FYLD raises £32m to use video‑based AI for frontline safety and compliance
This article covers FYLD, a data startup, and its closure of a £32m Series B funding round to expand its AI-driven frontline intelligence platform for large infrastructure projects. The funding is intended to accelerate product development and US expansion and to support operators in energy, construction and utilities by improving safety, compliance and predictability across distributed field operations.
FYLD has closed a £32 million series B funding round to expand its AI-driven frontline intelligence platform for large infrastructure projects. The raise arrives as the company reports 82% year‑on‑year growth and accelerates US expansion, signalling increased appetite for data-led tools that aim to improve safety, compliance and predictability across distributed field operations.
Why it matters
Infrastructure projects remain complex, risky and labour intensive. Digital tools that convert on‑site observations into timely, auditable insights can cut delays, reduce incidents and help operators meet regulatory and commercial targets. FYLD’s funding and growth suggest buyers in energy, construction and utilities are prepared to adopt video and AI‑based approaches rather than relying on legacy workflows and manual reporting.
FYLD is a data startup that says it shortens time to value compared with conventional enterprise software and targets organisations managing tens of thousands of fieldworkers — a scale where operational certainty becomes a commercial necessity.
Inside the product
FYLD’s platform replaces static forms with short videos captured by field teams. Its AI analyses those clips to surface safety, quality and delivery risks, providing managers with live visibility across jobs while automatically documenting interventions for compliance and audit trails.
The company reports customers have seen up to a 48% reduction in serious worksite injuries and deployment time to value as short as four weeks. Product developments in 2025 included ShowMe, a feature aimed at speeding utility responses, improving customer satisfaction and increasing first‑time‑right fixes. FYLD also says it is now deployed across 12 of 18 networks in the UK as part of standard operating practice for some customers.
In the announcement, Shelley Copsey, CEO and co‑founder of FYLD, said:
The momentum we’re seeing reflects a clear shift: infrastructure leaders know reactive management of their frontline workforce has never worked at scale. Our customers now include some of the most complex infrastructure organizations, managing 30,000 to 40,000 field workers, where operational certainty is a business necessity. By applying AI to real-time field data, they’re replacing hindsight decisions with predictable, first-time-right delivery. And they’re keeping fieldworkers safe.
Who are the investors?
The round was led by New York‑based Energy Impact Partners (EIP), with participation from Partech through its Growth Impact Fund and existing backer Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. The cash injection is intended to fund product development, AI innovation and the company’s international expansion, particularly in the US where FYLD expects more than 40% of revenue by the end of 2026.
In the announcement, Matthias Dill, Managing Partner for Europe at Energy Impact Partners, said:
At EIP, we collaborate with more than 80 strategic partners to identify the key challenges in building a better energy future and work with innovative companies developing solutions to address them. The data-center boom and other demand-drivers result in massive build out of energy infrastructure. This requires new levels of productivity and safety for fieldworkers. FYLD is making this possible through their video-based AI tools that uplift fieldworker capacity and safety and provide direct ROI.
In the announcement, Rémi, General Partner at Partech, said:
At Partech Impact, we invest in impact-native category champions with the ambition and maturity to scale. FYLD is tackling large-scale infrastructure projects, a category that has been underserved by technology for decades. Its strong ROI for customers, AI-powered product, and robust go-to-market engine give us confidence that FYLD can emerge as a global leader, driving sustainable impact across its value chain.
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Founder perspective
FYLD’s leadership has been busy expanding both the product and the executive team. New hires in 2025 included Mohan Sadashiva as Chief Product and Technology Officer and Lee Griffin as Chief Revenue Officer, roles the company says will accelerate AI development and commercial growth. FYLD has also accumulated third‑party recognition, appearing in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Frontline Worker Technologies 2025 and on lists from Deloitte, BuiltWorlds and Sifted.
The bigger picture
FYLD’s fundraise sits at the intersection of two trends: growing institutional interest in operational technology for critical infrastructure, and the broader move from manual reporting to real‑time, data‑driven field management. The participation of EIP and Partech underscores investor appetite for solutions that promise measurable safety and productivity gains across energy and construction value chains.
For UK and European tech ecosystems, FYLD’s progress highlights the potential for homegrown startups to export specialised enterprise products into large US markets while attracting international capital. As infrastructure programmes scale to meet energy transition and resilience goals, expect more investment into tools that help operators predict and prove how frontline work is delivered.
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