The funding round was led by Octopus Ventures and MMC Ventures with participation from Amadeus Capital Partners and Toyota AI Ventures.
"Even before the crisis, SLAMcore was engaged in many conversations with companies – big and small – who needed a better way to solve spatial intelligence issues in robotics. Especially across sectors such as drones, robots, and AR/VR, the coronavirus pandemic has lit the touch-paper and we are primed to meet exploding demand. In the past few weeks alone, we have seen a huge spike in enquiries as robotics companies want fast solutions to get their robots to market sooner."
The funding round was backed by Brookfield Asset Management, Index Ventures, JamJar, and Project A to support expansion across the UK and US.
"We are thrilled to be working with Brookfield to accelerate our expansion furthering our mission to reinvent how consumers interact with video games. We aim to be the Netflix of Immersive Entertainment, with 1000+ units playing 100+ games in the next 5 years – working with real estate leaders like Brookfield brings us one step closer to achieving this."
Parkwalk led the series A round with participation from life science investors and angels to fund international expansion and senior hires.
"There is a clear market need for high-quality protein reagents, especially for applications in stem cell biology and organoid research. Qkine has both a compelling technology to meet this need and a highly experienced management team to drive the growth of the business."
The investment round was led by Parkwalk Advisors and Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund.
"The energy efficiency of many products could be greatly improved if they incorporated gas and flow sensors, but companies are unable to do so due to cost, size, or manufacturing constraints. Our vision is to bring flow- and gas-sensing technologies to all these products. This funding round helps us to scale up and bring our vision to reality."
The funding round was led by Mercia and will support product development and team expansion.
"With 3.5 billion smartphones worldwide, mobile apps are an effective way for public and private sector businesses to roll out their services to a wide audience. Nutshell makes mobile app development easy and will help businesses large and small to drive innovation and growth."
