Katapult Accelerator

Build the world you

want to live in

We believe in making a positive impact. We believe in technology as the key driver for change. We believe in the untapped talent of the world.

"Congratulations, your Demo Day was by far the best event I had ever seen in Norway. The quality of startups was the best at ANY accelerator program I had ever seen!"

Christian Jantzen
Founding Partner
Futuristic.vc

“Just wanted to say to the whole team - thanks a lot for inviting Norrsken to the event! It was a fantastic event. This was the most efficient sourcing event I have ever attended. The quality and relevance of the start-ups on the stage was mind blowing! It clearly shows how much value you add to these companies. I look forward to speaking further with many of them.”

Agate Freimane
Norrsken Foundation

Meet the Companies

Our Focus

We are fueled and inspired by our deep belief in exponential technology. We believe these technologies such as AI and Blockchain can help impact focused startups scale faster while solving real global problems.

Environmental Domains

Clean Energy
Resource Efficency
Smart Cities
Circular Economy
Ocean & Land Use

Societal Domains

Food & Water
Education
Health
Diversity, Inclusion and Democracy
Thriving Societies & Collaboration

Exponential Technologies

AI
Blockchain
VR/AR
IoT

Testimonials

The details

Batch 4: Starts March 2019

What we offer

3-month fast paced, hands on program to help scale your business
Access to a global network of leading thematic mentors
Dedicated expertise to unleash potential of AI in your business
Investment into your company as part of the accelerator program
Access to further capital and investors to support your company

Team and mentors

Haakon Brunell
Managing Partner, Katapult Accelerator

Tharald Nustad
Partner, Katapult Accelerator

Anders H. Lier
Partner, Katapult Accelerator

Sean Percival
Partner & Growth Advisor, Katapult Accelerator

Per Martin Storvik
Investment Director, Katapult Accelerator

Nina Heir
Program Manager, Katapult Accelerator

Belawal Khan
Investment Analyst, Katapult Accelerator

Lavanya Indralingam
Operations Manager, Katapult Accelerator

Peder L'orange
Finance Associate, Katapult Accelerator

Sagar Chandna
CTO, Katapult Accelerator

Matt Smitt
Business Developer, Katapult Accelerator

Murat Aktihanoglu
Mentor, Director ERA

Trond Riiber Knudsen
Founder TRK Group, Seed Investor

Kristoffer Røil
Mentor, Co-founder Vic.ai & Partner at Norwegian.ai

Anne Jorun Aas
Strategic Advisor, Investor & Sustainability Expert

Rajeev Kapoor
Strategic Advisor, Investor, Health and Big Data Expert

Anders G. Frøseth
Strategic Advisor, Investor & Science/Technology Expert, Partner at Propagator Ventures

Ylva Lindberg
Strategic Advisor & Mentor, Founder & Partner, SIGLA

Marie Eriksson
Strategic Advisor & Mentor, Impact Investor & community builder

Anita Schjøll Brede
Advisor, AI Expert & CEO of IrisAI

Håkon Wium Lie
Mentor, Opera Software and Inventor of CSS

Dr. Radhika Dirks
Advisor, AI Expert, Partner at Xlabs.ai

Lise Rechsteiner
Mentor, Impact Investor, Partner at Propagator Ventures

Jonathan Axelrod
Mentor, Director ERA

Johan Brand
Advisor, Founder Kahoot!

Marcus Hølland Eikeland
Advisor and Scout, Katapult Accelerator

Chisom Udeze
Mentor, Strategist, West African Markets & Founder of Mettle Consult

Aurore Belfrage
Mentor, Parner EQT Ventures

Lars Johan Bjørkevoll
Mentor, Co-founder ScaleupXQ

Sebastian Fitko
Mentor, innogy Innovation Hub

Rumman Chowdhury
Mentor, AI Expert, Senior Manager, Accenture AI & CTO Accel.AI

Karen Elisabeth Ohm Heskja
Investment Manager, DNB

Hanne-Torill Mevik
Mentor, AI Ninja & Senior Data Scientist at Making Waves

Micah Baldwin
Mentor, Amazon

Marie Mostad
Mentor, Founder Inzpire.me

Fredrik Næss Thomassen
Mentor, CEO of Konsus

Ellie Dobson
Mentor, Head of Data Science Arundo

Erik Bertrand Larssen
Mentor, International Best Selling Author & Mental Trainer

Barbara Hueppe
Mentor, Gelato and Mozilla

Paul Herz
Manufacturing and Operations, Facebook and Apple

Eric Osiakwan
Mentor, Entrepreneur, Investor & Managing Partner of Chanzo Capital

