Scaleup IX

A growth program for ambitious Northern Norwegian startups

Scaleup IX is a collection-based growth program developed and facilitated by Norinnova. The program is aimed at ambitious early-stage startups in Northern Norway. We are now ready to welcome the third cohort of participants. The purpose is to give the companies increased capacity for growth and lift them to a new level both nationally and internationally.

What can you expect from the program?

The program is tailored to help companies grow through networking, insight, personal development and knowledge.

Access to investors
Individual follow-up from Olympiatoppen between sessions. Performance and goal achievement are central
Personal follow-up from a dedicated business developer who follows the company's development and needs
Expertise in different sectors
Business development tools
Networks relevant for national and international growth
Holistic understanding of the entrepreneur as a 24-hour human being

This year's participants

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The application process for 2023 has been completed This year's admission to the program has been completed, new applicants are welcome in 2024.

If I were to pick out three things that have helped us the most, it would be access to networks in the form of investors, financiers and other partners, personal follow-up and helping us to think bigger. The personal development we have had during Scaleup IX has been invaluable. It has changed our mindset and confidence in what we are doing. When we started the race with Norinnova we talked about a future turnover of maybe 200 million - now we are talking about a turnover of billions. 

Magnus Fors Haugen, CMO of AVJU

Do you need help to achieve your international market ambitions?
Have you attracted investors and do you need additional capital?
Do you want to get to know experts in fundraising, company development and international growth?
Do you want personal follow-up from Olympiatoppen and Norinnova's business developers?

Then Scaleup IX is the program for you!

Get to know this year's contributors

2023 / 2024

In Scaleup IX, participants are contributors and contributors are participants. The human encounters and interactions that take place at the sessions create a superb starting point for personal growth and learning. At each session we bring in experts from different industries; investors, top sports, Olympiatoppen, 330 squadron, brand builders and financial partners.

Trine Lise Andersen

Performance developer Trine Lise has been responsible for building Olympiatoppen Nord, has a master's degree in sports psychology and performance coaching, as well as a PhD in organization and management. Trine Lise is passionate about communicating the importance of performance focus, team building and management of high performance environments.

330 squadron

The department of the Air Force is subordinated to the Rescue Helicopter Service and its main task is to conduct search and rescue missions. In Scaleup IX, they will talk about the importance of brief and debrief to work together as a team through demanding tasks.

Teodor Bjerrang

Founding partner SNÖ Ventures. Growing up with 8bit computers and floppy disks in the 80s and being part of the Internet revolution through the pioneer company New Media Science in the 90s and over 20 years as a developer and designer, now turned VC investing and supporting passionate entrepreneurs across the nordics.

Olympic summits

The social mission is to develop Norwegian elite sport with a clear goal of developing more Olympic champions. In Scaleup IX, they will contribute with knowledge and experience from top sport related to goals and what it takes to become the best in the world. In addition, Olympiatoppen will provide personal follow-up of the participants between the sessions.

Jon Trygve Berg

Partner in Sarsia. Jon is a mechanical engineer and authorized financial analyst with a background in several technology companies. The native of Alta has participated in over 200 financing rounds in portfolio companies. Today he works at Sarsia, an early stage venture capital fund based in Bergen with 3 funds with a total of 1.3 billion in capital under management.

Criteria for participation

To be selected as a participant of the program we want the company:

Ambitions to reach international markets
Have developed prototype and/or started sales
Has raised private capital and needs more
Have a dedicated team of at least two people with this as their main activity
Have a strategy that contributes to addressing one or more of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Is registered in Northern Norway