TD Shepherd congratulates the Innoseis Sensor Technologies’ team on closing of their Seed round led by FORWARD.one. Innoseis ST is a spin-off from the Nikhef (National Institute for Subatomic Physics) in the Netherlands who transferring advanced research in gravitational-wave detection into commercial sensor technology.
TD Shepherd acted as an advisor to the Innoseis ST team throughout their fundraising journey and is pleased to see this successful next step in advancing next-generation microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).
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