Tekcapital plc
28 August 2026
28 August 2026
Tekcapital plc
("Tekcapital" or the "Company")
Portfolio Company Update
Guident Corp. & Florida State College at Jacksonville
Launch Autonomous Mobility Training Center
Tekcapital plc (AIM: TEK), the UK intellectual property investment group focused on creating valuable products that can improve people's lives, is pleased to announce that Tekcapital portfolio company Guident CORP, a leader in autonomous vehicle remote monitoring and human-in-the-loop operations, has announced a strategic collaboration with Florida State College at Jacksonville (https://www.fscj.edu), ("FSCJ"), to advance workforce development for the rapidly evolving autonomous transportation industry.
The partnership will support the development of an autonomous vehicle remote monitoring and control training program at FSCJ's Downtown Campus. The program gives students, faculty, and transportation professionals practical exposure to the technologies, workflows, and operating models required for transportation systems to transition from conventionally driven vehicles to autonomous and human-supervised mobility services.
As a first major milestone, Guident has installed its GuideOn™ remote monitoring and operations technology at FSCJ, establishing the college as Guident's sixth Remote Monitor and Control Center (RMCC) location globally and marking the sixth GuideOn vehicle integration through the addition of FSCJ's "Olli" autonomous shuttle. The Olli autonomous shuttle will be incorporated into the training environment to provide hands-on experience for students learning remote assistance, analytics, safety procedures, and operational oversight.
As autonomous vehicles become more common, the workforce will evolve beyond traditional drivers and maintenance technicians to include new roles focused on remote supervision, incident response, mobility data analysis, safety monitoring, and autonomous fleet operations. The partnership combines FSCJ's workforce-development mission with Guident's experience in human-in-the-loop autonomous vehicle operations and is designed to help prepare students and transportation professionals for the next generation of mobility jobs. It also supports a local talent pipeline for public transportation, campus mobility, airports, ports, logistics, municipal services, and commercial robotics.
The announcement comes at a pivotal moment for the autonomous vehicle industry. As autonomous shuttles, robotaxis, and specialised mobility platforms move from pilots toward broader deployment, operators and public agencies are increasingly focused on the infrastructure required to support autonomy in complex real-world environments. That infrastructure includes trained human operators, remote monitoring centres, incident response workflows, fleet analytics, and transparent oversight systems.
While many autonomous vehicle education programmes focus primarily on engineering, vehicle maintenance, or classroom-based technical instruction, the collaboration between FSCJ and Guident is designed around the operational layer of autonomy. Students and trainees will gain exposure to the systems and workflows required to supervise autonomous mobility services in real-world environments.
"The FSCJ RMCC and GuideOn integration into our Olli vehicle provides us a high-touch educational environment," said Doug Brauer, Dean of Engineering and Industry at FSCJ. "It's a curriculum based on real-world interaction with the technology."
Under the collaboration, Guident and FSCJ intend to develop curriculum and course content focused on autonomous technology, with an emphasis on vehicle monitoring, remote assistance, remote control, analytics, and operational safety. The parties also plan to explore additional pilot projects involving micromobility, autonomous transportation systems, and emerging remote monitoring applications.
"Our work with FSCJ represents the type of industry-academic partnership that will be essential as autonomous mobility becomes part of real transportation operations," said Harald Braun, Executive Chairman and CEO of Guident. "The future of autonomy is not only about the vehicle. It is about the people, systems, processes, and operating environments that make autonomous services safe, reliable, and scalable. Through this collaboration, we are helping create a practical training pathway for the workforce that will support the future of transportation."
FSCJ serves more than 46,000 students across four major campuses and additional facilities in Duval and Nassau counties. By combining FSCJ's educational infrastructure and technical training expertise with Guident's autonomous vehicle operations platform, the partnership aims to bridge the gap between classroom learning and real-world autonomous mobility deployment, and positions Guident as a leader in helping define the workforce, operating model, and human-in-the-loop infrastructure required for supervised autonomous mobility to move from pilots to real-world deployment.
"We are pleased to see Guident broaden its footprint with this collaboration. Establishing a sixth Remote Monitor and Control Center, in this instance embedded within a major educational institution, extends Guident's operational reach while helping to build the trained workforce that supervised autonomy will require at scale. We anticipate continued revenue growth across mobility, robotics and public transportation markets, and following their successful fundraising of US$2 million in May 2026, Guident continues to work diligently towards a public listing in 2026, which we believe has the potential to further crystallize balance sheet value and broaden participation in its scale-up." said Dr. Clifford Gross, Executive Chairman of Tekcapital.
About Guident
Guident is a software company that strives to enable the safe, scalable deployment of autonomous vehicles and robots through human-in-the-loop oversight and secure remote operations. The company provides a vital safety layer and an operational continuity framework that supports deployment across transit, mobility, and commercial robotics operations.
By integrating remote monitoring, intervention capabilities, and system-level safety architecture, Guident helps operators, public and private agencies transition from pilot programs to reliable, long-term autonomous operations. Its platform supports safety, regulatory compliance, and consistent daily performance at scale. guident.com
About Florida State College at Jacksonville
Known as "the community's college," Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ) empowers students to achieve their goals by providing exceptional learning experiences that promote intellectual growth, civic engagement and workforce connections. Serving more than 46,000 students and awarding over 5,000 degrees and certificates annually, the College plays a significant role in equipping and supplying the region's workforce of tomorrow. www.fscj.edu
About Tekcapital plc
Tekcapital creates value from investing in new, university and corporate developed discoveries that can enhance people's lives. Tekcapital is quoted on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM symbol: TEK) and is headquartered in the UK. For more information, please visit www.tekcapital.com.
On 6 of August 2026 Tekcapital reported its 2026 H1 results[1]. For the six months ended 30 June 2026 net assets rose to US$201.7 million, up from US$55.1 million at 31 December 2025, lifting net asset value per share to US$0.78 from US$0.27. The Company's investment portfolio was valued at US$191.4 million at the period-end, compared with US$46.9 million at 31 December 2025, and generated US$145.5 million in portfolio returns and revenue for the first half of 2026, versus US$6.1 million in the first half of 2025. Profit after tax was US$144.8 million, versus US$5.4 million in the prior half-year period, while operating expenses fell 7.3% to US$0.69 million, reflecting continued cost discipline.
Tekcapital holds approximately 70% of the common stock of Guident CORP, with additional US$5 million in loan note receivables convertible to Guident's common stock at Tekcapital's election.
For further information, please contact:
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Tekcapital Plc |
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Clifford M. Gross, Ph.D. |
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SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP |
+44 (0) 20 3470 0470 |
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(Nominated Adviser and Broker) |
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Matthew Johnson / Charlie Bouverat (Corporate Finance) |
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Flagstaff Strategic and Investor Communications |
+44 (0) 20 7129 1474 |
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Tim Thompson / Andrea Seymour / Fergus Mellon |
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