Where industry meets software
Fast-Track Advantage
We Fast-Track commercial value. Tap into a curated pipeline of global industrial software and deep tech startups to tackle your most strategic challenges, de-risk pilots, and turn new tech into measurable competitive edge in months rather than years
Share your challenges with us and join the alliance.
What we deliver
We connect industry leaders with promising tech startups, enhancing industry competitiveness and accelerating startup growth. Together, we uncover, test, and scale competitive-edge innovations.
- Solve industrial challenges – co-define your highest-value problems and explore new tech & business models together.
- Scale the right startup – match Norwegian and global B2B ventures to your requirements and help them grow around your use-case.
- Strengthen competitive edge – turn collaboration into measurable advantage for your business (and for Norway’s industrial position).
“We were surprised to see startups that had come further than the latest research. - Industrial Software Alliance Partner”
Voices from the floor
Sagar Chandna
Senior Partner & CTO
Tor Bækkelund
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
Thea Wiig
Head of the Tech Hub
Peder Hjermann
Investment Manager
Peder Hjermann
Investment Manager
Kjell Inge Røkke
Co-founder
Karl-Christian Agerup
Chief of Investment Strategy and Operations at Antler and Board Chair of Schibsted ASA.
Christian Grossenbacher
CCO and Strategic Sales leader at Honeywell Building Automation Europe
What we deliver
Solve industrial challenges – co-define your highest-value problems and explore new tech & business models together.
Scale the right startup – match Norwegian and global B2B ventures to your requirements and help them grow around your use-case.
Strengthen competitive edge – turn collaboration into measurable advantage for your business (and for Norway’s industrial position).
Voices from the floor
We were surprised to see startups that had come further than the latest research. - Alliance partner
You need top management commitment to bear the risks of taking bigger bets. - Matts Johansen, CEO, Aker Biomarine
In an industrial setting, we don’t necessarily provide raw data. Instead, we offer access to a sandbox where startups can interact with our real operational data providing valuable information. We don’t need startups as future vendors; we want them as partners. - Karl Johnny Hersvik, CEO, Aker BP
How you can engage
Understand
You're scanning the horizon.
Get access to dealflow sourcing, insight reports and access executive roundtables.
Explore
You've identified priority challenges.
Fast-Track searches, access to events & workshops.
Accelerate
You're ready to run pilots at speed.
End-to-end Fast-Track, advisory board seat and co-marketing.
How you can engage
Understand
You're scanning the horizon. Get access to dealflow sourcing, insight reports and access executive roundtables.
Explore
You've identified priority challenges. Fast-Track searches, access to events & workshops.
Accelerate
You're ready to run pilots at speed. End-to-end Fast-Track, advisory board seat and co-marketing.
How you can engage
Understand
You are scanning the horizon. Get access to our events, workshops, knowledge sharing and insights
Explore
Explore where there is a competitive edge in collaborating with startups and get access to dealflow sourcing for defined challenges or opportunities
Accelerate
Take your innovation collaboration to the next level, both with startups and relevant industry players
““We were surprised to see startups that had come further than the latest research.” – Industry Software Alliance partner”
How we make it happen
Fast-Track model – open-innovation workflow that compresses pilots and commercial agreements to months, not years.
Data-driven scouting platform – algorithmic matching of startups to your exact technical and commercial criteria.
Cross-industry knowledge share – learn what works (and what flops) from peer partners inside the Alliance.
About the RunwayFBU Industry Software Alliance
RunwayFBU’s Industry Software Alliance is the Nordic hub where industry meets software. We Fast-Track real solutions by pairing leading industrial corporates with a hand-picked pipeline of industry software startups, guiding each collaboration from challenge to pilot and scaled deployment in months - not years. Members gain privileged access to market-ready technology, peer insight, and an active community that turns industrial challenges into lasting competitive advantage.