Six companies, one stage, six months of work behind them

This was our tenth cohort. We wish all six teams the best of luck.

Demo Night is over, and with it our tenth accelerator cohort. We hosted it last night together with StartupTRD, in front of a full room.

Six months is not long. These founders walked on stage and presented companies that in several cases did not exist in their current form when the cohort started. That gap, between where they came in and where they stood on that stage, is the only measure of the program that really counts.

Who pitched

From the cohort: VAI, TuniSea, Skriptr, Saro Robotics, Ode and Bong.

Four guest companies also took the stage: SonoFit, Medbric, Dtablet and ARZEVO. They are not part of the program, and we were glad to have them.

The room

What makes Demo Night work is who shows up. Aspiring founders from Thora Storm, the NTNU School of Entrepreneurship and NTNU more broadly filled the seats, there to learn, get inspired and meet people. That matters more than it sounds: a lot of the founders on stage were sitting in those same seats a year or two ago.

A big thank you to Helle Skog Christiansen, who hosted the evening and kept the energy up from the first pitch to the last.

Photos by Kristoffer Wittrup. More from the night on our LinkedIn.

See you in six months.