German industrial AI startup deeplify has announced the successful
closing of a €2 million pre-seed funding round. The round was led by D11Z Ventures, with participation from Vanagon Ventures, EWOR, and a group of
strategic business angels. The investment will support the company’s mission to
modernise how critical infrastructure is inspected and managed.
The company addresses a longstanding gap in industrial operations. While
recent advances in artificial intelligence have largely focused on productivity
tools and digital services, many sectors responsible for maintaining essential
infrastructure still rely on fragmented and outdated processes. Inspection
workflows often depend on spreadsheets, static documents, analogue imagery, and
manual reporting, despite the high risks associated with undetected defects.
We have the most advanced software for digital-first workflows, but when
it comes to determining if a high-pressure pipeline is safe, the industry is
often still stuck in the past,
said Jan Löwer, co-founder and CEO of deeplify.
The need for modernisation is increasing as Europe’s chemical sector, comprising
around 31,000 companies, faces ageing infrastructure, a shortage of experienced
inspectors, and growing volumes of complex inspection data.
To address this, deeplify has developed an end-to-end AI platform for
industrial inspection and asset integrity management. By connecting workflows
from raw sensor data to automated defect analysis and auditable reporting, the
platform replaces fragmented processes with a unified system, helping reduce
inspection time, minimise errors, and improve traceability.
The solution is grounded in real-world industrial experience. Early
projects revealed significant inefficiencies in existing workflows, leading to
an initial deployment with Open Grid Europe. Further pilots with SKF followed,
and the platform is now used by inspection firms serving global energy
companies such as Shell.
The newly secured funding will be used to expand deeplify’s platform
capabilities and accelerate deployments across sectors, including energy, oil
and gas, chemicals, and transportation.