Scope, a London-based AI workflow platform for the testing, inspection and certification (TIC) industry, has closed a $20 million Series A (€17.2 million) led by Index Ventures. Susa Ventures, Entrepreneurs First and Syndicate 1 joined, alongside angels including Mehdi Ghissassi (Ai71, ex-DeepMind), Cedric Pech (MongoDB), Naren Shaam (Omio) and Andy Szybalski (Microsoft AI).
What Scope sells
Scope's platform sits in the hands of field inspectors auditing oil rigs, wind farms, factories and infrastructure assets. Operators capture findings on the device, the model surfaces relevant context from prior reports and standards documents, and a report draft is produced in minutes rather than days. The startup says inspectors from six of the world's ten largest inspection firms are already using the product.
The retiring-workforce wedge
Founders Low and Jakob Cassiman pitched investors on demographics as much as software: TIC firms face a wave of retirements over the next decade with no equivalent intake of trained inspectors. Scope's platform is positioned as a productivity multiplier that preserves senior inspectors' know-how in structured templates, citations and decision trees that less experienced colleagues can lean on in the field.
Growth and pricing
The company reported a 9x year-on-year ARR jump since launching in July 2024 and a 100% pilot-to-paid conversion rate. Pricing is per-inspector per-month with usage-based add-ons for high-volume AI report generation.
Where the round fits
The raise lands amid a broader pivot of venture capital toward vertical AI applications that automate field labour, alongside Mecka AI's Series A for robotics training data and Anvil Robotics' seed round. Scope said proceeds will fund engineering hires, expansion in continental Europe and a North American sales build-out.
Reporting based on coverage from Sifted, EU-Startups, BeBeez International and FoundersToday.