Torstein Skage

Bedriftsutvikler, styrearbeider, investor, mentor

📍 Greater Bergen Region, Hordaland, Norway🔄 Updated September 2026💼 16 investments📅 21 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2024
Operator-angel🌍 Norway
16
Total investments
4
Early stage
6
Mid stage
1
Late stage
21y
Years active

Portfolio

11 investments · sorted by recency
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Styreleder og investor
Mar 2024
Insert:Logic is an industrial software company delivering an open, event-driven, AI-native, and scalable platform (Orchestr8) for autonomous Business Orchestration and Automation (BOAT). The platform includes a library of pre-configured industry, process, and component solutions to accelerate time to value. Our platform enables and accelerates the transition from a human-centric to a process-, data- and AI-centric organization/operating model. This transition allows your company to take control of its core processes and bring them to life, resulting in exponential value from your data, systems, and organization. The Industry 5.0 engine room. NextGen Operational streamlining in the making.
Angel Investor and advisor
Apr 2021
In my work as a sales manager for SaaS systems I talked on a daily basis to Retail, hotel & restaurant managers. What I discovered was two things: - They were using big, heavy and expensive systems you need an IT degree to understand. - Or relied on their famous “gut feeling”. So We wanted to make something every manager could afford, everyone could use, which would save you time and increase your profit. Easy as that ... ​And then we made a smart, personal, AI Assistant. Named Aimy. You can carry her around on your phone, laptop, tablet or use on your cash register. She will always be there with you; looking for undiscovered venue & doing the staff planning at the same time. She knows what employee is most suited, depending on expected sales and customer flow the coming days. She will give you advices on how to raise the quality and competence of your staff. And she just gets smarter and smarter while she gets to know your business. Not bad, right! ​This is done learning from the systems you already have in your shop. She unifies these on one platform, and make them easy, motivating & predictive! ​ The "tools"​ you have in your business is your staff, your items and your customers. What if someone could tell you in advance how to balance those perfectly?
Investor og styremedlem
Aug 2019
MittVarsel.no - Trygg digital varslingportal med ISO/IEC 27001:2022 sertifisering. Kryptert, effektiv og anonym varsling om kritikkverdige forhold. Oppfyll lovkrav enkelt med en digital løsning. Integrer på nettside eller intranett. Full autonomi for saksbehandling
Investor og styremedlem
Aug 2019
Crescat is a collaborative software for venues, festivals and event professionals. Made in Norway
Investor
Apr 2019
In the digital oilfield, its all about increasing margins by reducing operational risk. We improve the efficiency and quality in well planning and operations, so you can focus on operational performance and advanced well technology. We help you make the best plans for drilling and completions operations, with a minimum of input and modern work surfaces. Our world-leading Pro Well Kernel holds algorithms for modern drilling and completion operations, so you can use talent on improvement, not repeated operations. You will have a smooth transition to big data driven decision making, and stand out from your competitors in sales and operations.
mid stageOil and Gas
Investor og rådgiver
Aug 2018
Waste valorisation is a major challenge of our time. As an innovative company, we believe combining state of the art technology and optimal biology will make insect, one of the most attractive solution as biorecycler. Also our pupose is to be: Part of the supply chain solution for the future. Founded in 2016, we are using automation to farm and process insect (Tenebrio molitor) to a high quality ingredient for pet, chicken, fish and human. Our insect are upcycling locally available organic waste (industrial, catering and household) sourced from waste management companies into protein rich ingredients and fertilizer approved for organic farming. We are a team of passionate peoples build to combine business and industry experience in order to succeed in the insect industry. https://twitter.com/invertapro https://www.facebook.com/groups/1621225318147149/ https://www.instagram.com/invertapro/
Mentor and investor
Nov 2017
Think Outside is now Mitta AS, a subsidiary fully owned by Mitta Oy. Mitta will be offering geodata monitoring and measurement services to the Norwegian market, bridging the growth of the Finnish and Swedish Mitta companies to new Norwegian customers.
Investor og lidenskapelig bruker
Aug 2017
SGN skis er et skimerke fra Sogndal, bygda på vestlandet mellom bratte fjell og store breer og lange fjorder. I 2012 ønsket vi å lage den beste skien for norske frikjørere og lanserte vår første modell. Siden den gang har vi kontinuerlig utviklet nye og spennede skimodeller med tanke på frikjøring og topptur. Vår visjon er å lage de beste skiene for hele fjellet. - SGN skis
Investor og lidenskapelig bruker
Aug 2017
SGN skis er et skimerke fra Sogndal, bygda på vestlandet mellom bratte fjell og store breer og lange fjorder. I 2012 ønsket vi å lage den beste skien for norske frikjørere og lanserte vår første modell. Siden den gang har vi kontinuerlig utviklet nye og spennede skimodeller med tanke på frikjøring og topptur. Vår visjon er å lage de beste skiene for hele fjellet. - SGN skis
