Meet Raja Skogland: An entrepreneur at heart who strongly believes in the limitlessness of human potential and is dedicated to empowering her peers.
Since 2015, Raja has helped thousands of entrepreneurs build their network, gain knowledge, and access capital in order to start and successfully grow their businesses.
From 2016 to 2018, she launched and managed Hub.no, the online platform tailored to the needs of Norwegian startups. She has also invested in and advised several Norwegian and international startups. In 2019 she launched the 1st online Accelerator program in Norway - GrundrAcademy.
Today she is head of Fintech at TheFactory, a leading Nordic Fintech & Proptech accelerator, incubator, and co-working space based in Oslo. In the last three years, TheFactory has invested in 29 startups, had one exit, accelerated over 50 startups, and built a network of over 50+ corporate partners.
The aim of TheFactory is to foster and nurture the Fintech & Proptech ecosystem, helping entrepreneurs build scalable, sustainable and profitable companies, as well as helping the more traditional finance and real estate industry access tools, knowledge and the relevant startups to help them in their technological transformation.
The Nordic countries are leading the way toward a cashless future. Fewer than 10% of Norwegian consumers carry cash for everyday purchases, and the nation's Central Bank believes cash use will dwindle to almost nothing in the next decade.