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HyLight

Unmanned airships for inspecting our critical assets

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About

HyLight builds and operates the HyLighters. Our autonomous airships for long range monitoring. We focus on critical infrastructure inspections: - detecting methane leaks on pipelines. - defects & vegetation risks on power lines. - defects & vegetation risks on railways.

Our innovation, the HyLighter, is a crossover between drone and airship technology. Like a drone, it is easily controllable and transportable. And, like an airship, it is extremely energy-efficient, enabling it to fly for up to 10 hours at slow speed (22mph) for optimal data collection which represents a range of 220miles.

Today, energy infrastructure operators struggle with conducting inspections that are simultaneously: massive and precise. HyLight offers a solution to precisely detect issues on the infrastructure at an industrial scale, and all of this without emitting GHGs.

We are 3 co-founders experienced in hardware and energy companies with Masters in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Business from the best Engineering and Business School in France.

We have manufactured 20 HyLighter and are deploying across Europe.

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Location
Paris, France
Team size
37 employees
YC batch
Summer 2023
Status
Active
Stage
Early stage
Funding
€13M · Oct 2026

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What does HyLight do?

Unmanned airships for inspecting our critical assets

Where is HyLight based?

Paris, France

How many people work at HyLight?

37 employees, according to the company profile.

Has HyLight raised money?

Latest round: €13M (Oct 2026).

What are the alternatives to HyLight?

Similar startups: Beyond Aero, Albedo, and Heart Aerospace.