Mandal Slush’D is becoming The Foundry
April 21, 2026
The name reflects our industrial heritage. Combining deep technical capability with ambitious, AI powered execution. This is the Norwegian Dynamism. A new generation of founders, engineers and developers with a 100x mindset. Taking on extremely complex technological challenges and building companies that endures.
From day one this event has been built to deploy capital into Norwegian startups, scaleups and funds. This year we have a 540% increase in international investors attending, both on the GP and LP side. That matters. One reason is that The Foundry is different, and uniquely set in the southern Norwegian archipelago. Both startups and investors are increasingly turning away from generic, large conferences and instead looking towards smaller, curated and high-quality arenas to meet.
The Foundry is built for that. There's no stands, there's no pitching. Just relevant people, in the right setting, with time to actually engage. We have designed the whole experience to be time well spent for anyone attending. We have gathered a level of international investors never before seen in Norway. And I would encourage startups, scaleups, industrial players and investors to take part of that.
Ole Henrik Golf
CEO – The Foundry
CEO – The Foundry
