Skygauge Robotics

Market context

Skygauge Robotics builds industrial inspection drones for ultrasonic thickness testing and contact-based work at height. Its Skygauge system is used for asset inspection, and Cyberhawk announced a 2025 partnership to deliver Skygauge UT inspections globally.

Products

• Skygauge - Skygauge

Facts

• Website: https://www.skygauge.com/
• HQ: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
• Founded: 2016
• Segment: Inspection
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2020-12-04 - Seed - $2M - Skygauge closes CAD 3.3M seed round for inspection drones - source: betakit.com

Investors

• BDC Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2020-12-04
• HAX - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2020-12-04
• RiSC Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2020-12-04
• SOSV - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2020-12-04

Events

• 2025-11-03 - Partnership - Cyberhawk becomes global Skygauge UT inspection service provider - The partnership expands Skygauge inspection services through a named industrial inspection provider. The event is a service-channel partnership, not a one-off customer deployment. The partnership connects Cyberhawk to a customer, supplier or channel for marit…
• 2025-10-22 - Partnership - Nippon Steel Trading becomes exclusive Skygauge distributor in Japan - The agreement expands Skygauge industrial inspection access in Japan. Nippon Steel Technology was also named in the inspection-service channel. The partnership connects Nippon Steel Trading to a customer, supplier or channel for inspection, monitoring or infr…
• 2023-06-05 - Product Launch - Skygauge commercially launches ultrasonic inspection drone - The drone became available for sale as an industrial inspection workforce platform. The event is separate from Skygauge's earlier funding milestone. The product gives Skygauge commercially a concrete offering for unmanned aircraft, air mobility or counter-dro…
• 2020-12-04 - Funding - Skygauge closes CAD 3.3M seed round for inspection drones - The round brought Skygauge total funding to CAD 3.8 million. Skygauge builds drones for ultrasonic testing and close-contact inspection of industrial assets. The capital supports unmanned aircraft, air mobility or counter-drone operations as Skygauge moves to…

Team

• Nikita Illiushkin - CRO and Co-founder - Commercial founder leadership helped focus Skygauge on drones for industrial NDT inspection.
• Linar Ismagilov - CIO and Co-founder - Founder/design leadership supports Skygauge's contact-capable drone architecture for NDT inspection.
• Maksym Korol - CEO and Co-founder - CEO/founder leadership anchors Skygauge's inspection-drone product and commercialization.

Context tags

• Industrial inspection - Workflow - Skygauge builds drones for ultrasonic industrial asset inspection.
• Industrial inspection robotics - Peer Group - Skygauge builds contact-capable inspection drones for industrial sites.
• Industrial asset inspection - Workflow - Skygauge targets ultrasonic thickness inspection for industrial assets.
• Structural inspection data - Capability - Skygauge collects structural inspection data through contact-based drone inspection.