VENTURE FACTORYVenture Factory was founded in the fall of 2012 in Oslo, Norway with a straightforward goal: turning ideas into business. Our core competence is e-commerce, technology, and performance marketing. We use our skills to start new companies together with strategic partners, other entrepreneurs, or within our own organization. Since then we’ve involved ourselves in a range of ideas. Some have blossomed and turned into prosperous businesses, while others have been challenging and ultimately put to rest. We believe our understanding of technology and online marketing combined with a unique domain insight is the recipe for success and therefore we partner up with entrepreneurs or larger corporations to pursue new business opportunities. Our portfolio consists of a mix of businesses. Some are consultancies where external clients benefit from our competence and others are tech or e-commerce ventures that we have started alone or together with partners. Do you have a great idea you want to discuss with us? Please email us at contact@venturefactory.noVenture Factory offices are located centrally in Oslo and our development team is located in Odesa, Ukraine. We are always on the lookout for great talent both in Odessa and Oslo, so email us at contact@venturefactory.no if you think you are a good match.

A global movement to make it fun & easy to break the ice between people to find true love, friendships, and social activities with an optimal mix of high-tech & high-touch organized as a Master Franchise. The top management team at Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA bought the idea in 2006 as a social benefit. Love & Friendship locally & globally - health & peace! Personal matchmaking, online dating, friendships, mingling! Improving relationship health! Looking for: mentor(s), companies to co-create (pilot project), team members, business partners, investors, etc. Storytelling frame (the truth): Svalbard: Here you can still risk meeting polar bears in the streets. Every semester the university (UNIS) has an icebreaker party! Since 2004 I have tested out different ideas and found them possible to succeed. For more information read this paper: ALYTUS COLLEGE, ISSN 2029-9311, October 30, 2013: 50 % of the world population lives in big cities worldwide - how will this affect our social relationships -- and how to improve these? 50 % of the world population lives in big cities worldwide --and this will increase (globalis.no) - how will this affect our social relationships, and how to improve these? Several statistics underline the challenges of the modern world: 50 % or more are single. 50 % are cheating. 50 % or more break up or divorce. 25 % on sick leave as a result of a relationship breakup. Low libido is now a public health problem. 48 % have only one friend, but not a reliable one in a crisis. 50 % of the population wants more friends. We become more sick from our private lives than our work lives (Modesta Olsen, 2007), and the modern family is the most common family structure (Almendingen, 2010). Which social structures can survive the strain of losing the qualities of faithfulness, honesty, and decency? Cynicism becomes our defense. Depression and feelings of emptiness are the prices we pay. Giving hugs, care, and trust to others not only bring greater happiness - it can also lead to better business. Icebreakercard.com is a new world movement to solve these social challenges. It fights for its vision: Love and friendship locally and globally! Our big goal is to improve your life quality. As social entrepreneurs, we are called the fourth sector which cooperates with the other three: private, public, and civic (Ellis, 2006) with an optimal mix of high tech & high touch! In this paper, I will present my research findings in the Western world (mainly Norway and USA) and my part of the solution as a social entrepreneur of Icebreakercard.com. A social entrepreneur has been described as our time's hero and heroines. We create solutions where none of the sectors have succeeded well enough. Bad relationships lead to health problems in the population across age and gender. Mental health conditions are now the key concern in all of the OECD countries. The employer and the community take the economic bill when the employee is on sick leave. The disease is a private matter, but absence is not. Links: http://alytauskolegija.lt/Dokumentai/2013/38_Soreide.pdf http://www.slideshare.net/AnneSreide/ib-fb-2012 https://independent.academia.edu/AnneS%C3%B8reide https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_G._S%C3%B8reide

We’re an independent game studio based in Oslo, Norway, which was founded in February 2013 by a group of students at the Norwegian School of Information Technology (NITH). In January 2014 we consisted of 7 members of the team who all have different experiences in their own fields of expertise. Our common goal is that we want to contribute to the indie scene with story-driven games, without compromising the gameplay. Starting up a new company (let alone within gaming) is no joke, and we hope to make it easier for future companies to make games. It’s a small pond, and as soon as we announce our projects, our vision is to have an exposed development during production. So keep an eye on our development blog on our page, or contact us if you want to know anything! We are currently working on a third-person horror game, set in a forest inspired by Norwegian nature.

The Lush Box is an artisanal gifting company that will bring you an elevated gifting experience. Unlike automated gifting platforms selling you the same old impersonal gifts, we believe in bringing simplicity with thoughtfulness into gifting. We are a female-founded, self-funded company dedicated to sourcing the best products in our gifts. Our products are locally-sourced from entrepreneurs and small businesses in Denmark. When you support us, you help local businesses flourish, create economic opportunities and help strengthen our community. Did we tell you that we are a gifting company with sustainability and circular economy in focus? One of our key aims is to eliminate the need for single-use plastics and introduce reusable gift boxes to reduce wastage. We collaborate with suppliers who share similar values and business sensibilities. So say goodbye to your generic cellophane-wrapped gift baskets today! Come, be a part of this unique journey as we bring a perfect balance to the art of thoughtful gifting and creating bespoke gifting experiences.

