A  highways technology company which has amassed a huge library of data about the UK’s road network has secured a £2.7m investment from BGF to further expand its ground-breaking ‘roadscape’ services.

Gaist captures and analyses continuous, high-definition imagery – 900 times the detail of Google Maps – about road conditions and the highways network. The company has developed this into revolutionary and IP-rich proprietary software, which can be imported into the asset management systems of highways network operators, local authorities, mapping companies, major utilities and other blue-chip firm.