In compliance‍ with a safer future since 1995

Onix is a Norwegian software company specialising in equipment compliance management systems (ECMS).

The company was founded in 1995 around a mission to transform global workplace safety through digital collaboration.

Today, Onix ensures compliance and peace of mind for thousands of equipment owners, inspectors and suppliers across the globe through its open ECMS platform, Onix Work.

Onix is the brainchild of an economist and a programmer: Bernt Håvardsholm and Kjetil Inge Bakkan.

In the mid 1990s, they both worked in the paper-dependent oil and gas industry. With the internet in its infancy, there were few who fully understood the potential for a digital world.

Kjetil and Bernt were amongst them. They sought to create solutions for a simpler paperless future. Together they developed first a software for people management in the energy industry, and later solutions to improve worker safety through digital documentation.

Today, their work has laid the foundations for a leading ECMS that is trusted to support some of the world’s largest and most safety conscious companies.

Onix is backed by Norwegian technology investors, Viking Venture.

Since 2023, Onix has been backed by Viking Venture - an investment group focused on scaling Nordic software companies.

Founded in 2001, Viking Venture has been supporting software companies specialising in B2B SaaS for over twenty years.

Viking Venture focuses on investments in high growth companies with strong profitablity. Its investment in Onix signals trust in the company’s future and marks an acceleration point in Onix’s growth both in the Nordics and globally.