We turn life science and deep tech ideas into commercially successful companies. We serve both as a consultancy and as a venture builder. At Marigold Innovation, we build bridges between research and business, science and product, researchers and investors. Most scientists prefer to stay where they add the most value, namely as highly skilled scientists and inventors who understand the translational process at an intellectual level, without the deep insight and experience in how to execute accordingly. ​We want to ensure that the skilled scientists focus on what they excel in – doing science and inventing stuff! ​ Marigold Innovation closes the gap by bringing the competences required to complement the scientific team. In this way we ensure that all necessary skills are in place at the needed timepoint and at the right level to secure the optimal development path from academia to a commercially viable company.

Webshop med Danmarks største udvalg af fertilitetstests som ægløsningstests, graviditetstests, tidlige graviditetstests, termometre, sædkvalitetstests og fertilitetstests. Jeg har selv arbejdet som sundhedsjournalist på Danmarks Radio i over 10 år, og derfor har jeg lagt over 60 artikler ind i webshoppen, som handler om vejen frem mod graviditet. I øjeblikket arbejder jeg også på at lave en podcast om brugernes rejser frem mod graviditet. Eksempelvis at blive solomor, at have gentagne ufrivillige aborter, at have PCOS, være i fertilitetsbehandling osv. Ifølge Rigshospitalet bliver cirka hvert 10. barn i dag undfanget ved hjælp af fertilitetsbehandling. Vi bliver også ældre og ældre, når vi får børn og derfor bruger mange af os måneder og år på at blive gravide. Med gravidtid.dk har vi samlet produkterne og en masse viden til denne stigende gruppe af danskere

Shave the Goat er det utraditionelle contentbureau, og vi har fuld fart på. Vi elsker at producere videocontent, tage billeder, snakke forretning, spille bordtennis og meget andet. Vi er et nystartet firma, hvor der er højt til loftet og det er vigtigt for os, at du arbejder med noget, du synes er interessant. 

UGC BUTIKEN is a Nordic UGC agency that specializes in creating video content for your SoMe, advertising, and e-commerce pages. Our agency also helps position brands organically and through advertising on TikTok. We aim to save you time by offering a complete solution for your marketing needs. UGC is truly the future and it's happening right now. It's difficult to reach audiences with credible ads that aren't authentic, so we want to help all businesses create engaging and genuine videos. - Matilda Allan, Founder of UGC BUTIKEN .

Sushi kræver omhu og langvarigt fokus at mestre. Sushi Lovers' filosofi handler om respekt for håndværket og for smagen. Hos Sushi Lovers er fokusset på den friske fisk, den smukke udskæring, de perfekte ris, det rigtige forhold mellem ris og fyld og en lyst til at tilføje sushien en kant og en retning gennem nye og kendte råvarer og metoder, som gør det til en særlig oplevelse at spise hos Sushi Lovers.

Nordisk design for børn og familier. Vi har fokus på leg og indretning i børneværelset. Virksomheden er etableret i 2020 og Littleroom skabt som projekt i 2021. Vi udvikler vores egne produkter og sælger dem direkte til familier online. Her har det enkle og genanvendelige design en særlig plads i vores virskomhed.

Lawo Lab is a startup company based out of a small town in the south of Norway with an international aim. Started by 4 main founders in 2018, our goal is to innovate and improve solutions for our clients. With a wide base of experience from several types of industries we offer a new look at old problems. Core business is software development and hardware prototyping with the capability to initiate projects from start to finish in house.

Vi hjælper klinikker og patienter med vores komplette og lettilgængelige sundhedsplatform. Star.Cares mission Vi skaber den bedste sundhedsplatform med komplette, tilgængelige og søgbare klinikprofiler. Star.Cares vision Vi accelererer udviklingen henimod et mere effektivt sundhedsvæsen, der skaber værdi for patienter, klinikker og samfundet.

Every year 282 million metric tonnes of plastic waste is produced worldwide, yet only 15% of this is recycled. This needs to change. AION’s purpose is to industrially scale a circular plastic economy. We make circularity happen at an industrial scale by working with our customers to identify opportunities to shift from linear to circular and grow their degree of circularity within plastic. Together with our partners we orchestrate a tailored, traceable and circular value chain for specific use cases. Our team of material, regulatory, logistics and business development experts work with companies to make sure the products and processes fit their existing operations, meet quality requirements and importantly have a tangible impact towards reducing their use of virgin plastic, reducing their CO2 footprint, and avoiding a generation of plastic waste.

Solstroem is a cutting-edge technology platform based on a proprietary distributed ledger technology, providing off-grid solar providers access to the carbon market. We accelerate the energy transition in developing and emerging countries. By 2022, Solstroem aims at positively impacting the lives of over 2.5 Million people. The Solstroem solution is data-driven, and based on direct software integrations with solar partners in the field. Join us on the journey towards a greener and fair tomorrow.

We are a green chemicals company. We champion the preservation of our natural basis of existence and make our contribution towards protecting it by using our resources in an ecologically sensible way. This not only means that we comply with existing laws for environmental protection and sustainability, but also that we attempt to avoid unnecessary use of renewable resources wherever this seems possible. Apart from the environmental aspect, we also continue to develop successfully in the areas of economic and social sustainability.