From Havdis
📣 Benedek Regoczi and Lalit Rane from Havdis visited Matís. These ambitious entrepreneurs are developing PDRN (polydeoxyribonucleotide) made from cod milt. 🐟 Cod milt is little used today, so this is a great…
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And we’re off! 🚀 TINC cohort #30! There is always something special about the first days of a new TINC cohort, meeting the founders, learning more about their companies and ambitions, and watching a new group begin to…
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Last night at the Icefish Awards in Kópavogur, Havdis received an Honourable Mention in the Innovation in Whole Fish Utilisation category for our work on PDRN from Atlantic cod milt. We were the only company recognised…
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This week Benedek Regoczi and Rasmus August Engh Tønnessen were at DNB NXT in Bergen. One session we got a lot out of was on why to choose local VCs and what they are looking for, with Momentum (Arve Janbu Fresvik),…
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Yesterday Havdis was in Tromsø for Gode hoder sammen for blå bioøkonomi i nord, held at Havneterminalen and hosted by the four Arctic Blue Clusters: Biotech North, Cod Cluster, Norwegian Seaweed Cluster and NCE…
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ONS was something new! Last week, I left Bergen for Stavanger to pitch at ONS, The trip down started with a little more action than I would normally prefer in the morning. with a flat tire at Leirvik... But WOW. Once I…
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We were at Eitri in Bergen this morning to present Havdis to around 60 new master students at Høgskulen på Vestlandet (HVL). We were asked to speak about the opportunity in starting something of your own, and to share…
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Happy birthday Havdis.🎉 Exactly one year ago we were born from an idea. Since then our team has grown around a premium product aimed at some of the biggest challenges in health and sustainability, built on pristine…
Read more →PDRN has emerged as one of the most popular ingredients in skincare. However, very few people know what it is or where it comes from. If you are interested in finding out, read our recent blog below.
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Proud to be Norwegian these days. The feeling of being small in a country where a single district has as many people as all of Norway, and yet: a deep sense of how much we have grown in one year. Over the past year, the…
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Traceability and origin sit at the heart of everything we do at Havdis. 🌊 Every gram of PDRN we extract can be followed back to its source, from the Atlantic cod milt we start with to the material that reaches our…
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For years PDRN clearly worked, but nobody knew why. Here's how researchers found the receptor, the pathway, and the mechanism behind it.
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WOW, what an evening! 🤩🤩 A huge thank you to everyone who came to the pitch competition this week. It was incredibly inspiring to see so many exciting ideas and strong pitches on stage! 🚀 A big thank you to everyone…
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🐟 Yesterday we had a visit from Norwegian and Icelandic representatives of the aquaculture industry. 🌊 Over three days, NCE Seafood's competence programme is taking its participants around Iceland to see, learn, be…
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Back at Bryggeriet Student Incubator, this time on stage as one of 10 companies. A year ago I was part of this community myself, about to start out as a student founder. Yesterday we pitched Havdis AS in front of a room…
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Havdis pitched at #Tonik2026 in the Faroe Islands. It was amazing to see how many blue and circular economy companies were part of the competition. Marine resources, circular business models, blue biotech. Connecting…
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What a week. 🌟 Iceland Innovation Week brought the world to Reykjavik once again. Investors, founders, and innovators in the same room, asking the same question: what can we build next? With my Havdis hat on, I had the…
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The Tonik Pitch Competition with ICE 💥 With ICE Kirkenes - The Center of Arctic Entrepreneurs as our pitch competition partner. We can't wait for the pitching to start! GetSwaply - Marine Spark X - Fisofi - Hugin…
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Proud to see Havdis represented at Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship this week by our CEO Andreas Lyhammer. Great company to be in and great people to learn from.
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We are happy to share that Thor Sigfusson PhD has joined the Havdis advisory board. Thor's commitment to #100percentfish utilization and building bridges between ocean industries is something we deeply share. Having him…
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⭐ A wonderful visit last week at the Iceland Ocean Cluster from the EU Commissioner of Fisheries and Oceans, Costas Kadis accompanied by the Icelandic Minister of Industries Hanna Katrin Fridriksson and an EU delegation…
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Since day one, Havdis has been built on the generosity of two ecosystems. The Icelandic and Norwegian marine communities have opened doors, shared knowledge, and created the conditions for something genuinely new to…
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Recently, part of the Havdis team was in Oslo meeting partners and running workshops. Building the right relationships takes time, and we invest in that. The partners we work with, across Norway and internationally,…
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How a medical breakthrough in Italian hospitals became the cornerstone of modern regenerative aesthetics — and why the story doesn't end with salmon.
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Busy days for Havdis at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences's Sustainability Week.
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Busy days for Havdis at Høgskulen på Vestlandet (HVL)'s Sustainability Week. Our CEO Andreas Lyhammer joined founders night to share reflections from our journey building Havdis, and took part in a panel on how…
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We are pleased to welcome Hari Rahman Færøy to the team! Hari holds a Bachelor's degree in Renewable Energy and brings a structured, reliable approach to his work. He will be joining us as an intern in the upcoming…
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We are pleased to welcome Frida Sæterdal to the Havdis team! Frida is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Responsible Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and holds a Bachelor's degree in Organisational Psychology, HR,…
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We are pleased to welcome Frida and Hari, who are both joining Havdis for a 10-week internship.
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Havdis is featured at Iceland's largest sustainability conference. 🌊 At Havdis, all three pillars of sustainability drive everything we do. Asking ourselves the qustion: How can we do more with less from our ocean…
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We recently visited Tromsø to connect with several of our valued partners in Northern Norway. This visit reminded us why proximity to the industry matters, collaboration is where real innovation happens. In a scarce…
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Happy Holidays to all of you from the Havdis team! We want to thank you for being an essential part of our journey! God jul! 🌊 🎄 Torleif Markussen Lunde, Olav Rune Øverland, Kateřina Rydlová, Marie Moxnes Harfjeld,…
Read more →Proud to be featured in Shifter.no! 🌟 🐟 As Shifter writes: “Havdis er på rekordtid blitt en startup-snakkis, ikke bare på Vestlandet.” (Havdis has, in record time, become a much-talked-about startup, not only on the…
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Great visit to the Iceland Ocean Cluster, seeing the #100percentFish program in action and connecting with the ecosystem that's making it real. This is where it gets tangible: every ton of fish processing side streams…
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🌊 Havdis participated in Bergen Næringsråd's Årskonferanse 2025, Western Norway's largest business gathering, where we connected with several promising new partners and experienced interest in our marine bioactives.…
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