NorwayPlatform
Europe · Pop. 5.6M · #26 startup ecosystem by EV
1 Enterprise value
How much Norway’s VC-backed companies are worth
Combined enterprise value of VC-backed companies headquartered in Norway, founded since 1990 and still operating, at the end of each year. Companies stay in the total after they list or are acquired.
2 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.
3 Startup funnel
Norway's startup funnel
Companies headquartered in Norway at each stage today, by total VC raised. Hover a bar for the split.
Source: Dealroom.co
4 Latest quarter
Norway's latest quarter in venture capital
VC raised by Norway-headquartered companies in the quarter shown, against the quarter before and the same quarter a year earlier.
Latest complete quarter
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5 Largest rounds
Largest funding rounds in Norway
A live treemap of $15M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into a company headquartered in Norway, grouped by Dealroom sector.
Largest rounds in Norway - 2024–2026
6 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.
7 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.
8 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.
9 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.
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