SAPPER Intelligence is a Berlin-based deep-tech startup founded in 2024 that develops AI-powered sensor systems for remote sensing, exploration, and reconnaissance. The company's core product fuses multiple sensors — including AI-driven synthetic aperture radar (SAR) — mounted on UAV platforms to detect, inspect, and map large buried objects and subsurface structures such as landmines, anti-tank mines, and improvised explosive devices in real time.

The technology combines AI radar signal recognition with sensor fusion and autonomous flight data processing, geospatial mapping, and target visualization. A key differentiator is the company's claim that its airborne payload can fly 10 times higher than competing solutions while still detecting small objects buried in soil. The team operates from a former Berlin airport that provides a large outdoor testing area.

SAPPER Intelligence's primary customers are defense and security operators, and the company has already completed a prototype development contract with the German Bundeswehr for a drone radar capable of detecting buried anti-tank mines and IEDs. The startup has been backed by a range of defense-focused investors and accelerators including Antler, Brandenburg Kapital, Drive Ventures, GIMIC Ventures, Hexa (Sprint defense cohort), DEFINE Accelerator, and SPRIN-D, and has raised approximately $2.7M in total disclosed funding.