Brighter Signals - Our First Year

April 9, 2026

It is almost 12 months to the day we looked each other in the eye and said “lets start this company together”

Brighter Signals

Andy, Edward and Christine all met in Amsterdam at the end of Q1 2025. Within a few weeks all three were aligned in creating a new company around "The Future of Touch" and our patented fabric based sensor technology.


During the Easter weekend 2025 we departed in Andys car, for Frankfurt, to meet with a potential Automotive manufacturing partner. We said "Lets see if we can pass the first hurdle of any longterm relationship, the first weekend away together!"


12 months on, we are now a small team, with paying customers, multiple product offerings, funded by revenues, grants, loans and equity partners. 


We are an official partner to multiple automotive and robotics customers and have a manufacturing partner that can help us scale to the volumes and quality our customers need. 


We are using this moment to reflect on the achievements of the past year, and celebrate some of those achievements, while we continue to progress day-on-day towards our vision be the Future of Touch and be part of every vehicle, factory and hospital.


Some of our journey highlights!


12 months since deciding to found the company

11 trips to Christine as made to Germany 

10 months since incorporation

9 weeks since our first employee joined us

8 combined trips to China

7 tradefairs & conferences

6 robots that share the office with us!

5 weeks since we opened our new office

4 new patents or patent territories granted

3 great co-founders 

2 test cars

1 Eurostars grant worth €500K 


We are looking forward to this being the first year of many, and enjoying the journey together along the way.


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