Inspection automation specialist Autofill expands to the High Tech Campus

Dutch multisensor data fusion startup Autofill has secured 2.6 million euros in pre-series A funding to advance its inspection solution for the automotive and rail industries. The money is also earmarked to strengthen current operational deployments at partner sites and grow the engineering team. Headquartered in Wassenaar, the Netherlands, the company recently opened a second office at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven.

The funding round was led by Innovation Industries. The investor was accompanied by the Deeptech Labs accelerator, initiated by Arm and the University of Cambridge, among others. Bram Schot, former CEO of Audi, and Rick Belluzzo, former COO of Microsoft, also participated in the round. They both joined Autofill’s advisory board earlier this year.

Currently, most object inspections in the automotive and rail sectors are performed by humans. Autofill’s solution combines vision technology, multisensor data fusion and artificial intelligence to automatically identify anomalies and increase the accuracy of quality standards. It can be thought of as a multi-dimensional camera inspection-style system that can detect every single aspect of a vehicle or train, including errors humans can’t spot. And while existing automated solutions require substantial space and infrastructure to function, Autofill’s solution can be incorporated seamlessly into existing operational processes. It thus promises dramatically improved safety and cost savings for companies hosting fleets of vehicles, across automotive, rail and beyond.