Erik Osmundsen

Partner at Verdane I Investing in tech-enabled sustainable growth businesses

📍 Oslo, Oslo, Norway🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 27 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2024
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May 2024
TOMRA was founded on an innovation in 1972 that began with the design, manufacturing and sale of reverse vending machines (RVMs) for automated collection of used beverage containers. Today TOMRA provides technology-led solutions that enable the circular economy with advanced collection and sorting systems that optimize resource recovery and minimize waste in the food, recycling and mining industries.
Board Member
Jan 2023
NORNORM is a flexible, subscription-based furnishing service that helps businesses adapt to changing workspace needs. Our affordable and fully circular model has a simple mission: to make workspaces better — for the people they serve, the businesses they house, and the planet they impact.
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2024
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May 2024
TOMRA was founded on an innovation in 1972 that began with the design, manufacturing and sale of reverse vending machines (RVMs) for automated collection of used beverage containers. Today TOMRA provides technology-led solutions that enable the circular economy with advanced collection and sorting systems that optimize resource recovery and minimize waste in the food, recycling and mining industries.
2023
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Jun 2023
Scanbio Marine Group is established in Trondheim, Norway, with production facilities in Bjugn and Lysøysund and transport vessels along the Norwegian coast. ScanBio is Norway’s leading logistics- and processing company of by-products from the aquaculture industry. Every day, we play a key role in the management of marine resources in Norway, like we have for 30 years. To ensure industry-leading capacity and emergency response services for our customers, we continue to make large investments in the silage solutions of tomorrow. ScanBio is the safest partner, whether you need regular collection of K2 silage, delivery of acid, or need help handling challenging emergencies across several facilities and regions. Ensuring that no resources are wasted require competent employees at all levels of the organization, cooperation, and world class logistics. Together, we reduce our environmental footprint and invest in an innovative and green aquaculture industry. The fish waste we collect is recycled and transformed into new sustainable materials – raw materials used for production of bio energy and ingredients in new products. Every year, ScanBio contributes to environmentally friendly industrial products and 46 GW of bio energy, the equivalent of 1800 households. Our services: • Biosecure collection of K2 silage • Regular delivery of acid • Emergency response services • Grinding directly from the cage • Emergency harvesting onboard mobile harvesting plants • Training in silage routines Our products • Raw materials for biogas • Fish protein and oil for animal nutrition • Oil for chemical industry
Board Member
Jan 2023
NORNORM is a flexible, subscription-based furnishing service that helps businesses adapt to changing workspace needs. Our affordable and fully circular model has a simple mission: to make workspaces better — for the people they serve, the businesses they house, and the planet they impact.
2022
Board Member
Feb 2022
Leading manufacturer and distributor of premium mobility aids. Located in Norway.
2021
Partner
May 2021
Verdane is a specialist growth buyout investment firm that partners with tech-enabled and sustainable businesses that help to digitalise and decarbonise the European economy. Verdane funds have the most flexible mandates in the industry. The firm can invest as a minority or majority investor, replacement or growth capital, in single companies or in portfolios of companies. Verdane has over €8 billion in assets under management and its funds have made more than 200 investments in fast-growing businesses since 2003. Verdane’s team of over 150 investment professionals and operating experts is based out of Berlin, Munich, Copenhagen, Helsinki, London, Oslo and Stockholm, and combines deep sector expertise with deep local networks and presence in core European markets. Verdane is also a certified B Corporation, the most ambitious sustainability accreditation globally. The firm only backs businesses that pass its 2040 test, which indicates whether the company can thrive in a more sustainable future economy. Verdane is partly owned by the Verdane Foundation, which is focused on two areas: climate change and more equitable and inclusive local communities. Further information: www.verdane.com
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