Why We Invested in deeplify

Critical infrastructure inspection is a massive, underserved market hiding in plain sight. Europe's chemical sector alone spans ~31,000 companies, yet most still rely on spreadsheets, static documents, and manual reporting to determine whether high-pressure pipelines are safe. The cost of getting this wrong is enormous — and the shortage of experienced inspectors is only making the problem worse.

deeplify has built the end-to-end AI platform this industry has been waiting for: connecting raw sensor data to automated defect analysis and auditable reporting in one unified system. The result is faster inspections, fewer errors, and full traceability — replacing decades of fragmented workflows.

What gave us conviction was the traction. The team didn't start with a pitch deck — they started with real deployments. Early work with Open Grid Europe surfaced the inefficiencies, pilots with SKF validated the solution, and today the platform is live with inspection firms serving Shell. That's a repeatable, bottom-up enterprise motion with serious logos.

The founding team brings genuine industrial domain expertise, the market need is structural and growing, and the timing is right as AI capabilities finally meet the complexity of physical-world operations.