BeBeez International reports, citing Arctic Startup, that Oslo-based Solvera has raised $6.3 million in a pre-seed round led by Seedcamp, with participation from Inception Fund, Momentum, PSV, Sondo, OBOS Ventures, Construct Venture and The Nordic Web Ventures.

Angels include Spacemaker founders Anders Kvale and Håvard Haukeland and former OBOS CEO Daniel Kjørberg Siraj.

What makes the deal unusual is what Solvera refuses to sell: instead of software licences or consulting hours, clients pay for end-to-end engineering work delivered by AI agents working alongside experienced building engineers.

The company is starting with mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) systems, where engineers must coordinate heating, ventilation, electrical and plumbing designs across disciplines and constantly shifting requirements.

Founded in 2026 by Arif Mirza, Pål Eskild Rasmussen and Thorvald Thorsnes, Solvera launched in July 2026 and grew to a team of nine within months.

The consensus-breaking claim here is that applying AI to construction engineering requires changing the delivery model itself, not bolting new tools onto existing workflows.

BeBeez International quotes co-founder and CEO Arif Mirza saying twenty years of better building software 'has barely changed' how engineering gets delivered: '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 organizations built around thousands of people, active projects and billable hours.'

Seedcamp partner Tom Wilson told the outlet that Solvera is 'not just building software for engineers' but 'rebuilding the firm itself,' calling it 'what the next generation of professional services firms looks like.'

Co-founder Pål Rasmussen argued the engineer's judgement is the most valuable asset in building engineering, and that Solvera's agents should handle the sorting, data entry and coordination that consume the day.

According to BeBeez International, citing Arctic Startup, Solvera secured more than $1 million in contracted revenue during its first three months of operations and is working on several building projects in Norway, including commercial projects with Norwegian contractor Betonmast.

Kristian Gjestemoen, Managing Director of Betonmast Buskerud-Vestfold, said the contractor chose Solvera because fragmented and inefficient engineering causes 'unnecessary cost, slow iterations and problems that are discovered too late,' and that Betonmast wanted partners willing to 'challenge established ways of working' rather than simply adding hours.

The team's credentials underpin the bet: Mirza and CTO Pål Rasmussen spent much of the past decade in leadership roles at Spacemaker and Autodesk building AI and cloud technology for construction, while CCO Thorvald Thorsnes previously co-founded Y Combinator-backed Enode.

The new funding will support expanding Solvera's engineering and technology teams in Oslo, opening a London office, and further developing its AI-powered operating system, which BeBeez International says is designed to reuse knowledge from completed projects on future work.

The company also plans to enter additional markets as its model evolves.

The round lands amid a broader burst of AI-native startup funding: Indian Startup News reports that Clueso, an AI-powered video creation startup founded in 2023 by IIT Madras alumni Akash Anand, Prajwal Prakash and Neel Balar, raised a $10 million Series A led by Dharana Capital to expand its enterprise business and develop its AI video-production agents, with participation from Founders Future, Neotribe Ventures, Y Combinator and f7 Ventures taking total funding to $12 million.

For venture readers, Solvera's service-firm model — rather than a software licence business — is the detail worth watching.