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NorwayPlatform

Europe · Pop. 5.6M · #27 startup ecosystem by EV

A public taster of the full Norway ecosystem on Dealroom — request a demo for live deal flow, founder pedigrees, AI-talent maps, and the full cap table for every company below.

1 Overview

1,541 Pool of Funded Startups
374 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
121 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment
get funded 32%
723 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M
375 Seed Startups$1–4M
Pre-Seed to Seed 22%
284 Series A Startups$4–15M
Seed to Series A 18%
88 Series B Breakouts$15–40M
A to Series B 27%
48 Series C Breakouts$40–100M
B to Series C 32%
18 Mega Scaleups$100–250M
reach Mega 1.2%
5 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+
reach Mega+ 0.32%
14 Unicorns($1–10B valuation)
reach Unicorn 0.91%
1 Decacorns($10–100B valuation)
reach Decacorn 0.065%
Pre-Seed
723
Seed
375
Series A
284
Series B
88
Series C
48
Unicorn
14
Decacorn
1

* 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

Every $15M+ VC round into Norway-headquartered companies in 2024–2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.
- rounds · - raised
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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.

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By enterprise value · 5-yr growth
1 Oslo $51.2B 10× 5-yr
2 Bergen $2.6B 3.8× 5-yr

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.

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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.

Granted patent families
2,546
Filed by tracked startups headquartered in the country.
457 patents per million residents · #21 globally
Top patenting hubs
1 Greater Oslo Region 2,379
2 Bergen Metropolitan Area, Norway 167

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.

Sector breakdown
Where Norway's unicorns concentrate
Fintech
AI / Enterprise SW
Health Tech
Biotech
Cybersecurity
Consumer
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Capital autonomy
Norway's domestic vs foreign capital mix
% domestic VC by stage
Cross-border lead investors
Sovereign-fund participation
Foreign-LP exposure
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Recent momentum
Norway's VC investment trajectory by stage
2024 vs 2025 by stage
Round-size trends
Stage-conversion deltas
Quarterly velocity
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Founder origins
Where Norway's startup founders come from
By country of origin
Per capita
Top universities
Top alumni-factory companies
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AI talent
Top employers of AI talent in Norway
Core AI roles
Frontier AI roles
YoY hiring growth
Senior + lead engineers
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Deal flow
Live deal flow & funding rounds in Norway
New rounds last 30 days
Stage breakdown
Active investors
Round-size trends
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