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Startup funding in Norway

37 active investors, grants and programmes open to startups based in Norway, including EU-wide instruments.

  1. European Commission

    An eight-month accelerator for European startups and scale-ups developing defence and dual-use technologies. Delivered by Starburst, it provides coaching, bootcamps, and a €120,000 seed funding voucher.

    Kind
    Accelerator
    Stages
    Seed
    Countries
    EU-wide, NO
    Key fact
    Deadline 16 Nov 2026
    Last verified
    Verified 8 Nov 2026
  2. Sondo

    Rolling

    Sondo Capital

    Norwegian venture capital firm investing 2 to 6 MNOK in pre-seed and seed stage startups with a connection to Norway.

    Kind
    Venture capital
    Stages
    Pre-seed · Seed
    Countries
    Norway
    Key fact
    Ticket €190K–€570K
    Last verified
    Verified 8 Nov 2026
  3. EUDIS

    An 8-month defence acceleration programme providing 20 European startups and scale-ups with a €120k seed funding voucher, bootcamps across Europe, business mentoring, and testing facilities.

    Kind
    Accelerator
    Stages
    Seed
    Countries
    EU-wide, NO
    Key fact
    Deadline 16 Nov 2026
    Last verified
    Verified 7 Nov 2026
  4. RENEW-BOOSTER Consortium

    BattleVerse OC1 provides lump-sum grants of up to €60,000 per beneficiary for six-month experiments integrating LLM decision support, multi-physics simulation, or distributed AI for unmanned swarms into the European Defence Fund simulation ecosystem.

    Kind
    Grant programme
    Countries
    EU-wide, NO, UA
    Key fact
    Deadline 16 Nov 2026
    Last verified
    Verified 7 Nov 2026
  5. Oscar Mike Venture Partners

    Operator-led venture capital firm investing in early-stage European defense and dual-use technologies, focusing particularly on the Baltics, Nordics, and Poland.

    Kind
    Venture capital
    Stages
    Pre-seed · Seed
    Countries
    DK, EE, FI +7
    Last verified
    Verified 7 Nov 2026
  6. Turbine Capital

    Uncertain

    Turbine Capital is a Swedish venture capital fund investing €300k–€1m in seed-stage deep tech startups across Sweden and the Nordics.

    Kind
    Venture capital
    Stages
    Seed
    Countries
    DK, FI, IS +2
    Key fact
    Ticket €300K–€1M
    Last verified
    Verified 7 Nov 2026
  7. E2D

    Uncertain

    E2D is a Munich-based growth venture capital fund backed by Armilar and Earlybird, investing $10M to $30M in Series B and growth-stage European dual-use, defence, aerospace, AI, and cybersecurity startups.

    Kind
    Venture capital
    Stages
    Series B · Series C+
    Countries
    DE, DK, EE +9
    Key fact
    Ticket €8.9M–€26.7M
    Last verified
    Verified 7 Nov 2026
  8. Balnord

    Rolling

    Balnord is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in frontier and dual-use tech startups across the Baltic Sea region, Nordics, Poland, and Germany, focusing on space, healthcare, and industrial resilience.

    Kind
    Venture capital
    Stages
    Seed · Series A
    Countries
    DE, DK, EE +7
    Key fact
    Ticket €500K–€3M
    Last verified
    Verified 7 Nov 2026
  9. DefTech Forges

    Closed, next round expected

    BraveTech EU

    Multi-day defence tech competition for EU and Norwegian startups and SMEs with TRL 4+ dual-use solutions. Selected winners receive €120k grants plus access to up to €750k in scale-up funding.

    Kind
    Competition
    Countries
    EU-wide, NO
    Key fact
    Deadline 6 Sep 2026
    Last verified
    Verified 7 Nov 2026
  10. CASSINI Business Accelerator

    Closed, next round expected

    European Commission

    Six-month space tech accelerator by the EC and EUSPA offering business and investment coaching, events, and non-dilutive funding to European startups and scale-ups using space technologies or data.

