The second close of the Series A round was joined by participants including Lockheed Martin, In-Q-Tel, and Contrarian Ventures.
"We are thrilled to have raised further funding to propel our expansion into the US market. Our advanced thermal infrared camera will be able to offer unique, previously unseen insights into human activity and the full constellation will enable up to twenty revisits per day of a single location anywhere on the planet. The funding supports the development of new applications and enables closer collaboration on proof of concepts with our customers. This investment further demonstrates that our technology offers potential benefits for national security capabilities, and we look forward to building and expanding our relationship with partners overseas, particularly the US."
The clean tech start-up has raised £2.4m to fund expansion plans and roll out its portable solar sculptures.
"With this new funding, we want to scale our business and maximise the disruptive potential of our ultra-thin and lightweight solar solutions by facilitating a new generation of solar users ready to have a positive impact on the planet."
The seed round was led by Merus Capital with participation from APX, Techstars, Verissimo, and angel investors.
"training latest deep learning models accurately on very small data sets, which any local, low-resource language usually suffers from, is a very challenging task because models are usually designed to perform well in English with terabytes of available text and speech data but not in languages with a few hundred megabytes of data."
The funding round was co-led by Octopus Ventures and Anthemis Group with participation from various angel investors and funds.
"The main hurdle for many parents to effectively save for their children’s future is a lack of awareness about what they can do and a lack of tools that help them do that easily. The money we’ve raised today is going to give us the opportunity to change this, providing better education to families and building financial products and tools solely designed for families."
The seed round was led by Nielsen Ventures and Hoxton Ventures to scale quantum computing development.
"In the world of quantum technologies, where data acquisition is expensive and the parameter space is large, it is a massive challenge to develop software to characterise and control qubits at scale,"
