Of our 36 members, about half are new or established companies in the biotech, biomarine, fishery, and aquaculture arenas. Others are R&D players, service providers and actors for the stimulation of innovation. Our members enjoy courses and workshops designed for further education, network activities to connect people, business development services, help for startups, and international branding and promotion.
Members
ArcticZymes Technology
Contact: Børge Sørvoll
Develops, manufactures and markets novel molecular enzymes for use in research, molecular diagnostics and applied markets.
Biotec Betaglucans
Contact:Rolf Engstad
Develops and manufactures immune modulating compounds for the human health sectors.
Norinnova
Contact: Asbjørn Lilletun
An innovation company with the objective of commercializing business ideas from research activities and new technologies.
Bryn Aarflot
Contact: Alexander Bjørnå
Intellectual property consultants with full range of IP services at all levels
Brødrene Karlsen
Contact: Randi Karlsen
A seafood corporation supplying high quality seafood from the Arctic, offering both farmed and wild fish.
Zooca
Contact: Siv Katrin Ramskjell
Offers superior, all-natural Arctic Marine Bioactives derived from the marine crustacean Calanus finmarchicus, providing health benefits to people and animals all over the world.
Chitinor
Contact: Trond Håkon Solbo
A manufacturer and a provider of high quality biopolymers chitin and chitosan, derived from the raw material Pandalus Borealis caught in the Arctic part of the North Atlantic.
Eurofins
Contact: Siv-Heidi Henriksen
The largest laboratory in Norway, leading the industry in the chemical, microbiological and sensory analysis of the environment, food, feed and agriculture.
Halibut Equity AS
Contact: Frode Klingenberg
Investment firm headquarted in Tromsø. Our investments shall be found where these three meet: Arctic, Sustainability, Quality. Food tech, healthy food, culture and adventure are our main investment themes.
POLAR ALGAE
Contact: Caroline Haukeland
A seaweed company based in Hammerfest. Extracting valuable molecules from arctic sustainably harvested wild seaweeds, like Ascophyllum nodosum.
Tromsø Chamber of Commerce
Contact: Trude Nilsen
The fourth largest business association in Norway with approximately 650 members, from all sectors.
MABIT
Contact: Victoria S Paulsen
An industrial R&D program for marine biotechnology in Northern Norway with a focus on increasing value in the fishery, aquaculture, and biotechnological industries.
Marbank
Contact: Kjersti Lie Gabrielsen
Marbank is a national marine biobank with a mission to provide academia and industry with easy access to marine biodiversity, its associated data and extractable products.
Marealis
Contact: Andreas Semmingsen
A marine biotechnology company with a focus on the development and commercialization of novel bioactive peptides from sustainable marine sources of the Arctic Ocean for human health and food ingredients.
Nofima
Contact: Birthe Vang
One of the largest institutes for applied research within the fields of fisheries, aquaculture and food research in Europe.
Nordic Pharma Inc
Contact: Gorm Breimo
Develops and produces novel ingredients based on bioactive compounds from the Arctic with a focus on marine lipids, and applies to cGMP API.
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Contact: Kathrine Tveiterås
The world’s northernmost university, located in Tromsø, Norway.
Trofi - Tromsø Fiskeindustri
Contact: Jens-Petter Jøstensen
Core activities are the production of marine phospholipids and starter feed for marine larval and juvenile fish as well as handling of marine raw materials and process development.
NORCE
Contact: Anne Myhr
NORCE delivers research and innovation in energy, health care, climate, the environment, society and technology.
Olivita
Contact: Thomas Hansen
A nutraceutical company with a patented Norwegian omega-3 product for health called Olivita, a unique combination of seal oil and extra virgin olive oil.
Lyfstone
Contact: Stein Lian
Lyfstone is a med-tech company developing informative and functional biomarkers for the orthopaedic market.
TosLab
Contact: Vegard Tennes
Sells microbiological and chemical analyses of food, water, sewage, hygiene, and environment with a wide range of accredited and unaccredited analyses.
Vesterålen Havbruk
Contact: Brynjar Kværnstuen
Myre Havbruk is engaged in farming and catch-based aquaculture of Atlantic cod, with focus on high quality of the raw materials.