Investor og rådgiver
Apr 2016
restdb.io - a simple database back-end that just works restdb.io lets you quickly build a database back-end tailored to your specific needs. Collections (Tables) and relations are simply defined without any coding. REST APIs are automagically provided. It has a user interface that just works on any device. Customers use it: - to replace the myriads of "Excel-as-database"​-solutions in their companies - as an API-first CMS database to serve dynamic content - as a data collection database
Board Member
Jun 2008
🚀 Connect Vest – der ambisiøse gründere og investorer møtes for å skape fremtidens suksesser! Vi er en sentral drivkraft i Vestlandets innovasjonsøkosystem – en kraftfull kobling mellom kapital, kompetanse og gründerskap. Som en non-profit medlemsorganisasjon har vi et engasjert nettverk av engleinvestorer, næringslivsaktører og eksperter som sammen bidrar til å utvikle nye vekstselskaper. 💡 Hva gjør vi? Vi skaper vekstvinnere i Vestland – Gjennom Connect Springbrett® får gründere verdifulle tilbakemeldinger fra næringslivets skarpeste hoder. Vi kobler gründere i hele landet med mentorer – Som nasjonal mentorkobler for Innovasjon Norge bygger vi sterke team rundt de beste idéene Vi investerer i fremtiden – Gjennom Connect Business Angel Network Vestland (BAN) kobler vi ambisiøse startups med engleinvestorer som bidrar med både kapital og kompetanse. Siden 2016 har nettverket vårt vært en viktig finansieringskilde for lovende tidligfaseselskaper. 🤝 Vår styrke ligger i nettverket Vi jobber tett med Vestland fylkeskommune, Bergen kommune og Innovasjon Norge for å sikre at gründere har tilgang til kapital og kompetanse som faktisk gjør en forskjell. Våre medlemmer er ambisiøse investorer, dyktige næringslivsledere og innovative selskaper som alle deler én felles visjon: Å bygge morgendagens suksesshistorier! Vil du være en del av et nettverk som virkelig betyr noe? Er du en investor som vil være tett på de mest lovende startupene? Har du en startup som trenger kapital, kompetanse og et sterkt nettverk? 🎯 Vi kobler de rette menneskene – og skaper resultater. Bli med oss!
Experience · 22 entries
All (22)
Investments (16)
Founder (2)
Board (5)
2024
Styreleder og investor
Mar 2024
Insert:Logic is an industrial software company delivering an open, event-driven, AI-native, and scalable platform (Orchestr8) for autonomous Business Orchestration and Automation (BOAT). The platform includes a library of pre-configured industry, process, and component solutions to accelerate time to value. Our platform enables and accelerates the transition from a human-centric to a process-, data- and AI-centric organization/operating model. This transition allows your company to take control of its core processes and bring them to life, resulting in exponential value from your data, systems, and organization. The Industry 5.0 engine room. NextGen Operational streamlining in the making.
2023
Co-founder og styreleder
Jun 2023
Nordic Usv is developing and operating unmanned surface vessels to deliver a turnkey solution. Having USV stationed on the water, developing unmanned docking stations and a simple planning tool for our customers to plan and order their surveys, we aim to be the easiest and most cost effective solution to retrieve your needed data.
2021
Angel Investor and advisor
Apr 2021
In my work as a sales manager for SaaS systems I talked on a daily basis to Retail, hotel & restaurant managers. What I discovered was two things: - They were using big, heavy and expensive systems you need an IT degree to understand. - Or relied on their famous “gut feeling”. So We wanted to make something every manager could afford, everyone could use, which would save you time and increase your profit. Easy as that ... ​And then we made a smart, personal, AI Assistant. Named Aimy. You can carry her around on your phone, laptop, tablet or use on your cash register. She will always be there with you; looking for undiscovered venue & doing the staff planning at the same time. She knows what employee is most suited, depending on expected sales and customer flow the coming days. She will give you advices on how to raise the quality and competence of your staff. And she just gets smarter and smarter while she gets to know your business. Not bad, right! ​This is done learning from the systems you already have in your shop. She unifies these on one platform, and make them easy, motivating & predictive! ​ The "tools"​ you have in your business is your staff, your items and your customers. What if someone could tell you in advance how to balance those perfectly?
2020
Styreleder og co-founder
Jan 2020
everviz is a multiplatform visualization solution that lets you create interactive charts and maps online for publishing on your website, social media or through your cloud-based newsroom system. It only takes a minute to create your first visualization. Publish where you meet your audience.
2019
Investor og styremedlem
Aug 2019
MittVarsel.no - Trygg digital varslingportal med ISO/IEC 27001:2022 sertifisering. Kryptert, effektiv og anonym varsling om kritikkverdige forhold. Oppfyll lovkrav enkelt med en digital løsning. Integrer på nettside eller intranett. Full autonomi for saksbehandling
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