The funding round was backed by the North East Venture Fund and Ingenious.
"The latest government announcement is another big step forward on the 'road to net zero'. However despite the growing popularity of EVs with consumers and fleet users, a lack of charging points continues to deter many from making the switch. This funding will allow us to step up our activity to help build the all-important infrastructure. We hope to make Elmtronics a key player in the roll-out."
Anthemis led the seed round with backing from QED Investors and Seedcamp.
"Weavr’s solution provided us with the platform to accelerate our route to market. We were faced with developing multiple integrations across many third-party stakeholders. Working with Weavr removed the need to carry out a long and complex build and meant we could take advantage of favourable market forces that we may have otherwise missed."
The £600k seed round was led by EmergeVest and closed within 72 hours.
"B2B e-commerce is growing and – in such a dynamic market – automation and efficiency are becoming crucial to the buyer’s journey. The question is how to build layers of trust into this. Detected offers a scalable and pragmatic solution, in a very real and growing area of concern for many businesses. I’m excited to have invested and look forward to supporting Liam and his high-calibre team on this important journey."
— Stephen Garland, former Chief Technology and Product Officer of TrustPilot
The seed round was led by IQ Capital with participation from Episode1, Join, and Seraphim Capital.
"2021 will be the year when Natural Intelligence will challenge deep learning in solving some of the most fundamental short-comings in autonomous applications and this funding round will set Opteran on a path to be at the forefront of this next wave. Already in a position to demonstrate the technology, we are confident that Natural Intelligence will become highly sought after as the way to deliver lightweight, low-cost and effective autonomy in a radically new way that will open up huge growth opportunities for robotics."