- Birdsview has raised €3.7 million, with Sarsia and five Nordic funds leading the investment.
- Birdsview uses sensors and AI to create 3D models of concrete structures, so there’s no need to drill.
- Within weeks of launching in March 2026, customers in nine countries bought the product.
Since making concrete produces a lot of emissions, keeping buildings and bridges in use longer now saves money and helps the environment. Birdsview creates sensors and AI that help engineers look inside concrete structures without drilling.
The Bergen-based startup has raised €3.7 million, which is around NOK 40.5 million, in a funding round led by Sarsia, with Butterfly Ventures, Proptechfonden, Kiilto Ventures, Nordic Makers, and Momentum also investing.
Eviny Ventures and Farvatn Venture, who have invested before, joined the round. Angel investors included Erik Bakstad from Ardoq, serial founder Gunnar Hvammen, and Herman Flinder, founder of Norse Partners.
“This funding round is an important milestone for Birdsview. With NOK 40.5 million secured and a Nordic investor consortium that understands both our technology and our market, we now have the resources to scale commercially and industrially across multiple countries. The fact that customers in eight countries have already chosen Birdsview Concrete just weeks after launch shows that we are solving a real problem for the industry,” said Olav Skogen, CEO of Birdsview.
Most concrete infrastructure was never built with an easy way to check its condition later. Engineers either drill or guess. The global concrete inspection service market is worth roughly $1.92 billion in 2026 and is projected to reach $3.84 billion by 2035, growing at an 8.5% CAGR.
From detecting rotting poles to scanning concrete
Birdsview started in Trondheim, founded by Skogen and Simen Husøy while they were engineering students at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. They saw that wooden utility poles in the power grid often rot from the inside, which is hard to spot before they break.
They built a sensor system to detect this problem, and one of Norway’s biggest grid operators began using it. They then applied the same idea to concrete. Birdsview launched its first concrete product in January 2025 and now operates from Bergen and Oslo with 14 employees.
Birdsview’s platform uses ground-penetrating radar and LiDAR, along with its own algorithms, to turn sensor data into 3D models. These models show features such as rebar position, thickness, cracks, voids, and corrosion, all without damaging the structure. The results can be used directly in digital building models, so engineers get a ready-to-use file instead of a report they have to enter manually.
A contractor in Bergen used Birdsview’s system to map rebar under a building’s basement, avoiding the need to tear up the floor. This saved about 200,000 NOK and two weeks of work.
Since launching, Birdsview has scanned over 100 structures, from buildings to bridges. After starting direct pre-sales in March 2026, customers in nine countries signed up within weeks.
Competing against drills, not chemistry
Most of the Nordic concrete-tech money going around right now is chasing a different problem. Finland’s Carbonaide raised €3.7 million to cure new concrete with captured CO2, and Berlin’s alcemy uses AI to cut emissions during cement production. Germany’s Conxai secured €5 million for agentic AI across construction workflows generally.
Birdsview isn’t trying to change how concrete is made. Instead, it aims to replace manual scanning with its technology, competing with service providers like GPRS rather than materials science labs. It’s a smaller, less flashy market, but it might be a smarter one to focus on.
“We’ve followed Birdsview for some time, and are highly impressed by both the team and the leading technology they’ve developed for assessing concrete structures. New concrete is, as is well known, a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, and preserving existing buildings based on a deep understanding of their condition will become increasingly important going forward. Birdsview has a unique technical solution for this, one that is easy to use and suited to a large international market,” said Jon-Kåre Hansen, partner at Sarsia.
The capital will be allocated to commercial, industrial, and international scaling. Birdsview’s client roster already includes Vinci, Bouygues Construction, EllisDon, Sweco, Asplan Viak, and Rambøll.
