Nanusens recruits experienced VC raiser as advisor
UK-based MEMS sensor company Nanusens Ltd. (Paignton, England) has announced that Matt Crowley, former CEO of Vesper Technologies Inc., has joined the company as a strategic advisor.
Crowley helped piezoelectric MEMS company Vesper Technologies Inc. (Boston, Mass.) raise about US$56 million in the eight years he served as CEO
Nanusens CEO, Josep Montanyà, said: “Matt’s experience will be invaluable in helping Nanusens rapidly bring its MEMS-within-ASICs technology to market.”
Crowley said: “The fabless semiconductor industry has thrived for decades because it uses a single standard manufacturing process, CMOS, that allows the industry to achieve massive scale, lower cost and constantly improving performance. This dynamic does not exist in the MEMS industry which is why it takes many years and tens of millions of dollars to create a new MEMS product. Nanusens is the first MEMS company to convincingly demonstrate technology that will change this paradigm by making MEMS directly in CMOS itself.”
He added: “Transforming the MEMS business model from one with discrete devices manufactured on dedicated lines to MEMS as a licensable IP block at major CMOS foundries will change the paradigm for a wide class of MEMS devices. It is a bold vision and I am thrilled to join Nanusens as an advisor to help make that vision a reality.”
A key innovation by the company is development of a control circuit that measures the capacitance changes within a sensor to provide sensor data. Like the sensor itself, this is also a digital IP block so it can be incorporated in the floor plan of the device’s control chip, or ASIC, using standard EDA tools.
Nanusens has built accelerometer sensors into an ASIC chip using this technology. It is developing many other different types of embedded sensors such as gyroscope, magnetometer, pressure sensor, microphone, IR imagers and gas sensor as most of these are variants on the accelerometer design.
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