BioCat
Contact: Jessica Green
BioCat is a national research school for PhD students working under the broad definition of biocatalysis
Aarja Health
Contact: Håkon Volden
Aarja Health® pure, safe, and highly bioavailable vitamins and supplements combined with Nordic superfoods. All products are designed to boost your health naturally without any unnecessary additives – manufactured with love in our own certified factory in Finland.
Akvaplan-niva
Contact: Marianne Frantzen
Independent research institute in the NIVA-group that provide basic and applied research, experimental research facilities, and accredited laboratory analyses within the fields of aquatic environment, aquaculture, and maritime industries.
Wai Genetics
Contact: Petter Johansen
We are a biotech company working with machine learning based analysis of water samples, especially looking at bacterial cultures in land-based aquaculture farms with RAS.
NutriShell
Contact: Tina Olaussen
Nutrishell is a marine biotechnology company producing high quality feed and food ingredients from marine rest raw materials.
Norskin
Contact: Michal Meyer Nilssen
Norskin is an environmental and traceable alternative to traditional leather made by procuring, sorting and pre-treating the highest quality material from the ice-cold seas of Northern Norway.
Norway Naturals
Contact: Kenneth Ruud
Norway Naturals is a manufacturer preserving and utilizing harvested and farmed unique arctic plant materials from sea and land. Preservation, drying, milling, concentration and extraction (startup medio 2022)
Stella Polaris
Contact: Jaran Rauø
One of the world’s leading producers of cooked and peeled coldwater shrimp, and shrimp shell meal as an ingredient in food and fish feed. Stella Polaris AS has 100 % ownership in Marealis AS, a company dedicated to commercializing clinically documented blood pressure-lowering peptides extracted from the shrimp shell generated at Stella Polaris.
Resourcer
Contact: Håvard Hansgård
Resources is a Nordic saas platform that connect suppliers and sourcers in the emerging bioeconomy to increase the value of existing resources, and enable a dynamic market for the new, the forgotten and the unused.
Tailorzyme
Contact: Bent Piil Pedersen
Tailorzyme design enzyme solutions optimized for the customer’s substrate and process requirements.
We work in close collaboration with the customer and together we develop new enzyme solutions suited for industrial applications.
NUAS
Contact: Frode Blålid
NUAS Technology has developed a hydrolysis process that converts residual raw material and biomass into food grade ingredients
BDO AS
Contact: Mats Wiik
BDO is an international advisory and auditing company, deeply rooted in Norwegian society and businesses. We know the challenges, see opportunities and help our customers in accomplishing both small achievements and ambitious goals.
Contact: Herman Schips
Kelpinor is a Norwegian marine technology company originating from NTNU Trondheim, which has developed a method for deploying and harvesting food grade kelp, enabling economies of scale.
Contact: Harald Østbø
Northern Norway largest environmental collaboration. 55 000 tonnes organic waste will be converted into biogas in a new plant in Skibotn, in Troms and Finnmark.
KinSea Lead Discovery AS
Contact: Jeanette Hammer Andersen
Developing marine bioactive compounds from the Arctic ocean into pharmaceutically active products. The therapeutic indications cover cancers as well as other diseases with high, unmet clinical need.
Partners
Troms and Finnmark County Council
The County Council is financially supporting Biotech North’s current innovation project.
Responsible for certain cross-municipal tasks and initiates and coordinates regional political and administrative activities.
Innovation Norway
Innovation Norway is financially supporting Biotech North’s current innovation project.
The Norwegian Government’s most important instrument for innovation and development of Norwegian enterprises and industry.
The Research Council of Norway
The Research Council is actively supporting Biotech North’s current innovation project
A governmental funding instrument seeking to add value to the research system by facilitating research that actors in the system could not successfully achieve working on their own.
Norwegian Innovation Clusters
A governmental cluster program aiming to trigger and enhance collaborative development activities in clusters in order to increase cluster dynamics and attractiveness while boosting the individual company’s innovativeness and competitiveness.
SIVA
A public enterprise owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Fisheries that is a part of the public funding agencies for innovation, working closely with Innovation Norway, the Norwegian Research Council and the Norwegian Patent Office.
Tromsø Municipality
Formed by the majority in the city council and has the overall responsibility for the everyday work within the municipality.
