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Norway represents the Majority of growth companies from the Nordics according to the Deliotte FAST 500

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Norway represents the majority in the Nordic according to the European Deliotte FAST 500 • Norway is the Top 3 European country in Deliotte

Growth FAST 500*

• Norwegian companies represent more than 45% of all growth companies in the Nordics according to Deliotte*

• Software companies represents 50% of Nordic growth companies*

• Oslo county, the capital of Norway, and Akershus (Oslo vicinity) host 54% of all Software startups in Norway**

* http://bit.ly/1vslYfN (criteria - total growth over the last 4 years)** Own research based on official Norwegian data (see last page)

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Norway in the top tier in the FAST 500 Growth Deliotte*

Norway number 3 in Europe

Norway has 50% of the Nordic Growth

companies

Software companies

represent more than 50% of Nordic

• France on top with 87 companies represented, United Kingdom in 2nd place with 72 companies

• Norway with a strong 3rd place with 50 companies, a large number given the no. of people living in the country

• 107 Nordic companies on the list• Sweden on 2nd place in the Nordics with 37

companies, Finland with 14 and, Denmark 4

• The majority of the European growth companies (52%) are within Software

• In the Nordics 50% of all the 107 are software companies

* http://bit.ly/1vslYfN (criteria - total growth over the last 4 years)

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Oslo, an attractive spot for Software startups

Substantial growth in number of

startups over the last years

45% of All SW reated startups are

based in Oslo, Akershus

Continued growth in New startups

• In 2011 Norway had 257 Software specific startups• In 2015 this number had grown to 627, a growth by 242%

• From 2011 until end of 2015, the number of startups in Oslo & Akershus has grown from 116 to 285, an increase of 245%

• 285 of the total of 622 startups are Oslo based

• Over the last 4 years a total number of 2 285 SW startups in Norway

• The same number in Oslo is 1006 SW startups representing 44% of the total

* Own research based on official Norwegian data (ses last page)

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StartupLab – a unique place to START

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• Active daily support of ICT/Tech startups since May 2012.

• Currently (end of Dec. 2015) the Lab holds 68 startups. Of those moved out, 25 has closed their business

Ongoing support until you succeed

(of fail)

Access to:• Experiences

partners• Workshops with

industry partners• Credits from

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Hubspot etc.

• Free access to int. experts

• Help with recruiting, PR/marketing, Financing (Founders Fund), strategies

• Stimulating evironment

• Educational session• Corporate partners

and network

Some of our fantastic Alumni’s

Deal flow

# of companies Accepted to the lab

Still growing

• Zwipe• Attensi• Kahoot!• United Bloggers• Vivaldi• Dsafe• CFEngine• AIMS Innovation• Snapsale• Ensafer

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The Founders Fund in StartupLab was established in late 2013 by a group of successful entrepreneurs who wanted to make the hard life of starting a business slightly easier. Our offering is accelerating support, access to our joint network and entrepreneur friendly initial

Founders Fund also partners with the Nordic investment community as well as providing access to the top tier international venture capital firms.

FOUNDERS FUND.backing 19 tech startups since Aug. 2013

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StartupLab & FOUNDERS FUND are based in Oslo Science Park

G e t i n c o n t a c t i f

y o u p l a n t o s h a p e t h e

f u t u r e

t o r @ s t a r t u p la b . n o

TbaekkelundPartner and co-founder

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* Reference to StartupLab research