Insider Brief
- Brighter Signals has raised €1.6 million in new funding as the company expands pilot programs for its fabric-based sensing technology across automotive and robotics applications.
- The funding round included backing from Wake Up Capital and ELOKON Ventures, along with regional innovation funding and a Eurostars grant co-funded by the Dutch Enterprise Agency.
- Brighter Signals develops flexible pressure and proximity sensors designed to help vehicles and robots better detect touch, movement and physical interaction, with the company currently engaged in more than a dozen proof-of-concept projects with automotive manufacturers and suppliers.
Brighter Signals, a Dutch startup developing fabric-based sensing technology for vehicles and robotics, has raised €1.6 million in new funding as it expands pilot programs with automotive and industrial partners.
According to the company, the financing included investment from Wake Up Capital and ELOKON Ventures, alongside regional innovation funding and a Eurostars grant co-funded by the Dutch Enterprise Agency.
The commpany said newly raised capital will be used to expand product development and improve the company’s software and data interpretation systems, which convert sensor data into usable inputs for vehicle and robotic systems.
Brighter Signals develops flexible pressure and proximity sensors embedded into fabric-like materials that allow machines to detect touch, pressure and movement. The technology is aimed at automotive safety systems, industrial automation and robotics applications.
In robotics, the technology is intended to give machines more detailed physical awareness during interaction with people or objects.
“Our sensors produce a level of physical insight that traditional systems simply can’t capture,” co-founder and CEO Andrew Klein noted in the announcement. “This funding allows us to scale both the hardware and the algorithms needed to turn that data into safer vehicles and more capable machines.”
The company said it is currently working on more than a dozen proof-of-concept projects with automotive manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers. Brighter Signals expects some of those programs could move toward larger commercial deployments over the next one to two years.