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Company Brief · May 2026 · prepared for Mariana Minerals
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HiveAutonomy.

Prepared for Mariana Minerals · Copper One / Lone Wolf
From Ronny Liverød · VP Heavy Machinery
Contact ronny.liverod@hiveautonomy.no
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02 · MISSION
We sell productive machine-hours, not software
Mission

We sell productive machine-hours, not software.

Hive retrofits industrial machines and runs them as a service. A supervising operator at our centre handles the edge cases; the model runs the routine. Customers buy the work, not the platform.

The field is the only judge. A demo or a dashboard can be wrong. A machine running an eight-hour shift in a quarry, in winter, without a human touching it, cannot.

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03 · THE TEAM
Five founders · two recent C-level additions
The team

Five founders. Two recent additions to scale.

Founders Built and exited Red Rock together over twelve years. Building Hive together since 2022.
Christoffer Jørgenvåg
CEO
Founded Red Rock in 2009 to automate offshore lifting. Led twelve years and 300+ shipped systems to the Ocean Infinity exit. Self-funded the Hive thesis through to incorporation. AI and programming, University of Agder.
Fredrik Bringager
CCO
Robotics and AI master's, University of Agder. Commercial roles at Red Rock and Ocean Infinity.
Oskar Mykland
CFO
CFO and VP roles across Sevan Marine, Siem Offshore and Viking Supply Ships. Over USD 1B raised across those entities.
Michael Gallagher
HEAD OF SAFETY
Earlier at Red Rock. Leads Hive's safety and compliance practice.
Vidar Hansen
CHAIR
Chaired Red Rock from its 2009 founding through the Ocean Infinity exit. Extensive Norwegian maritime and industrial-business background.
C-level additions Joined to scale operations and the AI platform.
Severin Baugstø Hanssen · CHIEF DELIVERY OFFICER
Most recently CEO of Lekekassen, Norway's largest online toy retailer. Siviløkonom, NHH. Owns delivery and customer rollout at Hive.
Dmitrii Rudnitckii · CTO
Most recently CTO at Humanoid (Artem Sokolov-backed). Earlier SVP Robotics at Arrival, designed the autonomous microfactory for EV production.
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04 · BACKING
Founder-owned · large seed round closing
Backing

The founders own the company. A large seed round becomes public in early June.

Hive is owned through Percept Investment, the founders' vehicle. The journey from the Red Rock exit through Hive's first years has been largely self-funded.

A large seed round is closing and becomes public in early June 2026. What's already public: Børge Hald — co-founder of Medallia, sold to Thoma Bravo for $6.4B in 2021 — is joining the board.

The round includes other large investors, including a US lead. We share names in person.

Engineering roadmap is set by customer pull, not fund timing.
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05 · WHAT WE DO
Two parts. One service.
What we do

Two parts. One service.

VISION · LANGUAGE · ACTION
The model

Cameras and lidar on the machine. A model trained on labelled cycles decides what to do next. An action expert turns that decision into joint commands at the machine layer.

The architecture works across forklifts, wheel loaders, terminal tractors and cranes. The customer keeps the machine, the dealer and the service contract; we add the autonomy on top.

KRISTIANSAND
The ops centre

A supervising operator takes over the moment the model loses confidence. The handover happens in under five seconds. Every intervention is two things at once: a guarantee that the work gets done, and a training signal that makes the next machine better.

Operators are not a scaffold on the way to "full autonomy." They are the engine that makes autonomy possible.

It's not programming. It's not automation. It is proper AI, supervised by people who know the field.
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06 · HOW WE GOT HERE
From offshore cranes to wheel loaders
How we got here

From offshore cranes to wheel loaders.

2009Red Rock founded
2021Ocean Infinity buys Red Rock
2022Hive Autonomy incorporated

In 2009 Christoffer Jørgenvåg founded Red Rock in Kristiansand to automate offshore lifting — the heave-compensation hardware and remote-supervision software that lets a crane move heavy loads between a ship rolling on the sea and a platform fixed above. Over twelve years the team shipped more than three hundred mission-critical systems into the offshore industry.

