Facts

• Segment: Maritime
• Country: Norway
• Website: https://www.eelume.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Commercial
• Events
• Supply chain relationships
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Sources

Summary

Eelume develops snake-like autonomous underwater vehicles for subsea inspection and light intervention. Equinor says Eelume began collaborating with Kongsberg Maritime and Statoil in 2016 to accelerate resident subsea robotics.

Market context

Eelume builds autonomous underwater robots for subsea inspection, monitoring and resident offshore operations.

Facts

• Website: https://www.eelume.com/
• HQ: Trondheim, Norway
• Segment: Maritime
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2021-11-09 - Strategic investment - Equinor Ventures takes minority stake in Eelume - source: equinor.com

Investors

• Equinor Ventures - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-11-09

Commercial

2 commercial events; 1 contract award; 1 commercial order; latest event 2025-09-07

• 2025-09-07 - Commercial order - Equinor acquires Eelume S for subsea inspection - source: oceanautonomy.no
• 2021-02-23 - Contract award - Equinor awards Eelume subsea monitoring module contract - source: offshore-energy.biz

Events

• 2025-09-07 - Commercial Order - Equinor acquires Eelume S for subsea inspection - The order covered Eelume S, an all-terrain autonomous underwater vehicle.
• 2021-11-09 - Funding - Equinor Ventures takes minority stake in Eelume - The investment followed Equinor Ventures project support for Eelume since 2016.
• 2021-02-23 - Contract Award - Equinor awards Eelume subsea monitoring module contract - The contract extended the Eelume robot platform into environmental monitoring and survey work.
• 2016-04-18 - Partnership - Eelume partners with Kongsberg and Statoil on subsea robots - The collaboration focused on snake-like underwater robots for inspection and intervention around subsea facilities.

Supply chain relationships

• KONGSBERG - Subsea robotics technology partner - Eelume collaborated with Kongsberg Maritime and Statoil to develop swimming robots for subsea inspection and light intervention.

Relationships

• development partner - Statoil partnered with Eelume and Kongsberg Maritime on subsea inspection robots.
• strategic investor - Equinor Ventures acquired a minority share in Eelume.
• robot customer - Equinor acquired an Eelume S All-Terrain AUV for subsea inspection.
• contracting customer - Equinor awarded Eelume and partners a subsea environmental monitoring module contract.

Context tags

• Subsea inspection - Workflow - Profile source supports this robotics context.
• Subsea robotics - Peer Group - Profile source supports this robotics context.
• Underwater robotics builder - Peer Group - Profile source supports this robotics context.