Headlight
Headlight’s vision is to be the world’s leading company in the development of smart assessment, digitization, and digitalization tools for critical infrastructure across utilities, transport, and construction.
There is a need for resilience across critical infrastructure. Many assets are aging and require regular inspection, maintenance, or rebuilding. More stringent regulations are being introduced, especially to deal with climate change and increasing urbanization. Inspecting underground and confined spaces often poses health and safety risks for workers, and involves extensive planning and resources to ensure safety and effective data capture.
Headlight’s flagship product, Telesto™, is retrofitted to deployment vehicles to collect LiDAR and image data semi-autonomously. This data is processed and visualized through the Telesto Data Platform, which produces a digital twin of the underground asset for safe, accurate, and cost effective monitoring and mapping.
Founders
Jameel Marafie
CEO
Jameel obtained a Master’s of Chemistry from the University of Bath, and a Master’s of Research in Plastic Electronic Materials and a PhD from Imperial College London. During his PhD, Jameel studied new materials and processes for organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology, with the aim to replace light emitting materials based on rare earth metals.
Puneet Chhabra
CTO
Puneet worked within the defense and space sector at BAE Systems and Carbomap, with a focus on building image processing and AI based products for autonomous systems. He holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.