An unusual pitch has drawn EUR 5.62 million in pre-seed money to Solvera: the Oslo company does not sell engineering software at all. Instead it acts as the engineering firm of record, where purpose-built AI systems carry a growing share of the drawings and seasoned building engineers supply the judgement.
Seedcamp led the round, and a long tail of backers came along for it: Sondo, PSV Tech, Obos Ventures, Momentum, Inception Fund and Construct Venture, together with The Nordic Web Ventures. Angel money arrived too, from Spacemaker founders Anders Kvale and Havard Haukeland.
Arif Mirza, Pal Rasmussen and Thorvald Thorsnes founded the company, which launched in July. Projects move from initial constraints all the way to coordinated, construction-ready designs, and clients are billed for outcomes rather than for licences or consulting hours.
What sits at the centre is a purpose-built operating system. AI agents there automate a rising share of the work, while humans retain decisions and sign-off, and the platform is built to absorb engineering knowledge from each project and reuse it on the next, so accuracy compounds rather than resetting from scratch.
Mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering is the first target, a discipline thick with conflicting requirements and coordination across trades. The wager underneath the model is that buyers in slow-moving industries would rather receive a finished result than learn yet another tool. Should that hold, other verticals may copy the template.