Thomas Schindler
Mentor, Founder at delodi

Diana Biggs
Mentor, Blockchain Expert

Tristan Pollock
Mentor, Partner 500 Startups

Cathrine Movold
Mentor, Digital Product and Service Innovation Specialist

Mike Klyszeiko
Mentor, Founder Launchpad USA & Partner Nordic VP

Jeanne Sullivan
Mentor, Founder StarVest Partners & Sullivan Adventures

David Sønstebø
Mentor, Blockchain Expert

Pål Brun
Mentor, Cleantech Expert

Yiying Lu
Design Mentor, Creative Director 500 Startups

Maria Amelie
Mentor, Author & Co-Founder at Startup Migrants

Andreas Thorsheim
Advisor, Solar & CEO Otovo

Marie Nielsen
Mentor, Founder of Penda Manufacturing Ethiopia and co-founder of McKinsey Ethiopia office

Heath Arensen
Mentor, Director iHub Nairobi

Martine Kveim
Mentor, Founder Young Happy Minds

Knut Dyremyhr
Mentor, Investor & Entrepreneur

Ben Siegel
Mentor, Blockchain for Social Impact Policy Manager @ ConsenSys

Ida Faldbakken
Leader, Katapult Future Fest

Matt Ellsworth
Mentor, Growth Partner 500 Startups

Mohsin M. Siddique
Mentor, Strategy Development

Lars Selsås
Mentor, AI / ML Expert & CEO of Boost.ai

Håkon Grøthe
Mentor, VR Expert & Founder of Impact Reality

Ivar Line
Mentor, Voice Biometrics and CEO at My Voice AI

Alexander Hagerup
Mentor, Founder Vic.ai & Norwegian.ai

Mai Thuong Tran
Mentor, Data Scientist and Big Data Application Architect at IBM

Erick Miller
Mentor, Investor & Founder / MD at Hyperspeed Ventures

Khee Lee
Mentor, Founding Partner at LH2 Ventures

Federico Lozano
Mentor, Design thinking guru & Founder Pracademy

Gokce Gizer
Mentor, Pitch Coach & Presentation Wizard

Neda Nordin
Mentor, Agri-tech & Sustainability Expert, Innovation Management Specialist

David Berkowitz
Mentor, Marketing Strategy expert

Don Burton
Mentor, Edtech Innovation Expert, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of EDGE Edtech

Casey Fenton
Founder, Couchsurfing & Mast.ly

Alex Grechanowski
Mentor, Digital Marketing, Digital Marketing Specialist & growth mentor at Start-Up Chile & Buildit

Stefan Lageri-Schmidt Jensen
Mentor, Global sales and partnership manager, Centrica Business Solutions

Nichol Bradford
Mentor, CEO Willow Group and Exec.Dir. of Transformative Technology Lab @Sofia Uni

Ivan R. Shumkov
Mentor, CEO & Founder of Build Academy

Neil S.W. Murray
Mentor, Angel Investor & Founder of The Nordic Web

Vince Meens
Mentor, Blockchain Guru

Karianne Melleby
Advisor, Director Corporate Partnership at StartupLab

Rolf Kragerud
Mentor, Digital strategy and Business Development expert, Investor and Board Member

Karl Munthe-Kaas
Mentor, Founder Nabobil.no and founder & CEO Kolonial.no

Bjarne Mellbye
Mentor, Startup Investor & Entrepreneur

Anne Worsøe
Mentor, Angel Investor & Portfolio Manager at Bakken & Bæck

Amit Pradhan
Mentor, Chairman at Zero Labs, Investor & Serial Entrepreneur

Ole Martin Kristiansen
Mentor, Design Lead at Bakken & Bæck

Olivier Chatry
Mentor, Chief Software Architect at Xvision

Robyn Scott
Mentor, CEO and Co-founder, Apolitical

Saji Prelis
Mentor, Director, Children and Youth Programmes at Search for Common Grounds

Mats Herding
Mentor, Chief Design Officer, reMarkable

Sophie Bailey
Mentor, Founder, The Edtech Podcast

Francis Stevens George
Mentor, Entrepreneur, Author, MD GEN Sierra Leone, CEO Innovation Sierra Leone

