Spacemaker alumni raise $6.3M from Seedcamp for AI engineering firm Solvera

Seedcamp has led a $6.3 million pre-seed round into Solvera, a newly founded Oslo startup that wants to run engineering work as a service, not sell software licences on the side. The company was started by three people with deep ties to Spacemaker, Autodesk and Enode: Arif Mirza, Pål Rasmussen and Thorvald Thorsnes.

Mirza’s pitch is simple enough to cut through the jargon. After almost a decade watching AI make its way into construction, he concluded that the tools changed faster than the work. Engineering practice, he said, barely moved. So Solvera was built around a different idea: customers pay for finished outcomes, while AI agents and experienced engineers inside the company do the actual project work.

That model is already getting traction. Solvera says it has signed $1 million in contracts in its first three months and is now at full capacity, forcing it to turn down work. The company has a team of nine and is handling projects in Norway from early-phase engineering through to detailed design, including commercial work with Betonmast.

The round included Construct Venture, the Inception Fund, Momentum, OBOS Ventures, PSV Tech, Sondo and The Nordic Web Ventures, plus angel investors Anders Kvåle and Håvard Haukeland, who founded Spacemaker. Seedcamp partner Tom Wilson framed the bet as a break from the usual software playbook: construction and professional services, he argued, have taken in plenty of tooling without changing how work gets delivered or paid for.

Solvera is starting with MEP engineering, the mechanical, electrical and plumbing work that has to juggle a long list of constraints and constant design changes. Mirza says the company will use the new money to hire for both its engineering and technology teams, open a London office and keep building its operating system. Norway is the first test bed; the UK is next.