Explain's vision is to make it easy for students to learn more - and to learn better: Wherever they are, and whenever they need it.

Being stuck with homework, or reading for an exam. Not entirely catching what the teacher explained in class, or simply wanting to learn more.

No one is stupid as we see it. And no one is too smart. We believe there is a teacher for everyone. That's why we want to create solutions that make it simple for each student to get exactly the help he or she needs.

People involved: Nina Pettersen, Hannan Abdelrahman, Kai Lützenkirken, Audun Kvasbø, Kristi Faye-Lund, Haakon Bryhni, Tore Engebretsen, Kari Bech-Moen

CompX is making an affordable pocket computer for education with an accompanying foldable solar charger. Knowledge seekers across the world will now finally be able to gain theoretical and practical knowledge even in places without reliable power grids and Internet coverage.

People involved: Sami Tarik Lazreg, Mohammad Akram Khan

FamWeek is an app that helps families and organisations to organise activities for children. FamWeek simplifies communication between families and organisers, gives them a full overview, and sends them helpful reminders to make sure activities run smoothly.

FamWeek - simplifying life.

People involved: Kari Bech-Moen, Henrik Velle, Audun Kvasbø, Elvis Salaris, Magnus Jacobsen, Mikael Finstad

OsloBike is a green mobility solution using e-bikes and e-scooters, as well as an on-demand real-time travel guide system for global tourists. By combining Internet of Things and ChatBot technologies, OsloBike will improve tourist satisfaction while lowering environmental impact. OsloBike is developed by Nexo Mobility AS.

People involved: Wei Cai, Xifeng Wen, Zhiyu Luo

sPerformance changes the game of sales by making everyone better sellers. It is a unique platform that increases sales by measuring and rewarding sales activities across the silos. Through the platform sales reporting becomes motivating and fun. sPerformance creates a more inclusive sales culture that captures more leads, increases sales revenues, and improves customer satisfaction as well as employee retention.

People involved: Tom Aas (Founder & Chairman), Arnfinn Kilden Blom, Andreas Aas, Andzej Suskevic

uSEA is developing a system of underwater and surface robots for seabed survey and subsea inspection. By integrating state-of-the-art technologies and developing key building blocks to close today's technology gaps, uSEA will unlock truly unmanned offshore operations from berth to berth.

People involved: Felipe Lima, Alex Alcocer, Ole Petter Hjelmstad

NQCG is developing an artificial intelligence platform for investment decisions in nanotechnology and quantum technologies. The platform aims to automate parts of a global technology scouting process, helping industry to find, assess and invest in emerging technology opportunities earlier, smarter and faster with better outcomes than before.

People involved: Axel P Mustad

Can I eat? aims to give people with diabetes and prediabetes the power to take control of their own health. The mobile app will help individuals track blood glucose, food consumption, exercise habits and more; users receive personalised predictions and recommendations to improve awareness and promote action. With a patient-centred algorithm tailored to forecast the effect of specific meals on blood sugar, diabetics can finally plan their next meal with certainty.

People involved: Andrew Lehr, Tristan Stöber, Alex Bone, Luke Forward

Fossekall is developing a tool that will enable businesses and individuals to stay compliant and up-to-date with the latest accessibility standards. Fossekall will bring enthusiasm, pride and excellence to the creation of accessible websites and services.

People involved: Andreas Jacobsen, Kristian Munter Simonsen

Pluvinel is an independent global digital solution uniting equestrians from all disciplines and methods. Pluvinel offers a simple way to organise, discover, book and pay for clinics, seminars and lessons. With Pluvinel, any horse rider can see what is happening where.

People involved: Camilla Næristorp

ShiftX develops an intuitive process editor that will enable businesses to model their processes, gather insights and using these insights to optimize their processes further. ShiftX will be intuitive, easy to learn and fast to use.

People involved: Eigil Sagafos, Nikolai Krister Strandskogen, David Brabrand, Kjetil Jortveit

Next2Five is developing a digital career counselling tool, FuturesMe, which will enable individuals to identify preferred scenarios by showing them where their personal qualities, their professional qualifications and the future's need for competence intersect - both from a two-to-five years' perspective, and for five years and beyond: straightforward, game-based and inspiring!

People involved: Anneli Skudal, Jon Frang Mostad, Prashant Kanungo, Martina Frang Mostad, Daniel Juszczynski, Pål Stensaas

Maseng AS develops Empathic Radio, a scalable and patented technology that enables Wi-Fi routers to collectively achieve the best transmission speeds by collaborating in the selection of Wi-Fi channels. The technology also reduces transmit power, is both end-user and ISP-friendly, improves with the number of nodes, and enables residential LTE-U base stations to do channel coordination with Wi-Fi networks.

