Liopa, a UK-based biometric identity authentication technology spinout from Queen’s University Belfast, today closed a pre-seed round of unspecified amount.

The spinout did not name any investors in the round.

Founded in 2015, Liopa is a spinout of Queen’s University Belfast and the Centre for Secure Information Technologies that focuses on lip movement, speech recognition and image processing.

It was established by Qubis, the institution’s tech transfer arm, which retains a shareholding. The pre-seed round will enable Liopa to develop…