Actuation Lab secures financial backing from

hardware and climate-tech investors

Bristol-based developer of industrial hardware, Actuation Lab, has secured financial backing from hard-tech and climate-tech investors to develop hardware that will prevent catastrophic gas leakage and allow the safe and sustainable use of hydrogen as an energy source.

Actuation Lab was founded by three post-doctoral researchers from the University of Bristol in 2019.

It is developing the Dragonfly Valve, a proprietary, low-torque, origamiinspired valve with zero leak paths to atmosphere, which will help enable the safe and sustainable transition to hydrogen use, and billions of tonnes of associated carbon savings.

Its plans to bring its products to market have been financially backed by hardware investors Kero Development Partners and deep-tech climate investor Zero Carbon Capital (ZCC).

The investment comes at the end of a successful year for Actuation Lab, which has been awarded more than £1 million in publicly funded projects supporting company growth.