
Skipper NDT is the market leading deeptech technology enabling buried pipeline maintenance automation. The company leverages the most recent hardware and software innovations, combined with magnetic measurements, to provide pipeline operators with certainty in complex environments. The objective is to deliver maintenance departments reliable data in a safe and cost-effective way to enable rapid pipeline integrity decisions. Skipper NDT enables its customers can comply with the highest industry standards and legal requirements while ensuring the safety of communities and the environment. Skipper NDT products and services include: • Geospatial positioning of pipeline and electrical cables under water ways • Bending strain assessment in case of geohazard movements • Identification and localisation of abandoned wells • Decommissioned site buried structure identification and geospatial positioning The Skipper NDT payload, fitted under a commercial drone, can be operated by any qualified and trained third party resource (service providers or pipeline operator teams).

Skipper NDT is the market leading deeptech technology enabling buried pipeline maintenance automation. The company leverages the most recent hardware and software innovations, combined with magnetic measurements, to provide pipeline operators with certainty in complex environments. The objective is to deliver maintenance departments reliable data in a safe and cost-effective way to enable rapid pipeline integrity decisions. Skipper NDT enables its customers can comply with the highest industry standards and legal requirements while ensuring the safety of communities and the environment. Skipper NDT products and services include: • Geospatial positioning of pipeline and electrical cables under water ways • Bending strain assessment in case of geohazard movements • Identification and localisation of abandoned wells • Decommissioned site buried structure identification and geospatial positioning The Skipper NDT payload, fitted under a commercial drone, can be operated by any qualified and trained third party resource (service providers or pipeline operator teams).
Headquarters: Paris, France
Core offering: AI-driven, non-intrusive inspection using drones, electromagnetic sensing and geospatial intelligence
Applications: Pipeline and underground-asset integrity: depth-of-cover, bending-strain, water-crossing surveys
Founders / CEO: Maher Kassir (Co‑Founder & CEO), Luigi Kassir (Co‑Founder)
Known funding: $3.96M venture round (Oct 2022) reported by Dealroom
Underground asset integrity management for energy infrastructure (buried pipelines, water crossings, decommissioned sites).
Energy / Infrastructure Inspection
$3.96M
Reported by Dealroom as a later‑stage venture round
Listed as a grant‑type funding event in Crunchbase
“Bpifrance; EASME; NextStage AM; Chevron Technology Ventures”
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