What Spoor does

Spoor AS is a Norwegian AI-focused biodiversity monitoring company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Oslo, specializing in computer vision–based detection and species classification of birds and bats at wind farms. The company's core technology combines high-resolution mono- and stereoscopic cameras (including long-range infrared for nocturnal monitoring) with deep-learning models trained on more than one million bird images, deployed both at the edge (NVIDIA AGX Orin) and via cloud processing. The Sky Intelligence Platform unifies continuous monitoring, AI detection, expert ornithologist validation, and contextual modelling (correlation with weather, wind speed, turbine activity, season) into a single system that delivers report-ready outputs for environmental impact assessments, permitting, and operational decision-making across onshore, offshore, fixed-bottom, and floating wind environments.

Spoor serves enterprise offshore and onshore wind farm developers and operators — including Vattenfall, Ørsted, Equinor, RWE, TotalEnergies, Iberdrola, Ocean Winds, and GE Vernova — alongside environmental consultancies (e.g., The Biodiversity Consultancy), offshore infrastructure providers (Fugro, WISE Group), and emerging markets such as South African wind IPPs. Revenue is generated through subscription-based SaaS access to the Sky Intelligence Platform, supplemented by hardware-software integrated solutions (e.g., buoy-mounted systems on Fugro's SEAWATCH Wind Lidar platforms), with multi-year contracts priced per project scope. The company has raised approximately €12 million across a 2024 seed round and a December 2025 €8M Series A led by SET Ventures, and operates across four continents with a team of 12 nationalities.

The business model relies on direct enterprise field sales to major wind operators, channel partnerships with offshore infrastructure providers, and integration into consultancy workflows that feed EIA and collision risk modelling. Spoor's value proposition rests on replacing intermittent traditional surveys (typically 70–80 hours per year) with continuous AI-driven monitoring (4,000+ daytime hours annually), and providing regulator-validated video evidence that can reduce buffer zones, minimize curtailment, and accelerate permitting in tightening biodiversity regulation environments across Europe, South Africa, and Australia.

Name

Spoor

Legal name

Spoor AS

Website

https://spoor.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Spoor provides AI-powered computer vision monitoring of bird and bat activity at wind farms, serving offshore and onshore wind developers and operators with continuous data for permitting, regulatory compliance, and collision risk reduction.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI-powered wildlife monitoring software for wind energy

SIC

Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823)

akta.pro primary industry

Remote Sensing & Geospatial Vision (satellite/drone imagery) (HDAAAEAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Wind Resource Assessment & Energy Yield Analytics (Met Masts, LiDAR, Modeling) (EUAMACAJ)

Keywords

• AI bird monitoring
• Wind farm wildlife monitoring
• Collision risk assessment
• Biodiversity monitoring software
• Environmental impact monitoring

Headquarters

HQ city

Oslo

HQ country

Norway

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. AI Wildlife Monitoring Software (SaaS): Spoor provides AI-powered bird and bat monitoring software as a subscription service via its Sky Intelligence Platform. The platform is offered to wind farm developers, operators, and environmental consultancies for continuous wildlife monitoring, regulatory compliance, and operational decision-making. Pricing is subscription-based and tailored to project scope and deployment duration.
2. Integrated Offshore Monitoring Systems (Hardware + Software): Spoor integrates its AI software with offshore platforms such as Fugro's SEAWATCH Wind Lidar buoys and floating wind structures, combining hardware deployment with ongoing software monitoring services. Revenue includes both hardware component integration and software licensing/subscription components.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Spoor provides an AI-powered continuous bird and bat monitoring platform for wind farm developers, operators, and environmental consultancies. The Sky Intelligence Platform combines high-resolution mono- and stereo-camera systems, computer vision AI trained on 1M+ bird images, and expert ornithologist validation to deliver species-level detection, 3D flight path mapping, and collision risk modelling for permitting, environmental impact assessment, and operational compliance across the full wind farm lifecycle.

Product overview

Spoor offers a unified AI-powered wildlife monitoring platform for wind energy, consisting of the Sky Intelligence Platform as the core product, supported by specialized monitoring solutions for both pre-construction EIA surveys and operational wind farms. The platform combines continuous AI-powered bird and bat detection, tracking, and classification with human expert validation, delivering actionable insights for environmental compliance, permitting, and operational optimization. Spoor's technology includes offshore buoy-mounted systems integrated with partners like Fugro, turbine interaction monitoring for collision detection, and data export capabilities for regulatory submissions. The system processes video from high-resolution cameras using computer vision AI trained on over 1 million birds to achieve ≥95% detection accuracy.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Sky Intelligence Platform: AI-powered monitoring platform that unifies continuous monitoring, species detection, human validation, and contextual modelling for wind farm wildlife monitoring decisions

Products and services

• Sky Intelligence Platform Unified data platform combining continuous AI-powered bird and bat monitoring, AI detection, human expert validation, and contextual modelling; delivers report-ready tables and figures for EIA submissions, permitting, repowering, and operational compliance across the full wind farm lifecycle, with data exports for consultants and regulators and correlation with weather, radar, and historical bird activity data.
• Monitoring for Operational Wind Farms Continuous detection of bird and bat interactions with operating wind turbines, providing collision detection, avoidance-behaviour analysis, and curtailment design support for operational projects, enabling buffer zone elimination and compliance evidence.
• Monitoring for EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) Pre-construction bird and bat monitoring that strengthens EIA submissions, permitting applications, and auction bid strength by delivering species-level insights, migration-peak visibility, seasonal dynamics, and flight-height distributions for robust collision risk modelling.
• Offshore Bird Monitoring System Buoy-mounted camera system integrated with metocean/LiDAR campaigns, enabling 4,500+ hours of annual daytime monitoring in all weather conditions; designed for offshore wind farm pre-construction surveys and operational monitoring and validated by 4,880+ hours of data at Equinor's Hywind Tampen floating wind farm.

