Smart sensor maker Dual Aperture International has secured $5.7m from backers including strategic partner EWBM.

Dual Aperture International (DAI), a South Korea-based provider of integrated smart sensors, has raised $5.7m in its series A round from a consortium including system-on-chip technology provider EWBM.

Investment firm Value Investment Korea led the round, which also included Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, the government-backed entity that co-formed DAI with US-based Dual Aperture using technology from its Center for Integrated Smart Sensors (CISS) department.

The funding was raised eight months after DAI signed a strategic partnership agreement…