# Touchlab

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/touchlab

- Industry: Software
- Headquarters: Edinburgh, UK
- Website: www.touchlab.io
- Total disclosed funding: $4.5M
- Latest round: Seed (Feb 18, 2022)
- Investors on record: 3

## About

Based in Edinburgh, UK, and founded in 2018 by its CEO, Zaki Hussein, Touchlab Limited operates as a deep technology company that develops electronic skin for robots and full-body tactile telerobots. In February 2022, Touchlab Limited raised USD 4.8 million in seed funding led by new investor Octopus Ventures, with participation from returning investors Creator Fund and Techstart Ventures. 

Touchlab Limited manufactures an e-skin system that uses 4 wires about as thin as 2 human hairs and can be wrapped around hard or soft robots to sense pressure, location, and direction in real-time. The company's eDermis uses quantum tunnelling sensing principles that enable piezoresistive touch, force, and position measurements in a compliant and flexible package. The e-skin also performs as a platform for teleoperated Avatar technology. It also develops a full-body, tactile telerobot that uses VR, motion tracking, and Touchlab's own e-skin technology.

Touchlab Limited plans to use the seed funding to accelerate its commercial and technology teams to meet the demand for large-scale e-skin deployments.

## Funding rounds

- Seed, Feb 18, 2022, $4.5M — Octopus Investments, Techstart Ventures, Creator Fund

## Investors

- Octopus Investments (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/octopus-investments) — Seed
- Techstart Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/techstart-ventures) — Seed
- Creator Fund (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/creator-fund) — Seed