Israeli Startup HydroSight Raises $5 Million for AI Seabed Mapping
HydroSight, a Haifa-based startup specializing in AI-powered seabed mapping, has announced the successful completion of a $5 million seed funding round. The investment was led by StageOne Ventures, with participation from Vertex Ventures and the National Center for Blue Economy, which operates under HiCenter Ventures.
Founded in late 2025 by CEO Tomer Adler, CTO Haim Azzi, and COO Chen Megre, HydroSight currently employs five people. The founders bring extensive experience from both military service and commercial maritime operations, identifying a critical gap in underwater data analysis. While advanced sonar and survey technologies gather vast amounts of information from the seabed, interpreting this data quickly and accurately often relies on complex, manual processes.
As land and coastal areas become more constrained, essential infrastructure like energy projects, communication cables, and ports are increasingly located offshore. This trend makes precise and up-to-date understanding of the seabed crucial for planning, development, and operational phases. HydroSight's platform aims to address this by integrating and analyzing various marine survey data, comparing information across different times and sources.
By automatically identifying changes, anomalies, and patterns, the AI platform generates a highly accurate map of the seabed. This allows marine infrastructure operators to gain a precise, real-time view of underwater conditions, enabling more accurate, faster, and efficient planning, development, and construction. The system significantly reduces the hours of manual work previously required, transforming raw survey data into actionable intelligence for infrastructure management.
"Beneath the sea lies a vast world we still know very little about, even though a significant part of our lives already depends on it," stated CEO Tomer Adler. He highlighted that approximately 30% of global oil and gas is extracted at sea, and over 99% of international data traffic travels through subsea cables. Adler emphasized that HydroSight was founded to enable a better understanding and development of this underwater world, especially as reliance on it grows with the transition to clean energy and increased offshore infrastructure needs.
