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Synaptec was founded in 2015 as a spinout from the University of Strathclyde and is led by Philip Orr, Managing Director. The innovations developed by Synaptec are based on work Philip and his co-founders conducted at the University of Strathclyde’s Institute for Energy and Environment, one of Europe’s leading power engineering research groups.

Synaptec offers the first secure and scalable system for wide area fault detection, monitoring and analytics of electric power grids that is cost-effective at scale. It has already seen demand for its systems from international customers.

WAE Added Value

WAE Added Value

As the business scales, Synaptec will benefit from Foresight’s investment and management support and the manufacturing expertise of WAE in helping to scale-up manufacturing capacity and develop new product offerings.

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