In October 2021, Ocean Infinity — the Austin-based autonomous-maritime operator behind the twelve-vessel Armada fleet — bought Red Rock and folded the remote-supervision stack into its autonomous ocean operations.

The same engineering team kept building. Worked with several Norwegian industrial players on terminal tractors, gantry cranes and intralogistics. Self-funded most of the way.

Hive Autonomy was incorporated in August 2022. Forty people today, growing.

Red Rock 3D motion-compensated crane offshore at sunset
Red Rock 3D motion-compensated crane — offshore wind, North Sea.
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07 · CUSTOMER JOURNEY
Where we started, where we are

From pallet jacks to gantry cranes to wheel loaders.

  1. 01First — Pallet jacks and forklifts in Norwegian intralogistics.
  2. 022021 — Terminal-tractor integrations across Norwegian logistics operators.
  3. 03Moss Harbour — Remote gantry crane on container loading.
  4. 04Yara · Herøya — Wheel-loader autonomy in heavy industry.
  5. 05Presis · Veidekke — Highway maintenance and tunnel construction.
  6. 06Today — Nine live deployments. Heavy machinery + intralogistics.
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08 · LIVE DEPLOYMENTS
Two streams · same model underneath
Live deployments

Two streams. The same model underneath.

HEAVY MACHINERY
Bulk handling
Yara · Herøya
Wheel loader on a regulated chemical plant.
Quarry
Hamar Pukk
Volvo L-series, continuous-shift quarry.
Mountain pass
Statens Vegvesen · Vikafjellet
Autonomy cleared on a live mountain pass.
5G tunnel
Veidekke
Confined-space loading on private 5G inside a railway tunnel.
INTRALOGISTICS
Gantry crane
Norwegian Port of Moss
Remote gantry on container on/off-loading.
Palletised
Optimera · Saint-Gobain
Indoor-outdoor pallet stacking.
Recycling
Stena Recycling
Brownfield narrow-aisle autonomy.
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09 · YOUR CONTACT
Primary contact through scoping, pilot and roll-out
Day-to-day on Copper One

Your contact at Hive.

Primary contact

Ronny Liverød

VP Heavy Machinery

Former co-founder of EMerald Geomodelling, the spin-off acquired by Xcalibur Multiphysics. Earlier, investment partner for construction at Startuplab's pre-seed fund and Head of Innovation at AF Gruppen. Ten years before that on live infrastructure projects — site management across large-scale construction in Norway.

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10 · WHERE WE WORK
Four locations · one engineering core
Where we work

Five locations. One engineering core.

  1. 01Kristiansand — HQ, delivery, commercial, engineering core
  2. 02Oslo — commercial · Heavy Machinery
  3. 03London — robotics and commercial · Intralogistics
  4. 04Palo Alto — US fundraising and board
  5. 05Houston — operations centre US (coming online later this year)
Hive Autonomy HQ Kristiansand
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11 · VISION
Where we're building toward
Where we're going

What LLMs do for software, Physical AI does for the real world.

Imagine building in the real world the way kids build in Minecraft. You want a house in a certain style — you place the walls, walk through it, change your mind, take a wing down, try a different roofline. The machine does the building. The cost is energy.

That is the shift LLMs created for software. You sit with ChatGPT or Claude and you build something just to see what it looks like. You throw it away if it doesn't work. The friction is gone.

Physical AI brings the same shift to the rest of the world. Every machine on every site assignable to a task at the cost of energy. A hundred thousand times faster than today. Materials reused, because tearing down and rebuilding is no longer the bottleneck.

Wheel-loader autonomy at a copper mine is one step toward that.

Hey ChatGPT, finish this building — billboard
"Hey ChatGPT, finish this building." — already a billboard.
We started with the cycle in front of us. We're building for the one ahead.
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