NorwayPlatform
Europe · Pop. 5.6M · #27 startup ecosystem by EV
1 Overview
* C→Unicorn and Unicorn→Decacorn rates are derived from current counts (no founding-cohort data); the four mid-funnel rates use Dealroom's cohort tracking.
2 Largest rounds
Largest funding rounds in Norway
A live treemap of $15M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into a Norway-headquartered company, grouped by Dealroom sector.
Largest rounds in Norway - 2024–2026
3 Startup hubs
Inside Norway: 2 startup hubs, 63 universities
Hubs are sized by combined enterprise value; universities by the startup founders they produced. Hover any point for its numbers; the lists rank hubs by EV and universities by founders.
4 VC investment
How much venture capital flows into Norway
VC investment into Norway-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.
5 Founder origins
Where Norway's unicorn founders build
42 founders born in Norway are behind 22 unicorns; 23% of those were built in the US. Origins are resolved from biography and education history, not current address. Compare with the other origin countries in Europe, ranked by founders or per 1M inhabitants.
6 Location comparison
Unicorns, decacorns and centicorns — Norway in a global comparison
Companies count where they were founded or are headquartered. Values are per 1M people or totals, as a share of the US (US = 100%) or absolute; bars scale to the largest value in each column. Hover any value for the per-1M rate and absolute count.
7 Patent intelligence
Norway startup IP portfolio: 2,546 patent families
Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in Norway. Aggregated across the country's hub-level filings — Bay Area, Boston, etc. roll up under the United States row, the same way Tokyo and Osaka roll up under Japan.
8 Premium analytics
What we don't show on this page (yet)
Sector breakdowns, founder origins, AI-talent leaderboards and live deal flow are gated to logged-in Dealroom users. Book a demo to access the full Norway dataset — or see a sample on the Dealroom app.
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Live company-by-company deal flow, full cap tables, founder pedigrees, hiring signals and revenue trajectories.