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278%
Raised
£557,290
Investors
713
Target
£200,000
Equity
7.90%
Pre-money valuation
£6,500,000

Nanusens is in a unique position to provide the World’s smallest sensors. Up to 10x smaller than current offerings, freeing up valuable space. This is very significant for earbuds, where space is tight & there is a need for many sensors. The earbud market is predicted to be 3B units/year in 3 years.

  • Delivering samples in Q4 this year as proof of volume production
  • Our nanosensors solve the problem of earbuds’ short battery life
  • Working with the Bluetooth chip vendors so they choose our sensors
  • Upcoming government grants means could be our last funding round

Idea

The layout of our 2D motion sensor chip. Note that the X and Y nanosensors take up very little room on the chip so it is easy to add different nanosensors with very little increase in chip size.
The layout of our 2D motion sensor chip. Note that the X and Y nanosensors take up very little room on the chip so it is easy to add different nanosensors with very little increase in chip size.
X-ray of earbud showing how the inside is packed with electronics. Shrinking the sensors to our tiny nanosensors will free up invaluable space for larger batteries and more sensors.
X-ray of earbud showing how the inside is packed with electronics. Shrinking the sensors to our tiny nanosensors will free up invaluable space for larger batteries and more sensors.
Our motion nanosensor is only 100 by 120 microns. Our nanosensor is ten times smaller than conventional sensor structures.
Our motion nanosensor is only 100 by 120 microns. Our nanosensor is ten times smaller than conventional sensor structures.
One of our RF nanoswitches has been tested for over 40 million switching cycles – it could have gone on for longer but we needed to test other devices!
One of our RF nanoswitches has been tested for over 40 million switching cycles – it could have gone on for longer but we needed to test other devices!
We create our unique nanosensor structures within the layers of CMOS using standard processes. This can be done in any fab anywhere so there is virtually no limit to how many we can produce.
We create our unique nanosensor structures within the layers of CMOS using standard processes. This can be done in any fab anywhere so there is virtually no limit to how many we can produce.
Our launch at MWC2019 resulted in a front cover on a leading pan-European industry magazine plus numerous other positive editorials and analyst interviews.
Our launch at MWC2019 resulted in a front cover on a leading pan-European industry magazine plus numerous other positive editorials and analyst interviews.
Phone manufacturers are designing out bulky headphone sockets to free up space inside phones for larger batteries and more features, and using Bluetooth connectivity instead so earbud sales will sky rocket.
Phone manufacturers are designing out bulky headphone sockets to free up space inside phones for larger batteries and more features, and using Bluetooth connectivity instead so earbud sales will sky rocket.
1.5 billion new smartphones are shipped each year. More and more will use earbuds. As our technology results in better earbuds with longer battery lives, the market potential for Nanusens is tremendous.
1.5 billion new smartphones are shipped each year. More and more will use earbuds. As our technology results in better earbuds with longer battery lives, the market potential for Nanusens is tremendous.
Current sensors designs are called MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) are built on top of CMOS wafers using a special process for every type of MEMS, which is expensive and limits production capabilities.
Current sensors designs are called MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) are built on top of CMOS wafers using a special process for every type of MEMS, which is expensive and limits production capabilities.
Today’s MEMS solutions need a chip for the sensor and a chip for the control electronics. The resulting package is 4mm3. We build both as one chip so the package needed is only 1mm3 saving 3mm3 per replace
Today’s MEMS solutions need a chip for the sensor and a chip for the control electronics. The resulting package is 4mm3. We build both as one chip so the package needed is only 1mm3 saving 3mm3 per replace

Nanusens is developing integrated circuits with built-in nano-sensors. They are designed to have mechanical moving parts with submicron feature sizes, which are implemented in many different products for motion detection, accelerometers and many more.

The key requirements for this consumer industry of sensor chips (smartphones and earbuds mainly) are small size, high performance, high reliability and low cost.

Nanusens has patent pending technology to solve these challenges. Our competition uses proprietary manufacturing processes, which we believe has limited production capability, higher cost, and uses legacy equipment. This equipment is unable to build submicron feature sizes into the devices, leading to higher cost, bigger size and lower performance. At Nanusens we use an existing standard manufacturing process called CMOS, which is typically used for conventional solid state chips and therefore do not have any mechanical moving parts inside. By using this process, we benefit from the existing large economy of scale of these fabs, leading to lower cost, smaller size and better performance.

Our first target is the mobile phone industry, which sees around 1.5bn smartphones sold per year. And we have added another rapidly growing target market, earbuds. It is served mainly by the same companies, and requires even smaller chips, which we believe we can do better than anybody else.

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