Plaace to raise NOK 16.3 million from Obos Ventures, Blommenholm Industrier and Vater.

Plaace, an Oslo, Norway-based startup building a digital marketplace, raised NOK 16.3 million ($1.7M) in an equity funding round.

The money was raised locally from Norway, from investors including Obos Ventures, Blommenholm Industrier and Vater, joined by angels Nicolai Bauer, Lasse Smedvig and the German Konstantin Oetker.

Plaace was incubated in 2020 at Antler by CEO Snorre Jordheim Myhre, Tobias Martinsen and Peder Søholt, with the aim to build a digital platform connecting farm owners and other landlords of commercial property with the ideal tenants, as well as provide insight into the areas. The company is based on a B2B Saas model, where tenants largely get free access, while landlords have to pay for access, and has around 20 paying customers, including Posten, Møller Eiendom and Cushman & Wakefield; retailers such as Jernia, and public customers such as Møre og Romsdal County Municipality.

Plaace previously raised $1.1 million at the end of 2020.