Sarsia led Birdsview’s €3.7M round to give engineers X-ray vision through concrete

Birdsview has pulled in €3.7 million, or about NOK 40.5 million, in a round led by Sarsia and backed by a cluster of Nordic funds. The Bergen startup’s pitch is simple: use sensors and AI to build 3D models of concrete structures so engineers don’t have to drill holes and guess what’s inside.

That idea has already found buyers. Birdsview says customers in eight countries had picked its concrete product just weeks after launch, and the company says direct pre-sales started in March 2026. The round will go toward commercial, industrial, and international expansion.

The company’s system combines ground-penetrating radar and LiDAR with its own software to map things like rebar, thickness, cracks, voids, and corrosion. The output can plug straight into digital building models, which means less manual work for engineers and less time spent turning scan data into something usable.

Birdsview was founded in Trondheim by Olav Skogen and Simen Husøy while they were engineering students at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. They first built a sensor system for rotting wooden utility poles, then applied the same approach to concrete. The startup now operates from Bergen and Oslo and has 14 employees.

There’s a practical reason this matters beyond neat tech. Concrete is everywhere, most of it was never designed for easy inspection later, and the source says preserving existing buildings and bridges can save money while cutting emissions tied to making new concrete. Birdsview is selling a way to keep more of the old stuff in service, which is less cinematic than pouring a new material and probably more useful.