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At Ignite Procurement, we're more than just a technology company. We're a group of passionate individuals committed to making a difference in the world. We're therfore thrilled to announce the release of our GHG Emission Report for 2022!

Ignite Procurement is proud to announce that Mersalg Gruppen has chosen its digital solution to ensure compliance with the Norwegian Transparency Act or Åpenhetlsoven.

Ignite's new interns are ready to start hitting the ground running: A blog introducing the new summer interns at Ignite, including a little about them. Four of Norway's best and brightest have chosen to spend their summer at Ignite's Oslo office.

Ignite Procurement, the five-year-old Nordic procurement software company, just raised $7.1 million Series A funding. The round was led by existing investors and included new investors. This brings the company's valuation to $28.4 million.

We are happy to inform you that the Norwegian scaleup Semine has joined forces with Ignite. Semine delivers an intelligent automation platform for accounts payable that changes the finance function with AI and Machine Learning. The partnership will create fully integrated platforms that will help companies get a line-item level detail of their spend data and thereby enable a whole new dimension for procurement optimization.

We are super honored and humbled that our very own CTO, Valdemar Edvard Sandal Rolfsen, has been named one of the top 10 emerging tech leaders in Norway by E24.no. And we are equally proud of our co-founders, Sigbjørn Nome and Børge Langedal, who were selected as the top ten founders of the year!

DFØ is hosting a conference on digital procurement in May 2022, where Karin Bigseth from Ålesund municipality, together with Ignite Procurement, will share their experiences on what it means to be digitally driven.

Our CEO, Sigbjørn Nome, and VP Sales, Kjetil Istad, were recently placed in an exciting article on Anbud365. The article covers how public sector organizations like the Ålesund kommune and Tolletaten are using our platform to make fact-based decisions, automate their procurement processes, emphasize a category-based purchasing model, and follow up with the suppliers to meet the sustainability goals.

We have some BIG news to share with you this week! Ignite Procurement has been named to Spend Matters' list of 50 Procurement Providers to Watch for 2021.

The best part about being a fast-growing organization is adding new and unique talent to your expanding team. This summer, Ignite added thirteen exceptional members to its deck of aces. Now we are 44 and counting!

Ignite Procurement and Enin Team-up to bring data-driven supplier management to Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland.

Yes, they are here! Meet these young and brilliant faces who will light up the summer weeks at our Oslo office.

At Ignite, we believe in creating a dynamic team of enthusiastic and talented individuals. In this innovation, success, and growth journey, we are excited to welcome two new members to our team.

Ignite Procurement and Amc Group establish partnership to further drive procurement innovation in the DACH region.

We are delighted to announce our latest NOK 30 million funding raise. This is a great moment not only for us, our partners, and investors but for our customers who have trusted us in this growth journey.

This spring, we added three new and talented team members to our fast-growing organization. Ignite Procurement is delighted to welcome our new team members and wish them well in their careers with us.

Ignite Procurement has become one of the country’s most successful and promising start-up companies. One key to its success is a policy of encouraging autonomous teams and short decision-making processes. Join behind the scenes of Ignite Procurement, where employees are the driving force from day one.

When Kjetil Marius Istad resigned as head of the state procurement giant Sykehusinnkjøp, he contacted the startup he had been a customer of - and asked to join the trip.

Sigbjørn Nome, CEO and co-founder of Ignite Procurement has an ambitious growth plan for his company. This article reveals their recipe and how they their double income and the number of employees in just a few months.  

Ignite Procurement continues its rapid growth and has hired new, exceptional talents to the team. Please give a warm welcome to the latest team Ignite additions.

We are delighted to welcome Moreld, an international industrial conglomerate owned by HitecVision, as one of our newest customers.

If you're looking for a new spend analytics provider or if you're just curious about what makes Ignite Procurement so unique, then you need to keep reading.

Ignite Procurement was recently under Spend Matters' two-part PRO Vendor Analysis and deep dive on vendor analysis lens this year.

As the market in which startup companies conduct business becomes more international, Norwegian companies must look beyond Norway's borders to succeed and grow.

Ignite Procurement has grown from 10 to 20 employees in the last year. And we are not stopping there. Our ambition is to scale the team to 50 full-time employees by the end of 2021. But in the meantime, please say hello to all our newest team members.

"We saw that you could save hundreds of millions," says Sigbjørn Nome in an interview with Finnaavisen. The CEO and co-founder of Ignite Procurement, Sigbjørn Nome, sees several challenges with the way companies resort to making procurement decisions. He believes that Ignite Procurement could be the ultimate solution.

Ignite Procurement is proud to be included in the newest Spend Matters SolutionMap report as the only new vendor in the Spend & Procurement Analytics category.

This fiery startup could be a hit among investors this autumn: Announces major round of NOK 100 million, says Shifter in their latest article.

The Norwegian Environment Agency, and implicitly all organizations that are part of the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment, has selected Ignite Procurement as their spend management solution going forward.

Procurement startup takes over public contracts. This article was so popular that it appeared in Anbud365's top 10 most read articles of the spring semester.

Ignite Procurement is proud to announce that it is moving ahead with its annual internship program and has hired top students from recognized Norwegian and international universities.

We are delighted and proud to announce that Hexagon Composites, a global leader in clean energy solutions, is one of our newest customers.

We are thrilled to announce that Ignite Procurement has won the award for Norway's VEXT (growth) Company 2020.

Public sector organization Sykehusinnkjøp invests in procurement solution from Ignite Procurement.

Ignite Procurement's CEO and co-founder, Sigbjørn Nome, and Chief Marketing Officer, Frank Willie Bødal, told Anbudd how the young startup managed to attract prominent clients to its portfolio.

Ignite Procurement has recently been awarded a public contract valued at 2.8 million kroner, thereby providing the company with an initial foothold in the public sector market.

In the search for Norway's next growth company, Ignite Procurement has been selected by Finanavisen and Vext. We're honored to be recognized for our efforts in strategic procurement, and excited about what's to come!

After a successful start in Norway, the company is now entering into Nordic cooperation with Deloitte.

Ignite Procurement's Sigbjørn Nome and Børge Langedal turned away a number of investors when they recently landed NOK 8 million for their spend management tool solution for procurement.

We are delighted to welcome AutoStore as one of our newest customers. Following a procurement project, the company has now entered into a license agreement for the use of our digital solution for strategic procurement.

The new CTO of Ignite Procurement, Valdemar Rolfsen says, "I think we are coming in at just the right time!"