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Investment from Enterprise M3's Funding Escalator

Last updated 02 October 2023
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A Basingstoke business helping gas network companies to prevent leaks has received the first equity investment from the newly re-launched Enterprise M3 Funding Escalator, financed by Enterprise M3 Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and managed by The FSE Group.

 

Utonomy’s innovative technology works by remotely controlling the pressure levels of gas within the pipe network. Without this technology, pressure is controlled through manual adjustments made only twice a year in line with the move from summer to winter, due to the inaccessible nature of the infrastructure. This results in pressure being inaccurate for demand levels most of the time.

Great ideas are at the heart of Enterprise M3 LEP’s funding programme and we are delighted to support Utonomy’s forward-thinking, clean growth solution to eradicating gas leaks. There is clear commitment to growing the company and we look forward to seeing it progress with our additional investment.

Kathy Slack , Chief Executive, EM3

This £75,000 investment from the Enterprise M3 Growth Fund is the company’s second EM3 investment following an initial £150,000 from the original funding escalator in early 2017. The monies invested have helped to leverage significant private and public sector funding, resulting in a total £3.5million raised across the two funding rounds. 

The funding and support we have received from The FSE Group over the last 18 months has helped us attract further investment and move the business forward considerably. Since receiving our first EM3 investment we have been successful in obtaining grant and loan funding from Innovate UK and secured our first customer with a contract worth almost £0.5million. We are now gaining traction across the sector and look forward to making further progress with this new round of funding

Adam Kingdon , CEO, Utonomy

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