People involved: Torleiv Maseng

Change Mindset develops a platform for testing and certification of soft skills and personal character. The platform enables individuals to develop their personal character and businesses to improve the allocation of workforce.

People involved: Lars Andreas Kolflaath, Erik Møller, Bjørn Mikkel Godsveen, Johnny Hammernes

Narrafy builds software to help mental health practitioners provide better preventative and ongoing counselling services. Using narrative approaches, Narrafy enables practitioners to focus more on counselling and less on repetitive tasks.

People involved: Ion Dronic, Aliona Dronic

EasyPieceEye increases the digital reach and robustness of companies' business processes. EasyPieceEye enables users to instantly and effortlessly send complex computer-ready messages to back-end systems without any prior preparation, app installation or reliable Internet connection. EasyPieceEye can be both a replacement of, and a complement to, IoT systems and mobile apps. If it is not easy it will not happen – EasyPieceEye!

People involved: Jonas Nyman

UNLOC accelerates the transition to smart keys. Today’s service providers depend on metal keys for their services to be delivered. The UNLOC platform enables digital sharing of keys used to open electronic locks, eliminating the dependency of physical key exchange. UNLOC automatically opens the door for emergency aid, gives the delivery person a self-expiring smart key, and makes it possible to securely share smart keys with anyone, anytime, from anywhere. Learn more at unloc.ai.

People involved: August Flatby, Kris Riise

Kubert provides a flexible storage solution for private individuals and companies who need a remote, hassle-free, safe and low-cost storage to free up valuable space in their homes and offices. Customers just pack the boxes, and Kubert takes care of the rest through our mobile app platform and transportation and storage partners.

People: Sondre Wisted-Thu, Øyvind Løland, Birger Lie

HeiRobot! develops a service to improve human-robot collaboration. The service provides social skills to the robot, allowing it to be more aware of human needs, enabling humans to focus more on value-creating activities. Our main target is domestic, health care, service robotics as well as industrial robots. The research is partly funded by the Norwegian Research Council through the IdeaLab program.

People involved: Audun Sanderud, Silje Gabrielsen, Anders Myhr, Bernt Sørby, Jan Rune Herheim, Andreas Saur Brandtsegg, Catho Bjerkseter, Elin Saur Brandtsegg.

OffPAD is a user-controlled, hardware-enabled secure trusted device that guarantees privacy and malware protection. OffPAD addresses the market for secure execution environments with a user-centric value proposition that challenges the established network-centric market models.

People involved: Petter Taugbøl, Jan-Erik Skaug, Ijlal Loutfi, Maren Fredbo

Helseoversikt will enable people to have full overview of the health of their loved ones, be it children or elderly. By gathering and presenting relevant health information together with actionable content, Helseoversikt aims to adapt healthcare to individual needs, greatly simplify the role of the carer and increase patient safety.

People involved: Peter Gulliksen, Preben Hafnor

Fácil is a mobile application that enables hotel guests to check-in, check-out and order whatever they need for a perfect stay. Using beacon technology, the application enables hotels to provide location-based services and deliver orders directly to where the guests are.

People involved: Alexander Weiss Richter, Andreas Løseth, Chamira Fernando, Even Holthe, Bendik Kristiansen, Kristian Baldishol Lindblad, Matthew Charles Schultz

EvigAktiv is a mobile app and online platform that provides senior citizens with user-friendly access to all activities within their municipality. EvigAktiv provides municipalities with a standard and affordable solution for announcing activities instead of using ineffective emails, websites, Facebook groups, handwritten notes and printed ads.

People involved: Karl Blom, Fredrik Gørrisen, Morten Østbye

TotalCtrl AS develops 0-waste™ technology, a food waste reduction technology for the grocery industry and its consumers, enabling them to achieve total control over product expiration dates, save time and money, reduce food waste and facilitate smarter buying decisions. In time, the technology will be usable throughout the entire value chain – From producer to consumer.

People involved: Charlotte Aschim, Ingrid Østby, Petter Østby, Matthew Lynch, Sindre Helgheim, Monica Johannessen, Kjersti Edvartsen, Ujjval Joshi, Jørgen Forsell

PureLogic is working on The Nostradamus Project, which seeks to develop new methods for predictive analysis of financial markets. Emphasis will be made on the effects on financial markets caused by human agents and how their psychology influences pricing over time. One of the possible applications will be to predict the sensitivity of a company or project to disruptive changes within its market.

People involved: Andreas Saur Brandtsegg, Elin Saur Brandtsegg, Anders Myhr, Bjørnar Myhr, Catho Bjerkseter