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Setting the stage for the startup success stories of tomorrow.

Not your typical tech conference.

Founders and investors, up the mountain together.
Business talk comes easier once you’ve been in the same boat.
Built with friends from the Nordic startup ecosystem.

How the event works Networking the Norwegian way

A raft crew in helmets and life jackets paddles through heavy white water. — Rafting at Voss, 2016 · Photo: Dan Taylor / Heisenberg Media

About fifteen people on a summer mountainside hold up giant white letters spelling EXTREME. — Voss, 2018 · Photo: Fredrik Steen

People in jackets and beanies sit in a circle in the snow for a bonfire conversation. — Bonfire conversation, Hemsedal, 2023 · Photo: Zygimantas Vaicaitis

“Networking with your next investment while rafting down a frothy river might seem like insanity. But Norwegians know that true relationships are not built by sharing business cards in a conference-hotel.”

Startup Extreme, 2017

Nine editions since 2015.

Connecting the startup ecosystem.

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Startup Extreme 2024
Hemsedal
Taking on the extreme challenges ahead
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Startup Extreme 2023
Hemsedal
Extreme Times. Extreme Opportunities.
Where the world meets the Nordic startup ecosystem in the mountains of Norway.
Photo: Zygimantas Vaicaitis
Startup Extreme 2022
HemsedalFirst year in Hemsedal
The world's most extreme startup event - in the MOUNTAINs of norway
Next Extreme Bets - future growth catalysts for the next decade
Photo: Zygimantas Vaicaitis
Startup Extreme 2020
VossDigital · live TV from Voss
Extreme founders for extreme times…
Shape the Future
Startup Extreme 2019
Voss
A step into the unknown
SO YOU THINK SKYDIVING IS EXTREME? TRY BUILDING A FAST GROWING STARTUP!
Photo: Jan Khür
Startup Extreme 2018
Bergen & Voss
SO YOU THINK SKY DIVING IS EXTREME? TRY BUILDING A FAST GROWING STARTUP!
FROM STARTUP TO SCALEUP - Norway has become a startup nation, now lets build a scaleup nation.
Photo: Fredrik Steen
Startup Extreme 2017
Bergen & Voss
Kickstarting the Norwegian Investment Scene
WHERE THE WORLD MEETS THE NORWEGIAN STARTUP ECOSYSTEM
Simen Malmin kited from Stavanger to Bergen for SX 2017.
Startup Extreme 2016
Bergen & Voss
THE STARTUP INNOVATION CONFERENCE
Photo: Dan Taylor / Heisenberg Media
Startup Extreme 2015
VossThe first one
A Festival designed to create meaningful long lasting relationships between hand picked founders and investors, by sharing experiences in the extreme and beautiful Norwegian nature.
THE WORLD'S MOST EXTREME STARTUP FESTIVAL

Founders who went for it.

All speakers

Danae Ringelmann
Founder, Indiegogo
Lars Erik Fagernæs
Co-founder & CEO, Aviant
Kristin Lorange
Founder & CEO, KOK
Per Borgen
CEO, Scrimba
Silvija Seres
Founder, TechnoRocks
Frode Opdahl
Co-founder & CEO, Keenious
Vibeke Gwendoline Fængsrud
Founder & CEO, House of Math
Olav Balandin
CEO & Co-founder, Diggecard
Marit Wetterhus
Founder & CEO, Capassa
Hermann Schips
Co-founder & CEO, Kelpinor
Lauren Pedersen
CEO & Co-founder, SportAI
Simon Risanger
CEO & Co-founder, Versiro
Marie Sunde
Founder & CEO, Equality Check
Rasmus Tyrén
Founder & CEO, Rada Labs
Camilla Frydenbø
Co-founder & CEO, Lyll
Tomasz Kowalczyk
CEO & Founder, Neurosys
Meryn Zumbo Willetts
Co-founder & CEO, Umbrella
Kim Leinan
Founder & CEO, Futureworks
Tilbe Gunduz
Founder & CEO, Matterz
Halvor Bakke-Veiby
CEO, Solstorm
Merete Nygaard
CEO & Founder, Lexolve
Pippa Boothman
CEO, Playfinity
Inger-Lovise Fjellgaard
Founder & CEO, Hera Solutions
Anja Solevågseide
Founder & CEO, PIR

Others said it better.

“One of Europe's best tech conferences in June!”

Forbes, May 2017

“Startup Extreme sported the perfect mix of activity and downtime to give its participants an opportunity to have the sort of deep conversations that makes this type of event worth while”

TechCrunch

“It’s hard to capture in words how amazing this inaugural event was. Even calling it an event seems out of place; 'experience' hits much closer to home”

Tech.eu

“In the same boat; to invest in a young startup is like jumping into a plastic boat with the founder, right in front of a deep river. So why not take a test ride first, down the rivers of Voss.”

Finansavisen

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