Endra Expands To The US With $50m Firepower As Data Center Boom Outruns Engineering Workforce

Before any large building can be built, specialist engineers must design everything that makes it livable: the wiring, the lighting, the ventilation, the plumbing, the fire alarms. This work, called MEP engineering, is a $150 billion global services market that still runs on manual methods, and it routinely takes months per building. Endra, a Stockholm startup founded in October 2024, uses AI to do the repetitive parts automatically, cutting the electrical design of a 500,000-square-foot building from two months to under a day. Backed by a $50 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz that took total funding to roughly $74 million in under two years, the company is now opening offices in New York, San Francisco and London, hiring toward 100 employees, and preparing to launch its electrical module at its Epoch event in Las Vegas on September 14. The timing is the story: US data center construction has hit a record $50.7 billion annual rate, and every one of those buildings waits on the engineering Endra automates. Q: What is Endra? Endra is a Stockholm-based AI company founded in October 2024 by Niklas Lindgren, Anton Juric, David Rydberg and Gustav Hammarlund. Its platform automates mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) engineering, the design of the wiring, ventilation, plumbing and safety systems inside buildings, cutting work that takes months down to hours. Q: How much has Endra raised? Roughly $74 million in under two years: a 3 million euro pre-seed in May 2025, a $20 million seed led by Notion Capital in December 2025, and a $50 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in June 2026, with Notion Capital and Norrsken VC participating throughout. Q: What is Endra announcing now? Endra is expanding into the United States and United Kingdom, with a North American headquarters in New York, a West Coast office in San Francisco and a London office, hiring toward 100 employees globally over the next twelve months. Q: What is Epoch? Epoch is Endra's launch event in Las Vegas on September 14, 2026, where the company will unveil its electrical module and its vision for AI-native MEP engineering, with speakers including chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. Q: Why does MEP engineering matter? MEP engineering designs everything that makes a building function, and it accounts for roughly one to five per cent of the cost of every building built, inside a global services market exceeding $150 billion a year. When MEP work slips, entire projects slip, and the shortage of MEP engineers has become a bottleneck for data centers, hospitals and electrified buildings worldwide.Read All