Oslo-based AI-native engineering firm Solvera raises €5.62 million pre-Seed after July 2026 launch
Solvera, an Oslo-based company building an AI-native engineering firm for the construction industry, has raised a €5.62 million ($6.3 million) pre-Seed round. Seedcamp led it, with participation from Construct Venture, Inception Fund, Momentum, Obos Ventures, PSV Tech, Sondo and The Nordic Web Ventures, plus angels including Spacemaker founders Anders Kvåle and Håvard Haukeland.
Arif Mirza, Pål Rasmussen and Thorvald Thorsnes founded Solvera in July 2026. It pairs experienced building engineers with proprietary AI technology to design and coordinate engineering work, starting with mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) systems. Using its purpose-built operating system, it acts as the engineering firm of record and delivers end-to-end service, taking a project from requirements and constraints to a coordinated, construction-ready design. AI agents handle a major share of the work while engineers supply judgement. Clients pay for the outcome rather than software licences or consulting hours, and the company says the system improves with each project as judgement becomes reusable intelligence.
The founders argue that two decades of better engineering software, and now AI, have barely changed how engineering is delivered. Mirza says that is why Solvera chose to build the firm itself around AI rather than another tool for engineers. The company describes MEP work as manual, fragmented and repeated from project to project, with engineers juggling hundreds of requirements, dozens of legacy tools and constant design changes.
In its first three months, Solvera reports nearly €892k ($1 million) in contracted revenue and a team of nine. It has worked on several Norwegian building projects, from early-phase engineering to detailed design, including commercial projects with the contractor Betonmast.
The funding will go toward expanding the engineering and technology team in Oslo, opening a London office and accelerating development of the Solvera operating system. The company also plans to enter additional markets as the model develops. Seedcamp partner Tom Wilson called the approach a bigger bet than building software alone, describing it as what the next generation of professional services firms looks like.