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Aleap
Aleap is a non-profit incubator and early-stage investment partner based in Oslo, Norway, focusing on health and life science startups. It offers tailored support without taking equity, emphasizing regulatory expertise and collaborative workspaces.
Overview
What Aleap does
What Aleap is
Aleap is a non-profit incubator and early-stage investment partner based in Oslo, Norway, focusing on health and life science startups. It offers tailored support without taking equity, emphasizing regulatory expertise and collaborative workspaces.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
The current public profile supports program host and community capabilities. Each capability below is shown separately so organization identity and role-specific information do not get conflated.
Operational profile
Organization status and context
Organization status describes the entity itself. Funding and program availability appear within the relevant capability profile.
- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Incubator
- Founded
- Founded in 2016
- Approximate age
- About 10 years
- Structured capabilities
- Program host · Community
- Last reviewed
- April 11, 2026
What Incubator means
An incubator is a support environment for turning a nascent idea or early company into a startup that is more ready for customers, funding, or an accelerator.
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Capability profile
Aleap as a program host
Program thesis
Aleap is a non-profit incubator and investment partner for health startups, providing support through expertise, funding, and community engagement.
Focus narrative
Aleap focuses on early-stage health companies across three core areas: MedTech, Digital Health, and BioTech. This includes devices, diagnostics, software platforms, and novel therapeutics aimed at improving healthcare outcomes.
Value and support
Aleap offers tailored, long-term support without taking equity in the startups it supports. This includes assistance in regulation, validation, and business development, as well as access to a vibrant community of health-tech innovators.
Availability
- Application state
- Accepting
Focus and fit
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed
Alumni and track record
Alumni context
Notable alumni companies include Respinor, which develops a non-invasive ultrasound-based medical device for monitoring diaphragm function; Thelper, innovating treatments for incurable cancers; Klyv, focusing on anti-fibrotic therapies for heart failure; Rab Diagnostics, creating precision biomarker solutions for targeted chemotherapy; and Aidee, redefining blood pressure monitoring technology.
Capability profile
Aleap as a community
Community overview
Aleap is a non-profit incubator and investment partner for health startups, founded in October 2016 and based at Oslo Science Park in Oslo, Norway. It is recognized as the largest health startup incubator in the Nordics, providing support to health entrepreneurs through expertise, funding, and community engagement.
Community focus
Aleap focuses on early-stage health companies across three core areas: MedTech, Digital Health, and BioTech. They support startups developing devices, software platforms, and novel therapeutics that enhance healthcare.
Member value
Members receive tailored, long-term support without a fixed timeline, including expertise in regulation, validation, and business development. Aleap connects startups with suitable accelerator programs and fosters a vibrant community of health-tech innovators.
Membership
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- in-person
- Schedule
- rolling-admissions
- Commitment
- light
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
- Next recorded event
- April 2, 2025
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Founders · Investors · Operators
- Benefits
- mentorship and network-access
- Program types
- incubator, bootcamp, and community
- Selection criteria
- open
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed
- Sectors
- Healthcare
Community activity
Events and activity
Aleap hosts various events to foster networking and collaboration among health innovators. Notable upcoming events include the Summer Party on June 25, 2025, the CEO Forum on June 3, 2025, and the Path to Phase 1 on April 2, 2025.
Notable members
Notable companies in Aleap's portfolio include Respinor, Thelper, Klyv, Rab Diagnostics, and Aidee. Key team members include Aksel Tunold, Shane West, Mariann Dønnum, Erling Nordbø, Jørn Mikalsen, Anders Tuv, and Joachim Paasche.
Common questions
What to know about Aleap
Upseed classifies Aleap under the Incubator organization type. Its current public profile includes program host and community capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
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Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
April 11, 2026
Known limits
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