Alva Industries, a Trondheim-based deep technology company, has raised EUR 16 million to expand production of ultra-compact electric motors. announced on July 2.
The round is led by Nysnø Climate Investments, Sandwater and Emerald Technology Ventures, the latter investing on behalf of the Nabtesco Technology Ventures fund.
Existing backers Statkraft Ventures and EnvisionTech also participated. Samsung Ventures, which made a multi-million euro stake in Alva in December 2025 through the SVIC 47 New Technology Investment Partnership, has now converted that investment into equity as part of this round.
Alva’s work is based on FiberPrinting, a patented manufacturing process in which the company uses conductive fibers to touch the motor’s stator instead of wrapping copper wire around a heavy iron core.
The result, according to Alva, is an iron-free, slotless motor that’s lighter than conventional designs, avoids the jarring low-speed drag known as stalling, and packs unusually high torque into a compact frame.
For engineers, these are the challenges that push actuators into robotic hands, drone gimbals, or surgical instruments. humanoid robots he knows well.
The company says it has hundreds of active customer projects running in the commercial and defense markets, with increasing traction among original equipment manufacturers in robotics, aerospace and medical devices.
Founded in 2017 by Jørgen P. Selnes, Sybolt L. Visser and Knut K. Nielsen, Alva has previously worked with names including Lockheed Martin and Boeing and raised $11 million (NOK 117 million) in Series A in 2023 led by NRP Zero and Statkraft Ventures in industrial market. Oliver Skisland currently leads the company as CEO.
“Alva is on a mission to power a new generation of machines that are stronger, lighter, safer and more reliable,” Skisland said in the announcement. “This investment allows us to accelerate our technology roadmap, expand production and strengthen our position as a global supplier of high-performance electric motors.”
The new capital will fund expanded manufacturing capacity, continued development of Alva’s product line and international growth, the company said. Production is currently based in Norway, and Alva plans to significantly expand that capacity to meet what it describes as accelerating demand in robotics, aerospace, medical devices and defense.
Investors’ frameworks are largely based on category language. said Morten E. Iversen, partner at Sandwater, Alva “has the potential to become a category-defining company in high-performance electric motors”And Nysnø CEO Siri Kalvig pointed to the company’s ability to “create globally competitive industrial technology from Norway.”
Hiroshi Nerima, president and CEO of Nabtesco Technology Ventures, of the FiberPrinting platform “Wide potential across robotics, automation, medical, aerospace and other advanced industrial applications,” and noted Nabtesco Group’s possible collaboration with OVALO on compact transmission systems.
Round lands lands within a wider run of European hardware and deep technology movement money. data center infrastructure for Funds have been allocated at the initial stage specifically built to support it.
Nysnø is a repeat participant in this pipeline, as is the wider pool of Nordic funds, including itself NordicNinjahas built portfolios around the region’s climate and deep technology founders. What’s not in the announcement is a post-money valuation or how the €16 million will be split between new lead investors and returning existing backers.
Alva also did not disclose a timetable for achieving higher volume production levels for its engines, which it says the unit economics or financing will support.
For now, the company’s claims about torque density and bite-free performance are based more on its own technical stuff than independent lab comparisons.
Alva’s bet is that the same features that make its motors attractive to robotics OEMs today, low weight, high torque density, tight tolerances, will only become more valuable as humanoid robots, surgical robots and small satellites compete for the same scarce space inside the actuator housing.
