$3.3M
- Apr 2020Seed$1.5M
#7
Series A · Oslo, Oslo · founded 2017 · 3 employees$3.4Mraised▾
Offering biometrics solutions
- Aug 2024Series A$3.4M
#8
Public · Oslo, Oslo · founded 2009 · 32 employees$25.8Mraised▾
A platform offering fingerprint-based biometric authentication solutions. It provides users with cardholders to register the fingerprints on the cards and wearables. It also uses the technology to develop contactless NFC-based payment cards and access cards. The fingerprint scanner on the straps of the wearables authenticates the user and confirms the payment. It provides next generation biometric cards for payment, physical and logical access control and identification solutions.
- Nov 2021Grant (prize money)$56.4K
- Aug 2021Post IPO$12M
- Sep 2020Post IPO$10.7M
- Apr 2019Grant (prize money)$5.4M
#9
Series B · Oslo, Oslo · founded 1997 · 10 employees$51Mraised▾
Sonitor provides location and tracking information through an ultrasound real-time locating system (RTLS) technology. It combines area, room and sub-room accuracy in one platform. The company has developed Sonitor Sense and Sonitor TagID System, a wireless system that supports a range of applications including asset management, patient flow management, workflow management, infection control, nurse call, and environmental monitoring. The platform is available for licensing or integration into any system or solution requiring real-time positioning data. The company also provides a patented forkbeard platform based on Fast Ultrasound Echo Location (FUEL) technology which allows location tracking in an indoor environment also.
- Nov 2016Series B$7.7M
- Apr 2016Series B$9.7M
#10
Seed · Oslo, Oslo · founded 2014 · 13 employees$4.4Mraised▾
Provider of an IoT-enabled access control system for commercial buildings
- Jan 2022Seed$4.4M
#11
Seed · Oslo, Oslo · founded 2020 · 10 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Provider of cloud-based garage door access control systems. It offers a mobile application for residents, as well as web-based software for administration. It allows users to remotely open doors, and control access. Its features include access sharing, visitor access, access management, automatic door opening, sharing of parking space, and voice-controlled door opening.
- Jan 2022Seed$1.1M
#12
Funding Raised · Oslo, Oslo · founded 2014 · 20 employees$192.6Kraised▾
BankID is personalized and easy electronic credentials for secure identification. It can be used to sign documents and messages on-line. BankID allows business identify 3.5 million Norwegians digitally. That means you can conduct secure transactions, create and maintain safe customer relations and conclude and sign binding agreements. Other applications for it are online financing agreements, switching telecom operator, for buying smart cars etc. The company was formed on 19 June 2014 and owned by banks in Norway. The banking industry began development of BankID as a communal infrastructure in 2000.
- Apr 2023Grant (prize money)$192.6K
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Security & Surveillance Technology coverage by sub-theme.
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How research on Cybersecurity is moving in Norway
A read on the academic research around Cybersecurity — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 88 Norway-affiliated papers.
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology21
- Ministry of Defence14
- University of Oslo7
- Ministry of Transport7
- OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University5
- Intrusion detection system1→5
- Computer security1→4
- Computer security1→5
- Computer security8
- Network security2
- Honeypot2
- Server2
- Network packet2
Where cybersecurity 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.
Common questions
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