Together with our cofounders, we develop, finance and scale great companies. Our sweet spot is businesses that simplify and improve the service-, entertainment- and food industry.

ACO consists of business developers, analysts, marketers, tech developers, finance professionals, accountants, HR professionals & more. We all work together to enable success for our people by bullding the world's greatest startups.

ACO was started in Oslo in 2016 by Karl-Axel Bauer, Andreas Rokne, Lasse Smedsvig, Harald Aalvik, Nicolai Bauer og Martin Schütt. The ACO idea came from the work with the haridressing chain Cutters, where several of these had been early investors.

Opportunities
In Askeladden & Co you are the architect of your own fortune. Each for us and together as a group, we create adventures and enormous opportunities for ourselves and our colleagues.

Best together
ACO is made up of people and companies, all with ambitious goals. We achieve our goals by helping, inspiring and motivating each other to achieve just that.

All gas, no brakes
It's about energy and value creation; for our companies, our customers and our colleagues.

• Companies: Keep it simple. This way we make money, which is the enabler for everything we do
• Customers: Keep it simple. This way we get satisfied customers who come back
• Employees: Keep it simple. This way we get satisfied employees who stay