The company behind Britain’s best-selling computer has raised $45 million after sales of its DIY-device rose sharply during the pandemic.
The maker of the Raspberry Pi received the new capital from Lansdowne Partners, the investment firm, and the Ezrah Charitable Trust.
The funding round values Raspberry Pi’s trading wing at $500 million and the Cambridge-based company will use the money to accelerate product development and to market its devices to more businesses and consumers.
The Raspberry Foundation was established in 2008 by a team of academics and entrepreneurs as a non-profit organisation to promote computing and coding, particularly to young people. Inspired by the BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum, they created a low-cost computer the size of a credit card aimed at teaching schoolchildren about
