Asle Jostein Hovda

Robotic Drilling Systems AS develops robotic drilling rigs. Its unmanned system utilizes autonomous robotic working operations that can be remotely controlled from an interactive 3D interface. The company was founded by Per Olav Haughom, Henning Hansen, Per Gunnar Vigre and Lars Raunholt in 2005 and is headquartered in Sandnes, Norway.

Investinor AS is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Innovasjon Norge founded in 2008. The company is headquartered in Trondheim.

Seabed Separation AS develops separator that offers benefits related to oil production. It develops a new type of separator that can potentially provide substantial savings in OPEX and CAPEX and increase production from new and old oil fields. The company was founded by Otto Skovholt and is headquartered in Trondheim, Norway.

Ziebel AS develops fiber optic intervention technology. It designs and manufactures wireless real time permanent gauges for oilfield applications. The firm offers artificial lift solutions such as umbilical wire replaceable electrical down hole pumps and industrial solutions, including torque loggers, controllers, pressure test systems and custom industrial systems. The company was founded by Henning Hansen and David Stanly Ottesen on January 2, 2006 and is headquartered in Tananger, Norway.

Verdande Technology AS develops products and services for the re-use of knowledge. Its core technology is based on the principle of case based reasoning; a process of solving new problems, based on the solutions of similar past problems, and has applications across industries. Its application, DrillEdge* is developed for oil and gas real-time drilling operations. It is designed to reduce risk, increase rate of penetration and reduce non-productive time while drilling. They help operators to re-use knowledge in order to diagnose and avoid costly drilling problems before they escalate.

Innotech Solar AS manufactures high performance photovoltaic modules. It manufactures solar modules in Europe and delivers them worldwide. The company specializes in the production of particularly environmentally friendly modules with optimized solar cells and uses innovative processes developed by in-house research teams. It has offices in Glava, Hong Kong, Kabelsketal, München, Narvik, Shanghai and Vista. Innotech Solar was founded by Håvard Lillebo in March 2008 and is headquartered in Narvik, Norway.