Making structural failure predictable, and preventable.

Founded:

2018

Tech

Structural Health Monitoring

Forward.one entry point:

Seed-stage investor

Headquarters

Delft, The Netherlands

The Challenge

Steel infrastructure is the backbone of modern society; bridges, offshore structures, cranes, locks, and industrial installations. Yet most of these assets are still maintained reactively, relying on periodic inspections that miss early-stage fatigue damage and force conservative, costly maintenance schedules.

Fatigue cracks develop silently, often in hard-to-reach locations. When they are finally detected, the options are limited: emergency repairs, shutdowns, or full asset replacement. Villari was founded to change this model, from reactive inspection to continuous, predictive insight.

FORWARD.one involvement

We invested in Villari because it tackles a critical infrastructure problem with a defensible, hardware-driven deeptech solution. Villari’s certified, wireless sensor systems detect microscopic fatigue cracks in steel long before they become safety risks, enabling predictive maintenance where failure is not an option.

The company fits squarely within our industrial deeptech focus, with clear climate impact: extending asset lifetimes, reducing unnecessary replacements, and minimizing carbon-intensive inspections and rebuilds.

At seed stage, we support Villari with capital and hands-on guidance as it scales deployments, strengthens certification-driven go-to-market, and converts deep engineering credibility into repeatable commercial growth.

Critical infrastructure underpins our society, yet too often we only react when damage is already done. With Villari, we want to make structural failure predictable and preventable by giving asset owners continuous, reliable insight into the health of their steel structures.

Olivier Baas

Founder & CEO

Results

Villari has already proven traction across real-world infrastructure:

1,300+ sensors deployed across 50+ steel structures in multiple countries, validating scalability beyond pilots.
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Continuous monitoring of critical assets, enabling operators to shift from periodic inspections to data-driven, predictive maintenance.
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Extended asset lifetimes and reduced inspection costs, lowering both operational risk and environmental impact.
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Strong adoption in safety-critical environments, where certification, reliability, and trust are mandatory.

Villari turns structural health from a blind spot into a measurable operating parameter.