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Oxidane Venture invests in the intersection between water and high technology. As well as the profit potential of our portfolio, we also evaluate social and ecological impact. Guided by the United Nations sustainable development goals, we ensure our portfolio companies drive the blue shift.

While we look for the most exciting water-related technologies, everything we do is about people. We invest in teams that are the best at what they do, solving an issue with environmental and financial rewards. In return, we give more than just capital. We offer brains, passion, and active ownership.

Our team and board offer decades of business development experience, risk management, branding, funding, science, and technology. Oxidane is one of few venture firms with an in-house team of highly experienced software developers. We offer our portfolio companies our skills and networks that expand from potential clients, teams, and board members to business developers and investors. The headquarters of Oxidane Venture is in the sustainability house in the CBD of Kristiansand. We are also present in Copenhagen and London.

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Metascience (Charles Gian diPierro) is a physician-scientist with degrees in medicine, molecular, physiology, epidemiology, and public health. He lives with his family in New Jersey, USA, and Kvinesdal, Norway. His research and medical practice are in Environmental Medicine and target the interactions between environment and human health. His past and current pre-seed through late-stage investments are informed by and share the same focus as his research and practice. He lives with his family in New Jersey, USA, and Kvinesdal, Norway.

Valide supports the business development of start-ups, with a mandate of business development, restructuring of companies, and creation of new jobs in addition to financial returns. They support the early phase with tools such as dedicated advisors, accelerator programs, business clusters, commercialization of research (TTO), and investments. We have broad expertise in Validé (25 employees). We can leverage this and our extensive investor network to help companies grow.

valide.no

Sprettert is a group of early-stage investors from Rogaland with both family office and ex-founders on the team. Since 2016, we have invested in over 25 early-stage companies in Rogaland / Norway, contributed our knowledge and experience, and helped companies raise further capital. We focus on robotics, AI, IoT, SaaS, and related, and have done well in these focus areas. Hence, we have a suitable portfolio of companies and a network of relevant institutional investors. 

In Intoto Sprettert consists of Magnus Jepson (Jepson Holding AS) , Christian Rokseth (Christian Rokset Holding AS), Erik Ålgård (Eaah Invest AS) and Halvor Øgreid (Trunkfish Capital AS).

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Haitoukin is an investment company with significant involvement in early-stage companies, mainly B2B. We invest in both hardware and software companies. We are currently involved in over 20 companies, some as an active investor (advisor) and some with a more passive role. We were among the first investors in Huddly, Crayonano, ReTyre, and Sharebox, to name a few. We have a long-term time horizon and often follow up in later rounds. We are occasionally involved in preparing prospectuses, pricing, strategies, and VC systems. Intoto contact is Christian Bøhn.

Rolf Einar Ahlqvist has a degree in social economics from the University of Gothenburg. He lives in Stavanger and is married to Hege. They have three children and two grandchildren. He currently operates as an investor and prioritizes investments in start-up companies. He has 45 years of experience in the industry. Twenty of these he spent as a partner and chairman of the board of the start-up company Procom Venture AS in Stavanger. He also has experience as CEO of a listed company for 12 years. Extensive board experience, both nationally and internationally.

Ship Contact is an investment company that Hesnes Gas AS owns.
Hesnes Gas AS is a ship brokerage company within LPG started in 2014 by Jens Kjellesvik. 

Ship Contact’s strategy is to invest most of the income from ship brokerage in Hesnes Gas AS in more future-oriented value creation. 

They have an investment portfolio (approximately 16 million) consisting of traditional shares and bonds, some real estate, and some in the Private Equity Fund. They have also invested in young and relatively newly established companies in the growth phase. So far, we have five other start-up companies in the portfolio, some green energy (World Power Energy), an algorithm company (Anzyz Technologies), a drone company (Aviant), oyster production (Norwegian Shores), and cleaning/maintenance of LNG tanks (Coldbox solutions). 

All companies are Norwegian, and we are involved in the board in 2 of them. Intoto contact is Kaja Smith-Kielland Kjellesvik.

hesnesgas.no

TRK Group is an Oslo-based Active Ownership Firm founded by long-term McKinsey Senior Partner Trond Riiber Knudsen. TRK Group aims to catalyze growth for promising entrepreneurial ventures across three particularly exciting domains: Disruptive Technologies, Digital service transformation, and Emerging Africa.

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Acme Capital AS is a small investment company consisting of Ketil Nereng and Heidar Engebret. Ketil’s background is from the small-scale power industry through turbine manufacturer and power plant developer BNTurbin AS. At the same time, Heidar has a background in finance through Sparebank 1 Markets and Dovre Forvaltning. Both previously also sat on the listed seismic company SeaBird Exploration board. Acme invests with a broad mandate but focuses on the early phase. Acme is already a shareholder in 7Analytics AS within surface water and flood treatment with a board seat.

Owned by Andreas Moyland, Global Business and Strategy Advisor at Anzyz Technologies.

A company owned by Marouane Ben Amor. He is now Senior Director at Cognite AS. Dedicated and enthusiastic, certified PMP, PRINCE2® Practitioner, and Scrum Master project manager with a solid technical background. Good experience in managing small and medium scale projects from business needs evaluation and requirements specification to project delivery, proven ability to translate clients’ business needs into practical solutions, and experience in performing risk management activities.