Erling Maartmann-Moe

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Erling Maartmann-Moe (born August 1, 1952) is a Partner in Alliance Venture, a Norwegian venture firm, investing in early stage technology startups.

He has a Master degree in Computer Science from the University of Oslo (1984). He was employed as a researcher and Research Director at the Norwegian Computing Centre from 1984-1996. He built and headed a Multiimedia Group, and worked on early adaptions of sound and video in IP-based networks. He wrote the book Multimedia (Norwegian University Press) in 1991, which was revised for new editions in 1992 and 1994. He became a partner in the first commercial Internet company in Norway, Oslonett, in 1994. It was later sold to Schibsted and became the foundation for Scandinavia Online.

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Oslonett was an Internet service provider based in Oslo, Norway, and the first ISP to serve Norway. It was established 12 of December 1991, founded by a group of 18 University of Oslo alumni. The company was bought by Schibsted in 1995.

From 1995-2000 he was engaged as Technology Adviser at Four Seasons Venture (now Verdane Capital). In 1996 he became the CEO of New Media Science, a pioneering company in Norway, developing web-based services. When NMS merged with Digital Hverdag (1998) and later Cell Network (2000) he has the position of Director of Business Development.

In the fall of 2000 he attended the International Executive Programme at INSEAD in Paris. In 2001 he became the co-founder of Alliance Venture [1] . He also contributed to commercialisation of Research at Simula Innovation, and the University of Oslo, where the Technology Transfer Office Birkeland Innovasjon was founded (now Inven2) He became Partner in Alliance Venture in 2003, and has participated in raising two follow-up funds (2006 and 2014).

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He has had a position as Adjunct Professor at the Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Oslo since 2002 [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Team". Alliance Venture. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
  2. ↑ "Erling Maartmann-Moe - Senter for entreprenørskap". www.mn.uio.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2017-08-15.


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