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onsdag 15. april 2026

📈 Norwegian startup funding jumps 40%, Holded VP exits & Cognite's AI hire

Your daily startups & tech briefing. onsdag 15. april 2026.

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Norwegian startup fundraising up 40 percent in early 2025

Norwegian startups are raising capital at a meaningfully faster pace this year, with Kapital Opp reporting a 40 percent increase in early-stage fundraising activity. The figure suggests that investor appetite — which froze across much of Europe in 2023 and 2024 — is thawing in the Nordics. Whether that momentum holds through the year depends largely on whether the deals closing now actually perform.

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Kelluu raises €15m to patrol European skies with airships

Finnish startup Kelluu has closed a €15 million round to scale its autonomous airship technology for border surveillance and critical infrastructure monitoring. The pitch is straightforward: airships can loiter for days at low cost, covering terrain that satellites miss and drones can't sustain. With European border security spending rising sharply, the timing reflects a market that is actively looking for alternatives to conventional aerial surveillance.

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Skvaller & Folk

Holded's VP of RevOps departs after eight-year run

The VP of Revenue Operations at Holded (Visma) has left the company after eight years. He joined in 2018 as a junior developer straight out of a bootcamp, eventually spanning engineering, marketing, sales, and customer success — hiring more than 200 people along the way. No next role has been announced.

Cognite hires Director of Applied ML for industrial AI push

A machine learning professional has joined Cognite as Director of Applied ML, with a focus on the data integration team's contextualization work. The hire signals continued investment in the industrial AI platform's core technical capabilities. No previous role was disclosed in the announcement.

Diskussionen

Unacast heads to CES to meet clients and partners

Unacast will be at CES in January, with the company looking to connect with clients and partners on the ground. If you're attending and want to meet, reaching out directly is the move. It's a quiet post — zero likes, zero comments — but CES remains one of the few events where location data players find a genuinely receptive audience.

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Femtech-leder: Fordommer koster bransjen milliarder

Chelsea Ranger, som leder organisasjonen Wild og jobber for bedre kjønnsbalanse i helsesektoren, er ukens gjest i Shifter Podcast. Hun argumenterer for at femtech-markedets milliardpotensial bremses av fordommer — og at ansvaret ligger hos alle, ikke bare bransjen selv. Det er en sjelden ærlig analyse av hvorfor et marked som burde vokse, fortsatt ikke gjør det.

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