TK

Trond Riiber Knudsen

Founder TRK GROUP

📍 Oslo, Oslo, Norway🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 18 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2021
VC🌍 Norway
15
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Board Observer and Investor
Jan 2019
Kindly is one of Europe’s leading chatbot providers specializing in the development of artificial intelligence and automation solutions for customer service and communication. Kindly offers a platform that combines advanced machine learning techniques and natural language processing (NLP) to improve the efficiency of customer service processes and enhance the customer experience. Among our customers are Booking.com, Tele2, Norwegian Airlines, Voi, Hertz, TV4, and Kahoot!
Board Observer and Investor
Jan 2018
🚀 Revolutionizing health insurance with AI-driven clinical navigation 🚀 At Healthily, were revolutionizing the healthcare industry by leveraging cutting-edge technology to slash costs and enhance customer experiences for health insurers. Our flagship product, Dot™, serves as the digital health front door, powered by AI and medically verified data. Dot™ efficiently guides members through their health inquiries, directing them to appropriate services or empowering them with self-care solutions and reducing costs for insurers by optimizing pathways. 🔍 About Dot™: AI-Powered Symptom Navigation: Dot™ uses advanced AI algorithms to automatically optimize the allocation of an insurer’s resources for each member based on their situation, slashing the associated costs. 🧑‍🔬 Medically verified: Our platform is backed by rigorous medical validation processes, ensuring we adhere to the highest standards of accuracy and safety. Data insights: As well as assisting members, Dot™ generates valuable insights by mapping behaviors and decision-making patterns, offering invaluable data for health insurers. 💡 Expertise: With 9 years dedicated to perfecting our SAAS platform, Healthily has established itself as a leader in the field. Our pioneering approach to online clinical safety has led to support from top-tier investors and health organizations, validating our commitment to excellence. 🌟 Culture at Healthily: Our culture isnt just a set of values; its the driving force behind everything we do. Were passionate about investing in our team and fostering a collaborative environment where innovation thrives. Together, were on a mission to empower a billion people to take control of their health through self-care.
Member Advisory Board and Investor
Dec 2017
Antler is one of the most active early-stage investors globally. The firm leads in ‘Day Zero’ investing, an approach to venture capital focused on partnering with founders pre-launch. Antler systematically removes capital and network constraints for early-stage technology entrepreneurs by providing co-founder matching, deep business model validation, initial capital, expansion support, and follow-on funding. The firm is present in 27 cities across most leading technology ecosystems globally and has made over 1,300 investments into early-stage startups. Antler has been repeatedly recognized by Pitchbook as the world’s most active angel and seed-stage investor.
Member Advisory Board and GP/Investor
Dec 2017
Antler is one of the most active early-stage investors globally. The firm leads in ‘Day Zero’ investing, an approach to venture capital focused on partnering with founders pre-launch. Antler systematically removes capital and network constraints for early-stage technology entrepreneurs by providing co-founder matching, deep business model validation, initial capital, expansion support, and follow-on funding. The firm is present in 27 cities across most leading technology ecosystems globally and has made over 1,300 investments into early-stage startups. Antler has been repeatedly recognized by Pitchbook as the world’s most active angel and seed-stage investor.
Lead Mentor and Investor
Aug 2017
We work to make impact investing mainstream and mobilize capital and businesses to deliver positive impact. We accelerate and invest in Ocean and African companies solving the world’s greatest challenges. Katapult VC is a investment company with two investment strategies focusing on impact driven climate ventures. In total, Katapult has made 169 investments in impact ventures globally. Our two investment teams and themes are: 🌊 Katapult Ocean, the world’s most active ocean impact venture fund investing globally and recognized as a Top Investor by World Economic Forum, Uplink and Top50 Climate investors. Katapult Ocean is a founding member of the 1000 ocean startups coalition. 🌍 Katapult Africa, the pan-African investment fund based in Kigali and Nairobi invests food, ag and climate ventures. In 2021, Katapult launched the Katapult Foundation with the goal to build a larger network of impact investors. Katapult also hosts the annual Katapult Future Fest in Oslo, bringing together founders, investors and some of the most prominent people and organizations within impact investment
Lead Mentor and GP/Investor
Aug 2017
We work to make impact investing mainstream and mobilize capital and businesses to deliver positive impact. We accelerate and invest in Ocean and African companies solving the world’s greatest challenges. Katapult VC is a investment company with two investment strategies focusing on impact driven climate ventures. In total, Katapult has made 169 investments in impact ventures globally. Our two investment teams and themes are: 🌊 Katapult Ocean, the world’s most active ocean impact venture fund investing globally and recognized as a Top Investor by World Economic Forum, Uplink and Top50 Climate investors. Katapult Ocean is a founding member of the 1000 ocean startups coalition. 🌍 Katapult Africa, the pan-African investment fund based in Kigali and Nairobi invests food, ag and climate ventures. In 2021, Katapult launched the Katapult Foundation with the goal to build a larger network of impact investors. Katapult also hosts the annual Katapult Future Fest in Oslo, bringing together founders, investors and some of the most prominent people and organizations within impact investment
Member of the Board and Investor
Mar 2016
The North Alliance is the leading creative and tech family in the Nordics. With over 1200 experts across offices in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Poland, we are specialized in creating customer-driven growth.
Member of the Board
Sep 2015
Seemas slagord er: Din suksess er vår seier.
Co-founder and lead Investor
Aug 2015