Quantifiable outcome

• Zero confirmed bird collisions recorded over 19 months of continuous monitoring at Vattenfall's Aberdeen Bay offshore wind farm, compared to pre-construction EIA prediction of 8.54 collisions per turbine per year.
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability5 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• WISE GroupcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 21 April 2026Spoor and WISE Group announced a partnership in April 2026 to deliver integrated bird and bat monitoring for wind energy. WISE Group contributes system design, installation, and operational expertise for monitoring infrastructure in demanding offshore and onshore environments. The partnership combines Spoor's AI with WISE Group's sensor infrastructure and meteorological data capabilities.
• FugrocoreTechnology or Integration · 9 April 2025Spoor and Fugro partnered in April 2025 to develop AI bird-monitoring solutions for offshore wind farms. The partnership integrates Spoor's computer vision software with Fugro's SEAWATCH Wind Lidar buoys and autonomous metocean platforms, enabling high-quality offshore bird monitoring without separate vessel or installation campaigns. Successfully tested at Hywind Tampen.
• The Biodiversity ConsultancycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Biodiversity Consultancy provides independent validation and review of Spoor's AI monitoring data. The consultancy assessed data from Aberdeen Bay and Hywind Tampen deployments, placing findings in context against established monitoring methods like radar and digital aerial surveys. Their reviews validate Spoor's approach for collision risk modelling and environmental impact assessments.
• British Trust for Ornithology (BTO)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe BTO conducted an independent multi-phase assessment of Spoor's AI monitoring system at Aberdeen Bay offshore wind farm, testing both mono- and stereo-camera setups over 18 months. Commissioned by Vattenfall and Spoor, the evaluation included drone-based calibration, manual 3D trajectory reconstructions, and statistical modelling, providing independent validation of Spoor's technology for regulators and developers.
• RWEcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSpoor participates in RWE's SeaMe (Sustainable Ecosystem Approach in Monitoring the Marine Environment) project at Kaskasi offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. SeaMe is a multi-year initiative bringing together research institutions, technology partners, and AI specialists to advance offshore ecosystem monitoring. Spoor deployed six cameras including infrared and thermal imaging on two turbines at Kaskasi.
• Alfred Wegener InstituteminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of the SeaMe consortium led by RWE, bringing expertise in marine ecology to the offshore ecosystem monitoring project at Kaskasi wind farm.
• Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine BiodiversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of the SeaMe consortium led by RWE, contributing research expertise in functional marine biodiversity to the offshore monitoring initiative.
• BioConsult SHminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of the SeaMe consortium led by RWE, providing environmental consulting expertise for offshore monitoring and biodiversity assessment.
• DHI GroupminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of the SeaMe consortium led by RWE, providing water and environmental consulting services to the offshore monitoring initiative.
• BirdLife South AfricaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBirdLife South Africa is mentioned as a key local organisation that wind developers in South Africa coordinate with for avian risk assessments and permitting. Spoor is investing in local partnerships in South Africa including collaboration with environmental specialists and NGOs.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Normandeau Associates: Normandeau Associates is a US-based ecological consulting firm providing bird and bat surveys, radar ornithology, and post-construction monitoring services for wind energy clients. Comparable to Spoor for target market and use case, with broader service offerings but traditional survey methods.
• Royal HaskoningDHV: Royal HaskoningDHV is a major international engineering and environmental consultancy with a substantial wind energy and biodiversity practice, including EIA and bird monitoring for offshore wind. It is comparable to Spoor as both a competitor in the consultancy-led monitoring channel and a potential integration partner.
• SLR Consulting: SLR Consulting is a global environmental and advisory consultancy with significant wind energy and ecological services across Europe, North America, and APAC. Comparable as a potential channel partner or competitor for bird monitoring services within wind developer EIAs.
• WEST (Western EcoSystems Technology): WEST is a leading wildlife and environmental consulting firm supporting wind energy developers with collision risk modelling, bird/bat surveys, and post-construction monitoring. Comparable as a competitor and as a potential channel/partner that integrates Spoor data into its EIA workflows.
• Natural Power: Natural Power is a renewable energy consultancy offering bird and bat surveying, ecological assessment, and monitoring services alongside its broader wind engineering practice. Comparable to Spoor as it serves the same wind developer customer base, but competes primarily via traditional survey methods rather than continuous AI monitoring.

Direct peers

• Robin Radar Systems: Robin Radar Systems builds dedicated bird and bat detection radar systems for wind farms, aviation, and military applications. It is the closest direct competitor to Spoor in the wind-wildlife monitoring category, addressing the same developer and operator buyers with a radar-based (rather than camera-based) approach.
• DeTect Inc: DeTect manufactures bird radar and wildlife monitoring systems (MERLIN, Avian Radar systems) widely deployed at airports and wind farms globally. Comparable to Spoor in target buyer and use case (collision risk monitoring), though it relies on radar rather than AI computer vision.

Emerging players

• Wildlife Acoustics: Wildlife Acoustics builds bioacoustic recording devices and AI-enabled software (Kaleidoscope Pro) for monitoring bats, birds, and other wildlife. Comparable to Spoor in the AI-wildlife monitoring category but focused on acoustic rather than visual modalities, addressing the same bat monitoring use case at wind farms.
• NatureMetrics: NatureMetrics provides eDNA-based biodiversity monitoring and analytics for environmental impact assessments and ESG reporting across infrastructure and renewables. Comparable to Spoor in the AI-powered biodiversity monitoring for industry category, though it uses molecular rather than computer vision sensing.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds5 records

Investors10 records

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M&A

Investments

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