Founders


  • CTO and Co-Founder

    Johan is a mathematician turned software developer. After working several years as a research mathematician in academia, he's since worked for scale-ups in the Stavanger region.


  • CEO and Co-Founder

    Simen is an energy engineer and entrepreneur who started his career in Kongsberg Maritime. After Kongsberg he worked in a few start-ups before founding Yxney in 2016. Yxney developed the software Maress - which is now the world leading software for data driven decarbonisation of offshore vessels. Yxney was acquired by VPS in 2021.

Johan Steen

  • Sindre is the Managing Director of Nordic Innovation. Sindre is an economist with international experience from diplomacy, industrial business development, start-ups and impact-driven growth.

Simen Sanna

The Board

  • Erik Aadland is an entrepreneur, investor, professional board member and trained economist. Erik was one of the Co-founders of It´s Learning and has been part of several Start-ups and Scale-ups since.

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