NOK 40.5m · Other round · AI · Bergen, Norway
Birdsview has announced NOK 40.5m in financing to scale its concrete-inspection technology from the Nordics into Europe and North America. Sarsia and Butterfly Ventures led the equity round, joined by Proptechfonden, Kiilto Ventures, Nordic Makers and Momentum, with existing investors and angels also participating.
Shifter reports that the total comprises roughly NOK 36m in new equity and NOK 4.5m in Innovation Norway support. The company and Tech.eu present the combined package as approximately €3.7m.
Seeing inside concrete without drilling
Birdsview combines ground-penetrating radar, LiDAR and its own algorithms to build 3D models of concrete structures. The system is intended to show engineers the position and diameter of reinforcement, along with features such as voids or corrosion, without opening the structure. Its outputs can feed into building-information models, turning specialist sensor data into a file engineers can use in renovation or maintenance planning.
The customer problem is practical: older buildings, bridges and tunnels often lack reliable records of what sits inside the concrete. Contractors may otherwise drill exploratory holes, work from incomplete drawings or price uncertainty into a project. Birdsview says one Bergen contractor avoided breaking up and recasting a basement floor, saving about NOK 200,000 and two weeks by mapping reinforcement first.
Field evidence has to become repeatable delivery
Birdsview says it has scanned more than 100 structures and won customers in nine countries after opening direct pre-sales in March 2026. Reported customers include Vinci, Bouygues Construction, EllisDon, Sweco, Asplan Viak and Rambøll. Those are company-reported traction figures, but they show that the product is being tested across different owners, contractors and engineering workflows.
The financing will support commercial expansion, industrial scaling and entry into new markets. The hard part is not merely making a scan: engineers must trust the measurements when deciding where to cut, repair or reinforce a structure. Birdsview therefore needs consistent hardware, repeatable field procedures and outputs that fit established engineering tools. If it can standardise that delivery, each deployment creates reference data and customer confidence; if projects remain heavily tailored, international expansion will add service complexity faster than product scale.
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