Atea was originally founded as Merkantildata in 1968. In its current form, the company was formed through a merger of large Nordic IT infrastructure providers and the subsequent acquisition of 50 IT companies between 2006 and 2015. Atea is a key hardware and software reseller and service provider in the Nordic and Baltic countries. The company is a market leader in regional IT and is currently the third-largest such company in Europe. Atea collaborates with major global IT companies such as Microsoft, Apple, and Cisco.
OBOS is a Norway-based residential developer, owned by its over 500,000 members in Norway and Sweden. The company's primary focus is residential development in Norway and Sweden, but it also provides property management and advisory services for housing cooperatives and owns strategic equity investments. In addition, it is a sizable commercial real-estate manager through its OBOS Eiendom subsidiary and operates a regulated bank (OBOS-banken AS), with its member homeowners as the bank's primary customer base.