Optera, an Australian-origin neuromorphic sensing company, has relocated to the UK and raised £3m to establish its headquarters and engineering team here, backed by a consortium of defence and national security investors including the National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF), UKI2S (managed by Future Planet Capital), Blackfinch Ventures, Foresight Group, and Empirical Ventures. The company’s core technology addresses a genuine capability gap in space domain awareness (SDA). Its event-based sensors work on the same principle as the human eye, capturing only changes in a scene rather than continuous frames. The result is persistent tracking of fast-moving orbital objects at significantly…
