# Contactile

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/contactile-pty

- Industry: Electronics
- Headquarters: Sydney, Australia
- Website: www.contactile.com
- Total disclosed funding: $2.6M
- Latest round: Seed (Mar 4, 2022)
- Investors on record: 4

## About

Founded in 2019 and based in New South Wales, Australia, Contactile Pty Ltd. is a UNSW Sydney spin-out company that operates as a provider of a robotics company that develops tactile sensors for robots that enable smart, dexterous robotic gripping. Heba Khamis (CEO), Benjamin Xia (CTO), and Stephen Redmond are the co-founders of the company. In May 2022, Contactile Pty Ltd. raised USD 2.5 million in seed funding from True Ventures, including Flying Fox Ventures, Radar Partners, and UNSW Founders. 

The company provides products including tactile sensors and force or torque sensors. The firm's sensors are used in robotic and prosthetic gripping, pressure mapping, surface shape analysis, texture analysis, haptics, robotic surgery, rehabilitation, neurology, product testing, robotic assembly, grinding, and polishing.

Contactile’s patented optical technology allows its tactile sensor to sense 3D deflection, 3D force, and 3D vibration, providing a human-like sense of touch to robots. Its features include torque, incipient slip, and friction, which are important tactile metrics for robotic dexterity. 

The organization plans to use the May 2022 funding to enhance research and development products as well as launch new programs with its investors.

## Funding rounds

- Seed, Mar 4, 2022, $2.6M — True Ventures, Flying Fox Ventures, UNSW Founders, Radar Ventures

## Investors

- True Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/true-ventures) — Seed
- Flying Fox Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/flying-fox-ventures) — Seed
- UNSW Founders — Seed
- Radar Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/radar-ventures) — Seed