2020年4月10日,

星期一2001年10月22日前沿资本,3 i集团,本研究金融、IDEO和西门子风险资本参与第二轮融资减少软接口技术的上市时间2001年10月22日,伦敦,英国,ElectroTextiles,一个基于英国公司和执照软接口技术,今天宣布它已经筹集了875万美元(£600万)在第二阶段一轮融资风险资本家财团和企业合作伙伴。前沿资本第二轮和3 i集团领导,跟着他们的原始投资300万美元(£200万)也参加了与其他投资者包括本研究金融;视频;和西门子风险资本GmbH是一家。的投资将用于加速实现其独特的技术在移动计算和无线应用程序,开发额外的接口,增加核心技术发展机会。ElekSen公司也在改变它的名字,更准确地反映了核心交换机和感知活动的业务。ElekSen公司已经开发出一种传感技术平台,叫做ElekTex软相结合,整合织物与固件和软件接口,创建软,轻量级的接口为消费电子产品,如手机和掌上电脑的键盘。ElekSen许可知识产权组织生产和分发大量消费者对全球市场的产品。“这是背书ElekTex命题和进步的管理团队,公司已成功结束这个融资非常困难的股权融资市场,取得了第一轮估值相对领先的,”斯图尔特·沃利斯说,主席,ElekSen。“ElekTex是电子产品的一个基本技术,增加了潜在的应用特别是在快速增长的移动环境,还使电子传递功能,以前不可能的。 Electronic devices will always need to consider the person machine interface and ElekSen enables those interfaces to be soft, tactile, lightweight and efficient,” said Bernard Smith, CEO of ElekSen. “Eleksen is a technology company with the potential to be genuinely disruptive in the vertical markets it has targeted. Frontiers Capital is investing in a solid management team and will actively assist Eleksen in developing its markets and business,” said Phil Terrett,” partner, Frontiers Capital. “This investment demonstrates our continuing support for companies in this sector. ElekSen is a genuinely innovative technology company with a cutting edge product in a growing market. ElekSen has forged strong partnerships and with a committed and focused management team we believe the company has tremendous potential for growth,” said Krishna Visvanathan, investment manager, 3i Group. Andersen Corporate Finance advised ElekSen on the investment round and Lawrence Graham, Solicitors, acted for the company. About ElekSen ElekSen is a switching and sensing company that develops and licences soft interfacing means. ElekTek technology is the first release from ElekSen and is already defining the capabilities of soft interfacing. The technology has been developed to enable creation of a new generation of consumer products with soft, flexible and lightweight interfaces. ElekTex combines conductive fabric structures with microchip technology. It is lightweight, durable, flexible, cost competitive and affords designers new opportunities in designing contoured and portable products for emerging product markets. ElectroTextiles has its sights set on five vertical markets: in the short term targeting PDA computing, cellular and games controllers with the automotive and healthcare markets, targeted for medium term product delivery. ElectroTextiles has development partners and licensees in several sectors including telecoms, text interfacing, automotive and healthcare. For more information, please check: http://www.eleksen.com Contact: