Company
We started under a tower at four in the morning.
In the winter of 2021 an ice storm took down 38 km of line north of Trondheim. Our founders spent a week with the crews finding the damage by snowmobile. Stralen exists so that nobody has to look for a broken line in the dark again.
people in three countries
of line ridden since 2023
utilities running fleets
Series A, June 2026
Four years, one line at a time
From a borrowed bucket truck to fleets on four utilities.
Jan 2022
Founded in Trondheim
Two engineers, one borrowed bucket truck and a prototype that fell off the line twice.
Nov 2022
First night on a live line
Heron 00 rode 400 metres of a 132 kV line and came home with 1,100 photos.
Aug 2023
First utility contract
Fjellnett Nord put four Herons on its coastal lines for a full winter.
Mar 2024
Calgary field base
Our first North American crew, hired straight out of line school.
Jul 2025
Condor flies BVLOS
Approval for 300 km beyond-visual-line-of-sight patrols in Alberta.
Jun 2026
Series A
$38 million to build 400 Herons a year and open a base in Denver.
How we work
01
Lineworkers first
If a crew can’t hang it in gloves from a bucket, it isn’t finished.
02
One plain sentence
Every finding leads with what it is, where it is and what to do.
03
Out in the cold
Engineers spend a week a quarter on a real line with our field team.
04
Earn the next span
Pilots are short, cheap and honest. Fleets follow results, not slides.
Leadership
Sana Iqbal
Co-founder, CEO
Spent nine years in grid operations at Statnett before deciding the line should inspect itself.
Rohan Mehta
Co-founder, CTO
Built climbing robots for wind turbines. Holds eleven patents and one very old soldering iron.
Lin Zhao
Head of Perception
Led thermal imaging research at a satellite company; now teaches robots what 'too hot' means.
Kjetil Brandvold
VP Hardware
Twenty years designing equipment that lives outdoors in the Arctic, from weather buoys to snow radar.
Hanna Lund
Head of Flight Operations
Flew wildfire reconnaissance in British Columbia before running Condor's BVLOS programme.
Arjun Pillai
Field Lead, North America
Journeyman lineworker for 22 years. If a robot is hard to hang, Dale says so first.
Where to find us
Trondheim
Brattørkaia 17, 7010 Trondheim
Headquarters, hardware and production.
Calgary
1120 11 Ave SW, Calgary AB
Field base for Alberta and BC crews.
Denver
3001 Brighton Blvd, Denver CO
Opening 2027: western US pilots and flight ops.
“The closest thing we’ve seen to a line that inspects itself.”
Nordic Energy Review, 2026
“Stralen’s robots found faults our helicopters missed twice.”
Linework Weekly, 2026
“A rare hardware startup that talks like a line crew.”
Grid Futures podcast, 2026