Building AI for construction - on a mission to eliminate the trillions lost to miscalculations, errors, and inefficiency in construction 🧱🏗️

Experienced from being a tech founder and an intrapreneur in startup growth & strategy, partnerships & sales and app development. International digital nomad with experience from living in Sweden, the US, the UK, Germany, South Africa, Italy. Vipassana Meditator :-)

Thrilled to announce Brickanta's $8M seed funding round led by Northzone, with participation from next-gen construction leaders, global sports stars and AI founders that I deeply admire.

The oversubscribed round was raised in under two weeks and has accelerated our expansion of the waitlist, 4x’ed the team and launch of new products 🚀

We’re building the AI-native operating system for construction, starting with the pre-construction workflows that determine the outcome of entire projects: bid analysis, cost estimation, and procurement.

Construction is a $15 trillion global industry, yet trillions are lost every year due to avoidable miscalculations, errors, and waste. The industry is often described as conservative - our experience has been the opposite.

The next generation of builders is eager to embrace AI. AI built specifically for how the physical world around us is actually built.

Let’s build with AI. Let’s build with impact. Let’s build with Brickanta.
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Lucas Otterling

Experienced from being a founder and an intrapreneur in startup growth & strategy, partnerships & sales and tech entrepreneurship. International digital nomad with experience from living in Sweden, the UK, Germany, South Africa, Italy and the US. Always eager to evolve and utilize my ‘go big or go home’ attitude. Vipassana Meditator :-)

Brickanta

Northzone

Co-Founder @ Brickanta (YC F25) 🧱 AI for Construction

Lukas Sjögren

Tips på Kontor / Office i Stockholm? 🏢

Det växande Brickanta-teamet är på jakt efter vårt nästa hemtrevliga kontor! 🧱

Östermalm/Gärdet, eget utrymme för upp till 10 pers, möblerat eller ej, gärna nära taxa 3 parkering. Bokar visningar under vecka 3 och siktar på inflytt omgående.

Proud of the Brickanta team for getting ISO 27001 certified in record-time - it helps to have all the security and data thinking in place from day 1 🔐 😊

NEWS: Brickanta is now officially ISO-certified according to ISO 27001:2022 🔐

The certification is a testament to the trust our partner-customers place in us. 

In our journey to let society’s builders focus on building, Brickanta already has and will continue to handle massive amounts of data. Our partners can therefore rest assured that we are dedicated to protecting sensitive information and handling data with the utmost level of security - it's at the core of what we do.

Now let’s go back to building! 🧱 
(shoutout to Noru for the support!)

Excited to be welcoming Pete Koomen to cold, wintery and buzzing Silicon Valhalla this weekend! ❄️🚀

Thanks, SSE Business Lab and Y Combinator, for arranging!

If keen to join, apply here https://luma.com/5s0gac77

Pete Koomen (Y Combinator) kicks off his Stockholm tour at SSE Business Lab.

On Sunday we are hosting a dinner and fireside chat with Pete and Lucas Otterling (Brickanta), SSE Business Lab & YC alumni.

Join us to hear the stories and experiences from two YC founders (and one turned partner) in an informal off-the-record setting.

Apply to join. Spots are limited.

Pizza on us, vibes on you.

🔱 🇸🇪 Silicon Valhalla here we go - proud to be building out of Stockholm!

Silicon Valley or Silicon Valhalla?


3/5 European startups in the Y Combinator fall batch are Swedish. 

For a country of 10 million people, that’s not a coincidence.

Brickanta - Agentic AI platform for construction estimation & procurement.
Openroll (YC F25) - The AI-native operating system for compensation.
Specific (YC F25) - Build and deploy production-ready backends without code.

Is Stockholm becoming Europe’s Silicon Valley?

Builders in my Stockholm network (or even elsewhere for anyone who can travel in for the day after securing a spot!)  - you don't want to miss this.

Henrik Hansson, Pete Koomen and Y Combinator have all individually had a huge impact on my personal and Brickanta's startup journey.

YC partner Pete Koomen is visiting KTH this month for an off-the-record talk with Henrik Hansson, KTH alum and CEO of Vesence.

They’ll talk about startups, Stockholm, and how the AI boom is unfolding in Silicon Valley.

Learn more at https://lnkd.in/e_cansUy

Founders actively working on a startup can also sign up for a one-on-one coffee chat with partners Pete Koomen and Christopher Golda here: https://lnkd.in/emKDdCXE

Massive congrats to the Listen Labs team and the world of user research.

Feel fortunate to have had the chance to build alongside and be inspired by Alfred Wahlforss and Florian Juengermann for years - from seeing them launch early AI experiments from their college dorm rooms to figuring out go-to-market and go-lives with iconic brands!

Keep it up, excited to see the next phase! :-)

AI-led customer interviews for UX and insights teams | CEO & Co-Founder @ Listen Labs

We just raised $100,000,000 from Ribbit, Sequoia, Evantic, Conviction, and Pear. 
But it almost didn’t happen.

For nearly two years, Listen Labs did not look like a rocket ship. After our pre-seed, we spent ~18 months in what felt like limbo.

Models were super unreliable, customers were unsure and we struggled to hire. Every startup problem you can imagine - we felt it.

About 9 months ago, it finally clicked.

Since then:
• Revenue has grown 15×, crossing 8 figures.
• We’ve interviewed over 1 million people
• We now work with hundreds of enterprises, including Microsoft, Sweetgreen, and Perplexity

So what’s driving this?

Traditional research costs $50-100k and takes months. So teams skip it and guess.
Then they spend millions - on products nobody wanted, campaigns that don't land, messaging that misses. Listen lets you have hundreds of real customer conversations in hours - so you actually know before you commit.

More importantly, the outcomes are speaking for themselves.
• Chubbies interviewed >100 kids and discovered why an existing product wasn’t working, redesigned it, and launched a new line that quickly became a top seller.
• Teams at Microsoft went from waiting 6–8 weeks for research to getting answers in days directly in customers’ own words.
• At Sweetgreen, outlier customer insights led to protein-forward menu items that now shape how they think about new launches.

Ribbit led because they were customers first - and somehow our top-performing sales reps, unpaid. We owed them a round.

Grateful to the team that kept going when the outcome was unclear.
Back to work.

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