Bristol-based Zero Point Motion Raises €4.7 Mn Funding to transform motion sensing

The company is backed by SCVC, Foresight Group, and Verve Ventures, with seed investor u-blox AG continuing as a key partner and customer.

“Our mission is to harness light to redefine the future of sensing,” says Dr Lia Li, Founder and CEO of Zero Point Motion. “We’re working with two of the world’s leading foundries to push MEMS performance beyond its limits. With top-tier investors and partners behind us, we’re laser-focused on delivering our inertial sensors to customers who demand the highest precision and reliability.

“We’ve also brought more integration and packaging R&D in-house, cutting iteration times from eight weeks to just one day . This agility, combined with our expanding patent portfolio and multiple newly granted patents—ensures we stay ahead of the curve. Our next milestone: product qualification and customer deployment.”

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Chris Wiles, Director, Foresight’s Ventures team, says: “Foresight initially invested in Zero Point Motion in 2021 to help Lia and the founding team bring this breakthrough sensing technology into the public domain. We are encouraged by the progress the team has made and the growing market need for accurate navigation and positioning in challenging environments. We are delighted to support the business in this recent funding round and welcome SCVC onboard.”

u-blox AG Co-founder and executive director, Andreas Thiel said: “While satellite positioning technology delivers the highest accuracies in open environments, sensor-based dead reckoning is crucial for resilient performance in dense and obstructed urban scenarios. u-blox is known for its advanced positioning and wireless communication technologies, and we see significant potential in Zero Point Motion’s innovative sensor technology.”

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Zero Point Motion has received major government and EU funding, including €1.5 million from the UK’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) in 2023 and a €2.4 million grant from the European Innovation Council Accelerator program.

About  Zero Point Motion

Founded in 2020, Zero Point Motion is developing advanced sensor technology by combining silicon photonics with MEMS. Inspired by gravitational wave detection, they create ultra-sensitive, low-cost accelerometers and gyroscopes.  

These sensors could revolutionize industries like defense, AgriTech, autonomous vehicles, consumer electronics, and industrial logistics.  

With this investment, the company is scaling up and expanding its team after working in stealth mode to develop a mass-producible version of its technology. Their gyroscopes are said to be 100 times more sensitive than standard MEMS sensors, ensuring high performance even without GPS.