Kim Ydse Krogstad
Mentor, Managing Director at Making Waves

Magnus Grimeland
Mentor, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Antler

Sandira Calviac
Mentor, Investor, Circular Economy, CivicTech and Crossborder Specialist

Francis D'Silva
Mentor, Global Digital Health Expert

Aleksander Nyquist Langmyhr
Advisor, CEO Dimension10

Felipe Millan
Mentor, Community Builder @ SendGrid and Ethical Growth Hacker

Steinar Svalesen
Mentor, Angel Investor, Tech-optimist, Director at Beringer Finance

Daniel Maskit
Mentor, Expert in Systems Thinking, Non-Linear Abstraction, and Design for Usability

Baber Qazi
Mentor, Associate Partner at McKinsey

Laura N. Montoya
Mentor, AI Expert

Rob Wirszycz
Mento, Chairman, Advisor & Investor

Isabell Ringnes
Mentor, co-Founder of TENK

Snorre Lothar Von Gohren Edwin
Mentor, Blockchain Wizard & CTO of Diwala

Kjartan Slette
Mentor, Co-Founder and COO at Unacast

Will Klippgen
Mentor, Angel Investor, Founder of Zoomit.com & Managing Partner in Cocoon Capital

Jon Ramvi
Mentor, Entrepreneur, Blockchain Expert

Andrew Lockley
Mentor, Investor, Commercialisation & Crowdfunding

Christopher Pruijsen
Mentor, Product Management & Founder of Homies.io

Luis Betancourt
Mentor, Digital Marketing Consultant, Advisor & Speaker

Christine Spiten
Co-Founder, Blueye Robotics

Mohsen Ashraf
Mentor, Silicon Valley Executive and Venture Capitalist

Andrea Nylund
Mentor, Co-Founder, Causetap

Soul Patel
Mentor, Entrepreneur & Investor

Carolos Foscolos
Mentor, Entrepreneur, Hacker, Software Architect, Speaker, Thought Leader and Consultant

Kjell Roland
Mentor, Former CEO Norfund, Africa, Lat-Am and Asia expert

Olav Sylthe
Mentor, Serial entrepreneur, B2B Enterprise and Mobile expertise

Michael Staton
Mentor, Partner at Learn Capital & LearnStart, & EdTech Serial Entrepreneur

Aymard Dudok de Wit
Mentor, Impact Investor & Blockchain Advisor

Alexandra Pittman
Mentor, Expert in impact metrics & evaluation, Founder & CEO ImpactMapper

Cilia Holmes Indahl
Mentor, Sustainable Business Model Expert & Sustainability Director at Aker BioMarine

Dag Ove Solsvik
Mentor, Lawyer & Head of Group Legal, Middle East & APAC, DNVGL

Kim-André Nordby
Mentor, Head of Nestlé Africa & Asia, Global Retail and Route to Market Expert

Christian Wig
Mentor, Angel Investor & Business Planning Guru

Lone Jensen
Mentor, Impact & Partnerships @StartupWiseGuys

Dennis Keller
Mentor, Entrepreneur, Telco & Advisory

Theerakrit Prommoon
Mentor, Co-founder MEHUB & serial entrepreneur

Anna Svahn
Mentor, lnvestor, Lecturer & Author

Jostein Aksnes
Mentor, Founder & CEO of 7 Peaks Software and Property Flow

Danyelle Ludwig
Mentor, Comms, PR & Marketing + Culture & Diversity

Henry Shek
Mentor, Medical Doctor & Technology Consultant

Sverre Munck
Mentor, Investor & Board Member

Kristen Davis
Mentor, CEO & Founder at CinqC

Philip M. Neches
Mentor, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator & Founder Teradata

Thor Rieber-Mohn
Mentor, financing wiz, IT entrepreneur, advisor, board member & investor

Thomas Berglund
Mentor, Angel Challenge

Our partner

ERA is New York’s leading startup accelerator with 127 investments since 2011 through its accelerator and seed fund, leveraging its network of more than 350 mentors and dozens of industry partners. ERA has also worked with the Norwegian Government to run the Norwegian New York Accelerator since 2016. ERA has now partnered with Katapult, using its expertise to help Katapult companies expand and succeed in the US and around the world.