UK startup Scope has raised $20m (拢15m) in Series A investment, which could spell the end of time-consuming clipboard inspections.
Jonathan Low and Jakob Cassiman founded Scope in 2024 to create an AI inspection platform for the testing, inspection and certification industry (TIC).
Inspection is the most common way physical data is collected, underpinning the integrity, operation and safety of every industry.
However, the software the inspection process runs on hasn鈥檛 changed in 20 years 鈥� which is why Low and Cassiman launched Scope.
They identified the problem that most inspectors still carry a clipboard and a typical four-hour inspection would entail spending days at a desk, manually transcribing findings into reports and chasing data across paper forms and legacy systems.
Scope鈥檚 AI platform changes all that by helping inspection teams capture findings in the field, autofill forms, and generate reports automatically – cutting report production time by up to 10x and error rates by 95 per cent.
9x ARR growth
Already, inspectors at six of the top 10 global inspection companies are using it and every pilot has converted to a paying customer 鈥� resulting in Scope鈥檚 ARR growing 9x since launch.
Explaining their investment, Stephane Kurgan and Bastian Hasslinger, of Index Ventures, said: 鈥淭here鈥檚 a type of founder we keep coming back to at Index: someone who works so obsessively to fix a problem they鈥檝e identified that it becomes their only calling.
鈥淩ather than a market to be sized, it鈥檚 a challenge they feel compelled to solve. That鈥檚 how it felt the first time we sat down with Jonny Low, Scope鈥檚 CEO and co-founder.
鈥淲hen we met Jonny, it immediately became clear that he had an intimate knowledge of the industry he wanted to make more efficient.
鈥淛onny and his co-founder Jakob had spent months cold-calling testing, investigations and certifications (TIC) companies, visiting sites and joining inspections themselves.
鈥淭he result is a product that TIC firms love. Scope starts by giving inspectors that time back: replacing clipboards and manual reporting with AI-powered workflows that compress days of desk work into hours, so they can spend more time in the field, doing what they are hired to do.
鈥淏ut the vision goes far beyond the inspection report. Scope is processing a new kind of data that has never been captured before, enabling the platform to understand how physical assets behave, degrade and are maintained.鈥�
Kurgan and Hasslinger added: 鈥淚t鈥� a big vision, but Jonny and Jakob have the urgency, intelligence and determination to take it on.
They’ll visit customer at ‘drop of a hat’
鈥淭hey鈥檒l fly across the Atlantic to close a single candidate and visit a new country and a new customer site at the drop of a hat.
鈥淏ut they pair it with a rare honesty about what the know and what they don鈥檛.
鈥淲here they have conviction, they move with extraordinary speed. Where they are still learning, they seek out the hardest feedback that can find.鈥�
Low said: 鈥淲e鈥檙e thankful to Index Ventures for believing in us to build a generational company.
鈥淎dditionally, our earliest backers at Susa Ventures and Entrepreneurs First, who have doubled down in every round and we鈥檙e proud to call our friends.
鈥淔inally, we鈥檙e exceedingly grateful to our customers. There鈥檚 too many to name, but from taking a chance on us in the beginning, to the results today – this raise is for you.
鈥淲e promise to work every day in service of building a world where physical information is as accessible, malleable and useful as digital information – where the two billion non-desk workers are empowered to do the best work of their lives.鈥