Our portfolio company Muybridge closed a successful investment round of € 8M led by Swedish Fairpoint Capital, RunwayFBU and others to reinvent the camera with a platform combining software and hardware.
“We are thrilled to have the support of such experienced investors as we transition from research to productization and commercialization,” said Håkon Espeland, CEO and Co-Founder of Muybridge. “This funding will allow us to bring our technology into several emerging markets together with leading product partners within sports, broadcasting, surveillance and enterprise communication.
A New Paradigm for Camera Technology
Muybridge has spent the last four years developing groundbreaking real-time computer vision technology, securing several global patents covering both hardware and software innovations. These technological breakthroughs form the foundation of the company’s platform, which enables product partners to build the next-generation products using APIs and SDKs—all ‘powered by Muybridge’.
Fully Funded and Ready to Grow
With this latest round of funding, Muybridge is fully equipped to scale its operations and commercialize its technology. The funds will be used to support our partner-led go-to-market activites, launch products in several markets, and grow the company’s workforce, particularly in marketing, product marketing, sales, and partner success roles.
“Combining advanced hardware and software, their platform enables real-time, high-resolution imaging and 3D scene reconstruction, serving a wide range of industries like sports, media, videoconferencing, and others. Led by founders who are pioneers in robotics and camera technology, Muybridge is set to revolutionize these sectors with a proven team and a platform built for scale.” Sagar Chandna, Senior Partner at RunwayFBU
About Muybridge
Founded by Håkon Espeland and Anders Tomren in 2020, Muybridge is on a mission to reinvent the camera through software. By combining deep-tech research and real-time computer vision, the team is creating products that transform how cameras are used across industries, offering unparallelled innovation and potential for disruption.
Muybridge’s platform is based on a multi-camera system, embedding consecutively mounted small high resolution image sensors. This platform allows moving hardware complexity into software, enabling future-proof video and sensor-fusion applications across a wide variety of industries and mission-critical use-cases, delivering industry leading image processing capabilities and real-time virtual camera movements, with near-infinitely extendable coverage deployed on negligible physical footprint.
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