    Kind
    Accelerator
    Stages
    Seed
    Countries
    EU-wide, IS, NO
    Key fact
    Deadline 2 Oct 2026
    Last verified
    Verified 7 Nov 2026
  11. BioInnovation Institute

    A 12-month accelerator program by BioInnovation Institute providing early-stage European life science startups with a €500,000 convertible loan, mentoring, and support in therapeutics and planetary health.

    Kind
    Accelerator
    Stages
    Pre-seed · Seed
    Countries
    AT, BE, BG +28
    Key fact
    Ticket €500K–€500K
    Last verified
    Verified 7 Nov 2026
  12. European growth-credit provider originating and structuring €1–3M senior-secured debt facilities for late-seed and Series A B2B technology businesses.

    Kind
    Venture debt
    Stages
    Seed · Series A
    Countries
    EU-wide, GB, IS +2
    Key fact
    Ticket €1M–€3M
    Last verified
    Verified 7 Nov 2026
  13. Bootstrap Europe provides non-dilutive growth debt funding of up to €5M+ to scale-up businesses across Europe, focusing on sectors including biotech, cleantech, fintech, and SaaS.

    Kind
    Venture debt
    Stages
    Series B · Series C+
    Countries
    AL, AT, BA +36
    Key fact
    Ticket €0–€5M
    Last verified
    Verified 7 Nov 2026
  14. E2D

    Curiosity Venture Capital is an Amsterdam-based VC firm investing $270k to $1.1m in pre-seed to Series A European startups building B2B AI software across the Benelux, Nordics, and Baltics.

    Kind
    Venture capital
    Stages
    Pre-seed · Seed · Series A
    Countries
    BE, DK, EE +7
    Key fact
    Ticket €240.6K–€980K
    Last verified
    Verified 7 Nov 2026
  15. Amazon

    Hybrid accelerator by Amazon supporting European startups with scalable technologies that reduce carbon emissions and environmental impact, offering pilot opportunities.

    Kind
    Accelerator
    Stages
    Seed
    Countries
    CH, EU-wide, GB +3
    Last verified
    Verified 7 Nov 2026
  16. Noaber

    Uncertain

    Healthcare impact investor backing (pre-)seed startups that contribute to healthy living and disease management across Benelux, Nordics, DACH, and the UK.

    Kind
    Venture capital
    Stages
    Pre-seed · Seed · Series A
    Countries
    AT, BE, CH +9
    Last verified
    Verified 7 Nov 2026
  17. Newion

    Uncertain

    E2MC Ventures

    Amsterdam-based venture capital firm investing in early-stage B2B cloud and SaaS companies across the Benelux, DACH, and Nordic regions.

    Kind
    Venture capital
    Stages
    Seed · Series A
    Countries
    AT, BE, CH +8
    Key fact
    Ticket €1M–€10M
    Last verified
    Verified 7 Nov 2026
  18. Volve Capital is a Dutch VC backing early-stage tech companies across Benelux, DACH, and the Nordics that contribute to SDGs, with initial tickets of €200k–€500k.

    Kind
    Venture capital
    Stages
    Pre-seed
    Countries
    AT, BE, CH +8
    Key fact
    Ticket €200K–€500K
    Last verified
    Verified 7 Nov 2026
  19. Pride Capital

    Uncertain

    Pride Capital provides flexible growth, acquisition, and buyout capital to software and IT companies across the Benelux, DACH, and Nordic regions.

    Kind
    Venture capital
    Stages
    Series B · Series C+
    Countries
    AT, BE, CH +8
    Last verified
    Verified 7 Nov 2026
  20. Apex Euro Capital

    Apex provides structured venture equity, venture debt, and GPU compute financing for European artificial intelligence startups, from foundation models to vertical and applied ML applications.

    Kind
    Venture capital
    Stages
    Seed · Series A · Series B · Series C+
    Countries
    CH, EU-wide, GB +3
    Key fact
    Ticket €2M+
    Last verified
    Verified 7 Nov 2026

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