Audun Abelsnes

Managing Director Techstars Middle East | Voting member Techstars Investment Committee | Investor in Climate Tech, Deep Tech, AI | Board Member | Venture Capital | Entrepreneur | Operator

📍 Oslo, Oslo, Norway🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 20 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2018𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Jan 2018
ZEG provides technology and systems for production of clean hydrogen and/or electricity from hydrocarbon gas through its novel ZEG ICC™ technology with integrated carbon capture.
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Feb 2006
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2018
Board Member
Jan 2018
ZEG provides technology and systems for production of clean hydrogen and/or electricity from hydrocarbon gas through its novel ZEG ICC™ technology with integrated carbon capture.
2017
Managing Director at Equinor & Techstars Energy Accelerator
Sep 2017
Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)
2016
Co Founder
Aug 2016
Sirius Innovation is a company that specializes in helping entrepreneurs and businesses discover and develope scalable and repeatable business models. We believe that with the current fast pace of business development, companies and entrepreneurs need to learn how to best utilize professional networks and agents to ensure that their business model and organization will remain viable in the future. Sirius Innovation has two focus areas:   1. Delivering innovation programs to established companies 2. Delivering start-up programs to entrepreneurs through partners   Innovation and start-up processes can be complicated, and has evolved to become a new field that requires specialized actors like Sirius Innovation. Maximizing your chances for success requires its own methodology, and ours is based on new knowledge combined with personal experiences from our own processes within enterprises and private companies.   Our services will allow you to quickly test out your ideas or concepts to ensure that they have commercial potential. The founders of Sirius Innovation are serial entrepreneurs and have extensive experience from most roles in a start-up and innovation setting, both nationally and internationally.
2010
First Sensing AS
CEO & Boardmember
2010
2009
BI Norwegian School Management
Visiting lecturer, Master level - New Venture Creation
Oct 2009
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