Nordic Forestry Automation 🇸🇪
Lund-based sensor and physical-AI decision support for forestry machinery
About Nordic Forestry Automation
The main product is an advanced driver assistance system designed for forest harvesters, which enhances situational awareness and visualizes progress towards harvesting goals through a retrofit solution. It utilizes a combination of lidar, GNSS, RGB cameras, and onboard AI computing to achieve precise tree detection, characterization, and robust localization, even in challenging environments.
Nordic Forestry Automation is a Sweden-based company founded in 2021, now around 14 people. It has raised $5.1M in disclosed funding. FundFinder classes it as AI & ML.
Founded by Lars Svensson (Co-Founder & CEO; previously ABB, Saab; KTH Royal Institute of Technology), David Gillsjö (Co-Founder & CTO; previously Combitech, FlatFrog; The Faculty of Engineering At Lund University).
Its investors also appear on FundFinder's most-active lists for Seed · AI (93 funds), Seed · DeepTech (80 funds), Seed · Climate & Sustainability (80 funds).
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Seed · €4.3M · Jun 2026
- Almi Invest — Almi Invest is the state-owned Swedish venture investor within the Almi Group and calls itself Sweden's most active startup investor. · cheques £75k – £300k
- Wallenberg Investments (Navigare Ventures) — Wallenberg Investments' Ventures unit was launched in 2021 as Navigare Ventures, a wholly owned Stockholm-based subsidiary of Wallenberg Investments AB.