Welcome to RunwayFBU Radar – your quarterly update on insights, trends, and portfolio developments. We uncover highlights across our VC investments, Tech Hub co-working location at Aker Tech House, and Industrial collaborations via Industry Software Alliance.
VC Fund Portfolio highlights
- Sonair.com: after successfully raising $6M USD to accelerate rollout of world’s first safe 3D ultrasonic sensor for robots, Sonair prepares for a strong take off in 2026. Read the CEO’s 2026 outlook here.
- iPercept.io: shortly after joining Sweden’s state visit to Canada, with the King of Sweden, ministers, and industry leaders, iPercept announced their launch of CNC Copilot, a significant rollout enabling production and maintenance teams to converse with iPercept’s machine insights.
- Muybridge.com: keep an eye out for never-before-seen angles in your favorite sports and TV broadcast, as Muybridge continues to scale into both segments. Hold your breath though for videos and content, it's worth it.
- Fortifai.co: has had a strong Q4, from recruiting Aiko Yamashita, PhD as its CTO, to being a finalist in NYC’s Finance & Accounting Tech Expo, featured on Øokonomi24, while still onboarding new customers like Cognite and closing several others like Aker Biomarine, Ardoq, Abley Med, Telenor, Mainstream Renewable Power and others. Meet the startup that never sleeps.
- Shapemaker.io: renews their commercial contracts with Telia, ESB Telecom, ICON Tower and will shortly announce another major contract win, while also entering a new market!
- Wsense.it: incredibly busy and successful quarter, with its highlight being a partnership with Fincantieri Infrastructure that promises to bring WSense’s tech into maritime infra projects.
- OTee: named founder of the year at [NO] Årets Grunder I Bærum 2025, and signing on Aker BP as a new customer, Otee is actively recruiting, while making news globally.
- Cardboard: Frontkom’s saved over $20K USD after utilizing Cardboard. That’s just one of hundreds they have onboarded this year.
- PLAATO.ai: Insights now utilize AI to transform beverage production.
- Complai: with a globally active customer base, chairman Erik Langaker, who has guided the company since its founding in 2020 steps down for Complai’s next phase of journey with its new Chairperson Asta Ellingsen Stenhagen.
Tech Hub Community startups and partner highlights
- New Investment: We completed an investment in a Swedish tech startup – stay tuned for the official announcement.
- Cardboard in Q1 helped over 50 companies eliminate receipt-chasing headaches while processing 11M NOK in monthly transaction volume.
- Otee's virtual PLC technology is now running mission critical infrastructure in the heart of Oslo, between the Norwegian Parliament and City Hall for Hafslund Celsio. They’re already delivering to GIVAS and Wessel and have made their first deployments in the US and Turkey.
- Muybridge has entered into a exclusive product partnership with Sony Sports and Hawk-Eye Innovations. The partnership will push the Muybridge technology onto the largest sports events globally, and was first deployed into sports broadcast at the Miami Open ATP1000 tennis tournament and included in live broadcast throughout the tournament, including the finals. BTS footage incoming soon!
- Sonair has started receiving orders for its upcoming commercial product - before it is even announced. They have also earned rave reviews from early testers, such as “This can be pretty disruptive for the robotics market”, stated by a frontrunner in the autonomous robotics industry. Read several more reviews here.
- Shapemaker secured new deals with Icon Tower (UK) and ESB Telecoms (Ireland), while Telia Towers shared insights on Shapemaker’s impact at MWC Barcelona.
- ComplAi continues to build on its strategic partnership with DNV, supporting efforts to streamline the medical device certification process and innovating within the space of industrial manufacturing.
- WSense reinforced its leadership in underwater wireless communications and marine sustainability, featuring groundbreaking demos at key defense and innovation events. Follow their updates here.
- Sparkel.io continues to close new ARR deals across Europe – most recently in Denmark and France.
- Fortifai.co's founder featured in Finansavisen. Also launched their product with several major pilots like Cognite, Ardoq, Hydro Rein and many more.
- Plaace.co, Fortifai.co, Cardboard.inc, and Sonair.com were featured among the top 150 women co-founded tech startups in the Nordics. Get the report here.
Tech Hub Community startups and partner highlights
- In Q4, Sebastian Ferraz and Edvard Nore hands-on with RunwayFBU founders to structure their sales motion, sharpen qualification, and move from conversations to concrete traction.
- We are excited to share that Wepost, Sanna, and Unlisted have officially joined the RunwayFBU partner community. Each of them is building smart solutions that do exactly what we care about most: making life a little easier (and a lot better) for startups. More great partners means fewer headaches, more momentum, and better tools for our founders. Which feels like a win all around. Welcome aboard 🚀
- Planck Technologies, won the 2025 Visionary Award at the LLM Hackathon for applications in material science & chemistry, a global competition connecting more than 10,000 researchers, innovators, and leading experts – read here. And if that wasn’t enough, they’ve also been awarded a European Space Agency (ESA) project to advance next-generation oxygen storage solutions for space missions.
- How do get started with AI in food production? You start by talking to Digel.io. They just launched in November, and you can play around with their AI canvas here.
- Havguard became the Norwegian-American Defense Industry Council’s newest member.
- Rocketfarm is not slowing down in Q4 either, with new product feature releases for palletizing software.
- Choppycast just signed with Bjørklund’s 100 stores, distribution, production and procurement covering Choppycasts’ four modules: sales forecast, order replenishment, price optimization and promotion planning.
- Sunphade wants to save 8BNOK wasted in Norwegian commercial buildings electricity usage, and you can see how they help Mustad Eiendom do that here.
- Eyer.ai is doing what renowned research institutes said could not be done. See founder Ivar Sagemo’s post on how they’re achieving mission impossible.
What our Tech Hub members are saying
“Strong pay-it-forward mentality, which is how the whole world should be run! The founders also embrace it, and start doing it themselves plus VERY nice facilities and social & fun events.”
— Konrad Fagertun, Business Developer and Sales at Frivind
Missed Takeoff Tuesday events in Q4? If you weren’t in the room, here’s what you missed, and why it matters.
Industry Software Alliance: Scaling Industry Collaboration
RunwayFBU’s Industry Software Alliance connects industry leaders with the most promising startups and scaleups, enhancing industry competitiveness and accelerating startup growth. Together, we uncover, test, and scale competitive-edge innovations.
- RunwayFBU hosted its 3rd Fast Track Days at Aker Tech House. In collaboration with Kongsberg Innovation,we connected 15+ industrial companies with 20+ tech scaleups.
- Senior executive leaders from top corporates gathered together for a collaborative discussion on evolving from Data to Value: Unlocking Competitive Advantage in Norwegian Industry.
On the Horizon: Upcoming Events
Over 1000+ participants visited our Tech Hub events and activities this year so far. Subscribe to our event calendar at lu.ma/RunwayFBU and be the first to get an invite when our events are announced.
📅 2026: Will you be our next TT speaker or want to refer someone? Send us a hint over hello@runwayfbu.com
We’re heading into the next quarter with more partners, sharper products, and a growing group of founders building what industry actually needs.
