Huddly, a Norway-based startup that sells a camera targeting remote company meetings (or huddles) and is building out what it describes as a “computer-vision” platform to help managers glean better data from those meetings, has raised $10 million in Series B funding. It brings total raised to $20 million, not including a $3 million research grant.
The company’s first hardware and software product, dubbed Huddly Go, which I understand is also now manufactured in Norway after being brought back from China, offers various video collaboration-friendly features, such as 16 megapixels, an ultra-wide lens, dynamic light optimisation, and ‘smart’ zoom.
“Short term there is an enormous opportunity for a better camera that simply works,” Thomas C. Holst, CEO of Huddly, tells me. “Today, most cameras don’t see enough of the scene. A camera that doesn’t see all of the people in a huddle room is hardly useful. We solve that problem. Sometimes you may not want to see the entire space and want to move directly to an area of interest whether it is people or objects. Huddly…