HyLight Secures €13 Million for Autonomous Airships Inspecting European Infrastructure

The new capital is intended to help HyLight expand: industrializing its fleet, improving its automated data analysis, and rolling out a new data infrastructure across Europe to monitor and protect critical networks. Co-founder and chief executive Martin Bocken told EU-Startups that most power lines are still inspected by helicopter as they were fifty years ago, and that the company's airships perform the same work with greater precision and less risk. He added that the funding takes HyLight from four aircraft to a fleet.

EU-Startups reported that power lines, gas pipelines and railways face increasing inspection demands as climate change, stricter regulations and safety concerns converge, with more than 80 million kilometers of linear infrastructure involved.

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