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Investing companies included: Alliance Venture, Bergan, Calypso Invest, Djerv Holding, Fyrva, Investinor, Investitude, LER Invest, Motor-Trade Eiendom & Finans, R Munkhaugen, Reitan Kapital and Wiski Capital. The financial advisor was Sparebank 1 Markets.

“We are delighted to be supported by such a strong base of investors, and that we continue to experience such a high level of interest in TouchNetix despite the challenging economic environment,” said TouchNetix CEO and co-founder Vegard Wollan. “Our technology and solutions are increasingly selected by electronics equipment makers, and car manufacturers when designing their vehicle cockpits.”

The company’s intellectual property is in capacitive touch sensing that uses narrow-band detection to deliver a high signal-to-noise ratio, improving sensing robustness in noisy environments.


It has a family of touch interface chips in production, and a touch screen overlay module family. The touch devices are qualified according to the AEC-Q100 automotive specification, and “the product family is being ASIL-B ready certified”, said TouchNetix.

The company is headquartered in Norway and has offices in the UK, Germany, USA, Korea, Taiwan and through several distribution partners. Its roots are in Quantum Research, the Hampshire UK touch controller IC maker whose products were initially programmed and re-badged Microchip PICs, then programmed and re-badged Atmel ATtinys. Quantum Research was bought by Atmel, which is now owned by Microchip, where the QTouch brand can still be seen. Touchnetix was founded by four members of the Atmel touch management team in 2010 to create specialist touch chips for harsh industrial and medical EMI environments.

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