Imerso is an Oslo construction-technology company, founded in 2014, whose software compares laser scans of a building under construction with the design model to flag deviations while they can still be fixed cheaply. It raised a €1.8 million seed round in 2018 from Vito ONE, NewMark Capital, 500 Startups and TRK Group, took a strategic investment from Germany’s Nemetschek Group in 2021 and reports 11 employees in the Norwegian register. It keeps a registered Portuguese branch, Imerso AS – Sucursal em Portugal, in Parede, Cascais, registered for software and hardware development, which has filed accounts for 2024.
Imerso’s pitch to contractors is that most construction defects are discovered late, when the wall has been closed or the slab poured. Its platform ingests point clouds from terrestrial laser scanners, drones and the company’s own mobile scanning app, aligns them with the project’s BIM model and reports where the built structure departs from the design, so that site managers, designers and subcontractors see the same deviation list in near real time. The company was founded in Oslo in 2014, was backed early by 500 Startups, closed a €1.8 million seed round in November 2018 and in 2021 brought in the Munich-listed design-software group Nemetschek, owner of Graphisoft, Allplan and Bluebeam, as a strategic shareholder.
The Portuguese branch, registered in Parede on the Cascais coast under the objective of developing software, hardware and associated products or services, is the company’s formal presence in Portugal and has filed accounts for 2024. It follows a familiar pattern for small Nordic software companies: engineering and product teams placed in the Lisbon area, where BIM-literate civil engineers and developers are available at lower cost than in Oslo, with sales still run from the home market and from the Nemetschek ecosystem. Norway is one of Europe’s most demanding BIM markets — the state builder Statsbygg has required model-based delivery for years — which is the environment the product was built for.
Imerso is one of a cluster of Norwegian and Swedish software companies that have opened Portuguese entities in the Lisbon–Cascais corridor since 2020, alongside the larger nearshoring moves NorthSouth HQ tracks in its Nordics → PT directory. For Portugal the value is the engineering jobs and the exposure to Nordic construction practice; for Portuguese contractors and BIM consultancies, which have been building export businesses in Scandinavia, it is a reminder that the tools setting the Nordic standard are now partly built on their doorstep.
Nemetschek Group’s 2021 strategic investment remains Imerso’s most significant backer; the company’s Portuguese branch filed accounts for 2024 (Portuguese registry data, September 2026).
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