Volex
Holbrook House, 34-38 Hill Rise, Richmond, England, TW10 6UA, United Kingdom
Overview
Volex is a leading provider of interconnect solutions and power products, servicing the telecommunications, datacoms / data-centre, industrial, consumer and medical sectors for over 100 years. Volex's range of interconnect solutions include original-design fibre-optic, high-speed copper and radio frequency (RF) cable assemblies. Volex has design and manufacturing facilities spread across the globe, enabling flexibility in meeting customers' delivery timetable and price targets.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 8
Sector focus
- Electronics
- Telecommunications
- Wireless
Investment portfolio
- Cartken
Participated · Equity · Jul 2024
Cartken develops sidewalk and indoor delivery robots using a camera-first, AI-driven autonomy stack that requires no lidar and can operate without GPS. The company was founded in 2019 by former Google engineers behind the Bookbot project and has a roughly 30-person team. Cartken runs sidewalk delivery services on college campuses in Miami, Fairfax, Virginia and Tokyo through partnerships with Uber Eats, Grubhub and Mitsubishi Electric; its robots average 36,000 deliveries per month. The startup says its sidewalk delivery business is profitable today and that newly raised capital will scale that business while unlocking indoor use cases. Cartken is deploying robots inside biotech, pharmaceutical, chemical and automotive campuses — including a ZF factory — and reported saving employees more than 10,000 hours in 2023 at labs and factories.