AUSTRALIA – Liquid Instruments, a Solana Beach, CA- and Lyneham, Australia-based provider of a software-defined instrumentation platform, raised $28.5m in Series B funding.
The round, which brings total funding to more than $50m, was led by Acorn Capital, with participation from Lockheed Martin Ventures, Powerhouse Ventures, Spirit Super/ANU Connect Ventures, MA Growth Ventures, Significant Capital Ventures, and Boman Enterprises. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate its growth plans, expand its product line and introduce novel services that connect lab measurements directly to the cloud. Led by CEO Daniel Shaddock, Liquid Instruments is a leader in precision software-defined instrumentation for students, scientists, and engineers to learn, discover, and create. Their hardware and software solutions leverage FPGAs to create versatile instrumentation for acquiring and analyzing data, generating complex waveforms, and implementing closed loop control systems. Its Moku product line offers Moku:Go, a complete lab solution for engineers and students to actively test designs and projects, and Moku:Pro, an integrated platform for the most demanding research and engineering applications.The company serves customers in research and education, government labs and industrial segments – including aerospace and defense, semiconductor, LiDAR and quantum computing.13/09/2022