Kistefos is a private equity investment firm headquartered in Oslo, Norway. The firm seeks to invest in the offshore, shipping, financial service, real estate, information technology, and telecom sectors.
Streamlined AP automation that allows you to work across portfolios with complete flexibility, free up resources and benefit from insight.
More detail and more time for the tasks that matter. Approve invoices on-the-go and benefit from high-quality insights that improve decision making.
Spend more time with your stakeholders and less on repetitive tasks. Benefit from at-a-glance oversight, hyper automation and aimplified processes.
Streamlined automated processes allow you to enhance business performance. Gain richer, higher-quality insights across all units and increase efficiency.
Streamline your processes with automation of lines, dimension capture, automatic accrual of cost and on-the-go invoice approval.
Improve visibility & control by automatically capturing relevant data from all invoices. Benefit from cost savings, increased visibility and 100% accuracy.
Make your workloads more manageable, get a complete overview of your finances, negotiate better agreements and identify cost-saving opportunities.
SEMINE simplifies complex and varied processes to empower finance teams with no-touch accounting. Benefit from hyper automation and 100% accuracy.
Our industry-leading software fully automates the invoice processing, reducing time spent from minutes to seconds, improving cost efficiency in the process.
Use insights from 100% accurate line-level data to inform better business decisions that truly optimise performance.
Our industry-leading software will increase the efficiency of your finance department, the quality of their output, and the strength of decision-making.
Our automation suite gives you the tools to set autopilots on the mundane tasks, so that you can focus on the bigger picture and not on time consuming data entry and repeating work.
Leading Norwegian investors have contributed significant capital into our platform – because they too believe it’s the future of finance.
Semine is owned by Amesto Holding (6.5%), Skagerak Capital (10.8%), Adolfsen Group (10.9%), our founders and employees (19.1%), and Kistefos Venture Capital (52.7%).
One of Norway’s most esteemed investors, Kistefos Venture Capital, holds the majority of shares in Semine and has been supporting the company side since 2017. Since their initial investment they have continuously grown their engagement and support.
Adolfsen Gruppen, one of Semine’s first customers, saw a huge potential in our company and decided to come onboard as an investor. The founder together with current and former employees hold a substantial amount of shares.
Kistefos is a private equity investment firm headquartered in Oslo, Norway. The firm seeks to invest in the offshore, shipping, financial service, real estate, information technology, and telecom sectors.
Skagerak Capital is an early-stage venture firm that invests and foster growth and development in new technology companies, that make a positive impact, have global ambitions and growth potential.
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We’re proud to be led by a multidisciplinary team of visionaries, who all share in our mission to unlock the full potential of finance teams through industry-leading AI, end-to-end accounts payable automation and actionable insights.
Bjørn has broad experience working with software to improve and streamline accounting departments, with a particular focus on accounts payable. He holds a MSc from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and has studied Project Management at Norwegian Business School (BI).
Arun brings over 25 years of experience from the software industry. He has held various technical and leadership roles. Prior to Semine he held the position as Engineering Director at Unit4, and is a skilled leader and manager. Arun has a computer science degree and an Executive MBA.
Daniel has extensive experience from various positions in marketing, sales and leadership within the software and SaaS industry. He has worked at Software Innovation, Tieto, and Montaag in San Francisco before building the commercial side of Semine. He holds a Bachelor's degree in International Marketing from BI Norwegian Business School and NTU, Singapore, and have studied entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley.
Hilde has experience from various roles related to transformation of the finance function, from both an in-house and consultancy perspective as a prior consultant in Deloitte. Previously, she was the CFO of the maritime technology company Miros for 5 years. She holds a Master of Science degree in Business Administration and Economics from NHH, the Norwegian school of Economics.
Trygve joined Semine in 2023 and brings more than 20 years of experience from the ERP- and Consulting industry. Prior to Semine Trygve worked 13 years in Unit4 in various management positions within product management and Solution Consulting both in Norway, the Nordics and Internationally. Trygve has a Master of Business Economics (Siviløkonom) degree from Norwegian School of Management.
Gartner® recognise SEMINE as a leading provider of Accounts Payable Invoice Automation Solution.
Top 10 on Deloitte's list of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Norway in 2022 and 2023.
Finalist in the Microsoft SaaS Partner of the Year award in 2022.
See for yourself how SEMINE is revolutionising the finance sector.
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