Cambridge spinout Sorex Sensors is importing a design already used for telecoms filters and multiplexes to construct compact and high-sensitivity sensors.

Sorex Sensors, a UK-based sensor technology developer spinout from University of Cambridge, has secured £1.2m ($1.6m) in a round backed by Cambridge Enterprise, the university’s tech transfer office.

Angel syndicates Cambridge Angels and Cambridge Capital Group also contributed funding. Parkwalk Advisors previously supplied Sorex with an undisclosed sum in April 2018, though it was not named as part of this “initial” round.

Sorex Sensors is manufacturing microelectromechanical-based (Mems) sensors that consist of a thin piezoelectric film mounted on a silicon…