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, today announced a €5.62 million ($6.3 million) pre-Seed round. 

The round was led by Seedcamp, with participation from Construct Venture, Inception Fund, Momentum, Obos Ventures, PSV Tech, Sondo, and The Nordic Web Ventures, as well as angel investors including Spacemaker founders Anders Kvåle and Håvard Haukeland.

“The most valuable thing in building engineering has always been the engineer’s judgement, yet much of their day goes to sorting a constant stream of information and changes, manual data entry, and coordination. Our goal is to free up their time so they can focus on high impact decisions, with our agents handling the rest like testing alternatives, coordination, and production work,” said Pål Rasmussen, co-founder and CTO, Solvera. 

Founded in July 2026 by Arif Mirza, Pål Rasmussen and Thorvald Thorsnes, Solvera is an AI-native building engineering firm. The company combines experienced building engineers with proprietary AI technology to design and coordinate building engineering work, starting with mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems.

The company says it uses its purpose-built operating system to deliver end-to-end service as the engineering firm of record, with clients paying for the outcome, not software licenses or consulting hours. 

Solvera highlights that it takes a project from requirements and constraints through to a coordinated, construction-ready design, with AI agents handling a major chunk of the engineering work and building engineers providing judgement. 

Unlike traditional delivery models, the company notes that the system improves with every project, as judgement becomes intelligence that can be reused across the firm.

Mirza, co-founder and CEO of Solvera, said, “We’ve had twenty years of better building engineering software, and now AI, but productivity and the fundamental way engineering gets delivered has barely changed. Technology is only part of the answer. To capture its full potential, you also have to rethink how the firm operates and how it makes money. That is incredibly difficult to do inside organisations built around thousands of people, active projects and billable hours. 

“That is why we decided not to build yet another tool for engineers that doesn’t move the needle in how work gets done. We are building the engineering firm itself around AI.”

The Norwegian company is starting with mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering. It opines that MEP engineers must navigate hundreds of requirements and constraints, work across dozens of legacy tools, size and route systems, coordinate amongst themselves and across disciplines, and continuously adapt designs as projects evolve. Yet much of the work remains manual, fragmented, and repeated from project to project.

The company reported that since its inception, it has passed nearly €892k ($1 million) in contracted revenue in its first 3 months of operations, growing to a team of nine.

It also noted that it has already worked on several building projects in Norway, covering everything from early-phase engineering to detailed design, including commercial projects with Betonmast, one of Norway’s leading contractors. 

Tom Wilson, Partner at Seedcamp, said, “We invested in Solvera because Arif, Thorvald and Pål are not just building software for engineers, they are rebuilding the firm itself. That is a much bigger swing, and a much better one.  

“Construction has absorbed two decades of tooling without shifting how the work actually gets delivered or paid for. Solvera is the first team we have seen with the technical depth and industry experience to close that gap, starting with MEP and expanding from there. This is what the next generation of professional services firms looks like.” 

The company plans to use this capital to expand its building engineering and technology team in Oslo, establish a London office, and accelerate development of the Solvera operating system. The company also intends to expand into additional markets as the model develops.

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