Alchera has secured £2.7m in seed funding, including £2m led by Maven Capital Partners via the British Business Bank’s South West Investment Fund plus £700,000 from Innovate UK’s Investor Partnerships programme, to scale its AI platform for road operations and maintenance planning. The software ingests bus location, traffic signal, vehicle movement, weather and air quality data, using proprietary, patent-pending traffic modelling to cut transport analysis from weeks to seconds and provide 24‑month traffic flow forecasts for schemes such as M25 roadworks. In Lancashire it is already analysing over 300 junctions and 85,000 network links to diagnose bus performance issues and target investment.

Hexagon has acquired Toronto-based modelling specialist Rocscience, integrating its finite element and limit equilibrium tools for slope stability, tunnelling and dam analysis into Hexagon’s radar and monitoring division. The combined platform will link Hexagon’s continuous geotechnical sensors, including radar monitoring of ground movement, directly to Rocscience’s rock and soil behaviour models to auto‑update designs from construction through operations. For infrastructure and mining projects, this enables live calibration of stability models, earlier detection of deformation trends and shorter turnaround on ground‑risk assessments.

Hexagon AB has agreed to acquire geotechnical analysis specialist Rocscience from TA Associates and the company’s founders, integrating it into Hexagon’s Radar & Monitoring Division within the Infrastructure & Geospatial Business Area. The move targets tighter coupling of slope stability and underground excavation models in Rocscience with real-time data from Hexagon’s radar, GNSS and other deformation monitoring sensors. For mine operators and infrastructure owners, this signals faster feedback loops between numerical models and field measurements for managing geological risk and ground movement.