Companies · Robotics

HyLightSummer 2023Active

Paris · Île-de-France, France · Robotics · founded 2023 · https://www.hylight.aero/

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HyLight: limited disclosed financing to assess.

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Where it sits in Robotics

HyLight is one of 327 Robotics companies tracked from Paris, Île-de-France, France, on record since 2023. By capital raised it ranks in the long tail (ahead of 35% of sector peers), and in the long tail by modeled valuation est..

Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.

AI analyst read est. — model-extracted from this company's public description, not a verified fact. 30%

operates a technology-led product inferred from public copy

Grounded in: “You are a venture analyst

Small unmanned hydrogen airships for long range monitoring

HyLight builds and operates autonomous airships for long range monitoring. We focus on detecting methane leaks on pipelines and defects on power lines. 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 developed 5 different flying aircrafts and signed 5 pilots programs with major energy infrastructure operators. We also have LOIs worth over $3.5M.

AerospaceB2BClimateEnergyHydrogen Energyrobotics
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Amount raised vs valuation, by round

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How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 327 companies in Robotics. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.

Total raised — vs sector median (real $, all stages)
This company
Sector median$6.3M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages)
This company
Sector median$34.5M

Raised more than 35% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 35% of peers (estimate).

Full financing history

Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.

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Registry & provenance

HyLight is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.

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Similar companies

Nearest neighbours across the whole database — matched on sector, stage and capital scale, and on shared operators (officers or directors named at both companies in public filings). A discovery shortlist, not a valuation cohort — verify before acting, the same way modeled figures are directional.

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6thSenseRoboticssame sector
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Aerones Inc.RoboticsSeries B$38.9M$417.4Msame sector
Agility Robotics, Inc.RoboticsSeries D+$157.5M$2.5Bsame sector
AiM Medical Robotics Inc.RoboticsSeries A$11.7M$22.8Msame sector
Semantically similar

Matched by meaning, not labels — a local language model reads each company's name, sector and description and ranks the closest in that learned space. This catches look-alikes that cross sector boundaries; the structured list above explains its matches, this one trusts the text. Directional, like every modeled signal here.

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74%
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Ornadyne
We're building robot birds for surveillance.
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We make the world's most efficient aircraft
Space / AerospacePre-Seed$4.6M73%
Skydweller Aero Inc.Space / AerospaceSeries A$243.2M73%
Skyways
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Robotics73%
Pacejet Logisitics IncOther TechnologySeries A$174.9M72%
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What does HyLight do and where is it based?
HyLight operates in the Robotics sector, based in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Small unmanned hydrogen airships for long range monitoring
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