Scandit, which replaces barcode scanners with phones, closes $7.5M

For some reason Swiss startups have gained a good reputation in enterprise, SAAS, fintech and logistics — and nowhere is this better represented than in Scandit which emerged from Zurich a few years ago. Their idea was simple enough. Use a smartphone camera to capture barcodes instead of an expensive proprietary scanner, and wrap a suite of hardware and software around it. Here they are demoing it to us in 2012. But now, as you can see from this video, the tech has reached incredible levels of accuracy.
It’s not much of a surprise then that they’ve closed a $7.5m Series A funding round with London-based VC Atomico.