Penda was founded in 2014 by our general manager Marie Nielsen with a clear purpose in mind; to revolutionise Addis Ababa’s paper recycling industry and showcase the “power of paper”. The result was a company founded on the following three goals: 1. To build a sustainable circular economy for paper and carton waste in Ethiopia 2. To create 10,000 job and income opportunities in recycling 3. To contribute to making Ethiopia a green middle-income country by 2025 After conducting a small pilot project for waste paper collection in the capital, Penda signed a Public Private Partnership agreement with the Addis Ababa City Administration in June 2015. The role of Penda under the 20-year PPP agreement is to develop and set up a best practice system for waste paper/carton collection in the city for recycling and prevent (as far as possible) the current practice of burning and/or dumping recyclable materials at the landfill. Our accomplishment to date: - 90+ fulltime jobs created - 4,500 m3 of landfill space saved - 4,300 government waste collectors are earning additional income - 170+ offices are participating in our recycling program - 512,610 children in 810 schools are educated on the benefits of recycling
Senior Advisor and Investor
Aug 2015
We take the best of your data and let it speak! By marrying advanced analytics to domain expertise, we enable you to unlock the optimal route to applying digitalization and data science. Thus we are delivering a significant leap in efficiency for asset reliability and process optimizations. Our products allow you to become proactive instead of reactive and significantly reduce planning time, operating expenses, and environmental footprint. Everything we do builds on a complex stack of world-class developer tools, linking data science, cloud computing, and big data analytics. We build products solving unique customer problems which are scalable to the wider industry. We have successfully partnered with major companies concerning company-wide digital transformation and case-specific collaborations. Our broad industry experience working with, e.g., oil & gas, chemicals, maritime, and renewables makes us a powerful partner for digitalization and process optimization. For more information, please visit www.arundo.com.
Senior Advisor and Investor
Aug 2015
We take the best of your data and let it speak! By marrying advanced analytics to domain expertise, we enable you to unlock the optimal route to applying digitalization and data science. Thus we are delivering a significant leap in efficiency for asset reliability and process optimizations. Our products allow you to become proactive instead of reactive and significantly reduce planning time, operating expenses, and environmental footprint. Everything we do builds on a complex stack of world-class developer tools, linking data science, cloud computing, and big data analytics. We build products solving unique customer problems which are scalable to the wider industry. We have successfully partnered with major companies concerning company-wide digital transformation and case-specific collaborations. Our broad industry experience working with, e.g., oil & gas, chemicals, maritime, and renewables makes us a powerful partner for digitalization and process optimization. For more information, please visit www.arundo.com.
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2021
Member of the Board
Oct 2021
Scandza AS is a FMCG company located in Oslo, Norway. Scandzas ambition is to create a Scandinavian branded fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company Today, Scandza is a fast-growing player within the Scandinavian FMCG space, with revenues of NOK 5 bn generated from a portfolio of iconic brands Scandza has leading positions in core categories, and is well positioned to continue growing organically and through M&A
2019
Lead Mentor
Sep 2019
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)
Board Observer and Investor
Jan 2019
Kindly is one of Europe’s leading chatbot providers specializing in the development of artificial intelligence and automation solutions for customer service and communication. Kindly offers a platform that combines advanced machine learning techniques and natural language processing (NLP) to improve the efficiency of customer service processes and enhance the customer experience. Among our customers are Booking.com, Tele2, Norwegian Airlines, Voi, Hertz, TV4, and Kahoot!
Advisor
Jan 2019
The Laerdal Million Lives Fund is committed to investing in, partnering with and supporting entrepreneurs who are developing and deploying new emerging technologies capable of saving lives across the globe. We target investments in commercial stage technologies that (i) address mortality rates across clinical areas, such as maternal, neonatal, emergency medicine, critical care, surgery and others, and (ii) provide better medical education and training to providers and patients. We prioritize investments that can meaningful impact mortality rates at a global scale by improving healthcare quality and outcomes regardless of demographic or geography, thus contributing directly to our global goal of saving 1 million lives annually by 2030.
2018
Member of the Board and Investor
Jul 2018
Opera is a leading global internet brand with a large and engaged user base of approximately 300 million average monthly active users. Building on 30 years of innovation, starting with our browser products, we are leveraging our brand as well as our massive and engaged user base in order to expand our offerings and our business. Today, we offer users around the globe a range of products and services that include a variety of PC and mobile browsers, our Opera Gaming portals and development tools, our Opera News content recommendation products, our audience extension product (namely the Opera Ads platform) and a number of AI and Web3 products and services. How do we do it? Opera is at the forefront of building ideas, bringing together exceptional international teams of developers, coders, researchers, marketers, and support professionals. Our goal has always been to provide the best online experience on any device, leveraging our decades of experience and dedication to innovation.  Our success is also driven by our people. We know what it takes to build a winning team, and we seek out individuals who share our values and our passion for excellence. We believe in giving our team members the freedom to work in ways that suit them best, trusting them to deliver their best work on their own terms. We value collaboration and teamwork, recognizing that we can achieve more when we work together than when we work alone. And above all, we look for good human beings who share our commitment to making a positive impact on the world. If youre interested in job opportunities at Opera, be sure to check out jobs.opera.com. Youll find a comprehensive list of all positions currently available at our company. And if youre looking to download one of our browsers, head over to www.opera.com. There, youll find everything you need to get started with the latest version of our browser.
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