Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit was in Palo Alto Wednesday and part of the trip was about visiting Innovation Norway incubator in Palo Alto, called Innovation House. There they met royal newcomers who are trying to make it big in Silicon Valley.
incubator, located in downtown Palo Alto, is powered by Innovation Norway and Norwegian companies will provide an easier way into the U.S. market.
center was opened in 2011 by Crown Prince Haakon, through a virtual ribbon cutting at Twitter.
The royal couple were seen in any of the projects run by the Innovation House, including a touch loose gesture system for tablets from Elliptic Labs.
Haakon also tried a virtual reality system MakingView. The company has developed a camera that can record video in 360 degrees. When one looks at it with a pair of virtual reality glasses to the video give the user the feeling of being there.
Newcomer companies believe it to move to the U.S. is good business, and everyone was grateful to the Innovation House, which made the move easier.
– In Norway, we get a lot of attention to start-up businesses in the oil and gas, but for technology companies is more difficult to obtain venture capital, said Are Vindfallet in MakingView.
Silje Vallestad, founder and director of the Bipper, said that the center has saved her the trouble and difficulty of setting up an office, when she first moved over.
At eight months, the company has grown to four employees and may soon move further out of the Innovation House.
The other Norwegian companies present were AIMS Innovation, which has developed a real-time overvåkingsverktøry for Microsoft Biztalk, Shippingcluster, which makes software for shipowners, Wewanttoknow.com, makers of the popular algebra game Dragonbox, Changetech , which uses psychology and neuroscience to transform people’s bad habits through an app, High Soft Solutions, a tool for creating interactive charts online and list utility Listnerd.com.
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