Helping FMCG teams to innovate confidently
We’re on a mission to reduce waste, guesswork, and failed innovation with smarter, data-driven product development.
Our vision
At TasteForge, we are dedicated to transforming how FMCG companies bring products to market. We help teams build better ideas, faster—by merging market data, consumer insight, and workflow automation in one collaborative platform.
We’re product-fit obsessed — building a domain-focused platform that solves real-world bottlenecks in the world’s most competitive industry.
The numbers
- High launch failure of FMCG products globally today
- 0%
- Time saved during early-stage product exploration
- 15%
- Of early users say it changes their innovation process
- 0%
- Pilot slots available
- 0
Meet the team
Founded by an seasoned tech entrepreneurs.
TasteForge was founded by four serial entrepenuers with deep roots in AI, big data, SaaS and enterprise platforms, and FMCG innovation.
With a passion to solve complex problems and to drive real user value, company value and connect value chains, we’ve built successful SaaS companies before, worked across AI regulation and foodtech, and know firsthand how broken the innovation process is in large organizations. Years ago, we saw firsthand how many products were launched based on gut instinct, scattered spreadsheets, and outdated reports—often resulting in waste and missed opportunities. Today, TasteForge brings a new way to work. A unified system that helps product teams explore, test, and validate better innovations using aggregated data, structured workflows, and smart AI support.
We’re now onboarding early pilot partners ready to shape the future of product innovation.
The team
Stig Ola Johansen
Co-Founder / CEO
Phd. Bernt Bremdal
AI Researcher
Merete Bognar
Innovation manager
Aleksander Johansen
Designer
Mathias Nesheim
Head of product
Mircea Braescu
Product Owner
Radu Schiau
Senior Designer
Matt Damon
Data scientist
Emily Selman
Customer success and u ser experience
Investors
Funded by industry-leaders.
We are fortunate to be backed by active investors — with great network and passion to make a real impact.
Venture Capital
We invest venture capital in fearless founders building in the storm of transformative opportunities.
Investing 2-5MNOK in pre-seed / seed teams with a link to Norway.
Individual investors
Kristin Watson
TechNexus Ventures
Emma Dorsey
Innovate Capital Partners
Alicia Bell
FutureWave Investments
Jenny Wilson
SynergyTech Equity
Anna Roberts
NextGen Horizons
Benjamin Russel
Pioneer Digital Ventures
Careers
Join our fully remote team.
We work together from all over the world, and we do offer office locations, but joining means flexibility with trust.
Open positions
| Title | Location | Read more |
|---|---|---|
Engineering | ||
| React Developer | Remote | View listing |
| CI/CD Devops | Remote | View listing |
| Fullstack Developer | Remote | View listing |
Design | ||
| UX Designer | Remote | View listing |
| Senior Designer | Remote | View listing |
We've managed to connect more than 30 data sources so far and need more data scientist and SaaS experienced colleagues the next 6 months.
Veronica Badass
COO, TasteForge