Motorola Solutions Venture Capital and Verizon Ventures helped the augmented reality video software developer secure $5.5m.

US-based augmented reality technology developer Edgybees has secured $5.5m in seed funding from a consortium featuring subsidiaries of communications technology producer Motorola Solutions and telecommunications firm Verizon.

Motorola Solutions Venture Capital and Verizon Ventures were joined by crowdfunded investment platform OurCrowd and venture capital firms 8VC, NFX and Aspect Ventures.

Founded in 2016, Edgybees has developed AR technology that imposes 2D overlays on top of high-speed video footage taken from cameras fixed to unmanned aerial vehicles, cars or body-worn accessories.